Sentences with phrase «western nations schooling»

This is what apprenticeship is all about, and in modern Western nations schooling is the way by which young people are apprenticed in the skills of citizenship required of adults.

Not exact matches

You can tell JM Synge's The Playboy of the Western World is back on the school... How much can you tell about a nation by its bestsellers lists?

One is tempted to define it as American or Canadian national existence or — since the schools in the two nations have much in common — as «the free society» or as «Western democracy.»

It is the main reason that the country ranked 55th of 158 nations — last among Western democracies — in a 2017 index of voting fairness run by the Electoral Integrity Project, an academic collaboration between the University of Sydney, Australia, and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Studies in Western nations have found that later school start times improve students» sleep and well - being.

Your report accurately points out that most Western nations provide funding to their private schools.

Nevertheless, «going paperless» can prove to be an effective strategy for a K - 12 school teacher who wishes to diversify their methods in class or the underfunded, yet determined «Western» volunteer at a school located in a developing nation, where education - related commodities are scarce.

She was participating on several international Congresses and Seminars on Human Rights and International Relations, such as International Seminar BIMUN (Belgrade International Model of United Nations)-- Belgrade, Serbia (2012), International Seminar BEUM (Belgrade European Union Model)-- Belgrade, Serbia (2011), Course of Investigative Journalism in School of Open Journalism — Belgrade, Serbia (2011), Seminar «World Economy in Crises», Belgrade Open School — Kopaonik, Serbia (2011), Seminar «Development of Western Balkan Countries», Belgrade Open School — Kopaonik, Serbia (2010), Seminar «Human rights in a new world», Faculty of Political Science — Belgrade, Serbia (2009)

So are some leading education traditionalists: Parents Across America co-founder) Leonie Haimson's Class Size Matters picked up $ 25,000 from the union last fiscal year, while Western Michigan's Gary Miron (whose rather flawed study on KIPP's charter schools earlier this year was the subject of Dropout Nation «s analysis) picked up $ 5,000.

While all the things that go bump in the night tell us that tests and standards and accountability are responsible for the complete and utter fall of western civilization as we once knew it, a large and impressive group of superintendents (present and former) representing some of the nation's largest school districts have a different view.

From the latest WICHE (Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education and pronounced «witchy,» just like the Eagles song) report: Utah is expected to see 7,200 more students graduate high school — a 23 % rise between 2008 - 09 and 2019 - 20 — the fastest increase in the nation.

American can no longer afford economically, much less, morally, to have one out of every two black, Latino, and American Indian children struggling with literacy — especially when minorities make up the majority of enrollment in the southern and western states of the union (and large portions of school populations in the rest of the nation).

Thousands of educators and policymakers have visited Finnish schools and observed in classrooms to figure out why this small Nordic nation is leading the Western world in many education rankings.

Still, though, teenage pregnancy remains an important public health issue: the US has the highest rate of teen pregnancy among Western industrialized nations (CDC), and pregnancy is the leading cause of high school dropout among girls (Freudenberg & Ruglis, 2007).