Sentences with phrase «about improving the education of»

She claims that «if we really cared about improving the education of all students, we would give teachers the autonomy to tailor instruction to meet the needs of the children.»

I suspect Alicia Rucker, that single mother of six who sent her oldest child to (and through) Georgetown, knows more about improving the education of minority children than all the Educrats in D.C. combined.

If the state legislature is serious about improving the education of students here in Jamaica and all across Queens... they will vote in favor of raising the cap of charter schools.

It's a sad, alarming state of affairs, and it proves that for all our lip service about improving the education of America's children, we've failed to make teaching the draw that it should be, the honor that it must be.

Not exact matches

The Gates Foundation, which focuses on improving health, reducing poverty and aiding education, is receiving about $ 2.42 billion of Monday's donations.

Anita Krishnamurthi and Nick Hutchinson were able to talk about the much larger picture of PPP programs for informal STEM education, including how we measure private industry involvement, as well as how students are improving their grades, school participation, and post-graduation success rates.

Transforming and improving the school experience There are, no doubt, other education ventures into which Powell Jobs has put money, but we may never know about them because of her preference for anonymous giving.

And, who knows, it may even include things like improved labour laws, improvements to public health care and education that actually mean it about the public part, requiring the Workers Compensation Board to get serious about the compensation part of its mandate and, yeah, an effort to get off the energy price rollercoaster.

While it is of course true that educational enterprises require money, there is something odd about the assumption that infusion of additional funds to the academic operation will necessarily result in improved education.

When teachers examine themselves and their schools for the sake of discovering how to overcome difficulties or how to improve their work they are quickly led to ask far - reaching questions about the nature and the purposes of education.

In this situation more than a hundred theological schools have agreed to examine themselves and the status of theological education in general, to raise immediate and ultimate questions about their purposes, their methods and their effectiveness in discharging their duties; to seek also ways of improving their own ministry.

And I'm reading about how most of the higher ups in the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion supported such an effort — either by directly blessing lawmakers in Uganda, removing any effort to improve education on the matter (and regain peaceful resolution), or by their complacency.

Efforts include: Advance producers» awareness of emerging animal welfare issues; Provide information and education to improve animal care skills; support scientific research to enhance animal well - being; provide information for greater public understanding and awareness about producers commitment to providing humane care.

The goals of these meetings are to help improve CAC's grower outreach and education efforts and to learn more about the issues growers are struggling with to better inform CAC's production research program.

Participants assess their operations using a comprehensive California Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Workbook, interpret their results using customized reports that benchmark their practices relative to statewide and regional averages, attend targeted education workshops to learn about best practices, develop Action Plans on areas they want to improve, implement change, and reassess, beginning the cycle again.

After a couple of examples, I'd hoped for a more general education about where and how to look for areas to improve in my own school (again, as I said, I do realize that may have been expecting too much of the book!).

examines evidence about the engagement of fathers in parent education and training, and makes practical recommendations for how commissioners and service providers can improve local parenting services.

Recent qualitative and quantitative studies have confirmed MomsTEAM's longstanding belief that, more than education about concussion signs and symptoms, it is changing the negative attitude of too many coaches towards reporting and creating a safe concussion - reporting environment that may be the best ways to improve the low rates of self - reporting found in study after study.

The workers are calling for five specific changes they plan to present to the school board during a Wednesday meeting: soliciting input from lunchroom staff to help improve school food, offering more training and education for lunchroom workers, adding collective bargaining language that protects workers» right to talk about the food to parents and kids, building working kitchens in all new schools, and ceasing the replacement of fresh food with frozen and reheated fare.

Support and education about breastfeeding has been found to improve the duration of any breastfeeding for healthy term infants and their mothers, however evidence is lacking about interventions that are effective to support women with twins or higher order multiples.

Obama administration goals for the legislation include: (1) improving nutrition standards for school meals; (2) increasing participation in school meal programs; (3) increasing parent and student education about healthy eating; (4) establishing nutrition standards for the so called «a la carte» foods (see my School Lunch FAQs for more information on these); (5) promoting increased consumption of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and low - and fat - free dairy products; (6) strengthening school wellness policies and promoting physical activity in schools; (7) training people who provide school meals and providing them with better equipment; and (8) enhancing food safety.

Though the bill is called the «Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016,» very few aspects of it would actually improve child nutrition; indeed, if you care about kids» health, there's a lot in the bill that ought to worry you.

While antenatal education and counselling is helpful, 8 68 % of mothers said that early problems with breast feeding was the main reason they stopped nursing before two months postpartum.7 Other barriers were lack of knowledge about breast feeding and lack of support from health professionals.7 Women value being shown how to breast feed rather than being told how to.9 10 Evidence of effective interventions to improve exclusive breast feeding for the recommended duration of six months is sparse.

Intended for people in CBT treatment for insomnia, or those who have experienced sleep problems and would like to improve their sleep hygiene, the program teaches users (1) basic education about sleep, (2) features of a healthy sleep routine and environment, (3) how to use a sleep diary to record patterns and track symptom changes.

Additionally, it encouraged the stakeholders to facilitate increased awareness and education about perinatal depression and to explore and encourage the use of prenatal screening tools in order to improve the availability of effective treatment and community support services.

«Senator Marcellino and the members of the education committee will seek information about what is being done to fix underperforming schools and other specific plans to improve and strengthen the city school system so that the state's examination of mayoral control is as comprehensive as possible.»

Education Reform Now, a pro-charter school organization that is pushing to lift the cap in hopes of improving the state's Round II application for «Race to the Top» funds, has a new radio ad up that darkly hints about getting «rid» of any lawmakers who oppose reform.

He has some familiar and vague promises and catchphrases about improving education, public safety, and employment — in his words, turning the Bronx into «the Silicon Valley of the East» — but he said he sells himself to the voters as a populist hero and role model.

At 11 a.m., during a joint hearing, members of the NYC Council's Committee on Education and Committee on Health receive testimony about a legislative proposal intended to improve detection of concussions during scholastic football games and practices, and a legislative proposal that would establish a Youth Sports Health and Safety Task Force; Council Chambers, City Hall, Manhattan.

He makes a point of noting that he wants to improve education — without the Common Core — and urges listeners to check out his campaign website to learn more about that, as well as his economic development proposals and his support for term limits.

Council members sounded off about some of the same issues, including the high cost of the bus passes given to students and the need to improve vocational education because there are jobs in the booming local construction industry and economy.

Mr. Adonoo said although people utilize the NHIS, his outfit intends to improve its education of the public so that members of the scheme have adequate information about the benefits the NHIS offers, observing that this will make it difficult for members to be cheated when they go to seek healthcare.

Test results for third - through eighth - graders across New York state improved this year even amid concerns about the length of the standardized exams and reports of erroneous questions, according to data released by the state Education Department.

To that end, County Health Commissioner Gale R. Burstein, who also attended the news conference, said there will be increased training in administering of the opioid antidote Naloxone this year and efforts to bring about improved education in schools.

Indeed, the governor — in both his annual State of the State speech and a policy book released later in the day — sounded warnings about the importance of lifting the neediest New Yorkers out of poverty through comprehensive education programs that address academics while also battling hunger, improving mental health and providing after - school care.

Bill Gates» philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is making an about - face on its education priorities to focus on networks of traditional public schools aimed at improving student achievement.

Brezler says she is passionate about a list of topics, including improving public education, universal health care and opposition to fracking.

«Legislators are going to have to weigh which they value more: advice from hedge fund billionaires that come with checks or the concerns of students, parents and teachers about what's needed to truly improve public education.»

Schumer called the bill a critical first step in the fight against heroin and opioids, expanding the availability of naloxone — also known as narcan — to law enforcement and first responders, improving prescription drug monitoring programs, shifting resources to identifying and treating incarcerated people suffering from addiction, and prohibiting the Department of Education from questioning students about prior drug convictions on financial aid forms.

The administration says Obama will talk about improving the value and reducing the cost of higher education for middle class families.

«The funny thing is, particularly in the urban center, the problems that are facing Syracuse are the problems that I face back home in the Bronx when we talk about education, when we talk about poverty — trying to lift families out of poverty and improve the education system,» Heastie said Tuesday morning, after emerging from a closed - door meeting with Miner.

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

Every university ought to be looking closely at these results as they think about how to improve the quality of STEM education provided to their students.»

Study results underscore the need for continuing education among PCPs about pain management, specifically opioid prescribing, and the need for improved means of communication between PCPs and pain specialists.

Improving education about risky food handling behaviors would reduce the amount of foodborne illness and help improve food security around the world, according to Kansas State University research.

[Editor's Note: In 1996, a group of scientists and students, concerned about the future of research in German universities, came together to discuss what action was required to improve their education and training.

The Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 1996 carried provisions to help reduce the incidence of TBI and improve psychological treatment, and in 2000 it was expanded to include education about prevention — especially to parents.

Davis will present «Sing about Science: Leveraging the Power of Music to Improve Science Education» on Friday (April 4) at the American Educational Research Association's annual conference.

In the last the discussion of the meeting there were 4 conclusions about improving education in science: to motivate and pay teachers well (primary and secondary levels), to promote science via the media (government back up), to inspire leaders to start the change, and to develop a good mentoring system so the student can study at home and go back to the professor with questions.