Sentences with phrase «about major initiatives»

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He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

Rising Strong, her newest book (on The New York Times best seller list a week after publication), and also to talk about a major new online learning and sharing initiative (called COURAGEworks) that she will be launching in a few months with Oprah and others.

While not contending with these headline - grabbing controversies, Clement has also quietly been pushing forward with initiatives with major implications across a host of sectors «One of the nice things about politics is you get to engage in a little bit of self - definition as to what your job is,» says Clement.

Jeremy Davies writes: Emerging details about the Pupil Premium suggest schools could focus on increasing father - involvement as a key response to this major Coalition policy initiative.

This was a month during which there were no special initiatives or major news stories about infant feeding.

It was the governor's longest State of the State address so far — by about a minute — and, according to Tom Precious, of The Buffalo News, «offered a toned - down plate of major spending ideas,» and «made no bold pronouncements for historic spending initiatives, as Cuomo did last year with promises for record education funding from Albany.»

Cuomo is expected to travel to Oneida County on Thursday to make a major announcement about SUNY Polytechnic Institute and his $ 1.5 billion Nano Utica initiative.

They repeated many of their familiar talking points about the state's major energy initiatives — that R.E.V. saves billions of dollars a year for ratepayers, that hundreds of megawatts of solar would soon come online, and that the current power grid is inefficient and unnecessarily costly.

L ast Spring I alerted you to a major new initiative to survey graduate students in the sciences about their experiences in graduate school.

We've received extra funding from the Australian Research Council and the Australian Government's «Caring for our Country» initiative for this research program, and we've just heard that Stephanie won a major international prize for the paper we published about her study.

The major thrust of the initiative will be to disseminate the ideas and practices pioneered by James P. Comer, the Yale University child psychiatrist whose beliefs about the inseparability of social and academic development have been embraced by a growing number of schools.

I also oversee about 200 employees at our state education agency, and we are in the midst of major initiatives and reforms.

So in total, less than half of these parents first heard about a major education initiative that will (in those states that adopted the CCSS) impact their child's learning from the institution or individuals helping guide that learning.

From the other side of the spectrum, the National Endowment for the Arts has made a major push around what they call Artscience initiatives, including hosting an event this June about the intersection of art, science and technology.

But the good thing about the recently concluded marathon conference at the Hechinger Institute (sponsored by the MacAruthur Foundation, which has a major digital learning initiative) was that you didn't have to walk anywhere.

Every major education initiative since 1965 has been about recalibrating the balance first struck by esea.

The main topics covered were: 1) the respondent «s perceptions of the major state - level policy initiatives of importance over the last few years (allowing the respondent to determine the starting year / policy); 2) specific policy initiatives in two arenas: accountability and promoting school leadership; 3) a discussion of the policy initiators and actors, and their stakes and stands on major policy initiatives; and 4) their comments about the way in which groups and individuals work together or separately to exercise influence over educational policy.

Another major initiative, and the one she seems most enthusiastic about, is working on the English Learner Master Plan, the 2012 overhaul of the district's academic curriculum to move English learners into mainstream classes.

SETDA developed this new report, «Transforming Data to Information in Service of Learning,» to raise awareness about the major K - 12 data standards and interoperability initiatives underway to address this gap and to offer recommendations for how K - 12 education can become more responsive to educators and better targeted toward individual student success.

Beyond the research evidence, at least one major «whole school reform» initiative in the United States and several parts of Canada, The Coalition of Essential Schools (e.g., Sizer, 1992a, 1992b), advocates holding total numbers of secondary school students taught per teacher to about 90 as a central principle of its program.

This is a big initiative, and it is going to require a major reorientation in how many people think about instruction and student learning.

One review of the literature found that only about one - fourth of businesses that undertook turnaround initiatives were able to institute major changes in their structure and management, and even those businesses did not show increased economic performance (Hess & Gift, 2008).

We also talk about the new initiative by major Philadelphia newspapers to give away tablets with a 2 year subscription!

«Our major initiative is about finding those elusive new fans,» said Nelson, citing the success of DC characters in games such as «Arkham,» in TV shows like Smallville and Arrow, and in movies.

The announcements that excited me most this weekend, however, were those to do with various publishers» digital initiatives, including some pretty impressive - sounding details about Jmanga, a massive web - based project involving most of Japan's major manga publishers, expected to launch in August.

As huge animal lovers, we are very excited to let you know about a major new initiative that is going to be helping MILLIONS of pets across the USA and beyond...

Australia About Blog The Australian Baseball League is an Australian initiative supported by Major League Baseball and the Australian Baseball Federation.

Australia About Blog The Australian Baseball League is an Australian initiative supported by Major League Baseball and the Australian Baseball Federation.

Vancouver, BC — Three major institutions are about to embark on a groundbreaking arts initiative in the heart of downtown Vancouver.

A particular highlight this year will be the ongoing examination into the social, political and economic landscape that shaped ROSC and its subsequent impact on contemporary art developments in Ireland, which will culminate in a major symposium in November 2017, our ongoing provision of programmes for people living with dementia through the AZURE initiative and the launch of a new digital digest that will develop new content about our programmes, giving people new ways to find out more about the work, and to personally connect with art and artists at IMMA.

Gourevitch has a point about the «politics of fear,» but historically speaking, when has a major national initiative not been motivated, at least in part, by fear of a bad outcome?

Dr. Sharon Nunes, vice president of Strategic Growth Initiatives at IBM, spoke about the efforts this major global corporation is taking to make their computer technology more energy - efficient and supportive of conservation strategies.

Retired Major Gen. Anthony L. Jackson of the US Marine Corp talked about the Defense Department initiatives to use more energy from clean, renewable sources and less from fossil fuels.

While there is a lot of skepticism over so - called «clean coal» technologies, which look to capture and store carbon emissions, a major government and industry initiative is about to take a small step closer to testing some of that controversial and cutting - edge technology.

She oversaw major initiatives, including the launch of the Hubway bike share system and the installation of about 50 miles of bike lanes and 850 bicycle racks.

To raise awareness, News Corp.'s TV stations are planning a campaign to give viewers ideas about what they can do to fight climate change; Fox plans to use Major League Baseball's All - Star Game in the summer to educate viewers; and the National Geographic Channel is launching Preserve Our Planet, an initiative to offer programming related to the issue, he said.

Well, Johnson had already planned to invest over 100 million British pounds in cycling initiatives, including about a dozen of what he calls «Cycle Super Highways» on some major London roads, in order increase cycling by 40,000 trips daily.

Managing partners and members of executive committees in the more financially and professionally successful law firms that are organized into substantive departments and / or practice groups for the delivery of legal services strongly support the concept of having practice leaders assume a major role in their firm's efforts to: (1) increase the productivity levels of all timekeepers within their practices, (2) increase the economic contribution of their practices to the firm and (3) assume primary responsibility for communications to and from members of their practices about firm economics, priorities and business issues, as well as practice growth and client development initiatives.

Australia About Blog The Australian Baseball League is an Australian initiative supported by Major League Baseball and the Australian Baseball Federation.

Director James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now, The End of the Tour) co-scripted the film adaptation of The Circle with Eggers, and one of their major changes was to limit the story's scope considerably — to drop back from showing anything significant about how The Circle's initiatives are changing the world.

EDC, Waltham, MA About Blog The Interactive STEM team at EDC is a major partner in the Research Practice Collaboratory, a five - year initiative funded by the National Science Foundation to strengthen and reframe the relationship between research and teacher practice in STEM education in K — 12 and informal settings.