Sentences with phrase «about social progress»

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Social Capital CEO Palihapitiya speaks with CNBC's Jon Fortt about the unintended consequences of technological progress and what it means for companies and societies.

Instead, it's about solving problems and creating social progress; building great new things that make a better world.

VICTORIA — New Democrats are introducing a bill calling for the creation of a sustainable development board which would report to policy makers about key indicators of economic, environmental and social progress.

Social Security Administration data: Fast Facts and Figures about Social Security, 2014; Social Security Basic Facts (April 2, 2014); Annual Statistical Supplement 2014; and Annual Statistical Supplement 2015 (In Progress).

In a post about an hour ago, Deputy Editor Matthew Schmitz draws our attention to a Think Progress post that (until it was revised) stated «Social conservatives are worried about some decline in social morays and norms.&Social conservatives are worried about some decline in social morays and norms.&social morays and norms.»

Reinhold Niebuhr criticized this Pelagian vision of individuals and social orders in Moral Man and Immoral Society, replacing it with an Augustinian realism about human existence that tempered any optimism in human progress.

In any case, since anything that helps «social progress» (as they define it) is eligible for their concern, I guess they can talk about global warming, too.

Along with Anthony Appiah and other current writers about the university, she acknowledges the intrinsic value of study (her most recent book on the topic is titled Not for Profit), while ultimately defending the value of liberal arts as essential for social and political progress.

There is widespread agreement, in which I share, that the social gospel was too optimistic about man and his progress.

The author holds that the social gospel was too optimistic about man and his progress, while the «neo-orthodox» reaction to the liberalism of the social gospel was too pessimistic.

Whitehead's ideas about education are contained in Whitehead, Alfred North, The Aims of Education and Other Essays (New York: A Mentor Book, The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1963), and in the final chapter of his Science and the Modern World (New York: A Mentor Book, The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1956), Chapter XIII, «Requisites for Social Progress,» pp. 192 - 208.

Hershey's senior director of sustainability, corporate social responsibility and social innovation Jeff King told ConfectioneryNews: «We will provide progress against these KPIs yearly on our Cocoa For Good website, along with stories and updates about what we have learned as we execute our Cocoa For Good projects.

Whilst living in a world where social media demands that our professional athletes are absolute reflections of a perfect set of values serves as a delusional front for progress, the Brit will be driven to show greatness on - track so we can start talking about and celebrating him as a driver again.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

I reported my concerns because you talk openly on twitter about being «the enemy within» and that the Labour Party is «an agent of social cleansing» and «kicking out the Progress careerists».

Last Monday Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced a natural pause in the progress of the Government's Health and Social Care Bill in order to take further soundings about it all.

As his research progressed, Provine began to suspect that laughter was in fact about something else — not humor or gags or incongruity but our social interactions.

, you can share what you're learning with your friends and family, post about your progress and daily struggle on social media (pretty fond of instagram for that myself) and always stay open to learning more.

In this fast - paced 5 Year of progress, movement, and change, July is a month to get out and about and be social.

About Blog - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a political and economic organisation of ten countries located in Southeast Asia.Its aims include accelerating economic growth, social progress, sociocultural evolution among its members, protection of regional peace and stability, and opportunities for member countries to discuss differences peacefully.

Our most important work, if we are to progress as a healthy, productive world community, is about finding the common ground in social, political and economics related situations.

Speaking about company websites, with some development efforts, it is possible not only to embed the course into the website but also to add custom features like granting certificates, scoring, learning progress, printing additional materials, scheduling the course in calendars, creating user profiles, taking payment, communicating with students via forums, social media, chatbots, etc..

A goal for the latter part of the book is to try to reconstruct a thicker view of how to connect knowledge to public action, one that recognizes the importance of values, welcomes democratic decisionmaking, is aware of the limits of different forms of knowledge, and is not utopian in its aims but is still hopeful about how we can make public progress on a range of social problems.

Alan Milburn, chair of the Social Mobility Commission, said: «When low income young people from the same area with the same school results are progressing less than their better - off classmates, that is not about lack of ability.

The overall goal of this extension of our existing work in partnership with TFF and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy (AFBA) is to continue and expand our work in Bridgeport focusing in several keys areas: (1) building knowledge about (a) children's emerging skills and areas of challenge in the social - emotional domain and why these skills are critical to school success, and (b) the ways in which adult stress and skills in the social - emotional domain can impede or foster children's social - emotional skill development; (2) identifying, deploying, and evaluating strategies to build adult and child skills in social - emotional learning with an emphasis on the Tauck Family Foundation's (TFF) five essential SEL skills; and (3) developing and testing a performance management system for SEL that (a) guides the identification of strategies, (b) provides a mechanism for ongoing progress monitoring, feedback, and changes to practice, and (c) serves as an anchor point for ongoing coaching and support in using SEL strategies.

The Hechinger Report «Sending parents useful information about attendance, course progress has big effects, social scientists find

And I think we need to think a lot about thoughtfully helping students from low - income neighborhoods build social capital around them to help them see and create opportunities they never otherwise would have to motivate them to learn and make progress in their lives without having to resort to criminal acts.

Next year, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a test of students in grades four, eight and 12 that is often referred to as the nation's report card, will include questions about students» social - emotional skills.

Note that without him, we can forget about progress to many social goals in this country.

Summary: This article, adapted from the Handbook of Social Emotional Learning (Guilford Press), provides both evidence and guidance about the importance of building in tools for assessing the results and the progress of social - emotional learning in scSocial Emotional Learning (Guilford Press), provides both evidence and guidance about the importance of building in tools for assessing the results and the progress of social - emotional learning in scsocial - emotional learning in schools.

From New York Times» columnist David Brooks and Jason DePerle, to paleo - eugenicist Charles Murray, to Robert Putnam, and even otherwise thoughtful school reformers such as Thomas B. Fordham Institute's Michael Petrilli, there has been plenty of questioning about whether the economic mobility that has allowed America to bend the economic and social arc of history toward progress can continue.

Summary: Maurice Elias addresses five myths about character education and how these myths are holding back progress in character education and social - emotional learning.

Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) Coordinating TANF & WIOA: High Interest, Slow Progress During Early Days of WIOA This report presents findings from the survey TANF and WIOA agency leaders about their level of coordination between programs along with federal and state policy recommendations to improve coordination and better serve low - income people.

While no assessment system is without limitations, Tennessee's value - added assessment model stands head and shoulders above others with regard to its focus on the effectiveness of schools, its ability to remove the biasing effects of social and economic influences, and its usefulness in answering critical questions about student progress and educational quality.

Integrating social learning into your online training program and having your audience interacting with each other online will not only keep them happy, and thus motivated, but also offer you great feedback about their progress.

It was then that this stranger from one of the social networks chanced to see samples of my earlier draft and took pains to congratulate me and ask me about the progress of the full novel.

As you can see from reading the Updates, instead of «advertising» his book, Mike talks about his book in a way that creates a community of interest and shared progress with his blog post readers and social media followers.

How about «interference» in progress such as speeding or stopping progress, monitoring the development of science and technology, social and political relations?

Entitled «Sparks Will Fly», it was an essay about what I call «Creator Culture», the idea that technology and social progress are making all of us, instead of passive consumers, active creators.

About the last mention project, the paper present the progress of this project is co-financed by European Social Fund through the Human Resources Development Sectoral Operational Programme 2007 - 2013, implemented by the Univerity of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest, University of Agriculture Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj Napoca.

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire About Blog The African Development Bank is a regional multilateral development bank, engaged in promoting the economic development and social progress of its Regional.

Ian Hamilton Finlay's La Rèvolution est un Bloc, 1992 — a wooden block carved with the words of the title and a central aperture reminiscent of a guillotine's lunette — refers in content and form both to advances in secular democracy and social progress, and the bloodshed and unrest brought about by the French Revolution.

Sometimes this experience is about progress or social behavior.

It is about the art and craft of consciously, consistently balancing economic, social and environmental concerns in such a way as to stimulate progress on all three.

How, he asked, do we translate the astonishing and growing power to monitor, visualize and share information about human activities and their impacts in ways that foster social and environmental progress?

Back in 1989, when I spent four months scouring the road - laced reaches of the western Amazon researching my first book, The Burning Season, I learned a lot about the power of loans to propel environmental and social progress or trouble.

Whether you are working on the front lines of the climate issue, immersed in the science, trying to make policy or educate the public, or just an average person trying to make sense of the cognitive dissonance or grapple with frustration over this looming issue, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming moves beyond the psychological barriers that block progress and opens new doorways to social and personal transformation.

Disingenuous claims about climate change are used to obfuscate, delay and hinder any progress on this subject, be it scientific, commercial, industrial, social or political.

Instead of complaining about the Court's economic bias, one could have progressed — if only a little bit — into the direction of something called a Social Europe.

In a video interview with Legal Week, in which he discusses everything from globalisation to social mobility and the impact of technology on the profession, Morley is candid about progress to date in the US.