Sentences with phrase «as a panacea in»

Plantain has been used as a panacea in some Native American cultures and with some very good reasons.

Plantain has been used as a panacea in some Native American cultures, and it holds powerful skin - healing properties.

Despite much optimism, no one sees this as a panacea in post-Proposition 13 California where investment in education has, for decades, languished below the national average and sank even lower during the recession.

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Bernanke himself made clear Monday, as he has in the past, that the Fed's low - rate policies are no panacea for the economy.

Todd Zenger, a professor at University of Utah's Eccles School of Business, wrote in the Harvard Business Review last year that pay transparency is «far from a panacea... [and] a double - edged sword, capable of doing as much — or more — damage as good.»

When Craig Erdmier and Robert Stroup, co-owners of $ 50 - million Cord Construction Co., in Rockford, Ill., plunked down about $ 12,000 on a state - of - the - art digital Canon copier a year ago, they envisioned the machine as a panacea for Cord's document difficulties.

So in September, when Cain unveiled his 9 -9-9 tax plan as the panacea for America's economic ills, both sides of the political aisle were quick to scoff at its simplicity.

I affirm my faith in the promise of Easter, of the resurrection, not only of the Lord Jesus Christ but of us all; the resurrection not as a panacea or placebo for those who can not cope without medication, or as the soporific of the masses (Simone Weil said that revolution, and not religion, is the soporific of the masses), but as the reality which lights the day.

If it is a correct answer, it implies that we must support such organized efforts as that of the APPE4 to deflect current educational momentum into other channels than a mere reshifting of the same materials and approaches, putting forward of dead models as new panaceas, or the temptation to begin with precise discipline where in fact learning should start in a different way.

White does not simply present Malory's romance as an allegory for the ills of his age, though he recognizes its relevance, much less as a panacea for his own afflictions in any sense other than the humble one in which all polite literature is a welcome respite from terrestrial agonies.

When inflammation strikes, we are conditioned into reaching for a quick fix in the way of pharmaceutical or prescribed drugs such as aspirin and ibuprofen, temporary panacea's that come with their own adverse side effects and with long term use have the potential to create a host of health problems independently.

Prickly ash trees of the Zanthoxylum species are found in China, Japan, and in North America, where the American Indians employed the bark as a general stimulant and a panacea for toothache.

Even if measures supported by the best available evidence (such as traffic light labelling on the front - of - food packaging and removing advertising junk food to children between 6 am and 9 pm as recommended in the Government's response to the National Preventative Health Taskforce) are implemented, regulation is no panacea.

But even as demand grows, there is also a growing awareness that our perception of the purity of organic agriculture or understanding of organic certification may not completely align with reality, and that organic agriculture, even in compliance with certification standards, is not a panacea.

I'm not totally convinced that salad bars are the panacea to all school food problems, as TLT reader Maggie, a school food service worker, and I discussed a few days ago in the comments here.

Progress Set Us Back I was a resident back in the late 1970's when electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) was first introduced and lauded as a panacea that would prevent cerebral palsy and birth injuries.

The ability to build a relationship with a known carer based on mutual respect and trust is promoted by advocates of midwives as the panacea for being able to control levels of fear, maintain feelings of being in control throughout the birthing process and being satisfied with the outcome of the experience [42].

Control orders may have been unveiled by the government in April 2005 as a great panacea, but they were then and remain now, a botched job.

Governor Fayose called for team spirit as panacea to move the region forward, saying «if the Yoruba nation must regain its pride in the Nigerian nation, hence action must be tailored towards the elimination of party politics».

The second is desperately trying to patent new varieties, extracts and components of the plant in the knowledge that modern science now proves that cannabis is as close to a panacea as possible.

Those pushing this idea argue that it is about the only panacea left for PDP to regain control of Anambra State as resort to the old ways of doing things, will still leave the party in the hands of the godfathers who will engage in another round of bickering till the election is over.

But after he discussed it as part of a five - part series on his blog Obesity Panacea, the five parts together received 12,080 page views and 70 reader comments in a week — then MSNBC.com covered the study.

«I don't see this as a panacea,» Fry adds, recalling «iron lady» Margaret Thatcher, «but there are good reasons for having a balance of the more caring sex in government.»

Whereas GMOs should never be seen as a panacea, they can do a world of good as important tools within a broader strategy to combat starvation, disease and environmental degradation in places like sub-Saharan Africa.

Millions of older women ping - ponged between shock, confusion, alarm, and anger in July when researchers dropped a bombshell: Hormone replacement therapy (HRT), long touted as a panacea that would slow aging, does more harm than good.

The capability of PanACEA as a research tool is demonstrated by highlighting the gat and aga variable regions which are important in differentiating strains of Enterobacter hormaechei.

And sitting isn't a panacea either as sitting for too long can cause pain in her spine.

Louis Kuhne, referred to by his peers as «A genius in the art of healing», created a unique hydrotherapy panacea to successfully treat a wide spectrum of diseases.

Vinegar has gotten a reputation as an all purpose green cleaner on its own and while it certainly has its place in a natural home, it isn't the panacea it is made out to be for a few reasons:

According to Joseph Nordqvist and Megan Ware RDN LD of Medical News Today, cinnamon has been used (and highly prized) in Ancient Egypt since 2000 BC as a panacea to treat things like coughing, arthritis and sore throats.

However, as I stood on the side of the road watching this parade of fear - based talk, researchers telling us more research is needed, and advertisements of the latest brain health panacea, I felt, based on my reading of research studies that can be found in any average medical library where, much to my amazement and frustration, few besides me tend to go, something was missing.

As there doesn't seem to be a panacea for PCOS yet, in my mind, the «treatment» of polycystic ovaries symptoms and PCOS itself, falls into two main categories of interest to us:

But I am much more skeptical now than I was before that market forces are some sort of panacea, as they appear to be in some industries.

A larger challenge for policymakers and education leaders is to rethink the specialist model as the panacea for augmenting instruction for English language learners in today's linguistically diverse schools, many with large concentrations of Hispanic students.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

As Simmons» president, Helen Drinan, is quoted in Inside Higher Ed, «I wish I could say there's a panacea in here for a small college, but there isn't.

Maybe the overall message is, as Norman Atkins of Relay GSE put it to me, «there are no panaceas» in public education.

Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform explores the dynamic tension between Americans» faith in education as a panacea and the difficulty of improving educational practices.

She offered little or no evidence in support of her belief in choice as a panacea.

The critics of modern school reform that I know are people who see enormous trouble in the public education system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distinguished.

In the opening minutes of the new education «reform» documentary Waiting For Superman, director Davis Guggenheim has a moment of candor about the charter schools he hails as a panacea for urban education — he admits that most of them are not exactly getting extraordinary results.

As Andy Rotherham recently pointed out in the Washington Post, school choice is «not a panacea» for struggling school systems.

Though educators are ever cognizant of the fact that technology alone is not the panacea that will solve the literacy struggles of students, a thoughtful integration of literacy instruction with new technologies such as wikis can serve as the vehicle to transport both teachers and their students of this Web 2.0 generation on their learning journeys in ways that are broader and more meaningful than any individual learner could travel alone.

... and more proposed educational panaceas than I can count, I'm skeptical of TFA as the savior of American education, or the key to eliminating the appalling achievement gap in Minneapolis schools.

As I've reported before (see here, here, and here), the program's outcomes are lackluster at best, yet the Mayor has trumpeted his plan as a panacea... Continue reading In Speech, Mayor de Blasio Gives Short Shrift to School Improvement; Curtains for Chancellor FariñAs I've reported before (see here, here, and here), the program's outcomes are lackluster at best, yet the Mayor has trumpeted his plan as a panacea... Continue reading In Speech, Mayor de Blasio Gives Short Shrift to School Improvement; Curtains for Chancellor Fariñas a panacea... Continue reading In Speech, Mayor de Blasio Gives Short Shrift to School Improvement; Curtains for Chancellor Fariña?

Her almost childlike, drumbeat belief in the power of school choice as a panacea, along with her unwillingness to protect college students from predatory for - profit schools and predatory loans, make her a destructive force in education..

When the Master Plan for distributing a $ 2 billion FEMA payment for school rebuilding was approved last year, officials hailed it as a panacea of sorts that would ensure every Orleans Parish student is at least in a building that is «warm, safe and dry.»

With California's so - called Parent Empowerment Act drawing national media attention as a school reform panacea, and similar laws being discussed in other states including New Jersey, Colorado, and elsewhere, the new national organization Parents Across America (PAA) warns that the law fails to promote positive solutions, is subject to abuse, and threatens to harm school communities.

Though NTU would not be a panacea for the myriad issues currently confronting teacher preparation and our education system more broadly, it represents an important shift in federal policy that would signal to the nation a new era has begun for teacher training and the profession as a whole.

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