Sentences with phrase «as widespread education»

The success of the East Asian economies» first Japan and more recently the other East Asian market economies» shows that there is a crucial governmental role in providing services such as widespread education and health care, which it is quite possible for governments to do successfully at a fairly low level of per capita income.

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Teachers in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down public schools in a bid for better pay and education funding, building on educator revolt that emerged elsewhere in the U.S. but whose political prospects were not clear.

From the religious angle we have Jews» early and widespread literacy as a sine qua non of studying Torah, which developed into a passion for education generally.

These trends in church school and other Christian education — locally, regionally and nationally — are not yet as widespread as one could wish.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

Breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants1, providing protection from morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases2 and chronic diseases later in life.3 Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended, starting within one hour of birth and for the first 6 months of life, with continued breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding difficulties.

More importantly, as Le Billon so well documented in French Kids Eat Everything, almost every aspect of French food culture, including widespread nutrition education and early «taste training,» supports better school meals, both their provision by schools and their acceptance by children.

Here are five misconceptions about a serious and widespread problem in education today: cheating isn't a problem at my kid's school; kids cheat in the same ways today as they did in the past; only kids who struggle in school cheat; students who cheat don't know right from wrong; cheating is unpredictable.

Labour is calling for cross-party talks on how religious education is conducted and monitored in the state sector as a special poll for the Observer shows widespread concerns about the use of taxpayers» money to fund faith schools in a multicultural Britain.

«The real story is that Michael Gove's plans for A-level reform are not based, as he appears to be claiming, on evidence of widespread concerns in the higher education sector about the rigour and relevance of A-levels.

Since being categorized as geographically widespread, Governor Cuomo has also announced several multifaceted actions to combat the spread of the flu, including an Executive Order that suspended the section of state education law that limits the authority of pharmacists to administer immunizing agents to anyone under age 18 to allow vaccines to be administered to anyone age 2 and up.

So people have a hard time connecting compelling current concerns — such as widespread corruption, or non-competitive elections, or a need for major improvements in such fundamental policy areas as education — with the possibility for reform through state constitutional change.

In the Valencian Community, the More - TIC Plan was introduced for widespreading the use of technological infrastructures as whiteboards, mobile classrooms, wi - fi networks, or thin clients in the teaching - learning process of the education centers subordinated to the regional Government.

When President - elect Donald Trump tapped Betsy DeVos as his pick for U.S. Secretary of Education, he triggered a debate over whether widespread school choice — like the voucher system that DeVos supports — would really boost student achievement across the country.

The recommendations sent by the Kansas board of education last week to Gov. John Carlin are similar to those that have been considered in states across the country as they have moved to respond to a public perception of widespread incompetence among the nation's teachers.

As I read the profile, though, I couldn't help but wonder if the more disruptive force in education is lower - tech and already more widespread than Christensen himself realized.

Several studies, including a recent paper by the University of Virginia's Daphna Bassok and colleagues, as well as widespread reports from educators, show that schools have shortchanged history, science, physical education, art, music, and civics.

Given the widespread existence of choice and competition in K - 12 education, it is demonstrably wrong to suppose, as Forum contributor Frederick M. Hess does («The Work Ahead «-RRB-, that «Efforts to cultivate competition may thus foster a culture of schooling that is alien to our educational heritage and may create an incentive structure that distorts educational priorities.»

The Education Next poll revealed partisan polarization and widespread misperception, as well.

Accountability's edge is undoubtedly due not only to widespread public support for the idea (see «What Americans Think about Their Schools,» Fall 2007), but to the fact that, as practiced, it has posed only a minimal threat to the great vested interests of American education: local school boards, state departments of education, schools of education, and teacher unions.

With widespread bipartisan support from such ideological opponents as U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, as well as the business community, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in 2010 the standards sailed remarkably fast through adoption in 40 states and the District of Columbia.

As one of the first media theorists to acknowledge and advocate widespread net accessibility, I have been calling for more — not less — computer education.

While contemporary organizing for education reform has deep historical roots, it has emerged as a widespread phenomenon in local districts across the country over the past 20 years.

Encouraging the Government to launch a public child safety education campaign in the face of a widespread increase in daredevil activities known as «playing chicken», Fay said:

«I welcome the widespread support for reform across primary and secondary education stakeholders, as well as throughout government, Catholic and independent school sectors and from various parent, welfare and business organisations,» Mr Birmingham said.

In an era of widespread disagreement on education reform, increased confidence in local control of education, and the absence of a dominant theory on where reform goes from here, visionary mayors are emerging as leaders of thought and action in defining a new role for municipalities to play in developing and educating young people, with particular attention to children living in poverty.

In other countries, such as Germany (where the practice is widespread and not particularly controversial), tracking starts young and separates students onto different paths varying from general education to vocational.

Originally seen as a challenge to teacher seniority, Reed vs. California was filed in 2009 by the ACLU on behalf of students at three low - income schools against the state and the LA Unified school district, alleging that widespread seniority - based layoffs enacted during the budget crisis of 2008 — 2009 disproportionately affected low income and minority students, depriving them of equal access to a quality education.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

The case is also gaining widespread support from education reform groups such as Campbell Brown's Partnership for Educational Justice and Students for Educatioeducation reform groups such as Campbell Brown's Partnership for Educational Justice and Students for EducationEducation Reform.

The tutoring industry, or «shadow education» as the ADB calls it, has become very widespread in Asia, fed by the growth in universities and the rising proportion of school leavers aiming for university.

So proponents claiming the mantle of «education reform» have been quick to jump on the one - sided election results as proof - positive of widespread voter support for their ideas, which include competitive charter schools, vouchers to transfer public education money into private hands, and harsh accountability measures to punish schools and teachers for the circumstances they have very little control over.

In 2009, an education reform group known as The New Teacher Project (TNTP) issued an influential report finding widespread «institutional indifference to variations in teacher performance.»

In an era of widespread disagreement on education reform, increased confidence in local control of education, and the absence of a dominant theory on where reform goes from here, visionary mayors are emerging as leaders of thought and action in defining a new role for municipalities to play in developing...

As Scott D. Pearson of the U.S. Department of Education's charter school program noted in 2010, while «one of the promises of charter schools was they were going to be a source of innovation and be a benefit not only for the children attending charter schools, but [for] all public schools,... [in practice],... the collaboration is not as widespread as we would hope.&raquAs Scott D. Pearson of the U.S. Department of Education's charter school program noted in 2010, while «one of the promises of charter schools was they were going to be a source of innovation and be a benefit not only for the children attending charter schools, but [for] all public schools,... [in practice],... the collaboration is not as widespread as we would hope.&raquas widespread as we would hope.&raquas we would hope.»

As BBA's 2015 statement on ESEA reauthorization and this open letter from BBA and key allies assert, a comprehensive, supports - based approach to education is critical to enabling our education system to help counter the impacts of widespread societal inequities.

It's probably not fair to pick on economists in this way when then the abuse of simplifying assumptions is at least as widespread in education.

While the city has received extensive coverage on the implementation of education reforms, as well as on the upheaval immediately following the widespread changes, scant analysis of the actual effectiveness of these reforms has been published.

My dissertation project explores how Brazilian education policy - makers and corporate actors have framed youth free time as a «gateway drug,» and how keeping youth busy through various interventions — vocational training, after - school arts and sports, test prep and professionalizing programming — has become a widespread form of risk prevention and subject formation.

This includes widespread support in the business community, which views a high - quality pre-K-12 education as critical to Michigan's ongoing economic comeback.

Campaign is a thought - provoking story of the current emotional state of education as told through the voice of the student and is intended to ignite widespread conversation and actions to transform education worldwide.

Many Americans are confused about the Common Core State Standards, according to a new poll that finds widespread misperceptions that the academic standards — which cover only math and reading — extend to topics such as sex education, evolution, global warming and the American Revolution.

As policymakers begin work on a major overhaul to the federal tax code, which could include eliminating or changing the deduction, and amid widespread concern about rising student debt levels, leaders should bear in mind that altering the provision would have implications for higher education and tax policy across levels of government.

It's hard to imagine a vegetarian Turin, but even if Appendino's efforts result in a widespread reduction in the amount of meat consumed — which seems likely, especially as education campaigns are launched in schools — then it will have been worthwhile.

Healthy Relationships California is passionate about Relationship and Marriage Education as a highly - cost effective means for having widespread positive impact on the lives of Californians.

The RE / MAX Commercial commitment to education has resulted in widespread industry respect, with four RE / MAX Commercial brokers serving as President of the CCIM Institute.