Sentences with phrase «behind current efforts»

EDUTOPIA: What's behind current efforts to expand computer science education across the K — 12 spectrum?

If you've been following the fight over school food, you know that the School Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's leading organization of school food professionals, is the main force behind current efforts to weaken the new healthier meal standards.

How did the School Nutrition Association, the nation's largest organization of school food professionals, go from being a vocal supporter of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act to the moving force behind current efforts to gut that... [Continue reading]

How did the School Nutrition Association, the nation's largest organization of school food professionals, go from being a vocal supporter of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act to the moving force behind current efforts to gut that legislation?

Not exact matches

Current Democrats like Assemblymen Robin Schimminger and Mickey Kearns still brandish a «C» behind their names, often to counter the perpetual GOP effort linking upstate Democrats to those crafty legislative chieftains from big, bad New York City.

That message, delivered March 11 as part of a conference sponsored by the Center for American Progress and the American Enterprise Institute, comes as the Obama administration is ratcheting up efforts to redo the ESEA, the current version of which is the No Child Left Behind Act.

But a better, less intrusive testing regime doesn't right the wrong idea behind current accountability efforts.

Carrying Freire's mantle, current gurus like revolutionary terrorist Bill Ayers and the recently deceased Communist Howard Zinn have been behind the effort to destroy America as we know it.

Any global engine needs to be very good, and a measure of the effort behind the motor is that Honda has exceeded the current PGM - FI 125 in all the important aspects - cost - to - run, fuel economy and low emissions.

It only takes a few kilometres behind the wheel of the Macan S to experience how much effort Porsche has put into making it different from the Q5 (full disclosure, our daily driver at home is a current generation Q5 2.0 T).

The teachers» frontline engagement makes for a unique opportunity to examine the current state of the islands, and to delve into the inner workings behind the preservation efforts on one of the world's most famed — and most endangered — ecosystems.

He acknowledged that FindLaw has fallen behind in keeping the index current, but he said that efforts are underway to update the information and that FindLaw -LSB-...]

He acknowledged that FindLaw has fallen behind in keeping the index current, but he said that efforts are underway to update the information and that FindLaw would launch a redesigned and updated site before the end of the year.

The Commission has reportedly already been working out the details of a proposal behind the scenes, contemplating how and — importantly — when the argument that a strengthened external voice of the EMU is an integral part of the current efforts to improve the economic governance of the Eurozone can best be presented.

The idea that parents and caregivers might proactively build the rudiments of resilience is not without precedent.67, 68 Vygotsky suggested that the role of parents, caregivers, and teachers is to work within the child's zone of proximal development so the child will learn to master skills that were previously beyond their independent ability.69 This is the theory behind both Reach Out and Read70, 71 and more recent efforts to decrease obesity by nurturing the foundational motor skills needed for an active lifestyle.72 — 74 The current challenge, then, is for pediatricians, home visitors, and early educators to collaboratively increase the capacity of caregivers and communities to nurture those rudimentary but foundational SE, language, and cognitive skills as they emerge developmentally.

Collection When a borrower falls behind, the lender contacts them in an effort to bring the loan current.