Sentences with phrase «best kind of education»

«Bloodlines,» Stephen Petronio Company, October at the Dance Center of Columbia College: A program of three works, including Merce Cunningham's «RainForest» and Trisha Brown's «Glacial Decoy,» provided the absolute best kind of education — that is, the fun kind.

It is the best kind of education one could imagine.

It's a model, says ASCEND principal Hae - Sin Kim, that's grounded in the notion that the very best kind of education is one that teaches students how to ask questions — and how to discover their own answers.

John Jay Hughes profited from the best kind of education then offered within his country.

I am a big believer that self - education is the best kind of education.

Not exact matches

I pray to whichever holy name (God, Allah, Jehovah, Krishna, Jesus, etc.) suits the ONE Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent being that ignorance is wiped away from our species and we become a closer, more loving, peaceful creature and that we realize how much time we waste and how much further we push our fellow neighbor and brother under God, regardless of creed, away debating over who's God is better and discover the error of our ways before we destroy each other... before it's too late, because The End is Nigh!!!!! LOL!!!!! Really though, isn't the world full of enough tragedy, and aren't their so many more important things that need our energy and attention like the innocent children in Pakistan dying from diseases from the flood or the homeless children in our own country, or the lack of education, which is exactly what leads to this kind of debate?

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

When I ask Carter to describe the kind of young person who commits violent crime, he says there are some recurring themes: «The common factors will be a broken family at home, someone who isn't fully engaged in their education — absenteeism from school and truancy — and domestic abuse is a key factor as well.

Education for this kind of pastoral leadership — as our Protestant forebears in the early decades of this century understood so well — must connect individual faith and social context.

As well respect in him the high education he had and quality of his speeches... and kind modesty..

We hope this effort will foster a major advance in our theological education, and also nurture important conversations about how best to raise up and sustain the kind of pastoral leadership that makes a difference.

I can't yet figure out how to make good use of the Internet (though I suspect that someone who took on the calling of typing in enthusiastic reviews of good Christian books on the amazon.com Web site might make a remarkable impact), but I'm sure videos ought to play an important part in the kind of education I've been trying to describe.

You could say that the list of challenges facing each diocese in western Europe is well - rehearsed: the secularism that we're fighting, inside and outside the church; the pressures on families; the pressures on education; engagement with the young; the problems caused by a kind of poverty that just alienates people from life and also from the Church.

This kind of Biblicism involves theological education as well as the churches in inner contradictions.

Right now, however, doors are slamming and voices are raised upstairs, so I think I'd better go put my own assumptions about children and parenting, if not education right now, into some kind of forceful action.

Amiable and good, but so feeble of intellectual outlook that it would be too much to ask of us, with our Protestant and modern education, to feel anything but indulgent pity for the kind of saintship which she embodies.

This kind of thing can defeat much of what good education is meant to accomplish.

But in some of my conversations before the earthquake took place, we were hearing of tremendous successes in the areas in which we were working; where people were really kind of reclaiming their area, where clean water was being instituted, where the education facilities and the way in which we were working with the local governments were getting kids a good education, where jobs were [becoming] sustainable.

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

Whether that's education during pregnancy to learn more about the kind of birth you want to have, breastfeeding support immediately after your baby comes, family and friends who can help give you a much - needed break from time to time, or parenting advice and counsel as your baby transitions into toddlerhood — it's good to have a network of fellow parents you can count on.

Unfortunately, I've experienced all kinds of shaming for formula feeding from other moms, from subtle comments about «breast is best» or that I need more «education» or «support,» to saying I don't love my babies enough.

I've written this book specifically for parents to offer some information that I hope they find helpful on what's going on in education these days, on the kind of education our children really need to make the best of their talents and to offer practical advice and strategies to get that kind of education for -LSB-...]

The politicians seem to be unable to move away from grand gestures which they think will impress the electorate rather than consider the fundamentals of what makes the kind of education system that the public wants - good local schools in every neighbourhood.

And they are clamouring that person who is saying that their children should be given quality education, who is saying that their children should be guaranteed a better future, who is saying there should be better housing for every individual, who is saying that our community should not be flooded... When he was Commissioner for Environment, we did not experience the kind of flooding that we experience today.

In my judgment, that kind of leadership will require a comprehensive and sustained effort from both our public and private sectors — including a robust investment in education (especially the STEM fields), a federal commitment to research and development, a renewed emphasis on next generation manufacturing, translating federally funded breakthroughs to commercial applications in the private sector, an immigration policy that enables us to recruit and retain the best and brightest scientists from around the world, and appropriate tax, regulatory, and legal policy.

One crucial outcome of scientific knowledge is to generate new and better ways of being ignorant: not the kind of ignorance that is associated with a lack of curiosity or education but rather a cultivated, high - quality ignorance.

Scott: Well, we talked about this a lot and we've been working with the scientific societies and education societies that we work with, but we also work with the celebrities community and so we have a kind of a broader range of folks that we interact with than most science co-organizations because, you know, National Center for Science Education is this very odd hybrid of an activist organization, but still a scholarly organization at the sameeducation societies that we work with, but we also work with the celebrities community and so we have a kind of a broader range of folks that we interact with than most science co-organizations because, you know, National Center for Science Education is this very odd hybrid of an activist organization, but still a scholarly organization at the sameEducation is this very odd hybrid of an activist organization, but still a scholarly organization at the same time so.

The UI study, which was the largest of its kind in the world to date, recruited and assessed 95 pathological gamblers and 91 control subjects, matched for age, sex, and level of education, from Iowa, as well as 1,075 first - degree adult relatives of the study participants (first - degree relatives include parents, siblings, and children.)

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

Established in 1999 to promote neuroscience education and training as well as research, the VBI administers the Neuroscience Graduate Program, one of the leading programs of its kind in the country.

I agree with Meredith that the best health education is simply paying attention to how your body responds to different kinds of food, exercise, or stress.

Dating a doctor is not really tough, as in terms of education doctors are well educated financially stable and they are polite and kind in nature so its very easy to find a best and compatible match with a doctor.

good kind guy who is fond of an auto sound, I live in Yaroslavl Russia, I have the higher education of the economist.

Mitchell Chester: What the accountability system does, and what No Child Left Behind does, is create some transparency in the system and put those of us in the education profession in a position of having to confront the realities about the kind of achievement we're accomplishing with kids — especially kids from groups that traditionally have not been well - served by schools.

Whereas government - run schools are primarily accountable to elected school boards and unelected state education bureaucrats, private education providers are accountable directly to parents, and the same market forces that place competitive pressure on other kinds of businesses operate on these education providers as well.

Having heard plenty of well - meaning but uninspiring proposals from all kinds of interest groups over the years, one longtime elected official last week offered fellow supporters of international education advice on how to make a successful pitch: Be able to explain why it's necessary.

The best schools of education are building these kinds of learning communities within their schools; perhaps it is time for schools of education to see how they can support their students and alumni in K - 12 schools in their surrounding communities.

Wilshaw has said that while a small number of primary schools offer this form of education, more need to be involved as they are best placed, as they will have wider access to the kind of specialists that young children may need, such as speech and language therapists, behaviour management and parenting support.

On the other hand, they are the exactly the kinds of questions that think tanks like Fordham, the Center on Reinventing Public Education, and many others have been struggling to answer as best we can.

«While North Americans have recently become more aware of refugee experiences, given media coverage of the conflict in Syria, our article focuses on long - standing conflict in Somalia, a refugee camp in Kenya that was built in 1991 but continues to exist, and refugee young people whose experiences of education in long - term exile can help us think more proactively about the kinds of education that can best prepare refugee young people for their futures.»

«At a time when the recruitment of headteachers is exceptionally challenging with many posts attracting at best single figures this kind of sensationalist report does nothing to help us to achieve the ambitious vision headteachers are working so tirelessly to turn into a reality for our education system.»

Krechevsky stresses that educators need to revisit key assumptions that have long guided practice in the past to determine what kind of education will serve our children best now and in the future.

The reality is that these kinds of national results are so far removed from the regulatory minutiae of federal education policy, and the meaning of these test results can be so opaque, that everyone would be well - served if they spent less time claiming this or that test result or graduation rate proved that a grand federal agenda was the right one.

Nor does it show what kinds of preservice, professional - development, or alternative education programs best prepare them to teach.

So I hope to teach a course on that topic and to create some kind of an institute for the exploration of these subjects that would have a national presence, as well as a presence in the school of education.

«This has led to a very vibrant charter school movement in Washington in part of the great search to find out what kind of education or educational system will establish better school systems for all — white, black, brown, yellow,» Ottaway says.

Teachers and curricula in Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland in effect assumed the new immigrant children were capable of becoming good Americans and provided them with the kind of education that would make them so.

This week Education Next published «Learning in the Digital Age: Better Apps are Coming,» an article by Marie Bjerede about the state of educational apps today — which kinds of apps are actually useful, which are fun, and what kinds of new and improved learning apps we should expect to see in the future.

Sugata Mitra's «Whole in the Wall» experiment teaches us that children left alone with tech will learn on their own which kind of addresses the one big deficiency in the education system — lack of good teachers.

The No Child Left Behind Act imposes the wrong kind of testing on schools, educators need better systems to interpret the test data they get, and the federal government should help pay for the mandates it imposes, according to several advocates who last week addressed a private panel studying the education law and how to improve it.