Sentences with phrase «big lack of education»

I think there's still such a big lack of education about breastfeeding and bottle feeding is still such the norm that people open their mouths thinking they know what they're talking about.

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Verizon Communications, among the biggest beneficiaries of the corporate tax cut this year, said it would double its commitment to fostering science, technology, and engineering education (STEM) in schools that lack such resources.

There's an underlying theme of contempt for institutions — for government, for university education, for lawyers and reporters («the biggest bunch of liars»)-- as well as for «losers» who lack initiative and expect handouts.

Some of the individuals were behind «megagifts» of $ 200 million to $ 2 billion, big checks most often associated with tech - industry tycoons trying to solve the world's biggest problems — from developing world poverty to lack of universal education — in one bank transfer of epic proportions.

If I had to pick one, I would say the biggest mistake is lack of education.

Millennials said the biggest barriers to progress for young adults 18 - 22 were higher education costs (46 percent), slow wage growth (40 percent) and lack of job prospects (39 percent), the survey found.

The people she interviewed face problems that are bigger than any one person: unemployment, lingering racism, and a lack of the social capital necessary to navigate higher education and the knowledge economy.

A bigger problem is a lack of seekers: athough there are many good Catholic teachers in our schools who are deeply committed and highly motivated, many teachers of Religious Education in Catholic schools are either non-practising Catholics or are not Catholic at all.

My last point and Im out... Throughout our great nations history... we always found a way to fight through national issues and come up with solutions... Giving the problems we have now to people in the 50's and 60's... and they may actually come up with a solution... if you earnestly care about making a change... start at the lowest levels of government... go do something... find out costs... expenses... how to get more health care to people... do things like that... quit waiting on the government to provide all the answers... its not the way this country was founded... and not the way we get through problems... If you or ur family does nt have insurance... get a job that can provide you that... instead of hoping the government will do so... If you or ur family lacks access to education... move to an area that excels at it... education is invaluable... Do something about your problem... and quit waiting for the next big lotto...

Hadi Partovi, founder of Code.org, cites lack of trained teachers as the biggest obstacle to getting computer science into the classroom, and software developers have little motivation to shift from the private sector into education.

One of the biggest hurdles for the government to take quality education to the remotest location of the country is the lack of good teachers.

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 polls by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and Phi Delta Kappa International (PDK) found a perceived lack of funding to be the biggest problem facing schools in respondents» communities, with AFT also identifying local and federal education budget cuts as the most worrisome trend in education.

The Leadership Conference Education Fund poll found «an overwhelming sense of racial inequity in school funding,» with lack of funding for students of color seen as the biggest cause of racial disparities in education by both African American and Latino parents and Education Fund poll found «an overwhelming sense of racial inequity in school funding,» with lack of funding for students of color seen as the biggest cause of racial disparities in education by both African American and Latino parents and education by both African American and Latino parents and families.

With school choice likely to be a big focus of the new Administration's education agenda, these efforts will be undermined if parents lack the basic information they need to make an informed choice about other options, which the regulations provide.

As I told UrbanFaith's Christine A. Scheller, this is just one more example of the NAACP's biggest problem: An organization which was once proudly and rightfully in the forefront of school reform in the last century lacks an education advocacy road map that supports systemic school reform.

Whenever life as a single mother happened and we had to move due to financial lack, my first and biggest question was the quality of the education provided within any potential community where we might live.

The lack of good quality careers education remains a major problem, he says, and he argues that businesses should play a bigger part in making links between school and employment.

And yet this lack of funding for school safety and security is only one small aspect of a much bigger, growing problem presented by the lack of public education investment: teacher salaries.

One of the big problems in public education is the lack of transparency and public trust.

One of the reasons Americans have struggled so much with big debts and credit repair issues is due to the inexperience and lack of education concerning personal finances.

«One of the biggest challenges regarding pet overpopulation is the lack of education,» says Lucy Monette, Humane Society of Pinellas Volunteer and Outreach Manager.

«Right now the travel industry lacks education about community - based tourism and how larger tourism companies are taking a way too bigger share of profits that could, and should, be going to supporting local people and projects, especially in developing countries.

One big concern for professionals who need annual Continuing Education Units (CEUs) is lack of availability, money, and time.

For Maury, who sells between 50 — 60 homes a year, the biggest hurdle in getting clients to purchase a home warranty comes in the form of education — or lack thereof.

Where else can someone who is working at unskilled things like serving tables, washing dishes, driving a delivery truck, working at an auto assembly plant or other factory, telemarketing at some boring office or who is otherwise working at any minimum wage job due to a lack of education and / or meaningful real - life experience etc., get to go to real estate classes (hoping that a few months thereafter to be guiding uneducated consumers through the most expensive and most important financial transactions of their lives in trade for big fat commissions) often with a minimalist education (maybe just scraped by at that after multiple attempts to pass grade ten or eleven) and expect to instantly be labelled a professional operative upon passing the real estate courses» exams via penning memorized responses to forewarned - about - exam - questions by instructors who need to display a suitable passing percentage of students to keep their part - time teaching jobs?