Sentences with phrase «by education in the schools»

Could Matthew Shepard's murder have been prevented by education in our schools?
Was it a crime that could have been prevented by education in the schools?

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Schools desperate to prove the practical applications of their degrees are funnelling unpaid labourers to employers: the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Vancouver was justifiably ridiculed when it advertised for four unpaid busboy «internships,» but the jobs were defended by Vancouver Community College, who said «even dishwashing» is an education.
The increase from a decade ago was led by debtors whose highest education was high school, suggesting they could struggle to find decent jobs in a weaker economy.
Chris pointed out that this model should be used by every school in their approach to education.
A $ 50 million «School of the Future» backed by Microsoft Corp. opens this September in Philadelphia, and it may redesign ideas about education as thoroughly as technology has changed the workplace.
CrisisGo was started in 2013 by three co-founders — Reynolds, an education software sales rep, Songwei Ma, a software engineer, and Jim Spicuzza, who had launched and sold a business that made content - management systems for school websites.
Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»
Ed - tech sector is booming By Erica Alini, MacLean's October 29, 2012 Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universitieBy Erica Alini, MacLean's October 29, 2012 Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universitieby 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universities.
Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universities.
(Individual schools are required by the Department of Education to publicly disclose data related to the equity in athletics.)
The skater continued her education further by earning master's degree in international relations from Tufts University's Fletcher School of Diplomacy in 2011.
The systematic gutting of publicly funded education — be it in elementary schools or in colleges — was done by officials we've elected, many of whom have received strong support from members of the business community who regularly complain about the lack of a prepared workforce.
Barnes argues that the smaller amounts, typically $ 20,000 or less, allow students to run their companies and stay in school — as well as boost their entrepreneurial education by forcing them to be scrappy and resourceful.
Following his education in industrial design at the Central St. Martin's art school in London, Dyson worked for a while as an interior designer, though he admits to not have been too taken in by the way the discipline was perceived at that point in time, which was the early 90s.
Former New York City Board of Education chancellor Rudy Crew, worried that the Internet age was passing by too many kids in his urban districts, provided the B - schoolers with three beta - test schools and agreed to join the duo's previously nonexistent board of advisers.
The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.
Speaking Thursday at George Mason University's Law School in Arlington, Va., the U.S. Secretary of Education announced that «the era of rule by letter is over.»
By making these skills available to all students — not just those able to attend a private school that offers such classes — it levels the education playing field and puts all students one step closer to landing a job in New York's expanding technology scene.
This allows a student to earn money to help pay education expenses through a part - time job administered by schools participating in the Federal Work - study Program.
In May, then education minister Christy Clark introduced Bill 34, the School Amendment Act, providing parents with more education input by establishing school planning councils and district parent advisory couSchool Amendment Act, providing parents with more education input by establishing school planning councils and district parent advisory couschool planning councils and district parent advisory councils.
AACSB accreditation is the hallmark of excellence in business education, and has been earned by less than 5 % of the world's more than 16,000 business schools.
The PhD program at the Rotman School is designed to prepare individuals for academic and research careers by providing in - depth education in current and emerging theory.
In October 2014, Gordon Dirks, the unelected Minister of Education hand - picked by Jim Prentice, announced two modular classrooms for a school in CalgarIn October 2014, Gordon Dirks, the unelected Minister of Education hand - picked by Jim Prentice, announced two modular classrooms for a school in Calgarin Calgary.
The education tax paid by homeowners depends on a variety of factors, including the per - pupil spending in their local schools, the type of property (residential homestead or other) and the state - determined common level of appraisal (CLA).
The slow implementation of Putonghua (Mandarin) instead of Cantonese in Hong Kong schools, the controversial proposal for a «Moral and National Education'that focuses on building Chinese patriotism, and the perception that Hong Kong housing and other resources are being unequally allocated to Chinese visitors, are some of the sources of discontent expressed by certain segments of society.
Article on the Rotman School and Interview with Tiff Macklem in the Education Post by Ben Young November 15, 2016
The Alberta Haskayne Executive MBA — a joint program offered by the Haskayne School of Business and the University of Alberta — has been ranked as the 19th best joint EMBA program in the world by higher education analysts Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).
The Education Super Centre, like all currently owned and planned rental units, will be located directly by local transit systems in the core of Vancouver, allowing students to travel with ease for both school and recreation.
Interviewed by Teri Pecoskie of The Hamilton Spectator for a story relating to boards» of education codes of conduct, in the context of the Hamilton - Wentworth District School Board, May 31, 2011.
School funding's been decimated by the recession and by taxpayers who want the best education system in the world but don't want to pony up the taxes to pay for it.
The Catholic Education Service (CES) has been criticised by Muslim and secular leaders for choosing Judaism instead of Islam, given that the latter is the second largest religion in the UK after Christianity, and that Muslim children can form up to 90 percent of the student body in some Catholic schools in Britain.
One need not be a historian of education or a theologian to assess the damage done to public education and then to society in general by how these cases were decided and what public school officials were empowered to do (or so they believed) despite the clearly given cautions from the Supreme Court itself.
(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.
The best single article I've seen on the moral case for parental choice in education is «School Choice as Simple Justice,» published in First Things (April 1992) and written by Prof. John Coons of the law school of the University of California, BerSchool Choice as Simple Justice,» published in First Things (April 1992) and written by Prof. John Coons of the law school of the University of California, Berschool of the University of California, Berkeley.
A 1992 survey by the U.S. Department of Education discovered that private school students had more community spirit and were more likely to value helping others and to volunteer in community causes.
For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.
Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.
Stephen Evans, campaigns manager at the National Secular Society (NSS) says: «We welcome the government's robust response to the specific allegations against schools in Birmingham, but it has a long way to go before we can be confident that children's education isn't being compromised by groups with a religious agenda.
«The most important book published by the Holy See in this generation for Catholic education,» says Bishop O'Donoghue, «is theCatechism of the Catholic Church, and its summary, the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church»; he says that «it is vital that both the Catechismand the Compendiumare used by teachers in our schools and colleges, who can guide pupils in how to make best use of them»; that «the key to unlocking this treasury of Church teaching....
While it is true that none of the Apostles needed a formal education for their position, we can not say they were not educated by Jesus and others; even Paul not only was educated in the worldly and in religious sense, but he taught «school» every day for two years in Ephesus after being rejected by the synagogue.
, and by working to lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in schools, funding for birth control measures and education about using that birth control, promoting research into methods of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual choices.
The earliest institutions of higher learning in the United States were Christian schools, founded by Christians, for Christian education.
Christian education is in the world and for the world... man must work out his salvation in the concrete situation in which God has placed him; not by protection but by contributing to the whole human community of which he is an integral and inseparable part... parents, who have the first and the inalienable right and duty to educate their children, should enjoy true freedom in the choice of their schools, etc..»
By his own public statements and also through his role of helping to develop an alcoholism education emphasis for the youth and adults in his church school, the minister helps to plant the seeds of understanding of the nature and treatment of alcoholism.
Alison Gray, in a recent doctoral study on the empirical use of material relating to The Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, in relation to the teaching of Key Stage Three religious education in a Catholic school in England, has shown the inherent capacity of children to reach belief by a proper use and understanding of the illative sense.
Matters came to crisis point a year ago when the last government's Children, Schools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageSchools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageschools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageschools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the age of 15.
These Catholic claims prompted state constitutional amendments nationwide dictating that public funds for education could not be controlled by «any religious sect,» language carefully chosen to halt the Catholic drive while preserving public school instruction in nonsectarian Protestantism.
He did not measure himself by the cultural standards of his day, as did some others, who scoffed at the fact that he was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), nor by the greatness of the order of the intellect (his education was that which could be gained at the local synagogue school) Some of the creatures made by the Word of God are greater in these respects than the one who is the Word of God incarnate, and that one is not ashamed of his inferiority.
Wood is not much troubled by the fact, which so disturbs Farley and Hough and Cobb, that the way in which academic disciplines are institutionalized in American higher education also dictates the structure of the curricula of theological schools.
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