Sentences with phrase «conversation about the nation»

When we gathered here last July for my first interaction with the media, I promised that I would endeavour for us to meet, at least twice a year, to have a conversation about our nation, and how the government is doing.

In a study of relationships between socioeconomic variables and opioid - related drug overdoses, researchers found several correlations that are often not discussed in the current conversation about the nation's deaths of despair, which includes opioid overdoses, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics, Penn State and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

Not exact matches

Holder even called us «a nation of cowards» because we were unwilling to have a «national conversation» about race.

I'd take a penny for everytime I have heard someone talk about just what NP brought out — but when the conversation turns towards the hatred for Americans in other nations — they begin to make excuses for their bigotry.

My big kids read this book several times and it sparked great conversations about reconciliation and justice for First Nations.

The release of Les Misérables on DVD will remind a nation of one of its new favourite films, but it also presents Christians with a rare opportunity a resource of exceptional quality that will provoke conversations about faith.

«I'm hoping that it engages the nation in the bigger conversations about faith and God.

Kaepernick's moment inspired part of the nation to begin holding challenging conversations about progress.

Here are more highlights from my recent conversation about open adoption trends with Adam Pertman, author of Adoption Nation, executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, and adoptive father.

«We concluded with a conversation about how the acknowledgment of those living with special needs across the world is growing and it is one of the areas that in the United Nations and, from his perspective, in the Arab world has transcended some of their other political difficulties and some of the other controversial topics that obviously and rightfully consume their attention,» Molinaro said.

The panels at Netroots Nation bring together experts of all stripes to have a shared conversation about the future of our country.

(I know you like to challenge my account of Englishness - and of course there are many plural accounts and resonances in any large nation - but I can't see how or on what grounds you could possibly seek to deny me an equal claim to that identity, or to having a voice in the conversation about what we want to make of it, on which I expect I've been as engaged as just about anybody else).

Still, he noted, climate negotiators are not generally experts in finance, and if nations are serious about raising big bucks to protect low - lying islands from sea level rise, to develop distributed solar generation or to do other much - needed work toward both mitigating emissions and building resilience against weather disasters, the conversation needs to shift.

It's part of the strength of Parker's film that the current controversy doesn't entirely overshadow its impact — and that Birth of a Nation immediately becomes part of another crucial conversation, about race.

But it's part of the strength of Parker's film that the current controversy doesn't entirely overshadow its impact — and that «Birth of a Nation» immediately becomes part of another crucial conversation, about race.

December 19, 2017 • NPR Music's year - end interview series continues with a punk singer from the nation's capital, who says most conversations about «political art» are missing the point.

One night during a routine evacuation, she overhears a conversation about a plot to assassinate the dictator of a civil war - torn African nation.

Race to the Top asked states to create their own unique blueprints for education reform — and then, by publicly posting everyone's plans and the judges» scores, got the nation involved in a conversation about what high - quality education systems look like.

When former Obama Secretary of Education John King laments that we're having a «conversation about cuts rather than a conversation about investment,» I can only wonder what he said as the Obama administration was supersizing the Bush administration's effort to max out the nation's credit card.

Rather than cast aspersions and demagogue the issue, teachers need leaders willing to have courageous conversations about how to modernize and improve retirement security for all of our nation's teachers.

If you look back a decade ago, when we started into this work, there wasn't even a conversation across the nation about the fact that our schools were broken, fundamentally broken.

The impending closure of the Manual Education Complex in Denver is sparking a conversation about what can be learned from the experience at a time when the nation has pinned high hopes on improving secondary schools by turning them into smaller, more personalized environments.

In a conversation with Jim Vance, an anchor for Channel 4 news, the chancellor also addressed challenges with working alongside one of the nation's largest charter school markets, and concerns about high rates of principal and teacher turnover and a declining number of African American teachers in the school system.

We look forward to sharing this excellent resource with parents in Chicago and across the nation as we move the conversation forward about what children really need.

[/ quote] Though the uneven racial dynamics between teachers and students have enlivened conversations about the critical importance of a diverse teaching profession, these discussions have yet to galvanize an interest in understanding the institutions and teacher education programs that prepare the future teachers of color in our nation.

Facing History's «Choosing to Participate» resources help students and adults start conversation about the importance of participation in our community, nation, and world.

Through its successes, Pre-K Now changed the national conversation about pre-k education, and in its final report, challenged the nation's policy makers to transform public education by moving away from the current K - 12 system to pre-K-12.

To achieve this, The Mind Trust partnered with UNCF, the nation's largest and most effective minority education organization, to engage Indianapolis faith leaders, elected officials, educators, civic leaders and other key stakeholders in Community Conversations about the best ways to improve educational opportunities in Indianapolis.

«This year I hope to engage the nation in a conversation about how we can encourage students to experience things outside of their understanding.

This stagnation in conversation not only threatens our ability to move forward with the best policies for our nation's students, but it also has had the unintended consequence Read more about The New Normal in K - 12 Education -LSB-...]

On this month's Conversation, Editor RiShawn Biddle chats with Connecticut Parents Union President Gwen Samuel and mothers running the Hartford Parents Organization about their efforts to champion school choice and teacher quality reforms in one of Dropout Nation «s States to Watch.

The conversation continues about the lack of minority teachers instructing students of color in our nation's schools.

Discussion Group on Facebook: All educators, and people interested in gifted education, are invited to join and contribute to the ongoing conversation about how to best serve the academic needs of our nation's brightest students.

In the coming months, the conversation about the importance of formal writing instruction and its place in a public - school curriculum — the conversation that was central to changing the culture at New Dorp — will spread throughout the nation.

Earlier this month, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), a west coast based organization focused on family choice and portfolio cities, brought together a cross-section of educators, board members, administrators, community leaders and funders together to host a series of conversations about the state of portfolio work happening in cities across the nation.

As a nation, we need to have a conversation about how to mend, not end school accountability.

The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.

In a blog post on the department website, Duncan said when he mentioned the white suburban moms, he had been trying to «encourage a difficult conversation and challenge the underlying assumption that when we talk about the need to improve our nation's schools, we are only talking about poor minority students in inner cities.»

The report set the stage for conversations about the future of the Nation's transportation system and meeting the needs of the expected growth.

I just finished interviewing Marshall Poe, founder and editor - in - chief of New Books Network, for this week's podcast, and I will have more to say about our conversation in my weekly Contributing Editor column for Kindle Nation Daily.

The Institute also shared its new initiative, Climate in the Parks, with leaders around the country, beginning a grassroots park movement to shift the conversation about climate across our nation.

In a conversation with film director, Brian Redondo, artist Doreen Garner shares the motivation driving her sculptural practice: to educate viewers about suppressed racist histories embedded in the foundations of a nation built on slavery.

Join us for an urgent conversation about how the forces of shock politics and disaster capitalism are seeking to undermine the nation's radical, resilient vision for a just recovery.

The panelists agreed that the Jewish people must strive to be a renewable light to nations and to kindle conversations about better energy use in their households.

The conversation focuses on what the nation can or should do about climate change.

In the interim, the initial report of the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission had been released, a conversation was starting on campuses about how to take the report's recommendations and bring them in to legal education, and Canadians were talking about the issue of the rights of First Nations people and their role in this country.

These new progressive prosecutors are starting the important conversations about what success and justice should look like within our nations prosecutorial offices.

As the nation finally awakens to the reality of our broken criminal justice system, a long overdue conversation about how to reform it has emerged.

Through its successes, Pre-K Now changed the national conversation about pre-k education, and in its final report, challenged the nation's policy makers to transform public education by moving away from the current K - 12 system to pre-K-12.

As our nation's number of elderly people increases, we must have more productive conversations about improving late - life care.