Sentences with phrase «do real education»

«I am hoping now that the mayor of New York City understands that to do real education reform it's about helping schools to get better and not about closing schools,» said Mulgrew, speaking at a state press conference on Feb. 16 in Albany with the governor, State Education Commissioner John King and NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi standing beside him.

Not exact matches

For example, buying a million - dollar property you intend to flip without the proper research can make for a bad investment, but spending $ 82,000 in real estate education — as one acquaintance did — can also deplete the reserves you need to invest in the first place.

What it does: Provides education and an online community for real estate investors

Entrepreneurial Winning Women is a competitive award and executive education program that identifies a select group of high - potential women entrepreneurs whose businesses show real potential to scale — and then helps them do it.

For our efforts to go beyond such survival - mode, and to actually do what conservative pundits are calling for, depend a great upon a broader reform movement to restore genuine liberal education to the general curriculum and to give its champions real power.

Instead, why don't you teach your children to study hard and get a good education at a «real» college where they can learn «real» subjects like biology and astrophysics, instead of relying on a priest or a minister to teach them that mythical being created man and the universe?

I also don't want to live in a country where only the rich has a voice and real options (health care, education and so forth).

When it was about to die in the late 50s, they decided to start doing things differently — lay leadership, challenging theology, real adult education centered on life issues — rather than eliciting statements of faith, etc..

but the real good news is, the internet and education are doing away with all religious cults, including christianity.

The real «gotcha» question would be «Do you believe in biblical creation, and what impact would your beliefs have on public education?»

I left the Catholic church because after 8 years of Catholic school and untold hours of religious education I didn't see any real faith in the clergy or the parishioners I knew.

He was put into it early in his schooling and in further education at college or university, with the result that all else has nothing to do with the real world or at best is of marginal value.

Many of the students are homeschooled and threaten you and throw a fit that you are not good enough when you tell them that you see they can not study or do not have school or people skills or can not hold a job due to their lack of real education.

I wonder if we could do a better job in the formation of Catholic thinkers — perhaps with Youth Education classes, perhaps in the Newman Centers — in preventing the assumption that the life of faith has to be compartmentalized away from all other mental activity, where it can have no real effect.

And there are also many, many things we could be doing to encourage children's acceptance of healthier school meals: imposing meaningful restrictions on children's junk food advertising; requiring food education in schools — not just nutrition education, but offering kids a real understanding of our food system, and overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much more.

Real, attached mamas do not «outsource their child's education.

So, I just feel like it's a lot of lack of nutrition — education about the nutrition of baby and because of that, we don't realize what breast are for so we sexualize them and kind of negated its real purpose for them.

This training arose in response to the problems arising in Waldorf schools related to either hiring administrative staff with no understanding or real connection to the education, or hiring teachers to do administrative work with no professional experience.

The future of Waldorf education and the possibility that Waldorf schools can be transformative organizations rests both on the capacity of teachers to continue their good work out of a real creative impulse connected to anthroposophy and the capacity of administrative staff to do the same.

And anyone with a desire for good science and / or any real understanding regarding meaningful education / advocacy work can tell you that a person who bullies and rants is doing a disservice to their agenda.

That is where we are doing real nutrition education — on their plates.»

We're part of an informal community of breastfeeding advocates (and me, although I do consider myself a breastfeeding advocate, albeit a strange hybrid of one) where we discuss ways to better serve all mothers and provide REAL support and education.

I think a lot of the issue with this bill and this entire issue is that there's just a lack of education about the need for it and I think this why not enough has been done yet, but when people do find out about all the struggles and the issues and the real health concerns that go along with women having to pump in places like bathrooms that are unsanitary that people do want to help, that they do want conditions to get better.

This is just political manipulation of students» educational outcomes which has nothing at all to do with the real purpose of education.

Not only does being part of Europe offer British citizens a wealth of opportunities in terms of education and employment, it is also instrumental in protecting our rights and endowing us with the privileges of free travel and a real voice on an increasingly crowded world stage.

«The only reason I can think to do this is [is that] when real numbers come out in June and show less - than - positive results, it will be Bill de Blasio's administration's fault and not on Bloomberg's twelve - year legacy running the schools,» charged Miriam Aristy - Farer, President of District 6's Community Education Council (CEC).

There are plaudits for his conduct in his role as opposition higher education spokesman, suggesting real policy thought — although this was all too often marred when the presentation did not achieve what was intended.

The society approach: When the society is weak, when the civic education is low (or doesn't exist), when there's no promotion of real democracy, society won't participate because they're not interested or they don't know the advantages of the process.

He ticked off a list of school governance reforms the union is pushing for in Albany: don't allow the citywide Panel for Educational Policy to be controlled by one person; give Community Education Councils a real voice, especially concerning co-locations; and require that the schools chancellor be an educator.

The result won't do much to allay the fears of New York teachers» unions that Cuomo's real aim is to transform traditional public schools into charter schools, since charter groups were among those chosen by Massachusetts education officials to implement turnaround plans in chronically underperforming districts.

«I believe the Assembly is making a real srtatement about the state devoting greater dollars to education and I believe they're doing so because they know a tax cap will make it impossible for local communities to fund education,» Iannuzzi said.

However, the real problem is that gambling revenues that were to go to education do not enhance the general budget percentage for ed, but rather replace it.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

The real problem, in Magee's eyes, is that wealthy New Yorkers are trying to dismantle the publicly funded school system — complete with the powerful teachers unions — because they don't want to pay their «fair share» in taxes to support the education of all children, not just the «elite.»

Even though Foley did not receive the CEA board's endorsement, he «remains committed to real education reform, including addressing the needs of the 100,000 children who are in under - performing schools and closing Connecticut's achievement gap, which remains the worst in the nation,» spokesman Chris Cooper said.

Cuomo not only failed to do anything real to prevent wealthy and corporate donors from buying our politicians, but proposed severe cuts in education funding while giving massive tax breaks to bankers and billionaires.

Clearly she has no idea of the choices which the SCSD already provides for our students, nor does she have a real understanding of what urban education looks like.

Proponents say, however, the real beauty of training AI to be creative does not lie in the end product — but rather in the technology's potential to expand on its own machine - learning education, and to solve problems by thinking outside the box far faster and better than humans can.

We need to do it through education, inspiration, and real conversations.

I would like to see real health education programs for those who don't have the advantage of good education and the internet.

I was tempted to leave it that way but did change it back to the «real me» as I know when we do date, the guys will find me out in the end Plus, I would not be happy with a guy that could not accept my education nor my career ambitions.

Won't Back Down Jamie Fitzpatrick (Maggie Gyllenhaal) may not have much, but that doesn't stop the single mother from giving her all to help her dyslexic, third - grader daughter Malia (Emily Alyn Lind) get a chance at a real education.

«House of Cards» starts off at a remove, but it really gets going when its story plunges into something like the real world, one in which Bill Maher and Dennis Miller comment on the proceding on TV and a gaff on CNN gets autotuned into a viral clip, where an education bill is broken down and haggled over in terms of details on charter schools and collective bargaining and the slower moving but responsible reporting of a newspaper is put up against a fast - paced website in which an editor tells a writer she can just post her stories herself as soon as she's done with them.

A Sticky Week for College Admissions as Affirmative Action Debate Heats Up (The Christian Science Monitor) Ivy League Schools Brace for Scrutiny of Race in Admissions (The Boston Globe via The Associated Press) Affirmative Action in Higher Education (WOSU) Centering on «Diversity» Ignores the Real Focus of Affirmative Action (The Boston Globe) For Now, Federal Focus On Affirmative Action Centers On Harvard (WBUR) Sometimes, Perceptions of Affirmative Action Don't Mesh With Reality (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Natasha Warikoo weighs in on the Department of Justice's plans to investigate affirmative action in college admissions.

As Pam Van Walleghen, a teacher at Urbana Middle School in Urbana, Illinois, testified, «Giving students the opportunity to do «real science» using state - of - the - art technology is about as exciting as education can get.»

If we're going to make real progress in providing children with access to high - quality education, we have to put those things aside and commit to doing whatever it takes.

«In education, a section that I think is more interesting is to know what content is meeting the educational objectives to be met, because when we edited paper, we only knew what teachers, students told us, but when digitizing the content, if we endow of «traceability», we will know what content is most viewed, what exercises are done, which are not, which are repeated, which are not made, what content are viewed... I mean, it gives us a timely real and immediate feedback», says David.

What good does it really do society — or the young person himself — when the education system declares that he has «recovered» enough «credit» to deserve a credential that is described as evidence of college / career readiness when in the real world none of that is true?

The college training of new teachers does not always prepare them for the real - life classroom, leaving them lacking the «practical knowledge of teaching,» Arlene Fleischmann, coordinator of BCPS's Teacher Mentor / Trainer Program, tells Education World.

If that doesn't change, we'll keep bemoaning our shortage of science, math, and special education teachers (such as here, here, and here) without much real change.