Sentences with phrase «education campaign helped»

The education campaign helped change attitudes and outcomes on AIDS, which is now able to be treated largely as a chronic, rather than a fatal, disease.

In late 2015, the first public education campaign helped to explain the role of fruit juice in the diet, and counter some of the misinformation about juice.

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February 5: Former employees of Facebook and Google help launch the education campaign The Truth About Tech to explore tech addiction and the mental health consequences of using social media.

Last year, the Ethics Commissioner found that Jim Prentice's hand - picked and unelected Minister of Education used his office for «blatant political opportunism,» awarding modular classrooms to help his election campaign - and Jim Prentice remained silent.

I'd like to see a strong, coordinated consumer education campaign focused on helping people understand coffee is a crop, not a commodity, and all that entails.

We also helped develop the Men's Coalition — a partnership launched in November 2007 by a group of agencies (Men's Health Forum, Respect, Fatherhood Institute, Men's Advice Line, Relate, the Research Unit on Men and Masculinities at Bradford University, NCH and the White Ribbon Campaign) to ensure public policies take full account of the specific needs and experiences of men and boys (eg across health, parenting and caring, relationships, education, employment, crime and violence).

In addition to program support, Dawn and Shedd will roll out a pilot education - based program for Chicago Public Schools in early 2017 as part of the larger Dawn Helps Save Wildlife campaign.

Expanded Public Education Campaigns to Prevent Opioid and Heroin Use: The legislation includes the following provisions to expand public awareness campaigns to help educate New Yorkers particularly students and young people about the dangers of opioid and heroin use:

He also commended the National Commission for Civic Education as well as the officials of the Electoral Commission who he said helped in the campaign during the period.

Public education and safety campaigns could help parents learn what teens could be doing with drugs and medication.

«As the state's top fiscal watchdog, Comptroller DiNapoli is expected to make the case for Danks Burke as the best choice in November to help local farms, encourage small business growth, and ensure quality, affordable education for all families,» the Danks Burke campaign said in a statement.

CEO for the anti-corruption nonprofit Mayday PAC; She's an antitrust and media expert, covered extensively in her book, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United; Director of Internet Organizing for Howard Dean's campaign; Cofounded «A New Way Forward», designed to break up big banks «too big to fail» which damaged small businesses after the 2008 crash; Involved with Occupy Wall Street; National director of the non partisan Sunlight Foundation which works to make Congress more transparent; Works to support education and backs the teachers and parents in the anti common core opt out movement; Helped to organize the movement to ban fracking in NYS;

MIDDLEBURY — The 2016 U.S. presidential campaign has helped focus media attention on mounting student debt and the rising costs of a college education.

Just 6 days ago, the Scholars at Risk Network, an international group based in New York City, initiated a letter - writing campaign to ask the Iraqi, U.K., and U.S. governments to help investigate recent murders and better protect Iraq's higher education institutions.

Among the 54 Members featured in the book are a biologist and Nobel Laureate who helped decode DNA; an epidemiologist recognised for groundbreaking research on HIV prevention in women; a social scientist who nudged and cajoled into place the campaign to understand and contain HIV / AIDS in South Africa; a leading mathematics education proponent; a human geneticist whose work helped to clarify the origins of indigenous groups in Africa; one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology; and a leading immunologist and physician who pioneered higher education transformation in South Africa, in sometimes controversial ways.

All proceeds from this charity campaign will be donated to the Toni Garrn Foundation, helping girls in Africa access their rights to an education.

Addressing the crowd, Dean James Ryan spoke about spending the past year, with the help of colleagues, thinking about the school's mission and developing three strategies to improve education: cultivating leaders and innovators, collaborating on questions that matter, and communicating with the field, which he explained were also the school's campaign priorities.

Her educational journey was transformed when she received a bursary from CAMFED — the Campaign for Female Education — which provided her with the financial help she needed to finish secondary school, as well as advice and counselling to succeed.

A national campaign is needed to highlight just how important quality early education is for kids, not only for helping parents to work.

The Leaders Campaign will offer leaders the opportunity to visit the show and help ensure equal opportunities for all teaching staff to receive the high quality CPD, training and development they need for a successful career in education.

They were helped by a lobbying blitzkrieg led by Joe Williams and former Bloomberg campaign manager Bradley Tusk, who put together, with ample funds from Wall Street, Education Reform Now (ERN), a group with a single purpose: to bring the state legislature into the RttT reform fold.

It's worth noting that the Trump campaign is having a bear of a time getting much help on education.

Eco-Schools has worked with EDF Energy's education programme, the Pod, since 2009, helping to promote their national energy campaign, Switch Off Fortnight.

In an acknowledged bid to win over female voters, President Bush's campaign team is touting his education record with the help of a woman who presumably knows his policies as well as anybody: his wife, Laura.

89, Ed.D.» 94, president and CEO of the Arizona Community Foundation, explains, «Through forums and public education campaigns, Expect More Arizona will help broaden the base of people who are interested in seeing policies passed to improve education throughout the state.»

It probably helps to explain just how some of our impact entrepreneurs who focus on education could spend the money raised from the 5cent campaign.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan unveiled the plans saying it was a «national mission'to improve the literacy levels of school children in the country, enlisting author and comedian David Walliams to help launch the campaign.

Having recently welcomed its 750,000 th educational visitor, the Eden Project's schools team is now embarking on a campaign to help outdoor learning become a central pillar of British education.

Responsibilities include: • Create and develop various products including our curated digital publications (Spotlights), e-books, quizzes, and topical emails • Create email blasts delivering our content to our audience • Build audience segments for targeted promotions and propose new methods of audience outreach • Promote our products through social media and newsletter campaigns • Assist with collection and reporting of lead generation and revenue data to help inform future promotional campaigns • Conduct research on various aspects of the digital publishing and education media worlds to help determine future strategic focuses • Help with optimizing campaigns around testing and search engine optimization • Assist with fulfillment of book distribution partnership agreements with digital librahelp inform future promotional campaigns • Conduct research on various aspects of the digital publishing and education media worlds to help determine future strategic focuses • Help with optimizing campaigns around testing and search engine optimization • Assist with fulfillment of book distribution partnership agreements with digital librahelp determine future strategic focuses • Help with optimizing campaigns around testing and search engine optimization • Assist with fulfillment of book distribution partnership agreements with digital libraHelp with optimizing campaigns around testing and search engine optimization • Assist with fulfillment of book distribution partnership agreements with digital libraries

BAFTA award - winning actress Julie Walters is supporting a campaign by national education charity Future First to help raise aspirations among young people by building connections with former students.

On the build up to the day there will be a range of resources to help schools get involved, from education packs and films tailored for each key stage to interactive content and social media campaigns.

The campaign will help to re-frame the current national dialogue around public education to highlight the critical role public schools play as the bedrock of our civic society and their work to prepare students to be successful, contributing members of their local, national and global communities.

The campaign will help re-frame the current national dialogue around public education to highlight the critical role public schools play as the bedrock of our civic society and their work to prepare students to be successful, contributing members of their local, national and global communities.

The U.S. Department of Education has launched a campaign to help school officials channel the flood of student data generated in federal accountability reporting and state longitudinal databases without leaking students» or teachers» private information.

(Wash.) For generations, schools have served as a focal point for anti-drug campaigns and prevention education, but today with the opioid epidemic raging out of control, public health officials are looking in a new direction for help: the school bus driver.

(Calif.) To help relieve the state's stubborn teacher shortage, the Tulare County Office of Education is building a digital outreach campaign that, among other things, will utilize mobile avatars to carry recruitment messages.

The Democratic challenge slate went on to win the election and with the help of the Working Families Party members unseated Finch's campaign treasurer, Reverend Kenneth Moales, Jr. last night as the Chairman of the Bridgeport Board of Education, replacing the disgraced pastor with a pro-public education advocate named SaudEducation, replacing the disgraced pastor with a pro-public education advocate named Saudeducation advocate named Sauda Baraka.

ConnCAN is the charter school advocacy group that helped make the lobbying campaign in support of Malloy's education reform bill the most expensive in state history.

The Priority Schools Campaign (PSC) caught up with Hall to talk about the importance of arts education and how his program helps brings families into the high school.

To help support and promote West Seattle, the National Education Association's Priority Schools Campaign (PSC) selected the school as one of its intensive support sites.

Those of us involved in the Priority Schools Campaign know that research shows parent, family, and community involvement in education raises achievement and helps us improve our schools.

Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said: «The National Education Union is running an EFFECTIVE EDUCATION project to help FE staff achieve sustainable workloads and to campaign for better funding for the FEducation Union, said: «The National Education Union is running an EFFECTIVE EDUCATION project to help FE staff achieve sustainable workloads and to campaign for better funding for the FEducation Union is running an EFFECTIVE EDUCATION project to help FE staff achieve sustainable workloads and to campaign for better funding for the FEDUCATION project to help FE staff achieve sustainable workloads and to campaign for better funding for the FE sector.

Asked about the decision to campaign here, Trump spokesman Jason Miller wrote in an email: «Mr. Trump believes that all children deserve the opportunity to receive a first - class education, and his school choice reform proposals will help do just that.

With the help of such celebrities as basketball legend and business icon Earvin «Magic» Johnson, Jr., founder of the not - for - profit Khan Academy Sal Khan, and actor and television personality Montel Williams, the Stand Up campaign highlights the success of the nation's public schools — and works to bolster public confidence in the institution of public education.

This flood of legislation, along with new rules in many states allowing for more charter schools, pioneering union contracts in several cities and a state - led effort to rewrite the nation's academic standards, have made this spring a watershed period, said Jon Schnur, an education adviser to the Obama campaign who helped design Race to the Top.

The conference will feature informational sessions about ESEA reauthorization, the Common Core State Standards, and education funding; presentations by influential federal policymakers and national education leaders on the presidential campaign and Congress's education priorities for 2012; advocacy skill - building sessions to help increase your influence at the federal, state, and local levels throughout the year; and Capitol Hill visits with your federal lawmakers.

This campaign aims to bring all education stakeholders together to help failing schools.

The Summer Born Campaign is adamant that simply adjusting children's scores in order to «pass» them through to the next stage of their education / life is not the right answer to this problem; it doesn't help colleges, universities or employers, and it certainly doesn't help the child who may have had a negative experience of education for years.

Although Goodwill Industries spreads a lot of benevolence of its own through its donation stores, the Goodwill Education Initiative relies on private donors, fund - raising campaigns and money from other sources to help finance its high school.