Sentences with phrase «education disasters over»

Cronin has seen too many education disasters over the decades tobecome too disturbed about Boston's current situation.

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The intramural dialogue over what Mark Noll has called «the scandal of the evangelical mind» worries that intellectually serious people have passed evangelicals by while we were allured by the sensations of revivalism, seduced by a materialistic market - driven culture, overtaken by the «disaster of fundamentalism» in the face of challenges from modern science and technology, and robbed of our universities through negligence and the inertia of secularized education.

Our on - line continuing education courses in subjects such as Cultural Competency, Global Midwifery, and Disaster Response are used by health care workers all over the world.

Over the last several years, I've spent a fair amount of time defending the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in my role as a senior fellow with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education - policy think tank in Washington, D.C.. Now, given president - elect Trump's pledge to «end Common Core,» which he terms «a disaster,» I expect many more opportunities to defend high standards, at least for the foreseeable future.

The Acer BYOD Education Project is a considerable investment in helping principals transition from the current problems of «Bring Your Own Disaster» — where there is little control over what devices are being brought into school IT environments — to Bring Your Own Designated Device.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos released the following statement: «Watching brave men and women rush into danger to help in the wake of devastating natural disasters over the past days and weeks, one can't help but be reminded of the heroes who rushed in to help in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania 16 years ago today.

As recent education reform failures demonstrate, robbing local districts of decision - making power over education policies is a recipe for disaster.

The charter school industry's unregulated, taxpayer - funded business model of education is a «fiscal and educational disaster,» concluded a report that is the result of investigations, visits and interviews over the course of a year.

By contrast, despite spending over $ 2 trillion in 5 decades, aid programs have much less to show in terms of poverty reduction — or its ancillary benefits, e.g., reductions in hunger, disease, better health care and education, and greater adaptive capacity to deal with climate change and natural disasters — than does fossil fuel - powered economic development.

«freedom of choice, the individual takes all, user pays, the darwinian survival of the fittest, the fundamentalism of religion, the oppression of labour to complete flexibility, the crude elevation of the entrepreneur beyond the ethics of their behaviour, the mocking of the role of the state in any service, the quest for ever lower taxes and the shrinkage of government, the failure to admit privatisation disasters, the ignoring of education and health needs for the majority, the failure to pursue greater equality for women, the worship of wealth for some at the expense of wellbeing for many, freedom to carry guns, deny climate change, the penchant for war and national might over peace time government services, and finally the deeply flawed assumption that competition prevails in any market (and every market) if you just stand back and watch it»