Sentences with phrase «education efforts if»

Washington — Business leaders should push to raise local taxes to pay for early - childhood and other education efforts if money can not be found in other public programs, Paul H. O'Neill, chairman of the President's Education Policy Advisory Committee, told a group of business leaders here last week.

We agreed there is a significant need for prevention and education efforts if we want to attack this issue from all sides.

Not exact matches

If one stops to think how severely handicapped denominational efforts in, say, Christian education and missions would be without national staff, then one gets an idea of just how vital staff is in the area of worship.

Imagine if all the billions of dollars in time, effort and hard cash that we spend worldwide each year worshipping and appeasing make - believe deities of one kind or another were instead funneled into something tangible and worthwhile, like reducing poverty, improving education or protecting the environment.

If style is economy of effort with constant attention to the end you want to attain, we can see that the early education of this mathematician had great style indeed.

Perhaps our education would be more humane in result if everyone were required to gain an intimate acquaintance with some coherent ideal that failed in the effort to maintain itself.

Poverty, the earthquake, family, religion, economics, policy, corruption, housing, education — if you pulled out a single stone in an effort to help, there was a possible of an avalanche of unintended consequences raining down.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

If the number of people who vote are reduced to those who are interested, the candidates are going to make a better effort than repeating pretty words such as: education, jobs, health, etc..

Today's report finds that while the debt cancellation agreed last year is helping deliver essential health and education services, developed countries must step up their efforts if they are to make genuine inroads in tackling global poverty.

Fred LeBrun says Cuomo faces a significant backlash if his latest effort at education reform fails.

But the governor pulled back from efforts to pass an education tax credit that would benefit donors who give up to $ 1 million, if they give money to scholarships for poor children to attend private schools.

«If the committee could pull together what we already know... and make very strong recommendations» regarding changes in science and engineering education, the effort would be worth it, says Elaine Seymour, who works in the Bureau of Sociological Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

So, when thinking about future solutions to the problem of sexual assault, in addition to increased public education about consent — it never hurts to just ask someone if they want to have sex with you — preventative efforts may also one day benefit from including a similar cognitive training paradigm, but with an increased number of photographs and multiple sessions to maximize the amount of feedback given to the person using it.

If we are to avoid a 20 - year retrospective on the failures of the Bush administration's education efforts, it seems to me that the new law should be accorded more support than it is receiving.

GCSE's are important; they'll determine if you go on to higher education, they'll help you get a better job, and the time and effort you put in is good practice for when you go off into the working world.»

If you are not following these individuals and their work in eLearning, then you are not really serious about improving the quality of your Instructional Design efforts whether in the learning culture of a business or in the formal education setting.

Some in the gap - year world are skeptical of too much integration with traditional education (Knight wonders if, perhaps, gap years need to «stand apart» to be effective), but Savitz - Romer says that these efforts are actually essential to democratize the trend.

If you are ready to work at the forefront of education reform efforts worldwide, we encourage you to apply to IEP.

I can't help but wonder what would happen if we spent a greater proportion of our education - related efforts on incorporating the insights of cognitive science into our education decisions.

The Department of Education's decision to link federal funding to the Core in its Race to the Top program, its NCLB waiver effort, and its «ESEA blueprint,» and the provision of $ 350 million in federal funds for Core - related tests, all alienated anti-Washington conservatives who would have remained neutral if the question had merely concerned states collaborating to set standards in math and English language arts.

If Gates and others with billions to devote to education continue to focus on reforming the old rather than building new, I fear their efforts will soon be forgotten after the Emperor's New Clothes adulation fades when they stop having large sums to give.

If ours is highly questionable, then the U.S. Department of Education's efforts must be at least questionable.

As a result, although they don't tackle the high cost of degrees directly, if edX and others like it create a new ecosystem that, for many, renders a «degree» as we've known it irrelevant, they may end up solving the spiraling costs of higher education better than those efforts that take direct aim at the problem.

Opposition to parental efforts to ensure a quality education for the nation's children might make headlines, but it will only slow us down if we let it.

The stories of these programs provide a number of compelling ideas that could have a huge impact if applied to broader efforts to improve teacher education.

Al Shanker, the brilliant (if controversial) leader who led union efforts to win collective bargaining rights in New York City, denounced the idea of vouchers: «Without public education, there would be no America as we know it,» he cried.

But state systems of education consist of interconnected policies and work streams, and if related elements don't move forward in tandem, the efforts often fail to have impact.

It sure wouldn't hurt if more education entrepreneurs spent time learning about all the efforts that preceded them.

If a Senate committee hearing last week was any indication, the congressional authors of the «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001 will be keeping close tabs on the Department of Education's efforts to translate the law into practice.

Sometimes it seems as if we've tried everything in our efforts to reform public education, yet nothing has worked to boost student achievement at scale.

A common perception in education circles is that there is no need to take any particular reform effort too seriously, if only because in short order it will be supplanted by something else.

Diazgranados Ferráns notes that peace education lessons will only take root if peace education is a schoolwide effort that goes beyond a particular subject, embodied by every adult in the building and demonstrated throughout the school day.

Yes, it does require a bit more preparation in regards to varying materials for students, but if you believe like I do, that differentiation instruction for diverse leaners is most appropriate and equitable in education, then the extra effort is worth it.

McRae and Walker explained that the field of education must compete with other fields for minority students; if we are going to encourage minorities to become teachers, we need to put in this extra effort.

Billions in federal economic - stimulus dollars are slated to be spent to help improve public education, but Americans relying on traditional news outlets are likely to find out little, if anything, about what that effort might mean for the schools in their communities, a new report suggests.

If only we can all begin believing with these kids and allocate more resources and efforts in their education, we will be doing more to shape Burma's future than put our faith in economic sanctions against the junta.»

If we hope for equity in education, we may have to abandon our efforts toward standardization and recognize the individuality of our students.

Today, an unprecedented (if still small) number of entrepreneurial efforts are taking root in the rocky soil of elementary and secondary education.

If the game here is to codify one set of pedagogical beliefs in an effort to reassert control over a rapidly decentralizing field then, as is often our way in education, we're about to have a big debate about something that misses more fundamental problems.

If education policymakers at the state and district levels are committed to building leadership development into reform efforts, they must build in sufficient resources to support high - impact programs.

So while nobody should be satisfied with America's overall performance in science education, it's also important to keep in mind that, when one sets out to overhaul that system, it's possible to make it even worse — particularly if, in our effort to raise standards for all students, we wind up lowering them for our best and brightest.

If a frustrated former U.S. Secretary of Education is bent on taking a hard look at the administration's effort to turn the Department of Ed into what he's repeatedly labeled «a national school board,» it could be a couple pretty long years for whoever is tasked with closing up shop at ED.

With school choice likely to be a big focus of the new Administration's education agenda, these efforts will be undermined if parents lack the basic information they need to make an informed choice about other options, which the regulations provide.

If you think it's important that parents have a strong, informed and independent voice in our children's education, please consider making a tax - deductible donation so that PAA can ramp up our efforts.

Indeed, the reality of the matter is that both of California's teachers» organizations support Gavin Newsom because he has pledged to work with them rather than join the billionaire boys club behind corporate education reform efforts and the unregulated spread of charter schools that will continue to drain funding from other public schools and, if left unchecked, ultimately undermine public education itself.

If the aim of education reform is that all students should experience «gifted teaching,» then the expertise and support of educators of the gifted should be a part of those efforts.

A proposed provision that declares that nothing in future education policy would prevent the passage of Parent Trigger laws or other Parent Power efforts would be meaningful if it also proposed a competitive grant program to encourage states to enact such laws; as is, there is nothing in federal law that restricts states from passing Parent Trigger laws or keeps families from using them.

States can — and should — play a more active role in fostering collaboration efforts if they are serious about ensuring quality public education for all of their students, regardless of what type of public school they attend.

Teachers unions were very supportive of school integration in Wake County, and the very positive role they can play on national policy was underlined in December, when the National Education Association announced an effort to establish 100 new peer assistance and review programs to better train and, if necessary, weed out ineffective teachers; and the American Federation of Teachers proposed an innovative approach to raise academic achievement in a low - income community in West Virginia by going after the effects of poverty directly.