Sentences with phrase «education efforts went»

However, the longer voter education efforts went on, the more people who got on board with the repeal, meaning that knowledge can overcome ignorance in this fight.

Not exact matches

Early on, Mr. Levitt also went to war with Congress, blocking a Republican effort in 1995 to eliminate the S.E.C.'s Investor Education Department.

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.

Yet for the next several years, through my baptism, my church wedding (yes, to the Christian who gives gifts of underwear), through my continued efforts to write poetry, and even during my first bout of seminary education, I went about my life tense with the secret that I did not know how to pray as I ought.

Without some kind of pastoral practice, I realized, my efforts in theological education were going to become a noisy gong.

While I'm not politically active myself, I really appreciate all the work that goes into it, and all the time and effort that moms like you put into supporting education and personal responsibility.

As we go to press, I'm inspired by the collaborative Alliance effort that is providing membership with a very useful tool, that aligns the new Common Core Standards with the Public Waldorf Education developmental curriculum.

The Joppa Flats Education Center and Mass Audubon offer the Birder's Certificate Program as a key component in our on - going efforts to provide the finest educational programs.

It simply means that they have had hands - on, supervised training (in a variety of settings), have successfully pursued appropriate education, have demonstrated their knowledge to a certifying body, have agreed to operating within a defined scope of practice as defined by their professional association, and have committed to on - going efforts to remain abreast of current evidence specific to the burgeoning field of lactation... just like every other healthcare profession within the medical model.

As Time goes on, do intend to consciously feature other sides from their own camps because it «feels» to be a really good tool for determining where education and advocacy efforts might be effectively focused at any given moment..

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..

Despite these positive efforts, the situation is not always conducive to encouraging the asylum seekers to go for higher education.

«So I don't think there's too many businesses that haven't heard the basics, but we're going to continue that education effort.»

I am sure no one will go for a «warmonger», with antecedent of treasury looting over and ahead of a builder, whose efforts and technical expertise brought Ekiti State from number 34 in education to number one.»

«We should now go back to them and say, «you have to do an education effort and tell people about the dangers of these drugs,» which they have not done.

The students drew a storyboard of the scenes for the video, selected actors for the various parts, and then filmed and edited the piece themselves — and their creative efforts didn't go unnoticed: They won the 2007 iVIE award for the most innovative video in education.

But in character education, the most successful efforts to help students become good people go beyond simply teaching them what it means to be good.

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.»

Last summer, as I was winding down my eight years as president of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, I went around the country and met with 30 superintendents, asking them, «What can I do to support your efforts to implement 21st century education in your district?»

He has a long history in the field: He supported a successful effort to loosen California's charter law in 1998 and then went on to serve for four years on the state board of education.

Hundreds of education leadership programs and widely read tomes on education leadership not only treat contracts, regulations, and policies as unworthy of attention, but go so far as to denounce efforts to address these things as distractions.

Data released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Education on the $ 3.5 billion School Improvement Grant program show that the federal turnaround grants haven't just gone to schools in urban areas, or for less - drastic school improvement efforts.

And since putting the emphasis on test scores, instead of on educating children, overwhelms schooldays with memorizing and boredom, the efforts that go into improving poor children's test scores necessarily take away from efforts to provide them with a demanding and engaging and worthy education.

The case study tells the stories of the efforts these schools went through to launch their programs — the High Tech High Graduate School of Education, the Relay Graduate School of Education, and Match Education's Charles Sposato Graduate School of Education — to help illuminate the benefits and challenges that schools face when creating their own teacher certification and master's degree programs.

In part, that's because of the belief in Chinese education that effort pays off — and it goes to follow that grades aren't a reflection of a child's worth.

How Behavioral Science Could Improve College Access The Chronicle of Higher Education, 9/12/13 «Many efforts to help disadvantaged students go to college have focused on providing better and simpler information.

Preserving the Federal Role in Encouraging and Evaluating Education Innovation Brookings, 2/19/15 «The question is whether, in their understandable efforts to rein in Washington's influence, legislators can preserve those elements of federal policy that stand to benefit students and taxpayers — particularly those that fulfill functions that would otherwise go unaddressed within our multi-layered system of education governancEducation Innovation Brookings, 2/19/15 «The question is whether, in their understandable efforts to rein in Washington's influence, legislators can preserve those elements of federal policy that stand to benefit students and taxpayers — particularly those that fulfill functions that would otherwise go unaddressed within our multi-layered system of education governanceducation governance.»

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.

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.

Although many rush to condemn these efforts, and mainstream education media generally ignores them, I predict that one day education best practices will go viral.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a prominent example of such an effort, but it is only the continuation of a steady trend toward greater test - based accountability in education that has been going on for decades.

Every education policy effort going forward must be focused on creating the opportunity for innovation.

In addition to the passage of TEACHNJ, there are on - going, bipartisan efforts to improve our education system.

Reform efforts went into overdrive after federal education officials added T.C. Williams to a list of «persistently lowest achieving» schools in March 2010.

Businesses often have other priorities besides K - 12 education, so it is vital to structure a role that allows business to sustain its involvement and not permit the effort to be an enthusiasm that comes and goes.

«One of the challenges I'm going to have is to galvanise efforts and to help do whatever I can do to make education in those academies in those areas first class.»

«Education is a key issue, and I think what this poll says is that all of those involved in education have to do a better job of informing the New York voters and citizens of what their efforts are, what their purpose is, and how they're going about doing it,» GreenbEducation is a key issue, and I think what this poll says is that all of those involved in education have to do a better job of informing the New York voters and citizens of what their efforts are, what their purpose is, and how they're going about doing it,» Greenbeducation have to do a better job of informing the New York voters and citizens of what their efforts are, what their purpose is, and how they're going about doing it,» Greenberg said.

The Michigan College Access Network team applauds Gov. Snyder's efforts to improve Michigan's talent pool, because data demonstrates higher education and in - demand, well - paying jobs go hand - in - hand.

Efforts to transform public education aren't going away, but what shape they will take going forward remains unclear.

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.

Vicki Phillips, who heads the Gates education efforts, captured in this comment what I think they are really going for with a composite evaluation score:

by: Micheale Auslen Michael AuslenMichael Auslen Tampa Bay Times September 2, 2015 After an effort in the 2015 session eliminated some tests students have to take that lawmakers said were duplicates, state Sen. Don Gaetz, R - Niceville, the education budget chairman and former Senate president, says he's going after even more.

«Our research indicates that if a school is going to sustain reform efforts, there must be a bottom - up leadership framework that is collaborative and shared by all education stakeholders,» added Simmons.

The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is looking to further burnish the state's efforts on the teacher quality front this week with his proposal to eliminate near - lifetime employment for laggard teachers with unsatisfactory ratings on the state's new teacher evaluation system, while pushing further on expanding charters by allowing successful charter operators to expand without having to go through the current approval process, and allowing the state education department to authorize charters throughout the state (and thus, ending efforts by traditional districts to restrict school choice within their boundaries).

The National Education Union was among the organisations that called for Young to go, claiming his appointment undermined the government's efforts to tackle sexism in schools.

New York University education historian Diane Ravitch's blog went so far as to call this series a «suck up» to Trump and DeVos, «public television's effort to curry favor with the Trump administration.»

Organizers say the effort aims to galvanize and give voice to those who believe policymakers, including U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and state governors, have gone astray in their remedies for improving American schools.

Despite the promise of personalizing learning and some teachers» best efforts to give their students more agency in the education process, many educators wonder whether the concept goes far enough in preparing students for the wide array of learning opportunities outside the classroom.

We strive to promote a closer relationship between school attorneys and their school board clients, and encourage the on - going professional development of our members by offering continuing legal education, specialized publications, web resources and opportunities to work closely with NSBA on legal advocacy efforts.

The plaintiffs will essentially be asking the court to overturn a 1977 ruling in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, in part by arguing that unions have gone too far in recent years allowing their collective bargaining efforts to become intertwined with political activism, which then violates the plaintiffs rights to free speech by forcing them to fund political actions they are often opposed to.