Sentences with phrase «education of the public so»

Only solution is to improve political education of the public so they can check the facts and form their own opinion, and brace for the fact that a fraction of it will always vote for irrational motives (peer presure, self - image of one social class, tradition, or the politician who shouts louder).

Mr. Adonoo said although people utilize the NHIS, his outfit intends to improve its education of the public so that members of the scheme have adequate information about the benefits the NHIS offers, observing that this will make it difficult for members to be cheated when they go to seek healthcare.

Not exact matches

Not in the sense of being Indiana Jones in the middle of the desert or anything like that, but in the sense that what he believed in was public education and multi-disciplinary programs where you're working with many different groups of scientists, doing expeditions to exotic places, and so on.

Doing so demonstrates you are responsible in managing your debts, which is essential to qualifying for new credit accounts,» says Rod Griffin, the Director of Public Education at Experian.

To establish a national, broad based, community of Angel investors, incubators, and accelerators in Canada and connect them to their peers and the greater early - stage funding ecosystem so they can support the growth and development of innovative Canadian entrepreneurs and companies, and to support the ongoing evolution of that community through research, education and public policy.

As for the U.S., I'd actually be quite comfortable with a reasonable amount of «helicopter money» provided that the accompanying fiscal stimulus package was focused, not on consumption, but on productive investment at the public, private and individual level (infrastructure, investment and R&D tax credits, workforce training, education, and so forth).

The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.

One need not be a historian of education or a theologian to assess the damage done to public education and then to society in general by how these cases were decided and what public school officials were empowered to do (or so they believed) despite the clearly given cautions from the Supreme Court itself.

This attitude has also been held among scientists until recently, when the creationist pressures on public education and policy became so threatening that some scientists founded a new journal, Creation / Evolution, a «Committee of Correspondence» and a Creation / Evolution News letter, aimed at defending evolutionary science and dismantling creationist arguments.

My own research emphasis in harnessing technological tools for public service - in education, in medicine, and in servicing the basic needs of the poor - has led me to conceptualize strategies to facilitate cooperative (linking) ventures because communication technologies change so rapidly and the entrepreneurial opportunities are so vast.

Furthermore, when appropriations for education are made directly from the public treasury, they should be granted to politically independent agencies so that government financial support does not become a means for political domination of education.

Much as the Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, directed by H. Richard Niebuhr in the 1950s, became an influential inquiry into the nature of the church and its ministry, so the Danforth study, ostensibly of campus ministries, became an important resource for exploring the necessary relation of religious faith, social ethics and public - policy formulation.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

But if that is the case, why are there so few public statements, with the «conservative» label attached to them, that tell us exactly what policy should be in the matter of education, welfare provision, environmental protection, planning law, urbanization, infrastructure, and everything else that matters to the ordinary citizen?

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

Until the public, and especially students, rise up to call for pluralistic instead of secular institutions, the enriched theological explorations of vocation, about which Clydesdale writes so elegantly, will remain the abode of those who can afford private education.

Nevertheless, a campaign in which one candidate was so certain of victory as to devote the weeks between Labor Day and November to a program of public education would be an indication that the democratic process had failed to provide real alternatives.

But this is a far cry indeed from the public controversies that our current epidemic of so - called realist atheism has given rise to, such as whether it is permissible to pray or celebrate Christmas in schools and other public institutions, or to grant government support of one kind or another to private religious education.

In medieval times, it was almost the sole basis of Jewish education, and it continued to be so down into the modern period, wherever Jews were confined to the ghettos of Europe and denied access to public educational institutions.

Overall, I applaud the work of Rainforest Alliance and their efforts to bring so many producers of so many products under sustainability guidelines, as well as their excellent public education campaigns.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

New York City Department of Education (New York), Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles), Chicago Public Schools (Chicago), Miami - Dade County Public Schools (Miami), Dallas Independent School District (Dallas), Orange County Public Schools (Orlando), Broward County Public Schools (Fort Lauderdale), Clark County Public Schools (Las Vegas), School District of Philadelphia (Philadelphia), Baltimore Public Schools (Baltimore), and Boston Public Schools (Boston) will coordinate menus to improve purchasing power from food providers so that costs are kept low.

Even though statistics prove that art education benefits the child in so many ways, funding for art and music and other creative instruction is continually one of the first program cuts from public school programs.

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

It's also the flavour of the season in public education, so it will likely also be mined by «systematizers» for insights and examples that support preconceived notions about what's best for today's students.

Originally founded so that scientists and nature aficionados alike could study and share the specimens they collected, we continue to build on our legacy of natural history education at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum through immersive exhibits, critical conservation and research initiatives, public engagement and education programming.

She writes about education, parenting, and child welfare for The Atlantic, Vermont Public Radio, and the New York Times and is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed.

Neither one of them had ever known anyone who homeschooled, so that was a truly scary idea, but public education wasn't for them and they were just too «economically challenged» to afford any kind of private school.

Since so few understand Selective Mutism, our mission is to increase public awareness of Selective Mutism, to promote greater understanding of these disorders through education and research and to provide support to professionals, affected individuals and their families.

Since so few understand Selective Mutism, our mission is to increase public awareness of Selective Mutism and related childhood anxiety disorders, to promote greater understanding of these disorders through education and research and to provide support to professionals, affected individuals and their families.

I wonder if it frustrates her, that for all her common sense, she has never had the chances, both in terms of education and financial support, that those like Kwarteng, Cameron, Osborne or so many others at the top of public life were born into.

The public is outraged by the fact that a friend of the President with no meaningful education or government post has had the opportunity to influence, and even supersede, the democratically elected President in making important decisions, even more so with the approval of the President.

According to the Director of Public Affairs of the Central Regional Police Command, ASP Irene Oppong, «She [the female student] said: «The man never raped me», so now it's up to the Ghana Education Service (GES) to take over and also investigate if there is any code of conduct that the man has violated.»

The Independent mentions Tory plans to make aid to developing countries go into education vouchers... So a Friedmante casino instead of universal public services for the worlds poor then.

Okudzeto's mentor, John Dramani Mahama, who elevated him to Deputy Minister of Education amidst protest from the public, should simply have recused himself from the Commonwealth Observer Team as a mark of honour but he did not do so as proof that he has never had any honour — period!

We need to bring common sense to Common Core because New York is wasting too much time and money stressing children out to prepare for these tests which are of questionable educational value instead of focusing on supporting teachers so they can do their job and teach children what's really important,» said Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher and guidance counselor.

Despite mea culpas and the public backing of his boss, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Kevin Jennings, a so - called schools czar in the Obama administration, continues to be the target of a conservative campaign against his long - ago actions as a schoolteachers.

But although Cuomo has railed against he belief that the public education system has grown to become more about protecting the administrative bureaucracy and less about educating kids, the focus of his wrath has been the teachers unions and not — so far, anyway — superintendents, who I'm sure are breathing a sigh of relief.

Rather, we felt our charge was to recommend a set of tangible actions the Governor and Legislature could undertake to improve the current system of public education in New York so as to produce better outcomes for our children.»

«To say that schools that have already been starved should be further starved so he can privatize options is an abandonment of public education,» she said.

The top spenders so far in 2015 correlate with the top issues this year, fights over the future of public education and New York City's rent regulations.

Since New York City public schools would not guarantee him an education without placing him in special education classes, his family bought a home in the Long Island suburb of Hempstead so that he could attend mainstream classes there.

The Speaker charged civil society to intensify public education on the need to collect and preserve their PVCs, asserting that people must be driven to partake in electoral processes so that they we continue to wield power as enshrined in the constitution of the federal republic.

«We've lost public trust on why we test, and so we need to make sure we can tell the public why,» said Johnson, a former acting assistant secretary of education in the administration of President Bill Clinton.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

It is always dangerous dealing with people who may be intelligent without depth, shrewd without vision, jocular without humour.People whose friends don't like him and courageously describe them as cold and pompous.We heard Kennedy Agyepong openly insult every soul in the Npp including the flagbearer, we heard him call on Akans to wipe off Gas and Ewes from Ghana and heard Osafo Marfo one personality I hitherto admired so much, declare citizens from some particular regions unfit to occupy the executive seat.Nana did not find these inhuman and obnoxious outbursts as insulting, didn't find it expedient bringing these henchmen to order.We heard Ursula who is a spiritual confidant of Nana painfully say on public platform that had it not been free education, many of our northern appointees would have been managers of cows not human beings.This was how far people who are very close to him went.Antwi another close associate courageously referred to Fantes as «fickle minded» fit only for concert shows.

Cuomo made it clear long before he unveiled his 2015 - 16 budget — and even before the November 2014 elections — that he had the teachers unions in his crosshairs, and intended to break the so - called «monopoly» he believed is to blame for most of the public education system's woes.

Supporters of an education tax credit that would benefit those who donate to private and public schools have created a super PAC called «Catholics for Independent Action,» which has raised $ 90,000 so far.

Nixon's criticism mirrored an op - ed she published last month that slammed Cuomo for his support of charter schools and for proposing to eliminate the so - called Foundation Aid formula for funding public schools, which critics argued would deprive districts of billions of dollars that they are still owed under 2006 court decision that found the state had underfunded public education.

«We try to stop the spread of the disease, either by vaccination or education, but [opioids] hasn't stopped, so we still are doing education and having events for public awareness,» Wachunas said.