Sentences with phrase «education than television»

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If they would stop constantly trying to inject their nonsense into public education, politics, television, radio, reproductive laws, the workplace, and on and on and on, everyone else would be more than happy to let you go live in your fantasy land.

Sports, education, entertainment, politics — all have become subservient to the demands of television, rather than the other way around.

What makes Mad City more than just another «hostage of the week» episode, is the education that can be learned about what television news is becoming.

Other notable film and television credits have included the Harry Potter film series, Wit (2001), Love Actually (2003), Angels in America (2003), Nanny McPhee (2005), Stranger than Fiction (2006), Last Chance Harvey (2008), An Education (2009), and Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010).

Since Arne Duncan took over as Secretary of Education ~ his YouTube channelhas uploaded more than 450 videos and counting (currently 462) ~ which follow many of his television spots ~ speeches and school appearances and address some of the tough questions he regularly receives.

Amid a controversial lawsuit charging that the state's teacher tenure and dismissal laws were depriving students of their constitutional right to a quality education, billionaire philanthropists seeking to overhaul public education and powerful teachers unions poured more than $ 20 million into television attack ads and nasty mailers.

In addition to their lobbying work with ConnCAN, Alexander and Johnson were the individuals who formed A Better Connecticut, Inc. yet another education reform industry front group that spent more than $ 2 million on television ads during the year before the last gubernatorial election to «thank» Governor Malloy for his «leadership» on behalf of the corporate education reform agenda.

Readers will recall that A Better Connecticut, ConnCAN and other corporate education industry organizations have spent a record $ 6 million and counting lobbying in support of Malloy's education reform initiative to date, including more than $ 2 million in television advertisements thanking Malloy for his «leadership.»

In addition to his lucrative public - speaking business and his private charter school management company, the Hartford Board of Education employee — who misses more than 25 % of Hartford school days — has joined television Bishop T.D. Jakes in creating a new «Continuing Education Program.»

Thanks to early - education English courses and the popularity of English speaking movies and television shows, communication becomes much easier than you might expect traveling in a foreign country.

Dr. Rose has produced more than 20 publications in peer - reviewed journals, books, state - wide education curricula, and public media outlets; provided over 85 conference presentations and educational trainings at regional, state, national, and international arenas; and given 2 - dozen educational television and radio broadcasts.»

A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown), child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high school, high school graduation, beyond high school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no), child age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the child takes a bottle to bed at age 3 years (yes or no), and average hours of child television viewing per day at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).