Sentences with phrase «educational system as»

Volunteering with special needs schools and functions for over a decade in the community she has the skill and familiarity with the educational system as well as family dynamics.

I DO NOT KNOW, as I asserted above if it really is progressives destroying the educational system as I asserted with qualifications.

However, such private institutions worked at the edges of the educational system as one sees it today.

The result: a constant pursuit of the full potential — for every scholar, every team member, every school, every community, and our nation's educational system as a whole.

Over-reliance on VAM scores may foster a competitive environment, discouraging collaboration and efforts to improve the educational system as a whole.

http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED505352.pdf Numerous studies (Goldstein, 1985; Rumbaut and Ima, 1988; Walker, 1989; Trueba, Jacobs, and Kirton, 1990 and Walker - Moffat, 1995) have found that the Hmong have extreme difficulties adjusting to the American educational system as compared with other language minority groups.

Education scholars note the powerful benefits of having teacher voice at the table when education policy is being discussed — both for teachers and for the educational system as a whole.

«They form just as much of a crucial part of the educational system as the grammar schools and actually benefit from the existence of the grammar schools.»

To quote the National Association of Secondary School Principals report: «The problem is not as much with our educational system as it is with our high poverty rates.

Few of the essays I refer to above (except Mike's and, in a very different way, Hayes's) mention our educational system as a possible reason for the decreased mobility.

EFFECT ON PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS The previous portions of our study investigated the impact of private competition on student achievement in the educational system as a whole.

Some education reform advocates who lean to the left are questioning the foundations of the educational system as well as the reform efforts that have been made — not always by people of their preferred political persuasion — since the 1990s.

Parents discussed the complex relationship many Aboriginal people have with the educational system as a result of Australia's colonised history.

He should have full control over the educational system as well.»

Erica worked in the educational system as a sign language interpreter before becoming a mother.

As the oldest child in a stable middle class family, Luther endured a childhood of strict discipline at home, school and church that left him with a sense of inferiority, and emerged into university life at a time of great intellectual ferment that challenged the entire educational system as well as the corruptions of a politically powerful church.

The educational systems as well as healthcare could be revolutionized by rethinking how nature is integrated into their facilities.

Not exact matches

«Many other steps could be taken to strengthen our economy over time, such as putting the federal budget on a sustainable path, reforming the tax code, improving our educational system, supporting technological innovation and expanding international trade,» he said.

Dan worked as a copywriter for many years in educational fundraising and electronic fund transfer systems marketing until he met his wife, Suzan Haskins, with whom he ran a successful multimedia marketing business in Omaha until 2001.

And if this be so, our work as educators and as advocates of a well - functioning American educational system is to develop citizens who are at home in the canons that comprise the formal reality of their heritage, who are equally at home with the varied individual things that comprise the material reality of that heritage and of their present life, and who are able to devise constantly new frames that are adequate to both, that marry ancient canon and novel particular in a new canon which integrates as fully and complexly as possible all its participant elements.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

Doesn't sound as if the educational system there is having any effect...

society, where sin is viewed as little more than psychological maladjustment, or behavior arising out of corrupt economic structures, or as a failure of the educational system, baptism reminds us that, in spite of Gestalt and I'm OK, You're OK, what we do naturally is not the best we could do, that our inborn selfishness and pride are life - and - death matters, that Christians are made, not born.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

The earlier parts of the educational system I remember, of course, from first hand experience as a child, and experienced again, indirectly, through...

It is wishful thinking to believe that the educational system can assume the responsibility of passing to the next generation the central and binding values, as well as the moral and ethical concepts, that set us free to be who we can be.

I do have great concerns about the American educational system, especially when people use sites like that as their source of what is really the truth!

It has been sharply separated from the general educational system, and its own, separate, educational system does not reach as many people, and is less effective even for those it reaches, than was the case in the decade after World War II.

As Haugen writes with dismay, «It's hard to imagine aid agencies banning investments in food systems, educational systems, health systems, or water systems in the developing world.»

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

For let me put this question: what system of chromosomes would be as capable as our immense educational system of indefinitely storing and infallibily preserving the huge array of truths and systematized technical knowledge which, steadily accumulating, represents the patrimony of mankind?

Oscar Hussel, director of educational systems development for Joint Educational Development, emphasizes the urgency of the church's present situation: «As Americans move out of their age of innocence and the culture is increasingly secularized, it becomes doubly crucial for the church to be able to tell its members what it is, where it came from, where it is meant to go, and what it should be about.

Pursuing justice can be as simple as our choices as consumers or as involved as leading coalitions against the systemic injustices that plague our legal and educational systems here in the U.S. and abroad.

Public school systems across the nation are instituting «Common Core» educational standards so as to program children to think along the same lines.

Given the sad state of our highways, public transportation systems and other material infrastructure, as well as the severe needs of our educational system, increased government spending in these areas could take up the slack in declining defense expenditures while contributing enormously to the potential productivity of the United States.

In our new aims of education for the 1980's and beyond, therefore, we shall have to dedicate ourselves to bringing back, among other things, the civilized use of language (both written and oral), a sensitivity to beauty, powers of analytical reasoning, the intellectual vision of ourselves as historical creatures, the ability to cognitively articulate ideas rather than let communication skills courses degenerate into merely «touchie - feelie» experiences of «affirming the other,» and finally, a sensitivity to the nuances, complexities, and ambiguities of meanings.7 In this way, and only in this way, our educational system will equip its students for the future with an intellectual vision comprised of both knowledge and foresightful adaptability to environmental changes.

@fred — it's an indication of the quality of your educational system that you can not differentiate between the Scientific Method and, as you cleverly put it, «making things up».

So long as the educational system remains objective with no religious influence upon the schools» curriculum and books, and the cross continues on not speaking or trying to convert her children to Christianity, then the cross symbol in schools seems to be not a problem.

You might not be aware, but the educational system teaches kids to think for themselves, ask questions, scrutinize the validity of an explanation or an authority figure, and use inductive and deductive reasoning as a part of a process to ask questions, analyze and test a hypothesis.

In a society such as the United States, there can be no return to traditional educational systems that simply inculcated a single way in distinction from others.

The earlier parts of the educational system I remember, of course, from first hand experience as a child, and experienced again, indirectly, through my children.

That and our «third - rate educational system, our third - rate morality, our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong lest we «impose» our morality on others and thus invite others to «impose» their morality onus, our reluctance to judge or be judged, our indifference to the needs of future generations as evidenced by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our inhospitable attitude to the newcomers born in our midst, our unstated assumption which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.»

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

In this educational blog, we'll break down our current knowledge regarding the expansive topic of gut health, as well as some steps you can take to find relief for your digestive system.

As an educational consultant, I believe the TAG system is a great example of technology that genuinely engages kids in learning.

You see this not only in medicine and health issues but in our educational and political system as well.

The STEM fields, in particular, are notorious for being male - centric — to begin to address the imbalance between the genders in work environments, we as a society need to focus first on encouraging girls to take these subjects while in the educational system, in hopes that they will continue on and start forging a career out of them.

As far as how respected our educational system is, all the nations who ARE considered the top of the pile provide good school luncheAs far as how respected our educational system is, all the nations who ARE considered the top of the pile provide good school luncheas how respected our educational system is, all the nations who ARE considered the top of the pile provide good school lunches.

Both movements began in similar times, in similar parts of the world (Rudolf Steiner, founder of Waldorf Schools, was from Austria, and started the first Waldorf School in Germany in 1919; Maria Montessori was from Italy and started the first Montessori school in Rome in 1907) as an answer to a very rigid educational system.

«As with all public institutions, our educational system has become a battle ground over competing special interests.