Sentences with phrase «efforts at education»

But I sincerely hope that any efforts at education reform in any state address the teaching colleges as well.

These developments should have sent a warning to NASDC leaders about the politically charged and therefore tenuous nature of such broad efforts at education reform.

There were periodic national efforts at education reform, such as Goals 2000, but the unions weathered these storms, and the winds eventually died down.

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

I hope that no offense is taken, and that the effort at education for both the audience and myself is what shines through.

Will the teachers unions tell the kids that in California, they have done everything within their abusive power to maintain the failing status quo by trying and mostly succeeding to kill every effort at education reform that would have benefited students?

I agree with Elizabeth that the effort at education and research that heads in a proactive direction is encouraging.

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Further explaining the company's diverse portfolio, Sethi told that Quest Alliance is also making an effort for a responsive education system and help students develop a career mindset at an early age.

Dissatisfied with the results of most organizations helping the urban poor in the mid-1990s, Canada launched an experiment, an effort to reach all the kids in a 24 - block zone of New York City — he called it the Harlem Children's Zone — and give them education, social, and medical help starting at birth.

In particular, as disclosed in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Amarin's ability to effectively develop and commercialize Vascepa will depend in part on its ability to continue to effectively finance its business, efforts of third parties, its ability to create market demand for Vascepa through education, marketing and sales activities, to achieve increased market acceptance of Vascepa, to receive adequate levels of reimbursement from third - party payers, to develop and maintain a consistent source of commercial supply at a competitive price, to comply with legal and regulatory requirements in connection with the sale and promotion of Vascepa and to maintain patent protection for Vascepa.

While there is no evidence that a large number of Chinese students or academics at US universities poses a threat to US interests, the Chinese government uses several education efforts as vehicles for soft power.

Warren Buffett donated about $ 2.2 billion of stock in his annual gift to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, betting that risk takers at the group will make breakthroughs in global health and U.S. education even as they acknowledge that some efforts will be unsuccessful.

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Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on Wednesday proposed using federal money to help states freeze and eventually reduce tuition rates at universities — part of a broader effort to help students achieve debt - free college education within five years.

Remember here our Mr. Ceaser's alliance with the sociological left against UVA's Board of Visitors» efforts at disruption against the unproductive liberal arts and toward online education, MOOCS, and such.

The demands of school and secular activities can squeeze out any serious efforts at religious education.

Pursuing this argument to its logical conclusion, the local Planned Parenthood places its annual sex - education course at the center of its outreach efforts.

They find it offensive that people like you discuss their endeavors, which required years of education, research and effort, in the same breath as the wild and baseless allegations of religion (at least as science views it).

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

The US Department of Education has published the names of colleges claiming the Title IX exemption; people on both sides of the issue have called it an effort at «shaming.»

I also think many efforts at sex education — those built merely around disease and pregnancy prevention rather than human dignity — have hurt people and diminished civil society.

My second question follows from the first and reflects my own efforts at concrete seeing: how do we apply metaphysical principles to education?

Education is the attempt to fulfill the high hopes and fervent expectations which center around a child at his birth; it is the effort to make good the promise of a new life in its boundless potentiality.

Bourne's love for education, shown in his efforts at Wonersh, was soon put to wider application in defence of Catholic schools.

Having grown up in the disproportionately Christian state of Kerala in southern India and studied at a church - run school, Narayanan condemned the Hindu nationalists thought to be responsible for violence against Muslims and resisted efforts to shift the secular education system.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

In a survey of such efforts, the Wall Street Journal reported that «to decide what to teach, state education boards generally round up diverse professionals — who arrive at an acceptable list of values to be taught.

Sabrina served as PTA chair at Synapse School in Menlo Park for two years and continues to be active in the area of education and learning differences, via both professional affiliations and philanthropic efforts.

She served as PTA chair at Synapse School in Menlo Park for two years and continues to be active in the area of education and learning differences, via both professional affiliations and philanthropic efforts.

In an effort to support you in developing, enhancing, or re-imagining the assessment practices at your school, the Pedagogical Committee, on behalf of the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education, has created the following annotated list of resources for your reference.

The best schools do a brilliant job of weaving food education — cooking, growing vegetables, even modest efforts at animal husbandry — into school life and the curriculum.

School food efforts — governed at the district, state and federal level and implemented by each separate district — must intersect and connect with local food, public health, hunger and access, education and agriculture efforts for farm to school to succeed.

In this piece from 2010, I wrote of right wing hostility to Michelle O's efforts: «Absent pre-existing political animus toward the Obamas (which of course is at work here), that view seems about as rational to me as attacking former First Lady Laura Bush for «meddling in my child's education» or Lady Bird Johnson for «thinking she can tell us what flowers to plant on our highways.»

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS — Efforts to build a playground for special education students at Miner School in Arlington Heights have been boosted by neighbors» contributions and a matching grant of up to $ 18,000 from Ronald McDonald House Charities.

It may seem like a lot of effort to put into a week or two of a child's summer, but camp directors insist that parents look at it as an investment in education.

The American College of Nurse - Midwives and the North American Registry of Midwives recommend that midwives should at minimum meet the standards of midwifery established by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), which include completion of a formal midwifery education program, national certification, and licensure in the local jurisdiction of practice.32, 33 Certified professional midwives (CPMs) may achieve certification through apprenticeship and portfolio evaluation without obtaining a formal midwifery degree; within CPM professional organizations efforts are under way to uniformly adopt ICM standards.33, 34 Oregon has followed this trend; in 2015 licensure became mandatory for attendants at out - of - hospital births.

I cried all the way home and swore that either I would stop teaching childbirth education at all, or I would find a way that my students would be able to be successful in their efforts to have a much easier, much more comfortable and fear - free birthing.

Such industry partnerships are commonplace at trade associations, and every SNA official POLITICO spoke with praised the training and further education efforts.

Although pacifier use ultimately may be determined to be only a marker of women at risk for shortened breastfeeding duration, education and support of these women and their efforts to breastfeed is vital.

«In an effort to address the common high - risk behaviors associated with infant mortality, we created the Sleep Awareness Family Education at Temple, or SAFE - T, program,» says Megan Heere, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and Medical Director of the Well Baby Nursery at TUH.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

«Our government will spare no effort in its bid to reposition the state most especially the education sector as we are bent and irrevocably ready to provide necessary facilities and equipment to aide teaching and learning process through conducive atmosphere,» The governor pointed out at the site.

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..

At 68, Tolbert is making his third run for public office following his unsuccessful effort against Brown in 2013 and another failed bid for the Buffalo Board of Education in 2014.

Long Island lags far behind in providing quality state - funded prekindergarten education, and greater efforts must be made to expand those services to the youngest learners, state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said Tuesday at a conference in education, and greater efforts must be made to expand those services to the youngest learners, state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said Tuesday at a conference in Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said Tuesday at a conference in Woodbury.

Clinton became governor again at 34, and Hillary forever stepped into the spotlight as a political wonk in her own right, spearheading efforts on education reform (previously, Hillary's feminist, Midwestern background, lack of accent, and thick - rimmed glasses did not sit well with Southern Democrats).

It supported Humanist and Secularist Liberal Democrats (HSLD) in their efforts to draft the motion, and the BHA's Director of Public Affairs and Policy spoke in favour of the motion at a fringe event organised by HSLD and the Liberal Democrat Education Association on Friday.

Farley, a partner at the equity firm Mistral Capital, launched her effort with a video that borrowed an argument recently deployed by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo: New York State pays roughly more in federal taxes ($ 40 billion in 2016, she noted) than it gets back in federal aid — money, Farley said, that could be used to rebuild state infrastructure and boost education, among other things.

It was announced on Wednesday that Felder secured some $ 200,000 in discretionary funds for «education access» programs for Agudath Israel, the lobbying force that helped fight state efforts to impose instructional standards on yeshivas... What secular education young boys receive typically ends at the equivalent of about seventh grade, with only minimal English and reading studied after that.

Also at 2 p.m., NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray will visit South Brooklyn Community High School's Learning to Work program to see and hear more about their efforts to support youth in transitioning to secondary education or employment, 173 Conover St., Brooklyn.