Sentences with phrase «far less education»

Americans are simply getting far less education and far more bureaucracy for their money nowadays.

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But unemployment or underemployment has further knock - on effects: parents in that situation are less likely to invest in education and training, since they aren't working or work sporadically.

Low - Wage Workers Have Far More Education Than They Did in 1968, Yet They Make Far Less, by Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute, January 2014.

For millions, the prospect of a secure retirement is slipping further and further away — especially among workers with less education, whose job security is increasingly tenuous.

What we find is quite striking: not only do those with higher education experience less unemployment, they are far more likely to be participating in the labor market.

Far from being an artificial, accidental or accessory phenomenon in its relation to living creatures, education is nothing less than an essential and natural form of biological additivity.

Preaching can learn from counseling (and creative education) at another point — that it is far less help to people, in the long run, to give them answers than it is to provide them with resources for finding their own answers.

Far more serious than any of the startling events of the decade was the massive erosion of the legitimacy of American institutions — business, government, education, the churches, the family — that set in, particularly among young people, and that continues, if public opinion polls are to be believed, in the 1970s even when overt protest has become less frequent.

Many practicing pediatricians have had far less formal education on development than teachers and early intervention workers.

Further analysis showed that mothers with a university education were much less likely to experience persistent pain compared to those who were less well educated.

I have less access to education, healthcare facilities are far from me or are inadequate and I have a high likelihood of being employed in the informal sector or not employed at all.

It is about further entrenching middle class privilege which, ultimately, leaves clever but poor children more likely to be stuck with a second - best option, while their less bright but well - tutored peers are gifted a better education.

The move added some education spending: $ 240 million — a figure far less than what the Democratic - led Assembly had wanted.

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.

Gove relied on his script far less when he finally got on to his own specialist subject, the Department for Education, providing far more valuable input than what almost felt like a Commons speech up to that point, trotting out stock lines to attacks that were on this occasion invisible.

Women without college educations are dramatically less economically dependent upon their husbands than they used to be, while the economic dependence of women with college educations on their husbands remains high because although both men and women with college degrees have seen surging incomes since the 1970s, most women with college degrees experience large income penalties for leaving the work force for a while to raise children, while women without college degrees don't face those kinds of income penalties in their far less skilled jobs.

AFT President Randi Weingarten said Astorino is using an anti-Common Core campaign to «cloak» his other positions on education issues that would be far less palatable to public school advocates.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

It also has the advantage of possibly costing far less than extra funding for health care / education that will have real meaningful results.

ALBANY — American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten said Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino is using an anti-Common Core campaign to «cloak» his other positions on education issues that would be far less palatable to public school advocates.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his State of the State speech was far less combative than in the past when it comes to education.

If that's the case, she said, it's still important to boost STEM education for students — if for no other reason than the wide and flexible range of employment options such training gives students — but the situation may be far less dire than many within industry predict.

They put far less value on education and career, which, in their view, only distracts a woman from her true calling: to get married and devote herself to the family.

The ease of making money in this way can deter women from going out and making far less money for much more work when their college education is completed.

Unlike the basic education that is guaranteed by the 1951 Convention to the Status of Refugees, the Convention requires a hosting state, as regards the right to further education, to accord to them favourable treatment as possible, and in any event not less favourable than that accorded to foreign nationals in the same circumstances (27).

Even as «residency» programs and other hands - on teacher education models flourish, the vexing question of what prospective teachers in the United States should learn in their coursework has gained far less attention in the discourse of international comparisons.

For too long, some fitness experts say, physical education has not lived up to its name: Traditional phys - ed classes provide too little activity to too few students, offer little or no guidance for maintaining a healthful lifestyle, and can make less athletic children feel inadequate, which can further turn them off to exercise.

Under the new legislation, however, it's less a matter of if than of how: How far must schools go to ensure that boys» and girls» educations mirror each other exactly?

One benefit of pursuing education reform through the judiciary is that the power of special interest groups — namely, the teachers» unions — is drastically diminished in courtrooms, where political lobbying and campaign contributions are far less influential.

The reality is that these kinds of national results are so far removed from the regulatory minutiae of federal education policy, and the meaning of these test results can be so opaque, that everyone would be well - served if they spent less time claiming this or that test result or graduation rate proved that a grand federal agenda was the right one.

The public education sector has far less employee churn than practically all other sectors of our economy.

It's significant and not commented upon further than mentioning it, that Shanghai teachers spend 4 % less of their class teaching time maintaining order - we in many Australian schools experience poor student respect for authority and a poor respect for education itself.

Most of the schools are not even close to it, resulting in students across the city receiving far less physical education than required by law.

There are several education systems that spend far more money in schools than Australia but get less quality out of the system that is also less equitable.

The tactic of the education establishment, to routinely call «for more money to address problems that they frequently argued didn't exist,» notes Toch, was far less credible than Shanker's approach: fighting «to change public education in order to preserve it.»

While everyone in educatorland obsesses over the $ 4 billion competition among the states for Race to the Top (RTT) funding, the Education Department (ED) is readying a separate competition for less than one - tenth as much money that may nonetheless prove far more consequential for American education over the lEducation Department (ED) is readying a separate competition for less than one - tenth as much money that may nonetheless prove far more consequential for American education over the leducation over the long term.

They're also far less likely to be shell - shocked when they take math or science classes in college, which is where we first see the gap between literacy - and mastery - focused educations as legions of students leave STEM - related majors.

Where I come out — you can read more in «The End of the Education Debate» — is that America needs not less education reform but far more fundamental and radicaEducation Debate» — is that America needs not less education reform but far more fundamental and radicaeducation reform but far more fundamental and radical reform.

Nonetheless, Schrag concludes from far less reliable sources that the additional money that adequacy litigation brings will help public education.

He told Education World, «Thirty percent of new teachers leave the profession within three years, but teachers who have mentors are far less apt to leave.»

As such, they are less apt to want to pursue further education in these subjects or to pursue a career in mathematics or science - related fields.»

But that's far less than the potentially $ 2.5 billion earmarked by the U.S. Department of Education in Title I funding for the SES provision, which provides free academic help to students in...

In the latter years of the 20th century, the federal government not only became far more involved in civil rights, surveillance of behavior and misbehavior on educational sites, and financing of education for the less wealthy; in conjunction with the governors of many states, the federal government also played a significant role in testing of students, evaluation of progress toward national educational goals, and even support for the creation and evaluation of curricula and pedagogical approaches, both live and online.

A problem with Loveless's argument is that many of my fellow «disruptors» and I who think that it is important to disrupt the education system think this way not under the mindset that it will — or should — help with multiple intelligences or learning styles, but instead because of a simpler and more rigorously tested notion that is far less ideological than Loveless assumes.

Mark S. Schneider, President Bush's new pick to head the National Center for Education Statistics, is a far less controversial figure than his first choice for the job, comments last week from researchers and education advocatesEducation Statistics, is a far less controversial figure than his first choice for the job, comments last week from researchers and education advocateseducation advocates suggest.

But in a sector of public education with far less oversight than traditional school districts, it's easy to see how a teacher could find herself fired and out of options.

The potential exists for high quality education for 10 % and far less funding and inequitable education for millions of others.

California's 58 county offices of education generally receive far less attention than the school districts within their geographic boundaries.

Education Week earlier this month reported that some states are committed to improving teacher evaluation, but they want far less rigid approaches.

After all, reformers (along with traditionalists) go on an on about the importance of «teacher's voice» in shaping the transformation of American public education — even though the reality of how teachers work (in silos, out of sight of one another, often without the strong subject - matter competency needed to help kids succeed) makes them far less expert on education than they may think.