Sentences with phrase «focus national attention»

The Summit closes out National Mentoring Month, celebrated each January to focus national attention on the value of mentoring to bring people together and build meaningful, lasting relationships for young people and adults alike.

Columns I authored in 2003, helped to focus national attention on pet dumps in Tennessee — where people can toss unwanted animals into what amount to trash bins.

Such a council would focus national attention on children and highlight the need for educators and noneducators alike to come together in support of the whole child.

Promote their working together to focus national attention on the pressing education issues of the day.

In this position, Lowery will lead Ed Trust's P - 12 team by developing and implementing powerful strategies to focus national attention on inequities in public education as well as the actions necessary to close gaps in opportunity and to improve achievement.

«ASCD asks educators to sign our petition today urging the Obama administration to create a President's Council that would help coordinate all of the existing programs that support children and focus national attention on the importance of serving the comprehensive needs of the whole child.»

If we want a bright future, we must focus national attention on making public schools as good as they can be.

The solution, Mr. Conant concluded, was «a new venture in cooperative federalism,» a compact among the states to create an organization to focus national attention on the pressing education issues of the day.

Sam Aidoo, technical director of the Paralympics Committee of Ghana, worked to develop sports for people with disabilities in Ghana to focus national attention on disability issues in Ghana.

GREAT Expectations 30 November 2007 A new organization aims to focus national attention on issues facing medical postdocs.

At 7 p.m., Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, state Sen. Jesse Hamilton and Assemblywoman Latrice Walker host a Democratic presidential primary debate watch party and straw poll to focus national attention on the needs of Brownsville, Van Dyke Community Center, 392 Blake Ave., Brooklyn.

This is because over the last 20 years a number of countries have focused national attention on their students excelling in the areas of math and science education as a way for their country to create a highly - skilled workforce, allowing the country to compete in the increasingly competitive global economy.

U.S. universities» growing dependence on contingent faculty, who have short - term appointments and are ineligible for tenure, has attracted increasing attention, especially since the 2013 death of Duquesne University adjunct professor Margaret Mary Vojtko focused national attention on the issue.

The 2009 death of 23 - year - old lab assistant Sheri Sangji focused national attention on lax safety standards in America's academic labs.

A recent National Geographic study has focused national attention on people who live to be more than a hundred years old.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's seizure of computer equipment from young people in 13 cities earlier this month has focused national attention on what experts say is an increasingly vexing problem — protecting the security of information stored in large computer databases.

It also comes as U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has focused national attention on the policy.

The U.S Department of Education is dedicated to establishing policies on federal financial aid, collecting data on America's schools, focusing national attention on key educational issues and ensuring equal access to education.

Organizations such as the HSUS (before it joined the animal rights movement) investigated conditions at these farms and eventually were successful in focusing national attention on the repulsive conditions at breeding kennels they labeled as «puppy mills.»

Launched in 2002 by MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership (MENTOR) and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, National Mentoring Month focuses national attention on the need for mentors, as well as how each of us — individuals, businesses, government agencies, schools, faith communities and nonprofits — can work together to increase the number of mentors to help ensure positive outcomes for our young people.

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Over the last two years, the movement has brought national attention upon the issue of minimum wage, with a special focus on how much fast - food chains pay workers.

According to the National Federation of Independent Businesses, small businesses spend 156 hours working on Form 1065 and Schedule C. Make those hours worth it by focusing attention on commonly overlooked deductions.

Between about 1870 and 1970 many countries of the western world did focus their attention on economic policies that promoted social cohesion at the national level.

Dharius Daniels, a board member of the National Association of Evangelicals and pastor of the predominantly black Kingdom Church in Ewing, N.J., says the case was «a mirror that could show the country not just how much or how little we've progressed, but where — in terms of now, in terms of this point in history — our efforts and our focus and our attention needs to be.»

Sells's book received national attention and became the focus of controversy in 2002 when it was a summer reading selection for incoming students at the University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill.

Not to discount his accomplishments or overly objectify the man, but a great deal of the national attention on Kingsbury focuses on his status as an exceptionally good - looking bachelor and the most style - conscious coach Texas has seen since Tom Landry, albeit with Dri - FIT and Frogskins instead of a Stetson fedora.

While Lozano will now focus his attention on the Mexican national side at the Olympics in Rio later this summer, he has insisted that he isn't aware of any interest from any club in Europe.

The likes of Angel Di Maria and Radamel Falcao have been brought to Old Trafford by the Dutchman, who is now focusing his attention on his fellow countryman Strootman, a favourite of his during his time in charge of the Netherlands national team.

In November we observe National Adoption Month to focus particular attention on foster children who wait and hope for families.

Although most studies of parental depression have focused on mothers, the impact of depression in fathers has received increasing attention.2, 3 Using data from the 2002 National Comorbidity Replication Survey, the Institute of Medicine report also estimated that 4.3 % of men with a child under 18 years old had a major depressive disorder within the previous 12 months.1 In addition, a recent meta - analysis4 suggested that the prevalence of paternal depression within the first year of a child's life was 10.4 %.

This, combined with the rise of Japan and the stagnant European economies, again focused the attention on ideas which had existed for some time: further integration of national European economies into an integrated common market, and even a joint currency.

Wife of the vice president, Samira Bawumia, has been asked to redirect her focus and attention on issues of national development, rather than constantly flaunting her beauty on both social media and mainstream media, unproductively.

Yes, progressive bloggers were vital for getting Lamont attention across the country and no doubt helped bring national news coverage and out - of - state donations, but the campaign itself stayed local: «focused on building a file of likely voters, organizing a turnout effort and circulating Lamont at events, including small gatherings in living rooms.»

An increased proportion of voters (45 % up from 35 % in November 2013) think Cuomo is focusing too much attention on national politics and not enough time on the issues facing New Yorkers.

In the spring, 51 % of voters believed Cuomo's attention was focused on New York while 40 % thought he was too concerned with national politics.

• The report also states that «Some within the Methodist Church have argued to end our involvement with faith - based schools on the grounds that they generate a privileged elite within the national system and take a disproportionate amount of the Church's attention when it should be focusing on the needs of the poorest community schools... we find it hard to understand how promoting Christianity within all schools will be assisted by removing» the privilege» of greater contact with Methodism and therefore with Christianity in 79 schools.»

And it's not clear if gay donors and major national groups like the Gill Action Fund will so focus their attention and money as aggressively in New York after their money yielded a one - sided defeat.

De Blasio's focus on national issues just 17 months into his tenure has brought him substantial national press attention and appears to be having some influence on the state level.

The race is receiving national attention as one of the races being focused on by Democrats eager to take control of the lower house.

He told PoliticsHome: «Like most of the Labour party, our attention is currently focused on the EU referendum, but we will finalise the interim report of the defence review in due course, and there will be plenty of time for both the International Policy Commission and the National Policy Forum to consider and debate it before it goes to conference.

Lead poisoning has gained renewed attention in recent months because of the national focus on Flint, Mich..

National Institutes of Health scientists have published several preliminary studies showing that nicotine — yes, the same chemical found in cigarettes — has the ability to focus attention.

The spotlight on dynamic systems is a major shift for agencies like the Army Corps, which in the past paid more attention to engineered solutions, Bostick said last week during an event at the National Academy of Sciences that focused on the state of resilience in the country.

Working in Kenya's Great Rift Valley, she focused her attention on two neighboring sites: a national park with lots of lions, and a privately owned conservancy with no lions.

«There is a lot of attention being focused on the science march but it isn't all anger out there,» says coral biologist Nancy Knowlton of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., a leader of the event, which was planned long before the science march materialized earlier this year.

In his national best seller, Healthy Aging, Harvard - trained physician, Dr. Andrew Weil states, «Meditation is... focused attention, directed inward or outward — to the breath, for instance... probably the most natural object of meditation.»

July 31, 2017 • For all the focus in 2016 on the cyberattacks against the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, less attention was paid to what was happening in the states.

Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said: «In the aftermath of the appalling fire at Grenfell Tower, attention has rightly focused on others who could be at risk, including children and school staff.

In addition, in some nations education goals have focused very narrowly on the development of skills that are presumed to contribute to national economic competitiveness, the formation of national identity, and local relevance, without sufficient attention to the development of the skills that contribute to effective citizenship and global citizenship.

The National Teacher of the Year Program is the oldest and most prestigious awards program to focus public attention on excellence in teaching.