Sentences with phrase «focus on their education rather»

«Our visit becomes more focused on education rather than treatment.»

Students learn best when they are able to focus on their education rather than worry about bullying or disruptive classrooms where an instructor is attempting to manage the behavior of 35 or more students.

Not exact matches

So often «financial education» focuses on managing your money — rather than growing it.

Rather than mandating burdensome education and compliance costs for advisors, the SEC should focus on establishing standards for research that ensure all advisors have the information and analysis they need to fulfill the Duty of Care.

That's why major deals in the education space are likely to focus on services, rather than the typical focus on technology, said Mary Jo Zandy, the managing director of Berkery Noyes, an investment - banking firm based that represented JBHM in the deal.

Evans says: «All schools should be properly focused on delivering the best education possible, rather than trying to instil religious beliefs in children.»

Rather it frees governors and headteachers to focus more on deciding what type of sex education parents want their children to experience in school and, in the case of primary schools, whether there should be any formal sex education at all.

On the topic of women and feeling good, shouldn't we focus on improving self image, getting an education and pursuing our dreams rather than having orgasms during childbirtOn the topic of women and feeling good, shouldn't we focus on improving self image, getting an education and pursuing our dreams rather than having orgasms during childbirton improving self image, getting an education and pursuing our dreams rather than having orgasms during childbirth?

Here we find an in depth history of the principles of Waldorf Education, with a focus on the characteristics of Waldorf Education rather than a rigid definition.

However, noting that even their increased earnings barely took the participants» income above poverty level, the evaluators recommend that an early focus on education and training rather than on income - generation may be a more productive long - term strategy for these young men and their children (Spaulding et al, 2009).

Education, counseling, support, skilled assessment of your progress, and both physical and emotional health are key aspects of gentle, comprehensive midwifery care, with focus on prevention rather than intervention.

Mr. Thompson said the City should focus on fighting obesity through other initiatives including improved health education, increasing access to healthy foods and improving recreation opportunities rather than by banning unhealthy options.

We have a system that protects the massive education bureaucracy rather than focusing on investing in our classrooms.

A former director of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Michael Kenneth Nsowah, says governments must focus on ensuring quality education in the country rather than building more educational faEducation Service (GES), Michael Kenneth Nsowah, says governments must focus on ensuring quality education in the country rather than building more educational faeducation in the country rather than building more educational facilities.

Education policy should focus on making sure that every student makes great progress, rather than accountability for test scores or teacher performance pay.

The Governor is insisting that we focus on student achievement rather than funding the education bureaucracy as a measure of success.

In 1984, Conservative Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph decided to proceed with a merger, on the premise that the new qualifications should be based on general and subject - specific criteria approved by himself; that the O Level exam boards should take responsibility for carrying forward the O Level A to C grade standards into the new scale, while the CSE boards should do the same for grades D to G, which were to be based on CSE grades 2 to 5 respectively; and that most subjects should be examined through tiered papers focusing on different parts of the grade scale, ensuring that each grade reflected «positive achievement» on appropriate tasks, rather than degrees of failure.

While drug - related crime has decreased substantially Dr Iddon said the emphasis should now be on harm reduction - focusing on health and deterrence through education rather than punishment.

DASA is unique in that it focuses on education and the prevention of bullying and harassment before they begin rather than punishment after the fact.

Paper authors focused on clinicians because they tend to put more weight on treating illnesses rather than preventing them; however, education is key to keeping illnesses from occurring, they said.

But some perennial topics have acquired a different focus; for example, the question about the internet has shifted from ensuring access to cybersecurity and privacy, and the question dealing with education now focuses on attracting more women and minorities into the scientific workforce rather than on boosting overall student achievement.

The report suggests that DOD focus on meeting its own special workforce needs rather than trying to improve the overall quality of STEM education in the United States.

«So one solution could be to offer multiple education formats to ensure that parents truly hear the concussion information rather than focusing on just signing a form.»

Naturopathic medicine focuses on prevention, patient education, and treatment of common ailments using natural methods rather than synthetic medications.

Rather than focusing on whether or how much to invest, the discussion has increasingly focused on whether free tuition is the most effective use of additional funds for higher education.

Rather, policymakers should focus on the net cost that students actually pay for higher education — this figure would factor in the aid that many students receive from colleges and universities.

Coleman's analysis, while flawed, positively transformed education policy discussions so that today they focus on school outcomes rather than school inputs.

Great leaders focus on developing people's capacities rather than their limitations (Leithwood, Seashore Louis, Anderson, and Wahlstrom, 2004; Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011).

It didn't hurt that XQ was the first major education investment by the Emerson Collective, LLC, which was established by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs, or that the media team behind it projected a relentlessly upbeat tone, focusing on the possibilities rather than the obstacles.

In focusing on individual school models and putting forth an open call for ideas — rather than insisting on a prescribed list of policy - related preferences — the initiative appeared to depart significantly from the kind of education grant making that has been practiced for the past 15 years by philanthropists such as the Gates, Walton, and Broad families.

Initially launched in 2011 with a focus on rebuilding and refurbishing the schools in most urgent need of repair, the Priority School Building Programme (PSBP) is managed centrally by the Department for Education's (DfE) Education Funding Agency (EFA), rather than by local project teams.

• There was near unanimity among the task force members (myself excluded), the State Board of Education, and the California Department of Education that NCLB - era accountability systems were excessively punitive, and that the focus should instead be on «continuous improvement,» rather than «test - and - punish.»

In the absence of a sizable, well - organized and mobilized block of voters, the path of least resistance for most mayors is to focus on things that are within their control (like a school district), rather than on things are not (like independent education entrepreneurs).

This concept, he says, «emphasizes that an adequate education must (1) prepare students to be citizens and economic participants in a democratic society; (2) relate to contemporary, not archaic educational needs; (3) be pegged to a «more than minimal» level; and (4) focus on opportunity rather than outcome.»

If Gates and others with billions to devote to education continue to focus on reforming the old rather than building new, I fear their efforts will soon be forgotten after the Emperor's New Clothes adulation fades when they stop having large sums to give.

The education concert hall, I fear, continues to burn while the conductors of our two major parties focus on their percussion sections — rather than summoning the fire department.

Rather than assessing the quantity of education, they decided to focus on classroom experience, and evaluate the learning outcomes.

She said: «For me, I do worry that a return to more selection risks undermining the progress that we have seen over the course of the last decade in our schools, by throwing something else into the education debate rather than focusing on every school offering an excellent education.»

As a result, the dean of a nationally ranked school of education notes, «NCATE focuses on things like the number of books in our library and the number of degrees among our faculty rather than what we actually do.»

By focusing on the needs of students and the quality of education they receive rather than pointing fingers over where they are served, we will do more to ensure that our most vulnerable children have access to the education they need and deserve.

Rather than focusing on the shortcomings of public schooling, a more sensible approach to the problem will be increasing accountability for the process of public education.

Education Resource Strategies, a nonprofit consulting firm, is now offering targeted budget - development support to school leaders, and the district is focused on developing, rather than exiting, principals.

Teles cited a paper by Sheara Krvaric and Melissa Junge, in which they argued that «the multiplicity of overlapping and bewildering federal programs for K - 12 education creates a compliance mentality among school leaders, making them wary of new ideas and pushing them to focus on staying on the right side of the rules rather than on improving their schools.»

A shift to a focus on measuring outcomes will open the licensure process to high - quality alternative pathways into teaching and encourage innovation among higher education providers who wish to compete on cost and quality rather than on traditional curriculum and seat - time requirements.

The government should focus on these issues rather than obsessing about an education policy plucked from the 1950s.

Although funding is dictated by diverse local needs, education spending is too often focused on administrative overhead and benefits rather than the classroom.

While on the surface, schools suggest initiatives that promote an individual's freedom to critically think, reflect, challenge, and be challenged, though the reality is that there is very little room for true criticism or reflection in the classroom; the focus of education is not on challenging students, but rather on explicating absolute skills that can be translated in something that can be effectively numerated and explicitly bought.

This focus on how we experience activities rather than what the activities are have also been shown to appeal most to the late - millennials in education today.

And students, rather than simply receiving instruction, help direct their own education through a myriad of personalized learning opportunities with a focus on technology.

Guidance released in 2010 by the Department for Education and Skills recommends taking a positive approach, so that rather than focusing on what not to do, the teacher encourages pupils to recognise what they already do in life to keep themselves safe, and to extend this to less familiar places and situations.