Cash called on board members, district staff, parents and children to get back to
focusing on education as well.
As for how the city ensures the success of the recycling program, Brown
focused on education as enforcement, saying little about the ways the city confirms whether or not people are complying.
At the end of last week and again yesterday, I wrote about grim news from a new study regarding what teachers think students are learning when it comes to citizenship, and how distant
our focus on education as the «new civil right» is from traditional concerns about preparing students for the rigors of citizenship.
The combination of sensitive schools and an overarching
focus on education as a tool solely to promote global economic competitiveness has seemingly deemphasized the need for civic and moral education in classrooms, according to Levinson.
On the verge of a bruising budget battle with the Republican - controlled Congress, President Clinton in recent weeks has sharpened his rhetoric and increased
his focus on education as a critical dividing line between himself and his opponents.
As the offspring of two teachers, it's not surprising that Rebecca came to
focus on education as a public policy student at Syracuse University.
Bill has carried his interest on and now his foundation
focuses on education as well as health.
Asking the right questions is one of the reasons that
we focus on education as one of our core values.
With
a focus on education as part of our core values, Effective Coverage works to give renters the data they need in order to make informed decisions about their renters insurance in Frederick, across Maryland, and across the country.
Asking the right questions is one of the reasons that
we focus on education as one of our core values.
This format allows the candidate to
focus on their education as well as work experience.
Not exact matches
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains has said the plan will broadly
focus on three key areas: improving
education, fostering ambitious research projects that can later be sold
as commercial products and supporting innovative companies that compete globally.
You may not be able to avoid debt entirely, so borrowing should be
focused on paying for things that help build your net worth, such
as a home or
education.
He also is one of the founders of FWD.us, a lobbying group of powerful silicon valley entrepreneurs
focused on many political matters, such
as immigration and
education reform.
An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the
education, arguing Bridge
focuses less
on getting poor students to the baseline
as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.
Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we
focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our
education system, then treated them differently
as they progressed through school
as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»
After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such
as deficit fighting,
education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country
on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy
focus for the better part of a decade.
They are
focusing on systems to increase team
education to meet the ever - growing demand
as they expand.
The Microsoft founder's organization
focuses on addressing issues such
as global health, poverty and
education, and the new gift from Buffett will likely be spent
on those causes.
As California slashes billions from its higher
education budget, the state's premier public business schools have quietly
focused its efforts
on raising private dollars.
On Wednesday, Hawkins announced the release of an
education -
focused app through his new startup called If You Can,
as well
as a $ 6.5 million funding round from Greylock Partners and Almaz Capital.
While the federal immigration system has been criticized for putting emphasis
on post-secondary
education when judging candidates
as economic immigrants, Manitoba has designed its nominee program to
focus on skill shortages in its own labour market.
ECU's
focus on identifying opportunities in priority or high growth areas such
as nursing,
education, communications, environmental studies, law and security and entertainment and culture is also unique, Professor Poole says.
The Cohens have been stepping up their role
as active mega-donors in the New York area,
focusing mainly
on healthcare and
education, with the arts
as another major interest.
«Provocative and timely, Ellsberg lays bare what he sees
as a giant hole in much of traditional
education — a
focus on «academic» knowledge and a de-emphasis
on the knowledge and skills necessary to actually succeed in life.
This year, Starbucks has expanded the
focus of the grants program to include youth
as well
as veterans and military spouses, and refugees, with a
focus on supporting organizations that are working to help connect those facing barriers to jobs and
education to a pathway to long - term economic opportunity.
Diverse data: In a briefing with reporters, NIH officials said they are
focusing on gathering health and genetic data from diverse and historically underrepresented groups — including ethnic and sexual minorities,
as well
as people with disabilities, with less than a high school
education, and with income below the poverty level.
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About the author: JS Kim is the Managing Director and Founder of SmartKnowledgeU, a fiercely independent research, consulting and
education firm that
focuses on gold and silver asset investment strategies
as a means of countering the damaging effects of rapidly devaluing fiat currencies worldwide and price - distorted stock market and asset bubbles created by Central Bankers.
He
focuses on inflation
as year - over-year change in the U.S. Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers and all items, but considers also inflation rates for medical care and higher
education.
As American
education focuses on closing the...
El Puente, a Latino organization based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that
focuses on social justice,
education and climate change issues, has raised enough money to purchase thousands of lanterns — which Puerto Ricans
on the island view
as a glimmer of hope to help guide them through the dark.
The ASR sees this change
as an opportunity to
focus on member needs, to enhance professionalism and will now begin working
on a new strategic plan for the future of ASR
education.»
They reduced Airtanker contracts by 5.1 million dollars and cut funding for FireSmart grants that funded projects
focused on fire preparedness planning, public
education and fire mitigation projects such
as creating buffers between buildings and forests.»
She also found a position
as an online English teacher at
Education First, a policy and consulting agency
focused on educational issues.
As for the U.S., I'd actually be quite comfortable with a reasonable amount of «helicopter money» provided that the accompanying fiscal stimulus package was
focused, not
on consumption, but
on productive investment at the public, private and individual level (infrastructure, investment and R&D tax credits, workforce training,
education, and so forth).
if you're from the US like i am, please move far, far away so those who believe in the first amendment and support all people the freedom to believe and live
as they choose so we can
focus on real issues like the economy,
education, and ending oppression / slavery throughout the world.
My background in
education and leadership has given me a
focus as much
on a person's thought processes and reasoning
as on the evidence itself.
In this perspective, institutions such
as education, law, and marriage are grounded in human nature and
focused on shared life.
Some observers would say that theological
education has been too much
focused on the cognitive dimension of learning
as opposed to personal and social transformation — doing and feeling.
For this reason,
as I speak of the possibility of Christianity shaping higher
education in our pluralistic age, I will
focus on the university.
Other Republican hopefuls, Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition and such «cultural warriors»
as Rush Limbaugh, former Secretary of
Education William Bennett, and James Dobson, director of
Focus on the Family, have claimed there is an encompassing social divide over morality and values.
This
focus on education also transformed the church itself, through the agency of the Sunday School — an institution that owed much of its nineteenth - century dominance and modern shape to such Methodist leaders
as John Heyl Vincent, founder of Chautauqua.
Rodney Bullard is a United States Air Force veteran, former Assistant U.S. Attorney and White House Fellow and currently serves
as the Vice President of Community Affairs for Chick - fil - A and
as the Executive Director of the Chick - fil - A Foundation where he shepherds the organization's extensive philanthropic and social responsibility efforts, which primarily
focus on youth and
education.
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.
The central «positive» moral about how best to negotiate between these two models is this:
Focus on the nature of the basic movement of theological study
as a theological question, not
as a question about the psychology of learning, nor even
as a question about the logical relations among various subjects studied in theological
education.
Would it not embark
on a comprehensive program of parent
education as a central
focus of its work, making the discoveries of the psychologists concerning the emotional hungers of children, from the very dawn of life
on, easily available to all its parents?
However, when theological
education's
focus is
on «orthodoxy,» the relation between theory and practice seems to be treated
as though it were precisely what the first view rejects.
Perhaps this is the force of Stackhouse's contention that theological
education must
focus on «orthodoxy»: it must not
focus on those theories about God certified once and for all to be «right» or true, but instead must
focus on the ongoing task of testing our theories about God to get them
as «straight» or
as «right» (orthos)
as we can.
Farley's analysis of what's wrong with theological
education and the remedies he proposes
focused,
as we have seen,
on issues of unity in theological
education.