Sentences with phrase «for education problems»

In the current issue of its membership newspaper, NEA Today, the union notes that four years after the first statewide teacher - competency law was passed, «politicians are no longer promoting such statutes as a cure - all for education problems
Many policymakers see technology as the cure - all for any education problem.

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«The education system can not solve the problem for the current population of working - aged adults,» says Gillian Mason, president of ABC Life Literacy Canada (ABC).
The problem is sorting out how the new agency would fit with long - established arrangements for education and skills funding in Canada.
Each meet for a total of six hours to build partnerships and offer suggestions for solving the problems within their individual topic areas, which include high - growth entrepreneurship, small business, early childhood education and community investing.
The big problem with a lot of conventional education programs is that they are not sufficiently preparing people for the real world of work.
But that's changing as more employers come to realize education debt is a problem for many of their workers, said Katie Berliner, account executive at YouDecide, a benefits firm.
The Internet, by his estimation, «is the best tool we've ever developed as humans,» and while most for - profit startups realize this, «the nonprofits that are solving some of the most important problems in the world — that are trying to save lives and provide education — are not adopting it fast enough.
Higher education needs to do a better job of training people to solve problems and create opportunities for themselves — and the rest of us — in a changing economy.
Lower average test scores might not be a problem if you can find out that kids are rapidly improving over time, making that cute house in the cheaper part of town not only good for your wallet, but good for your child's education too.
The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.
We like to joke about some of the problems with education today, but Millennials have a lot of education and there are a lot more opportunities for continuing education — through online courses in traditional schools, and MOOCs, and even just listening to podcasts regularly.
It's not just a New York problem: 1 in 5 millennial parents report spending 50 percent to 59 percent of income on housing, according to a 2016 report from the National Endowment for Financial Education and Parents magazine.
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Joseph Wilson Joseph is the Director of Business Development for Spongelab Interactive, a software company that solves problems in the education industry.
Cryptocurrency mining operations, illegal or not, are becoming a real problem for the higher education sector, where hackers have found plenty of easy to hack systems, but also where students are using university resources to make an extra profit via deliberate cryptocurrency mining.
The second problem is that in order to get some of its debt absolved, Puerto Rico agreed to impose the harsh austerity measures — reducing education and health spending, for instance — that hurt growth at the same time that thousands are fleeing to the mainland in search of economic opportunity.
The core of the problem of building up family assets for education and retirement is the couple's attitude toward investments.
Cicil aims to solve this problem for the six million university students in the country over the four years of their education.
The problem is that I only had enough money to pay for my first year of education.
In view of his approach to solving the problems facing higher education, it's not surprising that, although long a tenured professor at prestigious schools, Taylor evinces little respect for academic disciplines.
The problem is that in four different places in an opinion barely five paragraphs long, Justice Stevens used the word «indoctrination» as a synonym for religious education.
The seemingly intractable and intertwined problems of drug abuse, violence, poor education, broken families, and health disparities have endured for decades without budging despite plenty of efforts to help.
Part of the contemporary problem in making a convincing case for the humanities is that their defenders, despite producing blue - ribbon reports about the current state of education, often do a shockingly bad job of explaining why they are important.
The problem I have with non-bigoted Christians (the ones who don't chastise gays for being, well, gay... who support evidence - based science education... who support a woman's right to choose) is that they are waaaay too silent.
Fact is that you are free to believe whatever you want, it doesn't really help for you to even try to understand the simple elegant FACT of evolution, besides you lack the skills, knowledge, education, and understanding to contribute to fixing the problems that humankind will have to fix in order to survive.
He also stressed the need for cooperation with all who work on the alcoholism problem, including the more than one hundred agencies (in the U.S. and Canada) now engaged in rehabilitation, research, and alcohol education.
By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.
Although I am very far from subscribing to the doctrine of the total depravity of man, it does seem to me to have been proved within my own lifetime that the problem of human evil is not much affected by better education, better housing, higher wages, holidays with pay, and the National Health Service — desirable as all these things may be for other good reasons.
It seems to have been proved within out time that the problem of human evil is not much affected by better education, better housing, higher wages, and holidays with pay — desirable as all these things may be for other good reasons.
It is common to be cynical about dumbed - down popular culture, American education comes in for its share of critiques, and biblical and theological illiteracy is a real problem.
The problem begins with academic theologians, whose education prepares them to write for a guild of fellow experts and whose careers can often be harmed by more popular writing.
Gothard's teachings involve rules upon rules all dealing with the outward, dress, hair, smiling, bright eyes, no birth control or dating, no higher education for girls who must stay in the home until the father decides what they should do, how God blesses and is happy with you if you do such and such, so many rules, those who really wanted to please God were under the weight of things they could never accomplish... plus the male regime and women having to be careful not to defraud men by their dress or looks made it so easy for sexual predatory behaviors to take hold and the woman at fault for the man's problems and such... ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!! No wonder some of the children of this regime became athiests.
I'm a little pessimistic, because faculty members come out of graduate schools with a loyalty to a particular field, and it's very hard to get their attention or arouse their passion for larger sets of problems, such as pedagogy or the reform of theological education.
(J. Levy and R. K. McNickle, eds., A Clinical Approach to the Problems of Pastoral Care [Boulder, Colo.: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 1964], VII, 250.)
The schools recognize this problem and through special education classes and projects attempt to provide the opportunity for each person to function at the maximum level of his capacities.
Indeed, Vasconcelos had created the motto for Sierra's national university — «By virtue of my race the spirit shall speak» — and he attacked the problem of public education with the same religio - national zeal as had his predecessors.
The problem is the religious leadership of Islam (the Imams, Ayatollahs, etc of Shi'a Islam, for instance) and the relative lack of education (especially self - education) in many muslim countries.
The answer is No, and it is for this reason that I say the older way of putting the problem is no longer relevant for higher education generally.
So much for the all too well - known problems that have afflicted Catholic education.
But these problems are partly why I want to privilege the education that happens within the church and the home as necessary for a healthy social order.
One effort to stem this problem is the Lilly Endowment's Transition into Ministry Program, coordinated through the Fund for Theological Education.
The historic problem for Christian higher education arose from its internalization of the ideal of untrammeled inquiry.
«I think a lot of Christian educationalists are concerned about the direction of travel... they are day - in day - out helping to run schools... they don't feel they get much credit for it they feel that instead senior educational figures talk about Christian education and religious education and religious schools as if they are the problem
Thus, even a very modest institutionalization of this issue in theological education provides legitimacy and resources to those addressing the problems, and a space for healing, thinking, talking and acting together.
Conversations are frank, and real problems are tackled: poor RE in Catholic schools, grave worries about plans for sex education there, pressures on the young from social media, a longing for strong leadership on some of these issues from Bishops.
67 percent of ministers face serious problems in providing college educations for their children.
The really intractable problems for choice in education lurk, rather, in those poorly understood and profoundly important sources of law, the state constitutions.
In my judgment, a good continuing education course for the minister should begin where the minister has his problems; that is, with an issue of function, of service, of how you do this or that, and then go back to basic principles, wherever you can find them, to shed light on whatever it is.
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