Sentences with phrase «for educational problems»

Like all the other governors listed here, Cuomo has chosen to ignore the real reasons for educational problems: poverty, segregation and inequitable distribution of resources and has focused his sights on those miscreant teachers, who have only dedicated their lives to working with children.

We need to make them see that horrible educational policies enacted at the BoE level and Central Office sets the foundation for all educational problems, It isn't the teachers; its the office - holders and board members!

Ms. Gantwerk was then appointed to the position of Assistant Commissioner for the Division of Student Services, the division responsible for state and federal programs serving the needs of the student populations most at risk for educational problems including; students with disabilities, economically disadvantaged students (Title I) homeless, migrant and limited English proficient students.

By espousing empirically based standards as a fix for educational problems, advocates of these measures do more than oversimplify complex issues.

The commission's conclusion made one point of special relevance to the elderly: «The search for solutions for our educational problems must also include commitment to life - long learning.»

Not exact matches

So I decided to put something on the table to try to fix the problem: $ 500,000 for an educational institution to develop a degree program in international sales.

Investors look for aspiring entrepreneurs, young or young at heart, who can sell themselves well, have good negotiating skills, are problem - solvers and have a broad educational background.

Littman, the founder of educational computer game designer Morphonix, says she works with a bunch of guys most comfortable solving digital problems, so when she wants to get something new out of them, she finds some way to make them act like the children for whom they design the games.

In this webinar, corporate learning expert, Joe DiDonato, shares how his teams solved these problems, as well as how new educational technology (EdTech) is changing the sales landscape for all of us.

Airlines could alleviate a LARGE part of the problem by providing educational materials for parents about how to fly with children.

Ironically the test I tooked that showed I have dysexia by an educational psychologist also showed I have a rich vocabulary and am in the top 1 % of the population for verbal reasoning and problem solving ability.

The problem is not that Justice Stevens took the position that educational vouchers paid to parents and available for use in either secular or religious schools amounted to an establishment of religion.

For one thing, these failures and problems describe the public schools as well, especially if you think some of the ideological commitments that animate a great deal of the educational establishment are dangerous in themselves.

«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.»

For example, in dealing with our educational problems, we might very well ask about the effect of the rampant anti-intellectualism of our society on the education process and institutions of learning.

Even though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.

But as Postman has pointed out, in a culture thoroughly conditioned by electronic media, the main problems for imaginatively imparting information in educational institutions are radically different from what Whitehead had in mind or probably could have suspected.

The educational problem lies in the fact that «the relevance of its concepts can only be distinctly discerned in moments of insight, and then, for many of us, only after a suggestion from without.»

And while this educational gap was perhaps understandable in a church dominated until the very recent past by immigrants and their children, it is nonetheless a formidable problem today, for, in Cicero's words, «Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.»

In counseling and educational work, «problem drinker» often is a valuable substitute for the term «alcoholic.»

He splits his time between being at the Rodale Institute, leading educational classes and applied research with various farm animal species, while also owning Bovinity Health, LLC a company providing science - based and holistic solutions for commonly encountered dairy cow problems.

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We hypothesized that a series of interactive educational interventions about breastfeeding for pediatric residents would result in an increase in knowledge about breastfeeding and lactation problems and increased confidence when counseling breastfeeding women.

A substantial body of research now indicates that high levels of involvement by fathers in two parent families are associated with a range of desirable outcomes in children and young people, including: better peer relationships; fewer behaviour problems; lower criminality and substance abuse; higher educational / occupational mobility, relative to that of parents; capacity for empathy; non-traditional attitudes to earning and childcare; more satisfying adult sexual partnerships; and higher self - esteem and life - satisfaction (for reviews see Flouri 2005; Pleck and Masciadrelli 2004).

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

It is necessary to search for a disease then or serious educational problems.

For children, research shows a link between food insecurity and lower health status, low birth weight, anemia, more frequent colds and stomachaches, asthma, developmental risk, mental health problems, and poor educational performance — all of which have health and economic consequences in the short and long terms.

Problems demand basic universal cognitive, educational and reflective tools for use by individuals, groups and the global health care community.

Desegregation also improves other important educational outcomes for all students — poor, working class, and middle class alike — including, intellectual self - confidence, leadership skills, critical thinking, creativity, problem - solving, and teamwork.

«A key component of neighborhood revitalization is for the Mayor to create an environment within our city that promotes jobs and educational opportunities for our families, to end the systemic problems of poverty,» he said.

When it comes to major environmental problems such as global warming, he believes that our ability to cope depends on a broad - based educational push for earth sciences, of the kind we already have for biology and public health.

In this rough - draft article, she argues that the scientific labor market is broken, that the U.S. educational system actually produces too many qualified researchers for too few positions, and that a perverse funding structure perpetuates the problem, among other points.

The CSNE 36 - hour Hackathon challenges undergraduate and graduate students to design a solution to a neural engineering problem or to create a tool for educational outreach.

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This is very informative and educational article for me and also some women who face some different type of problem to their waistline.

«The issues I study seem to constantly be a work in progress, so I don't feel like I resolved anything or that we as an educational community have resolved the problems that are rampant in urban schools for adolescents,» she says.

There a several problems that eventually force the bandwagon back to district headquarters, in order that it might be retrofitted for the next great thing that is going to lead us to educational salvation.

So what can and should be done to mitigate what, for some, is seen as a growing problem for educational professionals?

UNESCO's 2017/8 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, released today, warns that disproportionate blame on any one actor for systemic educational problems can have serious negative side effects, widening inequality and damaging learning.

«Feuer draws on those teachings - and on his deep experience in applying science to educational problems - to build a timely and persuasive case for a patient and incremental approach to education reform.»

In addition to delivering lots of practice for hand - eye coordination, strategic planning, and decision making, educational video games structure problem solving and train students to «fail up» — to learn from their mistakes, try again, and persist until the problem is solved.

If these practical problems with OCR's letter were not enough, the agency also provides no reasonable legal foundation for its adventures in educational management.

Like the proverbial drunk who hunts for his keys near the lamppost, school reformers have searched for the educational keys to success by looking where the solutions are the easiest, not where the problems are most severe.

This is one of the problems that the Washington, D.C., nonprofit, Resources for Inner City Children (RICH), is hoping to help ease by providing high - quality educational resources, free of...

And in so doing, it could do more than just solve the problem of equity to high - quality educational opportunities in the state, it also creates a mechanism for competency - based learning, establishes a strong grounding for what online learning and blended learning are, and eliminates the outmoded geographic barriers that prevent students from being able to access high - quality learning opportunities no matter where they originate in the state.

Yet if the challenge can be met, if the attention of the adolescent culture can be directed toward, rather than away from, those educational goals which adults hold for children, then this provides a far more fundamental and satisfactory solution to the problem of focusing teenagers» attention on learning.

Evaluations of any educational technology program often confront a number of methodological problems, including the need for measures other than standardized achievement tests, differences among students in the opportunity to learn, and differences in starting points and program implementation.

«In spite of decades of trying,» asserted Chester E. Finn Jr., the department's assistant secretary for educational research and improvement, «our field has not yet succeeded in persuading many people, save for our own fraternity members, of course, that education research is valuable or worthwhile except in situations where its work is palpably joined, in ways that any layman can understand, to real life issues, problems, and...

In his original taxonomy, he stressed that a successful democracy relies on an educational system that provides opportunities for genuine problem solving.

The Bush administration was reluctant to «throw more money at the problem» of educational disparities, though it agreed to some additional spending as the price for securing NCLB's enactment.