Sentences with phrase «for schools concerning»

This will not just be upsetting for the schools concerned but «here we go again» for those WCAT academies which were already academies when WCAT took them over (eg Willow Academy in Doncaster, Create Studio, Goole High School and Yewlands Technology College.

Not exact matches

He is concerned about the issue of childhood obesity in the U.S., and raced to raise $ 1 million for the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, which helps schools develop and improve programs focused on food and nutrition (Lawrence's website is still accepting donations).

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

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.

Dr. Leah Millheiser, a clinical assistant professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and director of the Female Sexual Medicine program, told INSIDER that she would recommend the copper IUD for any woman who is concerned about her mental health.

All of which is fascinating for data - obsessed education researchers, but what's the bottom line for our hypothetical concerned parents who are wondering where to send their kid to school?

Eureka High School in Eureka, Calif., postponed its drill that had been scheduled for Thursday, partly because officials were concerned about the mental state of students, said Fred Van Vleck, the district superintendent.

Irene Lanzinger, president of the BC Teachers Federation, echoed the call for public investments and stricter regulation of banks, and added particular concerns about schools, women and students.

2015.08.12 Jobs and finances trump happiness on students» list of concerns: RBC poll As students across the country prepare for the return to school and classes, it...

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&school system.»

Families have real concerns about rising healthcare costs, all the extra fees for their kids in school and the big increases to B.C. Hydro bills and ICBC that are eating up their household money.

The VA's Cash - Out Refinance Loan is for homeowners who want to take cash out of their home equity to take care of concerns like paying off debt, funding school or making home improvements.

The Yale Law School graduate is seen as showing genuine concern about others at the company, which raises the question: Why did he stay at a company that has come under fire for its questionable and sometimes illegal practices?

We heard a number of concerns from people struggling to find affordable places to live and still have money available to spend on food, utilities and school clothes for their kids.

I'm not concerned with the sample size — 324 per school is HUGE (30 is usually the minimum for analysis).

If school concerns, for example, were addressed by churches, perhaps these concerns would not be the stalking horses for gambling interests.

In Algeria, because of the direct French control, the official schools have shown no concern for Muslim Arabic education.

To this imbalance we shall need to address ourselves in other connections For the present we must only point out that whatever just criticism may have been made of theological schools in other countries and times because they were too remote from parish and national church activities and because they overlooked their responsibility for training preachers, pastors, evangelists and priests, the North American schools with which we are concerned have not erred in this directiFor the present we must only point out that whatever just criticism may have been made of theological schools in other countries and times because they were too remote from parish and national church activities and because they overlooked their responsibility for training preachers, pastors, evangelists and priests, the North American schools with which we are concerned have not erred in this directifor training preachers, pastors, evangelists and priests, the North American schools with which we are concerned have not erred in this direction.

The foregoing principles of parent - child relationships — concern by the parents for the needs of the child and the obligation of the child to obey the parents, within the context of intelligent and benevolent authority — are the foundation for the right kind of education not only in homes but also in schools, which are established to aid and complete the family in its educative task.

By removing the wide segments of knowledge and skill with which the school ordinarily deals from all explicit relation to religion, the meaning of religion is falsified; by being made a specialized concern, it is robbed of its essential comprehensiveness, and the school studies become occasions for propagating the gospel of autonomy and self - sufficiency.

A medical school, for instance, is a research and often also a healing center, directly concerned with the increase of knowledge about the human organism and with its health; but it is also a training center where men are prepared to work in many other institutions of the society, from private practice to public health offices.

The renewed emphasis on religious orthodoxy has been associated with a vigorous upsurge in theological education, in the growth of church - controlled schools, and in concern for religion in public education.

On all levels, the things that make for positive mental and spiritual health should be a prominent concern in the church school.

It does not, however, make any less imperative the inclusion of recreational concerns within the school curriculum, for it is in the program of formal education that meaning, perspective, and direction in leisure activity may best be taught.

Paul Barber, director, told The Telegraph: «We are extremely concerned that Ofsted is publicly listing St Benedict's as one of the 11 schools which «were not preparing pupils for life in Britain today».

Reflecting the basic orientation of its namesake, the late nineteenth - century evangelist Dwight L. Moody, as well as that of the school he established, Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, the journal has as its main concern the task of evangelism — that is, the preparation for, understanding of, reporting about, and inciting interest in the proclamation of the gospel.

The background assumption of this book means, finally, that so far as its content is concerned the best hope of saying things of general relevance to persons involved in all types of theological schooling today lies in making some particular and fairly concrete proposals that may turn out to be directly pertinent only to a few types of theological schools but may provoke and help other persons in other types of schools to think through these issues for 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.»

As a result, Jewish groups, though usually nervous about evangelicals» intentions regarding public schools, have pointedly distanced themselves from the position of People for the American Way — one of the active liberal advocacy groups — that parents with religious concerns should enroll their children in private schools.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

With this said, I would like to raise a few concerns about the suitability of such programmes for contemporary schooling.

Even when I taught a course at Vanderbilt University divinity school in 1971 called «Forms of Religious Reflection,» in which we looked at the limitations and possibilities for religious reflection of various literary genres (parables, autobiographies, novels, poems, etc.), I did not know that a movement was aborning concerned with story and autobiography in theological reflection — a movement of which I was soon to feel very much a part.

«Every method of education if founded, wholly or in part, on the denial or forgetfulness of original sin and of grace, and relying on the sole powers of Eric Hester, a retired Catholic headmaster and schools inspector, draws out the heart of the Catholic approach to education concerning sexuality, and calls for its application.

(0ne school characterizes its attitude toward other denominations as magnanimous; another recognizes only two church bodies — one of these in Europe — as soundly Christian; some denominational programs for the development of theological education move easily from praise of the ecumenical spirit to exclusive concern for the advancement of the denominational ministry.

But a heartening sign in the present situation is the increase of interest among these librarians in their work as teachers and the increase of concern among faculties for the development of school libraries as teaching centers)-- to enter into conversation with a continuous if not identical group of thinkers.

Thus implicitly and explicitly the denominations in their concern for the education of ministers, and the schools entrusted with the task, make it evident that they think of themselves increasingly as branches or members of a single community, as orders and institutions with special duties or assignments to be carried out in partnership with other branches of one society.

Thanks to the leadership of the Dept. and the relevance of it in our time, the concern for social analysis has taken root as an essential aspect of the Christian theological enterprise, not only in the TTS but also in most other Indian theological schools and in the Serampore University curriculum itself.

The first was a conversation with a young couple who were reflecting on the problem of finding modest, non-sexualizing clothes for their very young daughters, a point which led them to express concern about the educationally sanctioned sexualization of even elementary school children.

No reasonable person could deny that this is cause for concern; even Awkward agree on the school issue.

Among the philosophers whose works contain the seeds of this dichotomy is David Hume: «If we take in our hand any volume» of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance» let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?

While I'd never pretend to speak for the GFC, its concerns run more to promoting school choice, helping marriages flourish, and calling attention to human trafficking than to taking high - profile stances on hot - button social issues.

Fourth, the faculties of professional and graduate schools tend to see themselves as cognitively open, able to work amid cultural pluralisms and competing cognitive styles, and genuinely concerned for the school's welfare.

They usually take place outside the Divinity School, and they are intended, not for specialists in religious studies of any kind, but for a general audience of people, mainly, but by no means exclusively, undergraduate, whose courses of study may lie in other fields, but who are interested in listening to a non-technical presentation of questions with which theologians are concerned and perhaps also in taking part in discussions which are arranged to follow the lectures.

His naive use of class differences to identify excellence («Ministers of the better class are not satisfied to accept the rural churches») and his explicit call for theological schools to train persons to minister specifically to the rich suggest that this interest in theology, which is otherwise so thoroughly underemployed in Harper's proposed reform of theological schooling, is vulnerable to ideological misuse as a «cover» that at once obscures and legitimates an underlying concern to secure the churches» social status.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

The first phase lasted from the establishment of the school until around 1930 and its unity lies in the concern for the socio - historical method.

The influence of Niebuhr on the Chicago school thus counted against ready acceptance of the message of political theology in the sixties despite the agreement of its concern for social salvation with Niebuhr's own convictions.

So can we expect similar policing of state schools concerning the fact that marriage has been defined in virtually all societies as involving a male and a female and that international law does not provide for same sex marriage?

Given that these results tally with religious and secular aims in the United States, we should anticipate that parents concerned about the direction that American culture is taking will regard faith - based schools as providing a positive environment for their children.

As White expressed it, the potential for impermissible fostering of religion in secular classrooms — an untested, assumption of the court, so far as he was concerned — paradoxically rendered unacceptable the state's efforts to ensure that secular teachers under religious discipline would successfully avoid conflicts between the religious mission of the school and the secular purpose of the state's education program.