Sentences with phrase «global learning crisis»

We are in the midst of a global learning crisis.

The lack of education for all and the poor quality of many schools in poorer countries is described as a «global learning crisis».

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So what did the global community learn from its response to the deadly virus — and how can we use this knowledge to help us avoid mistakes when the next global health crisis arises?

«Their caution is a learned behaviour from (quite rightly) protecting themselves during the onslaught of the global financial crisis, which rapidly destroyed human and physical capital,» he added.

It was only a few years later, while I was reading Charles Kindleberger's A Financial History of Western Europe that I learned that the 1873 crisis actually «began» with a stock market crash in Vienna in May, four months before the New York markets fell, which spread to Germany, England and other countries, and the subsequent depression was perhaps the first «global» panic and depression in history.

(This is the lesson we learned during the recession of 1981 - 82, which for Canada was even more severe than the global financial crisis of 2008 - 09).

Learning from previous crises, countries such as Mexico, Brazil and India have transformed their government debt markets, inuring themselves to global economic shocks by limiting their borrowing in non-domestic currencies.

«The world is going through a global crisis, so we are just learning how to maneuver,» he says.

The second avenue is collecting, developing and learning effective dialogue practices between religions The enterprise is the major engine of growth in the world but its gaps and weakness lead to sub-optimal wealth creation and sometimes to massive wealth destruction as we had seen in the 2008 global financial crisis.

In this workshop, students learn about shelter - what it is, how it varies around the world and what makes it adequate - and the global situation, including the world slum crisis.

Developments in the last century — the evolving global economy, an unprecedented migrant crisis, massive social changes, and increasingly seamless digital connectivity and convergence across work, play and life — have forced a challenging shift in the way we think about what matters most to teach and learn.

When the World Bank issued a report last fall that found that 60 percent of primary school children in developing countries were failing to achieve a basic proficiency in reading, writing, and mathematics, it exposed a so - called «learning crisis» in global education, one in which children attend school for years but fail to learn.

She adds that though most secondary school students can handle learning about a global crisis, elementary school teachers should be careful about the scenarios they present.

As part of the school's focus on project - based learning, a group of middle schoolers were working on a project about the global water crisis, planning to help a village in Tanzania get access to clean water.

Seven Star Events, the green event planning company that helps put on the Festival, has gone on to use the low - waste strategies they learned on the job at Green America and Global Exchange's Green Festivals to green other large events, including the «Live Earth» concert for awareness of the climate crisis last summer.

«Paul Ehrlich has never been able to learn from past experience,» he said, then launched into the Cornucopian line on the greenhouse crisis — how, even in the unlikely event that doomsayers are right about global warming, humanity will find some way to avert climate change or adapt, and everyone will emerge the better for it.

As we learned in the economic crisis of 2008, these systems can highlight risk in a global organization.

Hempstead, NY — On Friday, November 18, 2011, from 9:00 AM — 1:30 PM, approximately 250 youth from across Nassau County will learn about HIV / AIDS and get involved in stopping this global health crisis at the 2011 HeartB.E.A.T.S.