Sentences with phrase «great national achievement»

Things like our vital public services, our schools, our police, housing, and our great national achievement, our NHS.

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His other professional acknowledgments include: Institute for Management Studies — Lifetime Achievement Award (one of only two ever awarded), American Management Association - 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years, BusinessWeek — 50 great leaders in America, Wall Street Journal — top ten executive educators, Forbes — five most - respected executive coaches, Leadership Excellence — top five thinkers on leadership, Economic Times (India)-- top CEO coaches of America, Economist (UK)-- most credible executive advisors in the new era of business, National Academy of Human Resources — Fellow of the Academy (America's top HR award), World HRD Congress — 2011 global leader in HR thinking, Fast Company — America's preeminent executive coach, and Leader to Leader Institute — 2010 Leader of the Future Award.

There is a religious — even Christian — dimension to our national identity, like it or not, and though it has gotten us into trouble from time to time, it has also inspired great achievement.

«My greatest achievement was earning a silver medal at the junior European championships along with a national record in the team sprint and placing in the top ten in the 500m time trial and sprint.»

«It will be great for him to be involved one way or another before the season ends, even though that would be an incredible and remarkable achievement since looking back on when the injury happened with the national team.»

«From educational achievement to emotional development and healthy self esteem, the contribution that dads make to the life and the development of children is unique and enduring, and Parentchannel.tv's National Dads Matter Week is a great way to recognise this.

He told the conference: «One of the greatest achievements of the government elected in 1997 was the establishment of a national minimum wage, lifting millions out of poverty.

As captain and coach of our national football team, his service, dedication and achievements, including lifting the African Nations Cup both as a player and then as a coach, remain a great testament to the value of hard work.

And it is a testimony to the extraordinary work done by nurses, doctors and all NHS staff - backed up by the extra investment which has seen the health budget treble to almost # 100 billion pounds a year - that ten years on the NHS is now more firmly than ever part of the fabric of British national life ----- an achievement that in itself should give us the confidence to look forward with ambition to an even greater future for the NHS.

So acknowledge that NASA is a great international brand as well as a source of national pride and technological achievement.

Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust and of the Education Endowment Foundation, said: «The fact that Indian, Bangladeshi and Chinese pupils from poor homes are performing better than the national average is in itself a great achievement.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

State and national efforts to raise student achievement are continuing to yield far greater progress in mathematics than in reading, judged by the results of the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Pnational efforts to raise student achievement are continuing to yield far greater progress in mathematics than in reading, judged by the results of the 2003 National Assessment of Educational PNational Assessment of Educational Progress.

«When Money Matters,» a report of a national study released in 1997 by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), determined that spending money on smaller classes has a greater impact on math achievement than spending on administration, school buildings, or hiring teachers with advanced degrees.

NEA Leader Stresses Goal of Great Public Schools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community involvement.

«The fact that Indian, Bangladeshi and Chinese pupils from poor homes are performing better than the national average is in itself a great achievement.

In yet another recent report of a large national study of 400 Chapter 1 schools, researchers found that higher levels of poverty, greater application of grade retention policies, and higher levels of student disciplinary actions were related to lower student achievement (Puma et al., 1997).

He is highly involved in education politics on a state and national level in an effort to positively impact decision - making toward greater student achievement.

Fund (LDF) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), highlights the continued need for greater educational equity, and warns that race and gender disparities in opportunity and academic achievement lead to high dropout rates, limited job opportunities, and increased risk of poverty for African American females.

Maryland's public school students made greater gains on a national standardized test than their peers in nearly every other state, although the achievement gap between white and minority students persists.

And a new study from the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University — although not studying the important question of whether teachers who receive high scores on TAP evaluations tend to produce greater gains in their students» test scores — found that a small sample of secondary schools using TAP produced no higher levels of student achievement than schools that hadn't implemented the TAP program.

Small schools, the National School Climate Center says, tend to exhibit several characteristics that enhance a school climate, such as greater parent participation, better student engagement in school, warmer relationships between adults and students, more opportunity for school involvement, and better school achievement.

The bill provides states and districts with greater flexibility while still preserving a national focus on closing the achievement gap and ensuring that additional services and supports are provided to the students and schools most in need.

These countries have better short - and long - term achievement outcomes and fewer topics are covered each year, but in greater depth (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2005, 2006; National Mathematics Advisory Council, 2008).

They ranked the effects of completed studies (national and international), and using the data combined from these studies, they developed a rating where any influence greater than.04 was a contribution to student achievement.

Bernath has been honored as a National School Boards Association Distinguished School Board Member, a Woman of Distinction by the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Children's Legacy, a Woman of Achievement by the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, and a Leadership Sandy Springs Outstanding Alumni.

For research supporting greater selectivity for teacher preparation programs see, Donald Boyd et al., «The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High - Poverty Schools,» National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper No. 14021, June 2008; Drew Gitomer, «Teacher Quality in a Changing Policy Landscape: Improvements in the Teacher Pool,» Educational Testing Service, 2007; D. Goldhaber et al., NBPTS certification: Who applies and what factors are associated with success?»

National Blue Ribbon Schools are public and private K - 12 schools that have demonstrated the highest levels of academic success and have made great strides in closing the achievement gap.

Under Section 1105 of the FAST Act, the grant program now referred to as the Fostering Advancements in Shipping and Transportation for the Long - Term Achievement of National Efficiencies (FASTLANE) is a great new opportunity.

The Talladega murals, which are considered among Woodruff's greatest achievements, will undergo conservation at the Atlanta Art Conservation Center under the auspices of the High Museum of Art and will then be presented to a national audience for the first time.

And perhaps his greatest achievement — Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona.

Besides Nationals in Oklahoma City, Kerce sees her commitment to Cornell University as her greatest achievement in her career thus far.

This, in my view, is a great achievement of the community controlled health sector: at a national level they changed the way the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is seen, and how it is to be addressed.

The National Association of REALTORS ® awarded the 2017 Platinum Global Achievement Program Award to the Greater Las Vegas Association of REALTORS ®'s Global Business Committee at the Annual Conference & Expo in Chicago, IL.