Sentences with phrase «great national challenge»

Rather than the top - down approach of the previous government, with government spending limits set by the Treasury, Osborne told MPs the coalition would bring together all parts of society for what he called the «greatest national challenge of our generation».

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Henceforth, «great - power competition,» not terrorism, must be the primary focus of U.S. national security, the report declares: «The central challenge to U.S. prosperity and security is the reemergence of long - term strategic competition,» primarily from China and Russia.

Mr Taylor says the «Great Firewall of China» presents a huge challenge for those marketing property to nationals.

Give that Fair Food Week is deliberately centred around World Food Day, it is a great response to the local, national and global challenges to food sovereignty.

The first time competitions will add new heat to old flames including the much loved Official Great Aussie Pie Competition and for its second year, the Sausage Roll Competition, plus the National Pizza Championship, Culinary Challenge, and the ever exciting Bake Skills.

The Balance Calories Initiative National Report on 2015 Progress will be complemented in the coming months with a report on the Balance Calories Communities Initiative, which aims to achieve a 20 percent per person reduction in beverage calories in eight to 10 select communities where the challenge to meet the goal is believed to be greatest.

Professor Schmidt, who works at Mount Stromlo Observatory and is a fellow at the Australian National University, likes the challenge of trying to grow a great pinot noir near Canberra...

The areas surrounding Shasta Lake and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area also offer abundant unpaved trails that are popular with single - track bicyclists, and the nearby mountains present endless opportunities for great trail experiences and challenges.

At the age of 22, Courtois has a great future and finished an excellent 2014 with a title with Atlético de Madrid, a new challenge with FC Chelsea and a good performance with his national team.

No. 6 Terps Slight Favorites Against Unranked Connecticut No. 6 Maryland (7 - 1) will face another great challenge on a national stage for the second week in a row.

, Molinaro said Nixon's entry into the race for governor is «great news for our campaign,» because Cuomo «will be forced to take on a high profile challenge from a celebrity - activist who is guaranteed the spotlight from the state and national media.»

Enhancing national production would of course also depend on improvements to the business environment as well in efficiency, both of which remain great challenges for businesses seeking to operate in Angola.

«That's great news for our campaign, as Andrew Cuomo will be forced to take on a high - profile challenge from a celebrity - activist who is guaranteed the spotlight from the state and national media,» Molinaro said in an email to supporters.

Zanetor Rawlings, National Democratic Congress» (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate for the Klottey Korle Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, has through her lawyers asked an Accra High Court to throw out a case brought against her by incumbent MP, Nii Armah Ashietey, seeking to challenge her candidature.

These factors explain why Labour faces greater challenges in translating lower levels of national support into seat numbers than it did back in 1987 when the party won 12 seats with just over six percent of the national vote.

Lt. General Buratai explained that the security challenges witnessed in the country in the area of Boko Haram insurgency has posed a serious threat to national security, adding that «this has placed great demands on the Nigerian Army which has not relented in living up to the expectations of the nation's citizenry.»

While lauding the resilience of Nigerians in the face of national challenges and their avowed love for the unity and greater progress for the country, he noted that every Nigerian deserve a better deal.

«We have overcome many of the challenges — the worst national economic crisis since the Great Depression hit us, we have overcome many of the financial crises that the state has hit us with; in many ways Ulster County has become a model county from a fiscal perspective and from so many more,» Hein said.

D.M.: Basic research level academics are facing great challenges, much of it related to funding, but also the national commitment to basic research and the competitiveness of U.S. research globally.

«The two greatest challenges remaining in HIV / AIDS research are finding a cure and developing a safe and effective preventive vaccine,» said Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is leading the vaccine trial.

He was the first president since John F. Kennedy to do that, and if you read that speech, which is still on the web I believe — both at the Academy web site and my friend Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences, is in the front row — and it's also on the White House web site — what you will find is although the president was clear about the practical applications of science and technology to our great challenges as I've mentioned, he probably spent two thirds of that talk talking about the importance of basic science; the importance of fundamental research in science and technology to our national well - being; and the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics edNational Academy of Sciences, is in the front row — and it's also on the White House web site — what you will find is although the president was clear about the practical applications of science and technology to our great challenges as I've mentioned, he probably spent two thirds of that talk talking about the importance of basic science; the importance of fundamental research in science and technology to our national well - being; and the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ednational well - being; and the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

NPR spends time with Great Smoky Mountains National Park workers to explore the work the park service does and the challenges it faces.

The Great Debaters (PG - 13 for profanity, mature themes, brief sexuality, and the depiction of violence and disturbing images) Denzel Washington directs and stars opposite Forest Whitaker and Kimberly Elise in this fact - based drama, set in 1935, about a professor at a small black college who inspired students to form the school's first debate team and to challenge Harvard for the national championship.

The scheme was developed by the Rochester Bridge Trust in partnership with Rotary Great Britain and Ireland, and is based on success of the Rotary's existing Senior Technology Tournaments, where secondary school students take part in innovative engineering challenges as part of a national competition.

Schools are divided into six categories: (i) «gaining ground schools» which have met standards but have only minimal gain scores; (ii) volatile schools, whose performance varies significantly from year to year and criteria to criteria; (iii) «national challenge schools», who meet neither the norm standards nor the gain score standards; (iv) «good to great schools» which do not meet norm criteria but have high gain scores and (v) great schools which have high norm results and high gain scores.

Securing greater investment in West Sussex and promoting a beautiful area of the country with the South Downs National Park being prominent in it will all mean that the challenge will continue.

Facing this challenge requires providing the current workforce with high - quality professional learning opportunities, something we talk about a great deal at the national level.

We therefore warmly welcome the National Teaching Service and hope it will have a clear focus on attracting and developing talented teachers and leaders in areas where there are the greatest challenges, enabling young people from low - income backgrounds to realise their full potential.

Shell today called for schools across Great Britain to enter The Bright Ideas Challenge, its national schools» science competition, now in its third year.

Scott Hannah National Spokesperson at The Great American NO BULL Challenge e-mail: [email protected] web: www.nobullchallenge.org.

A new report by the National Council on Teacher Quality claims that classroom management continues to be one of the greatest challenges new teachers face.

In urban districts, where many are assigned to teach children with some of the greatest challenges, the national burnout rate is astonishing.

Yasmin Fodil is the national director of community at 100Kin10, a national network committed to solving one of our country's most pressing challenges — giving kids a great STEM education — by adding 100,000 more, excellent STEM teachers to America's classrooms by 2021.

«The National Literacy Programme will introduce greater consistency and clarity into the way we track pupils» progress while also providing the support, challenge and accountability needed in our schools.»

Being a NET academy principal, teacher or governor, is an opportunity to link to the National Education Trust's already well established wider mission — to disseminate excellent practice; to nurture innovation; to be involved in challenging thinking that inspires educationists and students to achieve great things.

«Despite promising gains in some districts, clearly the ongoing challenge in urban education is great,» David P. Driscoll, chairman of the National Assessment Governing Board, which sets policy for the test, said in a news release.

About The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 as a bipartisan effort to engage education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 as a bipartisan effort to engage education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 as a bipartisan effort to engage education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for success.

If students are unaware of and not challenged by the complexity of the local, it is a difficult task to understand the greater regional, national, and global issues.

School climate is also commanding greater national attention under the Every Student Succeeds Act as groups work to include school discipline practices and other measures that can help make new ESSA accountability systems more accurate, robust and reflective of the daily challenges and opportunities in education.

Engaged students more often show behavioral traits such as persistence, effort, sustained attention to tasks and a greater propensity to take on challenges and achieve mastery (National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, 2004).

The first year of teaching is often a blur of lessons learned in the hot seat while students fail to learn all that they could.13 Nearly 1 in 7 new teachers leave the classroom before completing their third year, with most citing classroom management, the burden of curriculum freedom, and unsupportive school environments as their greatest challenges.14 According to the National Center for Education Statistics, teachers with three or fewer years of teaching experience are less likely than more experienced teachers to report being very well - prepared to maintain order and discipline in the classroom.15 Additionally, new teachers were less likely than more experienced teachers to report being well - prepared to implement state or district curricula.16 Residency and induction programs can provide essential practical training in classroom management, assessment and data literacy, and differentiation or special education techniques.17

National Commission on Teaching & America's Future: NCTAF is a bipartisan organization that engages education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for National Commission on Teaching & America's Future: NCTAF is a bipartisan organization that engages education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for success.

The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 as a bipartisan effort to engage education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 as a bipartisan effort to engage education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for success.

«This award shines the spotlight on the charter school movement's next great challenge, which is to achieve quality with scale,» said Nina Rees, CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

Between 2007 - 2011, Mel led the Greater Manchester Challenge — a project that involved a partnership between national government, ten local authorities, and 1,150 schools — with a government investment of around # 50 million.

The results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress» High School Transcript Study show that the trends are moving in the right direction: In 2009, a greater percentage of high school graduates completed a curriculum that was more challenging than it was in 1990 or 2005.

Given the challenges facing public education and efforts to restrict — or in some cases, even eliminate — the governance role of school boards, the need for a strong and effective National School Boards Association never has been greater.

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