Sentences with phrase «important national development»

The second important national development is the creation of common core standards in mathematics and literacy.

As I reflect on important national developments in education over the course of this current school year I have conflicting pictures in my mind.

NHSA»; s Fall Leadership institute is an opportunity for Head Start and Early Head Start leaders to gather and discuss Early Childhood Education against the backdrop of important national developments.

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With key economic decisions around international trade, transportation, infrastructure and natural resource development on the horizon, it will be important for the new government to recognize the critical role that Western Canada and B.C. play in our national economy.

This important activity provided a necessary ingredient for the development of national democratic life» that process of grassroots self - organization that turns a «mass» or a «mob» into a people.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

I p. 70) Apparently, latter day admirers of Adam Smith who put forward the argument that what is important in the development process is that national income must grow, irrespective of what happens to the conditions of the majority of the people are unaware of the position that Smith took on this crucial issue.

«It's very important that I continue to work hard at both club and national level for my development.»

What may be even more important to acknowledge is that only six percent of those ruptures that do occur result in the mother's death, according to the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Program.

In an accompanying editorial, William Oh of Brown University and Tonse N. K. Raju of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said that the findings»... have important implications for obstetric and neonatal care and research.

The site for The National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) has a Safe Sleep Top Ten List of how and why this is so important.

Earlier, Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the PDP, Senator Ahmed Makarfi said «what the country needs at this time is an atmosphere of peace and tranquility, without which no meaningful positive development in whatever sector can be attained, and the situation unfolding in the South - East, which is a very important component of the Nigerian family, is no doubt, inimical to our collective quest to take Nigeria higher.

«Today's event marks another important chapter in the national quest for accurate and reliable demographic date for evidence based planning for sustainable development.

Citing this as an important reason for government to embark on the repair of several federal roads in the region and across the country, the Vice President expressed government readiness to intervene in addressing this national challenge for traders and commuters in the interest of the nation's economic development.

Week of January 8th Recognizes Importance of Dietary Folic Acid Vitamin B Critical in Reducing Neural Tube Defects in Fetal Development Everyone needs folic Acid, an essential B - vitamin, in order to maintain good health, but it's particularly important to woman during their childbearing years, according to Dr. Gayle D. Jones, Director of the Oneida County Health Department in recognizing January 8th - 14th as National Folic Acid Awareness Week.

President Mahama who disclosed these in a speech read for him by a Member of the Council of State, Mr Adenze Kanga, at the 31st edition of National Farmers Day held in Bolgatanga on Friday, said government recognises the important role the agriculture sector plays in the socio - economic development of the country.

Of broader significance, Gary Graves of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History observed: «The avian microbiome is terra incognita but it is not unreasonable to suppose that the relationship between birds and their microbes has been as important in avian evolution as the development of powered flight and song.»

On the other hand, in magnetic field confinement fusion plasma intended for a fusion reactor, which research is being conducted at the National Institute for Fusion Science, development of high precision electron density measurements is becoming an important research topic.

Some of these exciting results are published today in the journal Biochemical Society Transactions along with a series of other scientific developments related to algal communities in the Broads National Park; one of the UK's most popular and environmentally important network of waterways.

Their research, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), shows that perturbations of this machinery might be important for type 2 diabetes development.

«It's a very important development and shows where we are likely to be going as a field,» says Ad Bax, an NMR expert at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland.

Professor James Tam, dean, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, and Professor Lee Eng Hin, dean of the faculty of medicine, National University of Singapore, announced some very good news in human capability development — that is, education and training — which remains an important area of focus for the nation's new initiatives.

A darting mouse may hold an important clue in the development of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), autism and bipolar disorder, according to a study by a Vanderbilt University - led research team published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), working closely with researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have mapped out the structure of an important protein involved in cellular function and nervous system development.

A darting mouse may hold an important clue in the development of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), autism and bipolar disorder, according to a study by a Vanderbilt University - led research team recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

An important part of the work to decode the structure of the BanLec molecules was done by Jeanne Stuckey, Ph.D. and Jennifer Meagher, Ph.D. of the Center for Structural Biology at the U-M Life Sciences Institute, using the Advanced Photon Source synchrotron at Argonne National Laboratory and funding in part from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.

«This progressive colonization is thought to be important for development of immune system tolerance... lack of such tolerance possibly leads to food allergies and chronic inflammation,» the researchers write in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

From our roots under the scientific leadership of renowned neurologist Dr. Henry Barnett - whose work with Aspirin as a preventive therapy for heart attack and stroke remains one of the most important developments in 20th century medicine - the Institute has applied that formula to become a national leader in biological, clinical and imaging research.

Through ACURA universities with support from the Federal Granting Councils, the National Research Council of Canada, and provincial funding, the Canadian astronomical community has contributed important work to TMT over the last decade in two key development areas.

«This is an important advance in explaining how sperm become hypermotile in the female reproductive tract,» said Stuart Moss, Ph.D, director of the male reproductive health program at NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which funded the study.

Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.

If a country finds a way to meet the basic needs of women by taking loans that the whole society must pay, but the national constitution, and the various policies and services do not show the timely commitment for equity and equality, the chance to eradicate poverty and hunger will only be about the alleviation of these two major indicators of real development and sustainability It is then urgent and important not to fall in such a trap, which only comes to add to the financial and economic indebtedness of the society, and nations, to say the least, and to maintain the system of inequality and impoverishment as it basically exist..

This is a fascinating report from the National Center for Education Statistics that, says NCES, summarizes «important developments and trends in education using the latest available data.

Since 1984, the National PTA and the National Education Association have designated a week in May as a special time to honor and celebrate teachers for the important role they play in the growth and development of our children.

The National Association of State Boards of Education, the Hunt Institute and the National Council of State Legislatures held a webinar titled, «Ensuring Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement under ESSA,» where state regulators could listen in to a panel discussion on best practices for engaging important stakeholders throughout the development of state accountability plans.

The National Center for Education Statistics released The Condition of Education 2017 on May 25, a congressionally mandated report that summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data.

The best examples of charter schools that make the development of character and self - discipline an important part of students» education are systems such as the Knowledge Is Power Program (or KIPP), a national network of 99 schools, and Green Dot Public Schools, an organization that runs 19 inner - city high schools in Los Angeles and New York.

That's why it's important for community college leaders to work with high school faculty — and to do it on their turf, says Mary Aycock, academy development manager of the central region for the National Academy Foundation (NAF) and former director of Early College Health Science Academy at the Butler Community College (BCC) in Rose Hill, Kan..

In another important development in 2010, the National Education Association Foundation provided grants to create a program called Springfield Collaboration for Change, whose mission was to increase parental and community engagement in the school system.

This report, prepared by the Center for Great Teachers and Leaders at the American Institute for Research explores the perspectives of National Board Certified Teachers, asking them what experiences and supports were most important to their development over the course of their careers.

«CTE plays a powerful role in preparing students for postsecondary education and the workplace, and it is important that educators leading these programs have an opportunity to inform national conversations on the professional development and career supports that teachers need to meet new student learning and industry needs,» said Susanne Silk, National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT), National Board board member and Business Professionals of America advisor in Sanational conversations on the professional development and career supports that teachers need to meet new student learning and industry needs,» said Susanne Silk, National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT), National Board board member and Business Professionals of America advisor in SaNational Board Certified Teacher (NBCT), National Board board member and Business Professionals of America advisor in SaNational Board board member and Business Professionals of America advisor in Sayre, OK.

It noted important consequences of alliance development not just for air travel consumers, but for local and national economies as well, due to greatly increased air travel.

Recent recommendations by the National Research Council also suggest that alpha - linolenic [Omega - 3] acids be included in the diet, especially for reproducing dogs and puppies, because they're important for brain and retinal development,» says Dr. Perea.

As development expands throughout California and other areas of the country, urban national parks and their natural resources become increasingly important.

«This strategic development agreement is important not only for building the investment profile of our company, but also for Greek national tourism, as it will serve as a benchmark for development prospects within the country by boosting the domestic economy and labour market.»

Chester Dale (1883 — 1962) of New York, a passionate collector of French and American art, supported the fledgling National Gallery of Art by lending seven American paintings for its opening in 1941 and 25 important French paintings later that year, selected to show the development of French art from the late 18th to the beginning of the 20th century.

By saving the places where great moments from history - and the important moments of everyday life - took place, the National Trust for Historic Preservation helps revitalize neighborhoods and communities, spark economic development, and promote environmental sustainability.

The site, which cooperates with Ubsunurskaya Kotlovina Biosphere Reserve and the Khakassky national reserve, is important for tourism, including the development of green tourism.

The development of urban agriculture and urban food provisioning systems is increasingly considered an important part of sustainable and resilient urban development by local and national governments around the world.

A shift to plug - in cars could also help the development of renewable power, all the more important since a proliferation of electric cars would alter the national pattern of carbon emissions — the utility sector would take on the emissions that once belonged oil - based transport.