Sentences with phrase «in education pointed»

Bush's team at the Foundation for Excellence in Education pointed us to a compilation of 30 policy briefs and academic studies put together by EdChoice, a school choice advocacy group.

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Chris pointed out that this model should be used by every school in their approach to education.

So, in addition to a summary of the position, detailed bullet points describing the job's main tasks and the minimum education and experience requirements, great listings incorporate behavioral characteristics.

«I think higher education will be in trouble,» Elmore told Business Insider, pointing to the rise of online learning and mounting college debt.

Whether you decide to carry on or move on, inventor education is the key to making sure you're pointed in the right direction.

Interestingly, Wadhwa twice mentions the importance of ethics in business, and rightly points to ethics as being of central importance in an MBA education.

This, paired with his West Point education and six years in the U.S. Army, helped him develop leadership skills that took him to the top.

How to qualify: Post-secondary education in mathematics, computer science or both is the starting point.

Applicants can point to several kinds of experiences to demonstrate the above, including denial of equal access to institutions of higher education; exclusion from social and professional associations; denial of educational honors; social pressures that discouraged the individual from pursuing education; and discrimination in efforts to secure employment or secure professional advancement.

Instead, the bill would create a point - based system like those used in countries such as the U.K. and Australia that use factors such as English ability, education and job offers to rank applicants.

«There's lots of positive momentum,» he says, pointing as well to the recent $ 80 - million venture capital investment by OMERS Ventures and the American venture fund New Enterprise Associates in Desire2Learn, a global provider of online education platforms, based in Kitchener, Ont.

Isn't «someone else's point of view» the essence of affirmative action in education?

Here is where Nelson, of St. John's, has a point (though he didn't actually make it): Economics is tough to apply to education because it uses an economic model not found anywhere else in the wild.

In particular, Austin points to three key problem areas: access to capital, formal education, and personal relationships within the business community.

Following his education in industrial design at the Central St. Martin's art school in London, Dyson worked for a while as an interior designer, though he admits to not have been too taken in by the way the discipline was perceived at that point in time, which was the early 90s.

While on the campaign trail in 2015 at the age of 44, the presidential candidate spoke at Liberty University and alluded to his experience of having to finance his education: I, Cruz said, «took over $ 100,000 in school loans, loans I suspect a lot of y» all can relate to, loans that I'll point out I just paid off a few years ago.»

However, there is increasing evidence that the STEM shortage is a myth and, as Fareed Zakaria points out in his book, In Defense of a Liberal Education, what we most need to improve is communication skillin his book, In Defense of a Liberal Education, what we most need to improve is communication skillIn Defense of a Liberal Education, what we most need to improve is communication skills.

They're slowly getting to a point where they're no longer intimidated by sommeliers, they're reading stuff on the Web and even enrolling in wine - education courses.

Education helps people to change at different points in their business and personal lives.

That latter approach makes much more sense if the point is to make higher education more affordable for middle class families who can't afford to sock away large sums in 529 investment accounts.

An article in yesterday's Village Voice looks at the rising costs of post-secondary education (PSE)  in the United States. It points to research suggesting that the «biggest single factor» contributing to the rising cost of PSE for both private and public institutions is the cost of employee health benefits.

They quickly pointed out the faults in Clark's boasts about her gender equitable government, which cut essential services women need: child care, family and poverty legal services, education, healthcare, the list goes on.

Saunders and BC Fed president Jim Sinclair both pointed to the need for more worker education as one component of organizing drives in hard times.

Scott's office also pointed to a memo sent by Education Commissioner Pam Stewart to Runcie last month detailing how students who do not wish to take the test this spring can take them later in the fall or next spring, or they can take alternative assessments to satisfy graduation requirements.

«If mom was a lawyer and dropped out of the labour force for four or five years, the family gave up the opportunity cost of maybe $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 a year in order to bring that child to a point where he could enter the education system,» says Ward.

«After this strong rebuke from the Supreme Court of Canada, there is no question that Christy Clark deliberately attacked and undermined public education in British Columbia — even to the point of breaking the law.

To determine the rate for undergraduate loans the Department of Education tacks 2.05 percentage points onto the rate for 10 - year Treasury notes auctioned in May.

What these groups have in common is that they are all broadly making the point that the political system and those in power are failing them — be it in the ability to offer basic education, affordable health care, or keeping kids safe in classrooms.

David Eby, the New Democrat critic for advanced education and the MLA for Vancouver - Point Grey issued the following statement in response to sexual violence on UBC campus: «At a time when women's safe access to campus is under threat, everyone,...

«What I'm advocating for is a complete realignment of your B2B demand generation processes around the buyer — literally making every point of communication and contact focused on and driven by the needs and behaviors of the buyer in his / her buyer - education process.»

It takes a lot of education and effort to make people understand how Bitcoin and Blockchain works so we are really glad to have been able to reach this point in only a couple of years.

The need for deeper advisor awareness and understanding of the broader role Social Security claiming strategies can play in creating a secure retirement was becoming abundantly clear and it was at that point I realized a firm dedicated solely to the education of financial professionals made sense.»

Case in point: according to a 2016 study by the Finra Investor Education Foundation, only 2 in 5 Americans is able to spend LESS than they earn.

«Even though the consumption tax is scheduled to be raised by 2 percentage points, a number of measures to mitigate the burden, such as a reduced tax rate and an increase in welfare benefits for pensioners, and the provision of free education are planned to be implanted,» the report said.

Official wage data also show ongoing strength in public - sector wage growth and a significant rise in wage growth in education: the WPI measure of public - sector wage growth increased by 4.2 per cent over the year to December, almost 1 percentage point higher than the equivalent private - sector wage series.

And in 2015, Duncan, Obama's secretary of education, pointed to his old friend's district as a national role model and invited Runcie to speak at a White House panel called «Rethink School Discipline.»

I think he is intent on firing up the people who are already atheists or afraid to admit it by pointing out all the stupid we are forced to deal with in education, politics and daily life.

As they point out, increases in general education and economic development are strongly correlated to family planning, not the availability of contraceptive technology.

To easy Timmy, the 700 Club crew part of our side will just point to the decline of God in the classroom and say that the decline in our education system paralleled such.

And just let me point out that if religious groups hadn't cut education funding in the first place, the schools wouldn't need any money at all.

The point at which this corruption is most likely to appear, and where it is most dangerous when it does appear, is in education.

Theodoret makes a similar point in his story of Maesymas, a Syriac - speaking peasant with no education.

Of course, if Israel were the only country in the world where we send either 1) direct aid and / or 2) provide a military presence and which had free universal health care and / or free or low cost secondary education, you might actually be making a point about there being something unique in the US / Israeli relationship, as opposed to, the $ 100s of billions we're sending around the world to hundreds of other countries which provide the same benefits.

I am a highly - paid professional and in order to get to this point in my career, I had to finance my own education and work long, hard hours.

And the consequence of these answers is real, too: «If we cannotanswer a confident «Yes» to the last three of these questions, the point of keeping our schools is lost and the project of education in our diocese has failed».

One of the other areas of activity of MST is also peasant - farmer education, i.e. literacy and schooling, since I should point out that the level of illiteracy in the Brazilian countryside stands at 40 - 50 %.

Parental choice in education is indeed important, but not to the point of ignoring common standards all should follow.

Not by chance, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, General Secretary of the Synod of Bishops, underscored in an interview with the Italian weekly magazine La Settimana that the strong points of the last Synod of Bishops were the doctrinal framework, the Gospel of the Family, and the push for young people to receive an education about love.

Werner Jaeger, who has written the classic history of the idea of paideia, [2] pointed out in a later book on Early Christianity and Greek Paideia that Clement not only uses literary forms and types of argument calculated to sway people formed by paideia but, beyond that, he explicitly praises paideia in such a way as to make it clear that his entire epistle is to be taken «as an act of Christian education.»

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.