Sentences with phrase «in education these days»

I've written this book specifically for parents to offer some information that I hope they find helpful on what's going on in education these days, on the kind of education our children really need to make the best of their talents and to offer practical advice and strategies to get that kind of education for -LSB-...]

The source of Mr. Thomas's special interest in education these days lies in an issue whose impact stretches from his own House district to the overall state budget: whether Georgia should continue to encourage districts to consolidate schools by paying them to close small facilities and to build larger ones instead.

Maker Spaces, Fabrication Labs... it's been going on for some time now, but it's all the buzz in education these days.

There's no shortage of bad news in education these days, nor any dearth of stasis, but at least education reform is a lively, forward - looking enterprise that gets positive juices flowing in many people and that is leading to promising changes across many parts of the K — 12 system.

«And dealing with one of the most significant problems that we have in education these days, which is people dropping out without a high school education and having no place to go in our economy.»

It truly speaks volumes of the good that happens in education every day and for such young people to give so much of their time inspires the best of all of us.

Tokenism happens in school policy and through activities in education every day.

Seven - year grants are rare in education these days.

Ongoing debates: The state board will also take up ongoing code proposals on teacher evaluation and charter schools, two of the hottest topics in education these days.

Is it just a «trendy» term in education these days with little substance backing it up in the classroom, or are we really heading somewhere with this?

Larry: The accountability systems are really off in education these days.

About Blog As Vice President of Worldwide Education for Microsoft, Anthony Salcito meets inspiring people in education every day.

Not exact matches

«When it comes to education, that's something my mom instilled in me from day one,» he said.

As part of its 7 Days of Genius Festival, a weeklong series of panel discussions and talks kicking off March 1, New York City's 92nd Street Y is launching its first Genius Startup Competition, a contest that's intended to unearth big ideas that can have a major impact in fields such as education, energy, sustainability, and other industries that are poised to address the world's most pressing problems.

«He always encouraged my sister and me to get an education but said that at end of the day, it would be great to be in a position to run our own business.

Over the course of his 100 days in office, President Donald Trump has been startlingly candid about his public education in the ways of Washington and the world.

King says it should begin in the earliest days of childhood education and development.

It was around that time that Shahid watched a New York Times documentary about Malala, a then 11 - year - old girl who had been secretly blogging for the BBC about her day - to - day struggle to get an education in Pakistan.

Roads leading to the 20 - year - old education activist's home in Mingora were blocked off earlier in the day.

In the early days of TCL, many of its employees were rural workers with little education.

At the end of day, idea - founder fit matters more than an name brand education, PitchBook senior analyst Garrett Black explained in an email.

«We respectfully ask all parents to acknowledge that students need to be in class every day to benefit from the education they are guaranteed and to avoid falling behind in school and life,» Albuquerque Public Schools principals wrote in a letter to parents, USA Today reports.

For example, when Chris Basile of SubSonic Recording Academy in New York came up with a new way to stream educational audio and video education tutorials from his newly deployed media - rich website, traffic increased by 400 percent within 60 days.

«It is unacceptable in this day and age to have any all - male boards,» Nicky Morgan, education secretary and minister for women and equalities, said at the launch of the review.

Most recently, the advocacy group held a Blockchain Education Day event in Washington, DC, in which members of Congress mingled with representatives from more than 70 leading companies in the blockchain industry to promote the use of new innovations like blockchain and distributed ledger technology.

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His remarks in testimony before the Senate came just days after the Department of Education announced it was seeking public comment on modifying the «undue hardship» standard.

Ontario, Canada has invested heavily in providing early childhood education on a province wide basis by establishing full day kindergarten for four and five year old children.

Marinho, a burly, voluble 50 - year - old who has been designated my tour guide for the day, is giving me an education in what it takes to extract crude from deepwater fields.

2017.08.16 Having financial «skin in the game» gives post-secondary students a confidence boost but lessons continue beyond graduation day: RBC Poll When it comes to post-secondary education, there are valuable life lessons - and financial lessons - to be learned outside the lecture hall.

This new initiative was announced by Ms Low Yen Ling, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ministry of Education, at the 2018 World Intellectual Property Day Event held in April which saw more than 200 participants from the creative and innovation community gather to celebrate World IP Day alongside 191 member states across the world.

Hockley co-founded and works as managing director of Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization based in Newtown that works toward preventing gun violence through education in, as Hockley says, «those days, weeks, months, years before someone decides to pick up a firearm and hurt someone else or themselves.»

He does so in front of school kids and that's a clue: Primary education is a provincial responsibility, but it was symbolic of where much federal attention is focused these days, on funding matters in, or of relevance to the provinces.

This could include, for example, new investments in early childhood education and day care facilities.

We are partners of Oracle, providing Blockchain education modules to their 75,000 staff in the USA and EMEA using Webex technology to provide real time, live online half day sessions.

The top 10 applicants go through a full day of mentor - led programming and education modules to refine and develop their products and business, culminating in pitches to judges to decide the Top 5 for the Main Event.

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In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

Finra's study also found that personal finance education lowers the probability of falling 90 or more days behind on future credit accounts, especially for students who took required classes in economics or personal finance after the first - year mandates were adopted.

Last month, the company hosted another full day, live - streamed event during the Fourth of July holiday in the U.S., which mixed product placement and cultural education as a way to engage Chinese consumers.

Another China - based tutoring firm, TAL Education, gained 50 % in its first day of trading on the NYSE two weeks earlier.

With more than 75 + sessions from the industry's top experts, access to 100 + exhibitors in our expo hall, and abundant networking activities, you'll experience 5 days of unparalleled education.

The answer is that the Christian right in our country is constantly trying to force their religious beliefs into the public sphere (science education, school prayer at public schools, Decalogue displays at court houses, nativity scenes on city hall property, crosses in all kinds of public places, national days of prayer, etc.)-- if these things stopped, the outcry from us non-believers would be greatly diminished.

In contrast, they get maybe a few days of education about evolution (assuming they weren't home schooled or sent to a religious school).

When the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints builds a Seminary building for education of Mormons in grades 9 - 12, it builds on its own land, NOT on land belonging to the school district.

Since then, and especially in the 20th century, the scope of governmental activity has broadened to encompass areas, like education and social welfare; which in Jefferson's day were private and mostly religious.

Theodore Forstmann is right that additional school days, longer school hours, smaller classes, and higher teacher salaries are not answers to the crisis in education.

While it is true that none of the Apostles needed a formal education for their position, we can not say they were not educated by Jesus and others; even Paul not only was educated in the worldly and in religious sense, but he taught «school» every day for two years in Ephesus after being rejected by the synagogue.

The case is similar, as probably no one will really deny, in the domains of social policy, culture and education, in the attitude of Christians to thermo - nuclear and other modern weapons and in innumerable similar questions of public life at the present day.