Sentences with phrase «in educational spending»

Fortunately, the 2012 PISA results show a decade - long positive global trend in educational spending.

It may well be the case that these costs are justified by the achievement gains of having students spend more time in the school, but in the current fiscal environment substantial increases in educational spending are unlikely to be forthcoming.

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Still, Heinze says she was a bit anxious about putting in an offer and closing on the property because other than her educational costs, this was the most she's ever spent.

During my teenage years, the educational institution I inhabited compelled students to spend half an hour each day in silent holiness.

When the state cut back educational and health spending in order to minimize taxes, ostensibly to attract business, global companies pulled out on...

After leaving the workforce to focus on her family, Gail spent many years working with s local, not - for - profit organizations in the medical and educational fields.

David Swensen in pioneering portfolio management writes with practical experience (at Yale) on managing withdrawals for a charitable educational endowment, a typical target spending rate is 4.5 % pa.

Nor is the problem that he went so far as to argue that the Court should «ignore» both the fact that the voucher program was initiated in response to a severe educational crisis in the Cleveland public schools and the fact that parental decisions about how to spend their vouchers were voluntary.

It is instructive to note that in the last eight years New York State has increased educational spending by 102 percent in real terms, i.e., after accounting for inflation.

While the relationship between spending and educational achievement is wrapped in a fog of uncertainty, there is no reason to assume that educational cuts will adversely affect academic achievement.

It is virtually axiomatic in higher education circles that the more money spent on the educational enterprise the better the results.

Given the sad state of our highways, public transportation systems and other material infrastructure, as well as the severe needs of our educational system, increased government spending in these areas could take up the slack in declining defense expenditures while contributing enormously to the potential productivity of the United States.

Spend some time on the Pew Center for Religion in Public Life website (religions (dot) pewforum (dot) org for a very detailed look at the relationships between religion and many factors in American life, including educational attainment and degree of religiosity.

After several years spent earning a degree in such contexts one understandably comes to yearn for an educational experience in a more intimate community, not just advanced seminar by advanced seminar, but as a total academic environment.

Berger, who spent 25 years working as a public school teacher and educational consultant in rural Massachusetts before joining Expeditionary Learning, clearly feels a special connection with those EL schools, like Polaris, that enroll high numbers of students growing up in adversity.

I'm a doctoral candidate in educational policy — but consider myself an educational sociologist — and spend my days thinking about how personal lives, opportunities, and choices are often constrained by inequalities and cultural forces.

There I spent a number of years working in Exhibit Design developing interactive educational activities for permanent and traveling exhibitions before I moved on to Imagine Childhood.

Spend two days and one evening with other expectant parents in a fun and educational prenatal workshop.

«In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother's first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.&raquIn this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother's first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.&raquin the fresh air.»

Pediatric occupational therapist and toy expert Keri Wilmot has spent the last 17 years finding developmental toys that promote educational skills in an organic way.

An «agglomeration of foodies and educational reformers who are propelled by a vacuous if well - meaning ideology» — in other words, by unexamined assumptions that spending time in school gardens will give children a better chance at getting an education and a high - school diploma.

We should be shouting and screaming for some of the money that goes into advertising formula (in the UK, formula companies spend about # 20 per baby on «educational material», while the NHS spends roughly 14p per baby on «marketing» breastfeeding) to go into supporting breastfeeding for those who want to, and so that those who wish they could have, or could have for longer can be supported next time too.

In the UK, formula companies spend about # 20 per baby on «educational material», while the NHS spends roughly 14p per baby on «marketing» breastfeeding.

Two billion won't go very far in an educational system that currently spends more than 40 times that amount a year.

Originally from the US, Hamilton spent years in Britain as a Shakespearian academic, completing his PhD and setting up various conferences, as well as giving lectures and working on educational podcasts.

It is a much deserved recognition of its immense contribution to the fight for free and fair trade unions and to securing quality education for children and young people in Bahrain «This award will help to maintain the pressure on the Bahraini authorities to end their completely unjustified detention of Mahdi, who has spent the last four years in prison on false charges for simply exercising his right to freedom of assembly and demanding reforms to Bahrain's educational system.»

Under it, he said, educational officials trying to evaluate standards at yeshivas would be asked to consider the number of hours spent studying all topics, including religious studies, in determining whether such an education was «substantially equivalent» to secular public schools.

The budget requires districts located in cities with populations of more than one million to submit a detailed, school - by - school accounting of how they spent state educational funds.

As the Syracuse City School District goes into its budget process, it's looking at a $ 24 million spending gap, a revenue problem stemming from years of stagnant state aid in the face of rising educational costs.

De Blasio spent nearly the entire debate touting his record, including universal pre-kindergarten, the creation of affordable housing, reduction in crime, reforms to policing, improvements in educational achievement, and a stronger economy.

«Fishing in a local lake is also an educational opportunity to passing on the fishing skills to their children or grandchildren while spending precious time together.

Because children spend much of their time in school, educational institutions can have a significant impact on diet through the foods and drinks they make available to students.

More than 40 per cent of workers in the US use a computer in their work, but they have to learn their computing skills outside formal education — only 0.2 per cent of public educational resources is spent on computers.

Research conducted in Nantucket, Massachusetts suggests that educational interventions can lower the incidence of Lyme disease between 20 % and 60 % depending on the length of time people spend outdoors in areas where ticks are active.

In addition to her time spent at SEA, Caroline is the lead educational coordinator for the Pinniped Cognition and Sensory Systems Lab at the Long Marine Lab in Santa Cruz, CaliforniIn addition to her time spent at SEA, Caroline is the lead educational coordinator for the Pinniped Cognition and Sensory Systems Lab at the Long Marine Lab in Santa Cruz, Californiin Santa Cruz, California.

OR You could spend between $ 10,000 and $ 12,000 to attend IIN and endure 2 years of educational courses without making a single dime in the profession for 24 months.

Research shows the younger a child begins spending time in front of the screen, the lower they score on language tests, despite being taught language on educational videos or television.

Over the last month and a bit, I have done a ridiculous amount of flying (for educational courses, home visits and fun), spending about 45 hrs in the air (between Calgary, Vancouver, Seattle, Los Angeles, Brisbane, Sydney, Dallas and Austin) and a whole bunch more time in and around airports, taxis, buses and trains.

Troy is currently living in Florida and spends his time writing, working as a fitness model, shooting educational fitness videos, and doing online coaching at MuscleTactics.com.

A day spent touring several wineries large and small in Sonoma and Napa was enjoyable and educational.

They said: «sorting along educational attainment might not reflect a preference for a partner of a certain education level, but rather the fact that many people spend much of their time in the company of others with a similar level of education in school, college, or at work.»

The answer is quite simple, people of the same origin, family / educational background, religion or political points of view can meet in one place and spend a time in the most comfortable for them environment.

In addition, New Hampshire's scholarship tax - credit law includes an ESA - style provision that allows homeschoolers to spend scholarship funds on a variety of educational products and services similar to those permitted by the Arizona and Florida ESA laws.

By clearing technical details off the deck, we spent more time engaged in nobler discussions about educational philosophy, social - emotional learning, and long - term goals.

The educational experience at Ben Shemen was grounded in the soil; students had to spend two hours each day working on the collective farm.

With schools spending an estimated # 900m on education technology every year, [1] and computer programming featured in the National Curriculum, technology is now a fully fledged part of a child's educational experience.

However, the underlying reasons for conversion are the same: more opportunity to realise better educational outcomes, independence from a local authority, greater flexibility in the organisation of the school and how it chooses to spend its funding.

Our key finding is that increased per - pupil spending, induced by court - ordered SFRs, increased high school graduation rates, educational attainment, earnings, and family incomes for children who attended school after these reforms were implemented in affected districts.

Taking into account the relationship between predicted and actual spending increases, we find that increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases educational attainment by 0.3 years on average among all children.

In total, nine classes and their teachers will spend a long weekend (Friday 20th April — Sunday 22nd April 2018) at Sol Katmandu Park & Resort in Majorca where they will take part in fun educational workshopIn total, nine classes and their teachers will spend a long weekend (Friday 20th April — Sunday 22nd April 2018) at Sol Katmandu Park & Resort in Majorca where they will take part in fun educational workshopin Majorca where they will take part in fun educational workshopin fun educational workshops.