Sentences with phrase «integration efforts at»

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Trump represents «a rejection of America's core values of inclusion, integration and hope» and «an effort to divide society at home... and societies abroad.»

A vote to «Leave» marked the first big reversal of European efforts at political and economic integration in 60 years, casting big doubts over the EU's future direction.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

Mother - to - mother support efforts can also include coordination and integration at the global and national levels such as:

Enid Rey, Hartford's executive director of school choice, has resigned after several years at the helm of the city school system's nationally touted integration efforts.

He added that the reconciliatory efforts of the Gov. Seriake Dickson - led committee, and other efforts at rebuilding the party, through its contact and integration committee, were already yielding results.

At some institutions this sort of integration is simply very difficult to achieve, despite the best efforts of the program.

Some DNA program efforts can raise complex legal and ethical questions, however, and Jennifer Wagner, a 2014 - 2015 AAAS Congressional Fellow and former research associate at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies, and Sara Katsanis, an Instructor of Science & Society at Duke University, are conducting interviews, surveys, and focus groups around two such programs to learn more about the perspectives of the people involved and to develop «best practices» guidelines.

Activities supported by the Fund include the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition's Student Essay, Poster, and Digital Media Competitions; efforts to promote the integration of human rights into STEM education; technical training of human rights practitioners in innovative applications of science and technology; collaborative partnerships between scientists, engineers and human rights organizations; and policy engagement on issues at the nexus of science and human rights.

So far efforts at integration have not been very successful.

This evidence strongly suggests that the return to neighborhood schools was not the underlying cause behind the increase in parent involvement at the time neighborhood elementary schools were re-established; rather, the increased effort of school officials at getting parents involved appear to be the source of the increase, an effort that benefited the schools undergoing busing for integration even more than the resegregated neighborhood schools.

However, a close look at the grades principals gave to their tech integration efforts reveals that although some principals give their schools an A, too many principals have rated their schools» efforts as C or D.

The school board in Montgomery County, an affluent suburb of Washington noted for the quality of its schools and its voluntary efforts at integration, «violated its own regulations and procedures» on racial balance and building use in the cases of four schools, said Mitchell J. Cooper, a Washington lawyer acting as adviser to the state board.

A federal judge has ended an 18 - year - old desegregation suit against the Lowndes County, Ala., schools, after declaring further efforts at integration pointless since the overwhelming majority of students in the district now are black.

On balance, however, she tends toward the view that no - excuses schools will turn out to have stronger impact on kids» life prospects than efforts at forced diversity via economic integration.

A regression analysis showed a significant relation between (a) amount of arts instruction and teachers» efforts at arts integration and (b) teachers» perceptions of students» risk - taking.

Connecticut's system has been hugely successful in its attempts to promote racial integration within schools: In a recent Civil Rights Project report, Gary Orfield, a Distinguished Professor of Education, Law and Political Science and Urban Planning at UCLA, referred to it as «the only successful effort to produce a new legal framework to deal with the reality of metropolitan segregation.»

The greatest gains in reducing gaps in achievement and opportunity have been made during periods when concentrated poverty has been dispersed through efforts at integration, or during economic growth for the black middle class and other communities, or where significant new investments in school funding have occurred.

This study from the Century Foundation is a two - part study, including «background on how universal pre-K programs fit into the national landscape of early childhood policy, outlines the main features of New York City's current UPK expansion efforts, and draws lessons for other cities and states interested in expanding their programs,» and «an in - depth look at the issue of preschool classroom diversity in UPK, highlighting the opportunities and obstacles for integration embedded in current policies and recommending policy changes to address this issue in New York City and beyond.»

While the FAA has been working on integration plans for UAS for several years, initial efforts focused on larger UAS operating at high altitudes.

More interesting is Ford's effort at app integration through its AppLink feature.

«In our efforts to develop new forms of play, we at Nintendo always look to the integration of hardware and software,» says Takahashi.

This effort (not a sleeping effort — it is too deliberate, too wilful)-- to create a dance rhythm across the expanse of such a large painting fails because it is too clumsy an attempt at integration, and utterly unrhythmic in fact.

UNISDR supports these efforts at the highest levels by developing specific policies at the international level on the linkages between reducing disaster risk and responding to climate change, guiding national and regional action to integrate policies and practices, and strengthening capacities to support the integration of disaster reduction and climate change by all actors.

And look at all the vertical integration efforts Musk is trying to implement.

The fact that technology will continue to decrease time and effort needed for background screening checks is one of the reason Rosen picked this particular trend as one of the «ESR Top Ten Background Check Trends of 2014» In the coming year, employers can expect to see even more robust background screening systems where applicants perform the data entry and also integration with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) where employers can simply click a button to start the background screening process.

Ms. Bradley's previous experience includes serving as the Director of Health Programs at the Health Council of Southeast Florida where she led the HIV / AIDS system redesign efforts, which increased system integration and access to care, and oversaw the community engagement and consortium development activities.