Sentences with phrase «major education problem»

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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.

There is also the consideration that infrastructure investment is likely to disproportionately benefit groups like middle - aged men with limited education who face a major structural employment problem.

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

These, then, are the several levels of unity that bind together the diverse topics of the chapters to follow: first, the curriculum of education; second, the major problems of contemporary civilization; third, the values by which education is seen as a moral enterprise; and fourth, a concept of value as devotion to worth rather than to satisfaction of desire, together with an ideal of democracy as the social expression of basic moral commitment.

I think the major problem in America is lack of education.

One major problem with his doing that is that he fails to recognize that in Paul's day, when that was written, few, if any, women were allowed to have a formal education, whereas to the extent formal education was available to anyone, the men got it; the women didn't.

Little did I expect that I would be a major creator of an entire new profession.A military assignment took my family to Canada where I became a childbirth educator, partly to help prevent breastfeeding problems through prenatal education.

Also at 7 p.m., EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck will address climate change, the scope of the problem, major steps that EPA is taking to fight climate change and tips on how people can help, The College of St. Rose, Thelma P. Lally School of Education, Touhey Forum, 1009 Madison Ave., Albany.

Problems with the NHS and disputes over education reform have also led to major clashes between the leadership and the left of the party, while disputes over pensions have also soured relationships with many unions.

Alhaji Rashid said, his leadership will address some of the major challenges in the Zongo communities including unemployment, education, health, water and sanitation, adding that, with the establishment of the Zongo Ministry and the Zongo Fund, problems of the Zongos will be reduced but propel the Zongo communities for massive development.

Governor Ahmed gave this assurances at a meeting with the All Progressives Congress (APC) Stakeholders in Ilorin, the state capital, adding that through the presentation of the BVN, salaries of local governments workers and State Universal Basic Education teachers, which had been a major problem would become a thing of the past.

«One of the major problems when you restrict calories on a diet is that you lose muscle mass, and as a result, your metabolism slows down to accommodate the restriction of food,» said Eric Plaisance, Ph.D., assistant professor of exercise science in the UAB School of Education.

And three - quarters of AAAS scientists say too little STEM education is a major factor in the public's limited knowledge about science — which an overwhelming majority of scientists see as a problem for science in general.

Lately, Balzani's major focus has been his long - standing interest on energy issues, chemical education, and on the role of science in society as he has always maintained that scientists have the great responsibility and duty to educate citizens and to assist decision makers in finding solutions to pressing societal problems.

Kevin is a doctor who left his private practice to pursue patient education and to help address some of the (major) problems in the health care system.

David Deming: The Achievement Gap: A Preschool Problem Educations Funders Researchers Initiative, November 18, 2013 «There is a strong argument that the roots of inequality are in early childhood and therefore we could use a major shift in social policy toward early intervention.

As a healthful supplement I should like to recommend an earlier, polemical view of the major problem that confronts us in education: Albert Lynd's Quackery in the Public Schools, a neglected 1953 book whose title is not yet out of date.

A major problem today is how hard it is to innovate in education, so having groups continue to push the envelope is critical.

He identifies two major problems with current teacher education programs and makes recommendations for reforms to maximize teacher effectiveness, and ultimately, student outcomes.

The minimum elements a Primary Health Care programme should contain, according to Alma Ata, are: «Education concerning prevailing health problems and the methods of preventing and controlling them; promotion of food supply and proper nutrition; an adequate supply of safe water and basic sanitation; maternal and child health care, including family planning; immunization against the major infectious diseases; prevention and control of locally endemic diseases; appropriate treatment of common diseases and injuries; and provision of essential drugs».

Communication problems, power struggles, and the red tape created by government regulations and school administrators are the major barriers to evaluating the effectiveness of grants to education, foundation officials and educators said at a conference here this month.

North Carolina education officials last week ordered a major audit of the state's testing and accountability program to determine the soundness of the system after problems emerged over interim scoring measures for the state's end - of - grade math exam.

One of Lagemann's most significant accomplishments at HGSE has been the creation of the «usable knowledge initiative,» which aims to counter a major problem facing schools of education, the difficulty of linking research to practice.

This was already a major problem 25 years ago when I worked at the Education Department and it has steadily worsened since then.

«The recruitment and retention of high quality teachers is a national problem and one that has a direct, major impact on, not only our children's education, but their well - being and confidence.

To date, Lives in Limbo has won five major book awards, including the Society for the Study of Social Problems C. Wright Mills Award, the American Education Research Association Outstanding Book Award, and the Law and Society Association Herbert Jacob Book Award.

TNTP believes that marrying policy and implementation is the most effective way to tackle major problems in education.

What's more, according to a new report by the Center on Education Policy, more than half the states report that their capacity to carry out stimulus - related education changes is a «major probleEducation Policy, more than half the states report that their capacity to carry out stimulus - related education changes is a «major probleeducation changes is a «major problem.»

Her answer points to what has been a major problem in teacher evaluation for decades, a problem recent education reforms are now beginning to address.

Preservice elementary education majors used The Geometer's Sketchpad (Jackiw, 2006) to illustrate a problem solution and its supporting proof based on the mathematics of similar or congruent triangles.

On the national level, the Obama administration released legal guidance in late November which made clear that school segregation remains a major problem that needs to be addressed as a matter of education reform.

The lack of good quality careers education remains a major problem, he says, and he argues that businesses should play a bigger part in making links between school and employment.

The intent of the series was to spark debate and encourage action on the part of local school districts to take the major problems facing education facilities to the national level.

First, after checking with a number of Bridgeport's special education teachers, there appear to have been no major problems with the Clarity system, certainly none that would require an immediate and expensive shift to a completely new system.

There is a major problem with the latest ranking of proficiency targets and cut scores on state tests between 2009 and 20011 released this week by Education Next: That the study's authors, the otherwise - astute Paul Peterson and Peter Kaplan, have attempted to link the proficiency targets to the implementation of Common Core reading and math standards.

The major cognitive deficits that accompany mild disabilities are problems usually associated with reading and math (for example, reading comprehension, spelling, oral recitation, hand eye coordination, computation, and visual spatial orientation), so special education teachers and administrators may not see the pertinence of addressing these deficits in the social studies curriculum.

This powerful scientific knowledge is largely underutilized in new education models and approaches, and this deficiency is a major factor in the persistent problems of excellence and equity from cradle to career.

Health care, social security, the justice system, the environment, education, on and on — all the major social problems are being kicked down the road.

Her employer, Bright Star Schools, reviewed the results, crafted a proposal, and on Friday won a $ 250,000 grant to improve teacher retention, which is a major problem in education and can be especially challenging for charter schools.

Of course, that overlooks one of the major problems and that is how does a publicly elected municipal board of education legally allow a charter school to be set up in its district when that charter school doesn't even allow a local elected board to citizens to oversee it.

Problem solving continues to be a major focus of K - 12 mathematics education reform.

These new requirements have caused major problems in obtaining qualified teachers in subjects (special education, science, math) and areas (rural, inner cities) where schools districts already have teacher shortages.

The final report for the State of Connecticut's Task Force to Study State Education Funding features recommendations to address problems with the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) grant formula, which distributes the largest share of state education aid to towns, and certain other major state educatioEducation Funding features recommendations to address problems with the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) grant formula, which distributes the largest share of state education aid to towns, and certain other major state educatioEducation Cost Sharing (ECS) grant formula, which distributes the largest share of state education aid to towns, and certain other major state educatioeducation aid to towns, and certain other major state educationeducation grants.

While recognizing that public education continues to face major challenges and problems that must be addressed, Representative Ziobron has become an advocate for parents who wish to opt their children out of the Common Core tests and for policies that support, not undermine, the role of parents, teachers, and local citizens in how their local schools should be run.

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The problem of discrimination in education with children at school is the other major form of discrimination.

Yes, might encounter major problems where the consumer proposal is filed less than seven years from the date of end of debtor?s education

The worldwide movement to embed financial education into schools has gained impetus due to some major changes in society over the past decade, such as the Global Financial Crisis, an increase in youth debt (e.g. mobile phone debt) and research linking financial problems with low quality of life.

And so I suppose I'm like an anthropologist as I try to convey to you a major problem in the scientific culture and education.

Sustainability Studies Program Stony Brook University is a national leader in sustainability education and has developed a group of majors that prepares students for a career in developing sustainable solutions to the problems our planet faces.