Sentences with phrase «more focused on education»

Groups vary from classic psychotherapy groups, where process is emphasized, to psychoeducational, which are more focused on education about an area of concern and tend to be time - limited.

«Our visit becomes more focused on education rather than treatment.»

If you're a recent graduate, you'll need to put a bit more focus on your education section since you likely don't have a lot of professional work world experience yet.

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That said, most of the more serious questions put to them during the sit - down focused on, yup, you guessed it, education.

In the short run we can focus more on training and education and making sure (it's) accessible to people and they don't have to take out enormous student loans and so forth.

There is a lot more education going on after university and it's shorter and can be more focused.

The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

Through his Donald Bren Foundation, which focuses on education and conservation, Bren has donated more than $ 1.3 billion to charitable causes.

The intensifying regulatory environment has led more law schools to offer executive education programs that focus on law, ethics and compliance.

But I also recently heard about the NEFE, which seems more focused on financial education, for all ages.

President Obama's 2011 State of the Union Address focused on themes of education and innovation, stressing the importance of innovation economics to make the United States more competitive globally.

«Revolution: Apple Changing the World» was taped in Chicago and focuses on innovation in education, Facebook's data privacy scandal, the future of work in the age of technology and much more.

AIWM India primarily focuses on broader and strategic role of developing a more robust and forward - looking training infrastructure for private banking and wealth management sector and to promote more active industry involvement and collaboration in training and continuing education matters.

He started the Education Freedom Fund, which awarded more than 4,000 scholarships to underprivileged children in Michigan, the West Michigan Aviation Academy, (a High School that aims to provide a rigorous educational program through an aviation focus), and has served on the State Board of Education.

Unfortunately, the history books of formal education almost always overlook the more human stories of America's bloodiest conflict to focus on battles, dates and generals, which is what Uncivil sets out to correct.

Rather it frees governors and headteachers to focus more on deciding what type of sex education parents want their children to experience in school and, in the case of primary schools, whether there should be any formal sex education at all.

«We're trying to raise awareness that more than one side needs to be heard on the issue of homosexuality, and we're helping to ensure Christian students have the chance to express their viewpoint,» said Candi Cushman, a Focus on the Family education analyst, in the release.

Sermons and religious education seem to focus more on rules of conduct than on opening our eyes to the contrasts the story of Jesus displays.

The 2007 Central Regional Conference schedule offers more than 30 different seminars and culinary demonstrations focusing on the areas of nutritional education, sanitation and safety practices, business management and supervisory skills, lifestyle enrichment and more.

That's why if DJ continues to recruit good kids that care about education, they are more likely to stay and get their degree while focusing on football, academics and their career.

The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

«We focus on prevention through education,» says Lindsey, «as cavities are even more common than asthma.»

We are making our Centennial an occasion to further develop Waldorf education for contemporary times, and focus more consciously on its global dimensions.

Activities in Waldorf early childhood education take into consideration the age - specific developmental needs of young children, from a focus on will - oriented physical activity in the first three years, then on imaginative play in the middle years of early childhood, and later a more cognitive approach to learning after the child enters school.

However, noting that even their increased earnings barely took the participants» income above poverty level, the evaluators recommend that an early focus on education and training rather than on income - generation may be a more productive long - term strategy for these young men and their children (Spaulding et al, 2009).

The campaign focuses on better informing parents of the importance of nutrition and exercise, decreasing fat and sugar in school lunches, making healthy food more accessible to families and putting more emphasis on physical education.

On the other side are educators who say a more competitive, focused and accountable education system will lift kids out of poverty by giving them a ticket to college and the middle class.

Our work overlaps in many ways, though while his focus is primarily on the education system, mine looks more broadly at application of the brain science of early adversity.

Now, there are programs that focus more on education and life skills.

What's needed, as Paul Tough at the Times and others say, is a less scattershot, more comprehensive program that gets to the root of the problem, focusing on education and mentoring.

The Sodexo Fresh Pick program is designed to further the nutrition education of students, parents and educators by focusing on the many positive benefits of eating more fruits, vegetables and whole grains.

«Past studies have looked at the effects of differential parenting on the children who get more negative feedback, but our study focused on this as a dynamic operating at two levels of the family system: one that affects all children in the family as well as being specific to the child at the receiving end of the negativity,» explains Jennifer M. Jenkins, Atkinson Chair of Early Child Development and Education at the University of Toronto, who led the team.

He pledged to focus more on education and neighborhoods than the current administration.

While African governments now invest around US$ 2000 of public funding per student (more than the average for developing countries), this follows decades of underinvestment in which drives for education focused on primary and secondary learning.

From 1990 to 2014, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer for the Harlem Children's Zone, an organization which has guided more than 13,000 children and 14,000 adults through programs which focus on education, housing development, and community pride.

Former teacher Linares said he also intends to focus on education, and called for more funding to help community schools and provide wrap - around services for public school students.

As the budget process moved into crunch time, the focus was less on mayoral control and more on education reforms the governor was seeking.

«Our goal in forming a board - level committee focused on education reform is to create a formal process for business to be more involved in education reform initiatives.»

She says she is happy there is more money being focused on more vulnerable students, but even more so, that the district was able to take time and really look at the special education programs and priorities.

UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said such courses will be «starved of funds» and warned that higher education was about to enter an era «in which many arts - based and teaching - focused institutions, which rely on public funding far more than the larger research - intensive universities, will face an uncertain future».

Indeed, although Clinton's political ambitions were clear to many who knew him, the documentary neglects Clinton's higher education and its incubation of his political desires to focus on his more formative high school years.

Cuomo's proposed education measure focuses more on teacher evaluation and has little to do with eliminating the so - called last in, first out state law.

One question focused on possible reasons to vote for «Woodstock,» citing reasons like fighting to improve the economy by taking on big businesses and monopolies, pushing for campaign finance reform, increasing education funding, changing the tax code to require the wealthy and large corporations to pay more and raising the minimum wage.

A former director of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Michael Kenneth Nsowah, says governments must focus on ensuring quality education in the country rather than building more educational faEducation Service (GES), Michael Kenneth Nsowah, says governments must focus on ensuring quality education in the country rather than building more educational faeducation in the country rather than building more educational facilities.

This week will include a focus on what the city can do to stop gas - related explosions after another such explosion occurred this weekend, this time in Borough Park; education politics and policy, as the pro-charter, anti-de Blasio group Families for Excellent Schools will hold a large rally; a continuation of negotiation and criticism between city and state entities over MTA funding; and more.

However, a spokeswoman for the Department for Education and Skills said the new science GCSE would «maintain a clear focus on academic rigour» while engaging young people so more of them continued the subject after GCSE.

Bill Hammond on this year's education reform battle: «What lawmakers should be focused on is not merely shoveling more cash toward schools, but better spending the billions already in the system.»

This week development secretary Andrew Mitchell proposed focusing DFID's work on fragile states, girls» education and on making UK aid more effective.

«We also need to embed employability in education, with a greater focus from schools on employability outcomes for their pupils, and with management modules becoming mandatory in higher education, to give students in different disciplines more opportunities to learn to lead.»

The Buffalo Board of Education has decided to cut its meeting schedule in half, a move aimed at allowing staff members more time to focus on academic programs and district operations.