Sentences with phrase «most public education»

All our schools should be great, safe places where kids learn and thrive, and there are many more such schools out there than most public education critics are willing to admit.

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«It has become clear that at the most fundamental level, appropriate representation in technology or any other industry will depend upon more people having the opportunity to gain necessary skills through the public education system,» said Williams in Facebook's 2016 diversity report, released Thursday.

«What public school have you worked with the most and which public school principal to do you personally have the best relationship with, and how has it impacted your viewpoint on K - 12 education?

«New research on learning shows that the public is largely ignorant of, well, research on learning,» she writes before offering a quick quiz that can diagnose whether you've fallen for any of the seven most common and most destructive misapprehensions about learning and education.

The authors note, however, that reducing education fees, increasing funding support for people with disabilities, and increasing public support for long term care are needed to help protect the most vulnerable populations during times of economic recovery.

We invest much less in young children, and that stems largely from the fact that most other advanced economies view early childhood education, child care and other benefits targeted at parents with young children as «public goods,» meaning investments that, absent public support, would be insufficiently made from the perspective of society's well - being.

For one thing, Ward says, most of these analyses do not take into account societal costs, such as the property taxes all homeowners pay to support public education.

Although I don't pretend to understand all the «ins & outs» of banking, public financing, etc., it seems to me to be self - evident that if Canadian governments at all levels were able to borrow, at low or preferably no interest rates, to finance infrastructure projects and other issues such as health care and education, rather than indebting Canadians in perpetuity in order to pay big interest payments to the greedy Big Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary Canadians.

Mr. Kenney, chanting the mantra of «choice,» appears to be committed to increasing that public subsidy while cutting education funding for most Alberta schoolchildren.

The power that Israel wields over our Democracy is evident in the miss - appropriation of wealth, while our children are treated to a public education not worthy of circus animals, Israel has our defense industry pumping out fighter jets at 350 million each, and it's no surprise they have the most powerful military on earth.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

It is this kind of «hate - speech» which led to the burning down of 77 churches in Norway by militant atheists and which at the most extreme end of the atheist movement leads to comments such as this from the Church Arson website «Any intelligent Antichrist methodology at that point will involve a consolidation of strength, public education in the ways of science and logic for our individual members, and actions taken against the remaining believers.

Finally, the provision of universal free public education is the most dramatic evidence of the American rejection of a class ideology.

Mann's erstwhile Calvinism and his belief that education was to reform the world became civil religion as it emerged in the schools, most of all in Mann's insistence upon public schools for all people.

Transforming public education would require us to debunk one of the most fundamental myths of American culture: the myth of meritocracy.

The fact that mystical socialists have for the most part destroyed public education to an extent never dreamed of by the mystical religionists, read this: http://66.147.244.196/~theinvio/?p=464 and that has invaded all sciences and people, has left a huge portion of the populous unable or unwilling to think, read this: http://66.147.244.196/~theinvio/?p=2108

The fact that mystical socialists have for the most part destroyed public education read this: http://66.147.244.196/~theinvio/?p=464 And that has invaded all sciences and people has left a huge portion of the populous unable or unwilling to think, read this: http://66.147.244.196/~theinvio/?p=2108 Then knowing that power is the problem.

Overall, ecumenical campus ministry in public higher education — in the northeast at least — has some well - defined needs, the most critical being a constituency in each denomination that will support it, especially in terms of budgetary increases.

Collected for the most part by industrialized countries, where the principal financial markets are located, this money could be used to help struggle against inequalities, to promote education and public health in poor countries, and for food security and sustainable development.

Education was being placed under the control of the state and was becoming secularized, but on the frontiers of white settlement, especially in the United States, those moved by their Christian faith were founding most of the institutions of higher learning and were even responsible for much of the public school system.

The most important instrument of the assimilation of the many European ethnic groups was public education.

First, what happened at CUA in 1967 — 68 was part of something much larger and more important than change in American Catholic Education, namely, worldwide, public theological dissent beginning around the time of Vatican II and quickly gaining control of most of the world's Catholic graduate programs and journals.

Although arriving in his mid-sixties and living well into his eighties, when most men find it necessary to slow down, Theodore traveled extensively through the island, creating dioceses, consecrating bishops, and improving the education of the clergy and the public worship.

We may, of course, speak for these values in the public forum, and if we are able to persuade most people, then these values can also influence what goes on in public education.

As I noted above, the first day of kindergarten is an important marker for our educational bureaucracies — that's the day, in most states, when «early childhood» officially comes to an end and the public becomes legally responsible for every child's education and skill development.

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

To me, one of the most significant planks in Obama's education platform isn't in his education platform at all - it's in his poverty platform: his pledge to replicate Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone in 20 cities across the United States, as public / private partnerships, with the federal government's share of the bill coming to as much as a few billion dollars.

In fact, most homeschool parents pay even more on average for their student's education than those subsidized within the public school system.

Public education has the most potential to safe - guard and promote an informed, compassionate, healthy and pro-active culture, one prepared to lead, compete and collaborate in the global culture.

PT: One of the ones I'm most excited about is Expeditionary Learning Schools [now known as EL Education]-- about 150 schools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in poverty.

During the last school year, most Chicago public schools did not offer recess, regular nutrition classes or more than 40 minutes of physical education a week.

Amazon.com: You say in the book, «It is my fundamental belief that the folk who care about public education the most, who really want to see it work, are destroying it.»

Continuing Medical Education (CMEs) units will be provided to physicians who take the course as well as a «Recognition Database» that is searchable to the public in order to find a local physician trained in the most up - to - date training in the evaluation and management concussions.

Since most countries have free government supported public schools, your education cost is less (even if you spend time helping your school do fund raising).

Most see home education as another valid education choice like private or public school - they understand that like all choices home education not for everyone!

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Two Continuing Medical Education (CMEs) units will be provided to physicians who take the course as well as a «Recognition Database» that is searchable to the public in order to find a local physician trained in the most up - to - date training in the evaluation and management concussions.

Continuing Medical Education (CMEs) units are provided to physicians who take the course as well as a «Recognition Database» that is searchable to the public in order to find a local physician trained in the most up - to - date training in the evaluation and management concussions.

Of course, most advocacy campaigns involve some form of public education, since even corporate marketers want people to «learn» about the attributes they want to see associated with a particular brand.

He is known as a committed advocate for public education, and co-founded the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which won billions of dollars for city schools from the state, though most of that money has never materialized.

The most popular responses included such areas as education, economic development, poverty, downtown revitalization, and public safety.

Business leaders have expressed concern about the high level of public spending, the need for better vocational education, and most recently, how Britain is meeting its energy needs.

A science teacher, writer, and filmmaker, he has spent most of his professional life sharing his passion for science and education with the public.

This is a plan that keeps spending under two percent, reforms New York's education bureaucracy, implements the nation's strongest and most comprehensive disclosure laws for public officials and makes the largest investment in the Upstate economy in a generation.

NYPALS currently is represented by one of the state's most prominent public strategy firms, Mercury Public Affairs, whose noteworthy education clients include High Achievement New York, a pro-Common Core nonprofit coalition of mostly business groups, and Success Acpublic strategy firms, Mercury Public Affairs, whose noteworthy education clients include High Achievement New York, a pro-Common Core nonprofit coalition of mostly business groups, and Success AcPublic Affairs, whose noteworthy education clients include High Achievement New York, a pro-Common Core nonprofit coalition of mostly business groups, and Success Academy.

«I have known Jimmy for many years, and I am greatly impressed with his work on the issues that matter most, like education, transportation, libraries, public safety and quality of life.

Ms. Teachout blamed Mr. Cuomo for the «most segregated schools in the nation» and accused him of seeking to privatize education and take resources away from public classrooms.

The Department of Education's proposal to amend ESSA would label most Westchester public schools as «in need of improvement» and would cut federal funding for any school where 5 percent of students or more opt out of Common Core testing.

Money from the fund supports some of the state's most important safety net programs --» the State's Medicaid program, Family Health Plus, workforce recruitment and retention, the Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage (EPIC) program, Child Health Plus (CHP), Graduate Medical Education, AIDS programs, disproportionate share payments to hospitals and other various public health initiatives,» according to the state's financial plan.

Critics have carped that the Bloomberg - led system fails to give parents sufficient voice — whatever that means — but the current arrangement is a night - and - day improvement over the old Board of Education, which was not only less accountable to the public, but failed at its most basic mission: improving our schools and teaching our kids.