Sentences with phrase «much about education»

Its also very much about education and other species rights to life.

Long - term savings goals can be as much about education as they are retirement.

Sure, we never expect to hear much about education during a presidential inaugural address, and last week's speech certainly didn't change that.

Although polls show that 67 % of voters in swing states said education was «extremely important» to them, President Obama and Mr. Romney haven't talked much about education.

Candidates aren't saying much about education, but the next president will certainly shape it U.S. News & World Report op - ed by Andrew J. Rotherham, founder and partner at Bellwether Education Partners

It's easy for those of us who spend a lot of time thinking and talking and writing about these things to forget that most people, including most parents and teachers, just don't care that much about education policy.

For one, his proclamations that families aren't equipped to manage schools fails to consider the reality that some of the most - successful school reform efforts have been — and continue to be — done by folks who didn't know much about education until stumbled into reform.

As Levine remembers it, the state lawmaker conceded that he didn't know much about education.

At the same time, Rotherham fails to remember that for all the preening of Beltway reformers, the most - successful school reform efforts have been — and continue to be — done by folks who didn't know much about education until stumbled into reform.

Note that some of the people and organizations in Anthony's spreadsheet will drop off because they don't comment much about education policy.

«A lot of Internet safety is as much about education and the person behaving responsibly as it is about the technology.

Ecopolitan is as much about education and community support as it is about delicious, healthy raw foods.

«For a body that talks so much about education, to leave without an agreement where in a matter of days you could revert back to the board of education system, is just the height of irresponsibility,» Cuomo said.

Not exact matches

«People would much rather hear from someone who inspires them, someone who gets really excited about the subject of a speech,» says Travis Allen, the 21 - year - old president and CEO of the iSchool Initiative, an education - focused nonprofit based in Kennesaw, Ga..

Much has been said recently about the quality of Canada's education system.

Leave out white middle - class, subtract wealth, a privileged education and hovering parents, take away the luxury of worrying about performance instead of subsistence, and today's 20 - something suddenly doesn't much resemble the poster child for her brand anymore.

A much - buzzed - about online education platform, Coursera only five months ago announced it had received over $ 60 million in new investments and that 26 million people worldwide had registered for courses.

Anita Krishnamurthi and Nick Hutchinson were able to talk about the much larger picture of PPP programs for informal STEM education, including how we measure private industry involvement, as well as how students are improving their grades, school participation, and post-graduation success rates.

I'm very much looking forward to participating in this forum at the Urban Institute on Monday, where I'll be on a panel talking about the role of higher education in both the economy and the lives of the people in the economy.

Did you know that the Gospel of Thomas is a late Gnostic text that just about anyone with an education doesn't take seriously (nor, pretty much anyone with familiarity with the Bible who has actually read it!).

I have often said, education is at least as much about realizing what we don't know, as it is about learning about what we do know.

Every religion has a education system about that religion, if it was innately true, you would think that you wouldn't need to spend so much time to make someone believe it is true.

do I need any approval before I practice my religion, do I have to prove my religion before I practice, my holy book further describe that you must carry a gun in 21st century because there is too much crime in this world, but it doesn't say much about if I migrate to another country these rules will still apply, Or I should modified them according to my comfort, like talking in English which is not my religious language wearing pants or not, having education or not, standing in line or not, I am so confused what should I do can someone help me, should I go back to country where my religion originated or back in time ask my guru questions about western world confusion, or just decide by myself what suites me, or preach other develop country that you guys are wrong be peaceful.

Have you ever had someone discredit what you say about Scripture because you don't have as much education as they do?

«Practical Theology» provides the theme for much of today's discussion about theological education.

In the company of discerning teachers and learners, my education was being shaped out of certain assumptions that had as much to do with living life as with thinking about it: that we are «in relation» whatever we may think of that fact, that the most basic human unit is not therefore «the self but rather «the relation»; and that this intrinsic mutuality demands — and should be the foundation of — our ethics, politics, pastoral care and theologies.

April 1999), which shows that home schooling families are at least as involved in civic activities and the building of «social capital» as those who send their kids out for education, and she ends with this thought: «I don't think we need worry much about their socialization in the narrow sense, either.

I think that much of the critics» distress about changes in church - related higher education rests ultimately on their epistemological concerns: Christian higher education, the scholarship it produces and the students it graduates should be substantively different from its secular counterpart.

ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?

Agreed; we spend too much time and effort worrying about obsessive compulsive religious activities than we do the education of our children.

The problem with a liberal arts education is that you learn enough just to finally understand just how much you don't know about many things.

In much the same way that the pontificate of Benedict XVI created the environment for a renewalof the liturgy, so too did his pontificate gradually bring about change in the world of education.

Of course, The Laurels and The Cedars are just two schools and much more could be said about the good work that is being done in schools across the country, about the sterling work done by Catholic home educators, and about a range of other initiatives including the steady growth of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Word.

Much more of the decision - making about education and of the responsibility to finance it would devolve on local communities.

«I think a lot of Christian educationalists are concerned about the direction of travel... they are day - in day - out helping to run schools... they don't feel they get much credit for it they feel that instead senior educational figures talk about Christian education and religious education and religious schools as if they are the problem.»

To suggest that such a change would be a return to the ghetto is to say something not so much about higher education as about the Catholic Church.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

As Robert Sollard wrote recently in the Chronicle of Hiqher Education (as cited by Roth), «Much has been written about the loss of ethics, a sense of decency, moderation and fair play in American society.

I still don't know about homeschooling but the book itself isn't necessarily about homeschooling as much as it is about education.

That's why not only is there generally no such thing as a good education, but we have no idea about how to obtain one for ourselves, much less impart one to our children.

Several studies of young unmarried mothers have found that between 20 and 25 per cent became pregnant again within two years (with the rate going much higher among certain minority groups) The repeat of pregnancy appears to be related to a lack of knowledge about the risks of sexual intercourse, limited opportunity for further education, boredom with homelife, and the unavailability of a strong female support group.

Gary Bauer, undersecretary of education and chairman of a White House task force on the American family, has been quoted as saying that his group's goal is «to tell children [that premarital sex] is wrong and explain why it's bad for them — not to teach them so much about sex that they can engage in it in early adolescence.»

Much is said to you about your education, but a beautiful, sacred memory like that, one preserved from childhood, is possibly the very best education of all.

It is, however, a story that has much to tell us about what it is that theological education should be helping the churches to do.

If he cares so much about Christianity being attacked in other parts of the world, perhaps he should engage in a campaign of education and understanding rather than division.

Whatever your thoughts about ghana's education are we are based on the much better British system rather than your hollow American one hence with only a tiny proportion graduating your government seeks to employ them in your public services.

Indeed, much of American public education is conducted under the banner of religious neutrality, and public opinion is increasingly restless about it.

The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several univEducation and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several univEducation and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several univeducation, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several universities.

People want that instant information, so we try to put up as much information about the brewing process and different things — basic education.»

Many years ago, I went to a presentation at a conference for women in higher education and heard a president of a community college in Oregon whom I very much admire talk about the concept of self - care.