Sentences with phrase «national conversation on»

NIC Talks was designed to start a national conversation on the future of aging.

The Center For Generational Studies has become a virtual host of the national conversation on generational issues, with customers ranging from the healthcare industry, to retail, to restaurants, franchises, and more.

Despite the leadership of the special education field, the growing national conversation on SEL often neglects students with disabilities.

The national conversation on educational essentials must include our current realities.

Providing $ 30 million to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, organisations and communities to help advance the national conversation on sovereignty and treaties.

Newton, MA About Blog The mission of The Liberal Gun Club is to provide a voice for gun - owning liberals and moderates in the national conversation on gun rights, gun legislation, firearms safety, and shooting sports.

Mast's op - ed came at the end of a week - long national conversation on gun violence and gun rights that included a listening session with President Donald Trump and a CNN town hall with survivors of the tragedy in Parkland, which left 17 dead.

Survivors of the Parkland shooting quickly became the faces of a national conversation on gun control, and are lobbying lawmakers for more restrictive gun laws — including a ban on assault - style rifles and higher - capacity magazines.

The Report has prompted a sold - out symposium on April 1, entitled A National Conversation on the Economic Sustainability of Digital Information, which we can only hope is broadcast — or at least preserved.

Mangat also says that this ruling will help continue a national conversation on prisoners» rights.

This has spurred a national conversation on how we can support victims and help them seek justice.

After years of being stuck, the national conversation on climate change finally started to shift — just a little — last year, the hottest year on record in the U.S., with Hurricane Sandy flooding the New York subway, drought devastating Midwest farms, and California and Colorado on fire.

But bear in mind as we parse some of the results that the very purpose of the survey was to determine how best to veer the national conversation on climate change towards apolitical territory, not to elicit head - shaking and «I told you so's» from liberal environmentalists.

This winter, Duke's Nasher Museum contributed its two cents to the roiling national conversation on race by celebrating its tenth anniversary with a show of artists of African descent, organized by chief curator Trevor Schoonmaker.

The free panel discussion will bring insights to the national conversation on race, identity, and social justice addressed by artists and shed new light on challenging artworks in the BMA's historic and contemporary collection.

Modeled on the international Healthy Parks Healthy People movement that originated in Australia, Healthy Parks Healthy People US complements President Obama's America's Great Outdoors initiative, a multi-agency effort that has sparked a national conversation on how to conserve open spaces and reconnect Americans to nature.

Whatever happens come November, it looks like the national conversation on student loan interest rates has come to a head with many people feeling like it's time to change how the government manages the federal student loan programs.

RESPECT was first launched in February of 2012 as a national conversation on the teaching profession, shortly after the President committed to support the development of a new, comprehensive teacher policy in his state of the union address.

The national conversation on education policy has focused heavily on teacher quality.

Nonetheless, he still praised the verdict and called for a national conversation on the issue.

Although the achievement gap has been at the center of our national conversation on education for decades, many educators seem blissfully (or intentionally?)

We can not achieve our ambitious vision on our own, which is why we partner with the national teachers associations, the NEA and AFT, and other leading groups in coalitions to shape the national conversation on teaching and learning, including the TeachStrong Campaign, the Coalition for Teaching Quality and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

The summit helped participants zero in on an important national conversation on how central offices can better support principals as instructional leaders.

«In the course of the next year, I hope to participate in a national conversation on how education can be a tool for social justice and empower students to stand up for themselves and create change.»

The National Conversation on Leadership Pathways brought together principals and school leadership experts to discuss the steps they took to become the leaders they are today.

From pre-kindergarten through college — and for parents, teachers and students — Schools of Thought offers food for thought as part of the national conversation on education.

2 I Am Not Your Negro Raoul Peck's stirring documentary portrait of James Baldwin draws on electrifying interview footage of the writer from the 1960s but places him at the center of today's national conversation on race.

It's time to shift the national conversation on dating over 50.

Viral videos of U.S. police officers beating and shooting black citizens have sparked a national conversation on how they interact with racial minorities.

Twitter is a powerful tool with immediate impact that we can harness to connect with a broad scientific community and take part in the national conversation on science.

Concluded Shen, «We need a national conversation on this issue, and an election year is the time to do it.

The «transitioning» symposia will be held in a strategically chosen location to give Ambassadors the collective ability to inform policy makers, government, industry and non-profits and to help create a national conversation on the importance of invention.

It sparked a national conversation on giving states more flexibility in education policy.

Also at 9:30 a.m., NYC Council Speaker Melisa Mark - Viverito speaks at the National Conversation on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, 1 Bowling Green, Manhattan.

Beginning today, the New York Times is hosting a forum for its readers to participate in a national conversation on immigration and its consequences.

«Students across the country are leading the national conversation on gun violence in our schools,» Maloney said, adding «their voices should be heard.»

Recognising the lack of vision and leadership on these profound questions, the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance was formed in 2010, consciously linking Australia to the global movement for food sovereignty, with the aim of promoting a different, values - based national conversation on the future of our food and farming systems.

Over this summer, CMS is seeking to start a national conversation on mission by launching a major listening exercise to ask what «Mission Is».

It was published Sept. 25 by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, under the umbrella of its National Conversation on Asia initiative.

This wave of scandals coincided with the #MeToo movement, a national conversation on workplace sexual harassment.

Mr. Schultz, one of the most visible chief executives in the country, has made Starbucks a vocal part of the national conversation on issues like gun violence, gay rights, race relations, veterans rights and student debt.

It sparked a national conversation on U.S. carriers» treatment of customers in an industry comprising just a handful of competitors following years of mergers and consolidations.

«CTE plays a powerful role in preparing students for postsecondary education and the workplace, and it is important that educators leading these programs have an opportunity to inform national conversations on the professional development and career supports that teachers need to meet new student learning and industry needs,» said Susanne Silk, National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT), National Board board member and Business Professionals of America advisor in Sayre, OK.

Not exact matches

Starbucks Corp CEO Howard Schultz has put the coffee chain in the national spotlight before, asking customers not to bring guns into stores and urging conversations on race relations.

Johnson expects the conversation to break on national borders.

Jacobs: We've started to see the conversation around criminal justice change from what it had been forever, but do you think that change needs to happen on the local and state level first before we get to a national consensus?

Harvey Weinstein's long alleged history of sexually preying on actresses, journalists, and musicians — and then scaring them into silence — has spurred a deeply charged national conversation about sexual harassment in the workplace.

According to documents released on Oct. 30, 2017, in an interview conducted as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference, Papadopoulos misrepresented the timing of conversations with an individual known to be substantially connected to Russian government officials, his knowledge of the individual's Russian connections and the nature of his interactions with a female Russian national.

On the eve of the Supreme Court decision, perhaps the time is ripe for a national conversation to take place.

If we really want to shift the national conversation for good, then we need to lay all solutions on the table for our decisionmakers to see.