Sentences with phrase «national conversations about»

A month after a shooting left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the survivors of the shooting — along with their families, supporters — and the memory of those lost, are still leading national conversations about gun control and school safety.

I too find that our national conversations about improving education become mired in political considerations and surface features of schools, rather than in figuring out how to improve instruction and social services for ALL students.

More recently, IEL's Kwesi Rollins and EPFP alum and IEL board member Karen Mapp also were featured in Education Week, discussing the momentum that parent engagement efforts are gaining and their high impact on national conversations about education.

We know that in order to include American Indian students in national conversations about higher education, we need to represent each of our scholars.

When we started the Northwest Matters blog a year and a half ago, we hoped our posts would contribute to the regional and national conversations about the most critical education issues.

When we started the Northwest Matters blog a year and a half ago, we hoped our posts would contribute to the regional and national conversations about the most...

A new survey from the International Literacy Association finds that what many teachers note as being «hot» in national conversations about literacy isn't what they think is most important.

We engage with our colleagues — at the NEA, the AFT, TURN, and with public education advocates nationally — through web - based and real dialogue, conferencing, and seminars; publishing opinion pieces and other print materials;; and by sponsoring or convening national conversations about key issues in public education and education unionism.

Educators Rising believes in the importance of student voice, and the Educators Rising Ambassador Program is another opportunity for star students to amplify their voices in critical national conversations about teaching and learning.

If done correctly, social and emotional learning has the potential to improve outcomes and services for these traditionally underserved students — but only if special education gets a seat at the table in national conversations about SEL.

Curtin focused on building the social venture portfolio of DC Central Kitchen while Robert led national conversations about rethinking the fight against hunger and the economic role of nonprofits.

Whether it's leading a national conversation about gun control or fighting for girls» education and gender equality around the world, an increasing number of young women are stepping forward as change agents.

Duchesne acknowledges that a fear of the unknown might be a reason why more Canadian businesses aren't looking to expand overseas, but he hopes that the results of the study will spark a national conversation about the country's potential for international trade.

The new proposed bill may not go anywhere, but it could at the very least ignite a national conversation about how to spark entrepreneurship.

It seems unfair — or at least unfortunate — that New Mexico governor and fellow Democratic candidate Bill Richardson has been left out of the national conversation about Hillary Clinton's health insurance initiative.

More broadly, her story has kindled a national conversation about whether women can truly «have it all» in terms of work - life balance.

According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.

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.

The project hopes to start a national conversation about alternatives to private financing of public investment, and needs both research partners and financial support.

There has been a national conversation about guns after the Feb. 14 Parkland school shooting that left 17 dead and 17 wounded.

In the midst of the national conversation about arming teachers and right before high school students around the country walked out to protest gun control laws, a high school teacher...

appeared in The Atlantic in 1991, it galvanized a national conversation about the state of American literature and how creative writing was being taught, produced, and consumed by the reading public.

Do I think that we should have a national conversation about increasing violence in our cities and schools?

In my view, however, «Moby - Dick» has not been as influential as either Harriet Beecher Stowe's «Uncle Tom's Cabin» or Mark Twain's «Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,» each of which has carried considerable weight in our national conversation about race.

A straightforward, elegantly written, concise, and well - organized 215 pages, Back in the Game stands out in a crowded field, not just as a primer on concussions for a parent, coach, or athletes, but for its incisive and often pointed criticism of the way our national conversation about concussions and the long - term effects of playing contact and collision sports has been shaped - some would say warped - by a media that too often eschews fact - based reporting in favor of sensationalism and fear - mongering.

Cooking up Change began in Chicago in 2007 as a way to involve a student voice in the national conversation about school food.

Studies about the lasting importance of a child's experiences in the first three years of life, once relegated to scientific or academic journals, are now fueling a broad national conversation about what this growing body of research means for families and communities across the country.

As part of our work to insert the stories and perspectives of moms into the national conversation about climate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Congress.

Together, they helped us spark a national conversation about the role that food plays in helping us all live healthy lives.

Hosted by Healthy Schools Campaign, Cooking Up Change is a dynamic culinary competition that puts student voices front - and - center in the national conversation about school food.

«I've also been very humbled by helping to start this national conversation about ending sexual violence,» Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said Friday to a meeting of the state committee.

«I've also been very humbled by helping to start this national conversation about ending sexual violence.

But he credits his renewed interest to a reinvigorated national conversation about voter enfranchisement and issues in New York, both highlighted by the Sanders campaign.

«We're having a very important national conversation about how we can listen to survivors, have them tell their stories and create space for them to tell their stories.»

Farrow's year - long investigation of Harvey Weinstein and his subsequent pieces in The New Yorker helped spark a national conversation about sexual misconduct.

We do need to have a national conversation about it.

«So I'm trying to change what's happening right now — that we are having a really important national conversation about how we can listen to survivors, hear their stories, create space for them to tell their stories and then to have processes for when we can get justice.»

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD The state of North Carolina today, March 30, repealed HB2, the law enacted a little over a year ago that aroused heated protests and boycotts, generated several lawsuits, and sparked a national conversation about gender identity and sex - specific public bathrooms and locker rooms.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY), speaking in Syracuse Monday, said a national conversation about the inspiration of the attack and the meaning of the confederate flag is needed.

The killings of African American citizens by local police have generated a more broad, national conversation about race and the criminal justice system.

Elisa's death on Thanksgiving weekend in 1995 attracted broad attention — prompting a national conversation about child abuse, a wave of reforms to the city's child welfare system, and a child welfare law named in her honor.

While the moment sparked a national conversation about sexual harassment, it did not quash his Presidential aspirations.

The deaths of unarmed black victims at the hands of police sparked a national conversation about racism and policing, from the Black Lives Matter movement to kneeling NFL players.

«These findings speak to the resilience of our service members, a topic that has received too little attention in the broader national conversation about veteran readjustment.»

When I saw this position advertised, it really resonated with me as an opportunity to provide leadership in a national conversation about where the scientific workforce is headed.

Inniss says the national conversation about children and screen time is expanding to include quality as well as quantity.

And yet, I have the feeling this modest little 83 - minute comedy will reverberate like a gunshot in our national conversation about abortion — in part because of the casually irreverent aplomb with which Robespierre approaches this tinderboxiest of topics.

Yes, the age of consent in Italy is far younger than it is in most of the United States, so nothing legally improper happens on screen, but given our current national conversation about older men preying on younger women (thank you, Roy Moore!)

Upon being released in 2011, the Pathways to Prosperity Project at HGSE's original report revealed the struggles of young people to attain employment in America, despite many good jobs going unfilled, and helped launch a national conversation about the goals and structure of American high schools.

They want to drive the national conversation about rethinking education for the 21st century through convenings, as well as advocacy, research, and program development.