Sentences with phrase «national reading challenges»

While the extent and breadth of these initial efforts to address national reading challenges were ambitious, collaboration and coordination across the many entities and initiatives was lacking.

Beginning in the late - 2000s, a number of emirate - level initiatives sprang up to address national reading challenges.

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«The NUTs Breaking the Mould project, in which the National Union of Teachers has worked with a small group of primary schools to consider how «traditional» gender stereotypes could be challenged in the classroom through reading materials, is a really useful resource.

That would be a startling reading of the opinion, since it would mean that the National Firearms Act's restrictions on machineguns (not challenged in Miller) might be unconstitutional, machineguns being useful in warfare in 1939.

The National Organization for Marriage has been blocked from running ads in support of anti-gay teabagger gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, WIVB reports: «Federal Judge Richard Arcara has rejected a challenge to New York's election law... Read

The US National Institutes of Health was asked to fund so - called «human challenge trials», which would involve healthy volunteers being Read more about Ethical dilemma of studying Zika in humans - Scimex

He was the first president since John F. Kennedy to do that, and if you read that speech, which is still on the web I believe — both at the Academy web site and my friend Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences, is in the front row — and it's also on the White House web site — what you will find is although the president was clear about the practical applications of science and technology to our great challenges as I've mentioned, he probably spent two thirds of that talk talking about the importance of basic science; the importance of fundamental research in science and technology to our national well - being; and the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics edNational Academy of Sciences, is in the front row — and it's also on the White House web site — what you will find is although the president was clear about the practical applications of science and technology to our great challenges as I've mentioned, he probably spent two thirds of that talk talking about the importance of basic science; the importance of fundamental research in science and technology to our national well - being; and the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ednational well - being; and the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

Vodafone Fiji national team head coach Christophe Gamel is calling on fans to come out in numbers and support the Bula Boys... The Welsh Netball team is primed for one of the biggest challenges of their careers when they kick - off the World Cup in Sydney with a clash Read More...

Vodafone Fiji national team head coach Christophe Gamel is calling on fans to come out in numbers and support the Bula Boys... The Welsh Netball team is primed for one of the biggest challenges of their careers when they kick - off the World Cup in Sydney Read More...

Last September, Principal Gail Thompson challenged her 220 kindergarten through 6th - grade pupils at the Doniphan (Neb.) Elementary School to read a total of 10,000 books in six months under the national «Book It» reading program.

The booklet includes a variety of stimulating reading challenges which have been created in line with National Curriculum requirements.

«Tonight, I issue a challenge to the nation: Every state should adopt high national standards and, by 1999, every state should test every fourth grader in reading and every eighth grader in math to make sure these standards are met.»

America Reads Challenge Between the Lions ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication The Knowledge Loom Literacy Empowerment Foundation (LEF) National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) National Reading Conference (NRC) National Academy Press (publishers of Preventing Reading Difficulties...) NCREL Critical Issue Ohio Reads Orton - Gillingham: Sensational Strategies for Teaching Beginning Readers Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children (executive summary).

Mr. Fuller accepted a nation - wide challenge for school principals to read from bell to bell in honor of National Young Readers Week.

Currently based in Denver, Colorado, she has consulted with school districts and related education agencies for 17 years in 20 states and internationally, also serving 13 years in higher education as associate professor (tenured), associate dean, literacy and leadership academic program director and chair, vice president's faculty fellow, reading specialist, counseling coordinator, and director of national center for students with learning and attention challenges, having taught 132 course sections from developmental education to teacher education, counseling, and leadership at four universities (Baldwin Wallace University, the University of Arizona, Kent State University, and the University of Akron).

She has continued to challenge herself professionally by earning her Arizona Master Teacher designation and National Board Certification in Early and Middle Childhood Literacy: Reading and Language Arts.

National Dropout Prevention Month challenges our nation to become better informed about how to... Read more»

Interestingly, the Winston Society offered a provocative challenge to «generic purity and policing» in English education because it did not locate English teachers» professional knowledge «within the box of NCLB standards» — or the boxes of National Council of Teachers of English / International Reading Association Standards (NCTE / IRA, 1996) or English education research (e.g., Alsup et al., 2006; Brass, 2009).

To reflect its national customer - base and its growing list of products and programs, the company changed its name from 100 Book Challenge to American Reading Company in 2004.

«The number of New York students passing state reading and math exams dropped drastically this year, education officials reported on Wednesday, unsettling parents, principals and teachers and posing new challenges to a national effort to toughen academic standards.

What will be your greatest challenge as CSLP's National Summer Reading Champion?

At age sixteen, Sara Shandler read Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia, the national bestseller that candidly explored the unique issues that challenge girls in their struggle toward womanhood.

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I encourage you to read «Realizing China's Urban Dream,» a valuable Nature commentary by Xuemei Bai of Australian National University and two co-authors, for a vision of the challenges and opportunities in fast - growing cities.

I'd like to think he's read our stories on such climate engineering options, including one last year in our Energy Challenge series by Bill Broad (with some help from me) in which the president of the National Academy of Sciences, the atmospheric chemist Ralph Cicerone, endorsed the need to aggressively study such options, even as the world works to limit emissions.

Phil Mote, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University, is skeptical of McPherson's predictions: «I've been connected to national and international assessments of the state of the science of climate change, and although my colleagues and I are generally very concerned about what challenges climate change is bringing to humankind, no expert that I have read has used language like «extinction of the human race.»

The country developed its last official national GHG inventory for the 2005 calendar year, which makes it challenging to get an accurate read on current non-CO2 GHG emissions.

While addressing National Seminar on «Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture and Livestock; Challenges and Opportunities» he said, «There is not any Copyright [continue reading...]

Read / Purchase the Report Ocean Acidification: A National Strategy to Meet the Challenges of A Changing Ocean (2010) Excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — in addition to contributing to climate change — is absorbed by the ocean, making sea water more acidic and leading to a suite of changes in ocean chemistry.

The increasing market power of tobacco companies is identified as an important public health challenge in a major new report on the economics of tobacco control, from the US National Cancer... Read more

As the National Disability Insurance Scheme rolls out Australia - wide, rural and remote communities are discovering the unique challenges of living in a «thin market» for services... Read more

The successes and challenges facing rural and remote health research were a trending national topic on Twitter yesterday, thanks to diligent tweeps attending the 6th Rural and Remote Health... Read more