Sentences with phrase «national writing groups»

Local, regional, genre, and national writing groups and conferences often hold annual competitions.

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«Chris Wallace was the only unbiased moderator of all four,» wrote Joshua Thifault, a director at Turning Point USA, a national student group right - wing activism.

As the national marriage equality postal survey entered its final week, the leading organisation behind the «no» campaign, the Australian Christian Lobby's NSW director wrote to councillors asking them to re-evaluate the use of public money for LGBTI groups.

«The most eloquent defenders of the value of every human life are people like my friends Ryan Bomberger and Rebecca Kiessling, both of whom were conceived in rape,» Charmaine Yoest, president of the anti-abortion group Americans United for Life, wrote in a post for National Review Online this week.

New York State's recent attempts to revise academic standards for elementary and secondary education appear to weaken or muddy major requirements in reading and writing, according to pro-standards groups at the national and state levels.

Kachikwu had written to Buhari on the conduct of the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru.

Instead, the potentially vulnerable group will demand agreement on a formal written understanding of what powers the national government will have and which, in the language of the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, will be «reserved» to sub-national units.

Michael Rebell, an attorney who won a landmark case requiring the state to fund school districts more equitably, and Randi Weingarten, president of a national teachers» union, wrote in appendices to the report that they agree with much of the group's findings, including recommendations for increased access to pre-kindergarten, technology and learning models that connect high school and college, and merit pay for teachers.

Susan Lerner, with Common Cause New York, says her group, along with the New York City Chapter of the National Organization for Women, plans to submit a written complaint to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, known as JCOPE.

He said that the group had written to the national secretariat of the APC asking it to set aside the purported delegate's election and announce new date for the exercise.

The A.F.L. - C.I.O., the Conservative Party, the Sierra Club, the National Abortion Rights Action League, legislators of both parties and Change New York, the anti-tax group, were united against the measure,» wrote Richard Perez - Pena, for the New York Times, on November 5, 1997, just before the con con vote that year.

This is coming barely 24 hours after a youth group under the aegis of APC Youths Solidarity Forum, led by Denisi Momoh, wrote a position paper to President Muhammadu Buhari and the party's National Executive Committee, asking the addressees to strengthen Odigie - Oyegun's position within the party.

The Chairman, Board of Trustees of the group, Mr. Innocent Agbo, said the group had written to the presidency and embarked on protests, including one at the National Assembly, but that nothing had been done.

Minister of State for Petroleum, Ike Kachikwu has written a petition against the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru to President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, had written a petition to President Buhari, alleging acts of insubordination and humiliation by the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has written a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari, alleging acts of insubordination and humiliation by the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru.

«For NIH overall, funding rates were relatively similar among age groups» from 1980 to 2014, write study authors Misty L. Heggeness of the U.S. Census Bureau, Frances Carter - Johnson of the National Science Foundation, Walter T. Schaffer of NIH, and Sally J. Rockey of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (formerly of NIH) in the paper.

«We're part of medicine now,» Leslie Biesecker, chief of the Genetic Disease Research Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and co-chair of the ACMG working group that wrote the report, told Science at the time.

«We're part of medicine now,» Leslie Biesecker, chief of the Genetic Disease Research Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and co-chair of the ACMG working group that wrote the report, told

► «A decision to overhaul the leadership of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center after an outside review group found serious patient safety problems has sparked an uproar at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland,» Jocelyn Kaiser wrote last Friday.

Women have a higher success rate than men, and a majority were led by students, found scholars who wrote the study for The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a nonprofit group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that supports economics studies relevant to public policy.

The national security establishment needs to prepare for a series of global crises sparked by climate change, a group of experts wrote in a report released today.

A group of American neuroscientists, writing in the journal Neuron, call for the next step in the BRAIN Initiative: a coordinated national network of neurotechnology centers or «brain observatories.»

Shipman writes the Communication Breakdown blog for Scilogs.com, hosted by Spektrum and Nature Publishing Group, and has been an invited speaker and moderator on science communication issues at national and regional conferences.

Her plan to reintroduce a national currency to replace the euro «would be a catastrophe for French companies and inhabitants,» wrote Antoine Frérot, CEO of utility group Veolia Environnement SA.

However, even as we write, the White House - commissioned National Mathematics Advisory Panel is investigating ways to identify and curb what has come to be known as math anxiety — and we wish the group luck times ten!

The independent evaluation by researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the National Children's Bureau found that Year 2 children in schools with a breakfast club made two additional months» progress in reading, writing and maths compared with a similar group whose schools were not given support to offer breakfast.

As I wrote in a Snapshots of Innovation: Travels With Chen last November, the National Parks — in person and online — hold some of the best resources for teaching across the curricula and age groups.

Writing groups convened by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association are at work on what they say will be a leaner, better - organized, and easier - to - understand version than the 200 - plus - page set that has been circulating among governors, scholars, education groups, teams of state education officials, and others for review in recent weeks.

P2PU National Writing Project study group, Writing and Inquiry in the Digital Age, allows you to interact with some of the brightest (and friendliest) thinkers on the subject of technology - enhanced composing.

Memoirs should be written only by extraordinary people, and as we read Radical, Michelle Rhee's chronicle of her Korean American upbringing, college years, Teach For America experience, tenure as D.C. schools chancellor and now as head of a national advocacy group, we should keep in mind what makes her noteworthy in the education world.

The advice was written in association with the Technology Advisory group of the Finance and Leasing Association (FLA) of which I am vice-chairman, and the National Association of School Business Management (NASBAM).

The American Diploma Project, a joint venture by four national education groups and five states, will help participating states align their high school tests in reading, writing, and mathematics with the skills students need for college and high - performance workplaces.

(Our own Checker Finn has not been a fan of school boards for some time and as recently as 2010 wrote, in National Affairs, that «it seems increasingly clear that our revered system of «local control» by elected municipal school boards can not cope with today's realities of metropolitanization, mobility, and interest - group politics.»)

Local, state, and national groups will benefit from having an organized approach to public relations and a committee charged to design and implement a written plan.

A group of parents protested outside before the vote, and Ron Rice of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools wrote a great piece: NAACP's Anti-Charter Vote Was Disheartening — but What Happened on the Streets of Cincinnati Wasn't.

Conor Williams, senior researcher with New America's Education Policy Program and founder of its Dual Language Learners National Work Group, wrote in The 74 that problems with California's «Local Control Accountability Plans» and its attempt to help dual language learners could be mirrored in ESSA...

«Waivers will work for some states, but will not work for all,» wrote the groups, including the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers.

«At the National Schools - to - Watch conference in Washington DC, a group of us wrote «Galaxy ``, and I sang it during my keynote.

In order to make a true difference in attitude, teachers need time (and money, as necessary) to do professional reading and reflection (professional journals, discussion, writing), attend regional or national multi-day conferences, conduct peer and self observations and analysis, and / or perhaps join a Critical Friends group.

In August, a group of 40 conservative activists wrote an open letter to Walker asking him to encourage the National Governors Association to retract its support for the Common Core.

Since joining JFF in 2002, Dr. Vargas has designed and implemented a research and state policy agenda for implementing early college designs; created policy frameworks, tools, and model legislation; written and edited white papers, research, and national publications; provided technical assistance to state task forces and policy working groups; served on a number of national advisory groups; and organized and presented at national policy conferences.

He is the coauthor of several peer - reviewed papers on school finance and charter schools, and has written many briefs on a variety of education policy issues for groups such as the National Education Policy Center, the Shanker Institute, and the Education Law Center.

In the fall of 2013, Write for Texas convened a group of researchers and national writing experts to author the «Guiding Principles of Effective Writing Instruction.writing experts to author the «Guiding Principles of Effective Writing Instruction.Writing Instruction.»

To celebrate National Reading Group Month, we asked Carin Siegfried, the President of the Women's National Book Association, to write a guest post for us, and she graciously obliged.

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Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin is Ireland's leading literary scout, the founder of The Inkwell Group and of the online national writing resources magazine www.writing.ie

Being part of a nation - wide organization gives you the advantage of a local writing group combined with the protection and benefits that only a national association can provide.

I had joined a writer's group, attended conferences & craft workshops, entered national writing contests, and submitted proposals to agents and editors with countless rejections.