Sentences with phrase «of education problems»

Although they face the same troubles as all women in modern times, they have also to face the historical opposition force of a recent colonization social mentality and have to overcome economic and lack of education problems that result from their parent's immigration origin.»

Under the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) supports national research and development centers that are intended to contribute significantly to the solution of education problems in the United States by engaging in research, development, evaluation, and national leadership activities aimed at improving the education system, and ultimately, student achievement.

Teachers unions «are at the heart» of our education problems.

Their advice to school boards and district officials: prioritize the importance of increasing minority male educators and recognize that they offer a solution to many of the education problems facing adolescent boys; and don't automatically focus on these educators in a behavioral capacity instead of the educational capacity for which they were trained and hired and may prefer.

The second — and bigger — problem with Moe's argument is the notion that unions are at «the heart» of our education problem.

Not exact matches

I should also note a thrust of my Leadership and the Environment keynote is that although I support science, education, innovation, and the approaches to reducing pollution, resource depletion, overpopulation, global warming, and our other environmental problems, I believe we need leadership in the style of Martin Luther King Junior, Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel, Mohandas Gandhi, and so on.

«The education system can not solve the problem for the current population of working - aged adults,» says Gillian Mason, president of ABC Life Literacy Canada (ABC).

In both countries, many readmissions are caused by preventable clerical issues: poor record keeping, lack of patient education or unclear lines of communication — exactly the sorts of problems that startups like Seamless MD are trying to address.

As part of its 7 Days of Genius Festival, a weeklong series of panel discussions and talks kicking off March 1, New York City's 92nd Street Y is launching its first Genius Startup Competition, a contest that's intended to unearth big ideas that can have a major impact in fields such as education, energy, sustainability, and other industries that are poised to address the world's most pressing problems.

Could the education of women be the problem?

Each meet for a total of six hours to build partnerships and offer suggestions for solving the problems within their individual topic areas, which include high - growth entrepreneurship, small business, early childhood education and community investing.

The big problem with a lot of conventional education programs is that they are not sufficiently preparing people for the real world of work.

Losing one contract is not the biggest problem confronting locally based education provider Navitas, even though Macquarie University's decision to end a near 18 - year relationship wiped $ 800 million off the value of the stock yesterday.

But that's changing as more employers come to realize education debt is a problem for many of their workers, said Katie Berliner, account executive at YouDecide, a benefits firm.

The Internet, by his estimation, «is the best tool we've ever developed as humans,» and while most for - profit startups realize this, «the nonprofits that are solving some of the most important problems in the world — that are trying to save lives and provide education — are not adopting it fast enough.

Higher education needs to do a better job of training people to solve problems and create opportunities for themselves — and the rest of us — in a changing economy.

Lower average test scores might not be a problem if you can find out that kids are rapidly improving over time, making that cute house in the cheaper part of town not only good for your wallet, but good for your child's education too.

Used in over 20,000 schools worldwide, Chalk.com solves the problems of lesson planning, assessment, and collaboration designed to ease teachers» pain, facilitate personalized education, and help drive student success.»

Part of the problem is educators» adherence to traditional thinking, and schools» reliance on pedants rather than innovators to deliver entrepreneurship education, Blank says.

However, I think some of the problems in education — that I can see — stem from the funding of a certain education model and therefore, the continual production of the same sorts of outcomes.

We like to joke about some of the problems with education today, but Millennials have a lot of education and there are a lot more opportunities for continuing education — through online courses in traditional schools, and MOOCs, and even just listening to podcasts regularly.

«The fellowship addresses two of the country's most pressing problems, Mr. Thiel says: a bubble in higher education and a dearth of Americans developing breakthrough technologies,» The New York Times reports.

Social entrepreneurship contests: Entrepreneurs working on solving global problems such as hunger, poverty, energy and education now have a smorgasbord of contests from which to choose, including the Hult Global Case Challenge, which awards $ 1 million in prizes annually.

Some of the individuals were behind «megagifts» of $ 200 million to $ 2 billion, big checks most often associated with tech - industry tycoons trying to solve the world's biggest problems — from developing world poverty to lack of universal education — in one bank transfer of epic proportions.

A growing number of companies are trying to solve problems facing the education industry — and they're coming up against a unique set of challenges.

The root of the problem really comes down to better education.

Counsel should be centered around providing a different perspective, instead of a start - to - finish education on the problem.

It's not just a New York problem: 1 in 5 millennial parents report spending 50 percent to 59 percent of income on housing, according to a 2016 report from the National Endowment for Financial Education and Parents magazine.

Joseph Wilson Joseph is the Director of Business Development for Spongelab Interactive, a software company that solves problems in the education industry.

The fellowship addresses two of the country's most pressing problems, Mr. Thiel says: a bubble in higher education and a dearth of Americans developing breakthrough technologies.

With an initial focus on education and health care, the Christensen Institute is redefining the way policymakers, community leaders, and innovators address the problems of our day by distilling and promoting the transformational power of disruptive innovation.

Cryptocurrency mining operations, illegal or not, are becoming a real problem for the higher education sector, where hackers have found plenty of easy to hack systems, but also where students are using university resources to make an extra profit via deliberate cryptocurrency mining.

As Singal sees it, «Why wouldn't you take advantage of your resources, your excellent education and a great network to do something meaningful and solve the problems of the world?»

Formal education is high school and college would go a long way towards solving the lack of confidence, skills and knowledge problem.

... the founding of new colleges were not new supply in higher education part of the solution of this problem?

The second problem is that in order to get some of its debt absolved, Puerto Rico agreed to impose the harsh austerity measures — reducing education and health spending, for instance — that hurt growth at the same time that thousands are fleeing to the mainland in search of economic opportunity.

The core of the problem of building up family assets for education and retirement is the couple's attitude toward investments.

Cicil aims to solve this problem for the six million university students in the country over the four years of their education.

The problem is that I only had enough money to pay for my first year of education.

Islam's problem is lack of education.

In view of his approach to solving the problems facing higher education, it's not surprising that, although long a tenured professor at prestigious schools, Taylor evinces little respect for academic disciplines.

The seemingly intractable and intertwined problems of drug abuse, violence, poor education, broken families, and health disparities have endured for decades without budging despite plenty of efforts to help.

Part of the contemporary problem in making a convincing case for the humanities is that their defenders, despite producing blue - ribbon reports about the current state of education, often do a shockingly bad job of explaining why they are important.

Carter delves into the details of parish schools, the problems of maintaining sexually segregated classrooms, and the limitations of this type of education.

Some say that education is the answer to all of life's problems.

We, and our students, have written not only about God but also about the problem of evil, Christ, the church, Christian education, pastoral counseling, preaching, the nature of human beings, history, liberation and salvation, spirituality, religious diversity, interfaith dialogue, science and religion, and other standard theological topics.

But once one has seen that the advocacy of education and science as solutions to the world's problems expresses the interests of those who are rich and powerful and that the actual effects weaken the weak and impoverish the poor, one discounts the arguments of proponents of the existing systems.

Fact is that you are free to believe whatever you want, it doesn't really help for you to even try to understand the simple elegant FACT of evolution, besides you lack the skills, knowledge, education, and understanding to contribute to fixing the problems that humankind will have to fix in order to survive.

The other burdening problems of the Gospels that I want to talk about are like those questions in that they are not solvable but can only be lived with as a sort of continuing education.

Pope Francis pointed out a serious and chronic problem of Brazil: impunity and corruption, and above all the deep abyss education lies on.