Sentences with phrase «of powerful education»

Last year, those hearings proved uncomfortable for Senate Republicans too, when they seemed to find themselves unable to criticize specific aspects of de Blasio's education agenda, despite the assistance of powerful education reform advocacy groups in New York City.

The makeup of the powerful education policymaking panel will be drastically different, with increased racial and gender diversity and a greater representation of public school educators.

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«(I had) this dream that from a tiny acorn, the potential of a young person, could grow this massive oak tree... as Nelson Mandela said: «Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.»

He also is one of the founders of FWD.us, a lobbying group of powerful silicon valley entrepreneurs focused on many political matters, such as immigration and education reform.

Carving out all - female spaces for education, debate, and building relationships is more powerful than many of us realize.

Through an annual competition and ongoing program, the entrepreneurs are introduced to new ways of managing business growth via a powerful combination of executive education, networking, mentorship and connections.

Dissecting the marketing playbooks of successful product producers including Nike, Red Bull, Steve Jobs, and Dr. Dre, guerrilla marketer Al Lautenslager delivers an education on maintaining marketing momentum and developing the most powerful sales team you'll ever have — loyal customers who advocate your brand and champion everything you sell.

Once you get started on this journey of self - education, you'll be amazed at what you learn and how simple things can have a powerful impact on your overall success in life.

To create dynamic, easy to follow systems of courses, seminars, groups and systems for business owners and entrepreneurs that create a powerful learning environment both in personal growth and business education.

Ramming through the Redford government's cuts to post-secondary education, the powerful Mr. Lukaszuk frequently speaks as if he leads the government, leading some conservatives to suggest he has leadership ambitions of his own.

She was also recognized as one of YWCA's 2012 Women of Distinction in Education, and became the first college president to be inducted into the Women's Executive Network ™ Hall of Fame after being named one of Canada's Most Powerful Women in 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Exceptional education, world - class speakers, cutting - edge health IT products and powerful networking are hallmarks of this industry - leading conference.

The power that Israel wields over our Democracy is evident in the miss - appropriation of wealth, while our children are treated to a public education not worthy of circus animals, Israel has our defense industry pumping out fighter jets at 350 million each, and it's no surprise they have the most powerful military on earth.

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.

This means that the high valuation of science and education, so widespread across the world, is an expression of the interests of the rich and powerful.

By combining slave religion with pentecostal worship and Booker T. Washington's vision of black uplift through industrial education, Mason was able to forge a powerful cultural enterprise.

In his encyclical Divini Illius Magistri, issued in 1939, Pope Pius XI deplored the fact that «these most powerful means of publicity, which can be of great utility for instruction and education when directed by sound principles, are only too often used as an incentive to evil passions and greed for gain.»

To a young academic such as I was, facing the corrosive impact of critical theory on higher education, Newman's ecclesiastical polemic against the «suicidal excesses» of unfettered human thought retained a powerful relevance.

In Germany, under the leadership of Rolf Zerfass and Norbet Mette, there has been an important revival of practical theology But a very powerful recent statement pointing to its revival can he found in Edward Fancy's recent book, Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological Education

Although Thomas Groome in his widely celebrated Christian Religious Education (Harper & Row, 1980) does not actually use the term, he does in fact present a powerful practical theology of Christian education that constitutes the major reason for the book'sEducation (Harper & Row, 1980) does not actually use the term, he does in fact present a powerful practical theology of Christian education that constitutes the major reason for the book'seducation that constitutes the major reason for the book's success.

Those who defend it often say it counter-balances the built - in tendency of higher education to favor the privileged and the powerful.

It could offer a powerful tool to improve literacy and education in developing areas... Now we have sought in good faith and so far as it is possible to present a program which is above the clash of partisan politics or the cold war.

The three - and - a-half-year study found that «effective Christian education is the most powerful single influence congregations have on maturity of faith.»

This working together in preventive education not only lightens the burdens for both groups, it establishes that close sense of community that is a powerful resource for health and against illness.

The temptation for young, ambitious, and educated Christians to convert to Islam for social and economic reasons is powerful, as Christians have little prospect of obtaining coveted positions in government and education, regardless of their credentials.

Moreover, the social shift I describe has isolated certain powerful institutions (corporate, military, governmental, media, entertainment) from the influence of the so - called normative institutions such as education, religion and the arts.

In doing so, they had powerful support from the secular media of communication and they made very effective use of a conception of academic freedom that had been designed to promote the secularization of higher education.

Though the letter, which seems to acknowledge the powerful impact of the Malala's activism, is somewhat unheard of from a Taliban commander, U.N. officials say the group still poses a threat to girls seeking education in the country.

Innocent idealizations of theological education give way before concrete realities of the particular theological school whose ethos is the medium in which one now largely lives and whose polity constrains one's life in powerful but often elusive ways.

«We work in this market by providing continuous education to an already powerful network of foodservice professionals and concentrate on large scale projects.»

A powerful lobby of Australian business and education interests in Asia this week warned the move was already making it harder to recruit staff and would damage Australia's people - to - people engagement with Asia at a time when it was trying to build a closer relationship with the region.

«BarSmarts is one of the most powerful and successful bartender education programs in the industry,» said Shawn Kelley, Senior Brand Manager for Brand Education, Pernod Rieducation programs in the industry,» said Shawn Kelley, Senior Brand Manager for Brand Education, Pernod RiEducation, Pernod Ricard USA.

The stark fact that complicates incentive studies like Fryer's is that for children who grow up in difficult circumstances, there already exists a powerful set of material incentives to get a good education.

Woodland Star has developed a powerful educational vision that incorporates Waldorf education methods and embraces the developmental model of the unfolding child.

Woodland Star has developed a powerful educational vision that is guided by the core principles of Public Waldorf education and embraces the developmental model of the unfolding child.

It's really pretty simple: Georgia Organics coordinates the #GoldenRadish Awards with the Georgia Department of Education, Georgia Department of Agriculture, and Georgia Department of Public Health, a powerful team to make the dream of local food for local kids work.

When her son was three, Kathy had the good fortune of taking parenting classes with Ruth Beaglehole, founding Director of the Center for Nonviolent Education and Parenting, (theechocenter.org), and she realized this powerful compassionate method of working with children was something she wanted to teach.

It was a powerful symbolic moment — an inescapable reminder that the challenge of teaching low - income children has become the central issue in American education.

Nestlé believes that education is the single most powerful tool for ensuring that children understand the value of nutrition and physical activity to their health through the course of their lives.

He sees education as a powerful beacon which if properly harnessed can banish the scourge of poverty, ignorance and disease and set a nation firmly on the path to greatness.

With the right circumstances of social discourse, education, media coverage, and so on - powerful or interested minorities make people believe or support one thing or the other, and they vote accordingly.

That Flanagan would find himself insisting that he supports education for children highlights the powerful legislator's increasingly lonely political quest to restrict Mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools by giving him only a brief control of mayoral control with heavy conditions.

Cuomo «has charted his own course on education policy between two powerful forces: labor unions and a movement claiming the mantle of reform,» write Jacob Gershman and Lisa Fleischer.

My dad was there for 26 years, that's how he became powerful, that's how he became the chairman of education and labor,» Mr. Powell said.

Could it be that the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers» union and one of the most politically powerful special interests in history, isn't really about educational effectiveness after all, and that the Democrat Congress is in the pockets of the NEA?

The powerful Assembly Democrats are behind closed doors Tuesday morning, discussing specifics of a Cuomo education plan that some apparently heard about only late Monday, despite that a Cuomo administration official, speaking on background, told reporters that the deal has been in place for days and denied that there were messaging discrepancies coming from the executive and the Legislature.

Queens Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, who chairs the powerful Committee on Finance, suggested the city could lose precious monies for the NYPD for its non-cooperation on immigration issues, while the public hospital network could suffer if the president repeals the Obama - era Affordable Care Act and the school system might lose funding under the policies of U.S. Secretary of Education - designate Betsy DeVos.

As the city school district grapples with failing schools, a powerful Buffalo stakeholder will lead a discussion on «The State of Public Education in Buffalo» Wednesday evening.

The governor is also expected push for a tougher teacher evaluation system by linking some, if not all, of the promised 4 percent increase in education aid while also overhauling the state pension system — two moves that will put him on a collision course with powerful labor unions.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's ruling that Superintendent Kriner Cash can circumvent the union contract to make changes at receivership schools will likely end in a court battle with one of the most powerful teachers unions in the country.