Sentences with phrase «on social education»

«I had significant gaps in my own knowledge and I needed to figure out where I was headed,» Taylor - Ide says, noting that the program allowed him to create a dynamic learning experience focused on social education, particularly the role cultural values play in social systems.

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It has been on an upward price track for years, in part because the Chinese — compelled by the lack of a social safety net to save rigorously for things like higher education and in case of illness — have few other investing vehicles with which to protect their savings from the ravages of inflation.

Sousa, however, is confident investment will pick up, owing to the government's spending on health care, education and other social programs.

CF: Unfortunately I think all those choices are sort of being hidden, they're choices that are being made right now that we spend more and more on health care and less on education and social supports and all these other things.

So what is happening is that health care continues to grow apace but we're spending less on other things, other areas of potential governmental spending such as education, social supports, housing.

He is also planning to remain the voice of Starbucks» social impact efforts, like when he asked his employees to write «Come Together» on cups during the government shutdown in 2011 or his decision to offer full - and part - time employees tuition for a college education.

«We need to raise the bar on the quality of the education and the core standards of competency to give Social Security advice,» said Meyer, who has two main pieces of advice to financial advisors.

Space critics such as the CBC's Wendy Mesley and Now are usually opposed to the billions spent on agencies, largely because of their ties to the military - industrial complex and because they feel it's money that could be spent on better things, such as education or social programs.

Some are forming practices to focus exclusively on Social Security consulting, while others are providing specialized education and resources to their peers.

The organization is named Sentebale, which means «forget me not» in the language of Lesotho and focuses on social development, education, and health of Lesotho's orphans.

The game draws on academic publications about «social and emotional learning skills,» an often ignored sector of education.

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.

It's a fraction of the social outreach Noront has taken on to promote education, training and mining, says Kaitlyn Ferris, the company's corporate responsibility manager, as she wrapped up a Christmas trip to Webequie, Ont., another aboriginal community.

Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

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The study goes on to explain how the social entrepreneurship trend transcends education level in many regions.

Recent keynote addresses have focused on privacy, social media, copyright, education, security, and the free speech on the Internet.

When you type a website's URL, it will give you a comprehensive list of data of any site you put in such as global rank, estimated traffic (w / data range), engagement metrics: time on site, page views and bounce rate, visitor demographic (gender, education, geography, etc.), and traffic sources (search traffic, social media traffic, referral traffic, and display advertising).

According to the lender, you can earn points by consistently paying your bills on time, watching personal financial education videos, completing budgeting tutorials, monitoring your credit score and interacting with the company on social media.

And housing is arguably easier to post progress on than, say, education and social services.

In the public sector, accounting methods used by governments in education, health and social services impact on how these services are provided, who receives the services and the costs of these services.

What I found most interesting was his conclusion, based on the research of University of Chicago economist James Heckman, that it is more essential to invest in early childhood education where children will develop the social skills that are truly what are necessary to live a successful and wealthy life.

Many municipal golf courses have closed, because governments are unable to justify support for golf when they have cut spending on education and social services.

How can U.S. labor compete with foreign labor when employees and their employers are obliged to pay such high mortgage debt for its housing, such high student debt for its education, such high medical insurance and Social Security (FICA withholding), such high credit - card debt — all this even before spending on goods and services?

Imposing higher taxes on the wealthy is the best way for countries such as Canada to reinvest in their social safety nets, education, and infrastructure while protecting the middle class.

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In response to these strains, state and local governments have cut infrastructure investment, slashed support for higher education, cut spending on K — 12 education, cut spending on social benefits other than Medicaid, reduced administrative staff and reduced most other areas of the budget.

El Puente, a Latino organization based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that focuses on social justice, education and climate change issues, has raised enough money to purchase thousands of lanterns — which Puerto Ricans on the island view as a glimmer of hope to help guide them through the dark.

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On top of that, most companies DO NOT have a formal social media education program in place.

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In particular, this means increased focus on education, immigration, social infrastructure and the participation of women and indigenous peoples in the economy.

My goal would be to both ensure that those who depend on the program are protected, while also balancing the growing cost of Social Security with other pressing priorities — from programs for children, the vulnerable, public investments, and shoring up our education and worker retraining systems.

«The Church is as keen as ever to encourage wide debate and discussion on the issues which matter - social justice, poverty, education, peace.»

(Albert Einstein)-- A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary.

With a focus on social consciousness, service for others and education, I learned some of the greatest lessons of my life so far, from amazing professors.

Allen identifies and comments on seven areas of concern that African Christians face in their churches, including the Africanization of theology, relationships with other religions, church and state, pastoral leadership, relationship with Euro - American partner churches, theological education, and struggles with social concerns.

students in social and church placements in their first semester onward; it involved the entire faculty as well as field supervisors in a process of collaborative learning; and it was based on the clinical pastoral education model.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

The Indian National Congress has also been formed as the political expression of the awakening of the people under the leadership of the class with western - oriented education; and linked to the politics of nationalism was also movements of social reform of family relations and caste structures on the basis of personal liberty and social equality.

The focus was not on curing adverse social conditions but on ensuring» through education and employment» that all Americans made use of the opportunities available to them.

If that central relationship is distorted, if we look to something less than God for our fulfillment, seeking affirmation on the level of status, wealth, social position, achievement, education, power, or whatever, then our human light will inevitably burn at a lower wattage; our being will be distorted.

One can live on little food, but not on none; one can defy his environment, but never wholly escape social claims; one can get more education, but can never know everything; one can live to a ripe old age, but eventually the grim reaper comes his way.

But our work together thus far has already established several points that may have an important bearing on the future of theological education in America: (1) the party - strife between «evangelicals» and «charismatics» and «ecumenicals» is not divinely preordained and need not last forever; (2) the Wesleyan tradition has a place of its own in the theological forum along with all the others; (3) «pluralism» need not signify «indifferentism»; (4) «evangelism» and «social gospel» are aspects of the same evangel; (5) in terms of any sort of cost - benefit analysis, a partnership like AFTE represents a high - yield investment in Christian mission; and (6) the Holy Spirit has still more surprises in store for the openhearted.

A school in which girls are encouraged to gain top - level religious and secular educations so that they can go on to be learned and confident mothers, diplomats, or Torah scholars, threatens Haredi attempts to limit women's social roles and educational possibilities.

And free discussion is, for Rorty, «simply [my italics] the sort which goes on when the press, the judiciary, the elections, and the universities are free, social mobility is frequent and rapid, literacy is universal, higher education is common, and peace and wealth have made possible the leisure necessary to listen to lots of different people and think about what they have to say» (CIS 84).

Whether we point to «secularization» or «modernization» or merely mobility and rising levels of education, the cultural and social base on which the once - dominant denominations built their fiefdoms has all but disappeared — the lingering reality of racial division being the glaring exception.

Rorty feels that philosophy should not be thought of as a foundation for education or politics; on the contrary, he insists that grounding social and political action on philosophical theories of human nature has done more harm than good.

Some observers would say that theological education has been too much focused on the cognitive dimension of learning as opposed to personal and social transformation — doing and feeling.