Sentences with phrase «own national focus»

National Charity A tax - exempt organization with a national focus in fundraising and grantmaking.

Looks at NFL games that have national focus, Monday night and playoff games, from 1981 - 1996.

We have also seen that this approach of Betting Against the Public works particularly well in «big games» or «games of national focus.»

The team at SportsInsights studied how our basic sports marketplace indicators performed during this time of «national focus» on «March Madness.»

Our industry contacts and analytical tools allowed us to focus on «bigger games» with national focus — leading to more contrarian value.

But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

Before Heads Up Football, there was no national focus on teaching and training football coaches, parents and players on concussion recognition and response, heat preparedness and hydration, equipment fitting, sudden cardiac arrest, Heads Up Tackling and Heads Up Blocking.

If social democrats step back from their own national focus and look at the bigger picture, they will realize just how vulnerable and ideologically staid European social democracy as a political movement currently is.»

The 30 House Dems at the Top of the GOP's Target List, plus Redrawing The Lines: Growing National Focus on Redistricting.

That's thanks not only to the end of the legal cloud that has hung over the WFP's head since the 2009 NYC elections; but also to the success of its longtime ally, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, and renewed national focus on its top agenda item: Bridging the income equality gap.

Buffalo News columnist Rod Watson wrote today that the protest has the potential to «be different from underwhelming rallies of the past... because the national focus on both income inequality and whether black lives really matter has underscored the economic dimensions of racial exclusion.»

The mayor argued that his national travels, which will continue on Wednesday with a trip to California to talk about income inequality, are necessary to shift the national focus and, ultimately, help him secure federal resources for New York City.

While the national focus is on Flint, Mich., a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation has identified almost 2,000 additional water systems spanning all 50 states where testing has shown excessive levels of lead contamination over the past four years.

Since January, de Blasio has traveled to Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin with his message of the need for higher wages, universal pre-K and paid sick leave on a national level — despite widespread criticism that his national focus is distracting him from New York City issues.

Asked about the governor's increasing national focus, spokesman Richard Azzopardi responded with a laundry list of the governor's accomplishments: his successful drives for marriage equality, gun control, paid family leave, a $ 15 minimum wage and free tuition at state colleges and universities.

But the truth about Cuomo's increasing national focus can be found in the mosaic that offers a detailed image of any politician's ambitions: his news release archive.

In part, Cuomo's increasing national focus is a sign of the times.

But democratic systems also have the downside of high cost of periodic elections, the influence of special interests on elected leaders and the general lack of a sharp national focus, in some cases, because of the frequent changing of leadership and change of national development plans anytime such changes happen, and also the generally slow nature of the decision - making process.

Despite the national focus on this district, Mr. Behan said he thought residents would continue their tradition of voting for people they respect and who they believe will help their families the most.

Lead poisoning has gained renewed attention in recent months because of the national focus on Flint, Mich..

Despite the increased national focus on reducing hospital readmissions, Dharmarajan said it had not been clear whether hospitals with the lowest readmission rates have been especially good at reducing readmissions from specific diagnoses and time periods after hospitalization, or have instead lowered readmissions more generally.

But as he prepares to assume the presidency of AAAS, William Press sees some positive aspects: bipartisan agreement on key U.S. science policy goals, a renewed national focus on...

Readmission rates of adult patients to the same hospital within 30 days are an area of national focus and a potential indicator of clinical failure and unnecessary expenditures.

Our national focus on snacking, grazing and dinner - centric eating has created an epidemic of sluggish digestion, weight gain, and hypoglycemia that plagues so many women.

The researchers concluded it is time to shift the national focus from calories to nutrient - dense foods.

«A greater national focus on the criticality of educational equity is needed in order to mobilize the masses and invite everyone to be a part of the...

Firstly, establishing a national focus for regional, rural and remote education.

Increasing national focus on sugar content has led many influential experts and organisations, including Cancer Research and the UK Health Forum to back the introduction of a Sugar Tax and it was announced last year by the government that this would be introduced in 2018 for soft drinks.

Thompson: The council was one of the few education organizations in Washington to support the No Child Left Behind Act and we believe the federal law deserves credit for focusing the attention of urban schools more sharply on student achievement, and increasing the national focus on educating our neediest children.

The PE crisis is real and undeniable, so much so that America has reached one of those fitness moments of truth that periodically bring calls for a new PE back into national focus.

DriveSafe & StaySafe has called for a national focus on road safety education after a big rise in the number of children killed on Britain's roads.

The time for «reform realism» has arrived: a national focus on results (a la Common standards) combined with state leadership in terms of getting the job done.

This era included a national focus on race relations in America and public policies to promote harmonious relationships between Blacks and Whites.

Kathy Ward - Cameron, the executive director / founding president of the Early Literacy Institute, has been on the leading edge of the national focus on early literacy and practice - based coaching for early childhood practitioners for over two decades.

He said that we are in the midst of a «national educational emergency,» and that the only reason we don't hear more about it is that our national focus is squarely centered on the economy.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, issued a statement saying that the study demonstrates «that charter schools are not the panacea they often are made out to be, and that our national focus must continue to include discussion of how to support and improve our regular public schools.»

But with an increased national focus on standardized test scores, the data collection process has become much more formalized in recent years.

As the national focus on community college grows, a new report released by REL Northwest unveils the developmental education enrollment rates and postsecondary...

The bill provides states and districts with greater flexibility while still preserving a national focus on closing the achievement gap and ensuring that additional services and supports are provided to the students and schools most in need.

While the national focus is often on the poor performance of urban schools, rural and many small - town schools perform significantly worse than urban schools in many cases.

«This brief offers relevant, scholarly research directly from the education community to help college access practitioners mitigate the problem of low college completion rates, especially among underrepresented student groups,» said IHEP President Michelle Asha Cooper, Ph.D. «With an increased national focus on postsecondary degree completion, understanding the role of social supports can be the key to providing college access practitioners with strategies to create comprehensive structures and increase self - efficacy, which in turn, improves student success.»

IN THE ERA OF BLACK LIVES MATTER, the movement that has spotlighted racist policies afflicting black Americans, a new national focus on school discipline disparities has taken hold.

This national focus on racism prompted attention from teachers unions, too.

Arun Ramanathan, who directs the advocacy group Education Trust - West, said he hoped the national focus on education and the importance of good teaching will help bring an end to the notorious «dance of the lemons,» or the shuffling of bad teachers from school to school, which is depicted in an animated cartoon.

In 2015, while continuing to advance a national focus on 21st century learning and leadership, we are again drilling down to provide assistance to local communities.

New York, NY — With the increasing national focus on state leadership in education policy reform, New Leaders» latest publication, Change Agents: How States Can Develop Effective Leaders, makes the case that now is the time for states to improve the preparation and licensure of principals.

In the wake of a standards reform movement that galvanized among state and school system leaders in the 1980s and 1990s, the passage of the Improving America's Schools Act and the Goals 2000 Educate America Act (both enacted in 1994) embedded a meaningful and new national focus on high standards expectations for all students.

Without No Child, there is no Race to the Top, no teacher quality reform movement, no discussion about value - added assessment and no real national focus on stemming achievement gaps.

However, motivated by the principles that fueled both Massachusetts» cap and this paper — making tangible progress in public education, particularly for lower - income and minority American students — a renewed national focus on education policy should be a priority of the country.

Right now, the national focus is on health insurance.