Sentences with phrase «part of a national conversation about»

Educators, understandably shaken by the scale of the shooting, found creative ways to talk with their students and encourage them to make their voices part of the national conversation about school safety.

Scientists who have been studying opioid deaths across the country believe that socioeconomic factors and natural disasters should become part of any national conversation about how to tackle America's wave of opioid deaths.

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As part of our work to insert the stories and perspectives of moms into the national conversation about climate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Congress.

And yet, I have the feeling this modest little 83 - minute comedy will reverberate like a gunshot in our national conversation about abortion — in part because of the casually irreverent aplomb with which Robespierre approaches this tinderboxiest of topics.

As part of the way the NBPTS has «changed the conversation» about teaching, it has gained increasing acceptance in the education profession (including the national teachers» associations) for performance assessment and for differential certification and pay for outstanding teachers.

The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.

In this conversation recorded on February 22, 2009, as part of the National Gallery of Art lecture series The Collecting of African American Art, Deborah Willis speaks with the Kelleys about their passion and determination to build a collection that advances and preserves the legacy of African American art.

Returning to our oft - abandoned theme of DNA Day, the conversation about the wisdom of DNA databases as a crime - fighting tool continues, sparked in no small part by President Obama's appearance last month on America's Most Wanted to voice his support for the creation of a national DNA database.