Sentences with phrase «quality of a nation»

BREEAM, like all standards / tools, may not be perfect but to scrap its use entirely would have deeply concerning implications not just for the quality of the nation's schools, but for the construction and property sector more widely.»

The quality of a nation's schools can not rise above the quality of its teachers.

is «the quality of the nation's cadre of K - 12 mathematics teachers.»

For example, two of the current top priorities of the U.S. Department of Education are to get states to implement rigorous teacher evaluation systems and to improve the quality of the nation's teacher preparation programs.

We see only slight changes in people's views on the quality of the nation's schools, for instance, or on federally mandated testing, charter schools, tax credits to support private school choice, merit pay for teachers, or the effects of teachers unions.

In the past two years, raising the quality of the nation's teaching force has become a priority that cuts across partisan lines.

These and other differences, such as the quality of a nation's teachers, can be valuable tools in discerning where, if ever, class - size reductions are likely to be beneficial.

The quality of a nation's teaching force also affects student performance and therefore must be controlled for.

Moreover, the public already has a pretty good understanding of the quality of the nation's schools.

But Americans have long been of two minds about the quality of the nation's schools — with most giving their local schools high marks but education in the United States far lower levels of approval on the whole.

The watershed document on the quality of the nation's public school system was A Nation at Risk, published in 1983.

In contrast, Heckman and Carneiro advocate reallocating resources toward the youngest students (especially preschoolers), expanding mentoring programs for disadvantaged adolescents, and raising the quality of the nation's public schools, not by augmenting their resources, but by enhancing parental choice.

At ASCD, we believe that it's time for education policymakers at the national, state, and local levels to catch up with research and public opinion and make improving the quality of our nation's teachers a top priority.

The union also gave $ 588,490 to the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, which is charged with overseeing the quality of the nation's university schools of education; for all the NEA's declarations that it wants to reform how aspiring teachers are recruited and trained, it continues to subsidize the outfits responsible for the slipshod quality of training by the nation's ed schools.

We can't improve the quality of our nation's educators or teacher training programs without a serious dialogue around what good teaching looks like, especially for the most at - risk students for whom excellent teaching is most vital.

America's economic future depends in large part on the quality of our nation's public education.

PAA looks forward to working with to improve H.R. 2218, in order to assure better charter school transparency, accountability and governance, so that they fulfill the role originally envisioned for these programs that of partners in improving the overall quality of our nation's public schools.

Indeed, many researchers maintain that improving the quality of the nation's teaching force is the best policy intervention for raising student achievement (Goldhaber, 2002; Rivkin, Hanushek, & Kain, 2005).

But we believe that the benefits to the quality of our nation's teachers and our education system as a whole make the task worthwhile.

As part of their support of the Surfrider Foundation's clean water initiatives, Volkswagen of America, Inc. is contributing more than $ 100,000 to the organization to fund ongoing efforts to protect the water quality of our nation's coastlines and watersheds.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

In addition to writing several best - selling books like The Road Ahead, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has raised billions of dollars to combat infectious diseases and elevate the quality of life for impoverished nations around the globe.

Inc. staffers recently released the results of a survey in which they asked CEO's of the nation's fastest growing private companies to select three qualities that led them to success.

It also had the lowest rank in food quality of all rated hamburger chains in the Nation's Restaurant News 2014 Consumer Picks survey.

«A combination of service, quality and technology are all contributing to strong sales of late,» Nation's Restaurant News writes.

About Lennar Lennar Corporation, founded in 1954, is one of the nation's leading builders of quality homes for all generations.

«The decline in employment quality over the past two decades does not mean that we have turned into a nation of «hamburger flippers,»» Tal wrote.

Remember that our nation has embraced a unique set of indelible qualities that must guide your deliberations in this Parliament.

The treaties promised First Nations farming equipment and instruction, but it was often of poor quality, and Indigenous farmers could not sell their produce without the approval of Indian agents, who were sensitive to the concerns of white settlers who resented the competition.

CIFAR is finding the root causes of human diseases, developing technology to improve quality of life, bridging the divide between rich and poor nations, and meeting our future energy needs.

We will work with the Métis Nation to improve the quality of life for Métis individuals and commun...

It has been highlighted at that following media outlets: • US News: «Indeed, the top three factors shaping image and future investment in a nation are innovation and entrepreneurship, quality of life and global... Read more»

One of the nation's premier healthcare benefits providers, Aetna has offered remote work for utilization management clinicians, informatics analysts, healthcare quality analysts, field case managers, digital solution architects, registered nurses, and community relations managers.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

To turn GDP growth around, Yellen recommended that Congress adopts policies that «encourage business investment and capital formation, improve the nation's infrastructure, raise the quality of our educational system, and support innovation and the adoption of new technologies.»

Some tech workers, tired of crowding and gridlock, are decamping to lower priced cities across the nation in search of a higher quality of life.

(There may also be a realisation that the quality of at least part of the nation's human capital could well deteriorate if high unemployment were to persist for a prolonged period.)

Residents of Kanpur reacted with dismay Wednesday after the Indian city was found to have the worst air quality in a global World Health Organization survey that urged the nation to clean up its act.

«the body of a Jewish person is of a totally different quality from the body of [members] of all nations of the world... A non-Jew's entire reality is only vanity.»

Over half of black children in public primary and secondary schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.

This realism stems from what Christopher Lasch referred to as an awareness «that the contingent, provisional, and finite quality of temporal things finds its most vivid demonstration not just in the death of individuals but in the rise and fall of nations.»

The evil I want to inflict on the other (who is bad, either because of his personal qualities or because he belongs to a certain race, class, or nation or holds certain opinions)-- is the evil I inflict justified by the evil he has done?

The release of Les Misérables on DVD will remind a nation of one of its new favourite films, but it also presents Christians with a rare opportunity a resource of exceptional quality that will provoke conversations about faith.

We really need to strengthen our math and science courses in our schools if we want our nation to not deteriorate in quality of life.

I can not discuss them all here, but the following references are a start: Theodore de Laguna, review of The Principles of Natural Knowledge in Philosophical Review, 29 (1920), 269; Bertrand Russell, review of Science and the Modern World in Nation and Athenaeum, 39 (May 29,1926), 207; Charles Hartshorne, Creativity in American Philosophy (New York: Paragon House, 1984), 5,32,279 - 280; and even though Stephen Pepper believes both Whitehead and Bergson are mistaken in their views, he believes they are extremely similar: see Pepper, Concept and Quality: A World Hypothesis (LaSalle: Open Court, 1967), 340 - 341.

On the whole, those Protestants who favor the national system want to improve the quality and quantity of help to the poor, insuring that in an affluent nation such as ours noone goes hungry, unclothed, or homeless.

That the fall of a nation is on the same level as the withering of a fig tree — functioning merely as a sign of the divine intentions — makes arbitrary the social quality of human life.

In our nations and communities, the quality of life is the imperative issue.

He must have space, food, water, at certain levels of quantity and quality before he can write poetry, build nations, command armies, pray to God, or love his neighbor.

The quality of life in nations and communities, in family relations, in individual worlds is the imperative issue of our times.