Sentences with phrase «role schools play»

We were also able to make an argument during this election for the role our schools play in the overall health of our city, and lay out a strategy for our union to play a more proactive role in the issues — such as a $ 15 minimum wage, affordable transportation, and affordable housing — that impact the families we serve.

«Californians all across the state know they key role our schools play in our state's future,» he said, «and they have supported them again and again.»

Noel Candelaria, president of the Texas State Teachers Association (TSTA), says lawmakers from rural districts understand the role schools play in their communities and the constant financial pressure they operate under on a daily basis.

«The superintendent and the department have always emphasized the role schools play as a part of the community,» said Giorgos Kazanis, CDE spokesman.

She discusses the «magnificent, selfless» efforts of Catholic educators and the indispensable role their schools play in impoverished neighborhoods.

It is important to know what role schools play in this lack of progress, and if their influence extends to adult outcomes such as crime.

Jayne Molyneux, Sport England's Strategic Lead for Youth, said: «We know what an important role schools play in their local community and we want to actively support those schools who already open up their facilities for community use, and those who are considering doing so.»

In 2004, Congress recognized the important role schools play in promoting the health of youth by creating the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act.

While these are obviously extreme examples, the answers to these questions has prompted researchers and educators to consider what roles schools play in the development of social responsible leaders and contributors.

Not exact matches

«MBA programs and business schools can play a small but important role in that.»

Proper governance is also a «huge issue» for private firms, and plays an increasingly critical role in creating a framework for a smooth transition, observes Eileen Fischer of York University's Schulich School of Business.

«Our findings suggest that frequent e-cigarette use may play an important role in cessation or relapse prevention for some smokers,» Daniel Giovenco, an assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the lead study author, said in a statement.

Mark Schankerman, a professor at the London School of Economics, who first met Spangenberg after he donated some of his patent fortune to fund work in entrepreneurship at the London school, said patent trolls and their lawyers play a role in limiting the patent economy, especially in cases where they are demanding too much for IP — «the «holdups,» as he calledSchool of Economics, who first met Spangenberg after he donated some of his patent fortune to fund work in entrepreneurship at the London school, said patent trolls and their lawyers play a role in limiting the patent economy, especially in cases where they are demanding too much for IP — «the «holdups,» as he calledschool, said patent trolls and their lawyers play a role in limiting the patent economy, especially in cases where they are demanding too much for IP — «the «holdups,» as he called them.

A panel of Canadian CEOs recently expressed their views on financial literacy in a poll conducted by COMPAS Inc., and 51 % said schools should play the lead role in building the country's foundation of knowledge.

At the same time, college (and graduate school) played an important role in the paths of plenty of founders.

«Of all the factors that lead to corporate crime, none comes close in importance to the role top management plays in tolerating, even shaping, a culture that allows for it,» says William Laufer, the director of the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School.

As Mike Moffatt, economics professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business, explained to me: «Self - fulfilling prophecies play a large role in economics.

«What possibly played the most critical role in my decision was the fact that I felt happy and excited around the school and meeting current students.

«Political connections appear to have played a role in the allocation of these funds,» wrote Alan Jagolinzer, professor at the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School.

School administrators, who often play the roles of juries and judges when it comes to determining whether sexual assault took place, are ill - equipped to do so: «There's a competency gap here.»

Then she went to the Yale School of Drama for her M.F.A and was a shining acting star even then playing roles in Shakespeare plays to musicals.

Passionate about the University of Calgary, Schmidt and Laricina Energy Ltd. both played pivotal roles in the Engineering Leaders Campaign at the Schulich School of Engineering, funding a five - year scholarship program, a chemical and petroleum engineering graduate student space, a boardroom in the new engineering building expansion, and a portion of the Canada Research Chair in Energy and Imaging.

The old - school marketing format has survived to play a crucial creative role in modern e-commerce.

Business schools have an important role to play there.

In the aftermath, school leaders are examining every aspect of the tragedy, including what role they can play in passing «common sense gun laws,» Bartleman said.

In this spirit, almost everyone can name a teacher they had in school who played an important role in inspiring, encouraging and challenging them to further their interests and studies.

She noted that the school plays an important part in our university's role in the community as a hub for innovation, entrepreneurial thinking and leadership.

On Tuesday, August 22, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, Pew Charitable Trusts, and Save the Children hosted a back - to - school Twitter chat on the important role schools and related services play for children and communities following a disaster,

On the question of secularism and the Supreme Court's decisions on prayer and other religious activities in the public schools: No doubt these decisions, which repudiated both history and the wishes of parents and state legislators alike, played a significant role in the acceleration of what Richard John Neuhaus later dubbed the «naked public square.»

The state, and the republican school in particular, must play its role in transmitting this inheritance to each new generation and to immigrants by assuring mastery of French language, literature, and history, and socializing students into the French way of life.

In the United States, prior to the second World War parochial schools played a large role among Roman Catholics.

The area in which schools should have a very significant role to play (and where perhaps some Catholic schools currently underperform), is the promotion of a culture in which young people understand and engage with the Church's key teachings relating to sexuality and the inherent dignity of human life.

It doesn't matter what role we play in life whether you're a janitor at a school or President of the United States, or everything in between.

But one must also consider the roles played by institutions (the cult, the school, the court of law, the state), family and kinship groups and key leaders (including the prophets and the sages).

By resting much of his case on the unproven assumption that schools in the past played the role he wishes they would play today, Hirsch detracts from his generally plausible argument that more could be done today to help children know and understand their culture.

Although the church school teacher usually plays a minor role, if any, in the process, it is well for him to be able to recognize the warning signs of serious disturbance.

In at least one medical school in Australia, prospective doctors are being taught to take seriously the role media might be playing in shaping their patients» self - diagnosis and how this might affect the patient's receptiveness to medical treatment.

Marty says nothing about what this challenge might mean for theological schools, whose attention to these topics will play an important role in educating the people — pastors, denominational employees, lay leaders and the like — whom he frequently singles out as important interpreters and «brokers» of the public involvement of religious groups.

He grew up in Catholic schools and says he feels strongly about his faith and the role it should play in Italy.

[10] As mentioned above, shortly to be published Australian research of mine found that: «84 \ % of parents believe that parents should play at least an equal role with schools in sex education.»

Catholic schools have a wonderful opportunity to invite trained NFP instructors to teach this part of the programme which will enable girls to gain a fuller understanding of their bodies and their fertility, while at the same time assisting young men better to understand and appreciate the miracle of fertility, the special role played by the woman, and the implications for her physically, psychologically and spiritually as the natural cycle plays out in her daily life.

He adds: «In partnership with parents, schools have a vital role to play in the formation of our children.

Schools can and should play a major role in providing growth opportunities for persons of all ages.

Movements in the church to restore the Sunday School to the formative role it once played in the life of a congregation should be evaluated in terms of where members are expected to acquire Christian attitudes about life.

In general the group which has been drawn into the discussion has consisted of graduate schools of theology; but those who have been engaged in the task of correlating the inquiry have become very much aware that many non-graduate schools — among them Bible colleges and institutes — play a significant role in the educational venture and have a genuine interest in the outcome of theological self - examination.

Schools have continued to offer as an option a version of the liberal arts education they traditionally provided; but such concerns and the faculties supporting them have played steadily decreasing roles among the financial forces that drive the institutions.

As with Kelly's recommendations, the rhetoric of this proposal honors Wissenschaft in theological schooling, but the proposal's structure gives schooling in critical, systematic, disciplined inquiry no role to play in the «training» of religious «professionals.»

Thus there are schools in which paideia's focus on students» understanding of God plays almost no role whatever, neither in shaping what is taught and how, nor in the conventions governing how faculty and students interrelate, how faculty are selected, and how the school manages its common life.

Even though the creators of the National Curriculum are keen to emphasise the importance of what they call «the English literary heritage», by which they mean «authors with an enduring appeal that transcends the period in which they were writing, and who have played a significant role in the development of literature in English» [Qualifications and Curriculum Authority 2007, 71), their choice of recommended authors reveals a set of post-Protestant secular assumptions which need to be challenged if Catholic culture is to flourish in Catholic schools.

Public schools certainly play a critical role in socializing youngsters into the «transcendence» of the law.