Sentences with phrase «schools debate there»
Throughout the grammar schools debate there has been an underlying suspicion from many that the Eton - educated Tory leader is denying others the kind of elite education that grammar schools traditionally provided poorer parents.
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Since a shooting at a Florida high school last month that left 17 people dead, there has been an intensifying public debate
There are no shortage of issues that I hope will be the focus of debate in this election (urban sprawl, inner city schools, regional amalgamation, and others that I plan to write about over the next six months), but the one issue that may have the potential to create a major wave is the Katz Group «s desire to have the City of Edmonton to fund $ 400,000,000 for a new downtown arena.
This week's school shooting, and we have to say, «this week's,» because there are so many, prompted this Facebook post of a depressingly familiar cycle: mass shooting followed by calls for thoughts and prayers, Facebook debates, everyone forgets, Congress does nothing, crickets chirping, and then another mass shooting.
As the Children's Schools and Families Bill 2009/2010 hurtles towards Royal Assent via the debating of committee stage amendments, there is a great deal at stake for home schoolers in particular and liberty in general.
There should never be a debate on what is taught in schools.
While there may be debate as to whether the Washington - bound Browning is the greatest NorCal high school QB in history, there is no debate that the state will not soon see anything like Browning and Folsom's 2014 season.
There's a reason why it will be decided in a format that's a little more complicated than a high school debate.
We can debate whether there's a one - size - fits - all solution to school food, but it's irrefutable that the «solution» Jamie showed us on Friday night is currently available only to a teeny tiny fraction of the schools in this country lucky enough to find an angel like Orfalea, and that's information he quite intentionally did not share with us.
As I argued in one of my first Lunch Tray posts («The Birthday Cupcake Debate Heats Up «-RRB-, when a child is at school, he or she is as captive to what goes on there as a person in an elevator is captive to second - hand smoke.
There is a big debate in America on reforming the public school lunch program.
Debate won't begin until later this month, but Haas says «I'm optimistic there is some bipartisan support for continuing the school lunch program the way it is.
The No - Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night by Elizabeth Pantley There are two schools of thought for encouraging babies to sleep through the night: the hotly debated Ferber technique of letting the baby «cry it out,» or the grin - and - bear - it solution of getting up from dusk to dawn as often as necessary.
From the time when the Columbine school shooting rocketed through the news, to now when cry - it - out sleep training is being openly debated rather than just merely accepted as the norm — reflecting the huge change we, as a culture, are having on the idea of relationship — there was 1 or 2 generations of individuals who were transitioning from the «old» way of relating — hierarchical and fear - based authority — to this «new» way: collaborative, emotionally literate, and focused on problem - solving.
«I had to shake it up a little bit because I heard there is a debate going on in Pennsylvania over whether most schools condemn sweets, cakes, cookies, that type of thing,» Palin said.
The No - Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night There are two schools of thought for encouraging babies to sleep through the night: the hotly debated Ferber technique of letting the baby «cry it out,» or the grin - and - bear - it solution of getting up from dusk to dawn as often as necessary.
Nationwide, there have been years of discussion about how to improve school lunches; this summer, the debate heats up again as Congress takes up the reauthorization of child nutrition programs that President Obama has made a centerpiece of his domestic agenda.
We need to show school children the value of debate before they get there.
The new schools chancellor has spoken about the issue almost daily, the mayor has been asked about it repeatedly, and there have been dozens of articles, editorials and debates.
«Do I think there will be discussions about charter schools and a robust debate?
«Westchester is consistently shortchanged on school funding, and now we see why: our own state senator won't pay his school taxes, and when the debate over funding is going on in Albany, he's not there to represent us,» said Astorino campaign spokesman Bill O'Reilly.
Knowing the local community and the schools concerned, albeit not recently, there will indeed be heated debate.
Although Britain becomes ever more a cultural 51st state of the US, there are certain references in popular culture that remain specifically American: baseball, the yellow school bus, and that line in a Paul Simon song about «going to the candidates» debate».
That could give Democrats some leverage when it comes time to negotiate criminal justice reforms - but, there are so many other major issues at stake for Democrats including a minimum wage increase, renewing mayoral control of schools, the sunset of rent laws, and The DREAM Act, that there is a chance that the debate could be overshadowed yet again.
«The crisis in Flint brought the true costs of a neglected infrastructure to the nation's attention, but in the finger - pointing there are deeper debates over public and private responsibility and the impact of dysfunctional politics on public health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Affairs.
Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire's School of Medical and Life Sciences, said: «There is considerable debate about the impact of climate change on crop production — and making sure that we have sufficient food to feed the ever - growing global population is key to our future food security.»
Although a connection between fever and these birth defects has been known for decades, says coauthor Eric Benner, a neonatologist at Duke University School of Medicine, there has been some debate as to whether the fever itself or an infectious agent behind the fever is the culprit.
In an accompanying editorial, Allan S. Brett, M.D., of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, S.C., writes that while there may be debate over the use of flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy for colorectal cancer screening, another screening technique, stool DNA testing, might render this debate moot in the not - toodistant future.
«There has been a lot of debate about how expensive the Medicaid expansion would be and until now, it hadn't been clear which Americans had the potential to benefit from the added healthcare coverage in states that participate,» says lead author Tammy Chang, M.D., MPH, MS, an assistant professor in the department of family medicine at the U-M Medical School and an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program.
«There is an ongoing national debate about contraceptive coverage requirements in private health plans in the U.S.,» says lead author Michelle Moniz, M.D., an OB / GYN and researcher at the University of Michigan Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation clinical scholar.
Although much of the public debate is against it, there are pros associated with allowing cell phones in school.
There is no easy way to wade into debates about a community's culture and the level to which it should or should not be included in schools.
In light of the report, the Sutton Trust has recommended that schools provide a «broad array of life skills within regular lessons and through extra-curricular activities like debating and volunteering» and that there should be a focus on increasing participation from those less well - off.
Jasmina.K: There has been a growing debate about state versus private schooling and particularly about the values that are taught in state schools.
In debating state versus private schooling, there has been criticism of the values that are taught in state schools.
As schools around the world focus on how best to prepare students for success in the 21st century, there's been much debate about what approach works best.
Many white families left cities to move to the suburbs — white flight» — though there is some debate about how much of this was caused by Brown and the racial integration of schools.
looks at the role charter schools are playing in Boston and at political debates over whether there should be more charter schools there.
«There is certainly a lot more to learn about time in schools, but I think the time to debate whether or not we should be trying this is definitely over,» Gabrieli said.
The evidence is not clear cut, and there is considerable debate about the negative side effects of a test - based school culture, but there are nonetheless some positive signs.
Even though many virtual schools provide social opportunities, there is no denying the amenities of the comprehensive school: from jazz band, sports, and school plays to debate team, student councils, and proms.
I say recently, but this seems to be something that flairs up quite regularly - certainly, for as long as I've been teaching there have been interminable debates about the value of technology and how it should be deployed in schools, and what role it should play in children's education - I can remember far enough back to when laptop programs were seen as innovative and new, or when digital projectors and interactive whiteboards were going to change teaching and learning as we knew it.
Concerns about charter schools include them challenging the long - existing status quo (there are more than 4,000 in the U.S.); adding fuel to the debate of vouchers, markets, and choice; and affecting the funding of traditional schools, seemingly pitting charter activists against traditional school educators.
If in doing so it deprives state schools of sufficient teachers then there will be a debate to be had about how to ensure sufficient teachers of the right balance of subjects and other experience for all state - funded schools.
With controversy swirling around President Trump's critique of these actions, reactions from school officials, parents, and the wider community will undoubtedly vary, from total support to tolerance to disapproval and threats of discipline (about which, itself, there is robust debate).
Also in this issue: A look back at what the Obama administration's signature education reform got wrong, with lessons learned to guide states and districts in refining their teacher evaluation systems, and a warning on the limits of federally - led school reform; a proposal for how to redesign education research under the Every Student Succeeds Act; and a debate on whether there is a federal constitutional right to education.
There's broad commitment to ensuring that all high - school graduates are college - and career - ready, but heated debate about the best means of achieving that goal.
«It was an opportunity to broaden the debate, but we continue to only see urban schools,» West said, noting that there are reform issues in all schools and that there is a need for change.
Who should control our schools is a long - standing debate, but there has never been a proposal like the one in this book.
There is a constant debate in schools today around web design and what children should learn and how that fits with the skills they might need beyond the school situation.