Sentences with phrase «schools than communities»

Communities in more ethnically diverse areas are less likely to build schools than communities in which one ethnic group predominates.

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Resource extraction companies are recognizing that helping people in local communities to become entrepreneurs is better than funding local schools or health centres.

Not to mention, an MBA from UT Austin comes with a network of more than 92,000 McCombs School of Business alumni around the world, bonding graduates to a lifelong community.

Today HighWired.com is the world's largest online community of high schools, with more than 10,000 from 50 states and 65 countries.

Expanding community health worker programs could save more than 3.6 million lives each year, according to a study by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

Compass Group serves more than 4 billion meals annually in schools and universities; offices and factories; hospitals and senior living communities; remote mining camps and offshore platforms; and major sports and cultural venues.

More than 350 low - income children in the community receive free lunches at the park during the summer to ensure they have healthy meals while school is out of session.

The properly measured economic return to community college has to take into account the counterfactual outcomes that entrants would face in the absence of community college, rather than compare community college entrants to students who enter university programs after high school.

A community partnership, one of many, has brought Internet access and technology to more than 600 students and 50 teachers in schools near the mine.

«Mr. Speaker, today in First Nations communities across the country, the unemployment rate can reach 80 %, half of the housing units are in a pitiful state and schools and students receive 30 % less funding than others,» Thomas Mulcair reported.

Heart to Heart International held two pop - up clinics in Bear Creek, Texas, providing more than 350 community members with free vaccinations, medical screenings, and hygiene kits at Bear Creek Elementary School.

Stevens offered not a word of concern about whether religious students might feel themselves to be less than full members of the political community if, by order of the nation's highest court, their messages and only their messages are categorically excluded from the school's public arena.

It is open to and engaged in a «public» cultural life broader than the common life of the communities for whom the schooling is undertaken.

However, if the subjects of study are concrete networks of human practices by which communities of faith attempt to respond to God faithfully, and if they are practices which mediate an understanding of God, then the movement of theological schooling is more like an engaged meditative gaze than it is like problem solving.

If there is more than one, do they shape different aspects of the school's common life (one shaping its teaching and learning, another its life of worship, perhaps another its common life as a community of students, faculty, and staff)?

A school whose concrete identity is that of a church - like community tending to understand God by way of contemplation is likely to include more course work in spirituality, especially ascetical theology, than is a school whose ethos is that of a cadre of clergy tending to understand God by the activist way.

Further, older students are more than twice as likely as younger students to have attended a vocational or technical high school or a two - year or community college, and much less likely to have attended a private, nonreligious grade and high school.

Each chapter discusses an aspect of the one theme that the central purpose of all education — whether in homes, schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation of persons from the life of self - centered desire to that of devoted service of the excellent, and at the same time the creation of a democratic commonwealth established in justice and fraternal regard rather than in expediency.

The rule of law, rather than of men, ought to hold good for schools as well as for communities and nations.

It was a close knit community and resembled a monastery rather than a school.

A year ago this week, more than 80 faith - based, civil rights, community and labor organizations came together under the title Coalition for Muslim School Holidays.

The politicians claimed «Catholic schools are also more likely to be oversubscribed from people outside their faith community than Islamic and Hindu Schools, to which non-Muslims and non-Hindus rarely apply&schools are also more likely to be oversubscribed from people outside their faith community than Islamic and Hindu Schools, to which non-Muslims and non-Hindus rarely apply&Schools, to which non-Muslims and non-Hindus rarely apply».

Even the language of faith needs something to build on, for confidence is more than words and must arise from the relationships of home, church, school, and community.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

Schools that are racially integrated — assuming that the way integration is achieved promotes unity rather than division in the community — will have the greatest need and opportunity to provide those daily experiences that make this real for children.

The community is more than the state.48 The creative and redemptive work of God we may readily admit depends perhaps more basically upon the voluntary associations, the communities of artists, the scientists, and the schools than upon the political order.

The other day a colleague of mine, who came to America from Russia via Israel, told me a story about her son who is in the eighth grade in a renowned progressive school in Cambridge, Massachusetts (than which no community could be more progressive).

Noting that more than 10 percent of New York City school students are Muslim, he suggests that the public school calendar grant the Islamic community the same holiday leisure as it already gives to Christian and Jewish students.

The actual number by that date was probably not much more than a third of that total; furthermore, despite the good that existing centers have done and are doing, the plan's most imaginative features — those that would bring such centers into close contact with schools, churches, the police, and other responsible community organizations — are the ones that have been least realized.

At Southern the smaller schools of religious education and church music probably offer closer - knit community experience and potentially put a whole educational experience together better than the larger school of theology.

If a theological sketch of the idea of a theological school is a utopian exercise, the community it describes is less an ideal city than a crossroads hamlet with an overwhelmingly white male population.

He attributes his success to community support and in return has donated more than $ 50,000 since 2010 to local organizations including, but not limited to nonprofits, fire departments, area schools, booster clubs, health organizations and athletic teams.

«When I arrived, I had a lot more trouble with the white community than the black community,» says Gregory, who is a high school art teacher and football coach in Reedley, Calif. «But a lot changed during my years there.

For a Division III school that hadn't won its own league title outright since 1972, the 2014 season will forever be remembered as one where community support meant just as much, if not more, than what happened on the field.

That doesn't just penalize the player, it penalizes the whole team (and the athletic department and the school and the community), so it makes sense to deliver a punishment that focuses on the individual rather than a punishment that impacts the group.

«I loved how the people were so friendly and it felt like a community like St. Francis,» said LaRocco, who was recruited by more than 200 schools.

I spoke with several other students that I personally trained at the Honor Council's first ever Integrity Day about defining success in qualitative rather than quantitative ways, organized presentations for parents in the local community, wrote brochures explaining of the program for the teachers, and held discussions about how Challenge Success ties into Jewish values at my Hebrew School.

The volunteers from Taco Bell have opened and processed more than 5,000 letters from schools, groups and communities all over the United States who are «adopting «units and ships.

ACEs Connection is a social network that accelerates the global movement toward recognizing the impact of adverse childhood experiences in shaping adult behavior and health, and reforming all communities and institutions — from schools to prisons to hospitals and churches — to help heal and develop resilience rather than to continue to traumatize already traumatized people.

Last year, Sheridan Shore Sailing School taught more than 400 students from 27 communities, the website says.

I will, however, continue to serve on HISD's School Health Advisory Council, of which I've also been a member since 2010, as my official status on that committee has always been «community member» rather than «HISD parent.»

Good schools — private and public — also attract and keep families, while a wealth of community services allows residents to look no further than their back yard for help and fun.

Utica Community Schools Enrollment: 27,960 Average teacher salary: $ 80,840 Full - time - equivalent teachers: 1,124.3 Bottom and top of salary scale (2016 - 17): $ 39,310 to $ 101,956 (PhD) Number of teachers earning more than $ 100,000: 18.

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so many kids will eat things at school, at a friends house, with another community group than they would at home for all the reasons listed above.

At minimum, one school nurse should serve no more than 750 students, depending on community and student population.

By offering more than 50 unique programs at the Museum and out in the schools and communities, our 78,000 contact hours reach 1,700 teachers every year.

«In the end, dual enrollment sounds more attractive to the high school community than the colleges,» Harberson said.

More than half of public school districts in the United States are in rural communities where millions of students struggle with poverty and hunger.