Sentences with phrase «schools was in decline»

Twenty years ago, scratch cooking in schools was in decline.

Because, bottom line is many of the small schools are in decline, not only because of changing family size and amalgamation of farm sizes and so on, but the closing down of industries or the economic base, as well as the rationalisation of government human services.

As both Adam Emerson and Kathleen Porter - Magee have already pointed out, Catholic schools were in decline long before charters came on the scene.

The central premise of this movement is that our public schools are in decline.

As long as anyone can remember, critics have been saying that the schools are in decline.

The claim that the public schools are in decline is not new.

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If he falls in the range for 71 - year - olds with a college degree (he has a bachelor's from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania), then even if his language, memory, and other mental capacities have declined over the years he is probably not suffering from early Alzheimer's or other dementia.

After years in which the number of children being excluded from schools declined, the latest figures that slipped out Thursday reveal that the number is starting to rise again.

Campus recruiting was down at Indiana University's Kelly School of Business, which reported a 7 % decline in this area in 2014, according to the school's most recent undergraduate career services rSchool of Business, which reported a 7 % decline in this area in 2014, according to the school's most recent undergraduate career services rschool's most recent undergraduate career services report.

The school's full - time MBA enrollment has been steadily declining for years, falling to just 380 from more than 1,500 in 1990.

At a time when many business schools are reporting declining enrollment in their full - time MBA programs, Welch's Management Institute is doing a brisk business.

Sears, Kmart, Macy's and other legacy retailers are closing stores in the hundreds, marking the continuing decline of old - school marketing.

The decline in the fraction of Americans reporting that their schooling contributed to their understanding of entrepreneurship was not shared across the pond.

In order to be eligible for the Army's Loan Repayment Program, the applicant is required to enlist in the Army with at least a high school diploma, score at least a 50 on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, hold a loan that is guaranteed under the Higher Education ACT, agree to serve in a critical military occupational specialty, have a written contract, and decline Montgomery GI Bill enrollmenIn order to be eligible for the Army's Loan Repayment Program, the applicant is required to enlist in the Army with at least a high school diploma, score at least a 50 on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, hold a loan that is guaranteed under the Higher Education ACT, agree to serve in a critical military occupational specialty, have a written contract, and decline Montgomery GI Bill enrollmenin the Army with at least a high school diploma, score at least a 50 on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, hold a loan that is guaranteed under the Higher Education ACT, agree to serve in a critical military occupational specialty, have a written contract, and decline Montgomery GI Bill enrollmenin a critical military occupational specialty, have a written contract, and decline Montgomery GI Bill enrollment.

Most investors do not realize this, because the majority of traders and «professional» money managers were still in college or b - school during the 2007 - early 2009 stock market collapse, but the homebuilding sector actually peaked and began a waterfall decline in mid-2005 (see the chart above).

In a trading update, the FTSE 100 - listed educational publishing group said growth in North America and its Core business was partially offset by a decline in its Growth segment due to the phasing of sales in South African school coursewarIn a trading update, the FTSE 100 - listed educational publishing group said growth in North America and its Core business was partially offset by a decline in its Growth segment due to the phasing of sales in South African school coursewarin North America and its Core business was partially offset by a decline in its Growth segment due to the phasing of sales in South African school coursewarin its Growth segment due to the phasing of sales in South African school coursewarin South African school courseware.

According to Austrian school business cycle theory these declines in markets are the inevitable consequences of an expanding money supply, sold as the answer to fighting a recession.

The «peak oil» school, which has argued that we have passed the peak of oil discovery and are now in permanent decline, has been proved wrong.

Reading comprehension and all learning skills began a rapid decline when prayer was removed from schools in the 60's.

Although I am not religious, the condescending nature of your Professors tone is exactly the reason why when I was trudging through med school, I came to the conclusion upon entering the workforce — I would politely decline invitations to become a cog in the domesticated medical system and instead take my knowledge elsewhere — medical missionary work overseas.

The enduring popularity of faith schools despite a national decline in church attendance could be put down to their academic record.

Later, I considered but finally declined an invitation to head up the Urban Institute in Chicago, which was an ecumenical training school for urban ministries.

But I have to say that I'm much more worried about the possible decline in the teaching of music in our schools than of RE as it has mostly become.

The religious schools, which are only concerned with teaching the Qur» an, Islamic doctrines, and Arabic, have greatly declined in the cities and villages because of the spread of modern schools and are now found chiefly in the desert and the lodges of the Sufi orders.

• In 1993, as the hysteria over child sex abuse cases was beginning to decline in the U.S., charges started flying around a reform school for boys in Shelburne, Nova ScotiIn 1993, as the hysteria over child sex abuse cases was beginning to decline in the U.S., charges started flying around a reform school for boys in Shelburne, Nova Scotiin the U.S., charges started flying around a reform school for boys in Shelburne, Nova Scotiin Shelburne, Nova Scotia.

Because no one wanted to hurt her feelings, the most impressionable children in that church school were being exposed each Sunday to her declining mental health.

A now discredited «secularization theory» (still to be found in textbooks from fifth grade to graduate school) is that, as people became more educated — read «enlightened» — religion would inevitably decline on its way to disappearing.

Charles Foster, director of the Christian education program at Candler School of Theology, noted that «the significance of this study will come when it's put in dialogue with other major studies,» such as studies in mainline decline, education and faith development.

The Methodist survey makes it clear that «trends in the educational ministry, especially as they are reflected in the growth and decline of the church school, are followed by growth and decline elsewhere in the church.»

The decline in vocations, and the falling away from the practice of young adults in our schools, now ranging upwards to 90 per cent in many cases, is an aspect of one and the same phenomenon.

His data show that this decline was due not to changes made by Vatican II but to the fact that these changes did not go far enough, especially in the area of sexual ethics (Catholic Schools in a Declining Church [Sheed & Ward, 1976], pp. 110 ff.)

I bet there's no scientific evidence to show that ever since prayer was removed from school, children's behaviour in school (and out) has declined.

Subject experts have also warned that by not contributing anything towards RE teacher training, the government would see a decline in the quality of religious education in schools.

As the general quality of public education has declined, at least in public perception, and as the power of the youth culture in public schools has increased, many more parents seek private schools for their children, and many of these schools are connected with churches.

All schools have a legal requirement to offer religious education at all ages but those in the RE community claim the decline suggests the schools aren't being held to account and ae flouting their obligations.

«It is not easy to separate out from prejudice the influence of fears that, with an increase in black occupancy, crime will increase, schools will decline, and house values will drop.»

By a vote of 9 - 8, the court held that Spain did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights when it declined to renew the contract of a public school teacher who had been offering classes in Catholicism.

In mainline theological schools, divinity students are told a familiar tale about the church in modernity that goes something like this: The present age is «secular» or «post-Christian» and the church is in declinIn mainline theological schools, divinity students are told a familiar tale about the church in modernity that goes something like this: The present age is «secular» or «post-Christian» and the church is in declinin modernity that goes something like this: The present age is «secular» or «post-Christian» and the church is in declinin decline.

Due to economic decline in the country, a lack of funding in the education system is forcing families to either purchase textbooks required for their children's education or have their children drop out of school.

This was borne out by research, such as a 2014 study by Jeremy Galbreath of the Curtin Graduate School of Business in Western Australia that found «the representation of women in both winemaking and viticulture roles has declined since 2007, despite clear evidence to suggest that female enrolments in Australia's leading oenology and viticulture degree programs have been on the rise since the 1980s».

Enrollment in high school and youth football programs has generally been on the decline for a while.

Post-Concussion Cognitive Declines and Symptomatology Are Not Related To Concussion Biomechanics in High School Football Players.

«While there has been a slight decline in participation, it does not reflect the measurable and positive gains we have made as a school district in making improvements to the nutritional quality of our school breakfast and lunch programs.»

About 95 percent of schools are reportedly meeting the standards, but GOP lawmakers backed by the School Nutrition Association (SNA) said the provisions have led to an increase in food waste and a dramatic decline in student participation over the last three years.

TOO many children are being left in equipment (car seats, infant seats, baby jumpers, baby walkers, baby swings, etc.) resulting, frankly, in «bucket baby» syndrome (unofficial professional observation as children's fine motor skills have been declining the past few decades) the impact is often not noticed until school age?

This feedback, which Ms. Woldow failed to recognize in her post, comes from schools that are complying with the rules, yet struggling with increased costs and declining revenue and student participation.

That's an appealing argument, but when Woldow probed more deeply into SNA's own data, she found that the decline in school meal revenue started well before the new healthier meal standards were adopted.

The jolt in demand for government - subsidized meals comes as many school programs are struggling to balance their food service budgets because of higher costs and a decline in paying customers, school nutrition advocates said.

He then forcefully addressed each of the arguments that have been put forth to justify school nutrition roll - backs, such as allegedly increased plate waste and declining student participation in the meal program.

Even this early in the school year, they'd probably see a decline in purchasing if families were opting out of school lunch.