Sentences with phrase «social progress means»

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Social Capital CEO Palihapitiya speaks with CNBC's Jon Fortt about the unintended consequences of technological progress and what it means for companies and societies.

The Renaissance insight of the possibility of indefinite moral improvement does not mean that Niebuhr returned to a liberal philosophy of progress for the social order.

The temptation is enhanced by the long nurtured illusion of social progress, which leads men to believe that the meaning of human existence must be realized in some organization of human societies dwelling on the planet.

Western Christendom at the turn of the first millennium, however, may have been the first society to give historical meaning to «progress» by undertaking great social enterprises terminating only at a horizon of unguessable distance.

For the past decade, the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition has been eliciting the perspectives of scientists, engineers, and health professionals as to the meaning of the right to «enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications» and associated obligations (Article 15, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights).

To celebrate these two momentous occasions, join the Hoover Institution, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, and Education Next on April 25 from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. for a look at ed reform's progress since the 1980s and an examination of what the latest NAEP scores mean for America's future economic growth and social vibrancy.

School readiness means children have a good level of social and emotional development, knowledge and skills to provide the foundation for good progress through school.

The involvement of the community for social welfare and progress of society can succeed if they provide the necessary means to do so.

This also means annual testing in every grade — instead of grade - span testing they prefer — in order to longitudinally measure their academic (and ultimately, economic and social) progress of all children.

These incentives might include additional per - pupil funding for each transfer student, construction funds to make more space available, funds to recruit and employ on - site advocates and mentors to ensure the social comfort and the pedagogic progress of these students, and funds to underwrite their transportation by the same convenient means that wealthy people use to transport their children to private schools — not by circuitous and exhausting bus routes, but rather by point - to - point travel, typically in small vans, from one specific urban neighborhood to one specific school or district.

Never before have we had access to more effective means to advance social progress.

The Government's early years foundation stage framework says that school readiness means children have a good level of social and emotional development, knowledge and skills to provide the foundation for good progress through school.