Sentences with phrase «standard of education from»

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Specific policies include encouraging job creation and innovation in the new energy economy; improving the fairness of employment standards (including re-establishing the National Minimum Wage; reversing «tax giveaways» to corporations; introducing and maintaining balanced budgets; protecting Canadians from «price gouging» by businesses; implementing income stabilization programs for farmers; promoting long - term economic and environmental sustainability of marine and forestry resources; and re-investing in education, skills training and apprenticeships to help Canadians succeed in the economy.

The differences are only in the interpretations, as mentioned above, and these differences result primarily from the differences in standards of education.

This vision of doxological theology is at odds with the standard fourfold division of seminary education in the West, which keeps «Bible,» «church history,» «theology» and «practical ministry» cordoned off from one another, For the Orthodox, theology is simply commentary upon the saints» commentary on scripture for the sake of the church's worship.

The U.S. war to destroy revolutionary gains in education and health care and to reduce living standards in Nicaragua was part of a broader psychological war to discourage other third - world peoples from challenging U.S. power.

Did God tell Rick Perry how to take his state from the middle in terms of standard of living and education to the bottom?

The unmarked scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted 1946 and 1952 by the Division of Christian Education, National Council of Churches.

Unless otherwise indicated, the scriptural quotations in this book are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted 1946 and 1952 by the Division of Christian Education, National Council of Churches.

Quotations from the American Standard Version of the Revised Bible, copyrighted 1929, and the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted 1946 and 1952, are used by permission of the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. References to these versions are indicated in the footnotes by the initials A. S. V. and R. S. V. I have used these and also the King James Version, selecting in each instance the diction which seemed to me best to fit the point under discussion.

Infusing both of these meanings is a background anxiety that the education of Protestant ministers has not kept up with radical developments in knowledge nor with changes in educational standards and procedures in the twentieth century, and thus that the ministry may not «hold its own with the leaders of the other professions» (Brown, 4) and might slip from its traditional parity in esteem with law and medicine.

To be initiated into a craft, an apprentice must learn from the teacher, and then from continuing self - education, how to identify mistakes in applying the standards recognized to be the best available in the practice of that craft.

I suffer from living in Texas where lay midwives are licensed by the Dept of Health midwifery board and so many laypeople are completely clueless as to their lack of professional standards / education.

Some of that extraordinary work includes Dougherty County School System training students to harvest, wash, and prep product from their teaching gardens for taste tests and to serve in the cafeteria, Elbert County School District featuring local strawberries on the lunch line from a farm 20 miles away, and Dade County Schools utilizing experiential nutrition and garden - based education to teach Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) standards.

Petra Colindres is a Family Dietitian and Lactation Consultant with a passion for infant nutrition and prenatal education, valuing the importance of the first thousand days of an infant's life (from conception to 2 years) to be the standard for future successful health outcomes.

Studies from Europe have shown that out - of - hospital birth can be a safe option for women and their babies when the risk of complications is low.28 - 30 The European Union defines uniform standards for the education and training of midwives, 31 whereas the United States takes a piecemeal approach to the training and credentialing of out - of - hospital birth attendants.

A broad range of education and health groups, including KSHF, then urged the USDA to refine the standards and helped generate nearly 250,000 comments from the public on the proposal.

We recruited 450 women from February 2004 to September 2005, of whom 151 were randomised to receive standard hospital care (group 1), 150 to antenatal education (group 2), and 149 to postnatal lactation support (group 3).

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

In awarding the accreditation, the association reported that Naper Settlement benefits from professional management, adherence to standards and a commitment to improvement, public service, accountability and fulfillment of its mission, to further education and historical preservation.

«There is no evidence to show that the free schools model raises standards of education or that it will narrow the achievement gap between pupils from different ethnic groups.

Dubbed «Reform Prisons», Justice Secretary Mr Gove wants to repeat the success of his education revolution when standards were pushed by liberating schools from local authority control by becoming academies.

All candidates would have to meet state standards without a waiver from the state's Commissioner of Education.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo took another shot at the State Board of Regents Thursday, blaming the education policy makers for «massive chaos» that he said has resulted from their implementation of the Common Core standards in New York.

90 % of school districts have been granted waivers from the state education department that put off the new teacher performance standards until at least next March.

The plans are the most radical proposals to emerge from an education secretary who has made no secret of his desire to return to an old - fashioned standard of education, with core disciplines and higher standards being reintroduced at all levels.

President John Mahama has brushed aside latest swipes from his critics over falling standards of education in Ghana, saying it is one of the best in the world.

«I believe that an increase in pupil segregation on the basis of academic selection would be at best a distraction from crucial reforms to raise standards and narrow the attainment gap and at worse risk actively undermining six years of progressive education reform.»

As a public figure who is charged with decision - making on behalf of our children, we demand that Carl Paladino be held to the same standard as our BPS students, and be immediately removed from the Buffalo Board of Education,» stated the BPTO.

Contrast that with even - keeled rhetoric from the same union on Wednesday, when the governor said he would accept recommendations of his Common Core task force, which include developing a more state - driven set of education standards.

The Institute supports efforts to improve the current system, especially through the expansion of QUALITYstarsNYC, as a tool to help parents understand what good quality early childhood education should look like, from best practices and teacher education standards to enriching classrooms and play spaces.

In March, the NYS Education Department requested a waiver from the federal law, allowing for developmentally appropriate testing standards for child with serious disabilities, and a second year of prep time for English Language Learners for children just starting to learn English.

In recent days, Cuomo seems to have cooled from his initial endorsement of the rapid transition to the adoption of the national education standards.

The current secretary of state for education, Nicky Morgan, has spoken recently of her commitment to the «self - improving, school - led system», characterised by bottom - up innovations coming from «networks of schools and teachers collaborating with one another to drive up standards».

As Karen DeWitt reports, Cuomo seems to have cooled from his initial endorsement of the rapid transition to the adoption of the national education standards.

In 2013, the Department for Education (DfE) published advice stating that» There are many different actions that schools can take to meet this part of the standard, such as:... Use teaching resources from a wide variety of sources to help pupils understand a range of faiths, and beliefs such as atheism and humanism.»

Commenting on today's announcement from Nicky Morgan, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «No - one is more committed to raising the standards of education than teachers and school leaders.

The New York State Education Commissioner testified at a legislative budget hearing, where he once again heard complaints from concerned lawmakers on the fast track adoption of the new national Common Core standards.

Ninety percent of school districts have been granted waivers from the state education department that put off the new teacher performance standards until at least next March.

The state's education commissioner testified at a legislative budget hearing, where he once again heard complaints from concerned lawmakers regarding the fast track adoption of the new national Common Core standards.

Hundreds of teachers and parents from across western New York got their chance to address concerns about Common Core testing standards with New York State Education Commissioner John King.

State Education Commissioner John King testified at a legislative budget hearing, where he once again heard complaints from concerned lawmakers on the fast track adoption of the new national Common Core standards.

90 percent of school districts have been granted waivers from the state education department that put off the new teacher performance standards until at least next March.

In his keynote talk at the 2015 Forum titled «Continuing Efforts to Improve Science Education in the U.S,» DeBoer reviewed the history of science standards development in the U.S. and the role of Project 2061 for an audience of several hundred science teachers from various Chinese provinces, many of whom were being recognized for excellence in teaching.

Toward High School Biology is designed to align closely with a new set of science education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phenomena.

The Nemeth Code — a version of Braille for math that codes for everything from fractions to trigonometric functions — is the «gold standard» for math education among visually impaired students, Gulley says.

With the gain in knowledge from [this trial], it may be possible to make the recruitment of patients less restricted, to incorporate education about self - measurement as a standard procedure and focus on which scheme for titration to use, or to study the timing of the home blood pressure recordings.

In August 1999, the Board of Education voted 6 - 4 to eliminate evolution — as well as anything hinting at the great age of Earth, and even some cosmological theories — from statewide standards for science teaching (Science, 20 August 1999, p. 1186).

«These results come from a randomized experiment of the sort that generates gold - standard evidence in medicine, but remains far too rare in the area of social policy,» noted Roseanna Ander, Executive Director of the UChicago Urban Education Lab.

Currently, funding for early care and education comes from a multitude of individual programs with different revenue streams, constituencies, eligibility requirements, and standards.

The Institute will spur significant advances in software infrastructure, education, standards, and best - practices that are needed to enable the molecular science community to open new windows on the next generation of scientific Grand Challenges, ranging from the simulation of intrinsically disordered proteins associated with a range of diseases to the design of new catalysts vital to the global chemical industry and climate change.