Sentences with phrase «stronger than your education»

If your experience is stronger than your education, place your work history before education on your resume, and write about your career achievements, track record of results and industry knowledge.

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On the topic of business education, the Gallup study showed that African American, Asian, and Hispanic business owners were more likely than business owners in the general population to be extremely or very interested in learning how to build a strong business credit application, choose a credit product, and develop a business plan.

Strong investor interest in mergers and acquisitions for education companies is likely to continue for the second half of 2015, after a record - setting first half of the year in which the value of transactions reached $ 6.11 billion — 29 percent higher than the same time last year, according to Peter Yoon, a managing director for education at Berkery Noyes, an investment bank.

Announcing his resignation (below) to the world he said: «I believe we've made great steps, with more people in work than ever before in our history, with reforms to welfare and education, increasing people's life chances, building a bigger and stronger society, keeping our promises to the poorest people in the world and enabling those who love each other to get married whatever their sexuality, but above all restoring Britain's economic strength.»

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

With the academic year in full swing on American university campuses — and bipartisan discontent over higher education's sorry state now stronger and louder than ever — it's worth asking what we can learn from Augustine's example.

Conversely, low interest by fathers in their children's education (particularly boys) has a stronger negative impact on their achievement than contact with the police, poverty, family type, social class, housing tenure and child's personality [2].

Alternatively, it may indicate that in Belarus, at least, maternal education is a stronger determinant of child IQ than breastfeeding.

He said the country will thrive better with strong investment in health and education, rather than concentrating on physical infrastructure, to the detriments of human capital development

The day Nixon actually announced her candidacy, he released a statement that put front and center his liberal accomplishments, which read like a progressive wish list: «Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking.»

The ranks of the anti-Cuomo protestors were stronger, with more than 1,000 teachers and public education advocates marching through the Empire State Plaza concourse, clogging security checkpoints into the Capitol and rallying on the Million Dollar Staircase in a boisterous protest of the governor's plan.

The Minister, represented by the Executive Secretary, NCCE, Prof Monday Joshua, noted that the education sector needed to key into the various «change initiatives» of the government to make the nation stronger than it was before.

Unemployment remained low and the economy remained strong with more than a decade of unbroken growth, and education and healthcare had changed for the better as a result of expenditure by Labour.

«Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking,» the spokesman said.

«One strong implication of recognising genetically driven differences between children is to personalise education as much as possible, rather than imposing a one - size - fits - all approach,» he says.

Paul van Gardingen, professor of international development at the University of Edinburgh, UK, agrees that the role of education and contraception «is stronger than the relationship between GDP [gross domestic product] and fertility.

However, a child's social background was also found to have a strong effect over and above that of ability, with the parents» education being more important than their social status and social class, though the latter also count.

«Interestingly, despite the higher - than - average socioeconomic status of this population, the associations of individual education and neighborhood income with death after heart attack were stronger than those reported in many previous studies,» Mayo Clinic cardiovascular researcher Yariv Gerber, the study's lead author, said in a prepared statement.

The Institute for the Psychology of Eating, approved and regulated by the Colorado Department of Higher Education, sets itself apart from other online nutrition trainings in that we provide more than a strong foundation in nutrition.

There is no better cure for the social ills of our community and no better process for the education of an immigrant class than providing a great teacher, a core curriculum, a disciplined school culture, and strong accountability.

There is «no better process for the education of an immigrant class than providing a great teacher, a core curriculum, a disciplined school culture, and strong accountability,» says Rangel.

Imposing merit pay on an unwilling education system is like trying to get kids to eat their vegetables when the kids are 25 years old and stronger than their parents.

The name ENLACE, an acronym for ENgaging LAtino Communities for Education, also has its roots in the Spanish word enlazar, meaning «to link or weave together, to connect in such a way that the new entity is stronger than its parts.»

HGSE has a stronger commitment to urban education than the other schools I applied to, and it shows strongly in my leadership program especially.

In education, the components of online and F2F are stronger together than apart.

While Burack argues that global education's believers «exercise a strong degree of influence among textbook publishers,» many of the problems he describes with the treatment of global diversity are a reflection of the textbook production and marketing process rather than the result of a conspiracy among educators.

Yet the Education Department's own three - year study comparing Core Knowledge with balanced literacy in demographically matched New York City schools showed the former «had significantly stronger gains than comparison school students on nearly all measures.»

Lawyers familiar with the case said last week that because some 12 states have laws with provisions stronger than those of the federal Education for All Handicapped Children Law, P.L. 94 - 142, the ruling could have...

It has also participated in the development of the Common Core Standards initiative; created alternative - certification routes that allow organizations other than education schools to give teachers credentials; improved its teacher pipeline through strong partnerships with the New Teacher Project and Teacher for America; and experimented with performance - based compensation in 41 school districts.

-- Ford Foundation Professor Fernando Reimers The IEP Program began with Reimers» underlying idea of developing a strong international education program focused on more than providing children in developing countries access to school.

According to a 2015 report on district - charter collaboration from the Fordham Institute, DPS has «engaged charters more deeply than any of the other cities we studied, due in no small part to a decade of district leadership with a strong belief in the value of a portfolio strategy, a significant number of third - party stakeholders who have encouraged engagement, and an education landscape that gives the district a stake in charter success.»

Certainly, the interests of teachers in ensuring adequate educational investment are far stronger than they are for most voters, who don't have children in the school system and may be more concerned about holding down taxes than investing in the education of other people's kids.

By creating strong cultures of creativity and curiosity, we can engage students as active participants in their own education, rather than passive recipients of facts and formulas.

Careers guidance may feel like the poor relation within the education sector but there's a strong core developing which is helping itself and finding its own way, rather than wait for the long - promised but, so far, non-existent Government strategy.

With this conclusion, it would seem more than appropriate that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) should include strong statements about the significance of assistance in refugees obtaining an education.

Jay's important post on choice programs developing a stronger constituency than many other types of education reform has an obvious recent example in Mayor de Blasio's New York City.

The strong emphasis on job preparation is consistent with and expands upon the findings from PDK's 2016 survey, in which fewer than half of respondents said academic preparation should be the main goal of a public school education.

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, New Jersey, and Boston, pre-kindergarten programs demonstrate impressive outcomes that include positive effects on math scores, grade retention, and chronic absenteeism at the end of grade 8; increased achievement on language arts, literacy, math, and science, as well as decreased grade retention and special education placement at the end of grade 5; and stronger than typical impacts on academic readiness (effect sizes in the 0.4 — 0.6 range) at school entry.

Her statistical model ultimately predicts that the education quality will be higher in districts with stronger union density than in districts with weak unionism.

In 1875, there had been fewer than 1,500 Catholic schools in America; by 1930, thanks to strong support for Catholic education from Rome, that number had increased to more than 10,000.

The achievement results are strong, and the pilot schools are doing better than the charter schools at attracting special - education students and English - language learners to their already diverse student populations.

Look no further than research from Eric Hanushek, Jens Ruhose, and Ludger Woessmann about the strong correlation between achievement in a state's classrooms and growth in a state's economy to understand some of the compelling reasons to improve education (see «It Pays to Improve School Quality,» features, Summer 2016).

For its study of visual - arts programs, the Getty Center asked more than 100 art - education experts around the country to identify school districts with strong art curricula.

For example, those arguing for a return to zip code assignment of students to schools because such schools are somewhat more likely to be racially balanced than schools of choice have to discount: 1) the strong preference of parents to choose their children's schools, 2) the likelihood in some districts that a voluntarily segregated school of choice will provide a much better education than a child's marginally less segregated neighborhood school, and 3) the impacts of the competition among education providers that occurs when school enrollment is determined by choice.

Mrs. Torres builds a strong foundation for her students» elementary school education: This spring her students grew, on average, 1.5 years in reading in less than five months!

A US Department of Education analysis of results from the 2011 national reading tests shows that Virginia students have larger vocabularies and stronger passage - comprehension skills than their peers nationwide.

A strong early care and education system, starting at birth and continuing into a child's early elementary years, is the foundation to ensure that children are reading on grade level by the end of 3rd grade, a key «learning moment,» when they begin reading to learn, rather than learning to read.

Darling - Hamond (1998) makes a strong argument for quality professional development by stating that each dollar spent on improving teachers» qualifications nets greater gains in student learning than any other use of an education dollar.

While NPR's Westervelt criticizes Kane for making a «pretty scathing and strong indictment» of America's education system, what Kane does not understand writ large is that the very solutions for which Kane advocates — using VAM - based measurements to fire and hire bad and good teachers, respectively — are really no different than the «stronger accountability» measures upon which we have relied for the last 40 years (since the minimum competency testing era) within this alleged «echo chamber.»

While some might see all of this as good news — or rather better news than what we have seen for nearly the last decade during which states, state departments of education, and practitioners have been grappling with and trying to make sense of student growth measures and VAMs — others are still (and likely forever will be) holding onto what now seems to be some of the now unclenched promises attached to such stronger accountability measures.