Sentences with phrase «sustained efforts at»

Only a few have made sustained efforts at capacity building (such as Missouri «s 1993 Outstanding Schools Act provided funding for a state - wide teacher professional development system, or New Jersey «s provision of significant additional resources to high poverty «Abbott» school districts).

An appropriate education depends on genuine and sustained efforts at capacity - building at the federal, state, and local levels.

Not exact matches

She made clear at the committee's hearing last week that she's prepared to support the Fed's extraordinary efforts to bolster the economy until there are clear signs of a sustained rebound and further improvement in the job market.

McDonald's also noted that its continued efforts at turnaround revolve around four main pillars: menu innovation, store renovations, digital ordering and delivery in order to achieve sustained growth and attract more customers.

Women leadership really needs to look at sustainability: How are we sustaining our efforts?

But by heavily investing in eroding positive market positions for our competitors, we allow our healthy, wildly profitable positions at the top to sustain itself for the longest time possible — so we can instead focus our efforts on more attractive endeavors.

Hey, Spiffy, appreciate your efforts at trying to get these Christian dolts to reason, but as I'm sure you know, sustaining their religion means they have to put even whatever weak reasoning abilities they have aside.

The conflict must continue until the secular and religious groups arrive at a compromise which accepts the best in both points of view, but this will require a sustained effort to liberalize the popular concept of Islam.

Teams from the London School of Economics and Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that involvement in organized religion was more effective at producing «sustained happiness» than sports, political groups, charity work or continuing educational efforts.

The discipline demanded by the effort to sustain internal relationships is at least difficult.

Origen wrote On First Principles, the first sustained Christian effort of speculative theology, at the beginning of the third century.

Again and again we have remarked that some of the chronic evil seemingly inseparably associated with mankind has displayed several of its colossal dimensions among peoples who have called themselves Christian, but that repeatedly efforts to counter this evil, some of them at least partly successful, have been put forth by men and women inspired and sustained by Christian faith.

The investment is part of an effort to reinvest cashflow back into the business for supporting sustained margin growth and to improve efficiencies at the company's facilities.

Jindal Films Europe scoops wins the «Weight Reduction» category thanks to its sustained and broad efforts at downgauging.

«These brave men and women put themselves at risk to help their fellow New Yorkers and the very least we can do is to support them in their efforts to combat the injuries and illnesses sustained during their rescue efforts.

Itegboje said Nigeria had consistently been in the vanguard of supporting and participating in international efforts at conflict - prevention, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and sustaining peace both sub-regionally, regionally and globally.

The minister who was speaking at the opening of the 4th session of the Nigeria - Cameroon Trans - Border Security Committee in Abuja, also said, «In the same vein, we call on the international community to sustain their support in our fight against Boko haram, and to see this effort as part of the global campaign to defeat terrorism».

WFP State Director Bill Lipton in a separate interview, however, disagreed, saying those issues bubbled to the surface at the Capitol thanks to a sustained effort from advocates.

Committed to the effort aimed at achieving a terror free country, the Service sustained its counter terrorism / insurgency operations.

«Diversity Plaza is a result of tremendous community effort, from the intensive transportation planning sessions that developed it, to the efforts of the local merchants and civic groups that are now sustaining it,» said Andy Wiley - Schwartz, an assistant commissioner at the DOT.

«This report just like several others by the medium, were part of systematic and sustained efforts aimed at denigrating the Nigerian Army and tarnish its image.

So our message — my message is that if the world wants to sustain the Earth — and it shouldn't be an if — the world needs to pay special attention about how to organize that effort and to do better at it than it currently is.

«We see no downside and potentially a considerable upside in training efforts aimed at enhancing and supporting sustained highly responsive parenting for children with FXS during both early and middle childhood.»

Pat White, vice president for federal relations at the Association of American Universities, see the lawmakers» questions as «not as severe a threat» as stripping funding but adds that «this seems to be a more sophisticated and sustained effort to criticize NIH's portfolio.»

Although reformers can point to piecemeal efforts that have moved the needle at particular schools, those programs typically owe their success to a deep and sustained commitment by a single prominent scientist or campus leader.

Following the success of the first national Postdoc Network meeting and the National Academies» COSEPUP Convocation on Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers, Opportunities for Collaboration promises to build and sustain momentum for efforts aimed at improving the postdoctoral experience.

As part of the conference, Byron Young, a retired Marine Biologist, talks about the biology and efforts at restoration of this important prey fish that is key to sustaining a large portion of the important east coast marine fisheries stock.

The Award recognizes a person or group whose efforts have made a «significant, sustained impact on genetics education at any level.»

In the June 2007 issue of Health Services Research, a University of Chicago - based research team reports that a relatively inexpensive national effort to improve the process of care at selected clinics was able to make enough difference in its first four years that, if sustained, it could reduce patients» lifetime risk of blindness, end - stage kidney disease and coronary artery disease — all common complications of diabetes.

The goal is to be at 85 - 90 % effort and sustain it.

- HIIT (intervals at near maximal effort sustained for 1 - 5 minutes) is great for cardiac health, research suggests even better than continuous.

If your sIgA levels don't seem to come up to speed in spite of your very best and sustained efforts, consider looking at any obstacles to cure.

I am amazed at how difficult it was for me to sustain the effort.

This is the hurdle at which most of your competitors will fall because successful site promotion and business promotion requires patience and sustained effort over a long period of time.

Sylvia is, as a result, forced to move in with her slacker brother (Ryan Devlin's Walt), with the film subsequently following Sylvia's ongoing efforts at both finding a new job and sustaining a relationship with Walt's easygoing best friend (Patrick J. Adams» Byron).

For a time, director Jaume Collet - Serra sustains the mystery at the picture's core with a hint of vivid conspiratorial edge, but the movie builds up to a climax that makes one question whether it was ever worth the effort.

They launched a sustained and unfortunately successful effort at merging small schools into large ones, and independent school districts into large, consolidated districts.

«The retention rate at Bathurst has certainly improved, due to a sustained effort over time.»

Change and improvement — sustained and at scale — can not rely on solo efforts but require the engagement and commitment of all.

As with all major legislative accomplishments, getting from idea to reality takes time and the sustained efforts of committed individuals at every level of government and throughout the communities that stand to gain from a successful campaign.

Their mission: to build the belief that virtually all children — if they commit sustained, effective effort — are capable of learning at high levels.

This will require an effort for which the schooling we have received in recent decades almost unfits us, to rediscover and give new life and conviction to those elements of history and culture, the virtues, achievements, and consolations, that have at all times shaped and sustained civilization.

NASSP believes that a focused and sustained effort to invest resources in comprehensive literacy education at the local, state, and federal levels is needed to address the issue at hand.

Federal and state policymakers should focus on sustained school improvement efforts coupled with support mechanisms to help all students achieve at higher levels and close achievement gaps.

The American Association of School Administrators recently released a survey of superintendents that showed that while most believe there is a role for competitive grants, most also worry about over-investment in those grants at the expense of more stable dollars that districts can depend upon to sustain reform efforts.

NASSP believes focused efforts at the local, state, and federal levels to secure funding for resources to support and sustain mental health programs will address the issue at hand.

Darlene Estes - Del Re is the Executive Director of the Office of Early Learning at the Tennessee State Department of Education, leading efforts to build and sustain high quality early learning across programs in the birth to 8 space.

Although there is a need for leader - teachers who share the racial and economic backgrounds of their students, we believe that at - scale reform will take a concerted and sustained effort from an entire community of individuals — representing all ethnicities and background — committed to eliminating educational inequity.

An accountability system designed to have sustained impact must look at the factors that lead to success or are impeding the improvement efforts so that successful strategies may be further scaled and failing approaches may be modified or abandoned.

The lead teachers also set up demonstration classrooms, observed other teachers and provided constructive feedback, provided mini-reviews of specific SIOP features for teachers at staff meetings, participated in lesson design study with grade - level teams, and helped sustain the staff's SIOP teaching efforts.