Sentences with phrase «take much education»

«Mindsets must change to incorporate this belief — that will take much education and training of both families and service providers.»

Not exact matches

True, many things are cheaper to buy than a generation ago, but the big - ticket items like shelter and post-secondary education are taking a much bigger bite out of household budgets today.

Leave out white middle - class, subtract wealth, a privileged education and hovering parents, take away the luxury of worrying about performance instead of subsistence, and today's 20 - something suddenly doesn't much resemble the poster child for her brand anymore.

Did you know that the Gospel of Thomas is a late Gnostic text that just about anyone with an education doesn't take seriously (nor, pretty much anyone with familiarity with the Bible who has actually read it!).

He laid the foundation of the Nadva, a rival educational institution at Lucknow, because he felt that Sir Sayyid was taking the Muslims much too far from their proper religious outlook, and because he felt that religious education should be combined with secular education.

None of us had ever taken this much time away from our congregations except for family vacations or perhaps official continuing education events.

Much of the book is taken up with lengthy discussions of the details of the four plans — health, education, wages and campaign finance — and briefer breakdowns on financing.

We take so much for granted the language of individual autonomy that it requires an effort to remember that there is another way of seeing the task of education, one involving exposure to a tradition representing accumulated (even divinely revealed) truth.

It is useful to recall a simple fact: in years past, much Christian education, including the teaching of the catechism, took place in a wide range of institutions: the home, common school, congregation and university.

Having taken religion one hour a day for 12 years of my education, I can say that I understand the bible just as much as you.

Communication leaders in the mainline churches would be much more faithful to the demands of the gospel if they were to accept the limitations of the mass media, and then help other church leaders devise a total communication strategy for the churches in which mass media took its rightful place alongside worship services, group processes, retreats, occasions for fellowship, service, education and mission — in other words, as a part of the whole life and witness of the church.

I am not a theologian and do not assume to know the mind of God nor am I a man of any particularly extensive education so I do not claim that I have the answer at all I just notice that this thread did not get much attention and so thought that I might take it upon myself to open it up for further discussion for those interested I will check back periodically to continue the discussion.

And for that to happen the Catholic school needs to take on board Benedict XVI's reminder to Catholic educators in the USA in 2008 that there is much more to Catholic education than the nature of the curriculum: «Catholic identity,» he said, «is not dependent upon statistics.

While I was gratified by his request and believed that he genuinely hoped to enrich his congregation's worship experience, I also realized that much education was required if dance was to be taken seriously as a valid and vital liturgical resource.

I had prepared so much for the birth, read everything I could get my hands on including an OB text book, took a childbirth education class, and practiced Bradley method relaxation for weeks at home with The Piano Man.

(or a class of «behavior challenged» Middle Schoolers who could care less about taking a test) Sad that this is what education has come to in an effort to make sure that no child is «left behind»... This is the underlying issue right here ~ too much emphasis on penciling in the correct letter circle and not enough student driven cirriculum.

Rachel's writing is approachable, well researched, and humorous, and she is very much understanding of the many paths to education that families take.

The second weekend will be much of the same structure - taking 2 or 3 prenatal yoga classes and reviewing the childbirth education section and postnatal and mommy and me.

The second weekend will be much of the same structure - taking or observing 2 prenatal yoga classes and reviewing the childbirth education section and postnatal and mommy and me.

And I can't see that using «the new progressive politics of the family» to «take on the right's agenda» amounts to very much more than stealing «education, education, education» from Romano Prodi in 1997 or Obama's dog whistle use of «change» in 2009.

Even more perversely, the money being earmarked toward rehabilitation and diversion programs has started to spawn less than effective private entities to take that money (much in the same way the huge infusion of money into higher education caused questionable institutions to pop into existence to consume that surplus).

We are talking not about grants or loans, as the regime governing them is already much tougher for returning students, but about the removal of Higher Education Funding Council teaching support for any university that takes on returning students.

Mr Willetts» admirers should also take comfort from the fact that much of Michael Gove's agenda on supply - side diversity in education is drawn from Willetts» analysis when he was the Tories» schools guru.

Paz said the tests can be especially difficult for special education students, who can take twice as much time on a test they take over three days.

This generation, in his view, took too much during the good times, reaping the benefits of final salary pension schemes and free university education while squandering what wealth they had and failing to save, saddling younger generations with the public debt.

Nonetheless, given the remarkable increase in the participation of young people in higher education that has taken place over the last 20 years, the brief analysis presented here reveals little evidence that the much vaunted policy ambition - to provide better access to higher education to those from less privileged backgrounds - has been successful.»

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In his first - ever joint State of the State address / budget presentation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday presented his plan for 2015 Opportunity Agenda, spending much time on education reform that he expects will be an uphill battle and will take up most of the increase in the state budget.

The report, Safe Havens: Protecting and Supporting New York State's Immigrant Students — released by The Education Trust — New York, Advocates for Children of New York, the New York Immigration Coalition and The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc. — finds that while the New York State Education Department (SED) and the Attorney General's Office, as well as several individual school districts, have taken a number of important steps, there is much more to do.

Cuomo is tying much of the increase to approval of his education policy changes in this year's budget, including a new teacher evaluation system, addressing failing schools by having them taken over by a state monitory and a strengthening of charter schools.

He said the Commission was doing enough in voter education but regretted that politicians were not doing much to mobilize the electorates to take part in the ongoing voters registration exercise.

So much of Greening's statement had been barely audible that it took a while for the shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, to actually make any sense of what had been said.

The program has been controversial in New York, where parents and teachers have confronted the state's Education Commissioner, John King, in public meetings, saying the children are stressed from all of the new tests being administered as part of the transition, and that too much time is being taken away from classroom learning.

Parents and teachers have confronted state Education Commissioner John King in public meetings, saying children are stressed from all of the new tests being administered as part of the transition, and that too much time is being taken away from classroom learning.

When your students take the online test, their responses will become part of a national dataset that will give us a much clearer picture of what students at different education levels understand about weather and climate and about the prevalence and persistence of common misconceptions.

The decline in child deaths has been much faster than expected, even after gains in GDP and improvements in education are taken into account.

High school students who take part in pre-college programs that focus on science are much more likely to pursue higher education and, eventually, careers in science, technology, engineering and medicine — the STEM disciplines.

All the same, it's remarkable how much these grade - school kids, when encouraged to take an active role in their own education, pre-emptively echo some of the videos that have gone viral of late.

While it would have been nice to see Condon take a more active stance against the ignorance that drove much of the politics and education of the times, all in all, Kinsey is a well - crafted film that offers a respectful look at a pioneer who changed the lives and attitudes of millions around the world.

When I published my now - infamous piece earlier this year, it prompted, in addition to Rhames» piece and others, an «open letter» signed by 170 «white education leaders» (including, not incidentally, much of the staff of Education Post) who took serious exception to my critique and lamented reform's failure to put people of color in leadership peducation leaders» (including, not incidentally, much of the staff of Education Post) who took serious exception to my critique and lamented reform's failure to put people of color in leadership pEducation Post) who took serious exception to my critique and lamented reform's failure to put people of color in leadership positions.

The business world has pretty much accomplished this already, and education is still taking its first baby steps in this direction.

National Poll Finds Waning Support for Charter Schools (The Atlanta Journal Constitution) Charter Schools Take a Hit in Nationwide Poll (EdSource) Public Support for Charter Schools Plummets, Poll Finds (Education Week) Enthusiasm for Charter School Formation Takes Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, amonEducation Week) Enthusiasm for Charter School Formation Takes Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, amoneducation issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, amoneducation, and the impact of the current administration, among others.

Even the most effective attempts to push a government - established curriculum into classroom practice will drag out over a decade, because it just takes so much time to communicate the goals and methods through the different layers of the system, and to build them into traditional methods of teacher education.

The green paper suggested that there was «much more» that independent schools could be doing to improve education for young people from poorer backgrounds and suggested that if they did not meet new requirements set out by the government, such as sponsoring under - performing state schools and being responsible for their performance, then independent schools could have their charitable status taken away.

Much of this action in states is occurring in departments of education through regulation, but Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Texas, Utah, and Vermont all took strides forward this year through new legislation.

Education World takes you on a tour of a handful of great sites that provide simple forms for creating Web - based classroom pages, activities, quizzes, and much more.

Though Anderson doesn't say much about his qualifications for the job or education track record, he describes the heroics of Bobb's current job as emergency financial manager of Detroit's beleaguered schools — Michigan's governor says he «doesn't take any prisoners» and isn't «afraid to make the hard calls» or «fire people» — and notes the coincidence of Bobb's tenure in the Motor City expiring next June, about the same time as Henderson's interim contract ends.

Washington — Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell last week called for a «Manhattan Project» to develop computer software for schools, but he stopped short of saying how much money the federal government should devote to the effort or what form it should take.

We take heart in knowing that identical arguments were made when large - scale clinical trials were introduced in medicine after World War II — a time when medicine was seen as more an art than a science, much as education is today.

This claim of low - quality private provision for the poor has also been taken up by British prime minister Tony Blair's Commission for Africa, which recently reported that although «Non-state sectors... have historically provided much education in Africa,» many of these private schools «aiming at those [families] who can not afford the fees common in state schools... are without adequate state regulation and are of a low quality.»

The Edcamp model has not only made an impact, but it has sustained and continues to grow — so much so that it took over the United States Department of Education during the summer last year.