Sentences with phrase «teaching the nation what»

Los Angeles, which was teaching the nation what not to do with technology, is getting a new deal from Apple for its iPads.

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Jesus told the Apostles to go out to all the nations and TEACH what He TAUGHT.

Says you in a few spots it says teach all nation's if you don't believe that I don't want to hear what you have to say cause it's not worth listening to.

This is why atheists fight against it so much... we see what it's done to other nations and we remember the lessons history has to teach us.

That choice is to recognize what the Bible and such exemplars of the Christian tradition as Augustine have taught us: to see and trust that the church and not any nation - state is preeminently the social agent through which God works God's will in history.

(1) What can the churches do to teach people loyalty to humanity with a degree of intensity which places that loyalty superior to loyalty to the nation state, the national economic system, the ethnic «in - group»?

Second, because I teach at a very large secular state university, one of the largest in the nation in one of the largest states, with a growing multicultural population, I am constantly required to think about religion (and what my own Christian faith means) in a pluralistic setting.

Religion might teach of duties and soften the inherent corruption of leaders and the governed alike, but the founders knew that the virtue of the nation was by no means assured, no matter what religious commitments its civic leaders might have.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

I would give my life for any homosexual man or women — I would gladly give my life in exchange for theirs if it come to the crunch but I still speak out against the sin of homosexuality... What you must understand is that it is a judgment of God when a nation turns away from God — The whole world is turning away from God and we need to stand against the teaching of the world... it is also a sign of the times as spoken of in timothy 1 and 2.

«When Americans are able to live by their convictions, to speak openly of their faith, and to teach their children what is right, our families thrive, our communities flourish, and our nation can achieve anything at all.»

[Romans 10 - 17] He first spoke to the Apostles and told them to go out to all the nations and teach them what they had HEARD from Him.

Though the United States is defined as a «Christian» nation, this Mia Love said truthfully that «Americans care about jobs, the economy; they care about the debt and deficit spending», but not what the Bible really teaches about involvement in the political arena, with Mormons included.

Our nation's independence is a time for celebration and what better way to do that than to teach your children some American history while doing a fun activity.

I agree 100 % that if we (as a nation) honestly want schools to teach students what and how to eat (as opposed to just selling / providing food), we do need to invest money in the marketing and education you mention as well as the food itself.

What began as a 30 - bed hospital has evolved into one of the nation's largest private nonprofit hospitals, an academic teaching hospital and a center for leading medical research.

The share awarded to value - added was the largest of any evaluation system in the nation, and at the top end of what the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project research had recommended.

With these changes in selectivity, opportunity, and pay, our nation could go from giving no one what's needed to giving everyone what they want: for teachers, sustainable, well - paid career advancement, rigorous development on the job, and whole careers» worth of engaging work; for students, excellent teaching for all, consistently, increasing their lifelong prospects; and for the broader community, an improved economy, national security, and social stability.

What will increasingly differentiate outcomes for schools, states, and nations is how well responsible adults carry out the more complex instructional tasks: motivating students to go the extra mile, teaching them time management, addressing social and emotional issues that affect their learning, and diagnosing problems and making the right changes when learning stalls.

Since Teach For America and the KIPP Academies haven't yet saved the world, 5,000 charter schools have not prompted the remaking of urban school systems, and we're saddled with the disappointing legacy of NCLB, maybe what we've been missing all along is a sufficiently sentimental, gut - wrenching presence in the nation's cinemas.

At the root of outcomes - based education is the desire to raise student achievement and prompt the nation's schools to fix their sights on what children learn rather than on what administrators supply and what teachers teach.

In 1996 the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future challenged the nation to provide every child with what should be his or her educational birthright: «access to competent, caring, qualified teaching in schools organized for successTeaching and America's Future challenged the nation to provide every child with what should be his or her educational birthright: «access to competent, caring, qualified teaching in schools organized for successteaching in schools organized for success.»

Another report of the mid-1980s, the Carnegie Corporation's A Nation Prepared (see Chester E. Finn Jr., «High Hurdles,» p. 62), sparked a long focus on excellence in teaching in an effort to define what Tom Kean, former governor of New Jersey, termed «what accomplished teachers need to know and be able to do.»

Even in schools that make forthright efforts to teach students good social skills, there is a premium on what can be thought of as «vocational citizenship» — with its emphasis on learning socially desirable behaviors not as part of an attachment to community or nation but for the practical benefits they will provide to the individual student.

How does the Army select and train its leaders, and what lessons might it teach our nation's schools?

Most of the nation's colleges of education are doing an inadequate job of preparing aspiring elementary teachers for what is often characterized as their most important task: teaching children to read, a report by a Washington - based advocacy and research organization concludes.

Home - school advocates, however, do not have «animus toward government» but philosophically and politically oppose government control, based on what the classical liberal theorist Frédéric Bastiat called «legal plunder,» over the teaching, training, and indoctrination of children in a «free» nation.

The 1986 Carnegie Report made a case for the idea that the economic challenges the nation would face in the years ahead could not be met unless students were held to much higher academic standards and the nation did what would be necessary to fully professionalize its teaching force, much as medicine had done a century earlier.

But there is much Finland can teach America's reformers, and the rest of the world, about what outside of testing and rigid modes of management and assessment can make a nation's schools truly excellent.

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The idea was to look to the best performing nations in the world, as well as some of the highest performing states in the nation, to see what they were teaching their students.

Apart from particular topics, Common Core encourages the teaching of all mathematics through an approach that is at odds with what is used in high - achieving nations.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Speaking about OECD's release today of the Teaching and Learning International Study (TALIS), Ron Thorpe, president and CEO of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, praised the results of the study: «Teachers across the nation have confirmed that professional development is too often disconnected from what teachers do every day in the classroom.

Brooke teachers are paving the way to shape what makes great teaching and how we as a nation can close the achievement gap.

As a product of its time, the 1999 principle reflected an idealistic belief in the potential of digital technologies to transform teaching and learning in social studies, during what O'Brien (2010) described as a «period of ambivalence» and «inertia... as the nation's attention turned to standards - based educational reform» (p. 212).

«For less than 1 percent of what our nation spends on education each year, we've convinced nearly every state in the country to raise their standards for teaching and learning — the first time that's happened in a generation,» said Obama, referencing the Common Core.

Assessment drives what gets taught and how it is taught in our nation's schools.

«The rapid advance of technology and the very different way teachers approach teaching today, along with the almost simultaneous [aging] of the nation's education infrastructure, is creating a tremendous need to rebuild schools — yet school officials have very little knowledge about what education will look like 10 or 20 years from now.»

I entered the teaching profession with an idealistic view of what the country thought of its nation's teachers, but have found that the profession has lost its prestige.

A chief goal of the «Common Core State Standards Initiative» is to align states» academic standards with what's being taught in the highest - ranking nations around the world.

The purpose of testing is to guide educators on how and what to teach students so that education goals are met within a community, state and nation.

David Berliner Regents» Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University «The Mismeasure of Education is a magnificent work, an elegantly written, brilliantly argued and erudite exposition on why the «what,» «how» and «why» of effective teaching can not be adequately demonstrated by sets of algorithms spawned in the ideological laboratories of scientific management at the behest of billionaire investors... This book will serve as a sword of Damocles, hanging over the head of the nation's educational tribunals and their adsentatores, ingratiators and sycophants in the business community... The Mismeasure of Education will have a profound resonance with those who are fed up with the hijacking of our nation's education system.

We can't improve the quality of our nation's educators or teacher training programs without a serious dialogue around what good teaching looks like, especially for the most at - risk students for whom excellent teaching is most vital.

Not only is the Common Core testing system created to generate the false impression that Connecticut and the nation's public education system is failing, but by tying the Common Core SBAC test results to the new inept, illogical and counter-productive Connecticut Teacher Evaluation System, the incredibly expensive «golden nugget» of the corporate education reform industry aims to denigrate teachers and blow apart what is left of the teaching profession.

School principals are «invaluable multipliers of teaching and learning in the nation's schools,» according to this report by political scientist Paul Manna, but to date it's been unclear what state policymakers could do to boost their effectiveness.

Does anyone really imagine that states did not know what their students were expected to be taught before taking national tests and that this is the reason why these states have always done so poorly on nations tests?

Like many education reform initiatives (i.e., charter schools, merit pay), Teach for America was created out of what were once noble intentions: to provide bright, young teachers to fill vacancies in some of our nation's most difficult to staff classrooms.

Many policymakers believe that teaching is an algorithmic task and that if we give teachers the «right» tools, tell them how to use those tools, offer them rewards for doing what they are told, and rigorously assess their compliance, then those teachers will produce the kind of products that the nation needs to be competitive in the global marketplace.

If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest need schools, we would have a very different situation.

A background in the sciences is key for what is taught at one of the nation's 30 accredited veterinary colleges.