Sentences with phrase «than the education status»

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The social giant collects much more information than that, which results in at least 600 targeting options including household income, level of education, home type, home value, home ownership status, household composition, parents of children with specific ages, newly engaged couples, new vehicle buyers, expats, a variety of buyer profiles, people who frequently buy online, frequent travelers, and much more.

If that central relationship is distorted, if we look to something less than God for our fulfillment, seeking affirmation on the level of status, wealth, social position, achievement, education, power, or whatever, then our human light will inevitably burn at a lower wattage; our being will be distorted.

In a church whose membership ranked lower than the older Protestant denominations in education and socioeconomic status, a bishop could well speak like that.

In this situation more than a hundred theological schools have agreed to examine themselves and the status of theological education in general, to raise immediate and ultimate questions about their purposes, their methods and their effectiveness in discharging their duties; to seek also ways of improving their own ministry.

He also faulted churches for coalescing around distinctions of class, race, education, and economic status rather than welcoming outcasts — represented in the biblical passage by «foreigners» and «eunuchs» — on equal terms with ourselves as children of God.

Moreover, in addressing «the nature of the academic calling» (as they significantly still put it), the AAUP argued that «if education is the cornerstone of the structure of society and if progressing in scientific knowledge is essential to civilization, few things can be more important than to enhance the dignity of the scholar's profession...» Scientific knowledge and free inquiry thus gained near - sacred status.

The directive given to breastfeeding mothers to «give no food or water other than breast milk» in combination with no education on the signs of infant starvation is leading to an epidemic of infant feeding complications, hospitalizations and injuries that is well - documented, a status quo that took the life of Landon Johnson five years ago.

Mothers who breast feed tend to be older, have a better education, and a higher socioeconomic status, than mothers who breast feed their children for a limited time or not at all.3 15 In some studies the association between breast feeding and cognitive development is not statistically significant after adjustment for such confounders.16 - 20

In a report released earlier this year, the commons education committee also found «no convincing evidence of the impact of academy status on attainment in primary schools», adding that while «some chains such as Harris have proved very effective at raising attainment... others achieve worse outcomes than comparable mainstream schools».

The people who consume the arts have higher social status, more education and fatter wallets than Mr or Mrs Average.

A report by the education committee argued that the status quo creates pressures to «drive down quality», leading exam boards to compete on syllabus «accessibility» rather than syllabus strength.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Gary Orfield, professor of education, law, political science, and urban planning at UCLA, said opponents of the UT admission policy claim there are nonracial alternatives that do the job just as well, including the 10 % plan that UT now uses as its first phase for admission; approaches using socioeconomic status rather than race as a factor; and special outreach and recruitment efforts.

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.

In the new study, people with one «low» MAOA gene and one «high» MAOA gene reported having credit - card debt 7.8 percent more often than did people with two «high» versions, the researchers found, even when they controlled for factors such as education and socioeconomic status.

However, those families who do have the material resources associated with middle - class status tend to invest in their children's education at similar or higher levels than their white counterparts,» says Merolla.

«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.

An important settlement for more than two millennial, Paris is today one of the worlds leading business and cultural centers, and its influence in politics, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the worlds major global cities.

Launching his fifth and final annual report, he said that while England's education system still fell short of being world class — some parts were closer to achieving that status than they have ever been.

Unlike the basic education that is guaranteed by the 1951 Convention to the Status of Refugees, the Convention requires a hosting state, as regards the right to further education, to accord to them favourable treatment as possible, and in any event not less favourable than that accorded to foreign nationals in the same circumstances (27).

In essence, Secretary Duncan dismissed parental opposition as the byproduct of self - interested parents who were more concerned about solidifying their social status than with the quality of education their children received.

The author adds, «School practices to encourage parents to participate in their children's education are more important than family characteristics like parental education, family size, marital status, socioeconomic level, or student grade level in determining whether parents get involved.»

We begin with an oft - cited data point: after controlling for differences in education, experience, race, gender, marital status, and other earnings - related characteristics, public school teachers receive considerably lower total annual salaries than private workers.

Dozens of studies point to one important conclusion: What the family does is more important than family background (income, parental education, marital status, family size, etc.).

In response to a Neil Carmichael, who called on the Education Secretary to make the subjects compulsory, Nicky Morgan said: «The vast majority of schools already make provision for PSHE and while the government agrees that making PSHE statutory would give it equal status with other subjects, the government is concerned that this would do little to tackle the most pressing problems with the subject, which are to do with the variable quality of its provision, as evidenced by Ofsted's finding that 40 per cent of PSHE teaching is less than good.

A study from the Consortium of Policy Research in Education (CPRE) of Philadelphia schools after the reform found that schools using positive rather than punitive disciplinary measures had more faculty cohesion, better teacher morale, and served higher socioeconomic status students than schools not complying with the reform.

By openly acknowledging the shortcomings of public schools and embracing innovation, he became a much more credible and effective voice for public education than the NEA or other defenders of the status quo.

Despite countless stories like Jamal's, in the end nothing — and I mean nothing — was more threatening to the education status quo in New York City than our charter school initiative.

«It's vital that we concentrate on the quality of education and a school's ability to do the very best for all children, rather than on the legal status of a school.»

New analysis of MySchool data and 2017 Victorian Certificate of Education year 12 results shows that public schools with similar Index of Community Socio - Educational Advantage (ICSEA) rankings or Socio - Economic Status have very similar or even better VCE results than private schools.

Roy Perry, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, said: «It's vital that we concentrate on the quality of education and a school's ability to deliver the best results for children, rather than on the legal status of a school...

Owing to this ambiguity, I penned a letter [vi] to the Department of Education during the comment period on draft regulations arguing that they should broadly interpret the ESSA statute to allow states to use status measures of performance other than percent proficient.

Finally, he said, it was important to elevate the status of training for practice to its own degree — to give it «an integrity of its own» — rather than subsuming it under the guise of a research - oriented education doctorate.

More important than the changed status of NAS is the increasing prominence of NAS - style whole - school reform as one of the most popular strategies for education change.

Who better to help the country regain its first - in - the - world education status than current students?

The Forbes 30 under 30 confers celebrity status to a bunch of twentysomethings in more than a dozen fields — including education.

Community Voice is committed to moving education forward rather than maintaining the status quo policies of the last ten years.

The Chronicle of Higher Education writes: http://bit.ly/2ekBCJE * Why for - profit colleges converting to nonprofit status is less nefarious than you think.

«For more than three years, Commissioner Cerf has served New Jersey as one of the most passionate and articulate voices for the greatest civil rights challenge of our time: delivering a high quality education for every child in our state, regardless of zip code or socioeconomic status,» Christie said in a statement.

David Simmonds, chairman of the LGA's children and young people board, said: «For parents, who are far more concerned with the quality of their child's education in the classroom than the legal status of the school, it is the council that they still turn to for advice and support.

The number of these new schools is likely to be small, so this policy will have a much less significant effect on the education system than the law now being passed to enable maintained schools to convert to academy status.

The researchers found that of three groups — students, parents, and teachers — teacher expectations were more powerful predictors of postsecondary education status than the expectations of students and parents.

Students at top - tier colleges are less likely than their peers at other colleges to go into education; high - achieving college graduates are less likely to go into teaching; and those who do become teachers are less likely to stay in the profession long term.45 In recent polling, high - achieving Millennials revealed much of the thinking that goes into this drop - off: They reported that they do not believe teaching is a good career option for high - achieving students, and they feel that the status of the teaching profession is in decline.46

«Our efforts to empower parents and disrupt the failing status quo in education are more important now than ever at this time of unprecedented opportunity for our movement.»

The UFT and Randi's national AFT are far more vested in their own failed status quo — and they invest in the infrastructure such as P.R. shops and front groups to preserve it — than they are in the education of kids in Harlem who go to relatively successful schools that happen to be operated by Weingarten's enemy, former NYC Councilmember Eva Moskowitz.

Here, professional teachers are seen as broadly contributing to the quality of education; they advocate for equitable policies that challenge the status quo, their purview is extended to include debates over the purposes of schooling, and their success is judged on more than students» performance on standardized tests.

Worse, they defend the system by tying up taxpayer dollars in a status quo that was built for a different age in which education didn't equal better quality of life, not for a time in which what you know is more important than what you can do with your hands.

The record must be set straight when people and foundations use their public office, media position, or academic status to search out and destroy public education rather than engage in constructive dialogue.

If any language other than English is checked, the students name will be submitted to the Office of Bilingual Education in order to check the status of previous testing.

And so, things like vouchers, which risk upsetting the funding of public education and otherwise look to upset the status quo of public schools, are perceived as threats to public education rather than as efforts by religions to get money.