Sentences with phrase «widespread education of»

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In addition to the tech mogul's widespread revolutionizing of communication through social media, the couple is using their power to research and improve global health, education, and community through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Teachers in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down public schools in a bid for better pay and education funding, building on educator revolt that emerged elsewhere in the U.S. but whose political prospects were not clear.

With education and knowledge so widespread these days, it's only a matter of 2 or 3 centuries before religion dies out entirely.

This means that the high valuation of science and education, so widespread across the world, is an expression of the interests of the rich and powerful.

You've heard the horror stories about the schools: kindergartens with a dose of amoral sex education; teachers sowing gender confusion with the hearty support of administrators; violence and widespread drug use in the tony prep schools that train tomorrow's elites; depression, eating disorders,....

From the religious angle we have Jews» early and widespread literacy as a sine qua non of studying Torah, which developed into a passion for education generally.

One of the most salutary developments in religious education circles in recent years is widespread participation in the growing rapprochement between theology and psychodynamic theory.

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

The success of the East Asian economies» first Japan and more recently the other East Asian market economies» shows that there is a crucial governmental role in providing services such as widespread education and health care, which it is quite possible for governments to do successfully at a fairly low level of per capita income.

But surely another reason is the widespread perception among church people that gifts to church colleges are gifts to a generalized kind of «higher education» rather than a specific kind of «Christian higher education,» in which churches have some unique stake.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

I wrestle with this question in my own classrooms and with my kids, especially these days, living in what Chris Gallagher has called the age of quantification in education: teacher - proof and child - proof classrooms, a widespread sense that if it isn't measurable, it must not be valuable.

The problem is that no such programs yet exist (although this is going to be a key objective of our SmartTeams program, and our pilot program for the NCAA and Department of Defense under our Mind Matters Challenge grant), and even if were implemented on a widespread basis (which, once again, I hope will happen once we launch the full SmartTeams program in 2016), it is unclear whether such a shift in emphasis in concussion education will achieve any meaningful increase in rates of self - reporting, at least in the short term.

«In the UK these barriers include the difficulty some women encounter when breastfeeding in public, widespread misleading marketing that formula is equivalent to breastfeeding, a lack of high quality services to prevent and treat any problems if they arise, a lack of community support, a lack of education about breastfeeding for young children, and lack of support for women to breastfeed in the workplace.

And finally, a while back I told you how my son was learning to cook but I lamented the lack of widespread, basic cooking education in this country.

Indeed, it is now possible to make a strong case that parent education programs can lead to better parenting all along the continuum of caretaking effectiveness, thereby achieving widespread gains in child development long sought by researchers and policy makers.

Through Lemak Sports Medicine & Orthopedics, YSA has direct connectivity and impact with over 40 high schools, colleges and universities and a widespread array of sports organizations comprising numerous community youth and recreational sports and professional sports in complementing sports medicine care and providing education and other resources.

Breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants1, providing protection from morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases2 and chronic diseases later in life.3 Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended, starting within one hour of birth and for the first 6 months of life, with continued breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding difficulties.

More importantly, as Le Billon so well documented in French Kids Eat Everything, almost every aspect of French food culture, including widespread nutrition education and early «taste training,» supports better school meals, both their provision by schools and their acceptance by children.

A key factor is the widespread lack of appropriate education for health professionals in the prevention and treatment of breastfeeding problems, which means that in a wide range of settings women commonly do not receive the quality of care needed from the health services (Cattaneo 2010; Renfrew 2006).

Members of a special team at the U.S. Education Department that had been investigating widespread abuses by for - profit colleges have been marginalized, reassigned or instructed to focus on other matters, according to current and former employees.

Although DeFrancisco is hurt by widespread GOP support of Marc Malorino — his chief rival in the May nominating convention — voters should consider DeFrancisco's vow to cut taxes, his previous positions on the Syracuse City School District Board of Education and city council and his 40 - year undefeated record in political races.

Labour is calling for cross-party talks on how religious education is conducted and monitored in the state sector as a special poll for the Observer shows widespread concerns about the use of taxpayers» money to fund faith schools in a multicultural Britain.

Talking to politics.co.uk, Ruth Deech, former chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, reiterated her call for a widespread public education campaign.

They also trust the state Education Department and the Board of Regents more than Cuomo of the Legislature when it comes to setting education policy, even though it was SED and the Regents that botched the Common Core implementation, causing widespread consternation in receEducation Department and the Board of Regents more than Cuomo of the Legislature when it comes to setting education policy, even though it was SED and the Regents that botched the Common Core implementation, causing widespread consternation in receeducation policy, even though it was SED and the Regents that botched the Common Core implementation, causing widespread consternation in recent years.

«The real story is that Michael Gove's plans for A-level reform are not based, as he appears to be claiming, on evidence of widespread concerns in the higher education sector about the rigour and relevance of A-levels.

Since being categorized as geographically widespread, Governor Cuomo has also announced several multifaceted actions to combat the spread of the flu, including an Executive Order that suspended the section of state education law that limits the authority of pharmacists to administer immunizing agents to anyone under age 18 to allow vaccines to be administered to anyone age 2 and up.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

The Legislature's changes followed widespread criticism of the tests themselves and a botched implementation of the Common Core Learning Standards by the State Education Department.

And spokespeople for two organizations that are collating dossiers for Johnson's inbox — Universities UK, which represents British higher - education institutions, and the Institute of Physics — both told Nature on July 20 that despite concerns, they haven't yet seen evidence that Brexit is having a widespread impact.

Other features in the 2017 survey include a widespread support for science education, a low percentage of respondents seeking a job, and the dominance of a pharmaceutical company recognized for volunteerism.

Instead, the widespread presumption of the field is that medical education is exclusively not for - profit oriented.

The new study shows the results of widespread adoption of salpingectomy in a large, integrated health care system following the development and implementation of a systemwide education program on the procedure.

Lynch even founded the David Lynch Foundation For Consciousness - Based Education and World Peace to «prevent and eradicate the all - pervasive epidemic of trauma and toxic stress among at - risk populations through promoting widespread implementation of the evidence - based Transcendental Meditation program.»

It's only been since the 1990's that sexual education has been a widespread part of school curriculum.

In a time of widespread pressure for improvement in public education, this is the way the teacher unions put their power to most effective use.

Previous studies have found widespread support across the United States for increased funding of public education.

At this academy, educators and education leaders will interact in intellectually stimulating learning environments — in person and online — to co-construct solutions to specific yet widespread problems of practice.

In the Valencian Community, the More - TIC Plan was introduced for widespreading the use of technological infrastructures as whiteboards, mobile classrooms, wi - fi networks, or thin clients in the teaching - learning process of the education centers subordinated to the regional Government.

When President - elect Donald Trump tapped Betsy DeVos as his pick for U.S. Secretary of Education, he triggered a debate over whether widespread school choice — like the voucher system that DeVos supports — would really boost student achievement across the country.

Under his leadership of more than 30 years, ASG gained widespread recognition for being one of the largest non-profit friendly societies in Australia, encouraging parents to save for their children's future education.

The recommendations sent by the Kansas board of education last week to Gov. John Carlin are similar to those that have been considered in states across the country as they have moved to respond to a public perception of widespread incompetence among the nation's teachers.

Widespread adoption of Common Core standards is also accelerating the move away from bilingual education.

An experiment in place - based education, the Museum School recently won a coveted XQ Super Schools award and is driving widespread adoption of its model across the district — bringing families and students back to a city in an economic and cultural downturn.

The 2003 - 04 school year saw the first widespread implementation of the new federal education law's chief accountability measures.

The end result of widespread low - quality high - school education in the U.S. compared to the secondary education in equally economically advanced countries is that a greater proportion of adults in the United States are woefully underprepared for today's jobs.

For instance, to explain the meaning of «to be citizens and economic participants in a democratic society» he says that «there is widespread agreement that an adequate system of education is one that «ensures that a child is equipped to participate in political affairs and compete with his or her peers in the labor market.

While voucher, tuition tax credit, and education savings - account programs have been successful in filling excess capacity in existing private schools, they have not led to widespread scaling of high - quality school models or to the creation of new, high - quality schools.

Several studies, including a recent paper by the University of Virginia's Daphna Bassok and colleagues, as well as widespread reports from educators, show that schools have shortchanged history, science, physical education, art, music, and civics.

The Department of Education has issued simpler guidance for parents and educators aimed at clearing up widespread confusion about when information may be shared under the main federal student - privacy law.