"This failure to complete the basic quality assurance checks Pearson confirmed that they had completed is deeply disturbing, " city schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said in a prepared statement.
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Despite the coordinated efforts of the Member States of UNESCO, millions of young girls and boys are still deprived of basic rights, such as access to education, basic quality of life and dignified work, preventing them from participating fully in their society.
And, yes, at the margins there will always be tough decisions, but fundamentally no one can both believe in the American health care system and the professionals who provide that health care who believes in proper management believes you should sacrifice basic quality of care to the decision made by an accountant to make the bottom line of an HMO bigger.
He believes it is possible to square the circle - to do high-quality basic-research and benefit industry.
Lourdes Basabe-Desmonts has an impressive capacity to translate high quality basic science into pragmatic solutions for clinical application.
Commendable progress has been made in achieving quality basic education for all since the MDGs were set in 2000.
The Education for All (EFA) movement is a global commitment to provide quality basic education for all children, youth and adults.
The Education for All (EFA) movement is a global commitment aimed at ensuring quality basic education for all children, youths and adults.
UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: Education for All
The FAL programme endeavoured to improve literacy levels among adults as well as to empower people to demand access to quality basic social services.
Despite these notable achievements, the international community is still not on track to deliver on the promise of quality basic education for all by 2015.
At this time I had already reduced my expenses significantly, and had little more possible without sacrificing some of my basic requirements for quality of living.
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The participants noted the commendable progress that has been made in achieving quality basic education for all since the Millennium Development Goals were set in 2000.
This year, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) is marking the occasion with a variety of activities whose main purpose is to promote tolerance, equity and social justice through access to quality basic education and lifelong learning.
However, progress has been insufficient to deliver on the international commitment to provide quality basic education for all children, young people and adults: 67 million primary school age children are out of school and 796 million adults are still illiterate.
Moreover, as Britain's recently deregulated electricity, gas and telecoms companies have discovered, brand recognition or loyalty seems to be a dream in the utilities business: having been assured of a basic level and quality of service, most consumers buy on price alone, and switch allegiances frequently.
This reflects the historical fact of lacking access and quality of basic education in those areas.
The equivalent products (in terms of their basic function, not their quality) would have required 4.64 weeks of work in 1958.
More than just providing for basic needs, Hasbro believes in improving the quality of life for those most in need through its employee volunteer programs.
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Improving water resource management, increasing access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation and promoting hygiene can improve the quality of life of billions of individuals, as well as reduce child mortality, improve maternal health and cut the incidence of waterborne diseases.
Yet in a country where quality universal health care is considered a basic right, such proposals are extremely controversial.
The basic ambition behind The Auteurs is to make high quality cinema accessible to a young, global audience by making it available on demand cheaply.
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Tapio Wirkkala's wafer-thin laminated wood bowls and fluid, flaring glass, and the objects of art and manufacture of Timo Sarpaneva, Kaj Franck and other Finnish architects and artisans prove once again that the intrinsic quality of materials reduced to their most basic, sensuous essence, shaped by the creative imagination of an artist, beats all the kitsch in the world.
For the first time Thompson is forcing brand presidents to share some basic information, like how they have learned to improve quality or manufacture cheaply.
On the whole, members of this generation expect approbation, have weak basic skills and large knowledge gaps, confuse effort with quality, multitask, follow rules (occasionally to a fault), and blur the boundaries between their social and work lives.
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So far, one external evaluation has been carried out in order to assess the effectiveness of the methodological approach employed by AAEA. In 2008, DVV International evaluated the extent to which APLICA has successfully achieved its goals in teaching basic literacy and numeracy skills, and has improved the quality of life of learners and facilitators.
The company provides customers with a focused selection of high-quality, active-oriented, fashion and fashion basic merchandise at compelling values.
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NHS's basic cost efficiency: it delivers health care of surprisingly high quality at far lower cost than other rich countries have managed.
The stock video and music players deliver decent quality, but they're still a little too basic.
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When it came to high-quality original series, the FX network was once the only basic cable network in the game.
Recommendations for implementing the national assessment were made and many ideas about the right to basic education, regional cooperation and partnerships, youth, early childhood development, quality of education, the post 2015 education agenda and other important topics were discussed.
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