He discussed immigration and education when I asked him about the Dream Act, an acronym for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors, which has been before Congress since 2001 and was most recently blocked by a Senate filibuster in December 2010.
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As UNESCO Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education and the UN advocate for the second Millennium Development Goal on primary education, I am passionate about bringing the benefits of education to children and communities across the world.
While making sure every child can go to school is an imperative in itself, achieving universal primary education would also bring about far-reaching development benefits.
If there was any reason to believe that Scott Walker actually cared about making public education better, perhaps this development would not bode so ill for public schools in Wisconsin.
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They underlined the role of green and inclusive education in bringing about a more sufficient and sustainable model of development.
Biosphere Reserves are thus sites for experimenting with and learning about sustainable development, particularly during the on-going UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014).
Pascal Canfin, Minister responsible for Development at the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs spoke about girls' education in Africa, emphasizing that French assistance aimed to address girls' exclusion from a holistic standpoint, from schools to sanitation to transport.
The company will pay for about 235 students as part of its national test development, and the state Education Department will pay for the rest.
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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.
In his executive-education class on leadership development, he instructs students who include CEOs to open up to others about their toughest experiences.
The international conferences will focus on the on-going discussions about open access to education and culture, using and applying creative commons licenses, meaning and development of free software, and challenges for intellectual property rights.
If we do some of the things that the President talked about, in terms of investing in research and development and clean energy, investing in education, investing in infrastructure, we believe that we will have set the table for long-term positive economic growth.
The adoption of universal indicators on quality physical education and sport and an economic analysis about the valuable contributions that physical activity and sport make to social and economic development will be considered by this Commission.
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