She tabled a parliamentary motion raising concerns about the prescriptive nature of the Learning and Development Requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
The assessments by teachers - known as the Foundation Stage Profile - aim to show how children are developing against a set of expectations for the skills five-year-olds should have.
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After Hurricane Sandy, the CFDA, Vogue and Tory Burch Foundation banded together to stage a shopping event to benefit victims of the natural disaster.
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While Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell gleefully brags that his goal for the next two years is to defeat the president, Obama can say his is to reform a broken tax system and put America back on a sound fiscal and economic foundation, setting the stage for a new era of growth.
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"Genomics is right now at the stage of laying the foundation, " says Lander.
Now, she spends less time in front of the camera and more time campaigning for the country she loves, using her modeling experience to stage fundraising events for her foundation.
Sageworks analyzed accounts receivable days for privately held companies in various construction-related industries, including those tied to early-stage work, such as architectural design and foundation work, and those for drywall, flooring and other end-of-project tasks.
The Mozilla Ignite Challenge is a multi-stage competition in which Mozilla and the National Science Foundation (NSF) invite designers, developers and everyday people to brainstorm and build applications for the faster, smarter Internet of the future.
Since the launch of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates has become a leading figure on the international development stage, seeking innovative solutions to extreme poverty and poor health in developing countries.
George Michael is to stage a special concert for Sir Elton John's Aids foundation.
Other experts said the findings were still at an early stage, but were still very promising and represented a strong foundation for future research.
Most mobile-health projects are still at the trial stage, but a report compiled in 2008 by the UN Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation documented around 50 such projects across the developing world.
The Milken foundation had a crucial early role in numerous prostate drugs now in late-stage trials.
Shortly after the Park Foundation announcement, anti-fracking activists Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono announced they would stage a free concert in Central Park in early February to raise awareness of the growing threat of fracking-related UFO activity.
There is, by contrast, a conceptual foundation to choreographer Kate Weare's 2011 "Garden, " which will take the stage March 22-24.
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The foundation supported talented young singers (including a young unknown named Joan Sutherland) and helped stage and record opera in English.
The firm uses a foundation- and endowment-like approach to portfolio construction, investing primarily in early-stage technology companies, with some allocation to life sciences as well as early and growth investments in India and China.
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