Sentences with phrase «dramatic school change»

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The same three factors that cause measles to spread through a grade school classroom, writes Gladwell, can be used to explain the Hush Puppies phenomenon: (1) contagiousness, (2) the fact that little causes can have big effects, and (3) the way change often occurs at one dramatic moment rather than gradually.

«Schools are rushing in dramatic changes to their curriculums that will cut the time devoted to subjects not recognised in the English Baccalaureate, The TES has learned.

The new legislation triggers the most dramatic change in the School Breakfast and National School Lunch programs since they were first enacted.

We promised America's parents that we would change the beverage mix in schools, and our companies - along with their school partners delivered dramatic and significant results.

The union is proposing a wide range of changes to restore balance to the city's system of school governance, including dramatic changes to the composition of the Panel for Educational Policy that will eliminate the mayor's majority.

The Buffalo school board plans to appoint former Erie 1 BOCES Superintendent Donald Ogilvie as interim superintendent — the first in a likely series of dramatic changes to come for the district.

Walking the neighborhood's streets and parks, visiting its schools, restaurants and offices, talking to its residents, no one could argue that the change is anything less than dramatic, in just about every -LSB-...]

The city school system — the largest of its kind in the country — is on the verge of dramatic change, and Gov. Cuomo has bet his second term on an aggressive campaign to transform a system he claims has failed more than 250,000 students over the past decade while state bureaucrats twiddled their thumbs.

He has promised dramatic changes to the state's pension system and its formula for funding schools, over the objections of his old enemies in organized labor.

Carvalho changed his mind during a dramatic school board meeting in Miami, during which board members and community members implored him to stay in his current position, which he has held since 2008.

«This program capitalizes on local resources that can bring about change in behavior and improve blood pressure rates,» said Monique Anderson, M.D., lead researcher of the study and a medical instructor in cardiology at the Duke Clinical Research Institute and the Duke School of Medicine in Durham, N.C. «As participants became more knowledgeable, they probably started exercising more, taking their medication more, and those who were really engaged showed dramatic responses in blood pressure change.»

The dramatic shift has been partially attributed to First Nations peoples (a term that replaced the word «Indians» in the 1970s) gaining local control of education in 1973 and changing the on - reserve school system from a more traditional education to one mixed with First Nations history, culture, and values.

Duncan said of the results, «There's dramatic change happening in these schools, and in the long - term process of turning around the nation's lowest - performing schools, one year of test results only tells a small piece of the puzzle.»

Diminishing state and federal funding, dramatic demographic changes, and competition from charter schools are driving most districts» plans to close schools, despite the...

It refers to schools identified as one of the lowest performers in the state and subject to dramatic interventions, including potential leadership changes.

That theory of action has proved challenging for a number of political and methodological reasons, but the investment helped spur dramatic changes across schools and states.

Big changes to the E-rate program made by the Federal Communications Commission over the past 18 months are showing up in dramatic ways in this year's requests for telecommunications - related funding by schools and libraries.

The winning states are making dramatic changes in how they do business — adopting common standards and assessments, building data systems that measure student growth and success, retaining effective teachers and principals, and turning around their lowest performing schools.

Boston voters last week ousted two school - committee members whose names were dragged through a long extortion trial recently — and, at the same time, the voters approved a dramatic change in the way future boards will be chosen.

In a dramatic change of opinion over the past year, support for charter schools has declined by 12 percentage points, from 51 % last year to only 39 % this year (36 % opposed).

The Boston school board is unlikely to make any dramatic changes to the district's student - assignment plan until the 2006 - 07 school year, a decision that comes after months of heated community meetings that explored ways to retool the policy.

For Smith, this is also a dramatic change from when he attended school.

Schools that receive the severe fail rating may experience more dramatic consequences: these can include changes in the school leadership team and the school's governing board, increased resources, as well as increased oversight from the inspectors.

Given the strong union support for the Obama presidency, there was great speculation within education circles throughout the fall as to whether the new president would turn out to be a reformer — willing to challenge existing practices and the teachers unions in order to achieve dramatic changes in schools — or play it politically safe by backing programs that brought only marginal changes.

With many schools becoming independent entities and local authorities rapidly being replaced by academy clusters as key players in the delivery of education, Chris Wilford, REC Education senior policy advisor, takes stock of this seismic transformation and examines how the dramatic expansion of the academy model will change current resourcing needs

Their most effective strategy — working with superintendents to create far more high - performing traditional schools that would lure parents away from charters — might require dramatic changes to teachers» contracts that unions have spent decades winning.

And as he geared up to run for a second term, he was claiming success: the city's schools had been fundamentally reformed, and dramatic education change was under way.

Unfortunately, despite these changes in high - school course taking over the past two decades, student achievement in core liberal - arts courses has not shown dramatic improvement, and American students have repeatedly fallen short on international comparisons of achievement, particularly in math and science.

Our teachers and school leaders can help young people make sense of dramatic changes and build their own plans.

One of the unwitting consequences of focusing on single parts is the seeming failure by many to see the fundamental change occurring outside the school walls; the impact of digital normalisation on the young, their parents and society, and the dramatic transformation that has been occurring in schools operating on a digital base (Lee & Broadie, 2014).

79, president of the foundation, «when we developed the conviction that dramatic structural change was going to be necessary in Boston and other urban public school systems in order to generate broad improvement in the academic achievement of the mostly low - income, minority students who populate these districts today.»

Whether we look at rapidly shifting demographics, constantly emerging technologies, the way we learn or the way we lead, K - 12 schools are experiencing dramatic changes that will have lasting effects on young people, and ultimately, the nation as a whole.

Many took Coleman's findings as implying that schools alone would never close the achievement gap, without dramatic societal changes, requiring transforming neighborhoods and family structure.

Other leadership actions that nurture school turnarounds include (1) sending a clear signal that dramatic change is urgently needed, (2) maintaining a consistent focus on improving instruction, (3) making visible improvements quickly, and (4) building a staff that is committed to the school's improvement goals.

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As dramatic changes in technology and automation reshape the workforce, many educators feel schools should reflect these changes.

Hear the story of how 200 + schools and districts have overcome the inertia of traditional instruction and created an imperative for a dramatic shift in educational practices to better prepare students for a more complex, constantly changing future.

Following two decades in which courts spurred significant reforms in our nation's neediest schools by interpreting the education clauses of their state constitutions to guarantee an «adequate» education for all students, the years 2005 to 2008 have seen a dramatic change in the judicial response to adequacy litigation.

The challenges facing many Catholic schools — low enrollment and threats to financial sustainability — put them in a position where they must close their doors unless something dramatic changes.

San Francisco — Secondary - school principals, challenged by dramatic changes in the character of their student populations, appear to be increasingly concerned about improving their schools and dealing more effectively with student «learning styles.»

Yet the changes are evolutionary rather than revolutionary, often less dramatic than many supporters of school choice had hoped.

Rejection by the House of the finance - reform bill left lawmakers and educators at the mercy of an impatient state supreme court, which has threatened to halt state aid to schools if the legislature did not deliver dramatic changes in its $ 14 - billion funding system by April 1.

The second wave of reform took the form of school restructuring, and combined three complementary elements: (a) a call for higher and common expectations for ALL students, (b) an emphasis on new and more challenging teaching practices, and (c) dramatic changes in the organization and management of public schools (Elmore, 1990).

The new Local Control Funding Formula marks a dramatic change for California school funding.

«It was about changing the culture in our neediest schools towards one of excellence, and demonstrating, in a time of great financial stress in our state, that we can do something really dramatic and bold in our most difficult schools,» Raymond said.

These dramatic changes have led to Merrill's selection as the Arizona Charter School Association's 2016 Transformational Leader of the Year.

When you talk about young people, who have been a part of an under performing public school system, dramatic changes to that system do not produce dramatic academic results instantaneously, not even over the course of 1 - 2 years.

This is the most dramatic change in school management since Tom Boasberg took over the school system in 2009.

Basically: there should not be more school leaders facing dramatic changes in their English results compared to last year.