Sentences with phrase «high school as a whole»

These were the last students to have experienced Locke as a public school, back when they were freshmen, and the last to represent Locke High School as a whole; younger students have been placed in small, individual academies on campus, each of which reports separately to the state.

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I'd graduated high school with a really tight group of friends I had known my whole life and making new friends was a skill I'd little experience with as an adult.

Our goal is for every school in the United States to have a salad bar as part of their school food service program so that every child — from elementary school, to middle school, to high school — has daily access to fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and healthy proteins.

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Plants that sell frozen beef to the National School Lunch Program violated food safety rules at rates higher than the industry as a whole, according to the Tribune's computer analysis of Agriculture Department data.

Doesn't seem like a huge shift, but «it's important for parents to remember that if you add it all up, the new standard will mean that in a given week, school kids will be eating only 40 % whole grains in total, which is not quite as high as health experts recommend,» says Siegel.

Accordingly, rather than force children to take the whole meal and throw out much of it, in 1975, Congress passed an amendment to the School Lunch Act allowing high schools to still receive federal reimbursement for meals so long as students selected at least three out of five options served, including milk.

Our goal is for every school in the United States to have a salad bar as part of their school food service program so that every child — from elementary school, to middle school, to high school — has daily access to fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and healthy proteins.

«And that whole high - stakes testing regime, which is part of Common Core, is a big drain on time in the schools as well as money to administer the program.

Government is in the process of setting up a fund to receive voluntary contributions from individuals to support the implementation of its flagship Free Senior High School programme, and the education sector as a whole.

New York's high school graduation rate actually surpassed the nation as a whole, said education department spokeswoman Emily DeSantis.

Teachers in middle and junior high schools may differ as well, both in their knowledge of whole child development and their experience of professional support and satisfaction.

«A shift to a dietary pattern higher in healthful plant - based foods, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, and lower in animal - based foods, especially red and processed meats, can confer substantial health benefits in reducing risk of type 2 diabetes,» said Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard Chan School and senior author of the study.

Consuming a plant - based diet — especially one rich in high - quality plant foods such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes — is linked with substantially lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

In this Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital study, which collected data on over 74,000 female nurses aged 38 - 63 years over a 12 year period, weight gain was inversely associated with the intake of high - fiber, whole - grain foods, such as whole wheat, but positively related to the intake of refined - grain foods, such as products made from refined wheat.

There appear to be two schools of thought regarding vegan diets — those who advocate low fat and those who advocate the addition of high fat whole foods plant sources of fat such as nuts and avocados.

Just after graduating high school I switched because of various strange health issues — one of which landed me in the ER with fears of heart problems and / or severe lung problems (never smoked in my life), which is strange having just entered adulthood, but thankfully turned out to be extremely bad acid reflux mixed with the flu — and I got all these strange illnesses and severe sharp stomach pains (which I was terrified could be appendicitis developing, as the location was always that area) despite being in great physical shape my whole life and generally avoiding junk food.

Up until my senior year of high school I would spend the whole day before the first day trying on any and every outfit combination I could think of and forcing my Mom and brother to watch my «Back to School Fashion Show» in order to pick out my first day attire (and then second, third, fourth, etc. as school I would spend the whole day before the first day trying on any and every outfit combination I could think of and forcing my Mom and brother to watch my «Back to School Fashion Show» in order to pick out my first day attire (and then second, third, fourth, etc. as School Fashion Show» in order to pick out my first day attire (and then second, third, fourth, etc. as well).

The whole experience is reminiscent of high school, and brings with it feelings that are harder and harder to access as you age.

It follows three high school kids throwing a big party, played by Thomas Mann, Jonathan Daniel Brown and Oliver Cooper, but other than that it's full of unknowns, directed by an unknown, the only other big name is Todd Phillips (director of The Hangover, Due Date) as the producer of the whole thing.

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion gets the job done as popcorn entertainment, but in the end I can't say that a whole lot really goes on in its 90something minutes — ditzy Romy and Michele go to their reunion and get their revenge — and the film is just about instantly forgettable.

The actor has shown comedic promise in films like 17 Again and That Awkward Moment (even if the latter was a bit of a disappointment as a whole), but the former High School Musical star goes full tilt in this flick, showing he can run with the comedy bull that is Seth Rogen.

Currently employed as a Subject Leader for ICT at a high performing secondary school in Yorkshire, England this management role involves him in not only leading a department, managing the staff, teaching 11 to 18 year old students in the study of ICT and Computing but also responsibilities whole school and to feeder primary schools.

Patty Berganza's original high school, like the vast majority of schools in the United States, used the familiar model known as «whole group instruction.»

As Checker and I reported a few weeks ago, the United States as a whole has never gotten more than 40 percent of its high school graduates above the «college - ready» leveAs Checker and I reported a few weeks ago, the United States as a whole has never gotten more than 40 percent of its high school graduates above the «college - ready» leveas a whole has never gotten more than 40 percent of its high school graduates above the «college - ready» level.

So we have to make sure each child goes outside of his / her comfort zone and speaks and listens to every child in the classroom on a regular basis (I cringe to think of my days as a new high school teacher when I am sure «student K» went the whole year without uttering a sentence to «student G» and vice versa.)

These «whole school» models appear to offer the kind of dedication to high achievement, as well as reinforcement from similarly focused peers, that serve students with exceptional abilities well.

Some exam schools — such as Stuyvesant, Boston Latin, Thomas Jefferson and Illinois Math and Science Academy — are well known, but the sector as a whole (enrolling 136,000 students, about 1 percent of the total high school population) is little understood.

Americans assign far higher grades to the public schools in their local community than to the public schools of the nation as a whole.

The spread of whole - school reform models such as Success for All; the imposition of standards and high - stakes tests; the lowering of class sizes and slicing of schools into smaller, independent academies; the explosion of charter schools and push for school vouchers — all these reforms signal a vibrantly democratic school system.

Respondents always give much higher grades to schools in their communities than to schools in the nation as a whole.

Our research showed that achieving a whole school approach in high schools is a challenge, as often teachers plan their programs in subject «silos» and are managing a heavy curriculum load.

Students themselves and the United States as a whole benefit from improved performance in the early grades only if that translates into measurably higher skills at the end of school.

Viewed as a whole, selective public high schools have a surprising demographic profile.

High - school teachers report that Girdwood students, as a whole, perform well.

The ChalleNGe Program addresses the needs of the whole adolescent, as evidenced by its eight core components: leadership / followership; academic excellence (i.e., high school diplomas or GED certificates); responsible citizenship; service to the community; life coping skills; physical fitness; health and hygiene; and job skills.

Although the college - sending rates of the highest - performing high schools in the sample are low relative to Texas as a whole, our findings suggest that offering eligibility for automatic admission may not be effective at accomplishing even the narrow goal of increasing access to the top public universities for students in the most - disadvantaged settings.

The pupil premium research carried out by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has shown how, as part of a whole ‑ school approach, low - cost, high - impact strategies can impacting positively on outcomes for children and young people with SEN and help in narrowing the gap in attainment for our most vulnerable students (http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk).

As a part of a whole school approach to improving student outcomes and teacher skills, Peer Learning Groups (PLGs) have been established at Craigslea State High Sschool approach to improving student outcomes and teacher skills, Peer Learning Groups (PLGs) have been established at Craigslea State High SchoolSchool.

If they do this, then over time we should see a refinement of that targeted provision, as the majority of needs will be met by high - quality whole - school provision.

It will also explore whether Higher Achievement's new cost - efficient, whole - school model (which serves only children in a middle school feeder system) can achieve the same types of results as its traditional «magnet model.»

They point to application barriers at some charter schools and high expulsion rates at others as evidence that the charter sector as a whole may be skimming the most motivated, disciplined students and leaving the hardest - to - reach behind.

More than a decade of research, at Harvard and elsewhere, on accountability, school improvement, and school organization has become «increasingly specific,» he said, «about the conditions that promote high - level learning and performance in educational institutions,» within classrooms and in systems as a whole.

Relative to the state as a whole, the New Orleans high school graduation rate rose 10 percentage points after the New Orleans reforms.

We exclude high schools when analyzing the data for the nation as a whole because proficiency data are unavailable for many of them, and when available, typically reflect the performance of only a single cohort of students.

Those high school students had clearly benefited from the good work of their teachers who had created for them the opportunities to develop as whole human beings.

The project will invest $ 100 million into 10 new or newly expanding schools that are rethinking how schools should operate, with the ultimate goal of inspiring changes to how the U.S. public education system as a whole teaches high school students.

In the United States as a whole, the enrollment rate for youths in all secondary schools - public high schools, private secular and religious high schools, and the preparatory departments of colleges and universities - soared from 1910 to 1940 (see Figure 2).

But taking the report as a whole, you would have to be a deeply committed skeptic to argue that nothing good has happened to very large numbers of high school students in NYC over the last decade.

Unfortunately for them, one - off state tests don't yield comparable results, and discrepant proficiency bars are much of what went wrong with NCLB — so the drop - out states that devise their own assessments still won't know how their kids and schools compare with those in other states or with the nation as a whole or whether their high school graduates are indeed college ready.