Sentences with phrase «most schools around the nation»

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As liberal - arts colleges around the country face financial woes and skepticism about the value of their degrees, rumblings of distress are emerging from arts - and - sciences professors at even one of the nation's most elite schools: Columbia University.

Now, researchers from the University of Michigan Medical School and colleagues around the nation will try to get to the heart of this mystery, and perhaps find new ways to spot those most at risk.

Virtually no other nation around the world has school boards as we do, yet most of their school systems aren't run in tyrannical ways.

«What made this convening so impressive is that while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools,» said Lecturer Chris Gabrieli, cofounder and chairman of the National Center on Time & Learning, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded education.

A researcher at Harvard surveyed 10,000 middle and high school students in 33 different schools around the nation about what they thought their folks cared about most: that they achieve at a high level, that they are happy (defined as «feeling good most of the time»), or that they care for others.

Perhaps the most prominent big - city superintendent in the nation, Vallas is widely credited with having turned around the Chicago school system.

Around the nation, most school districts and teachers recognize that traditional pay schedule for what it is — an imperfect system.

As I see it, discussion of Success should revolve around one big question: Why do Success's academic results seem so outsized, even compared to some of the nation's other, most - accomplished charter schools?

In 5th - 8th grade much emphasis is placed on mastering the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) enhanced with KIPP and national standards so that all students gain the additional knowledge and skills needed to be successful in the most competitive high schools around Austin, Texas, and the nation.

The public debate ought to revolve around the clear issue of whether we as a nation want good public schools for all students, most particularly for low - income students.

But that all changed when the hurricane shuttered most schools and scattered students around the nation.

Most importantly, here in Connecticut and around the nation, charter schools refuse to provide equal educational opportunities.

«At most independent schools around the nation, there's not per se special education — that's a public mandate, and we're independent schools.»

Using insights from a 13 practitioners who have implemented and sustained collaborative cultures of continuous improvement in schools around the nation, this anthology answers the most important questions surrounding professional learning communities (PLCs).

Charter proponents, most notably the Walton Family Foundation, contribute large amounts of money to expand charter schools in select cities around the nation.