Sentences with phrase «opportunity schools report»

In our inaugural Opportunity Schools report, we showcase Baltimore City public schools that are breaking the link between poverty and low achievement.

Today, The Mind Trust is working in partnership with IPS and the Indianapolis Mayor's Office to incubate Innovation Network Schools with the freedoms called for in The Mind Trust's Opportunity Schools report.

Not exact matches

As part of the Innovation Policy Lab research for the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs» Creating Digital Opportunity (CDO) project, this report looks at Canadian high - tech companies in Asia, in particular the «micro-multinationals,» or companies that apart from Asia have locations in either the U.S. or Europe, or both.

School staff are very conscious of this tension, and several reported that it is an opportunity to teach critical reflection.

Scout.com's Sam Webb is reporting that last year's starting center, Jack Miller, will forgo playing this season (his senior year) to concentrate on school and business opportunities.

The report addresses how schools can play a vital role in shaping the future through a combination of improved nutrition — specifically school breakfast — and increased opportunities for physical activity.

«The NASUWT warned that the ability of free schools and academies to police their own admissions would create opportunities for selection to flourish, and it is clear from this report that this is exactly what is happening.

Mr. Speaker, I am proud to report to this august House that after a few months of intense preparation, the Akufo - Addo Government has: • rolled out the destiny - changing free Senior High School policy across all public schools to ensure equal opportunities for every Ghanaian child • rolled - out the National Digital Property Addressing System to provide a unique address for all properties in Ghana • Launched the National Identification Scheme; and • Restored the teachers and nurses training allowances.

«Ed Trust — NY's «See Our Truth» report raised awareness about the critical role that strong and diverse teachers and school leaders play in student success and in closing achievement and opportunity gaps.

The report also considers the key characteristics of young people who are out - of - school and out - of - work, including their demographics, where they live, their skills, and barriers they face connecting to employment opportunities.

The Brooklyn Borough President's Office today released its 2016 School Technology Report highlighting both challenges and opportunities related to the ongoing rollout of #CSForAll in the city.

One recommendation in the graduate - education report was to use more internship and fellowship opportunities to augment the traditional graduate - school experience.

But, given the disappointingly uneven picture of available professional development resources that the report paints, scientists who want to emerge from their graduate school or postdoc years ready to find and take advantage of nonacademic career opportunities must adopt an entrepreneurial approach to their own professional development and take the fullest advantage of all the chances they get to learn about the world of off - campus work.

The report, called the «Opportunity Equation,» argues for not only improving how math and science are taught, but also for putting those subjects at the core of more sweeping changes that would allow the country to «do school differently.»

As my final report from grad school, I want to take this opportunity to reflect on what has transpired in my life, in all these columns, and over all these years.

For schools that issue BMI report cards to parents, the researchers recommend providing parents with opportunities to visit with healthcare professionals, such as school nurses or physical educators, at various times throughout the school year.

The modern era of school effectiveness research began with Equality of Educational Opportunity, a 733 page report published by the U.S. Office of Education in July 1966.

Charter schools have the opportunity to contribute to integration across those lines, and our report offered concrete suggestions for incorporating civil rights provisions into charters as the sector expands.

In particular, the report shares lessons learned in targeting key economic regions, analyzing regional assets and gaps, and focusing technical assistance and support on helping states and regions with such things as early career advising and exposure, engaging employers, and building intermediary organizations that can link employers and schools to scale up the provision of workplace learning opportunities for young people.

Actually, Coleman was deep into his work on games when he got the call to pursue the wide - ranging examination of school conditions and achievement that would eventually become «Equality of Educational Opportunity,» or EEO, more popularly known as the Coleman Report.

As a prolific writer and renowned public intellectual, he frequently explored trends in American race relations and family life, hailing, for instance, the controversial report, «Equality of Educational Opportunity» (1966), by his friend James Coleman, which stressed the relationship between broken families and poor student performance in the public schools.

The Church of England has released a report, entitled Vision for Education, which details its role in future education, describing the Free Schools movement as a «unique opportunity for the Church of England to renew and enhance its contribution to the education of our nation's children.»

Continuing a report they'd want to hide from their own folks, parents viewed school trips as a chance to take it easy, with nearly half stating that the best thing about a trip was being with their mates (46 %), 52 % saying it was a chance for a day off, and 35 % said it was an opportunity to ditch the uniform!

The report demonstrates the need for teachers to be given further advice and information on apprenticeships and for students to have the opportunity to meet employers (including former or current apprentices) in school, to mitigate the lack of reliable information available.

With children saying that the trips are their favourite thing about school, their parents saw them as an opportunity to miss and ditch the uniform this research explores why, with 85 % reporting that they enjoy them because they bring a subject to life.

The recent U.S. News and World Report ranking of Best High Schools in America offered an opportunity for reflection.Ample criticism of the list...

This «schooling without learning» is a wasted opportunity, the report argues — widening social gaps for already disadvantaged children, for whom the promise of education was meant to offer much greater access to good jobs, higher wages, better health, and lifelong security.

The National Association for Single - Sex Public Education reports that, as of April 2006, at least 223 public schools in the United States were offering gender - separate educational opportunities, up from just 4 in 1998.

Education sociologist James Coleman is most often remembered for his 1966 report on the Equality of Educational Opportunity — a study that popularized the notion that students» family backgrounds and peers mattered more for their success than what happened in school and gave new momentum to efforts to desegregate America's schools.

The action implications of these findings, as well as some of the dos noted earlier, are to promote a genuine and broad sense of inclusiveness by educating for true understanding of diversity, especially as manifest in one's own school, to ensure that school codes of conduct and core values are integrated into everyday routines, including opportunities for student reflection and feedback on student report cards (versus being relegated to statements in handbooks or on web sites), and to require that all students are given systematic training in social problem solving or related social - emotional skills and encouraged specifically to use those skills in finding alternatives to mistreating others, seeking help effectively, and upstanding in the presence of injustice and inequity.

cuts [in programs that engage kids in physical activity], there are actually more opportunities to teach and encourage kids to be more physically active in recess than there are in physical education or after - school programs,» Vialet reported.

«The caprice of local political conditions can not be permitted to harm the educational opportunity of a child,» the five - member panel wrote in its Sept. 15 report to Franklin Circuit Judge Ray Corns, who declared the current school - aid system unconstitutional last May.

Hundred of mayors attending the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Orlando this weekend unanimously endorsed «parent trigger» laws that are aimed at giving parents the opportunity to force immediate changes to failing schools, reports Stephanie Simon of Reuters.

Long before the Risk report, the War on Poverty saw schools as key to reducing racial and other disparities in economic opportunity.

This special report dives into the toolbox available to those looking to boost school quality, approaches that may show promise in specific schools and with particular populations, and the opportunities and challenges posed by the new Every Student Succeeds Act.

The Fordham Institute — Pondiscio's own institution — hosted an event last month featuring a report card that ranks two dozen private school choice opportunities in the various states.

Half a century has passed since the publication of the Coleman Report, and the persistent racial gaps in achievement, academic attainment, earnings, crime, poverty, and extensive school segregation that remain provide prima facie evidence that equality of opportunity remains elusive.

In one of his early writings, excerpted in the following pages, James S. Coleman, the brilliant sociologist who later wrote the famous report on the equality of opportunity for education (the «Coleman Report») and the first study of public and private schools, identified the essential high - school problem: «our adolescents today are cut off, probably more than ever before, from the adult society.&report on the equality of opportunity for education (the «Coleman Report») and the first study of public and private schools, identified the essential high - school problem: «our adolescents today are cut off, probably more than ever before, from the adult society.&Report») and the first study of public and private schools, identified the essential high - school problem: «our adolescents today are cut off, probably more than ever before, from the adult society.»

The Coleman Report examined the availability of educational opportunities in public schools as well as the factors associated with student educational outcomes.

Reporting on the statistics The effects of this disastrous triumvirate on the education pipeline is made apparent in the NSEAD Survey Report 2015 ‑ 16, that asked how, over the last five years, has government policy impacted on art craft and design education, looking at curriculum provision in art and design, the value given to art and design in schools and colleges, professional development opportunities and the well ‑ being and workload of art and design teachers.

Fifty years ago, the U.S. Office of Education released James S. Coleman's «Equality of Educational Opportunity» report, an immense analysis of data from around 600,000 public school students and tens of thousands of teachers.

The use of interdistrict - choice programs is unlikely to increase most students» educational opportunities significantly, a new report concludes, despite recent attention to the idea as a means of reducing economic and racial segregation and giving students in low - performing public schools a chance to find a better school.

IEP Meeting Reminder - Quick form reminds parents and teachers of upcoming IEP meetings Project Choices Visual Checklist - This visual checklist helps teacher track the type of project and gives students an opportunity to choose a type of project for open - ended assignments such as school fairs, museum projects, book reports, group work, etc..

In the background questionnaire, students will be asked to report how familiar they are with global issues; how developed their linguistic and communication skills are; to what extent they hold certain attitudes, such as respect for people from different cultural backgrounds; and what opportunities they have at school to develop global competence.

The AJE paper — Interactive reading opportunities beyond the early years: What educators need to consider — reports that some of the children interviewed had no one reading to them at school or at home.

This is an interesting case because, by its own position as set out in the judgment, it seems OFSTED consciously intended to limit opportunity for schools held to be inadequate or subject to a recommendation that they be placed into special measures to challenge OFSTED's decision and to challenge the content of the report.

Participants in this SLRC Partner Schools Pilot Project have reported a range of benefits from the program, including the opportunity to directly engage with researchers and research, to network with like - minded practitioners, and to engage in valuable research that is contextually relevant and meaningful.

The purpose of the report is to make rural schools — both the opportunities and the problems they present — more visible at the national level.

Rooty Hill High School in New South Wales:»... it demonstrates what can happen when educators recognise student diversity and local opportunity and start exactly where their own students are at,» the report says.

The report notes that, as this forecast is based on Key Stage 2 results, there is opportunity for secondary schools to make a difference.