Sentences with phrase «public school method»

Our current Public School method of funded / unfunded mandates, testing by CSAP / TSAP (or whatever is in vogue this school year) is a process that is failing our Students and frustrating too many of our Teachers.

But for other secular homeschoolers, those who do not follow a particular philosophy — which may either mean that they fall into the group of homeschoolers known as eclectic or that they use many public school methods — they don't or don't seem themselves as having a single, shaping vision that guides all their choices other than providing their children with an excellent, safe education.

Not exact matches

Using the same method, the average student debt per graduate was found for both public and private schools.

Given the common association of the word «indoctrinate» with totalitarian methods, there might be at least a «slight suspicion» that Justice Stevens did not use the term in its neutral sense, especially since he nowhere refers to public school indoctrination.

They would also need to report to state and federal educational officials so that the methods and results of the different local public school reforms could be compared to each other and to voucher experiments.

The standard method of theological education — a method practiced in the public schools and on through the university — is one of attending a certain number of classes, drafting some papers and, at the end of the term or course, writing the answers to some questions in order to indicate comprehension of the materials covered.

The government's method was to offer private schools four options: (1) continued independence with no aid, (2) integration into the public school system, (3) a permanent «contract of partnership» in which the classes under contract would be taught according to public school schedules by teachers under contract to the state, and (4) a «simple contract» of limited duration in which the designated classes would be taught by teachers hired by the school but certified by the state.

Instead of confronting the public school system or arguing before school boards for better teaching methods, we might do best by setting up small schools in which we try out our methods.

Transformational teaching: Waldorf - inspired methods in the public school.

Although Waldorf - methods education is relatively new to American public schools, the Waldorf education movement began over 80 years ago.

Now, as Waldorf - methods schools enter the public arena, a broader population of children will benefit from and succeed with this exceptional child - centered educational experience.

Waldorf methods are also being adopted by many U.S. public and charter schools.

Since Oct. 1, all N.C. public schools must stop spraying pesticides by the calendar and start using a less - toxic method.

As a co-worker in the Fellowship Community beginning in 1975, learning biodynamic methods directly from former co-workers of Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, Mac helped start the third grade farming block at Green Meadow Waldorf School and taught that block for 15 years; he also helped initiate the Pfeiffer Center's public school outreach program, The Outdoor LSchool and taught that block for 15 years; he also helped initiate the Pfeiffer Center's public school outreach program, The Outdoor Lschool outreach program, The Outdoor Lesson.

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As a co-worker in the Fellowship Community beginning in 1975, where he learned biodynamic methods directly from former co-workers of Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, Mac helped start the Third Grade farming block at Green Meadow Waldorf School, and taught that block for fifteen years; he also helped initiate the Pfeiffer Center's public school outreach program, The Outdoor LSchool, and taught that block for fifteen years; he also helped initiate the Pfeiffer Center's public school outreach program, The Outdoor Lschool outreach program, The Outdoor Lesson.

De Blasio's controversial Renewal Schools program for troubled public schools is working, but it costs more than former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's old method of hitting them with an «F,» a new reporSchools program for troubled public schools is working, but it costs more than former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's old method of hitting them with an «F,» a new reporschools is working, but it costs more than former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's old method of hitting them with an «F,» a new report says.

Meat processing methods such as curing, smoking or cooking can result in the formation of potentially cancer - causing (carcinogenic) chemicals that can have a negative effect on an individual's health, according to Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

NYC has changed its protocol for testing the water in public schools for lead after criticism from experts that its original method could hide dangerously high levels of the metal.

As a remedy, I will advocate for a sliding - scale or ceiling - based adjustment to reduce and contain the massive outflows of cash from the public schools, possibly including a new method of collecting school taxes that accounts for areas with high levels of tax - exempt property.

Lhota's top priorities, he said, would include improving education with the introduction of new teaching methods, more tablets and a conversation on longer school days and years, creating jobs and maintaining public safety and quality of life.

This Childhood Stress study, led by Chilton with several Drexel graduates in the School of Public Health, used both quantitative and qualitative methods to gather information about 31 Philadelphia mothers» experience with deprivation, abuse, violence and neglect, as well as their experiences with hunger, education and employment and more.

The tool itself, which projects a worse - case scenario of 14,176 Ebola cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone by October 26, is currently built on a model developed by a Toronto - based team of medical and public health researchers, although HealthMap may try other methods down the road, says John Brownstein, HealthMap co-founder and an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

«The whole world has been in urgent need of a serological method to distinguish dengue virus from Zika virus infections, and this the first to have such high sensitivity and specificity in dengue - endemic regions,» said Eva Harris, study co-author and UC Berkeley professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology at the School of Public Health.

There are some methods out there to determine population size, but this new model can provide a more detailed picture,» said Xiaoming Liu, Ph.D., lead author and assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences at UTHealth School of Public Health.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Statistical methods and automated software tool for stress - testing adaptive clinical trial designs

«Even in a low - carb diet, it would be wise to choose healthy meat and healthy cooking methods in the prevention of insulin resistance and NAFLD,» said Ivancovsky - Wajcman, a clinical dietitian and a Ph.D. student at the University of Haifa School of Public Health, in Israel.

Her coaching methodology, The Handel Method ®, is taught at over 35 universities and institutes of learning around the world, including at MIT, Stanford Graduate School of Business, NYU, and the New York City public school sSchool of Business, NYU, and the New York City public school sschool system.

Traditional Waldorf schools are private, but the number of public schools inspired by Steiner's methods is growing, fueled in part by the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act and the charter school movement.

The method was piloted at national level in 2011 in 11 schools, finalized with a public presentation at the Romanian Parliament and in 2012 at county level with 9 schools.

And as Waldorf methods have become more accessible and better understood, more teachers have joined charter schools specifically inspired by Waldorf methods or have adopted some of its approaches for their own classrooms within traditional public schools.

Still, supporters and participants in the school consider Carver an experiment because adapting Waldorf methods to a public high school is uncharted territory for them.

This K - 8 school, one of the first public schools inspired by Waldorf methods, infuses music, art, and movement into lessons and offers student - directed learning and what public schools refer to as looping, a process in which a teacher follows her class, ideally, from first grade through eighth grade.

The MTC's work is not entirely original, though, and takes its lead from a number of public schools — most notably in New England — that have been rethinking traditional methods of assessing students for more than a decade.

In her assessment of four California public schools that use Waldorf methods, Oberman found that students tested below peers in language arts and math in the second grade, but they matched or tested above their peers in the same subjects by eighth grade.

If your school has a public folder or your students have access to a class folder, model in the classroom how to hand in their work using this method before your scheduled time and / or create a screencast that shows them how they can view it during the scheduled time.

The Rodriguez court acknowledged the need for state tax reform related to school funding and for «innovative thinking as to public education, its methods, and its funding.»

Allocating funds based on the number and characteristics of students that attend a school, instead of more typical methods of district - based budgeting and funding personnel, has the potential to facilitate public school choice by helping to ensure district schools of choice receive equitable funding.

Employing this method, we could compare the levels of segregation for the students in charter schools to what they would have experienced had they remained in their residentially assigned public schools.

For example, under the CRP method, 91.2 percent of the charter students in the DC CBSA are in hypersegregated minority schools, as compared to just 20.9 percent of the students in traditional public schools.

Their first method analyzed information on 1,475 students (20 % of the total 7,338 sample) who had attended schools with a voucher for part of their education but had also been in public schools.

Results using an alternative method designed to address concerns about unmeasured differences between students attending charter and traditional public high schools suggest even larger positive effects.

Thus we use a method that in effect compares the test - score gains of individual students in charter schools with the test - score gains made by the same students when they were in traditional public schools.

As school leaders nationwide are increasingly being held responsible for what students learn, Delaware has crafted a method for evaluating its public school administrators that is drawing acclaim for its attention to leadership characteristics connected to student achievement.

For one thing, the prevailing method of compensating public school teachers — higher pay for additional years of experience and schooling — has not been shown to correlate consistently with improved test scores.

Ravitch sees Winnetka as one of a few public school systems that made intelligent adaptations of progressive methods — individualizing instruction, motivating children by tapping into their interests, developing cooperative group projects — in order to achieve the traditional aims of producing knowledgeable and skilled students.

Conservatives wants public schools and colleges to focus on «practical» methods in order to prepare teachers for an «outcome - based» education system, which is code for pedagogical methods that are as anti-intellectual as they are politically conservative.

Spencer Foundation — Practitioner Research Communication and Mentoring Grant (2001 - 2002) Principal Investigator A Project to Design and Assess a Sustainable and Replicable Model of Teacher Research at City on a Hill Charter Public High School in Boston, Massachusetts, was a two - year research project that analyzed the effect of a whole - school initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the sSchool in Boston, Massachusetts, was a two - year research project that analyzed the effect of a whole - school initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the sschool initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the schoolschool.

Here the norm is that the student first takes a methods course and then spends time in a public school classroom.

Model two would deploy «behavior modification» accountability methods, refined through decades of public sector reform, to force low - performing schools and districts to set goals, assess effectiveness, and do better.