Sentences with phrase «resources at alternative schools»

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This insight has put human resource and compensation policies, including performance pay, tenure, alternative route recruitment, and mentoring, at center stage in school reform debates.

In the real world, even if everyone had the right to choose their schools, parents who are educated and financially well off are likely to be more motivated than other parents, to have better information about their alternatives, to have more resources at their disposal for getting their way, to have better social connections and more attractive opportunities, and to have children who are easier and less costly to teach.

Michael Goran, director of California - based private education consulting firm IvySelect, said he thought a decreased emphasis on AP courses would benefit students at schools with more resources, as those schools would have more rigorous alternatives.

Schools should work to create a learning plan for students, which may include alternative classroom settings, that will best address the educational needs of students.Literacy Reading and writing initiatives at the secondary school level need to receive the level of commitment and resources to ensure that appropriate reading programs and initiatives are in place.

Human Resources From the archives: Facing rising costs and new ACA rules, independent schools take closer looks at alternative models of health care delivery.

Philadelphia, PA — November 20, 2014 Over 100 people came together at Arch St. Methodist Church to kick of a campaign for sustainable community schools as a transformative alternative to both privatization in the form of unaccountable charter schools and the resource - starved, test - driven neighborhood schools that are currently in Philadelphia.

It would please me to be able to suggest to you that there is, in fact, a grand plan to improve our public school system (rather than abandon it in favor of a hodgepodge of lower - performing alternatives), to reinvigorate the teaching profession, and to direct resources to the campuses and students where they are most needed, but that vision hasn't yet been articulated or embraced at the state level.

These Connecticut school superintendents are actually developing alternative programing for students who are opting out of the testing or, at the very least, providing students with access to the school library or a particular resource room where they can attend to their school work.

This affirmation is based on a major, multi-year investigation into the alternative publishing industry led by a research team at the University of Arizona's School of Information Resources and Library Science, SIRLS.