In February, the California Charter
Schools Association reported that minority, poverty - level and English Language Learner students in Oakland's charter public schools are outperforming similar populations in public schools at all grade levels.
Last month, the California Charter
Schools Association reported that as of this fall, 484,000 students — about 8 percent of the state's K - 12 enrollment — attend 1,065 charters, up 109 schools from last year.
Despite the ongoing debate over whether charter schools are better than traditional public schools and the steady increase annually of new charters, the California Charter
Schools Association reports a record number of students are on charter school wait lists statewide.
The Massachusetts Charter Public
School Association reports that the total number of applications for 16 Boston charters has surged to 35,000 from 13,000 last year, facilitated by a new online process that allows easy application to multiple schools at once.
The California Charter
Schools Association reported last month that charter school enrollment this year is up 27,000 students.
Not exact matches
A new
report from Yale Law
School and the
Association of State Correctional Administrators released Wednesday tries to fill the gaps in what we know about the use of solitary confinement in the United States.
Donations to the National Rifle
Association's political fund tripled in the days after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School, according to
reports.
This
report summarizes the key findings and insights from the Canada - Asia Energy Technology Services Forum, hosted by the MacEwan University
School of Business in
association with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada on April 29, 2014.
The American
Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Howard Hughes Medical Insti.tute (HHMI) published a joint
report, ti.tled Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians in which they call for increased emphasis on evolution as one of the basic sciences students learn before they come to medical
school.
The
Association of Theological
Schools (ATS), which includes more than 270 institutions in the US and Canada, found that extension enrollment has dipped by about 26 percent over the past decade, according to self -
reported and adjusted figures, while online numbers have more than doubled.
«We have to keep this country safe,» the mayor told reporters, addressing questions about an Associated Press
report that said the NYPD was closely monitoring Muslim student
associations in
schools across the Northeastern United States.
Several years ago, the National Education
Association reported that about twenty percent of our public
school teachers could profit from psychotherapeutic help because of minor emotional difficulties.
The value of this formulation is that it makes room for the two major foci for ministry within Protestantism: evangelism and social action or to use the language of the recent
report of the
Association of Theological
Schools, «spiritual emphasis» and «social action emphasis.
The
report for the Professional
Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY) found almost three quarters of parents feel anxious about their child starting
school.
The study noted that the request by the National Federation of State High
School Associations (NFHS) to request inclusion of spirit / cheerleading in the High School Reporting Information Online (RIO), an Internet - based high school sports injury surveillance system, the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, a valuable resource for high school coaches updated annually, and the Cheerleading Safety Manual and Spirit Safety Certifications for coaches offered by the Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators in collaboration with the NFHS were all «positive steps... to improve cheerleading safety.&
School Associations (NFHS) to request inclusion of spirit / cheerleading in the High
School Reporting Information Online (RIO), an Internet - based high school sports injury surveillance system, the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, a valuable resource for high school coaches updated annually, and the Cheerleading Safety Manual and Spirit Safety Certifications for coaches offered by the Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators in collaboration with the NFHS were all «positive steps... to improve cheerleading safety.&
School Reporting Information Online (RIO), an Internet - based high
school sports injury surveillance system, the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, a valuable resource for high school coaches updated annually, and the Cheerleading Safety Manual and Spirit Safety Certifications for coaches offered by the Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators in collaboration with the NFHS were all «positive steps... to improve cheerleading safety.&
school sports injury surveillance system, the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, a valuable resource for high
school coaches updated annually, and the Cheerleading Safety Manual and Spirit Safety Certifications for coaches offered by the Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators in collaboration with the NFHS were all «positive steps... to improve cheerleading safety.&
school coaches updated annually, and the Cheerleading Safety Manual and Spirit Safety Certifications for coaches offered by the
Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators in collaboration with the NFHS were all «positive steps... to improve cheerleading safety.»
The AAP
report, echoing rules enacted by the American
Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Advisors and the National Federation of State High
School Associations, recommends the following steps to improve safety in the sport:
The debate over whether helmets should be mandated in girl's lacrosse, which has been raging for several years, reached a new level of ferocity recently with the publication of a blistering piece in the New York Times
reporting on the backlash generated by the controversial decision by the Florida High
School Athletic
Association (FHSAA) to mandate a soft form of headgear for everyone in a girls» lacrosse game beginning this spring season.
Concussion and Sports Related Head Injury: Code 280.13 C requires the Iowa high
school athletic
association and the Iowa girls high
school athletic union to work together to distribute the CDC guidelines and other information to inform and educate coaches, students, and parents and guardians of students of the risks, signs, symptoms, and behaviors consistent with a concussion or brain injury, including the danger of continuing to play after suffering a concussion or brain injury and their responsibility to
report such signs, symptoms, and behaviors if they occur.
Volume XV, Number 2 The Inner Life and Work of the Teacher — Margaret Duberley The Human Body as a Resonance Organ: A Sketch of an Anthropology of the Senses — Christian Rittelmeyer Aesthetic Knowledge as a Source for the Main Lesson — Peter Guttenhöfer Knitting It All Together — Fonda Black The Work of Emmi Pikler — Susan Weber Seven Myths of Social Participation of Waldorf Graduates — Wanda Ribeiro and Juan Pablo de Jesus Pereira Volunteerism, Communication, Social Interaction: A Survey of Waldorf
School Parents — Martin Novom A Timeline for the
Association of Waldorf
Schools of North America — David S. Mitchell
Reports from the Research Fellows More Online!
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
reports that over 95 percent of districts are now meeting the standards, which sounds like a resounding success, but to bolster its own campaign to roll back reforms, the
School Nutrition
Association (SNA) has tended to emphasize all the obstacles districts reportedly face, from lost revenue to increased food waste.
During this one - hour webinar, we'll hear highlights from FRAC and the National
Association of Secondary
School Principals» joint
report, discussing what it takes to gain support for, plan, and launch an alternative breakfast model.
Next week I'm going to be sharing my thoughts on the many
reports that have come out about this week's
School Nutrition
Association Annual National Conference in Boston.
As
reported here back in May, the
School Nutrition
Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce Committee's Child Nutrition... [Continue reading]
At the 2011
School Nutrition Association national convention in Nashville today, Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan announced a comprehensive, groundbreaking report on the current state of farm to school efforts around the co
School Nutrition
Association national convention in Nashville today, Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan announced a comprehensive, groundbreaking
report on the current state of farm to
school efforts around the co
school efforts around the country.
Last year, research involving thousands of elementary
school students, and published in the February 2009 issue of Pediatrics, demonstrated an
association between daily recess and better classroom behavior as
reported by teachers.
In a New York Times Magazine investigation into the politics behind the current
school lunch battle, it is
reported that SNA's CEO Patricia Montague, invited Pat McCoy, vice president for sales at the $ 3 billion Schwan Food Company, to address the SNA members drafting the
association's legislative positions, along with the executive board.
The
report, by FRAC and the National
Association of Elementary
School Principals, provides guidance for principals interested in implementing Breakfast in the Classroom at their
schools, and insights into the leadership they can provide to build a strong and sustainable program.
Politico ProAg's Helena Bottemiller Evich has been
reporting on the
School Nutrition
Association (SNA) meeting in Boston this week (and see the video conversation with her editor, Jason Huffman, about the meeting).
In a 2013 survey of adults and teens conducted online on behalf of the American Psychological
Association by Harris Interactive Inc., Teen
reported stress levels during the
school year far exceeding what they believed to be healthy (5.8 vs. 3.9 on a 10 - point scale).
The findings are part of the
School Nutrition Association (SNA)'s «School Nutrition Operations Report: The State of School Nutrition 2016,» based on survey responses from nearly 1,000 school nutrition directors natio
School Nutrition
Association (SNA)'s «
School Nutrition Operations Report: The State of School Nutrition 2016,» based on survey responses from nearly 1,000 school nutrition directors natio
School Nutrition Operations
Report: The State of
School Nutrition 2016,» based on survey responses from nearly 1,000 school nutrition directors natio
School Nutrition 2016,» based on survey responses from nearly 1,000
school nutrition directors natio
school nutrition directors nationwide.
If the» prom draft» story wasn't enough to turn your stomach, consider this statistic: One in five high
school seniors
reports binge drinking at prom, according to a 2013 Journal of the American Medical
Association study.
The Hagstrom
Report (subscription only)
reports that Stan Garnett, former director of child nutrition at the Agriculture Department, «has resigned from the
School Nutrition Association over its efforts to encourage members to lobby Congress to pass a bill requiring the USDA to waive healthier school meal requirements to any school that says it has lost money in the program for six months.&
School Nutrition
Association over its efforts to encourage members to lobby Congress to pass a bill requiring the USDA to waive healthier
school meal requirements to any school that says it has lost money in the program for six months.&
school meal requirements to any
school that says it has lost money in the program for six months.&
school that says it has lost money in the program for six months.»
As
reported here back in May, the
School Nutrition Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce Committee's Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill, to block grant school food in three s
School Nutrition
Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce Committee's Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill, to block grant
school food in three s
school food in three states.
The Lunch Tray
reported previously on Chef Ann Cooper's program, in
association with Whole Foods, to bring salad bars to
schools around the country.
Earlier in September the
School Nutrition Association released its annual Operations Report, which is based on survey responses from nearly 1000 school nutrition directors natio
School Nutrition
Association released its annual Operations
Report, which is based on survey responses from nearly 1000
school nutrition directors natio
school nutrition directors nationwide.
Originally appearing as an article in
School Nutrition Magazine, «A Wellness Wake - up Call» addresses the impact of The Wellness Impact
report, which was created jointly between National Dairy Council, GENYOUth Foundation, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the American
School Health
Association.
The
report is a joint effort of the National Dairy Council, GENYOUth Foundation, American College of Sports Medicine, and American
School Health
Association and is available for review online.
My own source further
reports that yesterday's discussion was «constructive» and that USDA is committed to continuing talks with the
School Nutrition
Association (SNA), as well as looking into ways «to provide intense and comprehensive technical assistance to the
schools that need it most.»
School Nutrition
Association is calling on USDA to turn this national mandate on meal prices into a pilot program in a limited number of
schools with a
report back to Congress before the provision becomes national policy.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
reports that over 95 percent of districts are now meeting the standards, which sounds like a resounding success, but to bolster its own campaign to roll back reforms, the
School Nutrition
Association (SNA) has tended to emphasize all the obstacles districts reportedly face, from lost revenue to increased food waste.
The
School Nutrition Foundation — along with the other Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom (National
Association of Elementary
School Principals Foundation, NEA Healthy Futures, and Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)-RRB--- has submitted the final
report to the Walmart Foundation for Cycle 3 of the grant, which covered activity in 2014 and 2015.
The
report released by the
association comes as voters in
school districts across the state are set to consider education budgets this month.
The National
Association of Head Teachers
reported that 88 % of parents of
school - aged children wanted it to be compulsory.
Read The Times
report: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/education/article3807588.ece Read the CofE's press release: http://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2013/07/secretary-of-state-for-education-calls-for-continuing-partnership-with-cofe.aspx Listen to Michael Gove's comments at the event: http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/data/files/resources/5093/130703-Lambeth-Education-seminar.mp3 Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith»
schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-
schools/faith-
schools View the BHA's table of types of
school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/
schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist
Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.
Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, comments on the
report by the Local Government
Association warning of a # 1 billion shortfall in funding for new
school places,
The British Humanist
Association (BHA) has today welcomed a number of new
reports and surveys showing strong support for making Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education and Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) compulsory in
schools.
But what was interesting, too, about the
report, is the long list of provided statements from the Business Council, the New York Council of Mayors, the state
School Boards
Association and Unshackle Upstate called Let NY Work.
WBFO's Eileen Buckley
reports on SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher remarks with New York State
School Boards
Association Executive Director Timothy Kremer.
The heads of numerous bar
associations, community organizations and law
schools have been invited to nominate members of the panel, which will be directed to
report a total of no more than the nine most highly qualified candidates for the three Civil Court vacancies.
The British Humanist
Association (BHA) has welcomed the publication today of a new
report by Education For Choice (EFC), examining the quality of education on abortion and contraception in UK
schools.