5) National / Ohio: Mother Jones explains how «The GOP's Biggest Charter
School Experiment Just Imploded.»
The GOP's Biggest Charter
School Experiment Just Imploded How a washed - up lobbyist built a charter school...
Not exact matches
Just because he went to
school and knew a lot about religion doesn't mean he understood faith (apparent by his supposed
experiment).
Now that
school is out, I find myself
just wanting to
experiment with easy blender recipes and hang out by the pool.
So I left law
school and I headed out west and reconnected with my passion for cooking that I had as a child and started working in the kitchen of a natural food store in San Diego and
just started
experimenting in the kitchen and
just getting really creative.
And you made them so unbelievably simple < 3 I'm
just starting to
experiment more with rice flour so this is definitely going on my list of must makes and OMG I used to LOVE Magic
School Bus granted, I watched it in Czech but I'm a fellow nerdy 90s kid all the same
Interestingly,
just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high
school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least,
experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in
just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.
He now calls it an
experiment worthy of
just a three year - extension, but it wasn't that long ago that Cuomo hailed mayoral control of the NYC
schools as the ultimate form of accountability.
He calls it an
experiment worthy of
just a three year - extension — but it wasn't that long ago that Gov. Cuomo hailed mayoral control of
schools as the ultimate form of accountability.
I'm on the board of a
school now that we're closing — it was an
experiment that
just didn't work.
These are
just a few of the many strategies
schools are
experimenting with, across the country, as they try to buck an absurdly outdated system.
We can't have our kids in a
school which is
just an endless guinea pig science
experiment on them — so «fail fast» is our motto.»
This dire sequence started, he says, with A Nation at Risk, the 1983 Reagan administration report that launched America on «
experiments» such as «open classrooms, national goals, merit pay, vouchers, charter
schools, smaller classes, alternative certification for teachers, student portfolios, and online learning, to name
just a handful.»
Just to summarize, Khan Academy offers short, engaging tutorials in math, science and other subjects and is
experimenting with having kids use these during homework time, freeing up
school time for problem solving and collaborative work — a concept commonly called «flipping.»
Schools already using the solution with its hands - on, jaw - dropping practical
experiments reported that they had made a whole year's progress in
just one term.
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It is crucial not to
just copy Finnish teaching, but to find creative ways for similar
experiments that fit with one's own students and
school.
It's
just a provocative thought -
experiment, designed to demonstrate that until every family sees the fate of our public
schools as their own problem, we may suffer a lack of urgency and prioritization when it comes to education reform.
Talk is cheap when it comes to high
school reform, but three states — Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Utah — are doing
just that as they
experiment with some new ideas to prepare students for a competitive workforce and global economy.
If they really wanted to take this
experiment to an extreme, they would separate all the more motivated students out and have
schools just for them.
In fact, it is going to take a much greater infusion of parent choice and private sector influence — meaning competition from private
schools, not
just a few recovery
school experiments — for Georgia's public
schools to be even more motivated to improve.
«As someone who believes in the limitless potential of innovating, tinkering,
experimenting and making, Andy Weir knows
just how empowering
school librarians can be to the students that they work with,» said Suzanne Dix, School Library Month committee
school librarians can be to the students that they work with,» said Suzanne Dix,
School Library Month committee
School Library Month committee chair.
Those titles are not
just available to students at the post-secondary level, as many
schools are now
experimenting with replacing their print editions with Inkling's digital titles for iPad, among other platforms.
One or more
schools just concluded
experiments.
Interview — Because you had more questions, John
Just, assistant superintendent for management information systems at Pinellas County (FL)
Schools, returns to the podcast to explain operational details of Clearwater High
School's first - in - the - nation
experiment of equipping all 2,100 students with Kindles.
But PsychoGoldfish is worried about what his
experiment shows: «Today, everyone from high -
school kids to seasoned veterans, are whipping off generic games (not
just in the defense genre) because the big commercial sites will dish out $ 500 or so, for pretty much anything that works (and even some things that don't).»
While the technique that produced these works may have been far from new — several members of the then
just - emerging New York
School had already
experimented successfully with it — Donati added something that gave this manner of working a uniquely personal touch: a Surrealist's predilection for the macabre and mysterious coupled with a draftsman's ability to use line for maximum effect.
«Their research
experiment, which involved sending official - looking flyers to 100,000 Montana voters
just weeks before Election Day, is now the subject of an official state inquiry that could lead to substantial fines against them or their
schools.»
Indeed, schoolchildren are shown
just how heavy CO2 is by way of a simple
school lab
experiment.
Just as young learners observe and
experiment, we in the developmental early learning system are trying new things to better support families in preparing children for success in
school and in life.