Sentences with phrase «about measuring school»

(«I'm not a numbers person in the same way you are,» she said in March, in response to a question about measuring school success.

Most importantly, a report like this puts to rest several arguments that are complicating the discussion about measuring school performance.

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Last week: The tectonic shift in the conversation about gun regulations, school safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two deschool safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two deSchool is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two decades!

Anita Krishnamurthi and Nick Hutchinson were able to talk about the much larger picture of PPP programs for informal STEM education, including how we measure private industry involvement, as well as how students are improving their grades, school participation, and post-graduation success rates.

A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examined law enforcement agencies» failure to heed multiple warnings about the Parkland school shooter who killed 17 people, as well as the long record of failed gun control measures in Congress.

Barna and her classmates Kevin Trejos and Lewis Mizen, all seniors at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., each wore a red ribbon representing the color of their school in honor of the victims as they talked about their experience and their push for stricter gun safety meaSchool in Parkland, Fla., each wore a red ribbon representing the color of their school in honor of the victims as they talked about their experience and their push for stricter gun safety measchool in honor of the victims as they talked about their experience and their push for stricter gun safety measures.

, and by working to lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in schools, funding for birth control measures and education about using that birth control, promoting research into methods of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual choices.

It is, of course, about the overwhelming vote of the bishops for implementing Ex Corde Ecclesiae, a measure aimed at advancing the controversial view that schools claiming to teach Catholic theology teach Catholic theology.

The intact mother - father team seems more invested in its children and has more success in raising children, measured by children's mental and physical health and their capacity to handle school, make friends, relate to the opposite sex and have confidence about the future.

A recent presentation about sustainable school catering in Turin suggested schools ought to be aiming to reduce meat - based meals by 50 %, through measures such as cutting down on certain meats; introducing vegetarian meals twice a week; and offering alternative veggie meals if children ask for them.

On homecoming eve the freshmen climb up the mountain to party and whitewash the big rocks that measure more than 100 feet long and form a «W» and, though that is about the extent of any traditional activities, the school is not so new that a few guys could not come down from Idaho last month and pelt the statue of Weber's founder with some well - chosen eggs.

Students participated in 25 farm to school standards based lessons, including using math skills to measure garden spaces and mark off rows, learning about how weather affects plants, and exploring different types of soil.

Before using produce from the school garden, the USDA recommends visiting the garden and asking the lead gardener about growing practices, including the history of the land use, water sources, soil sampling and results, use of fertilizers and pesticides, and animal control measures.

So even if consumption of the food itself is not resulting in a shift in obesity measures, the food is still sending kids a daily message about what constitutes sound eating (though schools often bungle that message, as when HISD serves pepperoni pizza and mashed potatoes at the same lunch).

Ira talks with Paul Tough, author of the book How Children Succeed, about the traditional ways we measure ability and intelligence in American schools.

And especially in this moment when we really care a lot about accountability in schools, there has been an increasing emphasis on finding measures — like a student's standardized test scores — to tell us if a teacher is a good teacher.

Often, your own parental intuition about your child's capabilities is an accurate measure of how well she is prepared to enter school, particularly if you have an older child with whom you have had experience.

When asked about the security measures put in place in the school, he said, «the deputy governor is handling that.»

Eyewitness News Reporter Jamie DeLine tells us about the safety measures local schools have in place in the case of a school threat.

Senator Stewart - Cousins says she's certain the governor is «equally interested in protecting the lives of New Yorkers,» but she says the measures introduced on the Senate floor Wednesday are really about the legislature taking action, in its first days back after the Parkland, Florida, school shooting.

Sen. Simcha Felder threw the state budget into chaos by demanding language about «substantially equivalent» education measures for non-public schools.

The ordeal led to a frank Twitter post from schools Chancellor Richard Carranza about the racial dynamics of the issue, for which he later issued a measured apology.

But he said the recent controversy in Birmingham, where six non-faith schools have been put into special measures and a further five criticised following allegations of a plot by hardline Muslims to infiltrate them, had raised important questions about the relationship between education and religion in a multicultural society.

«The Report identifies some of the equalities measures that should be in place in schools but fails to provide any evidence about how effective these have been and is complacent about the dangers schools and children face.

One in five parents opted their children out of the tests in 2016 amid complaints about the rigorous Common Core standards they measure and debate over the tests» usefulness and role in teacher and school ratings.

Just as Mr. Cuomo was unenthusiastic about permanent mayoral control, Mr. de Blasio was unenthusiastic about Mr. Cuomo's education reform agenda, particularly his push to increase the use of standardized testing to measure teachers and his plans to take state control of struggling schools.

«All you have to do now is not only feel sorry for the liars, but you have to go against them and pray to God that the lies can be crushed and the liars can be silenced so that real measures can be put into place to actually save children's lives,» Nugent said about the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students.

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Should the measure become law, alarms, each costing about $ 160, would be installed in school buildings housing 600,000 elementary and special - education students.

Robert Jackson, chairman of the council's Education Committee, is planning to introduce a measure that would force the DOE to provide the council with data about exactly how many accidents occur each month, how many people are injured in those accidents and how many of the injured are school - aged kids.

AAAS Project 2061 is developing assessment items to measure late elementary, middle, and high school students» understanding of ideas about energy.

BOX 23, A-15-4; 30219212 / 734979 SAPA Requests for Translations of SAPA materials, 1966 - 1968 Prerequisites for SAPA The Psychological Basis of SAPA, 1965 Requests for SAPA to be Used in Canada, 1966 - 1968 Requests for Assistance with Inservice programs, 1967 - 1968 Schools Using SAPA, 1966 - 1968 Speakers on SAPA for NSTA and Other Meetings, 1968 Suggestions for Revisions of Part 4, 1967 - 1968 Suggestions for Revisions of the Commentary, 1967 - 1968 Summer Institutes for SAPA, Locations, 1968 Summer Institutes for SAPA, Announcement Forms, 1968 Inservice Programs, 1968 - 1969 Consultant Recommendations, 1967 - 1968 Inquiries About Films, 1968 Inquiries About Kits, 1967 - 1968 Inquiries About Evaluations, 1968 Tryout Teacher List, 1967 - 1968 Tryout Centers, 1967 - 1968 Tryout Feedback Forms, 1967 - 1968 Tryout Center Coordinators, 1967 - 1968 Cancelled Tryout Centers, 1967 - 1968 Volunteer Teachers for Parts F & G, 1967 - 1968 List of Teachers for Tryout Centers, 1963 - 1966 Tucson, AZ, Dr. Ed McCullough, 1964 - 1968 Tallahassee, FL, Mr. VanPierce, 1964 - 1968 Chicago, IL, University of Chicago, Miss Illa Podendorf, 1965 - 1969 Monmouth, IL, Professor David Allison, 1964 - 1968 Overland Park, KS, Mr. R. Scott Irwin and Mrs. John Muller, 1964 - 1968 Baltimore, MD, Mr. Daniel Rochowiak, 1964 - 1968 Kern County, CA, Mr. Dale Easter and Mr. Edward Price, 1964 - 1967 Philadelphia, PA, Mrs. Margaret Efraemson, 1968 Austin, TX, Dr. David Butts, 1968 Seattle, WA, Mrs. Louisa Crook, 1968 Oshkosh, WI, Dr. Robert White, 1968 John R. Mayer, personal correspondence, 1966 - 1969 Teacher Response Sheets, 1966 - 1967 Overland, KS Oshkosh, WI Monmouth, IL Baltimore, MD Teacher Response Checklist SAPA Feedback, 1965 - 1966 Using Time Space Relations Communicating Observing Formulating Models Defining Operationally Interpreting Data Classifying (2 Folders) Measuring Inferring Predicting Formulating Hypothesis Controlling Variables Experimenting Using Numbers SAPA Response Sheets for Competency Measures, 1966

The largest of the Yutyrannus skeletons — found in China's Liaoning province in rocks of an era famed for its feathered dinosaurs — represents an adult that in life would have measured about 9 meters long, or slightly shorter than a school bus.

Other green roofs have been installed at the Bronx County Courthouse (10,000 square feet), Ikea in Brooklyn (70,000 square feet), Ethical Culture Fieldston School (two roofs, measuring 5,100 square feet and 1,500 square feet, in the Bronx), a Con - Edison building in Long Island City (a quarter of an acre, or about 10,000 square feet) and Hackensack Hospital in New Jersey (about 5,000 square feet).

When I was in medical school, I spent a summer in an Indian Reservation in the Upper Peninsula [of] Michigan and went to University of Michigan, and there we did a survey of nutrition and found that half of the population, adult population, was diabetic and that really fascinated me; and I wondered why, and we also used some dietary assessment methods and found that actually we could learn a lot about what people were eating were some fairly simple ways of measuring diet; and so in some ways I have spent the rest of my career trying to unravel some of those questions.

He developed an outreach program to educate the South Asian community about diabetes risk and preventive measures during a recent Bridging the Gaps Community Health Internship Program sponsored by the School of Public Health at the Shri Krishna Nidhi Foundation, an organization based in Hillsborough that promotes wellness among New Jersey's South Asian population.

The assessment of 166 children, with an average age of nine, and 143 parents measured the children's steps to and from school, as well as gaining further details about travelling from a questionnaire.

They measured students» beliefs about themselves, both broadly and about their academic abilities, as well as their social adjustment in school, including their feeling of belonging and attachment, academic values, and peer support.

Cappella and her colleagues found that attending a middle or junior high school negatively impacted certain measures of beliefs about students» academic abilities.

reported that adding gardens to schools and teaching kids how to cook the harvest, among other elements, helped kids learn about nutrition — and even improved their body mass index, a measure of body weight.

A team at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine measured the length of telomeres, the caps of chromosomes related to aging, in blood samples of about 5,000 people.

The new proposals look to set up a specific point of contact at local councils for parents and teachers in order to raise concerns about a child, as well as introduce new measures to discover how many children are being home - schooled beyond the reach of inspectors.

Both schools spend about the same per pupil, have similar teacher - student ratios, similar numbers of guidance counselors, and well - qualified teachers (as measured by education and experience).

Those surveys were designed to measure five types of outcomes: 1) whether the school tour helped create cultural consumers (students who want to return to museums and engage in other cultural activities), 2) whether the school tour helped create cultural producers (students who want to make art), 3) whether the school tour increased student knowledge about art and history, 4) whether the school tour improved student critical thinking about works of art, and 5) whether the school tour altered student values, like empathy and tolerance.

But administrative targets for enrollment rates and overwrought rhetoric from international commissions, as well as more measured alarms about school quality, do not in themselves create the incentive to grow.

We met with three hundred charter leaders around the state to learn more about what could be done, and then built goals and objectives for the California charter schools movement by first providing insurance, cash - flow financing, and other resources to schools willing to focus on academic quality (measured in many different ways).

When comparable samples and measuring sticks are used, the improvement in test scores for black students from attending a small class based on the Tennessee STAR experiment is about 50 percent larger than the gain from switching to a private school based on the voucher experiments in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio.

Over the course of two months, I visited each of the selected schools to learn about the program in place — why it was initiated and by whom; what roles faculty, staff, and parents play; what the key program elements are; what the results are and how they are measured; and what obstacles the program faces.

He explained how to bring about a drastic culture shift in schools in special measures so that, within just seven short weeks, they can climb the ranks and become «good» and even «outstanding» schools.

Their peers» average test scores are about 0.15 standard deviations higher, and the new schools have higher - quality teachers, measured in terms of the fraction of teachers with less than three years» experience, the fraction that are new to the school that year, the percentage of teachers with an advanced degree, and the share of teachers who attended a «highly competitive» college as defined by the Barron's rankings.