Sentences with phrase «add in a few school»

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Adding to a 529 plan in the later high school years means fewer years of tax - free growth.

I would like to add a few thoughts to the debtae from the perspective of having spent thirty years teaching religion in a Catholic school in England between 1970 and 2000.

His first aim was to add a few hours of teaching in Arabic and Islamic interpretation to the instruction in the elementary schools in the mosques.

Holiday events, parties and festive things galore have taken over in the last few weeks ---- not to mention all of the little things adding up through school that my boys need to have taken care of before the end of the 2015 and the holiday break begins — ugh!

Holiday events, parties and festive things galore have taken over in the last few weeks ---- not to mention all of the little things adding up through school -LSB-...]

It adds an extra layer to my thought process for meal planning that I don't need to deal with during the school year, and as you'll see in this week's Menu Plan Monday below and in the weeks to come, our meals will have fewer carbs to account for the abundance of carbs I know they eat at camp.

Henry is actually from Omaha which will add extra significance for her in this game playing against a few players that played for rival High Schools.

During this process you can add some vinegar or baking soda (just one or the other, not both unless you want an elementary school science project going off in your laundry room) and then rinse a few more times.

A few months ago I saw a study that showed schools can save money — even when you add in dish washing — by dishing out food instead of serving prepackaged items.

The next few years were difficult financially and, although enrollment grew steadily and a new class was added each year, the school was heavily in debt and the faculty and Board constantly juggled cash flow crisis with parents lending the school additional monies.

However, the secretary's intent to halt planned reductions in the amount of salt in student meals and to allow schools to serve more flavored milk with added sugar and fewer heart - healthy whole grains raised widespread concern among nutrition experts and parents.

«We found that adding in a specific antibiotic to the medical treatment also resulted in fewer recurring infections, fewer infections in other places on the body and fewer people passing on the infection to other members of the household,» said Dr. David Talan, the study's lead author and a professor in the department of emergency medicine and department of medicine, division of infectious diseases, at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Olive View - UCLA Medical Center.

In version 4.7.0, users can now add the school they attended as well as where they work, which will both add more authenticity to your profile, as well as give a few ice breakers for those to decide whether to swipe right or left and start a conversation if you match.

He added: «We know that our colleagues in state schools often do a fantastic job with fewer resources, larger classes, more curriculum constraints and significantly different challenges and we do not presume to patronise them by suggesting we can necessarily run their schools better than they can.

Now middle and high school students get points added to their average if they have four or fewer excused absences in a nine - week period.

These results add to evidence that boosting student achievement has few simple fixes — particularly in a school district like Houston, in which 88 percent of students are black or Hispanic, about 30 percent have limited English proficiency, and about 80 percent are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

«After that we became one of their world tour schools; and so we've been involved in all of their forums over the last few years and travel overseas,» Tony added.

«At this point,» he added, «the School of the Future exists only in the minds of a few educators.

We all fantasize about a world in which student learning growth on math and reading tests is calculated and used by central authorities to judge quality, but the reality is that very few school systems actually rely heavily on value - added measures (VAM).

Many job offers [from other districts] do nt come in until the day school opens or a few days before, which is a problem for us, Sirois added.

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Warren Professor and Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education added: «In a media saturated environment, there are very few stand - outs when it comes to programming that can benefit young children in a positive waIn a media saturated environment, there are very few stand - outs when it comes to programming that can benefit young children in a positive wain a positive way.

For example, a few states use longitudinal growth models that, in as careful a way as possible, measure the «value added» by a given school in the course of a year.

The school continued the annual Veterans Day events that Willis had started years earlier but added something new: a videoconference call from Willis and a few fathers of students who were stationed in Tillil, Iraq.

Secondary school represents a long geographical as well as psychological distance for girls...» It adds a lack of female teachers and a reluctance of qualified educators to work in remote schools means there are few female role models.

When will the advocates of school - based management learn that education bureaucracies will not devolve without a fundamental change in authority that extends beyond creating local school councils or adding a few more prerogatives for principals?

«There are many training programs for school principals, but few exist for top state and district education leaders who establish policies, incentives, and cultures that enable those principals to succeed in lifting student achievement,» added M. Christine DeVita, president of The Wallace Foundation.

For instance, although most of the studies cited above do include statistical controls for peer effects (the mean characteristics of other student in a class or school), very few states or districts do so when generating value - added estimates.

In the two previous years, 46 and 39 percent of urban schools were rated D or F. To be sure, fewer high - poverty schools will flunk under value - added as under a proficiency measure.

In contrast, the teachers in the moderately effective schools primarily provided phonics instruction, with only a few adding the coaching componenIn contrast, the teachers in the moderately effective schools primarily provided phonics instruction, with only a few adding the coaching componenin the moderately effective schools primarily provided phonics instruction, with only a few adding the coaching component.

And in Louisiana few private schools expressed an interest in expanding the number of students they are willing to take, while in Florida the majority are looking to add students.

Rothstein is a great choice for this one in that indeed he is an economist, but one of a few, really, who is deep into the research literature and who, accordingly, has a balanced set of research - based beliefs about value - added models (VAMs), their current uses in America's public schools, and what they can and can not do (theoretically) to support school reform.

«This will mean a real reduction in the public service portfolio,» he said, adding that it was likely to hit areas with few or no academies hardest as the money would not be replaced via individual school budgets.

«The first one would be to have them get an individualized education that meets the needs of each student; the second was that we were drawn to a classical curriculum; and the third would be flexibility in time with family,» said Banks, a resident of Fredericksburg, Va., who added that her elementary - age children went back and forth between home education and Catholic school over the past few years before they settled on home education.

«The district's move was brought about by the pressure generated over the last few months from parents, school communities and educators,» he said, adding that it would «ameliorate some of the horrible conditions that educators face in the actual teacher jail rooms.»

To recall, the seventh grade scores in ELA were drastically lower, with all districts having no more than 50 % of their schools receive positive value - added scores (five of which had fewer than 25 %).

By the time you count, by the second or third week in Septmeber, you've hired new teachers, you've got your boundaries set... [The reghoster] was a recognition on the part of the legislature that if you're a declining enrollment school district — or even a rapidly growing school district — it's going to take a few years for you to either add the new schools or close schools and redistrict to really make the kind of savings you're going to need to adjust to the reductions in funding.

To add insult to injury, students in already under - resourced schools are subjected to fewer opportunities to access richer curriculum and course offerings to prepare for college or careers — a discriminatory impact of the test - based accountability regime.

Thus, alternatives find themselves in a bind and are often willing to take the risk of a «few strings attached» in order to get the added financial benefits of public school choice programs.

I should add that some schools in Shelby County have found a way to make it work and retain young educators beyond their first few years.

In 2013, Boys» Latin added a middle school, in a separate building a few blocks away in West PhiladelphiIn 2013, Boys» Latin added a middle school, in a separate building a few blocks away in West Philadelphiin a separate building a few blocks away in West Philadelphiin West Philadelphia.

«In recent years, a large number of additional primary school places have been provided to keep pace with demand, and as these pupils progress through the school system, we expect to see a significant need for additional secondary places in the next few years,» they addeIn recent years, a large number of additional primary school places have been provided to keep pace with demand, and as these pupils progress through the school system, we expect to see a significant need for additional secondary places in the next few years,» they addein the next few years,» they added.

In celebration, I've added a few items to the website, such as samples of my old writings; short stories from high school, poetry from college.

Another added, «[Two weeks is] not long enough because there are so few e-book copies available that I almost always have to place a hold first and then inevitably, 2 - 4 come available at the same time and between work, school and family, I can't get through them all in that time.»

We've snagged a few pics to give you a taste of what to expect when you add these creepy items to your collection (fun fact: Mr. Magnus Keynes — Home's resident business guru — is too scared by BioShock 2 to even review these new items whereas our very own CydoniaX regularly schools the rest of the team in multiplayer mode and is sporting the Big Sister armor as I type).

The Carnegie Foundation issued its book - length report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (Carnegie Report) in 2007.1 Although there have been numerous responses to it, relatively few have engaged it with any degree of critical analysis.2 Law schools across the country have enthusiastically mentioned the Carnegie Report in connection with curricular changes intended to «prepare» students, in the words of the Report, for the practice of law.3 Mostly these changes amount to adding clinical options or even clinical requirements, adding units to legal writing programs, and updating professional responsibility courses.

It causes a time delay from getting pulled over, usually costs a few hundred dollars in fines, add points to your license, cause your insurance costs to go up, and may even require you to go to traffic school.

You could add a separate section if you received quite a few awards in school.

Misbehavior at home or school, underperforming at school, children's anxiety and depression, supporting children with special needs including ADHD or ADD, self esteem issues, oppositional behaviour, angry teenagers, and differences in parenting styles are only a few examples of the type of problems that could be successfully addressed in family therapy.

Poor performance in school, social difficulties, poor organizational skills, a short attention span, high - risk behaviors and impulsivity are but a few symptoms that may indicate your teen is struggling with ADD or ADHD.