Sentences with phrase «allows older students»

It allows older students to learn home - making skills in a real - world context.

Our single campus allows older students to grow as role models, while younger mentors dream big.

Pair older students with younger students, allowing the older students to act as mentors.

Younger students often delve into season - related schoolwork in autumn — here is a text that will allow older students to do the same, and perhaps encourage appreciation of our natural surroundings, a gift at any age.

Middle School Clubs have been designed to allow our oldest students the opportunity to make choices and exercise leadership and self - direction.

«That might mean providing technology and experiences through elective courses or allowing older students to work with younger students and see how they can make a difference.

Not exact matches

Florida also allows 18 - year - olds to purchase semiautomatic weapons, as Cruz did more than a year before the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High on Valentine's Day that claimed the lives of 14 students and three faculty members.

Such a system had serious drawbacks because the teaching materials were several centuries old, the study of Arabic — and no Chinese — was inadequate, so the students could read only a limited amount and could not speak the language, there was no general educational background for the religious courses, and the freedom allowed to the students often led them to form bad habits.

Maine's cousin says the school called and said that if he were allowed to take his grandmother to prom, future students might decide to take old people to prom as a joke and that the school would become «a mockery.»

Control of the Senate, too, would ease the way for Democratic bills currently blocked by the GOP, including ones to increase firearm restrictions, allow early voting, authorize state financial aid to students who entered the country illegally as children, and extend the statute of limitations on child molestation to allow victims to sue for decades - old abuse.

District officials had recommended the old C.W. Miller Livery Building as the site of a second Emerson School of Hospitality, forming an expanded downtown campus that would allow students to explore career options.

Some say those students should be allowed to take the old tests.

The Board of Regents voted in April to allow student - teachers who fail the new exam, called the edTPA, to take an old, less rigorous exam instead for two years.

HARLEM — The parents of a Harlem student who drowned on a class trip said Wednesday that they did not sign a permission slip allowing her to swim on the excursion, as the city announced an independent investigation into the 12 - year - old's death.

Thus far, I've met a few upperclassmen, and the first - year party held by the older graduate students allowed me to meet a great many more.

Eating lunch with older graduate students, simply doing work in the lounges in the building, and asking for help with classes allows me to talk to a number of other students.

Eventually, their intimate guest list allowed for a traditional ceremony in an old cathedral they had visited together as University students, followed by a beautiful meal at a favorite restaurant.

While Lawyers in Love allows law students to register, the majority of the users on the site are older, between 30 and 50 years old, and everyone on the site is based in the United States.

This black and white picaresque depicts a rebellious young boy allowed to live with his older brother in 1999 Mexico City, during student unrest.

Use of a graphic organizer allows students to visually categorize new information or review old information.

As an extra challenge, you might limit older students to choosing adjectives; no nouns allowed!

For younger students, the teacher might allow 10 seconds or more; for older students the teacher might allow 5 seconds or less.

Early intervention allows ineffective remedial programs to be replaced with effective prevention while providing older students who continue to need services with enhanced instruction so they can return to the educational mainstream.

The Scottish education secretary has refused a recommendation which would allow teachers to search students for weapons, following the stabbing of a 16 - year - old boy.

The bundle is made up of a wide - range of interesting and exciting lessons, including: - The Russian Revolution; - Old Major's Dream; - The Rise of the Pigs; - Dictatorship; - Squealer; - The Ending (Orwell's Message) Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide - range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom.

The goal was to set a baseline for Needham High students, allowing them to review old lessons and master new ones through the slides.

All states that meet federal criteria will now be allowed to take part in the U.S. Department of Education's 2 - year - old experiment with «growth models,» which let states measure individual students» achievement gains as a way of ensuring accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act.

At the British International School of Houston, the Agora uses the principle of transparency to allow younger students to see what the older students are up to, and what lies ahead for them.

For older students, apps such as Padlet allow children to collaborate on digital projects together, and facilitates easier sharing of notes and creative work.

The students we represent can not withstand the risk of Congress allowing states to return to old habits — aiming low and abandoning children deemed too difficult or inconsequential to educate.

«We've dedicated ourselves to change a system that would allow somebody like Nikolas Cruz to fall through the cracks,» said Petty, referring to the 19 - year - old former Stoneman Douglas student whom police have identified as the shooter.

«Darling - Hammond reveals the successful educational strategies around the world that are toppling the old educational guard, including a high degree of personalization that allows stronger, closer relationships among students, faculty, staff, and parents... Scholarly and factual, well - researched and packed with astounding examples of the current climate of American education, this text should prove highly informative for educators, educational administrators, and involved parents throughout the U.S.» — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The federal appeals court in St. Louis — directly contradicting a two - year - old decision by its counterpart in Boston — has upheld a Minnesota law allowing parents of private - school students to take state income - tax deductions for tuition and other expenses.

I have meticulously gone through past papers for the old specification and carefully selected the most relevant questions to the new spec, allowing students to prepare for exam questions that are likely to reappear.

The old system allowed for a school where 70 % of students gained 5 A * - C including English and maths to branded «Requires Improvement» whilst a school with 30 % 5 A * - C can be branded «Outstanding».

They can also be used as an activity to allow younger students to participate in the study with older siblings.

More than 9,000 students are participating in the two - year - old program, which allows students to attend private schools using state - funded vouchers.

Allowing educators to relate academic standards to student interests and aspirations, PBL is an especially effective way to engage older students who might otherwise be disengaged from the classroom.

Instead, it only allows students to be props for adult beliefs, reinforcing the old adage that «Children are to be seen and not heard.»

A similar case ended slightly differently in Belleville, where a teacher was charged with discharging a six - year - old student at the end of the school day without a parent or guardian, allowing her to walk home alone.

Older students will get more out of project based learning that encourages collaboration and outside research and allows them to study a topic that they're interested in.

Andrew Blumenfeld, a 20 - year - old member of the La Canada, Calif. school board (and a public face of Students for Education Reform), offering reasons why it is so hard to transform education through the traditional district model — and why it must be abandoned for the Hollywood Model of Education that will allow for the creation of schools fit for the futures of the children they are supposed to serve.

Many charter schools use older buses and vans that would not be allowed to transport traditional public school students.

Often aided by technological advances, these assessments will allow for students to better showcase their skills compared to the old, multiple - choice format.

The Detroit school district plans to provide preschool to all of the city's 4 - year - olds, offer music and art programs after school and allow schools to house educational and social services 12 hours a day and seven days a week as part of an effort to attract and retain students.

And Washington State is allowing juniors to use their scores on the test developed by testing consortium Smarter Balanced to show proficiency, but students can also use scores from the state's old exam or from end - of - course tests in certain subjects.

A major sore point for many activists in the old discipline code was a policy allowing principals to suspend students for up to five days for «insubordination.»

We've created a dedicated interface, specifically for maths students from Key Stage 3 through GCSE and beyond, to provide older learners with the study tools and maths curriculum resources aligned to the maths curriculum, allowing them to take greater control of their own learning.

The old reporting system didn't allow states to demonstrate easily the work that they were doing to improve student outcomes, Reder said, and some of the reporting requirements were redundant.

I am holding you responsible for the 9 - year - old student who came to school with hardly any sleep after witnessing his mother administer Narcan to save his father's life, only to then take a three - hour test and I am holding you responsible for the autistic child whose parents opted him out of the test but the school counseled him back into... I hold you responsible for not passing legislation that allows for a public - school TEACHER to serve on the Board of EDUCATION, yet the chair of this Board, Paul Sagan can contribute $ 600,000 to a campaign that sought to charterize, segregate, and create a two - tiered system of privilege using high - stake test scores as the ammunition.»