Sentences with phrase «at most public schools»

That's a ratio of 60 students for each teacher, a higher ratio than at most public schools.

That's much higher than at most public schools, but I'll confess I still find it a bit disappointing because it means some charter graduates still struggle.

Not exact matches

The most recent research, led by Joseph Allen, who teaches at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, analyzed the performance of knowledge workers, including engineers, programmers, creative marketing professionals and managers.

The most dangerous supplements are the ones that claim to increase performance in three broad categories, S. Bryn Austin said at an event organized by the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

Megan Randall, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies economic development policy, said companies cared most about a talented work force, which requires good schools and colleges, and amenities like affordable housing, parks and public transit that make a place desirable.

But after a Bushmaster rifle was used in 2012 to kill 26 people, most of them young children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., public anger at Remington drove some investors to try to divest from the company.

Or, most recently, you might have heard the rumor from Bryan Fischer, from Mike Hucakbee or a friend on Facebook, saying that God abandoned the children at Sandy Hook because, though children have every right to pray in public schools, those schools can not sponsor prayer events out of deference to religious freedom.

That being said, however, for at least the short - term future most American children will be attending public schools dominated by the myths of neutrality toward the differences that make the deepest difference.

However, you should really also add the percent of kids who ever have contact with a Catholic priest (maybe 25 %) and the relative number of contact hours (at most 20:1 compared to public schools).

No teacher should be or need be at a loss to deal intelligently and fairly with most religious issues that might arise in public schools in a pluralistic society, and every teacher can be and ought to be prepared to grasp the religious dimensions in any subject of study and to use sectarian differences to clarify issues and enrich the learning of all.

They tend to withdraw into gated communities, with private security guards and «enclaves of good schools, excellent health care, and first - rate infrastructures — all the while scoffing at almost all functions of government, thus cutting off the supply of taxes for most public undertakings — leaving much of the rest of the population behind.»

Jesus is not allowed in most public squares, specially not at Christmas time, or mention of him at high school football games, or graduation ceremonies.

Ogden had hoped to join most of his friends at a public junior high school.

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preveSchool of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preveschool lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

Investigators think most of the victims ate tainted cafeteria food at 53 public schools in Sakai, about 265 miles southwest of Tokyo.

So, a few weeks ago, we sat in a darkened auditorium at one of Houston's most respected public high schools... [Continue reading]

Although many question the hope for public policy to affect that national girth, removing sweet milk from schools may be one of the most direct tools policymakers have at their disposal to reduce juvenile sugar consumption — at least on the taxpayer's dime.

Nachos are an almost daily entree at most Chicago public high schools and middle schools.

Such strictures would preclude, for example, meals including pizza, cheeseburgers, white bread, tater tots, and most fruits and vegetables offered on the side — foods reportedly served to children at public schools in Richmond.

Eating is not permitted outside the cafeteria at Steinmetz or at most Chicago Public Schools, but Madon and other principals say they see students scarfing down snacks en route to classes and usually look the other way.

«The new school meal standards are one of the most important advances in nutrition in decades,» said Margo Wootan, nutrition policy director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

A Saratoga County native and alumna of Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, she has worked in reporter and editor roles at newspapers in Utica and Binghamton, and most recently for the Press of Atlantic City in New Jersey.

The Government says it is expecting most schools to open and most public sector workers to stay at work during Thursday's industrial action.

Most recently, he was a vice president at Educators for Excellence, a progressive non-profit group focused on public school teachers and school policy.

Critics have carped that the Bloomberg - led system fails to give parents sufficient voice — whatever that means — but the current arrangement is a night - and - day improvement over the old Board of Education, which was not only less accountable to the public, but failed at its most basic mission: improving our schools and teaching our kids.

In his testimony at the hearing, Deputy Chancellor Josh Wallack admitted the city has a long way to go in integrating public schools, which are some of the most segregated in the nation.

Although de Blasio asked the commission to concentrate on campaign finance reform, most members of the public who spoke at McKee High School on Staten Island addressed other topics.

At last count, New York State public schools» unfunded mandates numbered more than 150 — 150 unfunded mandates that cost schools money in time and resources — yet most of us get our budgets passed while staying under our tax caps.

The 37 Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries remind parents to spend at least 15 minutes each day reading aloud to their young children because research shows reading is the single most important thing you can do to help prepare a child for school and lifelong learning.

«We need a budget proposal from the governor and legislature that finally pays the money owed to our children and prioritizes schools that need funding the most,» said Zakiyah Ansari, the advocacy director of the Alliance for Quality Education, at a Jan. 10 press conference outside City Hall to kick off a new push for public school funding in Albany.

Borough of Opportunity: Tackling poverty and the widening social divide by giving a «hand up» instead of a «hand out» by transforming our state schools, providing a housing ladder of opportunity with home ownership at its core and regenerating our most deprived areas by using the public sector to pump prime major investment by the private sector.

«It's been really hard for these A.G. candidates to break through to the point where most people are even aware of the campaign,» said David S. Birdsell, dean of the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College.

«I've helped secure two new public schools for the district (an elementary school on 17th Street and most recently, a new middle school at 75 Morton St.), fought NYU's irresponsible campus expansion plan, established a legal defense fund for rent - stabilized tenants... and brokered a deal to renovate Washington Square Park,» he said.

In the case of the Senate, however, the consequences of inaction will fall most heavily on New York City's public school students, and that should be avoided at all costs.

Recent studies by Sood and colleagues at USC Schaeffer Center, the USC Price School of Public Policy and the USC School of Pharmacy have found that most consumers on high - deductible plans are not comparing prices to find the best deals on services or on prescription drugs, even though the research indicates that some patients could potentially save hundreds or thousands of dollars per year.

According to the authors, who are based at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, the World Health Organization, Switzerland, and the University of Edinburgh, UK, «Despite remarkable progress at the level of global averages, at national level, MDG 4 will not be achieved in most countries in 2015.

«Thirty four percent of people who are trying to quit smoking use pharmaceutical aids and yet most are not successful,» said senior study author John P. Pierce, PhD, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center.

Scientific American spoke with Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center, and Daniel Webster, director of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Gun Policy and Research, about four feasible legal and policy changes that would be most effective.

A large majority of Americans — including gun owners — continue to support stronger policies to prevent gun violence than are present in current federal and most state law, according to a new national public opinion survey conducted by researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Bloomberg School of Public Hpublic opinion survey conducted by researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Bloomberg School of Public HPublic Health.

Most U.S. public schools start at 8:30 a.m. or earlier, suggesting that high school students go to school during their biological night.

A new study by public health researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development finds that the severity of the problem within the state is not the most important predictor of whether states adopt new laws to restrict drunk driving — nor is the political makeup of the state government.

Out of all age groups, children are still most likely to live in poverty, according to new research from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

«Most research has focused on single environmental factors like air pollution or toxins in water,» said Jyotsna Jagai, research assistant professor of environmental and occupational health in the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and lead author of the study.

Becker, a professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her team of researchers say they were most surprised by the very high level of sibling risk.

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health published the most up - to - date causes of deaths estimates among children under five at global, regional and country - level between 2000 and 2015.

«Weight gain after about age 20 is really important because most of the weight gain is typically unhealthy fat,» says Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Plus, at the most basic physical level, «your heart is working overtime» in the summer, says Kim Knowlton, MD, an assistant clinical professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

We homeschool our kids, but I attended public and private schools at different times when I was growing up and remember one thing very clearly about school lunches (besides how bad most of them tasted): the rotating lunch schedule.

But rather than supplanting BMI as the best predictor of diabetes risk, waist circumference might be most useful if it's simply added to the mix, says Jane Bolin, Ph.D., an associate professor of health policy and management at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health, in College Station.

All three public universities in the state made Seeking Arrangement's list of the 50 most popular schools for sugar babies — ASU actually comes in at number two in the country, just behind New York University, with well over 1,100 sugar babies.