Sentences with phrase «awash in»

Districts are awash in data and information, and boards need a way to organize that information and use it to improve student achievement.

The field of education is awash in data.

Of course, top dog on the leaderboard comes with added kudos — reaching this position means the learner has engaged most with the platform, learned a lot and is probably awash in praise.

Many school systems have gotten the message that they need to be more data driven, and they are now awash in data - not just yearly student test scores, but figures on how different groups of students are doing in particular subjects or grade levels, how successful a school is at attracting and retaining teachers or closing the achievement gap among disadvantaged students, or how equitable funding is from school to school.

In 1996, when the Golden State was awash in cash, California decided to launch a state - wide class - size reduction program that would, over time, reward districts for capping classes in grades K - 3 at 20 students.

The nation is awash in pessimism.

NEW YORK CITY Success Academy Charter Schools in New York City are awash in scandal after a recent New York Times investigation revealed one school kept a «got to go» list of struggling students and actively worked to push them out of school.

These schools are now awash in internships and expeditions to destinations near and far, esoteric summer opportunities, Chinese, Russian, and Arabic language classes, dance and theater and more.

America is awash in enormous, well - funded programs that target the poor.

I would further suggest that these days we seem to be awash in existential educational questions like those, brought on by such new controversies (at least, newly packaged) as whether it's good to try to close the achievement gap, whether it's counterproductive to demand «proficiency» as opposed to «improvement,» whether «differentiated instruction» is another form of tracking, whether common standards are anti-American, etc..

SETDA profiled the emerging work of inBloom in our May 2013 report, Transforming Data to Information, along with over a dozen other interoperability and data standards efforts related to meeting the information needs of K - 12 educators, school leaders and policymakers who — while awash in data — too often still lack the ability to easily -LSB-...]

Then the district, awash in federal stimulus money, decided to buy dozens of smartboards and desktop computers.

Schools are awash in learning goals, data, and information about how students are doing.

Of course, YouTube has long had to battle complaints and lawsuits — most often from record labels and film studios — that the video - sharing site is awash in copyright infringements.

We often pontificate about the «haves» and the «have - nots» in our schools — the unfair way that schools are funded, the ways in which some of our students are robbed of opportunity while others are awash in it.

The nation is awash in different solutions to the high - school problem.

Jacquelyn Davis's desk is awash in papers.

But rather than investing solely in training new teachers, we should unlock the existing computer science talent awash in our tech industry and invest in building channels that bring outside experts into classrooms to supplement what teachers are doing.

That's not because prosperous neighborhoods are awash in smart kids.

It's awash in the self, steeped in the ability to understand one's own emotions, thoughts, values, strengths, and limitations.

The Strategic Data Project provides a roadmap for schools awash in data but lacking a strategy to use it

America is awash in achievement «data,» yet the truth about our educational performance is far from transparent and trustworthy.

Where his recent soundtrack for «The Light Between Oceans» (also on Lakeshore Records) was awash in giant, romantic gestures, Desplat's turn to an «American Pastoral» is a gorgeously downbeat score.

It pulls the listener into a depraved 1930's Hollywood awash in swing, sin and madness, with John Barry the bandleader of the deluded and the damned finally clash for one of the composer's his most haunting scores, if not his most disturbing film at that, given a superb liner note recollection by Barry expert Jon Burlingame..

Indeed, though it's set in the present day, the movie is awash in nostalgia for childhoods that unfolded in the 1970s and»80s: the Buick station wagon; the lovingly dated water park; references to Bonnie Tyler, Mr. Mister, REO Speedwagon, Pac - Man, Toughskins jeans, and bikes with banana seats.

Ominous, awash in blue, and unexpectedly epic - looking, Alejandro González Iñárritu «s upcoming Birdman has an heir of something special...

-LSB-...] «It's wildly funny, thrilling, and heartbreaking, cutting deep into our hopes, fears, and need to matter in a world awash in consumerism, and just too damn much of everything.»

The last ten seconds of the movie is however awash in the sort of treacly unbearable Mills & Boons chocolate box kitsch that even Titanic — a similar doomed love affair story which Somewhere in Time has foreshadowed in many ways - would have blanched at.

by Walter Chaw In a season awash in Terrence Malick shrines, Justin Kurzel's Macbeth has the temerity to evoke Andrei Tarkovsky instead.

Id Software's 2016 sequel / remake / reboot of its iconic first person shooter Doom surprised and delighted both critics and fans for its lightning fast action, old - school mechanics tuned hair - trigger sharp and lush graphics awash in demonic gore.

Working with the cinematographer David Tattersall, he concocts sequences that tilt and drift, awash in neon and a soundtrack that evokes a woozy, winking romanticism.

The striking art features Lawrence's lead character, awash in red, with the title standing out in stark white text.

The film was indeed awash in special effects, in fact most of the so called «visually impressive» shots were effects but the Academy is showing a troubling bent towards accepting these things (specially after Avatar).

John Schlesinger was awash in musical riches when he enlisted songwriters such as Harry Nilsson and Bob Dylan to submit theme songs to his 1969 film Midnight Cowboy.

Into a culture awash in purity and snark comes Guillermo del Toro's vibrant, sensual, abundant imagination.

The prologue of the film indicates the word «Sicario» is either Hebrew or Mexican for «hitman», but at its core, the film postulates the ever - shifting goalposts of federal law enforcement (both American and Mexican) while slowly revealing the broken conscience of both States — as if someone thought to remake Soderbergh's Traffic and shoot it over the template of Michael Mann's Heat; all awash in dust motes, artillery and desert sunsets.

De Palma, codirected by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, is awash in great clips: a few more from Hitchcock, from Antonioni, Godard, Truffaut - but mostly, of course, De Palma's own, and they are killer, in more ways than one.

And, in so doing, leaving Woody Harrelson (the crime boss with the dog), Christopher Walken (the con artist with the canine kidnapping scheme), Tom Waits (a weirdo with a bunny rabbit), Sam Rockwell (an underemployed actor), and Abbie Cornish (Farrell's character's girlfriend) awash in blood and bad business.

Thor's introduction to this extravagant site is awash in bright and distinct visuals with a Willy Wonka - style ride introducing the hero to this site.

«Call Me By Your Name» is awash in the magical splendor of beautiful sunshine, luscious foods and first love.

In a movie culture awash in «events,» the precise recipe for required viewing is elusive.

Ominous, awash in blue, and unexpectedly epic - looking, Alejandro González Iñárritu's upcoming Birdman has an heir of something special from the looks of its first trailer.

Newly stripped down and awash in silence and environmental fatigue — rain falling on ash resting on wilted flowers, expired vehicles and animals littering the roads — the narrative allows Macdonald time to breathe and also showcase some haunting digital cinematography from DoP Franz Lustig.

The narrative and stylistic elements of Refn's film are familiar — indeed it is awash in echoes and allusions — yet they are assembled into something fresh and vital and astonishingly intense.

Working from a script by Gaby Chiappe, Scherfig — best known for the winsome coming - of - age drama «An Education» — skillfully keeps the tonal shifts in working order, keeping the story afloat in a series of crisp, sharply focused vignettes awash in clattering typewriters, smoldering cigarettes and other appurtenances of a bygone age.

Krisha is not only a powerful character study awash in piercing intimacy, it is a stunning feature debut for Trey Edward Shults, a young writer / director with seemingly dizzying potential.

Berberian Sound Studio A British sound engineer (Toby Jones) trots off to Rome to do his thing on a horror tale awash in murder and witchcraft.

It's a brawling, two - fisted epic awash in blood and viscera, yet deeply enamored with the power of words.

Awash in gothic atmosphere and tasty performances, «Penny Dreadful» puts a face on evil in its second season, and feels considerably richer for it.

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