Sentences with phrase «based school choice group»

An Indianapolis - based school choice group launched a website earlier this year that allows parents to shop around for schools.

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Some education groups, as well as lawmakers, have called for more choice in how states can administer the law's accountability provisions, including greater power for school - based teams to decide what type of assessment a student receiving special education services should take.

School choice will ultimately prevail or disappear based on how it affects entire urban populations, not just the small group of students who benefit directly from being able to attend private schools tuition - free.

Certain techniques were flagged up «no hands rule; use of mini-white boards, Kagan, learning environments that are supporting; bolstering self - esteem; positivity; curiosity; creativity; identify students to lead plenary at end of lesson at the beginning; Get class blogging — quadblogging; tallies for whole class rewards; encouraging independent learning; wait time when questioning; talk about their thinking and reasoning; conversational learning; talk with learning partners before answering any questions; pair and share; Glazer learning model structure for lesson delivery — a good mix of interaction and independent work; offering choice to pupils; cross class working; allowing time to play; list / describe / explain / evaluate; new audiences beyond the school; project based learning and philosopy; swapping age - groups; cross-curricular working; read to them every day; invite varied guests in; learning by discovery using pupils» interests; stand back and watch with purpose.

«It took us 20 years to pass the first 20 private school — choice programs in America and in the 21st year we passed 7 new programs,» says Scott Jensen with the American Federation for Children (AFC), a school - choice advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. «So we went from passing, on average, one each year, to seven in one fell swoop.»

The lack of a statistically significant association between racial imbalance scores for any group and the availability of alternatives to traditional public schools is consistent with the hypothesis that charter schools and affordable private schools are not a necessary component of choice - based racial imbalance in public schools.

Saltsman has taken a position with theAmerican Federation for Children, a Washington, D.C. - based group focused on promoting school choice, according to an Associated Press report.

Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington - based education advocacy group, said the family will face a tough choice among public, private and charter schools in a city where attempts at education reform have become symbolic of the issue nationwide.

But it warns of an «increase in stratification» and says «there is a risk that parents select schools based on peer groups, where schools compete to attract particular groups of people, where barriers to choice result in segregation».

I've been with groups of charter school teachers who have expressed their frustration — even to the point of tears — because they are vilified on a daily basis for making the choice to teach in schools that have the ability to reach children in innovative ways and accept lower salaries because of the direct impact they are able to make in the lives of our children.

«Student voice refers to the values, opinions, beliefs, perspectives, and cultural backgrounds of individual students and groups of students in a school, and to instructional approaches and techniques that are based on student choices, interests, passions, and ambitions.»

They include praise and encouragement from arts professionals; purposeful content relevancy to curriculum and life outside of school; active student participation in program design, planning, and art - making; group work with community and parent involvement; opportunities for students to make choices; and hands - on, high quality, and process - based learning.

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Choice - based schools can also maintain a diverse balance by intentionally targeting underrepresented groups of students when publicizing their school.