The government's plan to force all schools to
become academies over the next six years has been greeted with incredulity and horror by parents, teachers and politicians.
Not exact matches
The city's Palmer Park Preparatory
Academy was recently on the cover of Education Week for
becoming a teacher led school in which teachers take
over administrative duties.
You can see that he has ability which has been borne from the Southampton
Academy and nurtured further at Arsenal and knows his way around and through a game but it could just be that in an effort to make his mark and not
become one of the many Arsenal youth product that «Had the ability, but failed to make it», he's
over emphasising attributes of his game at the expense of composure.
Over the past fifty years, as these vitamins, minerals, fatty acids and amino acids have been studied, researched and understood, they have
become classified and known as the «Essential Nutrients» by the National
Academy of Sciences.
The new requirement is one of many changes that were recently made, which also saw Free Schools
become unable to teach against the scientific consensus, and also a check placed on plans for faith groups to take
over Academies without a religious character.
David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn clashed at today's prime minister's questions
over the government's decision to force all state schools to
become academies.
As the debate
over Europe rages on, the Labour leader opted to put it to one side — and instead attacked David Cameron
over Tory plans to force all state schools in England to
become academies.
New data show that extreme weather events have
become more frequent
over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events compared even with five years ago, according to a new publication, «Extreme weather events in Europe: Preparing for climate change adaptation: an update on EASAC's 2013 study» by the European
Academies» Science Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and Swi
Academies» Science Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science
academies in the European Union, Norway, and Swi
academies in the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland.
Ford
became best known for his Westerns, of which he made dozens through the 1920s, but he didn't achieve status as a major director until the mid -»30s, when his films for RKO (The Lost Patrol [1934], The Informer [1935]-RRB-, 20th Century Fox (Young Mr. Lincoln [1939], The Grapes of Wrath [1940]-RRB-, and Walter Wanger (Stagecoach [1939]-RRB-, won
over the public, the critics, and earned various Oscars and
Academy nominations.
With just
over a week to go until the 87th
Academy Awards Oscar nominations come out, Best Actor has
become the most volatile category of the season.
Factor in the sexual - harassment charges hanging
over Affleck, and it
becomes easy to imagine his heavily internal performance losing out to the more
Academy - friendly fireworks of Fences.
With its deathless car chase, Friedkin's film
became an instant American classic (and
Academy - awarded Best Picture), but the scene is only the first of two climaxes arising from
over an hour of investigatory tension.
One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research
over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National
Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can
become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.
Over a half century since its inception, the Theatre
Academy evolved to
become the Seoul Institute of the Arts of today.
The
academy was moved back into the department,
becoming the Institute of Education Sciences, but retained its independent director, who gained appointment powers
over the centers» commissioners — except, notably, at NCES.
In 2000 the foundation committed $ 150 million
over five years to improving leadership at the school and district level and is now underwriting in 24 states a wide variety of programs: leadership
academies, university - school district partnerships, research, changes in what it takes to
become certified as a principal, and superintendent training.
Becoming an
academy may be an attractive prospect due to the increased freedom to decide how teaching is delivered, and greater control
over admissions and student numbers.
There are further benefits to
becoming an
academy, such as greater control
over admissions and student numbers; freedom to purchase support services from providers offering the best value and service; and applying for capital grants from central government.
The research found that converting schools into sponsored
academies may rise standards in the year after they are converted, but this improvement dissipates
over the following three years, eventually returning to levels previously seen before the school
became an
academy.
This comes as the National Audit Office (NAO) casts doubt
over the government's plans to continue to force schools to
become academies, despite there being no available sponsors in their area.
A son of immigrants who grew up in poor circumstances, Zaentz created the world's largest independent jazz record company, Fantasy Records, before
becoming a film producer who won Best Picture
Academy Awards for three films (One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, and The English Patient).
Over in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the WINGS model of schooling — now Divine Providence
Academy — is an example of how blended learning can facilitate effective multi-age classrooms, allowing schools to right - size staff and
become sustainable as much smaller operations, akin to one - room schoolhouses of old.
In 2008, Orr
became the first turnaround high school when CPS turned management
over to the
Academy for Urban School Leadership, which brought in a superstar principal, Jammie Poole, from Memphis.
I will never forget the words of Roy Blatchford, Founding Director of NET, when we first met to discuss Battle
becoming a NET
academy — he likened our
becoming an
academy to an arranged marriage rather than a take -
over, and that is what it is, a joint effort to benefit our children and give them the quality education they deserve.
After 2010, when the Coalition government took
over, any school with an «outstanding» rating from Ofsted was able to apply to
become an
academy.
More than a quarter of all applications to
become academy sponsors were either deferred or rejected
over the same period.
Earlier the general secretary of the NASUWT Chris Keates said teachers understood the need for inspection, but believed it had
become too «high stakes» because a bad Ofsted rating could lead to a school being taken
over or turned in to an
academy.
Given that
over two thirds of
academies have
become academies because they were already performing well — they were «converted» to give them more freedom — it wouldn't be surprising if they had particularly good results.
Critics have raised «important issues»
over government plans to make every school in England
become an
academy, the Education Secretary has said.
Not a single failing school
became an
academy less than nine months after an inspection in at least 26 local authorities
over the past three years, Schools Week can exclusively reveal.
«The school is in the process of
becoming an
academy under the sponsorship of the School Partnership Trust and has been for
over four years.»
Dr Mary Bousted comments on the news that the government has climbed down
over forcing all schools in England to
become an
academy.
«The Government will still force
over 16,000 schools to
become academies regardless of what parents, governors and staff want and make them join a multi-academy trust (MAT).
The government ultimately wants all state - funded schools in England to
become academies - meaning they would be semi-independent, with greater control
over the curriculum, the school day and pay and conditions of staff.
The NAHT is the latest teaching union to express dismay at the government's education white paper published last month, which would see schools currently maintained by local authorities transferred to
become academies by 2022, with many taken
over by a multi-academy trust.
Mr Little said: «From working at another
academy within the Inspiration Trust I'm very aware of the great improvements that have been made at Cromer Academy over the last few years, in particular becoming the top school in north Norfolk for pupil pr
academy within the Inspiration Trust I'm very aware of the great improvements that have been made at Cromer
Academy over the last few years, in particular becoming the top school in north Norfolk for pupil pr
Academy over the last few years, in particular
becoming the top school in north Norfolk for pupil progress.
The schools White Paper, launched by former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan earlier this year, was torpedoed by Tory backbenchers
over the move to force every school to
become an
academy.
«So if schools want to do that [
become academies], they'll have all those advantages of money flowing directly to them, of having more control
over what goes on in the school, of being their own admissions authority.»
He said this was because hundreds of schools wanted to
become Academies,
over a thousand schools had applied and many of them wanted to open in September.
As schools move
over to
becoming academies the big issues are these hurdles.
Labour's schools spokesman Ed Balls said: «Despite the
over one thousand schools the education secretary claimed wanted to
become academies and the emergency legislation railroaded through Parliament, only a very small number of schools have applied to be Tory - style
academies.
After much hard work and
over a year of preparation through continuing education, case studies, internship hours and passing a written examination, Leesburg Veterinary Hospital's Dr. Adrianne Doering recently
became credentialed as a Certified Veterinary Pain Practitioner (CVPP) through the International Veterinary
Academy of Pain Management (IVAPM).
Over the years, Craig attended classes in a variety of training disciplines with his own dogs, and
became certified as a professional dog trainer through Karen Pryor
Academy (KPA) where he learned about clicker training.
Over the last two hundred and fifty years, these spectacular displays of art — dominated by what has
become a famously crowded and collage - like arrangement of pictures across the
Academy's walls — have provided thousands of artists with a crucial form of competition, inspiration and publicity, and captured the interest of millions of visitors.
A barber's son, he entered the Royal
Academy art school at age fourteen and
became,
over the course of six decades, the leading British artist of his era.
Over the years Hilla and Bernd Becher
became hugely influential, both taking up positions at the photography department of the Düsseldorf Art
Academy, where they had first met.
He would serve in the Army, receive an MFA from the Cranbrook
Academy of Art, teach college art classes for
over thirty years in East Texas, and
become a Catholic deacon, all the while rejecting painterly abstraction to produce fine - lined drawings about love, anger, and passion, so richly layered they recall art by Christian mystics like Hieronymus Bosch, William Blake, and Henry Darger.
Eddie Peake is an artist who has
become fashionable
over the past couple of years — despite still being a student at the Royal
Academy Schools — for a multi-faceted practice that ranges across photography, painting, neon sculpture and performance.
And I realized I had to do something 1983 Rammelzee vs K Rob «Beat Bop» 1984 First shows at Clarissa Dalrymple and Nicole Klagsbrun's Cable Gallery (artists of Wool's generation who begin showing same period include Philip Taaffe Jeff Koons Mike Kelley Cady Noland and James Nares 1984 produces first book photocopied edition of four: 93 Drawings of Beer on the Wall 1984 Warhol Rorschach paintings 1986 First pattern paintings 1987 Joins Luhring Augustine Gallery 1987 First word paintings 1988 Collaborative installation with Robert Gober one painting by Wool (Apocalypse Now) one sculpture by Gober (Three Urinals) one collaborative photograph (Untitled) and a mirror Gary Indiana contributes a short piece of fiction to the accompanying publication 1988 In Cologne sees show of Albert Oehlen's work meets Martin Kippenberger 1988 First European shows Cologne and Athens 1988 Collaborates with Richard Prince on two paintings: My Name and My Act 1989 Museum Group shows in Amsterdam Frankfurt am Main and Munich Whitney Biennial 1989 One year fellowship at the American
Academy in Rome 1989 Starts taking photographs 1989 Publishes Black Book an oversized collection of 9 - letter images 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1990 Meets Larry Clark 1991 First survey mounted at Boymans - Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam publishes accompanying artist's book Cats in Bag Bags in River color photocopies of photographs of black and white paintings 1991 Creates edition of small paintings for ACT - UP New York Needle Exchange 1991 Participates in Carnegie International includes painting and billboard with truncated text announcing «THE SHOW IS
OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993 Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa T
OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993 Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken
over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa T
over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos
become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa Texas
The
academy was taken
over by Thornhill in 1716, but seems to have
become inactive by the time John Vanderbank and Louis Chéron set up their own
academy in 1720.