Sentences with phrase «behind school efforts»

Yet «Teacher preparation in family involvement lags far behind school efforts to promote family involvement,» according to a report released November 5 by Vice President Gore and Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley at the «Partners for Learning: Preparing Teachers to Involve Families» teleconference.

Not exact matches

Apparently, church - related schools have lagged behind other institutions in the effort to create pluralistic religious environments for their student bodies.

(or a class of «behavior challenged» Middle Schoolers who could care less about taking a test) Sad that this is what education has come to in an effort to make sure that no child is «left behind»... This is the underlying issue right here ~ too much emphasis on penciling in the correct letter circle and not enough student driven cirriculum.

How did the School Nutrition Association, the nation's largest organization of school food professionals, go from being a vocal supporter of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act to the moving force behind current efforts to gut that legislSchool Nutrition Association, the nation's largest organization of school food professionals, go from being a vocal supporter of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act to the moving force behind current efforts to gut that legislschool food professionals, go from being a vocal supporter of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act to the moving force behind current efforts to gut that legislation?

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If you've been following the fight over school food, you know that the School Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's leading organization of school food professionals, is the main force behind current efforts to weaken the new healthier meal stanschool food, you know that the School Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's leading organization of school food professionals, is the main force behind current efforts to weaken the new healthier meal stanSchool Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's leading organization of school food professionals, is the main force behind current efforts to weaken the new healthier meal stanschool food professionals, is the main force behind current efforts to weaken the new healthier meal standards.

The School Nutrition Association (SNA), the leading force behind efforts to roll back school nutrition standards in Congress, held its annual meeting earlier this month and installed a new president, Jean RSchool Nutrition Association (SNA), the leading force behind efforts to roll back school nutrition standards in Congress, held its annual meeting earlier this month and installed a new president, Jean Rschool nutrition standards in Congress, held its annual meeting earlier this month and installed a new president, Jean Ronnei.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who had indicated support for the Senate's effort to expand charter schools, has not made a public appearance in Albany this week, remaining behind closed doors negotiating with lawmakers.

Sen. Marc Panepinto, who is no fan of the push for mayoral control over the troubled Buffalo public school district, suggested during a CapTon interview last night that there are forces bigger than a certain local assemblywoman behind the effort.

GR: What do you think about this effort on the part of some activist parents to get parents to hold their kids out of school during the standardized tests that are part of the school evaluations and the teacher evaluations that are a part of the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Some community stakeholders and educators are fully behind Buffalo Schools Superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash's effort to change struggling sSchools Superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash's effort to change struggling schoolsschools.

This isn't the first time Bloomberg, a very big charter school champion, has been accused of being behind an effort to oust anti-charter senators.

Since the 2001 passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, test - based accountability has been an organizing principle — perhaps the organizing principle — of efforts to improve American schools.

Despite the bleak outlook — at least 5,000 schools are defined as failing under No Child Left Behind — efforts to break the status quo are emerging.

In light of this analysis, the Sutton Trust is calling for a renewed effort to close the attainment gap, recommending that: - Schools implement targeted improvement programmes for those students at particular risk of falling behind, including white working class children.

Together with smaller environmental initiatives at the school, like widespread installation of energy - efficient compact fluorescent «twisty bulbs» and automatic light sensors, the various components of the Bloom effort have begun to save the school thousands of dollars in energy costs while simultaneously helping many of the school's 1,700 students understand the science behind the climate crisis.

This evidence strongly suggests that the return to neighborhood schools was not the underlying cause behind the increase in parent involvement at the time neighborhood elementary schools were re-established; rather, the increased effort of school officials at getting parents involved appear to be the source of the increase, an effort that benefited the schools undergoing busing for integration even more than the resegregated neighborhood schools.

President Bush issued a pointed rebuttal last week to critics of the No Child Left Behind Act, rejecting arguments that the law heaps unrealistic demands on schools and vowing to oppose any efforts to weaken it.

After six years of intense effort, when Bersin proposed under the No Child Left Behind law that charter school organizers be asked to make proposals for some of the worst - performing schools, a school board member called him a «Gauleiter,» which she «(inaccurately) said were «Jews who worked for the Nazis [to shepherd] their own people into the trains» to the concentration camps.»

Schools» successful efforts in prevention and management of overt bullying may result in increases in covert bullying (including cyberbullying), as young people find alternative means to bully, new technologies emerge and where policy development and management strategies lag behind.

Former Secretary of Education Rod Paige praised the efforts and accomplishments of teachers and students at Amistad Academy, a charter school in New Haven, Connecticut, and noted it exemplifies one of the key ideas behind the No Child Left Behind Act: every child can behind the No Child Left Behind Act: every child can Behind Act: every child can learn.

For that to happen, small schools must mature into a stronger movement by formulating serious proposals for assessments and accountability, throwing their vocal political support behind school choice, and insisting on new, innovative efforts to reduce the learning curve for those who wish to start small schools and their overseers.

In 1954, the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education found legally segregated schools to be unconstitutional, but it was not until the legislative and executive branches put the full strength of the federal government behind desegregation efforts, by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that serious progress was made in the South.

On Top of the News Mass. hunting for star teachers 05/10/10 Boston Globe Behind the Headline An Effective Teacher in Every Classroom Summer 2010 Education Next Massachusetts will today announce a new effort to recruit hundreds of successful teachers to work in 35 low - performing schools in Boston and other school districts.

State efforts at carrying out requirements to test English - language learners under the No Child Left Behind Act are receiving increased scrutiny, as hundreds of schools across the country fail to meet goals for adequate yearly progress at least in part because of such students» scores.

«One of the reasons behind the gap between the research and practitioner communities is the impression among teachers and school administrators that investing in social and emotional skills will involve significant additional efforts and resources.

A photo showcase illustrates how the Boston Arts Academy opened its classrooms, performance spaces, and administrative meetings to reveal the collaborative effort behind one school's emerging success.

After the report appeared, stimulating a variety of reform efforts, public evaluations of their local schools climbed steadily to an all - time high of 51 % in 2000, just prior to the national debate over the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which held schools accountable for low performance.

Beyond a sentence reminding the joint session of Congress of the bipartisan effort that produced the «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001, the president's Jan. 28 speech visited the subject just once more to outline a new proposal to train mentors for disadvantaged junior high school students and the children of prisoners.

A story in the March 31, 2004, issue of Education Week about efforts to meet the test - participation mandate in the federal No Child Left Behind Act included an incorrect statistic («Schools Seek Participation on Test Days»).

The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), envisions a powerful role for states in managing the evidence base behind school improvement efforts.

The country was lagging behind its international peers, and a half - century effort to erode racial disparities in school achievement had made little headway.

The for - profit company's effort in the rural South represents Edison's newest interest: helping states deal with the many schools listed as needing improvement under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

In light of widespread efforts to hold schools accountable for student learning, a push highlighted by the passage of No Child Left Behind in 2001, we were interested in seeing how much emphasis programs placed on assessment and accountability within the core curriculum.

A progress report on urban school districts» efforts to execute the mandates of No Child Left Behind

Meanwhile, support for the most far - reaching federal effort to reform public schools — the No Child Left Behind Act — has slipped.

This Hechinger Report series examines a national effort to close the digital divide by connecting all American schools to high - speed Internet, and why so many schools still lag so far behind.

Even with a Democratic president who strongly supports the charter model, and congressional leadership pre-disposed to choice and innovation; even with more money and muscle behind our movement than ever before, efforts to expand innovation and opportunity in states that already allow both, or to seed new schooling innovations to suburban areas have been roundly routed across the country.

In a recent interview in The Seventy Four, former mayoral candidate Shavar Jeffries described how woefully insufficient the communications and engagement effort was behind the Newark school reform effort: «There was absolutely not an infrastructure to communicate to parents... voters [and] the community.»

In 2006, Ed Next published a study by Marcus Winters and Jay Greene, «Getting Ahead by Staying Behind,» that reviewed the efforts of several states and school districts to end social promotion and analyzed the impact of Florida's policy of requiring low - performing students to repeat a grade.

There were plenty of responses to last week's pieces tearing apart Rick Hess» and Michael Petrilli's op - ed accusing fellow school reformers of race - baiting for raising concerns about efforts by congressional Republican powers John Kline and Lamar Alexander to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act's accountability provisions.

Indeed, the reality of the matter is that both of California's teachers» organizations support Gavin Newsom because he has pledged to work with them rather than join the billionaire boys club behind corporate education reform efforts and the unregulated spread of charter schools that will continue to drain funding from other public schools and, if left unchecked, ultimately undermine public education itself.

The MMAC has been the push behind efforts to privatize Milwaukee Public Schools for years.

With a school year's worth of data and improvement efforts behind you, it's time to build on what you've accomplished.

Reviving them will suck political time, effort and energy away from the existing plans to open new academies and drive up standards in parts of the country where schools have been falling behind.

However, because those efforts were unsuccessful, and your legislature is not scheduled to reconvene until January 2015, I can not extend Washington's authority to implement ESEA flexibility, and Washington and its LEAs must resume implementing the requirements of Title I of the ESEA, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), as well as all other ESEA requirements that were waived under ESEA flexibility, for the 2014 — 2015 school year.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said the lawmakers behind it see it as a school improvement effort.

Although her legacy is yet to be fully written and those who will benefit the most from her incredible work may never know her name, as the leading force behind the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding [CCJEF], Dianne has been and will remain the most vital force behind the historic effort to ensure that Connecticut's public schools are adequately and fairly funded and that every Connecticut child is provided with the education, knowledge and skills they need to live more fulfilling lives.

Today, the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, one of the participating groups along with the Keck and Walton Family Foundations, said the guiding force behind the effort was to satisfy parents of children in low - performing schools who desire more and better educational choices.

In our effort to better understand the logic behind these parents» school choices, as well as the impact of these urban demographic changes on public schools, we conducted in - depth interviews with dozens of parents participating in a kindergarten lottery in one of the increasingly white community school districts in New York City.