Sentences with phrase «between school breaks»

I try to get as much as I can done between school breaks.

Scientists studying the 2009 A / H1N1 influenza pandemic have found that the inconsistent regional timing of pandemic waves in Mexico was the result of interactions between school breaks and regional variations in humidity.

Not exact matches

The consequent break between past and present realities provides a significant opportunity to change the way in which the Sunday school is viewed.

Before school, at lunch time, or at the breaks in between, a banana provides a nutritious satisfying snack.

I know, crazy talk, but for those of you who have school aged children, don't you feel that the window of time between Spring Break and Summer Break literally whizzes by every year?

Between travel, school break, and then some more travel, it feels like a million years since I last posted a Hey Internet, Keep Being Awesome.

Between school and homework, sometimes kids» brains just need a break!

Universal school breakfast breaks down that barrier between students and their morning meal, allowing students the opportunity to fuel their brains and bodies so they are ready to learn.

Vandals broke five exterior lights at Marquardt Middle School, 1912 Glen Ellyn Road, between Friday and Monday, police said.

Poughkeepsie High School went into a lockdown earlier this week after a fight first broke out among students and later between parents, according to city police Sgt. George Camacho.

Education Secretary Michael Gove has outlined his aim to break down the «Berlin Wall» between state and private schools.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

The state's Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) has decided to grant the UFT's request for the appointment of a mediator to help break the impasse between the union and the Department of Education over teacher evaluations in 33 schools.

But mounting evidence threatens to overshadow that legacy, evidence of problems that were deeper and more troubling than Harvard has admitted, with broken lines of communication between the remote center and the leading medical school that owns and operates it.

You went straight from undergrad to med school with only about a three month break in between.

Was there a break in between or did you go straight into school at FIT?

Confronted abruptly by people around her in a school library, whose faces have been oddly twisted, she blurts out a «truth» that instantly breaks up the relationship between Markie and Lucas.

The barriers between parents and schools breaking down.

The 93 staff members of the sole high school in Central Falls, R.I., the state's poorest school district, were told they would be dismissed, using federal regulations as a justification, after negotiations between the district superintendent and the teachers» union broke down over...

As a prolific writer and renowned public intellectual, he frequently explored trends in American race relations and family life, hailing, for instance, the controversial report, «Equality of Educational Opportunity» (1966), by his friend James Coleman, which stressed the relationship between broken families and poor student performance in the public schools.

Principal Tim Messick of the Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina, is always disappointed «when the partnership between parents and teacher becomes broken and I can't get it back to the place I'd like.

And break down the barriers between inside of school and outside of school — have kids work on projects that are meaningful to their communities and bring people from the communities into the schools to support the teachers.

Breaking the ironclad link between residence and school attended will, proponents argue, force schools to compete for students and resources in ways that increase the quality of education provided.

It may be coincidence, but in the midst of this very public debacle, several national AFT leaders were quietly involved with the negotiations between Baltimore City Schools and the local union which resulted in the just announced path - breaking new pay - for - performance contract that will replace the so - called «steps» and «lanes» of the traditional teacher contract.

Craig Haas, Special Ed and Student Services Coordinator at Edwards Middle School, shares how his team uses expanded learning time to provide relevant academic support to each individual student while breaking down stigmas between children of different abilities.

In Mr. Behr's view, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold those vouchers breaks down the wall between church and state, weakening the opportunity for religious people and schools to stay independent and be a conscience for society.

Community walks are one of my favorite ways to break down barriers between schools and families.

According to the «Breaking the Link Between School Exclusion and Social Exclusion» report, excluded children are seven times more likely to have a special educational need and 10 times more likely to suffer recognised mental health problems.

Around 63 million adolescents between the ages of 12 and 15 years are denied their right to an education, according to a new joint report from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and UNICEF, Fixing the Broken Promise of Education for All: Findings from the Global Initiative on Out - of - School Children, released today during the Education World Forum.

Negotiations between the district's school board and the East St. Louis Federation of Teachers broke down last month after union leaders rejected a contract offer that did not include...

The hands on, working alongside approach to gardening can be used to break down barriers and build relationships across the school, both between children and with adults.

A fortuitous meeting between a California Congressman and the chairman of Apple Computer has resulted in a bill that could, if enacted, provide school districts with millions of dollars» worth of free computer hardware and other technical equipment, while also giving the manufacturers of the equipment a substantial tax break.

That fall, McCarver Elementary in Tacoma, Washington, hung out its shingle inviting students from anywhere in the city to enroll, breaking the link between school assignments and residential location and becoming the nation's first «magnet» school.

The issue features a debate between Spellings and Josh Starr, superintendent of schools in Montgomery County, Md., over whether states should take a three - year break from accountability testing.

School choice policies aim to break the link between where children live and where they go to sSchool choice policies aim to break the link between where children live and where they go to schoolschool.

A final thought: While these tips are framed around the Common Core, they are also simply best practices and ways to break down the silos that often exist between school counselors and other educators that best support student learning.

They find that not only do greater accountability, autonomy, and choice (in various configurations) in a country's school system boost student achievement, they also boost noncognitive skills and increase equity (breaking the link between student achievement and socioeconomic status).

Researchers Dr Laura Kate Hamilton and Professor Wendy Wills, from the Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care at the University of Hertfordshire, studied what 535 young people aged between 13 - 15 years, living in Scotland and studying at seven different schools, ate and drank during the school lunch break.

Sarah Pearson, interim director of New Schools Network, said: «Free schools are already doing great work in their communities to break down barriers between children of different classes, ethnicities, and cuSchools Network, said: «Free schools are already doing great work in their communities to break down barriers between children of different classes, ethnicities, and cuschools are already doing great work in their communities to break down barriers between children of different classes, ethnicities, and cultures.

The State of the Nation report advises that, despite a «welcome focus on improving attainment in schools», the link between social demography and educational destiny has «not been broken».

As in many Montessori schools, the space is broken into child - sized nooks, the walls alternate between calm, neutral colors, and all of the furniture is made from blond wood.

Right now the lineup is Michel Houellebecq, The Map and the Territory, in translation (please don't tell my high school French teacher); Christopher Grey, Decoding Organization (an analysis of Bletchley Park, where the British broke the WWII German codes); and Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies (historical fiction, so it fits neatly in between).

Considerable research shows that the primary reason the achievement gap between poor children and their more affluent peers widens over the course of their school careers is the long break in learning over the summer.

Moreover, universality would break the link between where children live and what school they attend, creating competition among all schools to catalyze improvements for all children.

«Free schools are already doing great work in their communities to break down barriers between children of different classes, ethnicities, and cultures.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has written passionately about the need to break the ironclad link between educational opportunity and zip code and advocated a voucher system that would allow open access to all public schools in a region, hemmed and hawed for weeks before issuing a statement against the ballot question.

Many schools in Finland offer regular 15 - 30 minute breaks between periods.

Eight proposals envisioned using the community as a classroom to break down barriers between school and society, an idea championed by John Dewey, the great patriarch of progressive education.

Do Choice Schools Break the Link Between Public Schools and Property Values?

Sarah Pearson, NSN interim director, said: «Free schools are already doing great work in their communities to break down barriers between children of different classes, ethnicities, and cultures.