Sentences with phrase «by changes to school»

Family members and anyone affected by changes to school schedules may not understand why the changes are necessary.

Challenges of these kinds will not be addressed by changes to the school curriculum alone.

Ofqual's report said: «The decrease in early entry across all subjects, excluding English literature, is possibly explained by the change to school performance measures announced by the Department for Education in September 2013, when the secretary of state announced that only a student's first result in a subject would count towards performance tables.»

Not exact matches

One example: Old - school fluorescent lighting could be replaced by LED lights that can easily change color throughout the day to reflect subtle changes in the sky outside, like those lights on many airliners now that simulate dawn, midday, and dusk for long - distance travelers.

The review and the changes that will result from it comes on top of a decision to build a new $ 200 million modern home for the business school on the waterfront of Lake Michigan, a reorganization of the school's top leadership, and the creation and launch of Kellogg's new branding campaign — all initiatives driven by Blount since her arrival some 18 months ago.

The school, which was founded in 1919 and started offering an MBA in 1954, took Goizueta's name in 1994, and his business philosophy is now a central part of the school's mission: to develop professionals who will add value to their companies by changing the way business is done.

Digital Playbook for Entrepreneurs: Creating a Tech Startup USC Marshall School of Business professor Dr. Anthony Borquez will be joined by a special guest lecturer to discuss how technology is changing the world we live in and how entrepreneurs need to adapt to remain successful in an ever changing environment

Disclaimer: School attendance zone boundaries are supplied by Pitney Bowes and are subject to change.

He responded by asking if it would also make sense to change the names of your children if they got bad grades in school.

If location within a particular school district is going to be advertised to attract buyers or justify the asking price, the seller should investigate the boundaries and the likelihood of change by contacting the school district directly.

After finding a suitable dataset (High School graduation rates), I wanted to understand how attainment changes not just by ethnicity but also across the country.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program changed the lives of young people who came to the United States illegally as children in incredible ways — boosting high school graduation rates and college enrollment, while slashing teen births by a staggering 45 percent.

At the event, which was hosted by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law in New Haven, Powell highlighted three specific areas where blockchain technology is affecting change in regard to the Federal Reserve's «broad public policy objectives»: the creation of real - time payment systems, use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement services, and the issuance of digital currencies by central banks.

The four schools of law have clear rulings that on no account should an individual or group of Muslims attempt to change the government of an Islamic state through the use of arms and violence, because to allow such a possibility invites civil strife, private wars, and the abuse of Islam by factions who use theology to justify their self - interested rebellions and usurpations.

I began to look beyond the cursing, and hear the substance of their hearts: an ego hurt by a son failing in elementary school, finances were so low they felt threatened of losing their car, anger that they hoped to change the world but only worked in a taxi, and so forth.

Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.

Since no one has yet to SEE an atom, the idea of the structure of the atom can only be inferred by experimental evidence — yet I see no Republican trying to stop teaching the structure of the atom in school — oh that's right, its because major corporations and industries rely on this science (pharm, weapons manufacturers etc etc) whereas the theory of evolution is merely think piece of scientists on how life on Earth changes over time.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee — I read this in high school and it changed my life.

At bottom, changes in a school's concrete identity come by decisions it makes, deliberately or inadvertently, about three factors we noted in chapter 2 that distinguish schools from one another: Whether to construe what the Christian thing is all about in some one way, and if so, how; what sort of community a theological school ought to be; how best to go about understanding God.

That is, by deciding to embrace several different answers to these three questions a theological school changes some of the major contingencies shaping the content of its course of study.

Perhaps the most striking change documented by the survey is the path by which most students now make their way to theological school.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

In the misguided notion that «important gains can be made in insight or depth» by rearranging the curriculum, a school might change to a curriculum which is all one stage.

But according to the «Violence Profile» conducted annually by George Gerbner of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communication, the level of violence in television showed no significant change throughout the 1970s.

«Unfortunately it's a social reality, and the only way we're going to stop this is by the government changing the rules and the admission criteria, where schools have to serve the local population.

Most congregations are affected by the changing family, membership loss, shrinking Sunday Schools, failure to retain youth, and a growing number of older members.

Because of that week, not only was my own life changed profoundly through friendships and awakenings, but I'm proud to say that we — and I mean all of us because you have all walked this road with our family — we have partnered with incredible leaders to build a school for kids in earthquake ground zero Port - au - Prince (staffed and run by Haitians), supported a home - based village for trafficked children near the border, built a preschool for early support for these children, supported schooling and food programs in neglected villages decimated by the cholera outbreak, supported pregnant and nursing women with a fantastic maternity centre, and so much more.

When she began to change, first by learning, to drive, then by making new friends; developing interests of her own, and going back to school and to work, Steve was angry.

And since changes in church school enrollment usually precede changes in church membership by three to five years, these churches face severe attrition in both the quantity and the quality of their constituency in the years ahead, if present trends continue.

I read this article by charisma magazine which i thought was well written which is pro Women preaching http://www.charismamag.com/blogs/fire-in-my-bones/16851-why-i-defend-women-preachers This debate is an on going one John Piper who i respect as a bible preacher believes that scripture is clear women shouldnt have authority over men or teach in the church some go as far as saying women shouldnt preach in sunday school if the classes are mixed.Personally i think times are changing and i say that because i have a women manager she has authority over me and other men so if we follow the biblical example i shouldnt allow myself to be in that situation which is just crazy thinking.

His data show that this decline was due not to changes made by Vatican II but to the fact that these changes did not go far enough, especially in the area of sexual ethics (Catholic Schools in a Declining Church [Sheed & Ward, 1976], pp. 110 ff.)

Furthermore, there was no school of thought in China that would have presented a substantialist alternative to the view of being as change; the closest candidate would be the common - sense view of things attacked by the Buddhists as illusion, and even here it was the Indian, not Chinese, sources of Buddhism that became most exercised about criticizing the theory of permanent substances.

The picture of good teaching developed here to counter the fragmentation of theological schooling also tends to counter the previous two studies» tendency to change the «Berlin» model of theological schooling by adopting a functionalist picture of «professional» schooling and an individualistic picture of the teaching proper to Wissenchaft.

In general, this school can be characterized by its acceptance of a logic of science; that is, its members maintain that there is a logic with respect to such scientific activities as the testing of theories, theoretical explanation, and conceptual change.

The «functions» for which theological schools are to prepare future clergy are determined by the expectations of the membership of «mainline» white Protestant churches, and in general that membership expects ministerial leadership to be «successful» and «efficient» (Brown, 55) in helping them to preserve their social status and cultural roles in a nation that is entering a future marked by unprecedented urbanization, technological change, and massive social planning (Kelly, 230 - 31).

Such is the first, superficial impression: our schools, like our churches and our ministers, have no clear conception of what they are doing but are carrying on traditional actions, making separate responses to various pressures exerted by churches and society, contriving uneasy compromises among many values, engaging in little quarrels symptomatic of undefined issues, trying to improve their work by adjusting minor parts of the academic machine or by changing the specifications of the raw material to be treated.

This initiative within schools is part of a wider global movement encouraging people to help slow climate change by reducing their meat consumption.

Last year, a report by the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University, led by Professor Marco Springmann, said a tax on animal products could have a «substantial» effect in terms of mitigating their contributions to climate change.

Other CIA initiatives have further enhanced the college's position of leadership on these vital issues, including Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives ®, a continuing medical education (CME) conference co-presented by the CIA and the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health; and Menus of Change ®, a ground - breaking leadership initiative launched in 2012 by the CIA in collaboration with select partners who are working to create a long - term, practical vision for the integration of optimal nutrition and public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and beyond.

Ribal et al. (2015) describe an optimization model (goal programming), which was used to design meals for school canteens by taking into account nutritional, climate change, and economic aspects.

I think with the PA budget situation as it is, the University would shoot themselves in the foot if they rebranded the whole school and added those costs just to appease an admittedly hardcore but ultimately small football team fanbase who are THRILLED by merely changing some stickers on a helmet.

I just can't believe that we have become a joke we always start the season well then have a bumpy December and by the time Feb comes our form has taken a dip and we get kicked out of all competitions except for that valuable top 4 that the board loves so much... ultimately if Arsenal want to compete again we need changes from the bottom up... Kroenke and his board need to go cause clearly for them profits matter more than trophies... Wenger needs to go for his lack of tactical naus guy has been using the same fornation since I was in high school and I'm doing my honours in accounting now... our medical team must all go our players always get injured and they never come back in time (take a look at Santi) players like Coquelin Theo Mesut Gabriel Gibbs Giroud just to name a few need to go they're just not good enough seriously these players lack fight tactical Discipline and tactical awareness... at the end of the day change needs to happen things can't keep going like this for us....

Thinking back to when I was in high school and college, during the height of «correcting speech for politics» — hard to believe is was So Long Ago tm — the effort to change how we used language was meant to indirectly change how we viewed others by enforcing a new lexicon.

We really believe in the long run we are going to change these sports by making it accessible to more programs from high school and below.

A self - deprecating NCAA is a welcome switch from the previously smug organization that has only been moved to meaningful action in the recent past by federal court decisions (the ban on cost - of - attendance stipends became illegal once the NCAA got whipped in O'Bannon vs. NCAA) and terrible PR (Connecticut guard Shabazz Napier made the schools look silly with their food rules by speaking out during a tournament that makes $ 770 million a year for the NCAA in television revenue, hence the unlimited meals rule change).

Fisher was set to sign with Michigan out of high school but changed his mind and chose Oregon after Rich Rodriguez was replaced by Brady Hoke as coach after the 2010 season.

While I am not prone to writing in the somewhat snarky and definitly sarcastic tone Wise employed in his Tuesday column, and although he seemed to mostly align himself with the group at Aspen - led by Dr. Bob Cantu - that views football as too dangerous to be played before the age of 14 (a position with which I respectfully disagree), I did find myself agreeing with what seemed to be his main point: that whatever measures are instituted to protect player safety will get us nowhere if the culture on NFL fields (and by extension, the high school, middle school, and youth gridiron) doesn't change.

It's that teachers have a critical and potentially transformative opportunity, when dealing with students who perceive school as a threatening place, to disarm those threats by changing the way they communicate.

This past weekend, the MInnesota State High School League took an unprecedented step of changing the rules mid-season, by stiffening the penalties on three of the most violent and dangerous infractions in hockey: checking from behind, boarding and contact to the head will now result in an automatic five - minute «major» against the offending player resulting in ejection and forcing his team to play short - handed for five minutes, regardless of how many times it is scored upon during the ensuing power play.

September 14: Take in a screening of Beyond Measure: Schools at the Heart of Change, a new film by the makers of Race to Nowhere (Natick)