Sentences with phrase «by schools in»

The report demonstrates how technology can used by schools in their approach to delivering PE lessons and to ensure young people monitor their activity levels and lead healthy lives.

Across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the ICT Mark, administered by Naace, is a good indicator of the maturity achieved by schools in their use of ICT in Leadership and Management, Planning, Learning, Assessment, Professional Development and use of Resources.

Participating students were not generally required to take exams — certainly not state exams — and even if they were, the results were not released by schools in ways that would inform parental choices or lead to administrative actions for chronically low performing schools.

What is striking about the «professional learning cycle», based on Timperley's work and used by some schools in Australia, is that it resonates so much with what we know about feedback loops for dialogue between teachers and children.

The Holiday dates shown are taken from the website for Dumfries Galloway and are used as a guide by schools in the local area.

HEROES is implemented by schools in southern Indiana, northwestern Kentucky and southeastern Illinois, and is sponsored by the Welborn Baptist Foundation.

After review and revision, the final programme will be available in late 1994 for adoption by schools in 1995.

«While the Majority bill protects children, teachers and schools from being penalized for opting out of the tests, it's missing the critical piece that parents should be informed by schools in writing or via email that they have a right to refuse to have their children take these developmentally inappropriate high stakes tests.»

Education Funding Agency (EFA) reports suggest that notice periods were used by schools in Birmingham to put on hastily arranged shows of cultural inclusivity.

No more than half of the fruit provided by schools in juice form.

I think what would be interesting it to not see what the French are paying, but rather see each of these meals and their associated cost structures ($ / entree) if they were served by schools in the US.

and elaborated on in subsequent posts (e.g.,» A Follow - Up to the Infamous «Cheetos - and - Nach0 - Sauce» Photo «-RRB-, the shame of being seen in line for the federally reimbursable meal can prevent economically disadvantaged children from eating lunch, a problem that's exacerbated when when attractive, for - cash - only, snack - bar items are also made available by schools in so - called «a la carte» lines.

Those guidelines were implemented by all schools in the district the following year.

Student athletes must make sure the dual enrollment classes are listed by their schools in their approved course list for the NCAA; every school has a list.

She needed to achieve all «A» grades in the A-levels, a subject - based prerequisite exam required by schools in the United Kingdom.

Chris pointed out that this model should be used by every school in their approach to education.

Indeed, it was the highest rank ever achieved by the school in any of the top five most influential rankings of business schools.

Be very clear that you expect the behavior to end, and that you expect a follow up by the school in several weeks to make sure it hasn't returned.

And in that moment, every word of your «Food in the Classroom» manifesto starting ringing in my head; specifically, the desire (rather, the right) NOT to be undercut by the school in my efforts to feed my child healthy foods.

The term «Gifted» is defined by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as Students, children, or youth who give evidence of high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who need services and activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities.

Started by a school in Washington, D.C., as a homegrown repository for screencast lessons by their best teachers, they got funding to go big, and now teachers across the country can participate.

Thomas Lickona, of the Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs, says that he believes the Brother's Keeper code has effected profound changes in Hyde's peer culture, adding that he was «deeply impressed» by the school in Bath and «even more impressed» by the Washington charter school.

In 2016, the GLC initiated a pilot project to develop practitioner action research to investigate problems of practice identified by each school in their strategic planning documents.

Not exact matches

The South Koreans, in turn, are rattled by President Trump's wild swings from school - yard taunting to bromantic fawning over Kim, and so are pursuing rapprochement on their own.

-- Jeremy Keeshin, cofounder and CEO of CodeHS, an online platform to teach computer science in high schools and middle schools used by hundreds of thousands of students

Lazaridis may have been applying the lessons of a book called The Innovator's Dilemma, published in 1997 by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen.

Students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. have organized gun protests and been joined by millions of Americans that have railed against gun violence, assault rifles, and the NRA.

According to a new Washington Post - Schar School poll, 50 % of likely voters support Jones and 47 % support Moore in their race to fill a Senate seat most recently vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

** LONDON - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney will speak at the launch of the EconoME programme, a set of resources produced by the central bank for teaching basic economics and personal finance in schools - 1400 GMT.

Though Microsoft board member Hastings has ties to the Seattle area, he stumbled upon DreamBox while visiting a school in San Jose, Calif., that happened to be using the software and was «wowed by how kids were engaged because it has some entertainment built into it,» he told the Seattle Times.

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

The most dangerous supplements are the ones that claim to increase performance in three broad categories, S. Bryn Austin said at an event organized by the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

Commentary by George A. Lopez, the Hesburgh Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs.

Schools desperate to prove the practical applications of their degrees are funnelling unpaid labourers to employers: the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Vancouver was justifiably ridiculed when it advertised for four unpaid busboy «internships,» but the jobs were defended by Vancouver Community College, who said «even dishwashing» is an education.

Launched by Hossain, a Harvard Business School - trained banker - turned - entrepreneur, in June 2011, the comapny is based in Washington, D.C. Catch them at the SXSW Accelerator demo on March 11 at 5 p.m.

Thank God I'm just a grandparent these days, without school - aged kids who are trapped in an increasingly bizarre and irrational world run by adults - mostly parents and otherwise unemployable administrators — where the rules, the procedures and the approved behaviors vary daily and the changes come so rapidly and abruptly that the characters in Alice in Wonderland would be totally jealous.

The increase from a decade ago was led by debtors whose highest education was high school, suggesting they could struggle to find decent jobs in a weaker economy.

But the school Wednesday got a hint of validation to the tune of $ 5.5 million in investment in a round led by Cambridge - based venture - capital firm Charles River Ventures and New York City - based Matrix Partners.

A self - described «band nerd» in high school, Rempel has honed her outspoken style by working in places where she was encouraged to challenge the status quo.

The study, headed by Professor Edward Guinan of the school's astronomy and astrophysics department, initially looked at which crops would thrive in soil that is similar to that found on Mars (based on readings taken by the Phoenix Mars lander and samples recreated on earth).

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

And a February survey by Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business and Management found that 39 percent of small business owners who applied for bank loans in the previous three months were successful, up from 34 percent in a survey taken in October and November.

And according to a 2012 survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council, the organization that administers the GMAT admission test for graduate business and management programs, 64 % of business school deans felt MBA programs would specialize further in the next five years.

Started in 2005 as a school project by University of Waterloo engineering students, Miovision's main product is Scout, a camera system that counts cars at intersections.

Presumably, these robots must be built in a way that they can withstand having cans of tomato soup thrown at them by high schoolers.

Monitoring how walloped employees are feeling by weather or cyclical events is one of the functions of measuring workplace mood so closely: by taking the pulse of a workplace and offering feedback, employers can develop happiness - boosting policies and practices (flexible hours in September, for instance, could help parents deal with the start of the school year).

By the time early - riser Sheryl Sandberg gets to the office at 7 a.m., she's already fitted in an hour of responding to emails, a morning workout at her home gym and dropping her two kids off at school.

This movement was led by the Chicago school of economics, the free market ideology developed at the University of Chicago in the mid-20th century.

In 2008, he quietly began laying the groundwork for Apple University by hiring Joel Podolny, the dean of Yale's school of management.

Among spreading other conspiracy theories, Jones has said tragedies like the mass shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., and Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colo., both in 2012, were hoaxes, propagated by opponents of the Second Amendment.