Sentences with phrase «by tens of thousands of teachers»

Members of our team have presented our work in a variety of settings, to a wide range of audiences, from the Vatican and the White House to small school - based learning communities and developed educational resources used by tens of thousands of teachers and millions of students around the world.

Not exact matches

Unlike the tens of thousands of teachers and students from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama displaced by Hurricane Katrina, he figures he'll resume teaching his own students at Harry M. Hurst Middle School in Destrehan, Louisiana, within a month.

Each year, tens of thousands of math teachers try to get kids to understand the notion that division by zero does not exist.

During the Vergara trial, attempting to do away with teacher due process rights, sworn testimony (during discovery) was given that, as stated above, thinking administrators were able to successfully ease teachers out of the profession, careful scrutiny of beginning teachers by competent administrators prevented districts from hiring teachers who did not fit the district, and the average time to dismiss a teacher via the legal process was months and tens of thousands of dollars.

A small district may still need the same number of teachers and facilities, even though its state aid falls by tens of thousands of dollars, based on lower enrollment spread across several grades.

The program is used by tens of thousands of schools, teachers, parents, and homeschoolers.

Much of this can be explained by the fact that NEA and the American Federation of Teachers have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the NAACP over the past ten years.

We are here to say it is not acceptable for the wealthiest country in the world to be cutting millions of dollars from schools serving our neediest students; to be cutting teachers by the tens of thousands, to be eliminating art, music, PE, counselors, nurses, librarians, and libraries (where they weren't already gone, as in California); to be increasing class sizes to 40 or 50 in Los Angeles and Detroit.

Our program is proven effective and used by tens of thousands of parents and teachers globally.

These members of the Teachers Federation of Puerto Rico were joined by students and community members, as a sea of tens of thousands of people wearing red...

So as a result of the policies being pushed by Commissioner Stefan Pryor, Connecticut teachers and students spent thousands of hours during the past school year prepping and taking the Connecticut Mastery Test and state and local taxpayers spent tens of millions of dollars paying for the Connecticut Mastery Test but the man in charge of the entire testing scheme now says that «some of the more pronounced decreases in lower grades may be due to the shift to the Common Core curriculum... [and]... Students using the new curriculum haven't covered some of the areas in the test.»

In New York States, entire school districts are refusing to even offer the test, a number of courageous teachers in various states are actually refusing to give the unfair and inappropriate Common Core Tests and tens of thousands of parents are stepping up to protect their children by opting them out of the tests.

Although tens of thousands of students participated in last year's Common Core SBAC «Test of the Test,» Governor Malloy's administration has refused to release the test results fearing, no doubt, that by informing parents, teachers, elected officials and the public of the results of the unfair Common Core SBAC test, opposition to these inappropriate standardized tests will grow exponentially.

When China's Sichuan province was rocked by a severe earthquake, tens of thousands of students (and their teachers) died in collapsed schools.