Sentences with phrase «challenges of the next school year»

Mulgrew predicted that the new special education reform, set to be rolled out in all schools in September, will be one of the greatest challenges of the next school year.

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The tween years offer up a number of challenges, including puberty, middle school, and the possibility that at some point in the next few years your child may encounter bullying.

He said Tower Hamlets was one of the worst areas for child poverty and the school, opening next year, aimed to tackle «social disadvantage and challenge the status quo».

Over the next two years, the initiative will host a series of conferences at the Ed School, and work closely in the field with mayors and other city officials in six cities to create individual plans to tackle a specific childhood challenge.

O'Brien's goal is that his current projects, The Propeller Car Challenge and Making History, will make it into the hands and minds of every U.S middle school student and their teachers within the next two years.

It advised the government to draw up a clear plan for teacher supply covering the next three years, detailing how targets will be met and based on better data; to set out how it will talk to school leaders about the recruitment challenges they face; to report back on the extent of teachers taking lessons in which they are not qualified; and to ensure there is clearer information on where applicants may train to become a teacher and how much it costs.

Even before new cuts bite, a recent survey showed that over 50 per cent of school leaders expect budget pressures and lack of funding to be their biggest challenge in the next academic year.

As the end of another year approaches, you may be wondering what changes and challenges you are likely to face in the next school year.

More than 2,000 new schools must be built within the next four years to accommodate the rising number of pupils in England, according to Scape Group's «School Places Challenge» report.

For the next 25 years, Dockterman tested and created dozens of educational programs, among them the award - winning Science Court, an animated television show that aired on ABC Kids that taught the fundamental concepts of elementary and middle school science; the Great Ocean Rescue, a computer application where students face four challenging rescue missions that take them deep into the world's oceans; and Decisions, Decisions, a game that teaches students the complexities of topics like immigration, the constitution, environment, or building a nation through role - playing and informed discussion.

John H. Jackson, the head of the Cambridge, Mass. - based foundation, said last month that the organization was issuing a challenge to school districts to promote a 50 percent increase in the graduation rate of black males in the next five years.

As CEL embarks on its next ten years, we are mindful that the persistent achievement gap in the midst of severe school district budget reductions poses enormous challenges for educators.

«We have used high stakes accountability to its limits; the challenges of the next five years all concern investment in capacity — school places, great teachers and great leaders.

«Using one grade to measure a school's progress is limiting, and we wanted it to better reflect student growth from one year to the next and the challenges of poverty.»

These standards should be revised and made even more rigorous over the next 3 - 5 years, not abandoned and replaced with an entirely new set of standards or North Carolina's schools, teachers, and students will face further uncertainty, expense, and implementation challenges.

He said Tower Hamlets was one of the worst areas for child poverty and the school, opening next year, aimed to tackle «social disadvantage and challenge the status quo».

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«We know that our schools already face enormous day - to - day challenges - but we also need to understand what issues they face as we move to online testing over the next few years,» State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson said in a statement.

More than 90 percent of schools report that they need to make significant technological upgrades in the next three years; only 10 percent of schools do not expect to face any challenges at all (Figure 1).4 Statewide, 27 percent of schools cited a high - density wireless network — which can connect a large concentration of students and classrooms wirelessly — as the most challenging upgrade.

Over the next two years, we'll look across a diverse range of schools» PL strategies to learn how early implementation is going in classrooms and to identify the opportunities and challenges — both policy and practice — to expanding these isolated models.

We are pleased to share our fully completed Pathways To Excellence II Official Report, which uses seven domains to examine the opportunities and challenges the Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of New York will encounter in the next three years.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan challenged each of the city's universities Thursday to run a Chicago public school, following a passionate defense of the new Renaissance 2010 plan to create 100 new schools in the next sixSchools CEO Arne Duncan challenged each of the city's universities Thursday to run a Chicago public school, following a passionate defense of the new Renaissance 2010 plan to create 100 new schools in the next sixschools in the next six years.

«With 16,000 primary schools needing to become academies in the next five years, the scale of the challenge will be immense.

«The challenge is how someone who has graduated from law school can learn the skills that will help them remain competitive for the next 30 - 40 years of their career,» Teninbaum said.