Sentences with phrase «changes at certain schools»

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Creative writing in schools gets very mixed treatment: while it is privileged at key stage 2 and, to a certain extent, at key stage 3, it usually receives less attention at key stage 4 and almost none at key stage 5 (though there are signs of change here with a renewed emphasis on recreative writing as an A Level coursework option).

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

Looking back at 2013, while the food movement made progress in certain areas (such as school food and GMO labeling), when it comes to exploitative food marketing to children meaningful change remains elusive.

I grew up in England; I went to school as a young boy in England and I grew up at a time in England when homosexuality was banned there, it was illegal and I lived in the period when British politicians thought it was anathema to think about changing the law and suddenly the activities of individuals, of groups, a certain awareness, a certain development grew and grew and grew stronger and it forced a change in law.

To determine whether an increase in certain barriers to successful cessation and sustained abstinence may be contributing to this slowed decline, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed changes in the prevalence of depression among current, former and never smokers in the U.S..

District leaders developed a set of indicators to track demographic changes and performance, and they used these indicators to designate certain schools as at - risk of declining performance, thus qualifying for additional district support (e.g., staffing, program, funding).

Some tangible changes will include the breakdown of Barringer High School into three separate schools and an almost certain turnover of staff and leadership at West Side High School, which will become the newest «renewal school» in the disSchool into three separate schools and an almost certain turnover of staff and leadership at West Side High School, which will become the newest «renewal school» in the disSchool, which will become the newest «renewal school» in the disschool» in the district.

Under the parent trigger law, which was passed in 2010, parents at a chronically underperforming school that meets certain criteria can call for reform if a majority of them sign a petition requesting a specific change.

In Part Two, our investigation of leadership and student achievement examines in further detail certain characteristics of school districts (some previously identified — see Section 2.3; others introduced here) as they shape the role districts play in initiatives aimed at change.

At the most extreme end of the spectrum, an entire school may be built with a certain theme in mind, and that theme may then be changed, requiring much of the building to be repurposed.

If a new school funding plan proposes to reduce appropriations to certain districts, districts at threat of losing funding will vigorously oppose the changes.

These are foreseeable expenses that occur at certain times of the year: Christmas gifts, back - to - school clothing, family vacations, oil changes on the car.