Sentences with phrase «changing at this alternative school»

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That changed Friday when it drew a line in the sand, providing its alternative vision for protecting American children through armed security personnel at all schools.

So is the food program that drastically changed the behavior of delinquent teens at an alternative high school in Wisconsin.

10 - 11 — Special education: Forum on Alternative Schooling: Changing Perspectives and Emerging Best Practices for Children and Adolescents with Challenging Behaviors, sponsored by the Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders, for K - 12 educators and administrators, at the Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel in Norfolk, Va..

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

In a sign of the changing school choice landscape, 26 percent of adults living with school - age children have educated at least one of their children in an alternative setting that was not a traditional public school.

He said some year 11 pupils were moved to alternative provision following a «traumatic period» and that the change was aimed at stabilising the school and meeting the needs of all pupils.

By placing our schools» achievements at the forefront of conversations about alternative education, we hope to foster large - scale change in the ways leaders and teachers design, manage, and evaluate alternative schools.

Arvizu serves on a number of Boards, Panels and Advisory Committees including the American Council on Renewable Energy Advisory Board; the Energy Research, Development, and Deployment Policy Project Advisory Committee at the Harvard Kennedy School; the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Alternative Energies; the Singapore Clean Energy International Advisory Panel; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III; the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award Corporation; and the Colorado Renewable Energy Authority Board of Directors.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.