Sentences with phrase «choice schools and student»

In summary, looking at the simple relationship between choice schools and student achievement, I found a positive effect of choice schools, consistent with popular claims made in the headlines.

Second, beyond selection bias, we don't know if there are other factors that affect achievement that we are not accounting for that are systematically different between students in choice schools and students in traditional public schools.

Has the study sufficiently accounted for the unobservable differences between students in choice schools and students in traditional public school?

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With a clear four - step methodology to help readers move from idea to action, templates for readers to map out their problems and the opposing ideas for solving them, and with practical and memorable stories, from music mogul Jay - Z, to the founder of Vanguard Group, Creating Great Choices was written with MBA students, business managers, non-profit and government agency leaders, teachers, and even elementary school students in mind.

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She contends that educational choice will create a «two - tiered system in urban districts, with charter schools for motivated students and public schools for those left behind.»

Students are evidently well aware of this reality, since most students apply to only one school, and 90 percent say the school they are attending was their firstStudents are evidently well aware of this reality, since most students apply to only one school, and 90 percent say the school they are attending was their firststudents apply to only one school, and 90 percent say the school they are attending was their first choice.

By sharp contrast, almost all law students (85 percent) make multiple applications; only 46 percent are attending their first - choice school; and 87 percent of those not attending first - choice schools say those schools did not accept them.

While pledging allegiance to the flag (with a more subdued physical salute) continues to this day to be routine in America's public schools, for the seventy years since Barnette it has been unlawful to compel any student to participate, and no student who elects not to participate is obliged to give any reason for that choice.

I have also remembered former students at Judson College, Alfred University, the University of Georgia, Wesleyan University in Middletown (in a gratifying interim), the hundreds of men in Yale College who elected Religion 21 a in the decade of the fifties and the more than a thousand men and women at Yale Divinity School who have had no choice.

Every year at Liberty University at least some students, as do students at commencement ceremonies everywhere, express disagreement with the school's choice of speaker, but never has their discontentment been so amplified by both national media coverage and the power of social networking.

Even as the availability and popularity of charter schools, vouchers, and homeschooling increases, there are enormous pockets of students who, for a variety of reasons, have only one choice for schooling.

The college will deny health care to students and faculty because these people will have a choice whether to use elements of the policy that the school does not like..

The organisation has also been working with several school cafeterias to introduce Meatless Mondays, helping out with menu ideas, awareness raising and encouraging students to alter their food choices.

Ultimately, children and young people will go on to make their own decisions about what they eat, but as long as schools offer students the opportunity to think, discuss and debate the issues as well as to cook and eat good vegetarian food, a weekly meat free day provides them with the knowledge and experience with which to make informed, responsible and compassionate choices.

I often hear that schools can't implement salad bars because it takes too long for the students to make their choices and that it «holds - up» the line.

Laredo students value the «food court» style cafeteria setup and were excited to be provided with even more choices to create healthier school meals.

Implementing salad bars in schools gives students choice; allowing them to taste new flavors, expand their pallets, and begin to enjoy healthy food.

Student athletes are being recruited at younger ages and committing to schools of their choice earlier than ever before.

Like many high school teachers, she felt mystified by the behavior and choices that some of her students made.

We thought hearing from high school counselor and CS board member Lisa Spengler on how she helps her students choose a high school would help provide some perspective on an alternative way to think about high school choice.

We don't do a la carte lunch because that just stigmatizes the poorer students who can't afford the a la carte selections; instead we offer many choices to our middle and high school kids, all full meals and all available to anyone.

In the Youth Indicators, 2005 report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), we can see that athletic teams is the favored school - related extracurricular activity for boys in 1990 and 2001 at 43.2 % and 45.3 % respectively, out of a choice of music / performing arts, athletic teams, academic clubs, student council / government, and other school clubs / activities.

Additional content requirements: KRS 160.345 (2005) requires the school council of a school containing grades K - 5, or any combination thereof, to develop a wellness policy that must include moderate to vigorous physical activity each day and encourages healthy choices among students.

For this school year, in a bid to boost participation in its lunch program from its paying students, the district will now offer them the choice of two entrees and a self - serve salad bar available on Tuesdays and Thursdays for students in grades three to five.

We used to have 4 half hour lunch periods per day to accomodate 1400 - 1500 students at our school, we then went to 1 «end of the day» lunch period of 20 minutes, and vending machines all over the school — the students could either eat lunch or go home — their choice.

Schools will NEVER increase participation significantly among paid students so long as the regulations are so cumbersome and choice is dramatically limited by complexity.

«National School Lunch Week helps us educate parents and students about all the benefits of our lunch program, and the appealing choices we offer.»

Notably, cafeterias in the participating elementary schools provided beverage choices of bottle water, milk, and juice to students.

For example, our high school menu has 10 - 12 entree choices a day, 2 hot vegetable choices + fresh veggie salad bar, and 6 - 8 fruit choices EACH DAY — high school students respond to feeling empowered and trusted to make choices.

The truck visits area schools and also gathers feedback from students on iPads about the new potential menu choices — Do they love it, can it be improved, should it be added to the regular cafeteria menu?

In the past the middle and high school students have had the choice of the main lunch or the salad bar.

We recently sat down with Kern Halls, Area Manager of Orange County Public School Food & Nutrition Services, to discuss ways the OCPS district has engaged students in their food choices through creative initiatives like My Food Face — a sort of «internal Facebook» for students and their families — and the use of a food truck for school events and field School Food & Nutrition Services, to discuss ways the OCPS district has engaged students in their food choices through creative initiatives like My Food Face — a sort of «internal Facebook» for students and their families — and the use of a food truck for school events and field school events and field trips.

In an e-mail, Esaian stated: «We are committed to providing healthy choices for our schools, but we also have to balance our nutritional choices with the demands of parents and students; there are also economic and budgetary realities that we must consider.»

Naturally, Fuel Up to Play 60 tapped school nutrition professionals — like you — to help engage and empower students to take charge of their health through better food choices and increased activity.

Perhaps, the school highlighted here should have taken steps to educate parents and students what are healthy food choices rather than banning the choice altogether.

if school administrators weren't too busy to plan and would approve parent volunteer lunch monitors then parents could fill some of the lunch room void by left by over-extended cafeteria staff and teachers, explaining to kids what lunch options were and encouraging the healthier choices as well as providing more prompts in the cafeteria as students have their tray.

By the time the students got to middle school, they were more positive about eating in the cafeteria, seemed to have a preference for produce in season and were conscious that their eating choices could help or hurt the environment, according to the report.

The Kid Collection covers topics for littler students like being nervous for the first day of school to praising hard work as well as subjects for tweens and teens like peer pressure and making good friend choices.

The policy put a premium on nutrition lessons, physical activity and healthy food choices by students and parents who volunteer to feed them during school parties and meetings.

Incorporating nutrition education, school gardens, and farm - to - school initiatives into the classroom curriculum and school culture can go a long way in creating demand for healthier food choices among the students.

If the call off the waitlist never comes, allow your student to grieve as he or she must, then move her on and get her ready to thrive at her second - choice school.

The type of learning you're describing, with open classroom discussion, a lot of choice for students, inquiry - based learning, projects, it seems at odds with the kind of call - and - response, very teacher - directed style that you see at a lot of so - called «no excuses» charter schools that produce high test scores with disadvantaged populations.

Back in October, I broke a story on The Lunch Tray regarding a new McDonald's «nutrition education» video for middle and high school students called 540 Meals: Choices Make the Difference.

School lunch and breakfast menus should be required to offer healthy options for all meal components and students should be allowed the choice under the previous regulation governing «Offer vs Serve».

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — A new national survey of school meal program operators reveals that more school cafeterias are utilizing strategies to increase consumption of fruits, vegetables and other healthy choices, while expanding student access -LSB-...]

The learning curve was steep, but over fifty thousand students now have daily access to healthier food choices, and our local schools take pride in their progress toward becoming centers of health and wellness.

Our goal was simple: to make the healthy choice the easy one, and to help schools build a sense of self - determination, where they could control the quality of the food their students eat.»

SFI also funded a school assembly - based theatrical production called Food Play that conveyed the importance of healthy food choices while entertaining students interactively with acrobatics, humorous skits, and magic tricks.

Chicago Public Schools, where 87 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, already puts strict requirements on the items sold in vending machines — juice and water are the only available beverages, for instance — but Leslie Fowler, the district's executive director of nutrition support services, said students still bristle at the idea of schools controlling their cSchools, where 87 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, already puts strict requirements on the items sold in vending machines — juice and water are the only available beverages, for instance — but Leslie Fowler, the district's executive director of nutrition support services, said students still bristle at the idea of schools controlling their cschools controlling their choices.