Sentences with phrase «class schooling through»

That would leave another generation of young people condemned to second - class schooling through no fault of their own.

He is the author of four books: Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2007); All Together Now: Creating Middle Class Schools through Public School Choice (Brookings Institution Press, 2001); The Remedy: Class, Race, and Affirmative Action (Basic Books, 1996); and Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School (Hill & Wang / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992.)

His most recent book is All Together Now: Creating Middle - Class Schools through Public School Choice (Brookings, 2001).

All Together Now: Creating Middle - Class Schools Through Public School Choice.

Advocates point to successes, such as the Montgomery County, Maryland, school district, which claims measurable, albeit modest, academic improvements, at least in the short term, in reading and math for low - income elementary - school students sent to predominantly middle - class schools through a program of dispersed low - income housing.

Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, is author of All Together Now: Creating Middle - Class Schools through Public School Choice; and Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy.

All together now: Creating middle - class schools through public school choice.

Not exact matches

Years ago, he met a middle school student on a class tour through DC who was struggling with his stutter, and wrote him a letter: «You can beat it just like I did.

The network of coding schools found recently that 40 percent of students taking classes offered through the consumer side of the business were having class costs reimbursed by their employers.

Old school tales of trudging five miles through the snow to get to class may give way to accounts of glitchy laptops and faulty interactive whiteboards.

Professor Harry Kraemer at the Kellogg School of Management, author of Becoming the Best: Build a World - Class Organization Through Values - Based Leadership, tells me that being a social entrepreneur has very little to do with how much money you have or the number of people who report to you.

This holiday season, consider offering the gift of a custom coding lesson (you can buy $ 30 in credit to go toward the class) through General Assembly, the upstart school for entrepreneurs and innovators.

Last week, even before Parkland, a car backfired outside my school, interrupting class with a sharp pop - pop - pop; adrenaline shot through my veins as I grabbed a friend in panic.

Whether I was writing for school, a fictional story for my personal entertainment, processing through my teenage years on my Xanga / Myspace blog, or even in college in my English classes, I found myself feeling an overwhelming sense of urgency to spew every single occurrence, happening, decision, prayer and thought onto paper or onto a digital document.

After going through school and having to take religion class, it disgusts me how hypocritical many Christians are.

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

Some years ago I was supposed to teach an eighth - grade Bible school class what a dysfunctional group is and why it is spelled with a «y.» I'm not sure if it was before that explanation or after that we were supposed to make pizza together, but what we had while we were working through the etymology of «dys» was not exactly group enthusiasm.

He may also be faced with incomprehension and hostility when he tries to persuade the school not to support «Red Nose Day» or «Jeans for Genes»; when he suggests that asking pupils to stand at the front of the class and shout out the names of intimate body parts is an invasion of their modesty; when he objects to the non-Catholic geography teacher's presentation of solutions for over-population, the «gay rights» agenda seeping in through text books, the chaplaincyco - ordinator's failure to get abortion agency leaflets removed from the library, or the school nurse's distribution of cards with information on how to get the morning - after pill.

Jeremy, Our Sunday school is currently going through Romans 9, and this morning our pastor, who is leading, got up and read this post to begin the class.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

When I wandered through the nursery and primary - age Sunday school classes, I saw men teaching.

And if Sis is like her friends, she will have logged l6, 000 hours of television by the time she graduates from high school — more time than she will have spent in classes from Kindergarten through l2th grade.

He is joined in this emphasis by Sir Herbert Read, who reports in Education Through Art that his visits to the art classes in a great many schools have shown that good results depend on right atmosphere and that right atmosphere is the creation of the teacher.

Furthermore, just as comprehensive schools are desirable as a solvent of social class lines, so classes with students of differing abilities are valuable, provided the classes can be internally organized so as to let students proceed at their own pace, with enrichment through greater depth and scope of materials independently mastered by the most able students, and with special assistance by the teacher for the less able.

The schools recognize this problem and through special education classes and projects attempt to provide the opportunity for each person to function at the maximum level of his capacities.

Ellery Schempp, at 16 years of age in 1956, stayed in his seat while the rest of his high school class stood to recite the Lord's prayer; he flipped through the Koran while his homeroom teacher recited ten verses from the Bible.

The classes aren't paid for with school district money; they're funded through private donations, but the school district administers manages them.

Remember, his religion REQUIRES him to do so!!!! I am a Gator Alumnus who is sure glad Tebow went to my school because of the class individual that he is, and even though I do not consider myself religious, I would love for one of my daughters to walk in through our front door with somebody like him, even without the fame or millions.

I sat through many a hermeneutics class in school.

So, as governments oversee matters of security, we will care for the hurting, calling Christians to embrace refugees through their denomination, congregation or other non-profits by providing for immediate and long - term needs, such as housing, food, clothing, employment, English language classes, and schooling for children.

Ed, go back to school and try not to sleep through English class this time.

The standard method of theological education — a method practiced in the public schools and on through the university — is one of attending a certain number of classes, drafting some papers and, at the end of the term or course, writing the answers to some questions in order to indicate comprehension of the materials covered.

When I attend weddings, I'm not provided with the opportunity to talk about the really exciting ways that God's moving and using me — through my Master's degree classes, or the research project I'm wading through writing, or the middle school and high school girls Sunday school class I'm privileged to teach, or the fun trips I'm taking and the new people I'm meeting.

I'm guessing either you haven't taken a basic US high school government class; or that if you did, you slept through it, or simply don't remember some of the basics.

Without having distinguished himself as a high school pitcher, he dropped out at 16 and contacted Don Nomura, a former player in Japan who was part owner of an independent Class A team in Salinas, Calif. «I just wanted to play the highest level of baseball in the world,» Suzuki said last week through an interpreter.

Tamir Goodman — an 11th grader and the point guard on the basketball team at Talmudical Academy, a small Jewish day school (enrollment 72) in nearby Pikesville, with classes from prekindergarten through 12th grade — is in his house, waiting for the Sabbath to end.

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In school, a highly sensitive stress - response system constantly on the lookout for threats can produce patterns of behavior that are self - defeating: fighting, talking back, acting up in class, and also, more subtly, going through each day perpetually wary of connection with peers and resistant to outreach from teachers and other adults.

Kids at my school began building their resumes in ninth grade, taking as many AP classes as possible even if the classes were subjects they had no interest in and required cheating to get through.

raised 3 boys... and could not believe the anxiousness I have felt going through school... never felt this way and it really pissed me off... the waves of adrenalin came... and came... and came... I was a first class student and did well in my clinical assignments... but I dreaded everything....

Each April, I wrap up my high school counseling work with the eighth grade class at Katherine Delmar Burke School, a kindergarten through eighth grade school for girls in San Francisco, and everyone breathes a collective sigh of rschool counseling work with the eighth grade class at Katherine Delmar Burke School, a kindergarten through eighth grade school for girls in San Francisco, and everyone breathes a collective sigh of rSchool, a kindergarten through eighth grade school for girls in San Francisco, and everyone breathes a collective sigh of rschool for girls in San Francisco, and everyone breathes a collective sigh of relief.

The classes, through the local Adult School, grew and blossomed to a program that, 26 years later, has served over thousands of families and is an award winning program and model for supporting families.

Mr. Bucher spent 12 years as a class teacher at the City of Lakes Waldorf School in Minneapolis where he took a class through grades 1 - 8.

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

This takes place through school visits of one to several weeks annually in North America Waldorf schools, working with teachers, classes, staff, and individual students, as well as offering lectures / workshops for parents and the wider community.

Traveling from Tampa to Orlando for night classes isn't easy — or inexpensive — so Amanda applied for scholarships through the School Nutrition Foundation, winning an Annual Fund and a Schwan's scholarship to help her offset some college costs.

MAC agreed to source local collards and sweet potatoes to Dawson Elementary, G.N. Smith Elementary, Pecan Park Elementary and Rowan Middle School in conjunction with the local FoodCorps effort to build school gardens, teach nutrition education through gardening and cooking classes and bolster the school food system with healthier and more localized opSchool in conjunction with the local FoodCorps effort to build school gardens, teach nutrition education through gardening and cooking classes and bolster the school food system with healthier and more localized opschool gardens, teach nutrition education through gardening and cooking classes and bolster the school food system with healthier and more localized opschool food system with healthier and more localized options.

North Shore School of Dance is a professional dance school, offering over 100 classes a week at all levels of training for preschoolers through aSchool of Dance is a professional dance school, offering over 100 classes a week at all levels of training for preschoolers through aschool, offering over 100 classes a week at all levels of training for preschoolers through adults.

Nestled in the beautiful Rawhide Valley, Sierra Waldorf School offers classes from Preschool through eighth grade.

With the insights of anthroposophy, gleaned through a daily look at child development focusing on your class's age group, you will get to know the first grader as he or she crosses the bridge into elementary school.