Sentences with phrase «to create better schools»

It is past time to take the formula that has worked so well to help create the best colleges in the world and use it to help create the best schools for our children.

Principals are also key allies in your quest to create a better school lunch; they often control the funds and decision - making for dining room improvements.

When school closures are embedded in a strategy to create better school choices for children, it feels like less of an attack.

But does being smarter or working harder actually create better schools?

Instead the focus has aimed at creating good schools for all children.

And, more important, charters can create better school experiences for thousands of students.

Most of us don't want to create good schools through the development of quality teachers, prepared students and engaged families.

If they would concentrate on how create better schools instead of counting on integration to do it the money would go further.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said: «There are 1.8 million more children in good or outstanding schools than in 2010 and free schools are playing a vital role in creating those good school places.

The government has committed to opening 500 more free schools in this Parliament, creating good school places in communities across the country.

Privatization creates good schools by creating even worse schools.

Motivated parents create good schools; too many top - down demands on schools inhibits true learning $ $ Oct 19, 2013

Rocketship is among the most interesting stories in education today because the schools show vividly the challenges and opportunities of creating better schools.

It is no coincidence that the curriculum changed to incorporate food and cooking for the first time at the same time that the new standards were introduced - the two things go hand in hand to help create a better school food culture, and a healthier future for the next generation.

Of course by themselves Pell Grants for Kids would not create the best schools in the world.

Their nonprofit cousins (known as charter management organizations or CMOs), such as KIPP, High Tech High, Green Dot, and Aspire, typically underwritten by philanthropists, seek via invention and replication to create better school options for needy kids.

Next time you talk about the real difference between creating better schools and «education reform» be sure to add the part that schools need more IAs and IAs need better pay.

In «How Our Leadership Academies are Creating Better School Principals,» hear from CAO Linda Mulvey on how Insight and Syracuse have partnered together to create leadership academies for principals that provide the support they need — and want.

In the case of safe schools and creating better school climates, Malloy's PR operation has remained in full swing despite the fact that his administration hasn't done the required work.

From the early days, I was dismayed that most government agencies saw charter schools more as an escape valve for angry parents and disaffected teachers, not as a way to create better schools by establishing binding performance goals and consequences, placing the locus of authority and accountability at the school level, and pushing schools to be distinctive and purposeful about their instruction.

Those of us who conceived Parent Trigger three years ago, and have been working on its implementation in California and across the country since, applaud those legislators in Lansing who are joining parents in creating better schools for their kids.

Essentially, Fryer wants to figure out what no one else yet has — how to create good schools for all those students at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, not just a tiny percentage of them.

«As a community and as a city... we have to create more affordable housing, we have to create better schools, we have to create more jobs,» Rodriguez said.

Raising standards, improving teaching, and creating better schools are only the first steps.

«Harvard taught me what it takes to create a good school,» he says.

Similarly, two decades of experience with charter schools (writ large) suggests that that is also a «thin» theory of change - namely that if we remove regulation and give people autonomy, they will create better schools.

Prime Minister David Cameron, sets out the Government's programme for modern public services - creating better schools and hospitals.

Creating a better school may be as simple as creating a smaller one.

Tucker and his colleagues challenge us to ask why the U.S. is pursuing a reform agenda that differs markedly from what other advanced countries have found essential for creating good schools — high quality teachers, fair funding, and coherence in the system of education.

We're here to support authorizers making tough decisions to create better schools in a challenging system.

That goal simply stated is creating a better school and a better educational experience for our children.

If we are going to create better schools for Missouri, we need to support the candidates that support our students.

They understood early what the struggles of the last couple of school years have made evident: That Philadelphians can not wait for the state, or the city, or the District to create good schools for everyone.

«Tucker and his colleagues challenge us to ask why the U.S. is pursuing a reform agenda that differs markedly from what other advanced countries have found essential for creating good schools — hig quality teachers, fair funding, and coherence in the system of education.

Creating a better school, then, requires addressing not only what happens in the classroom but outside social and economic factors as well.

Some privatizers have deluded themselves into thinking that this freedom will create better schools, but the Great Recession should have taught them by now that deregulation * does not work.

In short, effective leadership leads to better teachers, who in turn design more powerful learning experiences, empower students, and create better schools.

It's no secret that one of the keys to creating better schools is to raise the quality of teaching in the nation's classrooms.

Give them an equal chance to create better schools, but be equally quick to take away their right to repeated failure.

The brief shows that when properly used and understood, assessment data can create better schools, better teachers and better readers.

The charter school movement's goal is, and always has been, to create good schools.

At a time when school leaders are trying to translate urgent calls for higher achievement into actions that work, Align the Design provides expert guidance and practical tools that will help educators work more purposefully together to create better schools for their students.