Sentences with phrase «demanding better school»

Gyllenhaal's character is not so much a parent as an unhappy customer demanding a better school.

There is no price tag on elevating the voices of parents demanding better schools for their kids.»

Getting there demands good schools, too, with competent teachers, hard - working students, attentive parents, and a solid curriculum.

Taxpayers were again paying lawyers to fill a courtroom last week in Tallahassee, where frustrated parents were demanding better schools.

«We need every American to demand better schools and specific policy solutions from presidential candidates,» says Broad.

Once Parents Union members began to organize and collectively demand a better school, district officials took action and discovered the dead animal carcasses rotting in the air vents!

But every day I read so many inspiring stories of parents from around the country demanding better schools for their children.

But unlike the parents at West Lake, you likely won't seen Pine Lake parents attending protests demanding better schools for all children and a better system of education that serves everyone's needs.

There is no price tag on elevating the voices of parents demanding better schools for their kids.»

Not exact matches

For instance, in Weston, Mass., most homes lost value during the downturn, but a select few lower - priced homes maintained their value because the town has a very good school system and there's always demand at the low end of the market from families looking to move in, Weiss said.

Local high school students are planning several walkouts to demand that Congress cracks down on gun violence in America, according to Cleveland 19 News, with similar demonstrations ongoing in Columbus, Ohio, as well.

The well ORGANIZED effort by Florida school students demanding gun control has GEORGE SOROS» FINGERPRINTS all over it.

Catholic News Agency: «Exorcist» author prepares canon lawsuit against Georgetown The author of the best - selling book and award - winning screenplay «The Exorcist» has announced that he is leading an effort to file a canon lawsuit against Georgetown University for failures to live up to the demands of the school's Catholic identity.

Despite power being restored in most areas, schools reopening and life beginning to go on as usual, there are many homes in need of repair from flood damage — and entire blocks reduced to rubble - leaving a strong demand for the good will of others.

Jacques Barzun rightly objects to the prevalence of the custom of demanding of applicants for admission to schools that they state in full their good intentions and purposes in making the move.

After the founding of the Republic, in response to the progressive demands of the period, several new style schools were founded for religious education, of which the three best were the Cheng. - tai Normal School at Peking, the Islam Normal School at Shanghai, and the Ming - teh High School at Kunming.

The study thus challenges the conventional wisdom that a more demanding school will improve the performance of students who are already performing well, but only at the cost of forcing out poor performers.

Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interested in.

Warning the seminaries against complacency, he points out that «the churches are demanding many new types of workers» who, he seems to suggest, may well be supplied not by the seminaries but by «Bible schools and religious training schools,» the «recent growth» of which means that they «now enroll as many students as all the seminaries».

Food Revolution Day aims to educate and inspire people everywhere to cook and enjoy better food and empower them to demand better food standards and improved food education from governments, schools and food manufacturers.»

At a school with absurdly rigorous academic demands (both in terms of admissions standards and classwork), his recruiting opportunities are limited, but he has figured out ways to recruit as well as possible.

Yes, academically the former «Engineers» are a demanding academic school and a kid in good standing there should be able to transfer to RU.

Last spring he gave up baseball to concentrate on track, but quit at midseason, partly because his best time in the 100 meters, a 10.39 at the Florida Relays in March, wasn't good enough to qualify him for the Olympic trials, and partly because the demands of being a Heisman hopeful — interviews, addressing school kids and the like — took up too much time.

To improve best practices in school, to lessen developmentally inappropriate demands on kids, to insure that they learn to make healthy choices, to support parents.

MILLIONS of parents whose faith placed them in the position of not just asking, but demanding under pain of grounding or even corporal punishment, that their grade school children abstain from what others are enjoying, have still raised well adjusted kids who've gone on to be productive, contributing members of society.

The commitment needed to encourage non-academic reading in the child once they've started school is quite demanding for the parent, but it's well worthwhile considering the rich rewards the love of reading delivers.

The «old school» parenting techniques of threats, sarcasm, demands, and control do not work well on kids.

We need you to put the lunchbox down, walk slowly away from the kitchen counter, and demand that the taxes you have already paid for the lunches that are provided at your kids» school be put to the best possible use.

Maybe we share photos of superior school meals in other countries — not in the pointless and misleading way I excoriated in «Why I'm Fed Up With Those Photos of «School Lunches Around the World,» but in a meaningful way that would inform and inspire parents to demand bschool meals in other countries — not in the pointless and misleading way I excoriated in «Why I'm Fed Up With Those Photos of «School Lunches Around the World,» but in a meaningful way that would inform and inspire parents to demand bSchool Lunches Around the World,» but in a meaningful way that would inform and inspire parents to demand better?

A solid work ethic will serve our children well as they grow up in an era of multitasking, demand for achievement, rigorous school workload, and a college admissions process that places a high priority on extracurricular activities.

My child has made astonishing progress and I am in awe of how well the team at Hollinsclough manage successfully to meet the demands of all the parents and children there, whilst providing effective learning between home and school.

As we've talked about before on TLT, preparing school food from scratch demands more and sometimes better skilled labor, and this is especially true when we're talking about the handling of potentially dangerous raw proteins like chicken.

Many people are making better food choices for their families, and are now demanding the same from school food.

It's wonderful when you hear good news about school food improvements, and everyone's first instinct is to march into their district's food services director's office armed with such news, demanding loudly,» We want what they have!»

Ms. Amafuga who was not happy went to the school demanding that the female teacher [name withheld] to explain why she lashed the class two pupils at Well - Rose Methodist primary school at Sekondi.

Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighbourhoods for their families and good jobs for themselves - these are just and reasonable demands.

The program, which will offer free SUNY tuition to students whose families earn up to $ 125,000 per year, is expected to increase applications to the system's schools, and it could lead to the need for expanded offerings as well as more instructors to meet the demand.

Free schools are a form of academy school, independent of local authority control but funded entirely by the taxpayers, set up in response to local parental demand for extra school places or better schools.

Peneston says there's a cost for demanding schools focus so much energy on having elementary school students do well on standardized math and language arts tests.

Teachers in the Ithaca City School District are holding a rally and march today to demand better pay and benefits.

Like other states, it is complying with federal demands to develop a «common core curriculum» for its K - 12 schools that would better prepare students for college work.

Mr. Cuomo has hinted occasionally at the makings of a broad, if workmanlike, agenda for the next four years: creating jobs, particularly upstate; rebuilding infrastructure, including upgrading New York's aging airports; demanding better performance from the state's public schools.

«There remains a strong demand among health care leaders to better understand this issue, and how to address it, given the link between disparities, quality, safety, cost and value,» says Betancourt, who is an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

«I believe Dr. Landers makes some excellent, thought provoking recommendations,» said Alfred Tallia, MD, MD, MPH, professor and chair of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, «The Home Visit Service at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical Group has experienced an explosive increase in demand for services, and Dr. Landers» recommendations would go a long way to helping us better serve patients in the home, which is where patients prefer to be, and where costs can be significantly less than in other settings.»

Hence, all the best yttc schools in India schedule timely excursions and visits for a variegated exposure so the students do not feel clogged within the demands of rigorous learning and practice of yoga.

Blame it on my demanding full - time job and / or my kids for keeping me extremely busy with school activities and what not, or my anxiety of being perfect in every way (will talk more about this in another blog post), but guys, I really hate dislike being away and I promise to do better.

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Teachers packed the lobby of the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix in the wee hours of Thursday morning, as lawmakers debated a budget that gives teachers big raises but falls short of their demands for better school funding.