Sentences with phrase «demands of both school work»

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Mark Schankerman, a professor at the London School of Economics, who first met Spangenberg after he donated some of his patent fortune to fund work in entrepreneurship at the London school, said patent trolls and their lawyers play a role in limiting the patent economy, especially in cases where they are demanding too much for IP — «the «holdups,» as he calledSchool of Economics, who first met Spangenberg after he donated some of his patent fortune to fund work in entrepreneurship at the London school, said patent trolls and their lawyers play a role in limiting the patent economy, especially in cases where they are demanding too much for IP — «the «holdups,» as he calledschool, said patent trolls and their lawyers play a role in limiting the patent economy, especially in cases where they are demanding too much for IP — «the «holdups,» as he called them.

But Andrei Sulzenko, a fellow at University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who has worked on and studied expert - advice panels like the Jenkins committee, says any proposal that demands a «machinery of government» change is bound to meet stiff resistance.

I have worked with Dutch - Canadians for nearly thirty years, and they have told stories of how the Christian churches and schools defied the demands of the Nazi occupation authorities and contributed to the resistance movement.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

He believed that schools should work with the developmental needs of children rather than the demands of the government or economic forces, so he developed schools that encourage creativity and free - thinking.

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

After 28 years working to get kids into college, Thacker left his job as a high school counselor in 2004 to write «College Unranked: Ending the College Admissions Frenzy» and found the Education Conservancy, through which he is building a broad - based reform coalition of educators at both the supply (high school) and demand (college) sides of the equation.

If your child wants to make the middle school honor roll, the two of you will have to work together to establish study routines and stay on top of school demands.

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.

This is the time of the week when we can get some serious work done unimpeded by an MP ricocheting all over the office demanding that we stop what we're doing every two minutes to Google their name, insisting that we write a press release on their recent parliamentary awesomeness, leaving their folder of top secret documents in Committee Room 6, and generally getting in the way of the correspondence, casework, the booking of Commons tours for schools and all the other myriad tasks that Members assume happen by magic.

As Buffalo Public school parents kicked off a campaign Monday to demand transferring their children out of failing city schools, one school continues working on its turnaround plan.

«As elected parent leaders we demand that the irregularities be worked out,» said Upper West Side dad and CEC 3 president Noah Gotbaum, who said the elections should be delayed until the end of the school year and wants oversight of all parent groups, including parents» associations, transferred from the DOE.

«As New York City's charter schools work to meet the demand from families and serve 200,000 students by 2020, they must have the support of their leaders in Albany during this crucial state budget season,» said Jeremiah Kittredge, CEO of Families for Excellent Schools «Charter school families have many champions in Albany, and need their support now more than ever.schools work to meet the demand from families and serve 200,000 students by 2020, they must have the support of their leaders in Albany during this crucial state budget season,» said Jeremiah Kittredge, CEO of Families for Excellent Schools «Charter school families have many champions in Albany, and need their support now more than ever.Schools «Charter school families have many champions in Albany, and need their support now more than ever.»

This report takes an in - depth look at both the supply and demand dimensions of the job market faced by New York City's 18 - 24 out - of - school / work population.

And so that worked for a while, while they were all at primary school, and then I guess I got more and more into my research as I was able to and they demanded less of my time.

Students whose circadian rhythms were out of sync with their class schedules — say, night owls taking early morning courses — received lower grades due to «social jet lag,» a condition in which peak alertness times are at odds with work, school or other demands.

They found that «peak alert times» were often at odds with the demands of work and school, showing up in poor grades.

In our world of constant work, school, and other material demands, we often forget to appreciate the wonderful people in our lives.

Here's how parents can help teens get the most possible sleep, despite the demands of school and work:

I'm currently in law school but i take most of my classes off line because i work for the railroad and those hours can be very demanding, i have a daughter named Hailey and i love to do lame stuff like movies, bowling and paint ball shooting... i just bought my first home in dec of 2013 so i'm very proud of myself for that.

I'm currently in law school but i take most of my classes off line because i work for the railroad and those hours can be very demanding, i have a daughter named Hailey and i love to do lame stuff like movies, bowling and paint ball shooting... i just bought my first home in dec of 2013 so i'm...

Through a series of events, Vincent agrees, for a steep fee, to babysit Oliver after school while his mother works the long hours demanded over her in the radiology department at the local hospital.

Mila Kunis plays a working mother who rebels against the ridiculous demands of the perfectionist moms at her children's school, joined by two fellow renegades (hilarious Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn).

Eighty - eight percent of the more than 1,000 students who participated in the survey said they would work harder if their high schools demanded more of them, set higher standards, and raised expectations.

Students were protecting themselves from extra work by ostracizing high achievers, «constraining the fast minority,» and holding down the achievements of those who were above average, «so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.»

Councillor Henry Vann said, «The programme of works delivered by Scape and Willmott Dixon includes a mixture of bespoke primary schools which adopt a standardised approach, along with Connect classroom extensions and Sunesis schools to meet the growing demand for primary school places in the area.»

Planning, organising and supervising a school theatre trip requires a lot of work on the part of schools and with everything else that is demanded of them, teachers, quite naturally, run out of the energy and steam to do this.

The previous rise in demand for primary places is now beginning to impact at secondary level, and the county council continues to work with secondary schools in a number of areas across the county to deliver additional secondary places to meet forecast demand.

The Department of Education is seeking proposals for 21 comprehensive centers spread across the country that will provide expertise to states and school districts working to meet the demands of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Efforts to bring the academic results of some of the nation's best urban charter schools to a far larger scale are «sharply constrained» by limits on the supply of talent willing and able to undertake the highly demanding work, argues a new working paper by Steven F. Wilson, a senior fellow at Education Sector, a Washington think tank.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

The Center on the Developing Child is working to increase both the supply of and demand for more effective, scalable strategies that strengthen the foundations of healthy development and substantially improve the readiness of millions of children to enter school prepared to succeed.

This is troubling, as the demands of leading such schools, including the need to attract and retain high - quality teachers despite less desirable working conditions, may amplify the importance of having an effective leader.

Of the many teachers in our public schools, who have deep knowledge of subject matter and of how to engage youngsters» minds, most are in despair over the limits put on them by the mindless work demanded by high - stakes testOf the many teachers in our public schools, who have deep knowledge of subject matter and of how to engage youngsters» minds, most are in despair over the limits put on them by the mindless work demanded by high - stakes testof subject matter and of how to engage youngsters» minds, most are in despair over the limits put on them by the mindless work demanded by high - stakes testof how to engage youngsters» minds, most are in despair over the limits put on them by the mindless work demanded by high - stakes tests.

Part of that solution may include allocating more money for teachers who work in low - income schools or in in - demand subjects, such as science, and rewarding top - performing teachers.

International Schools The future direction of the Chinese economy and its stock market will be crucial in estimating the future demand for teachers to work in international schools, since China, along with the other tiger economies of Asia and the traditional market in the Gulf, represents a large slice of the international schools Schools The future direction of the Chinese economy and its stock market will be crucial in estimating the future demand for teachers to work in international schools, since China, along with the other tiger economies of Asia and the traditional market in the Gulf, represents a large slice of the international schools schools, since China, along with the other tiger economies of Asia and the traditional market in the Gulf, represents a large slice of the international schools schools market.

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»

«Many of the teachers — who worked at all grade levels in both public and charter schools, in urban and suburban settings — did their best to cobble together lessons on their own, while also managing the intense demands of the first years of teaching,» says Pforzheimer Professor Susan Moore Johnson, director of the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers.

Our journey has presented many challenges but with determination and relentless hard work over many years, whilst many initiatives have come and gone and within the demands of continuous school improvement, we have kept our philosophy central to our work.

As well as helping to keep experienced and valued teachers working in our schools, this pilot will help make sure teaching remains attractive to the next generation and regarded as a profession that is flexible to the demands of the modern world.»

Last year, at their national summit, 16 governors agreed to work with Achieve, Inc., a national nonprofit organization, on setting lofty standards for high - school graduation, increasing the rigor of high - school curricula and tests, and aligning standards and tests with the demands of work and college.

In a survey of high - school students released by the National Governors Association in July 2005, more than a third of respondents said their school had not done a good job of challenging them academically or preparing them for college; almost two - thirds said they would work harder if the courses were more demanding or interesting.

Take for example, the call for extending the school day; the development of a more demanding curriculum that better prepares students for a global, information - driven economy; building K - 12 and higher education collaboration such as in a K - 16 model, and providing alternative educational opportunities for high school students who feel they must go to work.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

With the rate of families in which both parents work continuing to rise (currently 3 in 5), the demand for out of school hours» care is stronger than ever, in many cases, is a non-negotiable requirement for parents when choosing schools.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

We don't have shareholders or investors demanding large profits, we are simply working for the benefit of the schools community.

The rising demand for school places means some pupils are attending a school far from home — sometimes with a lengthy morning commute, or working parents who find it difficult to pick the child up at the end of the school day.

We've worked with the local authority to meet this growing demand, by expanding Year 5 at Chantry Middle School by 30 places from the beginning of the next academic year, and if demand remains high, Newminster will also take on an extra 30 pupils in Year 5 from September 2019.»

There might be more than 450,000 people working in state schools across the country, but even that number is not enough to satisfy the demands of a growing school age population.