Sentences with phrase «demands on schools»

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

Dramatic changes in family patterns, economic demands, lifestyles, priorities, and values have placed new demands on schools.

This can be hard to do, however, given the many demands on schools in this budget - cutting environment that is also focused on measurable accountability.

As Bulgaria and Romania prepare to become full members of the EU councils in the South East plan for extra demands on schools.

State and federal efforts to bolster standards and accountability place increasing demands on schools and aim to transform the role of the principal.

A Republican president championed massive new federal demands on schools, and some Democrats, like Howard Dean, derided the federal invasion of local authority.

John Buell: I am pleasantly surprised, but I do think the attention to this book is partially a result of three intersecting and destructive trends in American life: increasing demands on schools, growing time pressures on adults, and the demands homework places on both children and adults.

It's curious to note that the federal government — by law and tradition, and quite correctly — makes no curricular demands on its schools or knowledge demands on its native - born sons and daughters.

In amongst all the many demands on schools, what's the value of a trip to the theatre?

We're putting more demands on the schools as they're becoming more segregated.»

President Bush issued a pointed rebuttal last week to critics of the No Child Left Behind Act, rejecting arguments that the law heaps unrealistic demands on schools and vowing to oppose any efforts to weaken it.

Even though demands on school time and funds continue to increase, service - learning programs remain popular, according to research.

«In Singapore, the demand on school leaders to be effective instructional leaders is very high — schools have the autonomy to explore innovative teaching approaches, and tailor curriculum to meet the needs of students,» says master's student Haslinda Zamani.

For the past five years, the federal No Child Left Behind Act has increased demands on school technology officials to put in place new and better systems to collect and analyze data.

This continues to be a challenge given the many expanding demands on school district budgets.

The climate created by the current regime leads inevitably to unrelenting demands on school leaders which lead in turn to unreasonable demands on teachers, whether in terms of planning, marking, reporting, attending meetings, or other newer demands such as emails.

The future demands on the school principal are massive.

In addition, the excursions put heavy demands on school leaders» time, limiting the support they could give to teachers in adjusting to the new model.

Further proof of the mess the DFE are in and how poor it is in devising a strategy for meeting the huge demands on school places over the coming decade.

Not exact matches

The associate professor of human resources and management at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business studies the demands that high - pressure workplaces make on people's time, and how they respond.

Students are planning a national school walkout on March 14 to demand action on gun control.

Business analysts (who were young and fresh out of school, remember) were judged based on the percentage of their products that were in stock at any given time, and a low percentage would result in a phone call from a vice-president demanding an explanation.

Survivors of the Florida school shooting lashed out at lawmakers, gun advocates, and even President Donald Trump on Saturday at a fiery rally demanding immediate gun - control measures in the wake of Wednesday's massacre.

On Friday, a group called «Student Walkout Against Gun Violence,» which appears to have been launched in response to the Florida shooting, said it is planning a nationwide walkout sometime next week in schools across the country to demand action.

And you can educate people on what it takes to create sustainable demand, which is why books like Slywotzky's — not to mention business schools — aren't a waste of time.

Bumble is also making a $ 100,000 donation to March For Our Lives, a national rally on March 24 organized by the Parkland shooting survivors demanding increased gun control and school safety measures.

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.

«If present public expenditures on schooling were made available to parents [through a voucher] regardless of where they send their children, a wide variety of schools would spring up to meet the demand,» writes Milton Friedman in Capitalism and Freedom.

Depending on demand, the school may also offer a Biotechnology Management and Entrepreneurship stream.

There's a high demand for babysitting and childcare services, whether it's regularly picking up and dropping off children at school for two - parent working families or accompanying a family on a trip as a childcare provider.

Logan Green, CEO of on - demand ride - sharing company Lyft, spoke during a fireside chat at the Play Conference 2013, an event organized by students from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

The increasing demand for high - tech skills is putting a greater emphasis on tech boot camps as the new trade schools.

Students and activists have rallied in the week after a gunman killed 17 at a Florida high school to demand lawmakers take action on gun control.

(CNN) Nearly a week after a gunman stormed the hallways of their school in a deadly rampage, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are heading to Florida's state Capitol to demand lawmakers take action on gun coschool in a deadly rampage, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are heading to Florida's state Capitol to demand lawmakers take action on gun coSchool are heading to Florida's state Capitol to demand lawmakers take action on gun control.

Teenagers are forcing lawmakers to consider changing their state gun laws — demanding action after a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, left 17 students dead and added to the list of instances where people have opened fire on school grounds in 2018.

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.

It is unclear if Republican Governor John Kasich would support the legislation, but after the Parkland school shooting and subsequent student protests, he deleted his pro-gun record on his website and replaced it with a demand for «common sense gun control,» according to Governing.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students Julia Salomone, 18, and sister Lindsey, 15, celebrate with other students as their bus leaves Coral Springs bound for Tallahassee on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018, to demand stronger gun control.

Trucking companies and other corporations rely on driving schools graduates to fill the growing driver demand.

Specialized, pre-assembled first - aid kits are in high demand by schools, corporations, and industries that are required by law to have first - aid kits on site.

Survivors of last week's Florida high school massacre have announced a march on Washington and other major U.S. cities next month to demand tangible action so to prevent future school shootings.

Tariffs imposed on China would have the same effect as a tax on suppliers, increasing suppliers» costs and leading to higher prices, suppressed demand, lower production and decreased efficiency, said Roger Kashlak, a professor of international business at Loyola University Maryland's Sellinger School of Business.

In the wake of the shooting, students are demanding a more meaningful conversation on gun regulation, Robert Runcie, superintendent of the Broward County schools acknowledged at a news conference Thursday.

If this is left to stand, then the government can also FORCE religious schools to no longer teach creationism, government can FORCE religious hospitals to perform abortion on demand, government can FORCE a Catholic DIOCESE to recognize gay marriage, government can FORCE...

For decades, discussion about Catholic schools in Britain centred on demands for a fair share of the public funds available.

There are reports of OFSTED inspectors demanding that schools impose a weird agenda on children, teaching that it is possible for a boy to become a girl and vice versa, that sexual identity is not something specific, that all our knowledge of biology on this subject has been wrong.

«Have we forgotten», he continues, «that Jesus Christ is the true centre of all that we do because we have become too focused on other demands of school life?

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.

In its own statement demanding the inclusion of RE in the English «Baccalaureate», the CES professes quite a high - flown idea of what is to be gained from this subject, a vision which I suspect that many of those who have undergone the reality in other words, have direct experience of what is actually on offer in our Catholic Schools, will be hard put to recognise:

«When it isn't just poor kids who couldn't get health insurance who are over there,» Hedges told the group of sober - faced teenagers on bean - bag chairs, «but when it's kids like you, kids from Wellesley High School, who are dying, I can guarantee there will be outrage and demands for the war to end,» After that, they asked him no more questions.