Sentences with phrase «do schools across the nation»

Dee Alpert says that New York City, like other big cities, provides test accommodations to a higher percentage of students than do schools across the nation.

Not exact matches

Despite the differences between the food in America and in other foreign nations, school lunches across the world do share one thing in common.

Massachusetts Charter Schools: Why Do They Outrank Their Counterparts Across the Nation?

Drainage experts Metro Rod work with a vast number of education providers, both on a planned maintenance and also reactive basis, ensuring schools and colleges across the nation can carry on providing the great service they do, with minimal interruption.

School technology has become the educational initiative du jour for lawmakers across the nation and of every political stripe.

A tentative agreement reached last week would for the first time allow the Los Angeles Unified School District to use students» standardized test scores to rate teacher effectiveness, something many other schools across the nation are already doing.

Do more with less — this is a statement that rings true for many schools across our nation,» said Partin.

Teachers across the nation report being pressured to fudge grades, pass students who don't deserve it, and accept students into classes they can't keep up in, all because of school evaluation models that use these metrics to keep up appearances for taxpayers.

Across the nation, 604 charter schools, or 12 percent, operate with unions, and more than half of them must do so under state laws, according to data compiled for the last school year by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a nonprofit advocacy organischools, or 12 percent, operate with unions, and more than half of them must do so under state laws, according to data compiled for the last school year by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a nonprofit advocacy organiSchools, a nonprofit advocacy organization.

Many school districts across the nation do not take President's Day off.

Across the nation, the debate rages on among policymakers, teachers and education advocates: Do parent - trigger - type laws have the potential to turn around underperforming schools when bureaucrats fail to act?

We encourage Ms. DeVos to go out and visit our public schools and see the incredible things that educators are doing every day across our state and nation.

«She has seen and studied the effects of education privatization across the country and is the nation's foremost expert on what works and doesn't work when it comes to reforming our public schools.»

Across the nation, charter schools do not serve all children, contrary to her remarks.

Thankfully, in many communities across the nation, school nutrition programs are stepping up to make sure children don't go hungry this summer.

Public school teachers do incredible work across the state of Tennessee and the nation.

According to ALA «NCES data reveals that approximately 8,830 public schools across the nation do not have a school library and for those schools that do have a library, nearly 17,000 schools do not have a full or part - time state - certified school librarian on staff.»

So if they didn't fire half the teachers, toss the principal or become a charter, how did this previously unexceptional school crack a code that most districts across the nation are struggling to decipher?

It was such a pleasure to present at the Model Schools Conference and to share ideas and concepts with other educators across the nation, which genuinely deepened our appreciation for the work we do.

He found that the studies show that while there are some examples of success, particularly in large urban school districts that primarily serve students of color like those in New York City and Boston, they also show that across the nation, there is little evidence that charters do better than traditional public schools when it comes to student test scores.

Incredibly, the textbooks that Paul Vallas purchased aren't the only ones to fail the review, which means public school children across Connecticut and the nation are being taught with textbooks that don't prepare them for the Common Core testing program.

Now the Heartland Institute is focusing its resources on convincing school teachers in Connecticut and across the nation that climate change doesn't exist.

Putting aside the reality that the actual number of poor parents with four or five children in the school system is extremely low, the stunningly ignorant and disturbing approach to «doing something» about the crippling impact of poverty in Hartford is a stark reflection about how out - of - touch many in the Corporate Education Reform Industry actually approach the real issues that are limiting educational achievement in Hartford and other poor communities across Connecticut and the nation.

If I was developing curriculum materials that school systems across the nation were purchasing, they certainly could be doing this, too.

At least nine of the snowiest U.S. cities had less than 60 % of their average snowfall this year, and schools across the nation are deciding what to do with an unusually high number of leftover emergency weather days.

With the educational technology available today, districts and schools across the nation are able to do more to help student athletes find that balance by giving them options that fit into their busy schedules.

Slekar says Common Core standards, the educational benchmarks now being implemented in school districts across the state, are not the right yardstick and points out that the nation's best and most exclusive schools do not use them.

No one needs to imagine that not only are academic journals available to read at any hour instead of locked in a library across the nation at some Ivy League school, but with the click of a button one can learn how to make Thai home - cooking without taking classes or traveling, repair a broken spoke after all the shops are closed and watch kitties, puppies or goats do wacky things, all from one machine.

Each summer, Gibson Dunn brings together approximately 125 of the most accomplished and ambitious students from the top law schools across the nation, providing them with real involvement in the high quality legal work that our firm does every day.

Even though summer doesn't officially start until June 21, most schools are out, the weather is warm and a sense of freedom washed over the majority of students across the nation.