Sentences with phrase «educating students»

Alternatively, private school vouchers and scholarships may have unintended negative effects on public schools: they may draw away the most involved families from public schools, community monitoring of those schools may diminish, and schools may reduce the effort they put into educating students.

Finally, we will advocate for the changes needed to implement the policies and practices that will most effectively contribute to achieving the goal of educating all students to high levels — and «all means all.»

Educating students on alcohol and other drugs is as important as ever with research showing that one in five 16 and 17 year olds drink risky amounts of alcohol at least once a month.

Conversely, Poland and Slovakia are particularly weak at educating students from families with less education, given the performance of those from families with high education.

Educating students for the new era demanded not only new content, they believed, but also new teaching methods.

Delisle was one of five panelists — also including Tufts University President - Emeritus and HGSE President in Residence Lawrence S. Bacow, Harvard Kennedy School Professor and Director of the Center for Public Leadership David Gergen, Harvard University Professor Emeritus Henry Rosovsky, and Vermont Department of Education Commissioner Armando Vilaseca — who discussed the goals and means to educating students in our times at the forum, «Defining the Educated Person.»

Murphy and Dubois spend about 30 minutes during the sessions educating students about the zones, and using activities to help them learn not only to identify but also articulate their feelings.

This would be a neighborhood school, in the heart of impoverished urban America, committed to educating all students, not to weeding out the most challenging.

If board members do their jobs well, schools should do a better job of educating students.

It is now generally understood that the simplest performance measures — those that defined test - based accountability under NCLB — mainly tell you who's enrolling in a school, not how well the school is educating those students.

Therefore, until we create a level playing field of access to out of school enrichment and learning, we have no hope of achieving our education goal of educating all students for success.

In today's world, teachers and education leaders have the thankless job of not only educating students and instilling knowledge and skills inside their young minds, but also of preparing them for all the challenges that are waiting for them out there, in the real world.

Often, the most qualified community members are barred from educating students by certification rules.

This is why it's invaluable for schools to be working with parents in educating students about the impact technology can have on physical and emotional wellbeing.»

Perhaps we would inch closer to the vision of what we want to achieve in terms of educating students with disabilities.

In the late 1990s, Bob Lenz was teaching at the Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo, California, working on new approaches to educating students.

Educating Students to Fight Hunger Hunger is not the condition caused just by a lack of food; hunger is an issue tied to food access, distribution, and utilization.

A text may rank high in some and low in others, but higher indicators overall are a good sign that a text is more appropriate for educating your students.

Finally, by focusing on general trends, as opposed to merely year - to - year variations, assessments can more accurately capture the systemic performance of schools, districts, and states in educating their students with disabilities.

I would acknowledge that, in general, public schools do a great job of educating students, and that America's teachers are doing their jobs and doing them well.

The ambitious program could fund the development of truly disruptive models for educating students in a manner that is tightly connected to workforce opportunities.

It appears that in the past the country made up for low quality in elementary and high school by educating students for longer periods of time.

Online learning is quickly becoming more popular than traditional classroom settings, yet it is still a relatively new way of educating students.

Warlick believes that educating students for an unpredictable future is one of the greatest challenges facing our society.

As a high - school student, I planned someday to join their ranks and to do my small part to make the purpose of public schools educating students, not just providing an education to «those few who want it.»

This is both a civil right under the equal protection doctrine and good social policy, grounded in the individual and social utilitarianism of educating all students.

State and federal school accountability programs hold schools to specific standards of academic performance and assume each school is given a fair shake at accomplishing the task of educating its students.

This Assembly focuses upon educating students of how...

The CEP's central thesis is that while exit exams may appear to be inexpensive, they actually create the need for new spending by imposing on schools the burden of educating students to pass the test.

Remember to tell your students that they might not win everyone over when it comes to comments like these, but the important thing to remember is that colleges are in the business of educating students.

This may sound like fluffy stuff, but isn't this the point of educating students and helping their humanity blossom?

A legal - reform advocacy group that contends numerous laws, court rulings, and regulations hamper schools in their job of educating students has launched a Web site to help dramatize its arguments.

This summer was quite literally a windfall for any teacher involved in educating students about STEM ideas.

Leading scholars from the fields of education, history, political science, and anthropology analyze democracy and what it means for preparing teachers and educating students.

An increasing number of educators and policymakers see blended learning as one of the most promising means of educating students with a wide variety of learning styles and abilities.

«Part of our responsibility in educating students is to ensure they have the tools to lead active, healthy lives,» Mr Stokes said.

«The feedback we kept getting [from practitioners] was, «Yes, these are the things we would need to do if we wanted to get serious about educating all students well.

As the future of business owners and employees and most importantly — educators of the citizens of tomorrow — it is vital foruniversities to invest time and effort into educating students on the impact their actions have online.

Under NCLB, AYP is used to determine if schools are successfully educating their students.

The NEPC report recommends that schools be provided with funding based on the costs of educating students.

The answer might be that it happened because we are not educating students enough about how to talk to people whose identities or ideas are different from their own.

The arts at this public school are central to the mission of educating students in math, science, and the humanities.

And, second, how well are the schools educating students?

The American public is quick to condemn the K - 12 schools, yet expresses confidence that colleges and universities are doing a good job educating students, a recent report found.

«We spend a lot of time educating students about what's good and bad information,» he adds.

This becomes a greater problem when a student then goes home and jumps onto all those sites with her email address [email protected] and schools are then blamed for not educating students in better Internet safety.

You will note in this resource, the progression in instruction type and range of differentiated video resources - the trick to this working is educating the students on how to get the most appropriate resource for them... hence the range and differentiation.

Grand Plan: The school «scovered entryway (once a parking lot) channels water to a collecting area, educating students about rainfall and runoff.

Based upon the research of HGSE Professor Thomas Hehir, a leading international expert on educating students with disabilities, the workshop explores why inclusion matters and how schools can treat diversity as an asset.

Even after allowing for the cost of educating students with special needs, S&P's analysis showed a wide dispersion across school districts in the spending observed to achieve equivalent outcomes.