Sentences with phrase «effective schools do»

Effective schools don't just take all the fruit, they also tend to the root.

And effective schools do use «measures of pupil achievement as the basis for program evaluation,» which was the annual requirement in the original Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965.

Many find themselves asking the question, What do the most effective schools do?

«What Effective Schools Do: Stretching the cognitive limits on achievement,» by Martin West, Chris Gabrieli, Matthew Kraft, Amy Finn, and John Gabrieli, is available on http://educationnext.org and will appear in the Fall 2014 issue (late August) of Education Next.

In only one of six moderately effective schools and one of four of the least effective schools did a majority of teachers indicate that they called home as frequently.

Not exact matches

Though high schoolers and college students don't stage formal debates as much these days as they once did, the debate format is still a highly effective means of motivating and educating people.

I think we will soon see that schools in which professors are not fully committed to teaching and the life of the mind do not form the characters or intellects of students and may not be effective even in imparting technical skills.

They point also to the rapid expansion of knowledge and technical skill required for effective living in the modern age, and they ask how the schools, with their limited share of the student's time, can afford to spend any of it on instruction in recreation, which they believe he either does not need or can get outside of school.

Schools create «white elephants» if they don't teach faculty and students effective use of the new technologies and resources.

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Perhaps the nearest thing to consensus, one which did become practically effective, was the consensus of the learned doctors of Islam; and this has been still further reduced to the agreement among the learned doctors of the four accepted schools of thought in Islam.

Students should provide perspective in their essays on who should receive sex education, what sex education should include, what would make it more inclusive and effective, why sex education is important, what they did and did not learn in their previous sex education class, what they wish they had learned, and how sex education can be taught more effectively in schools.

There is certainly a school of thought that suggests Spurs chairman Daniel Levy acts as a kind of director of football, picking cost effective targets and doing all the negotiating with other clubs personally.

So doesn't a greater investment in school meals seem only prudent — indeed, highly cost - effective in the long run?

Whether you want to get your child to do his chores, follow directions at school, or refrain from hitting when he's angry, reward systems are effective discipline tools.

But I think there is something very effective about framing character as not about values — I'm not saying that values don't matter — but instead that what schools are good at teaching, and what they're designed to teach, is the skills kids need to do well in life.

How can we expect healthier school lunch policies — and, no, that does not mean steamed peas and paltry salad bars with wilted lettuce — to be effective if students, particularly those allowed off - campus during lunch hours, have fast food available to them a few blocks away?

While Tough references this research in his first book, he explained to me that he did not connect the research with an understanding of what kinds of school programs are effective.

Parents naturally want their children to do their best in school, but finding the most effective way to encourage academic investment depends on each child's individual needs.

Much of my research was done in a school setting, and some of the most effective programs that I've seen are the ones that develop community within a classroom or within a whole school.

There are many ways to save money, that are quite effective for teaching (like using lots of library books, using free resources on the Internet, etc. - see our «HS Money Saving Tips» page for more on this), but you will still have to spend some money directly on home schooling, and unless you were already planning to have one of you be a stay - at - home parent, it will mean doing with less money.

School nurses cite hand - washing as one of the most effective things kids can do to stop the spread of germs from hands to mouth and eyes, as well as from one child to another.

But as for water, schools are now going to have to provide drinking water in cafeterias, although implementing what seems like such a simple requirement is proving rocky for some schools and some are claiming that they need more time to figure out how to do it in a cost - effective way.

And there are many fun and effective ways to teach them how to eat that don't involve boring lectures about fat grams and food additives — like using fruit and veggies to learn shapes and colors, counting blueberries, or planting a school garden.

When Memphis City Schools dietitian Kim Stewart wrapped up the session she did so with a short but effective anecdote about a teacher who had a real change of heart about breakfast in the classroom.

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

There are net benefits of immigration, studies show that migration brings economic gains, but those will be easily disregarded if people don't see effective responses to ensure schools or doctor's surgeries in areas which might face most churn can cope.

It contends that current laws, which allow a teacher to earn tenure after three years of employment, are arbitrary and do not give school officials adequate time to assess whether a teacher will be effective.

This man has had an opportunity for years to be an effective catalyst for educational reform, Charter Schools and Vouchers for black children and HE JUST DOES N'T CARE.

«Middle - schoolers have particular social and developmental challenges, and our school system hasn't done as well at innovating how to be effective at the middle school level,» he said.

The school board President, Dr. Barbara Seals Nevergold, says even if the Buffalo businessman were allowed to stay on the board, she doesn't think he could be an effective member.

The Buffalo school board president, Barbara Seals Nevergold, says even if the Buffalo businessman were allowed to stay on the board, she doesn't think he could be an effective member.

As many of us can attest from experiences in undergraduate or graduate school classes, having a professor with a doctorate does not always mean having an effective teacher.

«Although radiosurgery has been shown to be an effective post-surgical treatment for metastatic brain tumors, previous studies did not compare patient outcomes from a single hospital over the same period of time,» said N. Scott Litofsky, M.D., chief of the Division of Neurological Surgery at the MU School of Medicine and senior author of the study.

In a paper published in the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat climate change do not focus on demand - side solutions such as carbon taxes or emission caps.

A novel strategy to screen pregnant women for malaria with rapid diagnostic tests and treat the test - positive women with effective antimalarials does not lower the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes compared with treating all pregnant women with the malaria preventive sulfadoxine - pyrimethamine (SP) in sub-Saharan Africa, according to an open label randomized trial published this week in PLOS Medicine by Feiko ter Kuile, of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and colleagues.

«While the majority of siblings of children with ASD will not develop the condition themselves, for those who do, one of the key priorities is finding more effective ways of identifying and treating them as early as possible,» said lead author Katarzyna Chawarska, associate professor in the Yale Child Study Center and the Department of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine.

«Although acceleration is widely supported by research as an effective strategy for meeting the needs of advanced learners, it's still rarely used, and most schools do not systematically look for students who need it,» said study co-author Paula Olszewski - Kubilius, director of the Center for Talent Development at the Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy.

However, we did not know what would be effective in terms of treatment,» says the study's leader, Annette Erlangsen, DPH, an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Based on the study results, «it does not seem like more information is necessarily more persuasive or effective,» according to health communication experts Susan Mello of Northeastern University's Department of Communication Studies and Robert Hornik of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communication.

The lab - grown mini-brains, which researchers say are truer to life and more cost - effective than similar research models, came about thanks to the son of two Johns Hopkins scientists and two other high school students who were doing summer research internships.

Just a few years ago, we didn't have such great options,» says Steven Feldman, MD, PhD, professor of dermatology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston - Salem, N.C. «Treatments are now more effective, safer and easier to use than ever.»

If youre at low risk, «the safest thing to do is to stop taking ibuprofen, but its a highly effective and low - cost therapy,» says A. Mark Fendrick, MD, professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, and an expert on the safety of OTC medicines.

The old - school anti-anxiety tranquilliser meds — still used for individual cases — are benzodiazepines; immediate and highly effective, they do come with a catch.

While this type of old school training is both effective yet simple, please don't think it will be easy.

Drop by drop using EO's is a cost effective way to circumvent the common cold and school based illnesses our family can be susceptible to, though through enhanced immunity functions do not fall privy to.

Dr. Stephanie Blank, a professor of gynecologic oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, said she generally agrees with the task force recommendations «because we do not have an effective screening test.»

Researchers at Wake Forest University have found that medical schools simply do not provide obesity education to their students, and only a small minority of major medical centers even provide adequate, effective training to students in caring for obese patients.

Academics from Berkley and other schools are trying to do research projects to find out how effective dating sites» communications tools, personality testing and other features are.

The Autopsy of Jane Doe: Squeaking in as the last great horror film of 2016, THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE kicks it old - school with some effective jump scares and good ole haunting.