Sentences with phrase «else than in school»

The proportion of students who say they would rather be somewhere else than in school rises from a quarter (25 per cent) to a third (33 per cent) between Years 3 and 9.

Not exact matches

We spend more time with the people we work with than almost anyone else, but nothing in school or family really prepares you to handle those business relationships.

Half of the teachers in Palm Beach County schools get the highest rating on their performance evaluations — a bigger percentage than anywhere else in South Florida.

Does that sound like equal rights to you... to say that religion is protected equally and than have kids pray to someone else's God in school?

I started off as a veggie hater too (though I've always adored broccoli, and later spinach and brussel sprouts) but I grew out of it rather young, while still in elementary school and now, I lean more towards a vegetarian lifestyle than anything else.

Didn't know anything about the team other than it was new and no one else in my school had one.

In fact it matters more than anything else when it comes to doing well in school — and lifIn fact it matters more than anything else when it comes to doing well in school — and lifin school — and life.

Having «your thing» in school is important, it reduces the chances of bullying and means the child always has something else going on other than just school.

Honestly, when you put a charter school promoter in charge of $ 4 billion in federal funds, what else would you expect other than advocacy for privatization?

«If our losses today are part - payment for every family that is more secure because of a job we helped create, every person with depression who is treated with the compassion they deserve, every child who does a little better in school, every apprentice with a long and rewarding career to look forward to, every gay couple who know their love is worth no less than everyone else's, and every pensioner with a little more freedom and dignity in retirement, then I hope our losses can be endured with a little selfless dignity.»

«If our losses today are part payment for every child who does a little better in school, every gay couple who know their love is worth no less than anyone else's, then I hope at least our losses can be endured with a little selfless dignity.

Smelling his fear, everyone in the class acted like the typical high school students that knew more than everyone else in the world (let me tell you when I was 18, I was the smartest I will ever be in my entire lifetime.

What better way to kick off a new week than with a chance to win $ 400 in cold, hard cash for back - to - school shopping... or whatever else you'd like to spend it on!!!

As a child and a teenager, I loved looking different than everybody else in school and was never bothered that I didn't quite fit in style wise.

What is the one thing Larry wants more than anything else in regard to school?

He says, «The superintendents were far more defensive about and married to the status quo than anybody else we were dealing with...» Just as it would be an inherent conflict to put McDonald's in charge of determining whether or not others should be allowed to open a new restaurant nearby, Engler reasoned that charter school authorizers should be outside the control of the traditional K — 12 system.

Most of these teachers got the support job because they learned something about computers on their own and happened to know more than anyone else in the school.

when my niece was finishing school in Finland, more than anything else she wanted to become a primary teacher.

She said: «For me, I do worry that a return to more selection risks undermining the progress that we have seen over the course of the last decade in our schools, by throwing something else into the education debate rather than focusing on every school offering an excellent education.»

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

Indeed, current and former public school employees are 21 percentage points more likely to claim that they voted in their last school board election than is everyone else (see Figure 8).

And there is some truth to that: as the school's chief public relations representatives, members of the office staff frequently know more about what's going on in the building than anyone else.

It's no secret that education leaders — like everyone else, it seems — are floating in data, with districts and state agencies gathering more information about students, teachers, and schools than ever before.

Wood: Interestingly, summer camp has probably influenced my thinking about time in school more than anything else.

• A new intergenerational study shows that for 76 % of 15 - 17 year olds, studying hard for good exam results is their biggest priority for the coming year; and they are preparing to sacrifice friendships, family time, hobbies and even sleep to achieve this, • In fact 57 % of 15 - 17 year olds feel school work must come before anything else if they want to do well in the future • And only 39 % of this age group think being happy is more important than good grades • Yet half (51 %) of UK business leaders calls on teens to develop broader life / work skills before leaving education A new report launched today by National Citizen Service (NCS) reveals that the UK ¹ s 15 - 17 year olds feel under significant pressure to excel in exams at the expense of other life skills, experiences, healthy relationships and even their own happiness, suggesting that they are struggling to juggle the demands of young adulthooIn fact 57 % of 15 - 17 year olds feel school work must come before anything else if they want to do well in the future • And only 39 % of this age group think being happy is more important than good grades • Yet half (51 %) of UK business leaders calls on teens to develop broader life / work skills before leaving education A new report launched today by National Citizen Service (NCS) reveals that the UK ¹ s 15 - 17 year olds feel under significant pressure to excel in exams at the expense of other life skills, experiences, healthy relationships and even their own happiness, suggesting that they are struggling to juggle the demands of young adulthooin the future • And only 39 % of this age group think being happy is more important than good grades • Yet half (51 %) of UK business leaders calls on teens to develop broader life / work skills before leaving education A new report launched today by National Citizen Service (NCS) reveals that the UK ¹ s 15 - 17 year olds feel under significant pressure to excel in exams at the expense of other life skills, experiences, healthy relationships and even their own happiness, suggesting that they are struggling to juggle the demands of young adulthooin exams at the expense of other life skills, experiences, healthy relationships and even their own happiness, suggesting that they are struggling to juggle the demands of young adulthood.

I'm not a hard nose parent, but in high school and middle school the grade is as reflective of effort than anything else.

Foundations, school districts, states, and the federal government have spent the last decade or more investing in teacher quality, which research clearly tells us matters more than anything else.

Remember that teacher unions, ed schools, and other opponents of tough standards that might expose the shortcomings of schools and teachers are much better organized and politically powerful than anyone else in education politics.

Part time students are completely excluded, as are many full - time students (students must complete at least 30 credits per year to renew, more than the 24 credits required for full - time status), and students must live in - state for a specified period after leaving school or else the scholarship is converted to a loan.

«This is what is going on in schools across the country: It's not an option to do anything else than retake the class with the same book and same curriculum,» said Anthony B. Fong, the lead researcher at WestEd who conducted this November 2014 study, «Who Repeats Algebra I, and How does initial performance related to improvement when the course is repeated?»

There is always a big hullabaloo when American students score average on international tests, but the fact is that American kids in very low - poverty schools score as high or higher than anybody else on the planet.

The academic intensity of the student's high school curriculum still counts more than anything else in precollegiate history in providing momentum toward completing a bachelor's degree.

Students, parent, other teachers and staff, administrators, school board members and even our superintendent have come back to tell me this educational opportunity created more learning than anything else I have done in my 17 years of teaching.

A system in which leaders possess that kind of data is far better equipped to boost school performance than one in which leaders have a pallette of achievement data and little else.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, in the months following the election more hate incidents took place in America's schools than anywhere else.

«Teachers know their students better than anyone else in the school, and they can be put in a vulnerable position at certain times,» write Berliner and Glass.

Nowhere else in California has the debate over the use of student test scores to grade teachers gained more attention than in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Kolderie and Junge like to credit Shanker for helping to shape their ideas, but the final legislation appeared to be in response to the Citizen's Leagues recommendations — and more than anything else, reflected Kolderie's own vision of independent, contractually authorized schools.

New Orleans has a higher percentage of children in charter schools than anywhere else in the country.

High school graduation rates in the nation's capital, he noted, have grown faster than anywhere else in the country, from 53 percent to 69 percent.

There's a strong correlation between lower socioeconomic status and lower test scores, so critics say the rankings are more a measure of poverty than anything else, and that test scores alone fail to tell the whole story of what's happening in a given school building.

«I'm school - model agnostic,» said Melvoin, though he added: «When you have more charters in L.A. than anywhere else in the country, it's an indictment of a failed status quo.»

They also claim that in these schools the preservation of public order is easier and more efficient than anywhere else.

This is clear in a project called the Schools of Opportunity, launched a few years ago by educators who sought to highlight public high schools that actively seek to close opportunity gaps through research - proven practices and not standardized test scores (which are more a measure of socioeconomic status than anythingSchools of Opportunity, launched a few years ago by educators who sought to highlight public high schools that actively seek to close opportunity gaps through research - proven practices and not standardized test scores (which are more a measure of socioeconomic status than anythingschools that actively seek to close opportunity gaps through research - proven practices and not standardized test scores (which are more a measure of socioeconomic status than anything else).

Both national longitudinal studies reach similar conclusions: «The academic intensity of the student's high school curriculum still counts more than anything else in precollegiate history in providing momentum toward completing a bachelor's degree» (p. xviii).

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This is also true for ELL students in AF's Hartford schools, but I'd argue that this is because of geography more than anything else.

This requirement could be essentially addressed by administering one 45 - minute reading comprehension test, one 45 - minute math reasoning test, and one 45 - minute science test rather than immerse our students in a week - to - ten - days of expensive, unproven, computer - adaptive testing while disrupting the routines and schedules of everyone else in school not taking the tests.

The United States — and Georgia in particular — can learn lessons from this nation of almost 18 million where there is more private - sector school choice than almost anywhere else in the world.

If parents who make school choices for thir own kids, but stand in the way of other parents choosing a school that best fits their needs, whether magnet, charter or anything else, they should feel far more than a little hypocritical.