Sentences with phrase «elsewhere than at a school»

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I am thrilled to be avoiding the mainstream school environment at such a tender young age, while teaching my child much more than she could learn elsewhere.

The data also showed that instances of victimization were less common at school than elsewhere; in other words, teenagers were safer at school.

Are they aware that charters in Detroit, Indianapolis, and elsewhere already receive at least 40 percent less funding than traditional district schools?

New York City opted to close schools through a «phase - out» process rather than shut the doors and send students elsewhere all at once.

You're surrounded by kids like you — some smarter than you — and taught by capable teachers who welcome the challenge, teachers more apt to have doctorates or experience at the university level than high school instructors elsewhere.

More than a decade of research, at Harvard and elsewhere, on accountability, school improvement, and school organization has become «increasingly specific,» he said, «about the conditions that promote high - level learning and performance in educational institutions,» within classrooms and in systems as a whole.

Interestingly, these new schools, supported by grants from philanthropist Bill Gates (see Colvin, «The New Philanthropists»), have attracted considerably more controversy than the charter schools, in large part because they played a role in overcrowding and friction at high schools that were not small elsewhere in the city.

Money for staff training also is more plentiful at the school than elsewhere in the 45,000 - student district.

Brinig: As we discuss in our book, the loss of Catholic schools is a «triple whammy» for our cities: When Catholic schools close, (1) poor kids lose schools with a track record of educating disadvantaged children at a time when they need them more desperately than ever; (2) poor neighborhoods that are already overwhelmed by disorder and crime lose critical and stabilizing community institutions — institutions that our research suggests suppress crime and disorder; and, (3) middle - class families must look elsewhere for educational options for their kids, leading many to migrate to suburbs with high - performing public schools.

As reported in the New York Times, the Washington Post, 60 minutes, the New Yorker, the New Republic and elsewhere, by successfully maximizing state charter school laws around the country, there are at least 135 schools, operating in 26 states and enrolling more than 45,000 students that are associated or affiliated, in one way or another, with the controversial Turkish Cleric Fethullah Gulen.

Its school construction program, for example, is aimed at returning students to their neighborhood schools rather than their being bused elsewhere.

The current flows down both sides of Turneffe Atoll and converges at the dive site attracting large schools of jacks, snappers, sharks, eagle rays and larger fish than you are likely to see elsewhere on the Belize reefs.