Sentences with phrase «excellent schools even»

It can be really useful to visit a number of excellent schools even if you don't want or can't afford to send your child there.

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I get confused about what excellence can mean from institution to institution, given the American practice of grading colleges; even the much less than superlative schools claim to be excellent.

Similarly, although many schools do excellent work promoting knowledge and understanding of racism and poverty, it is much rarer to find even Catholic schools having Pro-life Awareness Weeks as a standard annual whole - school activity in which pupils are encouraged to understand the justice and coherence of Church teaching on abortion and related issues.

Sometimes there was great detail: «At vespers it would be excellent to sing three evening hymns in Latin, not German, on account of the school youth, to accustom them to Latin... a lesson in German... a German Hymn... During the week there should be preaching on Wednesdays and Fridays.»

What would happen if a woman with excellent credentials decided to pursue a men's job, even if it meant working at a small - time school?

Students at these high - achieving schools can be ranked in the bottom quartile even with excellent grade point averages, and consequently feel «dumb» and «less worthy» compared to the majority of their peers.

We offer a blog that provides excellent articles about school, growing up, fitting in, and even research studies about curing food allergies.

But even after the novelty of the new school year wears off, Dylan's chances for sustained success are excellent.

This will be an excellent evening which will also celebrate the talents of local Bristol school children.»

The pro-charter-school group Families for Excellent Schools said even more needs to be done to comply with state and federal bullying laws, which is why the organization is a plaintiff in a class - action lawsuit against DOE, filed in April 2016, along with 23 parents whose children have experienced bullying and harassment in city sSchools said even more needs to be done to comply with state and federal bullying laws, which is why the organization is a plaintiff in a class - action lawsuit against DOE, filed in April 2016, along with 23 parents whose children have experienced bullying and harassment in city schoolsschools.

An analysis conducted by the pro-charter school lobbying group Families for Excellent Schools shows NYC's Special Commissioner of Investigation charged with policing the school system opened the fewest cases in at least five years in 2016, even as complaints of school worker's misdeeds reached record levels.

It has a beautiful heritage of excellent schools including Dr Are's GCI, Loyola College, Ibadan, Olivet Baptist High School, Ibadan Grammar School, Yejide Girls, St Annes, St Teresa's and Maryway Grammar School, but Oyo State can not even maintain these schools!

«Even if companies have all the best intentions and if the code of ethics works excellent in our part of the World, different systems and laws in combination with procurements and language barriers cause erosions into the code rendering it rather counterproductive in countries with greatly varying circumstances,» says Maira Babri, doctoral student at the Umeå School of Business and Economics (USBE) at Umeå University in Sweden.

Studying to become an ND got me about 80 % towards excellent health, but even in ND school, paleo eating is not the norm.

Because schools of education — even those in excellent colleges — are often not required to be accredited, many are quite poor.

And even in schools rated «requires improvement», many heads are doing excellent work in the most challenging circumstances.

And, rather than expecting all students to master the same curriculum content and to be at the same point in their learning at the same time, excellent learning progress (or growth) is an expectation of every learner — even those who begin the school year at more advanced levels of attainment.

Though I enjoyed working with my colleagues at CASN, I became frustrated with the slow pace of change in urban schools and even more frustrated when excellent programs were decimated due to change or lack of leadership, budget cuts, and / or seniority rights.

But he knew that the A — F system wouldn't have «face validity» — with the public or with politicians — if even obviously excellent schools didn't make the grade.

By most accounts no one, not even the traditional public schools have enough funds to educate everyone and some charters, such as John W. Lavelle Preparatory Charter School, are pulling - off excellent results with some of the toughest sped kids and basically the same money as everyone else.

Even in our most struggling public schools, there are excellent teachers who are transforming the lives and futures of the students they are entrusted to educate.

Even on a trial basis in grades four through eight, such a program could help states shave school spending by two or three percent — tallying hundreds of millions in some cases while rewarding excellent educators.

So Bennett worked to fix the problem — not, I believe, because the school was connected to a donor, but because no one would trust an accountability system that labeled even excellent schools as worthy of C's or worse.

Under this approach, excellent progress would be an expectation of every student — even those who began the school year well ahead of their age peers.

Thanking a former teacher for great math lessons is an excellent start, but it's even better if a student can point out the extra strain of getting students to focus during the very last hour of the school day.

With schools facing growing financial challenges and tighter budgets, it has become even more crucial that schools are able to purchase science equipment and resources which deliver high quality and excellent value for money.

But truly excellent schools are essential not only, or even primarily, to create a pool of skilled employees but also to sustain the kind of informed, sophisticated communities where we all want to live and to raise our children.

So even as Stanford economist Caroline Hoxby reports solid gains by charter pupils in New York City, Ohio's school - rating system for academic year 2008 - 9 showed that just 16 % of Buckeye charter pupils were in schools rated «excellent» or «effective,» while 55 % of them attended schools on «academic watch» or in «academic emergency.»

Even if you started with excellent, challenging academic standards, they would quickly be gutted at the behest of teacher unions, administrator associations, and probably even parents if many kids and schools didn't meet them and were punished as a resEven if you started with excellent, challenging academic standards, they would quickly be gutted at the behest of teacher unions, administrator associations, and probably even parents if many kids and schools didn't meet them and were punished as a reseven parents if many kids and schools didn't meet them and were punished as a result.

Elsewhere in the charter universe, schools are incorporating hybrid and blended structures into already successful school organizations, which increasingly seek efficiency, even as they expand and work to maintain excellent student achievement.

But if our most creative teachers do not seem to be enamored of the testing regime that now dominates the schools, this is something that needs further and systematic exploration, beyond even excellent ethnographic and journalistic accounts.

Join other parents and community members for an evening of learning how education leaders created excellent public charter schools in Los Angeles and how more can be done to bring more hope through public education.

But new voucher programs made them available to wealthy students as well, even those who already had access to excellent public schools.

Already high achievement kids may not show that same added value in a year of school even with excellent teaching.

The «many excellent, non-private school options» Fleming's post mentions does not even include the Minneapolis Public Schools.

De Blasio officials have made modest overtures to the charter movement in the last several months, even as the well - funded charter groups Families for Excellent Schools and Success Academy have continued to hold large anti-de Blasio rallies.

I realize some private schools provide an excellent education and self - impose many of the laws governing public schools, but they aren't required to, not even under House Bill 944.

«It is little short of disgraceful that our government is releasing money huge sums of money for projects which are unproven and not viable when excellent schools up and down the country are not even able to make ends meet,» said Mr White.

«Excellent teachers already produce well - rounded pupils, and today's news will give more schools the support, inspiration and resources to go even further.

While there are some excellent private schools in our area, there is no guarantee to parents that their children will be enrolled in an excellent, or even a good one.

Families for Excellent Schools is the entity that bused charter school parents and students to Hartford from as far away as New York and Boston to rally in support of Governor Dannel Malloy's effort to divert even more public funds to charter sSchools is the entity that bused charter school parents and students to Hartford from as far away as New York and Boston to rally in support of Governor Dannel Malloy's effort to divert even more public funds to charter schoolsschools.

As for Families for Excellent Schools, they make it particularly difficult to identify who their funders are or even who serves on their Board of Directors, but as fellow education blogger Mercedes Schneider discovered, the group is a favorite of the Walton Foundation which is the family foundation of the anti-public education owners of the Wal - Mart Corporation.

Watch the bouncing ball... as the Corporate Education Reform Industry, Families for Excellent Schools, the Coalition for Every Child, Governor Malloy's former press secretary Andrew Doba, Achievement First Inc. and the other charter school lobby groups try to divert even more public funds away from Connecticut's public schools and into the coffers of charter school compaSchools, the Coalition for Every Child, Governor Malloy's former press secretary Andrew Doba, Achievement First Inc. and the other charter school lobby groups try to divert even more public funds away from Connecticut's public schools and into the coffers of charter school compaschools and into the coffers of charter school companies...

During the recent legislative session, Families for Excellent Schools / Coalition for Every Child ran television ads calling upon Connecticut's elected officials to divert even more scarce taxpayer funds to charter sSchools / Coalition for Every Child ran television ads calling upon Connecticut's elected officials to divert even more scarce taxpayer funds to charter schoolsschools.

Families for Excellent Schools is the corporate funded, New York based, charter school industry lobbying group that bused in students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston, last year, to attend a rally in support of Governor Dannel Malloy's effort to divert even more taxpayer money to Connecticut's privately owned and operated charter sSchools is the corporate funded, New York based, charter school industry lobbying group that bused in students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston, last year, to attend a rally in support of Governor Dannel Malloy's effort to divert even more taxpayer money to Connecticut's privately owned and operated charter schoolsschools.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more publicSchools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more publicschools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more publicSchools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more publicschools even more public funds.

Even Connecticut's richest billionaire and recipient of well over $ 50 million from Governor Dannel Malloy's taxpayer funded corporate welfare program, Ray Dalio, is a donor to Families for Excellent Schools.

Following the example of counter-protesters who took action in the face of hate (including a great many educators), we are steadfast in our belief that we must be even more committed to owning our personal responsibility to dismantle white supremacy in our institutions - be they nonprofits like Leading Educators or the school districts from which our students and families rightfully expect excellent, bias - free education.

The announcement of the first phase of the new professional development fund, with its important focus on building robust evidence, will help to consolidate the existing excellent work of the teaching schools network, and give even more teachers access to the types of professional development that make a real different to them and their pupils.

A dozen of those schools have reached the level of «continuous improvement» — the midlevel rating — and others have gone on to be rated «effective» or even «excellent.»