Sentences with phrase «few examples of school»

These are just a few examples of school choice's increasing momentum.

Here are a few examples of schools with fairly different instructional strategies and philosophical orientations,

In 1999, achievement gaps based on race and socioeconomic status were large and persistent, and there were few examples of schools, much less school systems, that defied this trend.

Here are a few examples of schools you can use your CollegeInvest 529 College Savings Account that you might not have thought of:

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As Kenneth Freeman, dean of Boston University's School of Management, explains, «Rankings include starting salary among the metrics and many MBAs from higher ranked schools go into the higher paying finance and technology fields, with fewer taking lower paying roles in non-profits for example.

These are just a few examples of creative ways to engage with schools.

For example, here's a story about a business that used the weather as a reason to create a relevant marketing message: I happened to learn that my kids» schools were opening late because of a snowstorm a few weeks ago from the Twitter account of a car wash in town.

These are just a few examples of how breakfast - in - the - classroom has been used as a creative tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardiness and absenteeism, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who eat school breakfast!

These days, for example, marriage is more common among those with a bachelor's degree or more, who tend to earn more than those with fewer years of schooling.

Exceptional teachers, low student to teacher ratios and inspiring children to have a true love for learning are just a few examples of why Children's Garden Nursery School is known for building a solid educational foundation for young children.

(I'm making a few assumptions about the age / grade of the school, assuming that the entire menu was planned with the proper components, which menu planning pattern they follow, if using offer vs served... with that specific example... ended up with a page and a half long reply when I tried to explain it more!)

These are just a few examples of where breakfast - in - the - classroom has become a tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardies and absences, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who eat school breakfast!

So argues an editorial in The Lancet, as well as recent research from the London School of Economics, and statisticians at Oregon State University, just to name a few recent examples.

After this first friendly lesson on what to wear at school, I'm going to lay down a few examples of low - cost outfits.

Burris herself admits that «Rockville Centre is one of the few examples of a successfully de-tracked school system.»

For example, a few years ago, Light researched how many hours a week students at various schools work on academics outside of class.

As our schools serve greater numbers of Hispanic students and fewer whites, for example, we should expect achievement to decline somewhat because Hispanic students, who are more likely to live in poverty, tend to perform at lower levels, on average, than whites.

Examples of school districts targeting stimulus funds to benefit English - language learners have been few and far between.

For example, the 1988 National Assessment of Educational Progress found that about half of students in all grades read a total of 10 or fewer pages a day for homework and school.

Here are a few examples from Envision Schools using a few of our design principles for instruction:

To name just a few familiar examples: New Schools for New Orleans, Building Hope, Friends of Choice in Urban Schools, Charter Board Partners, The Mind Trust, Families Empowered, Civic Builders, Building Excellent Schools, A + Denver, Educate78, and Choose to Succeed.

I mention some of the factors underlying some of the so called «religious wars» and give a few examples of conflict situations which I have met in school as both a teacher and parent.

Our review of the research revealed few examples of charter schools» having an impact on districts that could be attributed to market forces.

For example, the ACT reports that just 46 percent of high school graduates taking its college entrance exams in 2012 met college - readiness benchmarks in math; fewer than one in three did so in science.

Companies that have sought to introduce adaptive, game - or simulation - based learning to disrupt cram schools — one of the few examples of a straightforward consumer marketplace in education — have struggled to gain traction.

For example, the February 2006 issue of NEA Today features an article by David Berliner, the former head of the American Educational Research Association and professor at Arizona State University, that repeats Rothstein's argument with greater force and fewer reservations: «So why, when we have as much credible research making connections between poverty and school success, do we keep looking for other answers?

For example, she says that there are so few private placements of special education students «not... because the law's processes for securing private placements are inadequate, but because the vast majority of children with disabilities can, and do, receive FAPE in the public schools.»

«This overly narrow focus on those few days of a girl's period,» for example, «overshadows larger issues like privacy and safety that girls face every day in not having secure bathrooms at school,» she says.

Violent imagery, extremist propaganda and sexualised content are just a few examples of where pupils could be exposed while browsing at school.

To take a higher education example, when I was a student at the Harvard Business School, far fewer of us paid attention to the case discussion on the couple days at the end of the term when laptops were allowed, as we chose to instead chat online and coordinate evening plans.

In my piece «Waking up in Helsinki, Waking up to St. Louis,» I cite a few examples of what trust looks like in Finnish schools.

At Boody, for example, some students have elected to forgo a few of the school's magnet classes to catch up in math.

Schools with a STEM focus or university affiliations, for example, reported an array of upper - level science and math courses that few ordinary high schools — even very large ones — couldSchools with a STEM focus or university affiliations, for example, reported an array of upper - level science and math courses that few ordinary high schools — even very large ones — couldschools — even very large ones — could offer.

For example, they note that, just as public school principals complain about the hundreds of directives they receive from the school district's central office, some Catholic school principals dislike even the few instructions sent from the archdiocese each year.

These are just a few examples of how standards - based grading has impacted my school culture.

For example, a few states use longitudinal growth models that, in as careful a way as possible, measure the «value added» by a given school in the course of a year.

While Whitney offers a fine example of what a school can be when it takes advantage of the opportunity provided by a student body that comes to school ready and willing to learn, it provides few guideposts for those working in schools where students are neither so ready nor so willing.

Pictures of school activities, plus calendars, e-newsletters, examples of student work, and week - by - week listings of course assignments and due dates, are just a few of the ways teachers or principals are using the Internet to share important classroom and school information with parents.

For example, we are currently putting the programme into a MAT comprising two senior schools with fewer than 1,400 pupils and four primaries with fewer than 300 pupils, and the price is # 2,133 for the set - up, along with an annual licence fee of # 1,365.

For example, there are few long - term pictures of student progress across multiple years of school.

However, studies also highlight the difficulties in improving feedback in practice, and there are few clear examples of how to improve feedback in English schools.

A few well - timed e-mails and tweets, for example, will do more to force superintendents to meet with a group of parents and pay them heed than attending a school board meeting (by which time the proverbial fix is already in); as Perry notes, «no district is equipped to combat e-organized parents.»

In fact, a few examples of whether charter schools are meeting their academic goals already exist.

We've seen a few experiments of late suggesting that structural change is not totally impossible: mayoral control of schools in New York, for example; a statewide authorizer of charters in Colorado; the consolidation of «county superintendents» in New Jersey; and more.

A few states and districts nationally have experimented with one or two of these reforms; many states have increased the number of charter schools, for example.

Schools within schools, personalized learning communities, online courses, and advisory groups are a few examples of ways that schools can weave the social web of the student tighter within the economic constraints of the Schools within schools, personalized learning communities, online courses, and advisory groups are a few examples of ways that schools can weave the social web of the student tighter within the economic constraints of the schools, personalized learning communities, online courses, and advisory groups are a few examples of ways that schools can weave the social web of the student tighter within the economic constraints of the schools can weave the social web of the student tighter within the economic constraints of the system.

Here are a few examples of how some of our successful school leaders proactivel use Kickboard to decide which students to monitor more closely:

What follows are five practical and evidence - based principles that can be used to develop and implement effective performance management strategies in the middle grades, along with a description of the rationale behind each principle, and a few specific practices and examples that schools can follow to ensure success.

Following are a few examples from high schools that started actively implementing TD reforms for the first time in the 2009 - 2010 school year and participated in the annual TD climate survey in the spring of 2010:

He also noted that spending money on failed schools hasn't been limited to voucher schools: Last year, for example, taxpayers spent about $ 361 million operating 52 low - performing public schools in Milwaukee in which 10 percent or fewer of the students were considered proficient on state tests.