Sentences with phrase «fewer schools focused»

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Both hires go a long way in telegraphing the fact that the four - year - old Jack Welch Management Institute is one of the very few business schools that is run like a business, with a laser - like focus on customer service.

More than a few claimed they'd be dropping out of school to focus on their start - up, causing DreamIt partner Steven Welch to remark: «I think we're going to start to be banned from college campuses.»

Robert offers this insight to explain why more marketers say they focus on creating the right content for the right person at the right time, yet fewer report crafting content specifically for the buyer's journey: «It could be a semantical difference to some degree, but rather than the «old - school» development of content for the buyer's journey, we're seeing a focus on dynamically serving up content in the audience's time — no matter what stage they happen to be in.

I actually needed to take a few weeks brake from the blog because I wanted to catch up with things in school as well as focus as to what would be next for the blog as far as recipes are concerned.

When you present the facts about school breakfast, and its associated benefits — increased test scores, fewer behavioral problems, improved focus in the classroom — you give stakeholders the opportunity to understand the measurable results that come from feeding students a morning meal.

Numerous concussion and biomechanical studies have been conducted involving high school and college football players, but only few studies have focused on players under the age of 14, who represent more than 70 percent of those playing the sport.

The majority of this research focuses on school - aged children with few studies investigating parent interactions with younger children.

They helped their children notice birds, insects, plants and other wonders of the natural world when they were small, and then continued this focus even when the children decided, for a few years, to go to the local primary school.

I spoke a several times with one of the producers of the show a few months ago and was pleased to learn that school food and the school food environment will receive special focus.

For the past few weeks, Smith's stance on the EU has largely been ignored as the media have focused on a series of peculiar statements and jokes Smith has made regarding a 29 - inch penis, whether he uses viagra, and on Saturday, his comment that he had to fight off over a thousand boys at school to marry his wife.

The interminable focus on league tables, Ofsted inspections and Michael Gove's favoured E-Bacc leaves many schools with little or no choice but to focus on a few subjects against which they are tested.

If May really wants to help working class kids she should focus her attention on improving standards at all schools, not just the ones which educate a select few.

Young children with disruptive behaviors have fewer opportunities to learn in school than their focused peers, and are at risk for lower levels of academic achievement.

The past few weeks I have been doing «old school» focusing on 1 - 2 different muscles each day.

It's definitely been hard for me to focus this past week since Summer is flying by and we're trying to maximize these last few weeks before school starts.

Being rather pressed for time (I fear this will be somewhat on repeat mode from hereon since the new school year begins in just a scant few days), I will be focusing on clothes today.

I'm pretty much 100 % focused on school for the next few weeks.

Director Stephen Hopkins (best known for directing episodes of 24 and House of Lies) and married screenwriting team Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse chose to focus on a few key years in Olympic runner Jesse Owens» (Stephan James) life, starting with his first day of school at Ohio State University in late 1933, up to his astounding four - gold - medal triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

School - turnaround experts say a few small things, such as aligning curriculum with state standards and creating focused time for reading and math, can yield short - term results.

«The government should be focusing on ensuring an excellent education for all children, not just the few who get through the grammar school gates.»

The first few weeks of the school year often focus on creating classroom routines, and thus are a perfect time to set up cell phone expectations.

The organizations are focused on supporting schools with 21st century school and classroom design, customized project based learning curriculum, deep learning strategies, and educational technology, to name a few.

The authors of the study, Lindsay Daugherty, Paco Martorell, and Isaac McFarlin Jr., focus their analysis on 17,057 graduates from the 2002 through 2008 graduating classes in a large urban school district in Texas that historically has sent few students to college.

Schools with a STEM focus or university affiliations, for example, offer courses that few traditional high schools provide — such as Human Infectious Diseases, Chemical Pharmacology, and Vector CaSchools with a STEM focus or university affiliations, for example, offer courses that few traditional high schools provide — such as Human Infectious Diseases, Chemical Pharmacology, and Vector Caschools provide — such as Human Infectious Diseases, Chemical Pharmacology, and Vector Calculus.

Race to the Bottom Michael McGill Focusing on the push over the past few decades to «save» the nation's schools by applying rigorous business strategies, Michael McGill, M.A.T.» 67, C.A.S.» 70, Ed.D.» 72, a former superintendent, argues that corporate reform has actually weakened public schools, with narrower curriculums and a slashing of «nonessentials» like art and languages.

Few parents focused on high school graduation rates, rigorous courses, and college preparation.

«If we had taken on fewer school families and focused our dollars and human resources on those, we would have accomplished more.»

A district also must focus early wins on student learning to fit the turnaround formula, perhaps by adopting similar goals for one subset of struggling children or a few low - performing schools.

A few of my students attended Visitacion Valley Middle School, a school that has a well - established, in - school meditation program, and a few of them have done yoga, but most of them have never done any focused, intentional stress reduSchool, a school that has a well - established, in - school meditation program, and a few of them have done yoga, but most of them have never done any focused, intentional stress reduschool that has a well - established, in - school meditation program, and a few of them have done yoga, but most of them have never done any focused, intentional stress reduschool meditation program, and a few of them have done yoga, but most of them have never done any focused, intentional stress reduction.

As former middle school teachers, the trio found that despite the many challenges students face as they transition from «learning to read» to «reading to learn,» few programs focus on this age group, offer help to the seven different reading levels found in middle school classrooms, or assist skilled readers.

According to conservatives, the great sin teachers colleges have committed in the past few decades is that they have focused too much on theory and not enough on clinical practice — and by «theory,» they mean critical pedagogy and other theories that enable prospective teachers to situate school knowledge, practices, and modes of governance within wider historical, social, cultural, economic, and political contexts.

«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.

Thompson: The council was one of the few education organizations in Washington to support the No Child Left Behind Act and we believe the federal law deserves credit for focusing the attention of urban schools more sharply on student achievement, and increasing the national focus on educating our neediest children.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

Schools with a STEM focus reported an array of upper - level science and math courses that few ordinary high schools couldSchools with a STEM focus reported an array of upper - level science and math courses that few ordinary high schools couldschools could offer.

The overwhelming majority of states provide schools with few incentives to focus on their high - achieving students.

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.

Donna Foote, in her book on Locke written a few years before the takeover, focuses on four teachers who came through Teach For America (TFA), which had sent a good number of young teachers to the school.

However, it is clear that moving from a centralized school system focused on stability to an innovation - minded system of autonomous schools requires more than pulling a few policy levers.

Some programs work with families; others focus primarily on students themselves; and a few attempt to address structural school factors.

If there's ever been a case of «wrong for all the right reasons,» it's the laser - like focus on reading and math that has been the hallmark of schooling for the last few decades and was enshrined in education policy under the No Child Left Behind Act.

For nearly a decade, their guesses about that link between going to school as a young girl — even for only a few years — and behavior later as a mother that positively affects children's health focused primarily on attitude and behavior.

Here and there, a few school - reform advocates began to realize that diverse charter schools might be a way to engage middle - class parents, and that focusing exclusively on high - poverty minority communities was an understandable but flawed strategy.

For example, schools might focus on those few places where the public can see students and teachers during the school day, such as on field trips or at dismissal.

With that being said, I have spent the last few years focusing a great deal on my work as an instructional leader within my role as school - based principal, and now as division principal.

- Networking forums — our branches in all states and territories have hosted several events in the past few months bringing into sharp focus emerging issues facing schools and the wider community

«Rather than using taxpayer dollars to provide vouchers to a few, we must focus our resources and efforts on concrete reforms that make our public schools better for all of the District's schoolchildren.»

A few years ago, I did a small, informal research project examining the mission and vision statements adopted by the nation's hundred largest school districts to see whether they still view the preparation of students for participation in democratic life as an essential focus of their work.

Leveling the High - School Field While U.S. education officials have been focusing on elementary and higher education over the past few years, little has been done to improve high schools, especially in low - income areas.

The program uses badges to help teachers monitor which tools they've mastered — they can do that within a short time frame or decide to focus on just a few tools during the school year and revisit the program over the summer.