Sentences with phrase «focus on schools alone»

Those education reformers tend to focus on schools alone.

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Start by assuming that this person is someone who really does care about the kids and what they eat, who really does want to feed children in an atmosphere of nurturing and respect, but who has probably been beaten down by so many years of having to focus on the bottom line, and of hearing the criticisms of school food, that she may have almost lost the will to live, let alone to fix school food.

«Schools are striving to do the best for every child they teach, but schools alone can not tackle these social issues and plug the gap made by cuts to wider services and basic support on which many families rely and which help to provide children with the stability they need in order to focus on their learning and achieve at Schools are striving to do the best for every child they teach, but schools alone can not tackle these social issues and plug the gap made by cuts to wider services and basic support on which many families rely and which help to provide children with the stability they need in order to focus on their learning and achieve at schools alone can not tackle these social issues and plug the gap made by cuts to wider services and basic support on which many families rely and which help to provide children with the stability they need in order to focus on their learning and achieve at school.

The top - line finding alone — that just 12 percent of high school graduates do not enroll in college within eight years of graduation — provides additional evidence that schools need to continue to focus on preparing all students to be ready for a college environment, whether or not they go right away (or ever).

While there is more emphasis on academics at all grade levels today and evidence that the middle school burden can be overcome (Williams and colleagues showed in a major 2010 study, called «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better,» that an intense focus on academics can work), it is odd that Walcott would favor reforming middle schools instead of doing what the research suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8) schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.Schools Do Better,» that an intense focus on academics can work), it is odd that Walcott would favor reforming middle schools instead of doing what the research suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8) schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.schools instead of doing what the research suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8) schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.schools.»

But our policies — especially school - level accountability and test - based teacher evaluations — focus on academic achievement alone.

Before passage of ESSA in 2015, Ladd said «there was no way schools alone could succeed and help children flourish as long as we had this narrow focus on test scores.»

Some focus on the arts, others emphasize cultural heritage (there are multiple Hmong charter schools in the Twin Cities alone); some are vocational, others rigorously academic.

As my colleague Heather Staker has pointed out, focusing on teacher agency alone could also limit innovation to the four walls of the classroom, rather than innovation of whole school design, because teachers may still lack the budget and authority to redesign learning full stop.

Under the NCLB Extended approach, embraced by many on the education reform / civil rights Left, achievement would continue to be measured by proficiency rates alone (with rising annual goals for what is good enough); growth data would be used sparingly and / or focused on «growth to proficiency»; «other indicators of student success or school quality» would be minimized; and evidence of achievement gaps would sink schools» ratings significantly.

Drawing inspiration from dozens of interviews conducted over the course of a two - year period, Lawrence - Lightfoot focuses on the experiences of 11 individuals in particular, including an Iranian teenager forced to flee political strife and come to America alone, a middle - aged gay man and his coming out, a bullied child whose parents take him out of school, and a psychotherapist who guides abuse victims in an effort to finally «terminate» therapy.

This suggests that in order to close achievement gaps, schools need to work on helping students gain these skills and mindsets and that simply focusing on improving instruction and revising curriculum alone will not close the gap.

While we would like to be celebrating and capitalizing on these gains, we are instead focused on almost $ 600,000 in cuts at our school alone.

Although much of the media coverage surrounding parents opting their children out of state tests has focused on white, suburban parents, these families are not alone in taking a stand against tests they see as having no value for their children or schools.

Rather than focus on skill - and - drill learning alone, however, the school pushes students to tackle real problems and projects, work in teams, and perform for real audiences.

In fact many elementary schools focus on PBL projects that would fit in steps 1 and 2; so if PBL is built into the scope and sequence of the entire life of a student, one can only imagine the amazing things students can do at the middle - grades level, let alone in high school.

But if we focus on academics alone, we fail to understand that young people develop, as we previously discussed, across multiple domains, and we fail to see that it is the responsibility of the school, family, and community, working in concert, to fulfill the necessary conditions for learning (for more on these conditions, see the «Conditions for Learning» box on the right).

In this sense, one could argue that the key to ensuring the success of pregnant teens isn't so much dependent on their segregation from a regular student body as it is the school's ability to provide them with a network of support that is sufficient enough to allow them to focus on school, rather than having to navigate the difficulties of pregnancy alone.

If Mr. Friedman, Gov. Bush and friends are * really * concerned with monopolies, I suggest that they focus their gaze on Pearson, and leave the schools alone so our teachers can teach, and our children can learn.

The foundation has been focusing efforts on building schools in Haiti where, according to a report from the United Nations, the earthquake damaged or destroyed 8,000 schools that served 1.8 million children in and around the capital of Port - au - Prince alone.

When focusing on first - year tuition alone, a school student can expect to pay anywhere from about $ 4,000 to nearly $ 30,000.

I offer stand - alone workshops and tutorials, boot camps and shorter training modules to law firms, in house legal departments, affinity groups, bar associations and law schools, each adapted to the needs and resources of the client, but with a primary focus on the fundamentals necessary for law practice growth, advancement and long term success.