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When young adults do ask parents for their two cents on saving, they often do so with a heavy dose of skepticism, says Lisa Szykman, associate professor at William & Mary School of Business, who has run focus - group research exploring young adults» personal finance behavior.

Since the students in the Fort Worth, Texas, school are focused on digital - game creation, often they don't even realize they're learning computer coding, Thomas says.

Unlike Christianity in the West, where divisive debates often have focused on theological doctrines, in Islam the most important schools of thought reflect differences in jurisprudence.

Parents, very often, we focus on making sure our children are growing strong and healthy physically, and we send them to school to develop mentally — but what steps are you taking to make sure they are developing spiritually?

The book as a whole focuses mainly on the relationship between parents and children within a large Catholic family in a suburban setting, often home - schooling, with a non-working mother.

More often, efforts to deal with fragmentation and pluralism focus on reforming the curriculum of a school.

Moreover, school districts themselves are too often cash - strapped and preoccupied with other goals to focus on changing their food.

«Often, when we try to intervene and help promote positive peer relationships, we focus on the school setting, where a lot of these friendships are taking place,» Fosco said.

Daycare centers primarily focus on infants through preschoolers; pre-schools are typically toddlers and children often must be potty - trained (ages 2 - 5); and out of school care is tailored to providing childcare of school - aged kids on a before - school or after - school basis or during school breaks, such as staff development or holidays.

We often report on the struggles of Common Core Learning Standards in the classroom, but in this Focus on Education report WBFO»S Eileen Buckley takes us inside JFK Middle School in Cheektowaga to hear about how educators and students are embracing it successfully and how future teachers are gearing up for the challenge.

Another group of schools that often over perform relative to the socio - economic background of their students are well focused vocational training schools.

She also called for a greater focus on the district's cramped public schools, which have some of the largest class sizes in the city, and where students often work in trailers.

Most groups have focused on detecting proteins released from dying brain cells, but those proteins are not always abundant after injury and often require exotic or proprietary antibodies to measure, said study corresponding author Adam Chodobski, associate professor (research) of emergency medicine in the Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Donovan, who has been a middle school teacher for more than 20 years, explained that other science curriculum materials are often subject - specific, focusing lessons on individual scientific fields like biology and excluding disciplines like chemistry that can provide an essential foundation for students.

«It's often assumed that extreme weather causes the majority of deaths, with most previous research focusing on the effects of extreme heat waves,» says lead author Dr Antonio Gasparrini from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK.

For Jersey City Public Schools teachers, hands - on STEM education is an important area of focus — but one that is often difficult to adequately fund.

Overall, kids who consumed energy drinks often were more likely to say the drinks helped them do better in school or in sports, helped them focus and helped them stay up at night.

Since it's not often possible for teachers to sacrifice an entire day of schooling to allow for individual creative pursuits, the idea has been reinterpreted in many schools as a «Genius Hour,» where students get one hour per day or week to focus on a project of their choice.

In a resent focus group at BESA, secondary leaders told us that they were having to reconsider what was being taught and how they could manage these core subjects — often without key staff or time or space in school.

«Secondary teachers are often too subject focused, not student centered enough,» Pommerening, principal at Kellogg (Idaho) Middle School, told Education World.

«Reassessing the Achievement Gap: Fully Measuring What Students Should Be Taught in School» argues that NAEP results offer a «distorted» picture of student achievement because of their exclusive focus on academic skills and take attention away from nontested areas that often fall under the purview of schools.

Citizenship projects for young learners are often hyper - local, focusing on students» rights and responsibilities at school.

In the focus groups we ran, people often discussed the downsides of desegregation — the biggest of which is lack of belongingness, especially for students of color who, in many desegregated schools, do not get welcomed in the same way, or get access to the same experience as white students.

As a school leader or principal, you can often focus more time on improving teaching and learning beyond one classroom, giving others greater confidence and impact.

It has been a major player in this market for many years and its focus is on helping students and teachers to gain the most from the technology they often already have in schools, thereby improving student outcomes.

Conversations about access to higher education often focus on affordability issues, but poor academic preparation is an equally significant barrier to success in college, says Long, academic dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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.

If an additional level of support was required, schools could also explore pro-active remote services which are focussed on freeing up network teams by performing automated or standardised tasks such as system updates and security checks; tasks which are necessary, but often overlooked when network teams are busy firefighting more pressing issues.

Students deemed eligible often are grouped in classes with other high - achieving students; they also are permitted to apply for admission to two schools that focus on high - achieving students.

Criticism has often focused on charter schools given the growth in the charter sector in recent years.

They were tuition - free, and like great faith - based schools, they often focused on important non-cognitive skills like discipline and grit and taught a similar moral code of conduct — though a secularized version.

Near the end of middle school, Morse's mother persuaded him to try Dexedrine, an amphetamine often used to treat ADD, to help him focus.

Schools will leverage online learning for academics, which means they will be able to act as community centers in essence and focus far more on providing well - kept facilities that students want to attend with great face - to - face supports, high - quality meals, and a range of athletic, musical, and artistic programs — things that receive short shrift all too often today.

Still others act as case workers or counselors (but actually spend the majority of their day in the learning environment with students) to focus on the non-academic problems — like food, health, or emotional issues — that too often trip up students (and sadly receive short shrift in many schools today).

«Some schools struggle to bring people together because of limited time and a focus more often on raising test scores than building relationships with parents and families,» she says.

«We were always both focused on the students who were too often left behind in urban schools — low - income kids, kids of color.»

In other schools, often low SES schools, the focus is more about the person.

My focus in this article is on the CMOs in the NewSchools portfolio, which often operate 10 to 20 schools or more, serve thousands of children, and are materially different from their smaller counterparts, especially in terms of finances and management.

Because students enrolled in alternative school programs often tend to be unengaged in school, alternative school programs are often more motivated to focus on improving student engagement than traditional schools.

During his two years at HGSE, Waddy has focused his efforts exclusively on middle school students — an age often described as «tough» by educators.

Many schools and districts have formed PLCs, but too often they've only focused on traditional content approaches.

One of Coleman's principal findings — often overlooked in the focus on the role of families, schools, and desegregation — was the shocking achievement disparities across races and regions within the United States.

Do you have a sense that the media too often focuses on the negative news about our schools?

So often — too often, as a matter of fact — the media seems to focus on the negative news about our schools.

It wasn't always easy to teach in the way that the teachers in this study believed learning should occur, as current structures in many Australian schools focus on testing and often quite narrow assessment regimes.

Poor school districts, which often count tired buildings and outdated equipment among their many troubles, are increasingly focusing on brick - and - mortar issues as they challenge state school - finance systems.

Instead of focusing the education conversation around a select number of hot topics ~ often related to school governance ~ we should focus our efforts on overcoming larger societal realities and their impact on student learning.

Big business always focuses on «total cost of ownership» (TCO), but schools often don't.

Sadly, when it comes to schools and academic intervention, all too often the focus becomes a program.

They have a strong focus on continual improvement, often with explicit school - wide goals for improving current school practices and levels of student achievement».