Sentences with phrase «following rural school»

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There are precious few schools following this model, but American society would benefit from more of them, and from their being more accessible to a wider socioeconomic demographic range in urban, suburban, and rural settings.»

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

If You Build It follows designer / activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie county, the poorest in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to help transform both their community and their lives.

When the leaders of a rural school district in South Dakota decided to adopt a four - day school week this fall, they had a familiar example to follow.

Following the introduction of the pre-school education program, student attendance in participating rural areas has reached 95 per cent, parent attendance in the program is 90 per cent and all children accessing ANEER have transitioned to primary school.

eSmart: Following a successful pilot (involving 164 government and non-government schools in urban, rural and remote regions around Australia), this cybersafety program (developed with the assistance of the Alannah and Madeline Foundation) is now being rolled out nationwide.

Several rural school districts in northeast Texas have been besieged by both rumors and reporters following the announcement that 6 of 197 students in one area high school tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.

The small, rural school introduced Equine Studies into its curriculum about a year ago following a suggestion from a parent, who started the ball rolling by donating two horses.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

Following earning his own certification, Maddin left rural teaching and helped start I.D.E.A. College Prep — a public charter school based in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, dedicated to getting students into top colleges.

And in New Mexico, public officials are following the lead of other states and looking to support bulk purchasing of school bandwidth, possibly via new regional hubs that would make it easier for more providers to reach rural and remote areas with affordable Internet service.

Morgan's u-turn followed an uprising against forced academisation from backbench Tory MPs who were particularly concerned about the potential impact on smaller schools in rural areas.

More can be done to follow the trends and understand the impact of the growing charter school populations in rural communities like Bingham County, Idaho.

Diverse student teachings experiences including at least two of the following: rural setting, urban setting, ELL students, schools with high - poverty, students with disabilities, instruction on social and emotional learning practices.

Among her many memberships, she has also served as the president, secretary and board member in the following organizations; Staff Development Council of Arizona, The Arizona Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, The Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education, Arizona Commission for Postsecondary Education, National Science Teachers Association Arizona Science Teachers Association, and Arizona Rural Schools Association.

VTS provides STELLAR participants both in - person and online professional development sessions with the goal of supporting rural schools with evidenced - based strategies that lead to the following student outcomes:

A taut, suspenseful novel of small - town secrets set during a drought in rural Australia, The Dry follows federal agent Aaron Falk who is called back to the town where he grew up and asked to investigate the murder - suicide of his best friend from high school.

Following graduation from The Cooper Union School of Engineering in 1970, Rich joined the Peace Corp where he did work in Thailand, for three years as a rural engineer and then two years as a Peace Corps trainer.

Following law school, Ms. O'Rear worked for Legal Aid of East Tennessee under a fellowship from the National Association of Public Interest Law intended to increase access to civil legal services in two rural communities in East Tennessee.

Cognitive and motor skills in school - aged children following maternal vitamin A supplementation during pregnancy in rural Nepal: a follow - up of a placebo - controlled, randomised cohort

The prevention of depressive symptoms in rural school children: A follow - up study.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).