Sentences with phrase «for ending the social promotion»

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On the other hand, the very fact that they claim if not a monopoly of supreme values and motivating forces, yet a unique relation to them, makes it impossible for the churches to participate in promotion of social ends on a natural and equal human basis.

This session ended with a robust panel discuss (led by Kelly Toups of the Oldways Whole Grains Council, a resource specialist for the Plant - Forward Working Group) of how campus dining leaders developed jackfruit pop - up events with social media promotions and marketing to get students interested in vegetarian and blended (meat + jackfruit) menu options.

As policy makers look for ways to fix the nation's failing schools, many eyes are focused on Chicago's four - year - old effort to end social promotion.

In the case of Florida's program to end social promotion, for example, we can compare students who were subject to the threat of retention with students who would have been had they been born a year later.

Lesson Objectives At the end of the lesson, students should be able to: 3.3.5 Describe Technology and the marketing mix: • Define and explain the concept of e-commerce • Identify and explain the opportunities and threats of e-commerce to business and consumers • Describe the use of the internet and social networks for promotion.

The President's budget contains support for urban and rural school districts undertaking tough reforms including ending social promotion and fixing failing schools.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

Indeed, some have suggested that ending social promotion in Chicago simply transferred responsibility for poor student performance to the students, parents, and after school and summer programs, in effect removing the burden from teachers (see Figure 1).

In 2005, Alexander Russo wrote for Education Next about the impact of Chicago's decision to end social promotion.

But consider this: It takes 5 years for the effects of ending social promotion in 3rd grade to show up in 8th grade.

The discussion about social promotion became part of our nation's dialogue about education when President Bill Clinton asked for its end in three consecutive State of the Union Addresses (1997 — 1999).

In a 2014 report, called «Opportunity Mississippi,» the governor wrote, «My «Third Grade Gate» literacy measure... will improve literacy achievement by ending social promotion of third grade students who are not reading on grade level... As this policy is fully implemented, we will gain a better understanding of how many children are struggling with literacy, and we will in turn be able to prove the need for additional resources.»

An end to the «School - to - Prison Pipeline» and the promotion of alternatives such as restorative justice programs, wrap - around services including an adequate guidance and social work staff; an end to racial profiling and Stop and Frisk; and a return to community schools as centers that provide medical care, skills training, and tutoring, with social workers and counselors for students» families and the community.

One of the first waves of changes, high - stakes tests for fourth - and eighth - graders aimed at ending decades of social promotions, sparked years of controversy.

You may have read this powerful story by one of the first students to be affected by Vallas's «ending social promotion» fiasco; we've had it posted for a while under the Take Action menu on our home page.

Here's a new social promotion a reader just alerted us to: «like» Big O Tires Cheyenne on Facebook and, for each new «like» through the end of February, they'll donate $ 1 to the Black Dog Animal Rescue!

Twitter follower promotions, community related «achievements» for sharing info on social media, art contests, updated with interviews every few days with populat dev ends.

The selected artists (either individuals or collaborations) will get exclusive space in our online gallery for an exhibition of usually around two weeks, a press release, online promotion via social networks and at the end of the exhibition the details will be added to our archive.

Twitter Inc. said Thursday it suspended 1.21 million accounts from its social media platform between August 2015 and the end of 2017 for «violations related to the promotion of terrorism.»