Sentences with phrase «further benefit the schools»

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And far many more benefited as the Church aided the poor, treated the sick and helped assimilate wave uponwave of immigrants... Neighborhoods were anchored by parish churches, and by parochial schools that still serve as models of education.»

Further, teaching about personal relationships is an area in which parents have a significant advantage over schools and one in which we should have low expectations about the benefits that schools can deliver.

«We have 378 schools participating every year, and have had more than 500,000 students benefiting so far from the program.

The main point of my 2011 post was to question why Jamie Oliver (whose «Food Revolution» show was then on television) was focusing so intensely on banning chocolate milk in American schools at a time when there were, in my opinion, far more pressing school food issues which would have benefitted from his celebrity and clout.

Victoria and I started the School of Babywearing because of our passion for babywearing and our desire to bring the benefits to as many people as possible here in the UK and further afield.

Our approach is one that has so far successfully married most if not all of the opinions from both sides of the education divide relating how education can or could be delivered, and from this we have achieved a broad and successful outcome, that benefits all of the children who attend our school.

Maybe «Wilma» and others like her, who are the real heroes in the fight for better school food, who do their work day in and day out without benefit of media adulation or hundreds of throusands of outside dollars to support their programs, might find comfort and inspiration in making their own Healthy School Food Continuum and reminding themselves of just how far they have come against overwhelmingschool food, who do their work day in and day out without benefit of media adulation or hundreds of throusands of outside dollars to support their programs, might find comfort and inspiration in making their own Healthy School Food Continuum and reminding themselves of just how far they have come against overwhelmingSchool Food Continuum and reminding themselves of just how far they have come against overwhelming odds.

New York's 16 Medical schools released a report highlighting the economic and scientific benefits of the state's thus far, $ 223 million investment in STEM Cell research.

The First Lady said that experts have assured the programme is highly cost - effective and the benefits far outweigh the costs noting that «when we invest in adolescent nutrition now, they will stay in school longer, perform better in school and ultimately we will create a more productive labor force which is a crucial precondition for economic development.»

She would use a win to further the appalling set of policies the right wing of her party are intent upon: cutting welfare provision for the disabled and the elderly, cutting housing benefit, furthering the privatisation of the NHS, expanding faith - based and selective schooling, preparing for a post-Brexit bonfire of regulations protecting consumers, employees and the environment.

But reducing the overall tax «burden» meant going much further, and funding additional cuts in taxation by reducing the money that the government is able to spend on the things that, it might be argued, are best provided collectively: schools, hospitals, pensions, unemployment benefits, disability allowances, the police and the armed forces.

Yet pretty much every major cut so far has been targeted specifically at children: new schools & playgrounds scrapped, Child Trust Fund scrapped, free school meals extension scrapped etc., and now Child Benefit cut.

Ms Teather is set to announce that all those eligible for free school meals within the last six months will also be covered by the premium, benefiting a further 500,000 pupils.

Supporters of an education tax credit that would benefit those who donate to private and public schools have created a super PAC called «Catholics for Independent Action,» which has raised $ 90,000 so far.

WCAX - TV reports Democratic Chairman Senator Dick Sears says the plan could especially benefit rural schools where police are often far away.

Cuomo is pushing forward on further changes: He wants to lift the cap on charter schools and create a $ 150 million education tax credit that is aimed at spurring donations to public schools and scholarships benefiting private education.

Liberal Democrats are telling the Chancellor that they won't accept further cuts to welfare if he isn't willing to cut richer pensioners» benefits and, potentially, also «gently trim» the budgets for the NHS, schools and aid.

UFT members from Districts 13, 14 and 17 as well as high schools from those areas heard UFT President Michael Mulgrew speak about the proposed federal education budget cuts, the attack on unions by far - right privatization advocates, the dangers to hard - won benefits if a state constitutional convention is held in 2018 and other pressing issues.

Accordingly Ulrich Trautwein, director of the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, calls for a better integration of research and practice: «Our study is further evidence of how school practice might benefit from the insights of education sciences.»

«Above all, we do not want to create the impression that walking to school is bad for children's health because the opposite is true: walking or cycling to school, which builds physical activity into the child's daily routine, has health benefits that far outweigh any negative impact of air pollution» explains Jordi Sunyer, head of ISGlobal's Child Health Programme and co-author of the study.

A 38 - center clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has shown that far more people than previously thought can benefit from an emergency procedure for acute ischemic stroke.

Well, there are also places at the Grad Schools for Graduate School Mentors — people a bit further down the career track who participate equally, but who are also able to offer their own perspective and experience at the same time as benefiting from the career development opportunities on offer.

«Air quality in the U.S. has benefitted from more protective federal standards in response to evidence from health studies, and there are likely further benefits to be gained by standards even lower than those now recommended by the ATS,» said ATS President Marc Moss, MD, who is Roger S. Mitchell Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

In an editorial published with the study, Viktor Grunwald, of Hannover Medical School, Germany, wrote «these antitumour activity findings indicate the potential clinical benefit of targeted - immune combinations and suggest that further studies are warranted to explore whether a first - line targeted - immune combination might overcome the standard of sequential targeted and immune therapies.»

The study can't prove that the energy burn from fidgeting was directly responsible for the benefit, and «further research is needed,» said study co-lead author Janet Cade, a professor in the School of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Leeds.

If services are provided, the parents consult with me because the school is providing services that are not appropriate and the child is falling further and further behind and is not receiving educational benefit.

But after three years of teaching all levels of middle school students in a flexible environment, I can say that the benefits far outweigh any management issues that arise.

When a school makes the decision to actively engage its diverse community of families, the benefits far outweigh the effort.

Further research has also shown that the potential benefits of the programme go wider than pupil health, with FFL schools «consistently reporting that FFL had contributed to their school improvement agendas, helping improve attainment, behaviour and school environments» and that the experiential learning resulting from Food for Life activity «appears to have been particularly effective at helping engage or re-engage pupils with learning issues and challenges.»

And the topics covered in those pages extend far beyond bread - and - butter questions of salary and benefits; there are dozens of clauses covering a district's ability to evaluate, transfer, terminate, and manage the workload of teachers, all having potentially serious effects on the management of schools and student achievement.

When students have in their hands the suite of personal digital technologies that they use 24 hours, seven days a week, the way is opened for schools to readily harness that technology and benefit from the opportunities being opened in every area of learning; to further lower the school walls, to better individualise teaching and assessment, to interface with the apposite evermore powerful online learning facilities, to marry the «in» and «out» of school learning and teaching, and for the children to learn in context anywhere, anytime.

As our analyses will demonstrate, a high school diploma may offer its greatest benefit by opening doors to further education and training, which in turn afford additional opportunities.

Examples of school districts targeting stimulus funds to benefit English - language learners have been few and far between.

Hashtags help to further leverage the potential of social media platforms and provide a level of transparency that is sure to benefit any school library.

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The authors have made several recommendations for further work, including replicating this analysis through a Randomised Control Trial, broadening it to cover Discovery, Bronze and Gold Award types and conducting a cost benefit analysis for schools.

Approximately 1,100 Stretford High School students will use the facility, with a further 1,900 weekly users from the community also benefiting.

Teachers and employers are contributing far more money into Pennsylvania's state - run defined benefit plan than they are into the Chester Charter School 403 (b) plan.

A phased approach Choosing an Umbrella Trust (UT) as the conversion vehicle offers good opportunities both for formalising existing collaboration arrangements between individual schools and extending these further to benefit other members of the group.

Through this whole - family program, both schools have been able to reach out to parents and provide them with an opportunity to further their own education — a strategy that benefits parents, students, and, ultimately, the entire school community.

[v] Indeed, Matthew Chingos has shown that schools would do well to increase class sizes modestly in order to cover the costs of a longer year; the time - related benefits for student achievement would far outweigh any losses due to larger classes.

Lifelong learning arrangements, particularly those in informal and non-formal settings, can confer a number of benefits: they can provide people who live in countries that do not have universal education with access to learning opportunities on a continuous basis; they can address the problem of conventional formal schooling being too far removed from local cultural and social environments; and they can alleviate economic hardship, particularly for young people in developing countries who may experience strong pressures to earn income to help support their families or, particularly if they are girls, to take on significant responsibilities at home (1, 4).

School budgets are under pressure, of course, but the relatively low capital cost required to improve outdoor facilities delivers far - reaching benefits.

Jonathan Taylor, Vice President of the EIB, said of the announcement: «The European Investment Bank is committed to supporting long term investment that improves education across Europe and in the UK thousands of primary and secondary school pupils, and students in higher and further education have benefited from investment in better facilities and modern learning environments following EIB backed education projects.»

Over recent years thousands of school, higher and further education students across the UK, have benefited from EIB backed investment in better facilities and modern learning environments.»

So far, more than 135,000 pupils have learnt about energy saving and nearly 300 schools have benefitted from the programme, saving nearly 17,000 tonnes of CO2 and # 830,000 in energy bills.

Involving young people in risk / benefit assessment can have further benefits, providing them with experience of effective risk management which they can apply in their lives outside of school.

Key life skills The direct link to developing a wider set of skills is a further benefit to those participants in an environmental behaviour change schools programme.

«A far more effective means of improving social mobility would be to address the funding crisis which is affecting all schools, as this would have the greatest benefit for all young people.»

I know that their schools will benefit even further from the new ideas, resources and energy they've taken away from this great professional learning opportunity.»