Sentences with phrase «give public schools in the nation»

• What grade would you give the public schools in the nation as a whole?

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The public is also famously and enduringly off the mark regarding the academic performance of their local schools, still sipping the warm waters of Lake Wobegon and giving honors grades to «the public schools in your community,» even while conferring far lower marks on «the public schools in the nation as a whole.»

Given all the talk about A Nation at Risk and school reform in the 1980s and 1990s, it's incredible to me how much public schools have resisted true reform,» he says.

In the decade prior to the 1983 release of «A Nation at Risk,» the landmark report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education, the percentage of the public giving local schools one of the two highest grades in the Phi Delta Kappan (PDK) poll had fallen from nearly 50 % to just above 30 In the decade prior to the 1983 release of «A Nation at Risk,» the landmark report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education, the percentage of the public giving local schools one of the two highest grades in the Phi Delta Kappan (PDK) poll had fallen from nearly 50 % to just above 30 in Education, the percentage of the public giving local schools one of the two highest grades in the Phi Delta Kappan (PDK) poll had fallen from nearly 50 % to just above 30 in the Phi Delta Kappan (PDK) poll had fallen from nearly 50 % to just above 30 %.

When asked whether teachers unions have a generally positive or negative effect on the nation's public schools, 33 percent of the public gives a negative response, virtually unchanged from the 31 percent and 33 percent who perceived a negative impact in 2009 and 2010, respectively (see Figure 1).

Nearly seven in 10 of the nation's public schools offer opportunities for students to participate in community - service projects, or give them credit for doing so, with the trend on the upswing, a new report says.

Though adults give the nation's public schools only mediocre grades — a plurality confer a «C» — they are willing to invest more money in public education and they are reasonably confident that doing so will improve student learning.

In another Gallup poll in 2012, only 19 percent of the public gave an A or a B to the nation's public schools, but 77 percent of parents awarded high marks to their own public school, the one they knew besIn another Gallup poll in 2012, only 19 percent of the public gave an A or a B to the nation's public schools, but 77 percent of parents awarded high marks to their own public school, the one they knew besin 2012, only 19 percent of the public gave an A or a B to the nation's public schools, but 77 percent of parents awarded high marks to their own public school, the one they knew best.

Given the wealth of diversity in our nation's public schools, it is no wonder that instructional theory is advocating a shift toward a pedagogy that emphasizes a comfortable and academically enriching environment for students of all ethnicities, races, beliefs, and creeds.

The U.S. Supreme Court has given the nation's public schools the green light to keep «under God» in the Pledge of Allegiance — at least for now — by holding that a California father lacked the legal standing to challenge a California school district's policy of leading children in the pledge.

«I give this budget an «F» grade for failing public school students in California and across the nation,» Torlakson said in the statement.

Desert Trails Preparatory Academy in Adelanto, Calif., will open for the academic year on Monday as the first school in the nation to have been remade under a law that gives parents the power to take over a low - performing public school and fire the principal, dismiss teachers or bring in private management.

Dedicated to giving every child the chance to attend a great school, Civic Builders partners with the nation's best educators to create public charter school buildings in communities where the need is greatest.

The moment proved to be a turning point, laying the groundwork for a deal reached last weekend that gave New York City charter schools some of the most sweeping protections in the nation, including a right to space inside public buildings.

Miles» report, which analyzed both state and national public school spending trends, pointed to numerous shortfalls in the state's school finance structure, including that North Carolina has the fifth lowest average teacher salary in the nation when adjusted for cost - of - living, and that the state's teachers earn only about 67 percent of the pay given to «similarly - educated, non-teachers.»

While K12 Inc. may have started out as an effort to bring public education into the 21st century with corporate efficiency and online curriculum, giving students across the nation the chance to learn what they might in a brick - and - mortar public school from home, it has since failed to produce satisfactory results.