Sentences with phrase «given at independent schools»

There is wide variation in careers advice given at independent schools, compared with state and academy schools, research reveals.

Not exact matches

The independent evaluation by researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the National Children's Bureau found that Year 2 children in schools with a breakfast club made two additional months» progress in reading, writing and maths compared with a similar group whose schools were not given support to offer breakfast.

According to the Portland school board, the real estate trust was «a nonprofit, independent entity created by [Portland Public Schools], which could, at the board's discretion, be given title to property deemed «surplus» to either market or redevelop it on behalf of the school district.»

Alex Hill: I mean it was actually part of a big study looking at 160 academies [independent but state - funded schools], where we were given remote access to their systems so that we could actually observe what they did and how they operated, and we worked with them for seven to nine years, and during that time there was 411 different leaders who led those schools.

In a recent Guardian article, Mike Britland, head of ICT at a comprehensive school in Bournemouth, said technology was allowing students to be more independent in the classroom, and considered that making use of technology that «gives students the freedom to discover solutions to problems both independently and collaboratively is a force for good.»

One criticism was that they had been given over-structured support at school and wanted to be more independent academically.

«Worryingly our research shows that there is a clear discrepancy in the careers advice given to students at independent and state schools.

Programs such as that or just teachers finding flexibility in their timetable — which I know is really hard in a time of a crowded curriculum — but to somehow give children the time to do some independent reading if possible during every school day, [or] at least three or four times a week.

Rosemary Johnston: In school, the report found that children who are given time for independent reading at school are more likely to be reading currently and frequently; they're more likely also to say that reading books for fun -[for fun is] the phrase that's used quite often in the report, it's really reading books for pleasure, which is fun.

Particular attention is given to programs implemented at U.S. independent schools that utilize new technologies and improved professional development to prepare students to address social, political, and environmental issues.

But now a few private schools and charter schools, which are independent public schools exempt from ordinary rules and procedures, have set themselves up as boarding schools for low - income students who want many of the advantages and the support given to bankers» and lawyers» children at Groton and St. Mark's.

Here in Connecticut Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education has pontificated that there were very few technical problems with the Common Core SBAC test in Connecticut, although no independent analysis of the claim has been completed and even the claim that there were «few problems» is suspect considering that in at least two Connecticut School Districts students were given the wrong test and the community's entire results had to be thrown out.

Annual tests give parents an independent and objective basis to judge their schools and to know whether their child is at grade level or above or below it.

It's a disservice to give precedence to these schools over their independent peers when issuing charters or looking at overall achievement.

DPI said in the letter that a preliminary, but reliable look at the way schools measure up under the new formula shows no school districts are now eligible for a new program lawmakers also created during the last budget cycle that would give county executives the power to turn such schools in their county into private voucher schools or independent charter schools.

At Milwaukee College Prep, an independent charter school with a strong record of student success, one criterion for giving teachers bonuses is if their students exceed national growth norms for the year.

«(We're) giving kids authentic tasks that real people in the real world are trying to tackle and solve that don't have a multiple choice Scantron answer,» said ALA Principal Kathy Beiser, Trinity alumna and former principal at North East Independent School District's (NEISD) International School of the Americas, which leverages a similar partnership model with Trinity.

Ascent Independent, engineered by Goal Structured Solutions, Inc. (GS2), is a non-cosigned loan that gives domestic undergraduate and graduate students at eligible schools more opportunities to qualify for a loan, in their own name.

He has given talks at the CAA in New York; Central 2 Tracks, Costa Rica; ICI (Independent Curators International) New York; New School, New York; Glasgow School of Arts, United Kingdom; University of Montevideo, Uruguay; Actual / FLACSO, Ecuador Art.

Located in Ottawa's Byward Market, SPAO is an independent, not - for - profit school and career college aimed at giving intensive learning experiences and enriching the culture of photographic arts.