Sentences with phrase «great academic school»

It's a great academic school, but we've done a nice job with the basketball facility, the football practice facility, baseball facilities.

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TEMECULA, CA — Great Oak High School is celebrating a win from the weekend's Riverside County Academic Decathlon.

Occupying the same prestigious academic «neighborhood» as Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Minnesota and other elite state flagships requires a greater commitment — but the Maryland community still has traces of its «commuter - school» past.

«Ohio State's a great school, and I committed there because of academics,» he told the Free Press today.

«I am extremely excited to be part of a great academic and athletic high school,» said Christmas.

Help elementary school students prepare for a great academic year and get your tweens and teens on - board too.

Bob Jones homeschool reviews from across the web praise the BJ curriculum as a great option for parents to find an organized and systematic way to cover all of the material that must be taught as students progress throughout school from a biblical and academic stand point.

Prairie Moon Waldorf School offers a rich and comprehensive academic program which includes English based on world literature, myths, and legends; history that is chronological and inclusive of the world's great civilizations; science that surveys geography, astronomy, meteorology, physical and life sciences; and mathematics that develops competence in arithmetic, algebra, and geometry.

Baseball can be a great field trip at the end of the school year to celebrate great academic efforts from the kids.

«There's greater academic success when students are well fed,» stated Burlington School Food Project director Doug Davis.

The school year has officially started, and many parents are crossing their fingers for a great academic year for their child.

Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.

However, private boarding schools for troubled teens have a great deal of experience working with teens who have let their academics slip, and they have the resources for the teens to recover.

panel, where panelists discussed all of the great things about serving breakfast in the classroom: improved academic performance, reduced tardiness and absences, lower obesity rates, opportunities for growing school food programs, and most important of all: it's the right thing to do.

Here in the Ctiy of Buffalo this year a report from the Council on Great City Schools on Improving the Academic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instAcademic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instacademic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instruction.

During graduate school at Cornell's biomedical campus in Manhattan, Kelly says that she had «a great time in the lab» but that academic politics and conflicting personalities reinforced her earlier doubts.

«Afterschool classrooms observed to be positive, responsive, and organized had youth with greater academic skill development over the school year.

In elementary school, he wasn't the studious type, but a seventh - grade teacher convinced him that he had great academic potential.

«Changes in academic environments matter, as well as the school environments themselves, and future research should incorporate those differences to gain greater insights into the transition to college and into well - being during early adulthood and beyond,» Andersson said.

«High social - emotional health has been associated with greater academic performance and improved behavior in the school environment,» said Elisa I. Muñiz, M.D., M.S., developmental - behavioral pediatrician, Department of Pediatrics, Bronx - Lebanon Hospital Center, who led the research while a fellow at CERC.

Women have been attending medical school in numbers equal to or greater than those of men since 1996 in the United Kingdom, 1 and in nearly equal numbers in the United States since 2003.2 However, despite parity in medical school admissions, substantial gender differences in rank and leadership remain in academic medicine.

I have been deeply depressed during both difficult times, like my parents» protracted divorce when I was in high school, and at times when my life was objectively great, with academic, professional, and social success.

The story sees ne'er - do - well Billy sent back to high school as a way in which to prove his basic academic competency, and it's just a great excuse to pile joke upon joke upon joke.

And for every Superbad, there are four or five lesser films like Project X. And sure, occasionally you'll get a high school movie that actually has something to say about the academic and societal pressures of being a student (Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow is a great example), but even that focused primarily on male characters.

My high school offered an elective class that featured one of the English teachers showing great movies and talking about them from an academic point - of - view.

Other findings reveal that young people who have a positive perception of apprenticeships have received a greater number of employer engagement activities in school and that young people see the career education they receive as mostly biased to academic education.

The esteemed academic, currently serving as president of Morgan State University in Baltimore, is flooded with memories of hot summer days walking the long miles between the school and his home (often barefoot to save his shoes), of early classroom lessons taught by a strict but caring teacher, of his beloved family members who reside here in great number.

This shift toward greater accountability also included putting «low performing» schools, those in which fewer than 15 percent of elementary students met national norms in reading, on an academic watch list.

It will take a lot to make public schools more effective for all students: greater academic rigor, higher standards of conduct, more parental involvement, meaningful professional development for teachers, stronger incentives for the students themselves, and, of course, more access to health and social services for the many students who are in need of such.

Using an online platform to provide a «one stop shop» for updates, academic achievement as well as a reward scheme is a great way to strengthen communication between the school, student and parents.

In a similar vein, middle - class and more - educated parents tend to shape Christian schools toward less tension with the outside world, greater emphasis on academic excellence, less rigid social control of students, greater room for individual creativity and expression, and less denominationally distinctive ways of integrating religion into school life.

A recent paper published by Public Health England, «The link between pupil health and well ‑ being and attainment: A briefing for head teachers, governors and staff in education settings» (November 2014) presented the following evidence: pupils with better health and well ‑ being are likely to achieve better academically; effective social and emotional competencies are associated with greater health and well ‑ being, and better achievement; the culture, ethos and environment of a school influences the health and well - being of pupils and their readiness to learn; and a positive association exists between academic attainment and physical activity levels of pupils.

Refurbished computer systems are a great choice for schools working to extremely tight budgets, while trying to provide first rate technology to enable young people to reach their academic potential.

He found that single - sex schooling helps to improve academic achievement, with benefits greater for girls than boys, and that underprivileged children derived the most benefit.

While I was at Drake, my colleagues and I achieved great academic results from the students as a result of a redesign of the school to support project - based learning and by building a strong, professional learning community.

Schools will leverage online learning for academics, which means they will be able to act as community centers in essence and focus far more on providing well - kept facilities that students want to attend with great face - to - face supports, high - quality meals, and a range of athletic, musical, and artistic programs — things that receive short shrift all too often today.

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.

The curriculum — which embeds all - purpose academic words the students will need to read high school and college textbooks in math, English, science, and history — has helped to «build a bridge toward greater understanding of what is being read by students,» says Ben Honoroff, the literacy coach for MSQI in the Department of Education.

And legislatures should examine the academic impact of these programs, as greater transparency often weeds out schools with shaky credentials and questionable business practices.

However, there are a number of academic professionals who believe schools being granted greater autonomy can only be an advantage.

A Maryland school district's curriculum and classroom assessments represent what teachers need to help students reach ambitious academic goals and succeed on state tests, concludes a report issued by a group pushing for greater student achievement.

The 1990s were a time of great academic and financial expansion for the school.

Therefore improved student health and wellbeing and academics equates to great incentives for schools!

Over 100 pages with whole numbers and some great ideas from current teachers, teaching assistants, home school parents, private tutors, special needs tutors providing excellent examples for successfully using these resources in developing students» skills, confidence and academic buoyancy, aiding soft skills and other life skills, generating students» thinking, talking, listening, reflecting, writing and reasoning.

«Alongside the EBacc, the arts are a crucial part of a broad and balanced curriculum and it is great to see that the best schools ensure young people have the option to study both academic and creative subjects.»

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

Jacqui Glenn, director at Argos for Business, says: «As the summer holidays are well underway and the new academic year is fast approaching, schools would benefit from ensuring their facilities are not only are ready for the new intake of pupils but also ensure their classrooms and common areas support the needs of young people with greater needs.

In some places, Catholic schools must participate in these, usually as a condition of receiving students with vouchers; in a handful of places, diocesan authorities have willingly joined in, but nobody would say there's been a great rush by Catholic schools to be compared — with charter schools, with district schools, with other private schools, even with each other — on the basis of academic achievement.

Early education yields results in terms of later academic achievement that are greater and last longer than do educational interventions that begin after failure in school.

Closer examination of the studies of such schools clearly show that the apparent academic advances are due to the presence of such factors as smaller class size, more resources, greater parental interest, and higher student ability and motivation — not to the absence of the opposite sex.