Sentences with phrase «great academic year»

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

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

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Fans of the Blue Sky Academic Year Planner tout the attractive design and great format.

Well, I can see in 2000 years, academics looking back at the «great persecution of Christians» and finding that the great persecutions of the early part of the third millennium AD were actually blog comments by anonymous people.

«The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego serves kids ages 5 - to 18 - years old with academic success, character development and healthy lifestyle programs at 17 community - based sites county - wide,» notes an event spokesperson.

And, going by the depth and invigorated hunger that this Arsenal's squad possesses, it should be academic really, to see someone step up to the plate and fill in for the 23 - year old Welshman, with great aplomb.

However, the 2015 - 16 academic and athletic year was by far Robards» greatest on the playing fields.

3rd grade is a year of great academic growth.

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

We have spent the last two years collecting a huge range of data on UK democracy from a variety of sources, including the Electoral Commission, the Office for National Statistics, the House of Commons Library, the Greater London Authority, Electoral Office of Northern Ireland, Scottish Government, along with the work of other academics.

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.

I made a great effort during last 4 years to obtain positive results in my thesis and now I feel like I have wasted my time: I have no options to get a job neither in academic nor industry unless I refresh or recycle myself, but how I could do so when I'm 35 and spent the main time of my life studiying and giving up so many things just to get a better future?

A new summary of 12 years of research on North Carolina's pre-kindergarten program for at - risk 4 - year - olds shows that «dual - language learners» make the greatest academic progress in the program.

But the real dearth — the lack of clear pathways into careers that could enable today's generation of gifted young Americans to become the researchers who make tomorrow's great discoveries — is convincing more and more of the nation's best students not to seek careers in fields such as law, finance, medicine and other fields that offer much better short - and long - term career prospects instead of dedicating an average of seven years to PhD study plus an additional five years or more of postdoctoral training now considered necessary to compete for an academic career in many scientific fields.

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

By the fall of their kindergarten year, children who participated in Head Start and the REDI - P group scored higher than the children in the control group on several measures, showing greater increases in their vocabulary, literacy skills, reading fluency and academic performance upon entering kindergarten.

But the only sign of a much - ballyhooed push for greater commercialization of university research is a promise to invest $ 38 million over 5 years in a program to train academic technology - transfer officers and create business - development offices.

The agreement, which was ratified by 92 % of voting DFA members, «represents a significant achievement for DFA,» DFA president Andrew Wainwright tells Next Wave Canada, «though at the price of great disruption of the academic year and shredded labor relations.»

Together, Bruce and Cindy are tireless advocates for Lifespan and we owe them a great debt for their years of selfless service, dedication, unflagging energy and philanthropic support, which has helped make Rhode Island Hospital the premier academic medical center it is today.

Over the next academic year we will be exploring how some of the great content we have developed for James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally by his stage name Iggy Pop (/ ˈ ɪ ɡ i p ɒ p /), and designated the Godfather of

Likewise, a handbook written in 2006 by Linda Kaboolian, a respected academic proponent of reform unionism (see also Kaboolians» essay «Table Talk,» forum), asserts that «a great deal of collaborative innovation exists and has been ongoing for many years.»

Ladies and gentleman, for meritorious service to further the cause of rigorous academic standards and educational excellence, please put your hands together for the governor of the great state of Louisiana, Common Core Man of the Year, Bobby Jindal!»

It is that time of the year when the eLearning world is getting ready to buckle down and churn out some great new courses, courtesy of the upcoming academic year.

Great idea to finish the academic year or perhaps to return to in September as the nation faces more change.

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.

Many school leaders attribute this to changes over the past two years in how school performance is measured and the greater focus on pupils» achievement in academic subjects.

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«The emphasis for so long has been placed on academic performance and academic content mastery,» said panelist Rebecca Snyder, a co-author of the NNSTOY report and member of Greater Latrobe Education Association in Pennsylvania where she was teacher of the year in 2009.

If you hope to attend a program for the upcoming or future academic year, now is a great time to start exploring external scholarship sources.

Great for the Summer Term as it nears the end of the academic year!

The law put a much greater focus on quality in charter school authorizing, for instance by mandating the closure of any charter school that fails to meet academic or financial benchmarks for three consecutive years.

«We are incredibly pleased to see the results of this study by Dr. Matt Chingos of the Urban Institute, as it confirms what we have known to be true for years: private school choice programs provide families, especially disadvantaged families, greater opportunities to achieve academic success.

For Immediate Release: April 24, 2018 Taylor Fulcher, Director of Communications [email protected] 803-908-3849 South Carolina Public Charter School District Recognizes Nine «Schools of Distinction» It is with great pleasure that the SCPCSD staff recognizes nine schools as SCPCSD Schools of Distinction based on data from the 2016 - 2017 academic school year...

For Immediate Release: March 29, 2017 Taylor Fulcher, Director of Communications [email protected] South Carolina Public Charter School District Recognizes Eight «Schools of Distinction» It is with great pleasure that the SCPCSD staff recognizes eight schools as SCPCSD Schools of Distinction based on data from the 2015 - 2016 academic school year...

Across that period, charter schools statewide consistently provided greater academic growth than their district peers: on average, charter students over the course of the study saw the equivalent of 34 additional days in reading and 63 in math each year.

MPS, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee and City Year Milwaukee are partnering to provide early literacy interventions, targeted mathematics programming and social - emotional learning at four MPS schools: Carver Academy, James Madison Academic Campus, Alexander Mitchell Integrated Arts School and Rogers Street Academy.

A greater emphasis needs to be placed on ensuring that all students achieve at least one year of academic growth each year, rather than on what the average test score for a class or grade is on an assessment.

Pennsylvania's proposed indicators for federal accountability include a greater emphasis on academic growth, career readiness benchmarks, chronic absenteeism, and extended - year graduation rates for federal accountability purposes.

While Alliance has seen great academic success from its students, it hasn't been all wins, as two of its middle schools and two of its high schools performed below the API average of LAUSD schools during the 2012 - 13 school year.

This partnership between The Manchester Grammar Junior School and St James» CofE Primary School, Birch - in - Rusholme, allows Year 6 pupils greater access to educational opportunities across a range of subjects - academic, sporting and co-curricular.

Our students and students» families desire greater opportunity for more rigorous academic experiences and are also under - represented in higher education: 97 % identify as students of color; more than 50 % speak a language other than English at home; and 71 % will be the first in their families to attend a four - year college.

A major study earlier this year by the state Legislative Analyst's office found that the autonomy and smaller size of charter schools bring more innovation and individual attention to students, and greater academic success at a lower cost to taxpayers than traditional public schools.

Academic Performance Index (API) score that is above the 27th percentile of performance for all schools in California in most recent year (API 2013 score greater than or equal to 749), or

These findings indicate that students in classrooms implementing Great Expectations ® methodology showed greater gains in student academic achievement during the school year compared to demographically similar students not exposed to GE.

Danette Brown, a veteran of 18 years in the La Habra Elementary School District who currently works as an «academic coach» for the district, also testified that support from her school district has resulted in greater teacher satisfaction.

When I served as the interim chief academic officer for NOCCA from January through June this year, it didn't take long for me to see that all high schools can adopt many of NOCCA's practices and structures, which ultimately make it a great school.

NASHVILLE: Six great books to read to avoid the «summer slide» (when students lose academic gains made over the school year).

You did a great job in describing it from an academic standpoint, but from a policy standpoint where do you think charter schools will be 10 years from now?

Napa Valley is recognized the world over for its award - winning wines, but little is known about its low - income, mostly agricultural, communities where the need is great; especially for year - round student academic support and enrichment opportunities.

Nationally, urban charter schools on average achieved significantly greater student success in both math and reading than traditional public schools, said the study, which covered the academic years 2006 - 07 to 2011 - 12.