Sentences with phrase «great schools and systems»

The mark of the cage - buster is not a particular stance on things like career ladders or differentiated pay but the belief that educators should have much more leeway to create great schools and systems.

In Cage - Busting Leadership, I argued that K — 12 leaders have much more power than they think to create great schools and systems.

Not exact matches

The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

She'll have to quit her well - paid job at a respectable company and tell her parents that although she studied hard throughout school and got into a great college and graduated in 3 years that she is now leaving it to change the way that manufacturers sell products electronically through their distribution systems.

In her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she charges that the state reading and math tests mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act lower the bar, produce inconsistent results, lack content, promote cheating, and encourage teachers to waste time on test - taking strategies.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System BY DIANE RAVITCH BASIC BOOKS, 283 PAGES, $ 26.95 Catholic schools reap one benefit from poverty,» the high - school principal hiring me commented ruefully (I'd just glimpsed my pay pacSchool System BY DIANE RAVITCH BASIC BOOKS, 283 PAGES, $ 26.95 Catholic schools reap one benefit from poverty,» the high - school principal hiring me commented ruefully (I'd just glimpsed my pay pacschool principal hiring me commented ruefully (I'd just glimpsed my pay package).

How about if they ban the words «god», «the lord» and «allah»... that would go a long way to solvng a great deal of «truth» in the education systems in schools..

One does not have to abhor homosexuality in order to understand that the recent change in law has opened a wide door that will leave the school system, and children in general, vulnerable to further legal changes that will always go towards greater licentiousness, and less protection for the vulnerable.

Finally, outside the school system, technology has made a liberal education cheaper and more accessible than ever before --- witness, for example, the wild success of the Great Courses, usefully profiled by Heather Mac Donald in the City Journal.

The elementary and secondary school system (to name just one Catholic institution affected by the drop in vocations) serves approximately half the number of students it did in 1960, despite the greater presence of lay teachers and administrators.

As the oldest child in a stable middle class family, Luther endured a childhood of strict discipline at home, school and church that left him with a sense of inferiority, and emerged into university life at a time of great intellectual ferment that challenged the entire educational system as well as the corruptions of a politically powerful church.

Three of the heroes of my Baltimore boyhood get their just deserts: Archbishop John Carroll, first and arguably greatest of U.S. bishops; Cardinal James Gibbons, America's most prominent Catholic for four decades; and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, «Wild Betty» as she once called herself, foundress of the Catholic school system that's still the Church's best anti-poverty program.

Student - to - Nurse Ratio: Code § 49-3-359 (2004) provides funding to public school systems for school nurses at the ratio of one per 3,000 students or one per school system, whichever is greater, and allows school systems to employ school nurses or contract them through the Public School Nurse program established in school systems for school nurses at the ratio of one per 3,000 students or one per school system, whichever is greater, and allows school systems to employ school nurses or contract them through the Public School Nurse program established in school nurses at the ratio of one per 3,000 students or one per school system, whichever is greater, and allows school systems to employ school nurses or contract them through the Public School Nurse program established in school system, whichever is greater, and allows school systems to employ school nurses or contract them through the Public School Nurse program established in school systems to employ school nurses or contract them through the Public School Nurse program established in school nurses or contract them through the Public School Nurse program established in School Nurse program established in Tenn..

Our kids have a reward system that they use in their classrooms at school that seems to work great so the hubby suggested that I make one similar so I designed and cut one using my Cricut Explore.

Not only are we up against a school district food system that is set in it's ways, we're battling a larger food culture that values high calorie, highly processed convenience food AND huge food lobbies that have great influence over Congress and the legislation that is passAND huge food lobbies that have great influence over Congress and the legislation that is passand the legislation that is passed.

And when the rest of us pack our kids lunch and opt out of the school meal system, we absolve ourselves of responsibility to make sure every kid in DC gets great foAnd when the rest of us pack our kids lunch and opt out of the school meal system, we absolve ourselves of responsibility to make sure every kid in DC gets great foand opt out of the school meal system, we absolve ourselves of responsibility to make sure every kid in DC gets great food.

Great for work or school, the EasyLunchbox System is perfect for adults and kids.

Hardly seems worth the money to tie ourselves to a system that, at best, may help already college - bound kids attend marginally better colleges but will likely cause at - risk youths, English language learners and students with disabilities to fail in school in even greater numbers.

«It is our intention that we set up a system of school governance that will allow us to become a great school system in which the voices of all stakeholders are heard and to create an environment in which all our children will achieve,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew wrote in an email to members.

Focusing on a notion of accountability which is broader than just league tables and published measurement scores, the Big Education Inquiry argued for greater local control over schools and education and a democratic input into local school systems.

«Our members are very knowledgable about education issues, and while there is great concern about the implementation of the Common Core and the over-reliance on testing, there are many other issues that are front - burner for NYSUT members,» he said, listing concerns over the property tax cap, equitable school funding, the teacher evaluation system and the statewide expansion of pre-kindergarten.

«The MSQI has been central in preparing students for college and careers by sharing best practices across our system of great schools.»

Education Schools We agree to promote the reform of schools in order to ensure: - that new providers can enter the state school system in response to parental demand; - that all schools have greater freedom over curriculum; and, - that all schools are held properly accouSchools We agree to promote the reform of schools in order to ensure: - that new providers can enter the state school system in response to parental demand; - that all schools have greater freedom over curriculum; and, - that all schools are held properly accouschools in order to ensure: - that new providers can enter the state school system in response to parental demand; - that all schools have greater freedom over curriculum; and, - that all schools are held properly accouschools have greater freedom over curriculum; and, - that all schools are held properly accouschools are held properly accountable.

• The report also states that «Some within the Methodist Church have argued to end our involvement with faith - based schools on the grounds that they generate a privileged elite within the national system and take a disproportionate amount of the Church's attention when it should be focusing on the needs of the poorest community schools... we find it hard to understand how promoting Christianity within all schools will be assisted by removing» the privilege» of greater contact with Methodism and therefore with Christianity in 79 schools.»

I believe in a school system that should be at the table with all of the people who live in our city and the more we're together in learning from one another, the greater we're going to be.

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 instruction.

The restaurant grading system has been a great success in New York's restaurants, forcing them to clean up their acts and the IDC will work to do the same for school cafeterias in the next session,» said Senator Savino.

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

«We found that in young healthy mice the immune system overreacted to the influenza virus, which led to more inflammation, greater lung damage and increased mortality compared to healthy adults exposed to the virus,» says lead author Bria Coates, MD, Critical Care physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

«While there is a great deal of discussion of the potentially hazardous components of electronics products, monitoring is rare in the U.S.,» says Valerie Thomas, an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

Using 19 climate models, a team of researchers led by Professor Minghua Zhang of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University, discovered persistent dry and warm biases of simulated climate over the region of the Southern Great Plain in the central U.S. that was caused by poor modeling of atmospheric convective systems — the vertical transport of heat and moisture in the atmosphere.

«What's great about our system is that the user doesn't have to be an artist for the sketch to be accurate, yet is able to retrieve images in a more precise manner than text,» said co-developer Dr Yi - Zhe Song, Director of the SketchX Research Lab, from QMUL's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science.

«Chronic disease has become the great epidemic of our time,» comment authors Richard V. Milani, MD, Ochsner Clinical School — University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, and Carl J. Lavie, MD, Ochsner Clinical School — University of Queensland School of Medicine, and Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA.

Lead author Dr Helena Legido - Quigley, Lecturer in Global Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «Our analysis is the first to look at the overall impact of austerity measures in Spain on the healthcare system and the findings are of great concern.

Given the ample evidence that change over time is a crucial property of planets, including our own, of stars, of galaxies and of the Universe as a whole, it is important for the nation's school children to learn about the great age of, and changes in, astronomical systems, as well as their present properties.

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth is a great JRPG with a nice plot, an enjoyable, old school turn - based battle system, beautiful art direction and a design that grants you the opportunity to catch many Digimons.

Her 1974 book The Great School Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the scSchool Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the scschool history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the schools.

Where I get hung up, though, is with the idea that great leaders can make schools — and especially school districts — work well, given the dysfunction of the larger system within which they must work, and the Gordian knot that's been tied by decades of contradictory, often compromising, laws and regulations, not to mention the impossible politics often created by unruly elected school boards.

It campaigning for greater integration of mental health support and services into education, health and social care systems and believes that every school in England should have at least one member of staff trained in mental health issues.

The review is an important part of the Government's efforts to provide greater independent oversight over Commonwealth school funding and deliver increased transparency and accountability to the system, Mr Birmingham said.

A perfect storm of greater demand for teachers, fewer people entering the profession (particularly in key subjects), severe pressures on schools funding and a restrictive migration system, means that schools are having to think outside of the normal channels of recruitment to more flexible staffing models to cope with these challenges.

This plan places a great deal of faith in competition and innovation, though within the construct of a robust public school system.

In a school setting where potentially hundreds of children are in the care of all adults around, it really isn't acceptable to allow any part of the fire detection and alarm system go unmaintained for any great length of time.

Making time for great teaching found Australian school systems and schools are struggling to allocate the time and resources needed to put teaching and learning first.

To promote student learning and achievement, research indicates that teacher advancement systems should compensate teachers for their expert contributions, particularly in economically disadvantaged schools where teaching challenges tend to be greater (Accomplished California Teachers, 2012).

Instead we need to be doing what an increasing number of schools like another Arizona - based school, the Carpe Diem Collegiate High School and Middle School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great reschool, the Carpe Diem Collegiate High School and Middle School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great reSchool and Middle School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great reSchool, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great results.

Among other things, great school systems decentralize pedagogical methods to schools and teachers, and put in place incentives for frontline educators to share innovative practices across schools.

Still, many wondered with James Stergios of the Pioneer Institute in Boston whether one can set standards capable of driving high performance nationwide in a country that has great regional disparities in student achievement and a decentralized governmental system (where schools are «radically local,» as one panelist put it).

U.S. Schoolchildren Tumble in International Reading Exam Rankings, Worrying Educators (The Washington Post) Marty West discusses the impact the Great Recession may have had on school systems and what that means for improving educational outcomes for the most challenged students.

I'm most proud of the ability the charter sector and our partners in the district have shown to put aside our differences and commit to the shared goal of creating a system of great schools.