Sentences with phrase «high standards in all schools»

«What they will care about is whether she uses Ofsted to press for higher standards in our schools.

However, the Liberal Democrats warned Ms Gilbert must not let her close ties with the government get in the way of working for higher standards in schools.

ATL's leadership section AMiE produces publications on best - practice for experienced and aspiring leaders, as well as workshops both on - line and face - to - face to help leaders and managers develop the skills they need to promote the highest standards in their schools and colleges.

Its calls for higher standards in schools and mastery of the basic competencies required for a globally competitive work force were warmly received by the National Governors Association (NGA).

Ofsted input It is worth noting that although there is a drive to reduce the so - called «burden» of health and safety, it still has a significant input into the new Ofsted inspection framework (2012), which is more important than ever in ensuring high standards in schools.

She said he had showed commitment to higher standards in schools and «particularly the most disadvantaged» children.

Whereas, a healthy diet is connected to a student's ability to learn effectively and achieve high standards in school;

«We can't ask America's kids to meet high standards in schools that are falling down,» says Kerry.

For high standards in all schools we need real local accountability and oversight.

You could use that money to really think about providing different types of professional learning for teachers, including learning about assessment literacy or thinking about how to create and advance the implementation of high standards in that school or in that state or in that district.

IPA believes that good health fosters student attendance, a student's ability to learn effectively and to achieve high standards in school.

Certain age groups qualify for lower rates: individuals over 25 years old, people with respectable jobs and careers, especially men who are married and have kids, students performing to high standards in school etc..

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

It's a movie I wish I had when I was in high school instead of the then - standard «American Pie» or «Superbad» or every other male - centric teen sex comedy.

We're increasing enrollment in high - quality early education, raising standards in our public schools as a leader in implementing the Common Core curriculum and working with the business community on STEM programs that are relevant to the job market.

Those who graduate under higher standards, however, are more likely to make on - time payments and keep up with their bills, and they understand how to manage those obligations better than students who were not exposed to personal finance and economics in school, the data show.

To keep my discussion manageable I will comment only on high school texts and standards in three subject areas: economics, the sciences and history.

USA Today: Ruling lets S.C. students earn credit for religion classes In a ruling that advocates called «a tremendous victory for religious education,» a three - judge panel of the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the right of a school district to award high school credit for religious courses, as long as they meet secular standards.

At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher education.»

In some countries, Christian schools and colleges, which offer a high standard of education, seem to minister to the privileged classes.

Seminary administrations — especially in the university schools — were frequently motivated by a desire to bring theological education in line with the highest standards of secular education.33

Pastors and parents need a seat at the table for district and state decision making so we can advocate for high academic standards in every school.

In order to address this problem, high academic standards will need to be achieved in every school, and communities will have to provide the necessary resources for those students facing additional challengeIn order to address this problem, high academic standards will need to be achieved in every school, and communities will have to provide the necessary resources for those students facing additional challengein every school, and communities will have to provide the necessary resources for those students facing additional challenges.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

What is more, my standard work - schedule would soon be substitute teaching one day in an inner - city high - school, and the next in a suburban one.

This interview with a young LeBron James contains a lot of the standard high school superstar speak, and one interesting line about why he was never interested in playing college football.

A 2014 study (1), however, found that, despite the 2010 endorsement of 6 national medical societies of a single PPE form as part of an effort to standardize the screening process, and nearly unanimous public support for PPE screening by a qualified health care professional before participation in a consistent manner across the country, the medical community is still largely unaware of national sports preparticipation physical evaluation guidelines and only 11 % of athletes at US high schools are guaranteed to receive a PPE fully consistent with the national standard.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

«Overloaded and Underprepared» also offers examples of schools, including Waldorf High School of the Peninsula in Los Altos, that use standards - based grading, which emphasizes feedback over grading.

As a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, and a member of ASTM International's subcommittee on standards for headgear and helmets, which is working with US Lacrosse on developing a new standard for headgear in women's lacrosse, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation (also called the «gladiator effect»), will actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

A year after requiring soccer shinguards to meet National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) standards, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Soccer Rules Committee will now require the front of the shinguard to be permanently marked with the NOCSAE seal and height range, effective in fall 2012.

... That's what my mother always said,» said Davis, who has signed on to a March bill calling for higher nutritional standards in all food served in schools.

According to the survey, a whopping «75 percent of school leaders encourage an increase in federal funding for school districts to comply with the new standards,» while 15 % fewer of those surveyed support the «flexibility» (SNA's favorite buzzword for: «gutting of regulations») which the SNA is now doggedly pursuing on Capitol Hill via its high - powered lobbyists.

The standards offer all those involved in the delivery of school food an exciting opportunity to build on the excellent progress made in school food so far and make sure all our children have what they deserve, that is, the best possible food of the highest quality and nutritional value.»

But I love her overarching message (as you seem to, also) that we must set a reasonably high standard for school food and let kids learn to meet it, instead of assuming they'll only eat junk food so there's no point in even trying to improve school food.

The College Board has long claimed its gold standard AP Program can help students succeed in college, narrow the achievement gap and level the playing field for traditionally under - served high schools and students.

Doesn't seem like a huge shift, but «it's important for parents to remember that if you add it all up, the new standard will mean that in a given week, school kids will be eating only 40 % whole grains in total, which is not quite as high as health experts recommend,» says Siegel.

Unless District 214 chooses to drop out, its six high schools are among about 4,000 public and private schools in Illinois that will be affected by the new standards.

The school lunch program, without a doubt, has the highest nutritional standards in society.

Teams of students from across the country have traveled to Washington in recent years to compete in Cooking up Change, a national contest that challenges high school students to create meals that meet nutrition standards and can be easily replicated in schools.

As I noted in an earlier post, Mission: Readiness, an organization of former high - ranking military officials concerned about obesity and other health problems in military recruits and personnel, has issued a hard - hitting defense of USDA's school nutrition standards.

I will start by saying that when teaching middle school, long before my own children got to be that age, my standard message was that there isn't anything you might think to do in middle school that couldn't wait until high school.

This longitudinal study in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district in Washington state compared the nutritional quality of student school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanschool district in Washington state compared the nutritional quality of student school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanschool lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanSchool Lunch Program meal standards.

Unlike therapeutic boarding schools in Hawaii, our location in Utah means that we comply with some of the highest regulation standards for the teen help industry in the country.

When I worked as a nutrition director for a small charter high school in Boston, I learned about a company called City Fresh, which somehow manages to make fresh, healthy meals that comply with US nutritional standards and cost only a little more than the average school lunch.

... the nutritional profile of school meals in the United States had improved substantially since higher government standards went into effect in 2012.

Higher nutrition standards for food sold in the cafeteria, school stores, and vending machines to help students eat healthy throughout the day

«If I was forced to identify one factor above all others as the determinant of high maternal mortality in the USA,» Loudon wrote in Death in Childbirth, «I would unhesitatingly choose the standard of obstetric training in the medical schools.»

On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.»

In every school, she interacted with students, teachers and administrators - finding great focus and dedication to high standards and student engagement.