Sentences with phrase «how schools across the nation»

Increase Parent Involvement With First Day of School Activities Read about how schools across the nation — in urban, rural, and suburban areas — are breaking down barriers with parents and their communities by making the first day of school an exciting holiday with special activities that include everyone!

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You'll leave this course with an understanding of how school food operates, and how a healthy school meal program can play a role in social justice issues for kids across the nation.

I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations.

The fact they they are teaching us this NOW in 2016 in medical schools all across the nation is a despicable view of just how much control industry and companies have on society.....

As our nation wrestles with the immigration issue more broadly, a concern raised across the political spectrum is how the public schools can best educate immigrant students.

Taxpayers deserve to know how much their kids» school spends per child and be able to compare that with the neighboring school or a school across the city, state, or nation.

Model one would make transparent the performance of students across the nation, providing an X-ray to show parents, educators, and policymakers how different schools and groups are performing in key subjects.

This new analysis from Attendance Works and Everyone Graduates Center shows how many schools across the nation and in every state face high levels of chronic absence.

As we celebrate National Charter Schools Week across the country, we take note of how far we have come since the nation's first charter school...

Every three years, the journalists of national media across the world sit with pens poised to pass judgment on how the schools of their nations have performed on the Program for International Student Assessment — otherwise known as the PISA test.

The report has three sections: 1) Setting the Context, which discusses the need for effective systems of evaluation and support for school leaders; 2) Sharing Key Lessons Learned, which highlights how states and districts can work together to agree upon and communicate expectations for school leaders and implement standards - based systems of leadership support and evaluation, thereby increasing teacher effectiveness and improving student outcomes in all schools across the nation; and 3) Improving Standards Based Leadership Evaluation, which examines leader evaluation as a policy foundation for identifying, and supporting effective educators.

Governor Christie on Friday called for schools across New Jersey and the nation to emulate the performance - pay provisions in Newark's new teachers» contract, but some skeptics were asking how other districts could afford to follow suit.

Like many school Districts across the Nation, APS has focused in on how it can better its engagement of stakeholders.

Current Legal Issues in School Technology: A Look at the Tech Trends that are Causing Liability, Invading Privacy, Threatening Security, and Putting eRate Funding at Risk in Schools Across the Nation and How Schools Can Avoid Them

«Within the United States and across nations, there seems to be consensus that teacher quality is the most important school - based variable in determining how well a child learns.

So if they didn't fire half the teachers, toss the principal or become a charter, how did this previously unexceptional school crack a code that most districts across the nation are struggling to decipher?

Get the insider's scoop on what's happening with school choice legislation in states across the nation, and get a look into how legislatures work.

Still, the performance index is a vast improvement over how schools were judged a decade ago, and that's good news for school leaders across the nation.

While many charter school leaders across the country grapple with how to best provide and pay for special education, New Orleans recently became the first city in the nation to tackle special education on the fiscal, human capital, and program fronts in the context of a full - choice public education landscape.

Putting aside the reality that the actual number of poor parents with four or five children in the school system is extremely low, the stunningly ignorant and disturbing approach to «doing something» about the crippling impact of poverty in Hartford is a stark reflection about how out - of - touch many in the Corporate Education Reform Industry actually approach the real issues that are limiting educational achievement in Hartford and other poor communities across Connecticut and the nation.

(Calif.) California's second - largest school district is almost ready to answer a question that has prompted legal challenges across the nation: How much money translates to an adequately - funded student education?

Hear student stories from across the nation that continue to overcome various disparities and how their schools are closing the equitable gaps.

Parents, teachers and students who are concerned about how public schools are funded are holding walk - ins at schools in Connecticut today, as well as across the nation, in protest and to call on leaders to better fund the schools.

The session focused on how k — 12 schools and school systems across the nation are using performance assessments to capture students» deeper learning skills and competencies, and the ensuing opportunities to use rich, authentic student work generated from such performance assessments to inform higher education admission, placement, and advising decisions.

There is a hot debate raging in New York City and across the nation about how to effectively bring about urban school reform.

No one needs to imagine that not only are academic journals available to read at any hour instead of locked in a library across the nation at some Ivy League school, but with the click of a button one can learn how to make Thai home - cooking without taking classes or traveling, repair a broken spoke after all the shops are closed and watch kitties, puppies or goats do wacky things, all from one machine.

Dave was recently requested to testify in Lansing at the Michigan Department of State to assess Michigans drivers education program and how it stacks up to new driving school standards across the nation.

The research looks at how SEL policy, practice, and measurements are being effectively implemented in states and districts across the nation, including in three Massachusetts school districts — Fall River, Gardner, and Reading.