Sentences with phrase «idea of the number of schools»

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So along with the growing number of schools that offer degrees and programs in gaming, KontrolFreek aims to expand the idea of the «student - athlete» by offering scholarships that are over $ 2,000.

The five - time Grammy winner also discusses her education, her involvement with a number of different charitable initiatives and the idea behind the Jessye Norman School of the Arts.

My own preference is for number one simply because there are a number of thinkers whose ideas, though not directly influenced by the Chicago School or Whitehead and Hartshorne, yet bear such a striking family resemblance that they merit classification in the process sSchool or Whitehead and Hartshorne, yet bear such a striking family resemblance that they merit classification in the process schoolschool.

I've already seen a number of posts on Facebook from friends that are looking for school lunch ideas.

Cooperstown is going to become even more of a bland high - school - history textbook than it already is, distilled to names, numbers, and nothing more, with prominent figures and events removed to keep the idea of sanctity alive and well, rather than risk telling a story someone might not want to recall.

Volume XI, Number 1 Puberty as the Gateway to Freedom — Richard Landl Soul Hygiene and Longevity for Teachers — David Mitchell The Emergence of the Idea of Evolution in the Time of Goethe — Frank Teichmann The Seer and the Scientist: Jean Piaget and Rudolf Steiner on Children's Development — Stephen Keith Sagarin The Four Phases of Research — adapted from Dennis Klocek Reports from the Research Fellows Beyond Cognition: Children and Television Viewing — Eugene Schwartz PISA Study — Jon McAlice State Funds for Waldorf Schools in England — Douglas Gerwin On Looping — David Mitchell The Children's Food Bill — Christopher Clouder All Together Now!

This article provides a number of ideas for a variety of types of school fundraiser, some one - shot and others ongoing.

It was the late 1970's and a number of us with children at Michael Hall, a well - established Waldorf school in Forest Row, Sussex, had an intense interest in Steiner's social and economic ideas.

However, I have later found out that the Swedish school lunches are in fact not that healthy and contain endless numbers of «E-numbers», but something that I do think is still better is the idea of what «normal» food is or isn't, which I've seen has been a frequently discussed topic here.

Sen. John DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse, supports the idea of SU niche medical school, but he's worried, too, about what it would do to the number of residency spots for new doctors.

The result is a little like knowing the number of students and distribution of grades in a particular school, but having no idea if the student who sits in the third row actually likes math.

The major thrust of the initiative will be to disseminate the ideas and practices pioneered by James P. Comer, the Yale University child psychiatrist whose beliefs about the inseparability of social and academic development have been embraced by a growing number of schools.

A number of prominent Conservative MPs on Theresa May's Cabinet, including Liam Fox and David Davis, have been vocal proponents of grammar schools, and Education Secretary Justine Greening has said that the government should be «open minded» to the idea of new grammar schools as the education landscape has changed over the last few years.

From my perspective, targeted teaching is a form of differentiation that is specifically concerned with student's learning needs in relation to several «big ideas» in number, without which their progress in school mathematics will be seriously impacted.

The central idea here is that teachers could face relatively strong or weak incentives under the same merit pay program as a result of the number of teachers at their school.

Everyone likes the idea of boosting the number of effective teachers in schools with large numbers of poor and minority students, but in his testimony before the committee, Ed Next executive editor Rick Hess had a few warnings for those who think the obvious course of action is to encourage states and districts to move effective teachers out of schools with affluent kids and into schools with poor kids.

FROM THE P - FILES: Principals Share Parent Involvement Ideas This month, Education World asked a number of principals to tell us about ways their teachers involve parents in the classroom and the school.

For example, the largely white student body at Curry can get a clear idea of the issues involved in teaching at an inner - city school with large numbers of non-white or non-English speaking students through a case study of New York City's Newcomers High Sschool with large numbers of non-white or non-English speaking students through a case study of New York City's Newcomers High SchoolSchool.

Former Shadow Education Secretary Lucy Powell has said that the teacher crisis is «one of the biggest issues facing our schools», calling on the government to ditch the «terrible idea» of increasing the number of grammar schools and focus on the real problem.

Big ideas should have explanatory power in relation to a large number of objects, events and phenomena that are encountered by students in their lives during and after their school years and provide a basis for understanding issues, such as the use of energy, involved in making decisions that affect learners» own and others» health and wellbeing and the environment.

The idea of the program, named for the average number of days in a school year, is to expose children to the beauty and power of...

Reducing class size is a generally popular idea, but a number of researchers have concluded that increasing teacher salaries may be a better long - term strategy for school improvement.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration recently announced that a number of charter and district schools will become partners this school year in exchanging ideas and best practices.

The report concludes that districts with a large number of struggling students may need more guidance from the state and suggests they look to schools and districts that have had greater success with high - need students for improvement ideas.

Also tucked in the recommendations are such bold ideas as serious acceptance of alternative pathways and «residency» - style preparation; insistence on real standards for entering prep programs and getting certified; the demand that prep programs respond to K — 12 education's actual supply - demand numbers rather than enrolling as many people as possible (thus probably killing the proverbial ed - school «cash cow» within universities); and tracking the performance of those emerging from various prep programs and institutions — and actually closing those that don't produce successful professionals.

He brought new ideas and teaching strategies for using a variety of technology back to the school; one of his highlights was «mystery Skyping» which he's done with his class a number of times!

As well as having 65 schools in USA, the Big Picture Learning philosophy of «one student at a time» has already seen the idea spread to a number of countries including New Zealand, China and Belize where new schools have been created, existing schools have transformed or national policies have been influenced.

The bill expands the number and range of demographic categories for enrollment and retention compliance, and increases the number of compliance check points, while evidence from the current system proves that the idea of requiring schools to meet thresholds based on averages doesn't work.

For one, education schools and elementary and secondary schools have not done enough to promote the science of learning to educators — or the public — and a number of teacher education schools continue to push the idea of learning styles and other inaccurate concepts about learning.9

«What School Could Be presents relevant, practical ideas backed by a huge number of examples of the innovative practices and programs taking place in schools across the United States.

To study the process of scale - up by using the expansion of the Science IDEAS model to an increasing number of schools.

Upon moving to my role in Washington, DC, and working on a national level, I was quickly in awe at the sheer number of organizations that were working to support schools, K - 12, and the many dynamic resources that they offered free to schools, many of which I had no idea were available when I needed them most.

Through a project called Algebra by Design, funded by Lucent Technologies, we are working with teachers in grades 5 - 12 in the Syracuse City School District to (a) increase significantly the number of students who are successful in learning the core ideas of algebra, (b) increase the depth of algebraic understanding of all students and enhance their problem - solving skills in mathematically challenging design projects and activities, (c) provide teachers with experience and collaborative support in the use of Standards - based curricula, design projects, and current and emerging technologies, and (d) prepare new teachers in partnership with practicing teachers through observations, field placements, and semester - long internships.

Having delivered the scheme in a number of primary schools across the UK, Marion approached Alleyn's with the idea of running a mentoring programme alongside it as another means of tracking students» progress in reading.

Even though experienced practitioners identified situations in which single - school PLCs were warranted, program leaders also noted a number of benefits of multiple - school STEM PLCs such as exposing teachers to new ideas, practices, and attitudes.

That said I do think there is a groundswell of opinion, including from conservatives, that the forcible conversion of large numbers of highly performing schools is not a good idea and the proposal to allow trusts not to have parent governors is likely to be dropped with much fanfare at some point.

For years, antipoverty organizations like the Harlem Children's Zone and the Children's Aid Society have operated forms of community learning centers at a small number of New York City schools, but some candidates are hoping to extend the idea to hundreds of them.

The toolkit builds upon the ideas and resources from a number of national partners, especially MENTOR: The National Mentoring Project, Everyone Graduates Center, the New York Department of Education, and the Center for Supportive Schools.

A number of decades back one of America's most prestigious art schools (college level) decided that it would be a good idea to experiment by painting with bananas.

The idea is to give schools with the largest numbers of needy students more money and also more autonomy over spending, in the hopes of reducing inequities and improving achievement.

There are a number of good ideas being floated, recently and prominently in a January 2013 address to The Pope Center in North Carolina by Dr. Sandra Stotsky, who believes that the weighting of education reform focus should be shifted from student standards to a priority on educator standards, beginning with much higher standards for admission to preparation programs and limiting schools of education to the graduate level.

Although there are lots of ideas these days about how to improve U.S. public schools — a number of which are under renewed scrutiny — Jason Kamras thinks he's got a simple solution.

In a recent opinion piece for Education Week, Arthur Wise of the Center for Teaching Quality writes that current mainstream ideas on how to improve American public schools will result in «at best, a marginal improvement for small numbers of students.»

Was it resentment of WFS's arrogant director, Davis Guggenheim, who claimed he got the idea for the movie by passing by a number of struggling public schools while driving his children to their elite private school?

«There's been an openness to try different ideas from the MPS board,» Kooyenga explains, citing the opening of a number of charter schools, including in the Carmen schools system and at Pulaski High School.

She's also indicated a reluctance to tie success in schools to empirical numbers, instead championing the idea of empowering parents to make the right decisions for their children.

The portability amendment would have slowed states to allocate Title I funds to districts based on the number of poor students who attend, but the White House criticized the idea saying that 25 percent of school districts with high concentrations of poverty, above 25 percent, would lose as much as $ 700 million in federal funds while low - poverty districts would gain as much as $ 470 million.

This development, led by teachers from a number of our schools, provides some ideas of how schools might choose to link volunteers to subject areas across the KS1 and KS2 curriculum with some suggestions of what they might do in school to enhance the aims of Primary Futures.

We proposed the idea of using «carpool tags» — numbered tags displayed in each car window — to help aid in a more orderly dismissal of students, and we supplied these to the school district.

And by allowing states to limit the definition of consistent underperformance for a group to being in the lowest performance level on an indicator, or being the farthest away from statewide average performance, it undermines the idea — and the Congressional requirement — that any group that is struggling in any school needs help and assured action, not just the very lowest performing groups or groups in a limited number of schools.