Sentences with phrase «idea of the school»

I think there's a degree of virtue in the general idea of school choice.

We'll all be better served if we permanently move past ideas of school as a uniform experience meant to transfer information.

I look forward to reading up on the best ideas of school lunch reform and how the program works, and then following along with your current posts in my reader.

The whole idea of schooling implies that teachers are responsible for ensuring that students learn prescribed subject matter.

Want to transform traditional ideas of school to adopt a pedagogy that puts students at the centre of their learning?

The conventional idea of school is that an instructor guides the process as an authoritarian figure.

At least, you will see the reality without getting stuck with the scripted ideas of the school.

They open up the whole idea of school to a completely new set of rules.

(See Ten Big Ideas of School Leadership).

What's more, public schools are the established product, enjoying a 150 - year - old normative idea of schooling.

(As a former educator, I feel compelled to point out that this is not a terribly effective idea of school, either, but it's all too common.)

As examples of teacher - led schools and other ideas of school redesign gain more attention, teachers have created more opportunities to disrupt the top - down structure that has limited improvements to professional learning and other important teacher and school issues.

The central idea of the school - reform community, Perry said, is that improving public education will lead to an overall improvement in New Orleans social conditions, and that this goal justifies the radical changes they have imposed on schools here — firing teachers, closing schools, moving students every few years.

Learn how ESAs fulfill Milton Friedman's original idea of school choice for the 21st century.

The Hoboken Charter School was created as a way not to improve traditional ideas of schooling, but to change them.

The idea of schooling for all boys was thereby introduced into Protestant societies.

Unlike most of us who simply support the idea of school gardens, they actually did something about it, forming a non-profit — D.C. Greens — that operates a farmers market nearby on Wisconsin Avenue precisely to generate funds they can use in their gardening efforts.

Chicago Public Schools, where 87 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, already puts strict requirements on the items sold in vending machines — juice and water are the only available beverages, for instance — but Leslie Fowler, the district's executive director of nutrition support services, said students still bristle at the idea of schools controlling their choices.

Some parents like the idea of the school's nursery class because it gives their child a chance to meet future classmates.

The idea of school lunch as an egalitarian mechanism to nourish our nation's potential has long been discarded and devalued.

With the growing trend of school gardens, «the idea of a school as a venue in which to advance a social agenda has reached rock bottom,» she concludes.

The idea of school sponsored free lead screenings was first floated during a January 2017 roundtable on lead poisoning organized by Assemblyman Sean Ryan, D - Buffalo.

The Conservatives are not the only party to buy into the idea of schools as a marketplace: Labour and the Lib Dems have supported elements of it to varying degrees.

We shot this photo story near NYU and I fell asleep while editing the photos, so I think the idea of school seeped into my mind.

He started with the idea of a school uniform — a button - down shirt and an A-line skirt (and leather knee socks to match).

Most of this film consists of wisecracking kids with (unrealistically) no idea of school, and the motels painted in lurid colors is an annoying gimmick.

Of course, the logical culmination of the idea of school as job - skills provider is that we would do away with school altogether and just have apprenticeships.

The non-profits are dedicated to the scholarships, and the idea of school choice is built into their mission.

Lord Nash said that «the idea of schools only being on one or two floors is not essential» and that given the current need for additional school places «we are going to have to see schools going up».

Almost immediately, the group landed on the idea of a school.

Too much time has been spent debating and fighting over the idea of school vouchers.

In late 2006, Hubbard and Hoskins adopted the tactics of their opponents, touring the state trying to sell the idea of school choice in rural communities.

Today at least 25 other villages have visited us, and they «replicated» the idea of this school and implemented based on their local context.

In Out of the Box: Fundamental Change in School Funding, David Monk discusses the idea of schools providing a limited base program but then allowing parents to pay for extra services not deemed part of the base (such as music).

According to our 2017 Poll, 69 percent of respondents support the idea of schools in their community providing students with laptop computers for classroom use.

When the idea of school choice was originally introduced, teachers» unions were not pervasive.

Despite the hope of success for students and empowerment for parents, unions quickly condemn the idea of school choice as an «assault on public education.»

To be sure, the idea of school choice has a lot of appeal on its own merits.

It's the time of the year when we are still in summer break mode but coming to grips with the idea of school starting back up soon.

Regardless, the idea of a school performance report sounds great in theory.

A new poll shows that Americans strongly support the idea of school vouchers, something that 24 states — not including California — offer in some version.

The survey put out the idea of school choice, but education savings accounts, specifically just in a general term, «What do you think about the idea of education savings accounts and school choice?»