Sentences with phrase «in a few schools»

The results are striking in the few school districts where I have seen this happen.
A selective system concentrating talent in a few schools would not raise standards across the board or promote social equality, he argued.
I recently learned that my work has been used as justification by school officials who advocate deliberately concentrating poverty in a few schools.
Then add in a few school - themed props like red delicious apples or lunchbox favorite Mini Babybel.
In fact, charter schools in Boston and Lynn are generating gains in achievement that are large enough to close achievement gaps by race and income in a few school years.
We also need a plan to evaluate and scale these assessments up along the way, starting with small pilots in a few schools, with incentives to build demand so that successful ideas reach more students in more districts and become worthy alternatives to current high - stakes testing.
In a few schools in the center of the city, African American students are overrepresented compared to the school neighborhood population.
More than 80 per cent of school budgets are spent on staffing, so it is clear that the # 3 billion of savings the government expects schools to find will result in fewer school staff.
I've sat through many, many team meetings and ppts in a few school districts.
Since most colleges don't accept students from unaccredited schools, the cheating by a few teachers in a few schools could jeopardize the college applications of students districtwide.
One means of overcoming these obstacles might be to pilot policies promoting CRP in a few schools before implementing them district - wide.
In a few school districts, such as in Los Alamitos Unified, most or all of their elementary schools won the honor.
In a few schools, the rate of persistent absence remains high and the attendance of pupils eligible for free schools meals is significantly worse than in similar schools.
«In a few schools, large proportions of students, or even the whole cohort, were entered for BTEC science, with an associated rise in GCSE - equivalence point scores for the schools,» the report said.
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