Sentences with phrase «in school choice decisions»

This reveals a need to find innovative ways to tap into social networks through trusted community members that could be potentially leveraged into improvements in information usage among parents in school choice decisions.

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In their new book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisionIn their new book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisionin Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisions.

«Although the college will continue to seek relief in the courts, the college has been forced to quickly make difficult choices,» the school said in announcing the decision on its website.

Everyone makes their own decision at some point, so as much as I love Bill Nye, I disagree with him on this topic, as parents should teach their children however they want and in high school the kids will make their own choices.

There was the nation's top ranked high school safety announcing his decision to attend the University of Alabama during the Under Armour All - America Game three weeks ago, while his mom, April Justin, looked on with a pained expression on her face, shaking her head in disapproval of his choice.

I am so glad we made the decision for him to go to play school, seeing how much he's come on in just a year proves to me that we made the right choice.

The meeting was scheduled smack in the middle of early decision notification week, when students who have applied exclusively to their first choice school find out if they've been admitted, so there was lots of hand wringing and Monday morning quarterbacking to be done.

It is my understanding that BPI is working on a voluntary label so that people can make a decision on the product while shopping in the grocery store; and, as you pointed out, school districts now have the choice as to whether or not to buy hamburger that includes LFTB.

«This was a tough decision, but in the end, all signs pointed to Thompson as the best choice for our city and our schools for the next four years,» the union wrote on their Facebook page.

The decision is a stunning blow for Bloomberg, who has repeatedly defended his choice amid intense criticism from parents groups, elected officials and other advocates who said the city needs a schools chancellor with a background in schools.

Unlike Lieberman, he just doesn't want to be invited to Dinner parties with GWB so badly that he's willing to sell out the core values of the Democratic party on issues ranging from SS privatization, school vouchers, prayer in school, end of life decisions (terry schiavo), choice (supported hospitals right not to provide birth control), and, yes, Iraq.

James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Center, wrote in a statement that de Blasio's decision was a «disappointment for the students and their parents who have been looking forward to attending the school of their choice this fall.&School Center, wrote in a statement that de Blasio's decision was a «disappointment for the students and their parents who have been looking forward to attending the school of their choice this fall.&school of their choice this fall.»

They hear the horror stories about promotion and tenure decisions, the fight to secure funding to keep research going, and the drudgery of teaching introductory courses in which students only want to get the «A» that will help them get into the medical or graduate school of their choice.

People are more likely to delegate decisions — or «pass the buck» — when faced with choices that affect others than when those decisions affect only themselves, according to new research from Mary Steffel, assistant professor of marketing in the D'Amore - McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.

The recent Supreme Court decision, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, ruled unconstitutional the Seattle and Louisville school districts» limited use of race in deciding which students got into overenrolled schools (Seattle) or which students could transfer schools (Louisville), limiting the scope of government intervention to preserve racial balance following the expansion of school Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, ruled unconstitutional the Seattle and Louisville school districts» limited use of race in deciding which students got into overenrolled schools (Seattle) or which students could transfer schools (Louisville), limiting the scope of government intervention to preserve racial balance following the expansion of school cSchool District No. 1, ruled unconstitutional the Seattle and Louisville school districts» limited use of race in deciding which students got into overenrolled schools (Seattle) or which students could transfer schools (Louisville), limiting the scope of government intervention to preserve racial balance following the expansion of school cschool districts» limited use of race in deciding which students got into overenrolled schools (Seattle) or which students could transfer schools (Louisville), limiting the scope of government intervention to preserve racial balance following the expansion of school schools (Seattle) or which students could transfer schools (Louisville), limiting the scope of government intervention to preserve racial balance following the expansion of school schools (Louisville), limiting the scope of government intervention to preserve racial balance following the expansion of school cschool choice.

In this decision, the court struck down an Oregon law that compelled all children to attend a public school and thereby guaranteed the right of parents to send their child to the school of their choice.

School choice supporters, including hundreds of private school students in crisp uniforms, filled Washington, D.C.'s Freedom Plaza last May to protest a congressional decision to eliminate the city's federally funded school voucher program after the next school year (to see additional images of this event please click School choice supporters, including hundreds of private school students in crisp uniforms, filled Washington, D.C.'s Freedom Plaza last May to protest a congressional decision to eliminate the city's federally funded school voucher program after the next school year (to see additional images of this event please click school students in crisp uniforms, filled Washington, D.C.'s Freedom Plaza last May to protest a congressional decision to eliminate the city's federally funded school voucher program after the next school year (to see additional images of this event please click school voucher program after the next school year (to see additional images of this event please click school year (to see additional images of this event please click here).

In a 5 - 4 decision, the United States Supreme Court today ruled against Seattle and Kentucky school - choice programs that considered race in the assignment of children to public schoolIn a 5 - 4 decision, the United States Supreme Court today ruled against Seattle and Kentucky school - choice programs that considered race in the assignment of children to public schoolin the assignment of children to public schools.

Superintendent Michael Bennet (2005 - 2008) spearheaded Denver Public Schools» improvement by embracing charter school expansion, giving principals more decision - making power, and using student - based funding, in which dollars followed children to their schools of choice, to spur compeSchools» improvement by embracing charter school expansion, giving principals more decision - making power, and using student - based funding, in which dollars followed children to their schools of choice, to spur compeschools of choice, to spur competition.

In other words, the school - choice obligation we derive from our own consciences and infer from the famous Pierce decision will only be met through smart, unremitting political activity.

In considering the policy implications of this research, it is important to recognize that our analysis reflects parent decisions conditional on school choice.

Learning to Make Informed Choices What to wear, what to eat, who to get in a car with all are decisions middle schoolers face often or daily.

Reading these two books in sequence, I came across a passage in Charles Glenn's foreword to class Between Memory and Vision that threw a sharp and revealing light on the subtle and often mind - numbing distinctions elaborated in Does God Belong in Public Schools Glenn writes: «The effect of Supreme Court decisions over the past forty years was to treat religion as the only forbidden motivation for school choice.»

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

And the situation is even worse because most regulators making decisions about what choice schools should be opened, expanded, or closed are not relying on rigorously identified gains in test scores — they just look primarily at the levels of test scores and call those with low scores bad.

Andrew explores the individual - level incentives to engage in parent activism, focusing his attention on how school choice and mobilization activity may influence the decision to participate in broader education politics.

Florida's voucher program for students in the lowest - rated public schools is unconstitutional, the state supreme court ruled last week in a 5 - 2 decision that friends and foes of private school choice are scrutinizing for its potential impact on voucher debates nationwide.

«Surely this question was settled eight years ago in a decision that was the seventh consecutive defeat for the disgustingly determined people who are implacably opposed to any policies that enable parents who are not affluent to exercise the right of school choice that is routinely exercised by more fortunate Americans,» writes George Will.

But given the rising role that parental choice and public perception play in education decisions, it's important for schools to tell their story.

This referred to a decision of the Fifth Circuit in 1968, in a consolidated case involving dozens of school districts, that purported to prevent white students from making transfers under freedom - of - choice plans if the result would be to create «all Negro» schools.

In most of these programs, there is negligible state control; families are trusted to make choices, and participating schools are indirectly held accountable for results via the voluntary decisions of parents.

While allowing for a range of NNRs to satisfy the ESA testing requirement provides information about student performance, NNRs do not drive school - level content decisions the way criterion - referenced statewide assessments can, which research suggests can dissuade private school leaders from participating in education choice programs.

That's precisely what many school - choice supporters fear — moving away from state - by - state decisions on these sensitive issues to a one - size - fits - all approach with Uncle Sam as regulator - in - chief.

For example, the Office for Civil Rights should quit meddling in local decisions regarding which schools should be closed and how schools of choice should be operated.

For the same reason that accepting a scholarship moved families from the object of a conversation to the subject of a conversation about educational opportunity, these same families» decisions to leave one school and to keep their child enrolled in a school of their choice for as long as the option is available are, in my opinion, examples of «the complete school choice journey.»

For example, despite the Supreme Court's 2002 Zelman decision upholding school voucher programs involving religious schools, my own chapter in the book [«School Choice Litigation after Zelman»] shows how ongoing litigation in state courts continues to shape the development of programs providing school choice in both the private and public seschool voucher programs involving religious schools, my own chapter in the book [«School Choice Litigation after Zelman»] shows how ongoing litigation in state courts continues to shape the development of programs providing school choice in both the private and public seSchool Choice Litigation after Zelman»] shows how ongoing litigation in state courts continues to shape the development of programs providing school choice in both the private and public seChoice Litigation after Zelman»] shows how ongoing litigation in state courts continues to shape the development of programs providing school choice in both the private and public seschool choice in both the private and public sechoice in both the private and public sectors.

The American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice and its state affiliate, the Louisiana Federation for Children, celebrated a decision from the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in ruling against the U.S. Department of Justice's attempt to regulate and undermine the state's private school choice program, the Louisiana Scholarship Program.

So my parents, nascent reformers, made the fiscally - fraught decision to exercise school choice and move to a better district in Queens, where I attended P.S. 115 (K - 6), and then started P.S. 172 (7 - 9).

The stigma that attached to forced segregation is totally absent today, students and their parents choose to attend the charter schools that they prefer and that think will be effective --- demographics may or may not play a role in that decision... it's their choice.

May 19, 2016 by Brett Kittredge As the United States marks the 62nd anniversary of the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision which declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional, a new study looks at the effect school choice has had in reducing racial segregation in schools.

For Judy White, the decision to open Midtown Primary School in a low - income community in Central Phoenix wasn't just a choice, it was a calling.

These favorable decisions and new programs, plus overwhelming academic proof documenting the effectiveness of school choice, have bolstered efforts to secure greater parental choice in Pennsylvania and across the country.

As per Weingarten: «Over a year ago, the Washington [DC] Teachers» Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the data from the school district's IMPACT [teacher] evaluation system — a system that's used for big choices, like the firing of 563 teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT program here].

Throughout their time in school, students will have the opportunity to make different choices on a range of issues - from decisions and choices about their own actions and behaviours, to the clubs that they join and (as they move through the Learning Trust) the subjects that they study.

Even if communities can respond to school choice policies or other fluctuations in enrollment by adjusting their portfolio of schools, these decisions are not to be taken lightly.

... it is nice to see GothamSchools» Geoff Decker do stellar work in breaking news yesterday on this contradiction between Haimson's public criticism of expanding school choice and her very private decision to embrace it.

Project Appleseed believes whether parents live in a school district that offers school choice, are changing residences, or have a child entering kindergarten, choosing a school is a complex decision that includes the characteristics of the child, family, and schools.

«I have not been informed about the reasons behind this decision but it seems that the choice of school places for my constituents in the north of Warrington is being reduced yet again,» she told Schools Week.

Asked about the decision to campaign here, Trump spokesman Jason Miller wrote in an email: «Mr. Trump believes that all children deserve the opportunity to receive a first - class education, and his school choice reform proposals will help do just that.

Charter public schools in Idaho already have some opportunities for flexibility, through curricular choices and their performance certificates, and this option opens the door for traditional public schools to have the same opportunities to make governance decisions at a local level.