Sentences with phrase «in these priority schools often»

The hard work and dedication of educators in these priority schools often goes unrecognized, but at the 2011 NEA Representative Assembly in Chicago, examples of innovative and collaborative approaches to education reform at NEA Priority Schools Campaign sites were highlighted during a presentation in front of more than 8,000 delegates.

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Often, no one in their family ever graduated from high school, so education has not been a priority in their families.

Senior leadership teams (SLT) and IT teams in schools are not often wireless experts as they have so many competing priorities to deal with.»

In state primary schools, learning a foreign language is only compulsory from the age of seven, and languages can often be a low priority.

There are other schools with a research focus but this is often in areas that are not an identified priority for Clarendon.

Information destruction in the education sector can often fall by the wayside in favour of other security priorities in schools, such as the protection of valuable on - site equipment and the security of the staff and students themselves.

However, states and school districts often struggle to prepare and retain high - quality educators, and in 2014, the Department of Education made having an equal distribution of effective teachers a national priority with its announcement of the «Excellent Educators for All» initiative.

In that job, I was often confronted by the glaring disconnect between my school's academic priorities — I was charged with preparing students for the New York Global Studies Regents exam — and my students» nonacademic needs.

While student safety should always be of top priority, school districts should ensure that their decisions on weather - related closings and delays are aligned with major employers in the area and local government offices, which often is not the case.

Not only does this describe an uphill battle, but it serves to illustrate the puzzling priorities we often emphasize — one half of minority children don't complete high school, over one half of third graders can not read at grade level, and our policy and media attention are focused on affirmative action to achieve diversity in admissions as a compelling objective at our two flagship universities!

And he says that in recent decades schools have faced an «unprecedented level» of new policies from a succession of ministers, often not long enough in office to see through their different priorities.

The school uses a «personalized learning» model in which each student spends a portion of the day (often half a day or more) learning online, and a portion of the day in «workshops» with in - person teachers focused on higher - order thinking skills, high - priority or challenging topics, small - group discussions, and projects.

Researchers also found that almost all schools funded mental health provision for pupils «at least in part» from their own budgets, and were often left with «difficult decisions» about deciding whether or not it should be seen as a «priority» as funding is squeezed.

Far too often, however, students in high - poverty schools must confront not only the challenges in their community, but also the burden of an impersonal, standardized testing scheme that too often results in the wrong priorities and fails to identify and address their needs.

This is often due to the poor quality of urban public schooling in our nation, and reflects recruiting practices and priorities that privilege athletics and not academics, thus putting young people in situations where it is extremely challenging for them to excel academically.

Finding a home with the appropriate amount of space, in your preferred school district, and convenient to a job or school location are often priorities for buyers with families.

School quality is often a top priority for homebuyers, and that means neighborhoods almost always benefit from being in close proximity to the cream of the crop.