Sentences with phrase «in weak schools»

Originally devised to serve youngsters stuck in weak schools, the Recovery School District became the city's main provider of public education, with charters as its delivery vehicle.

Many argue that the resistance from local public school bureaucracies shows that the only way to create genuine alternatives for children in weak schools is to provide them with private school vouchers.

Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw backed plans for more interventions in weaker schools, saying that children should not have their chances limited because of where they lived.

More and more are working with others to share their expertise to drive improvement in weaker schools.

In opposition, Mr Gove had spoken of the need for reform, saying: «The situation that we have at the moment is flawed and it's a situation which leads students, particularly in weaker schools and particularly from poorer backgrounds, to be led into making choices which are not good for them.»

Not exact matches

The increase from a decade ago was led by debtors whose highest education was high school, suggesting they could struggle to find decent jobs in a weaker economy.

They shut themselves up in their schools and masques and preach hate and killing to weak minds.

They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

In the controversy between the historians who say that Virginia and other southern Anglican religion was weak versus those who say it was «not so weak,» Butler sides with the «really, really weak» school.

Jesus wept over Jerusalem; but Jesus was definitely not weak in spite of all the bad Sunday School material that attempts to present him as «gentle Jesus, meek and mild.»

In urban centers the social fabric has grown weak, and our public school system has suffered greatly.

Seeking more favorable surroundings elsewhere, young Moody found a weak and struggling Sunday school in the Chicago slums.

When evaluation of the core curriculum took place in the mid -»90s, a number of faculty protested anonymously that the course was «Sunday school proselytizing» with weak intellectual content.

To speak of the Sunday school as being weak and in trouble is to slight the fact that tens of millions attend it — also on the soil of mainline Protestantism around the world.

However, neither the Skyline nor its weaker relation, the Rocky Mountain Conference, is in a class with the Coast schools.

247sports is reporting that Luiji Vilain, the No. 8 weak side defensive end, will be in Ann Arbor this weekend with one of his coaches from Episcopal High School in Virginia.

Though they never got the respect due from the College Football Playoff committee, which continuously put them low on its rankings because of their weak schedule, the Badgers had one of their most memorable seasons in years, finishing the regular season undefeated for the first time in school history and coming a few plays away from a Big Ten title.

As I explained in «Yes, School Meal Standards Just Got Weaker — But Not As Much As You Think,» Secretary Perdue's May 1st announcement did little more than lock in the status quo on schoolSchool Meal Standards Just Got Weaker — But Not As Much As You Think,» Secretary Perdue's May 1st announcement did little more than lock in the status quo on schoolschool food.

The policy in my school district, for example, is extremely weak.

Unfortunately in many schools they also learn negative skills, such as how to pass notes without being seen, or how to bully those who are weaker.

As discussed in my recent Civil Eats piece, «Why There's So Much Sugar in Your Kid's School Breakfast,» the nutritional standards for school breakfasts, even after the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act overhaul, are surprisinglySchool Breakfast,» the nutritional standards for school breakfasts, even after the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act overhaul, are surprisinglyschool breakfasts, even after the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act overhaul, are surprisingly weak.

Six states had strict laws restricting the sale of so - called competitive foods — snacks and drinks sold in vending machines, school stores and during fundraising projects, which compete with school - served meals; seven states had weak laws; and 27 states had no laws governing competitive foods in middle schools.

But as I explained here in «Yes, School Meal Standards Just Got Weaker — But Not As Much As You Think,» that May announcement really only locked in the status quo on standards that had already been relaxed during the Obama administration.

Remember also that there are a lot of regular people home schooling, and they have all found ways to deal with their own lack of knowledge in certain subjects (they either learn the subjects they are weak in, or have someone else teach their children that subject).

GBENGA ADENIJI and SIMON UTEBOR write about the hideous face of cultism which is dangerously polluting the academic milieu in the nation's public secondary schools Looking forlorn and weak, Miss Lillian Friday, a 16 - year - old pupil of Community Secondary School, Otuoke in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has yet to get over her -LSB-...]

«The government's current strategy for improving [sex ed] in schools is weak, and the recent actions taken by the government are insufficient to make much difference.»

«Children who are born with high abilities but who come from poor backgrounds are overtaken in recorded levels of achievement at primary school by children of weaker ability from wealthier socioeconomic backgrounds.

«The findings from DFID - commissioned research published in recent years indicates that there is weak evidence that market competition enhances the quality of schools in the private or public sectors.

«This is all happening in the middle of the governor having a total freak - out moment over just the rumor that Cynthia Nixon, who is a school equity champion, might run against him,» said Easton, who called Cuomo's track record on school funding «weak.»

«This all happening in the middle of the governor having total freakout moment over just the rumor that Cynthia Nixon, who is a school equity champion, might run against him,» said Easton, who calls Cuomo's track record on school funding «weak.»

In Gov. Andrew Cuomo's angry ultimatum on education, he inserted $ 8 million into his executive budget to fix the state's lowest - performing schools using «receivership,» a strategy with two decades worth of weak results.

Schools are her weak spot: she expected flak about choosing City of London School for her child, rather than one of the comps in her constituency.

Together with her brother, who works in logistics software, and her husband, a professor at George Washington University Medical School, she developed a mobile app to collect all of the data on the supply chain to expose weak points that can be improved.

George Daley of Harvard Medical School said on December 1 that he and his team have seen multiple patients affected by NEMO deficiency syndrome, a disorder where an inherited faulty gene results in a weak immune system and leaves patients prone to serious infections.

Ofsted is concerned that a large proportion of 8 - to -11-year-olds have a shaky foundation in maths, leaving them in a weak position when they go on to secondary school.

Forty one per cent of schools are «less than satisfactory in this respect», and children's understanding of maths is «particularly weak in half of all schools».

The lab, at times, feels like a seething primordial soup of Darwinian selection, where only the strongest survive (i.e., publish papers in Science, Cell, or Nature), and the weak fade into oblivion (i.e., become anorexic, turn into technical sales reps, or go to law school).

It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.

The tendency to work with a director of the student's own nationality was strongest in the lowest - ranked schools and weakest in the highest - ranked ones.

In the paper «Banning Smoking In Parks and on Beaches: Science, Policy, and the Politics of Denormalization,» published in the July issue of the journal Health Affairs, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the evidence for these claims and found them to be far from definitive and, in some cases, weaIn the paper «Banning Smoking In Parks and on Beaches: Science, Policy, and the Politics of Denormalization,» published in the July issue of the journal Health Affairs, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the evidence for these claims and found them to be far from definitive and, in some cases, weaIn Parks and on Beaches: Science, Policy, and the Politics of Denormalization,» published in the July issue of the journal Health Affairs, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the evidence for these claims and found them to be far from definitive and, in some cases, weain the July issue of the journal Health Affairs, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the evidence for these claims and found them to be far from definitive and, in some cases, weain some cases, weak.

In one of the four newly - published papers, Petersson and his colleague Riccardo Torre of the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, outline a particle that would have very weak interactions with other particles and would exist within a framework of theories known as supersymmetry.

«Child - parent dietary resemblance in the U.S. is relatively weak, and varies by nutrients and food groups and by the types of parent - child dyads and social demographic characteristics such as age, gender and family income,» said Youfa Wang, MD, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor with the Bloomberg School's Center for Human Nutrition.

Let's take it closer to home... how about the mean girl in high school, the bully who picked on the weak kids, the vindictive businessman?

I am Meek, weak in knowledge meaning High School drop out, Trusting, no friend in the world.

OK, its launch alongside an untested and in many quarters untrusted console ensured pretty weak sales, but the fact that Ubisoft chose to give its Wii U horror debut the spirit of old - school Resident Evil rather than Left 4 Dead is one hell of an interesting sign.

Even weaker are the inclusion of two of her school peers — romantic interest Ray (Reece Ritchie) and resident goth Ruth (Carolyn Dando) who drift in and out of the narrative with little significance.

Much as weak signals from the outer realms of the universe are both hard to detect and even more difficult to interpret, so, too, preliminary findings about the ways in which new forms of school choice will shape the public schools are hardly definitive.

Finally, we must recognize that school boards are relatively weak governing bodies, composed of part - timers with other obligations, limited expertise, and little incentive to engage in contentious negotiations.

In taking accountability away from school systems and placing it on individual schools and their employees, reform calls into question the current system of governance — and leaves no room for «excuses» such as weak family structures, poverty, discrimination, lack of aptitude, peer pressure, diet, television, etc..

Research from inside and outside the ed school consistently shows that teacher education is an extraordinarily weak intervention in the process of socializing teachers, whose main influences are a long apprenticeship of observation as K - 12 students before entering teacher education and the powerful culture of the school in which they begin to teach.