Sentences with phrase «increasingly focused school»

Critically, as will be discussed in the final article in this series, it is the tightly integrated, increasingly focused school ecosystem that simultaneously addresses all the variables that impact each child's learning, where the greatest educational enhancement stands to be made.

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Writing in a linked Comment, Christopher Colvin from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and Abigail Harrison from Brown University School of Public Health in the USA say, «Currently, the increasingly narrow and fierce debates over the HIV and depot medroxyprogesterone acetate link have focused on whether a large randomised controlled trial should be done to better understand this link.

Augmented and virtual reality games focused on the environment are increasingly making their way into schools

The school's principal told journalist Rachel Aviv that his school district was «increasingly «corporate,» with every school focused on the «bottom line,» putting additional pressure on teachers to pull up test scores despite there being no national standard.

As this research has indicated, schools are increasingly seeking modular support, and their ICT leaders are therefore focussing on exploring flexible and scalable solutions that will best compliment their existing — albeit shrinking — network teams.

In secondary education... we are beset by a peculiar paradox: in our complex industrial society there is increasingly more to learn, and formal education is ever more important in shaping one's life chances; at the same time, there is coming to be more and more an independent «society of adolescents,» an adolescent culture which shows little interest in education and focuses the attention of teenagers on cars, dates, sports, popular music, and other matters just as unrelated to school.

Poor school districts, which often count tired buildings and outdated equipment among their many troubles, are increasingly focusing on brick - and - mortar issues as they challenge state school - finance systems.

While the media has in recent years been focusing on sexual assaults at college, Finn says that middle and high school children — even elementary school children — are increasingly experiencing or witnessing high levels of violence and sexual assault and harassment.

The highest - performing charters are those that that have most fully embraced a «no excuses» approach to teaching and learning; have created strong school cultures based on explicit expectations for both academic achievement and behavior; have an intensive focus on literacy and numeracy as the first foundation for academic achievement; feature a relatively heavy reliance on direct instruction and differentiated grouping, especially in the early grades; and are increasingly focused on comprehensive student assessment systems.

High schools increasingly make security the sole responsibility of an assistant principal, which is supposed to free the school's principal to focus on instructional leadership.

Schools are increasingly under pressure to focus on teaching knowledge and improve examination results to improve their own status.

In February 2011 the Pathways to Prosperity Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education released a report challenging our excessive focus on the four - year college pathway, arguing that we need to create additional pathways that combine rigorous academics with strong technical education to equip the majority of young people with the skills and credentials to succeed in our increasingly challenging labor market.

The first is improved student outcomes, and while that is usually around achievement outcomes — literacy and maths, for example — increasingly there is a focus on social outcomes such as reduction in bullying and students» enjoyment of school and of their learning.

With the focus of education policymaking increasingly on local control, mayors and state policymakers play a significant role in improving our Nation's schools.

The impacts of poverty on students» ability to learn effectively — from lack of readiness for kindergarten to health - related impediments to focusing in class and disproportionate placement in segregated and under - resourced schools — are increasingly understood.

While we still pay lip service to the work and citizenship parts of the mission, the reality is that our high schools have become increasingly focused on a single mission: college preparation.

The article focuses on high - achieving students who are looking for an extra challenge, but increasingly policymakers are looking to introduce larger numbers of low - income high school students to college courses as a way to jumpstart their higher education.

«School districts, with the support of their school boards, are increasingly focused on learning through innovative technologies,» said Dr. Kecia Ray, executive director for the Center for Digital EducSchool districts, with the support of their school boards, are increasingly focused on learning through innovative technologies,» said Dr. Kecia Ray, executive director for the Center for Digital Educschool boards, are increasingly focused on learning through innovative technologies,» said Dr. Kecia Ray, executive director for the Center for Digital Education.

Opening in 2017, the school's focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) will empower students with the knowledge and skills to become informed citizens in an increasingly scientific and technological society.

Other research has pointed to the possibility that top - down and bottom - up approaches need not be viewed as alternatives, but can be combined.235 Recent research on the district role in school - improvement activity has focused increasingly on the identification of specific district - level policies, actions, and conditions that are related to improvement in teachers «and students «performance.

One increasingly popular focus among theme - based schools is the Montessori Method, a child - centered education approach that prioritizes the growth of the «whole child» — including their physical, mental, social, and emotional development.81 There are currently more than 5,000 Montessori schools across the nation.

As state and national policy increasingly focuses on the role of SEL in schools and in out - of - school time, it is critical that special education settings don't get left behind.

«We know that head teachers and senior leadership teams in schools are increasingly finding that the administrational side of their roles are acting as obstacles to their ability to focus on educational objectives.

Program Focus Kagel offers students a small, neighborhood school environment with the option of a bilingual program to prepare for an increasingly global society.

The Harvard Family Research Project comments, «As schools increasingly focus on building parent capacity to support their children's learning and on promoting positive home - school relationships, schools and districts need new measures to ascertain which types of approaches work best.»

Another education select committee report, this time focused on school partnership and co-operation, found significant evidence for the benefits of formal collaborations between schools, describing them as «an increasingly important part of a self - improving or school - led system».

In the Middle School years, Calvert's rigorous, accredited curriculum focuses on helping students to become increasingly independent learners and preparing them to succeed in high school and bSchool years, Calvert's rigorous, accredited curriculum focuses on helping students to become increasingly independent learners and preparing them to succeed in high school and bschool and beyond.

State and federal policy makers are increasingly focusing on the quality of leadership preparation and practice in K - 12 education, and they are creating policies that have significant implications for colleges and schools of education where these leaders are being prepared.

The case study, A Clear Focus: Leadership Lessons in Purposeful Instruction, describes how a push for purpose in the Anchorage School District is creating pathways to more equitable education, critical in an increasingly diverse urban district.

«A combination of chronic underfunding and school performance tables which are heavily focused on the English Baccalaureate subjects is driving the arts to the fringes of the curriculum and making them increasingly hard to sustain,» he added.

National Association of Head Teachers general secretary Russell Hobby said: «If Her Majesty's Inspectorate (HMI) is to become increasingly busy in the inspection of good schools every two years, what impact will that have on the availability of these HMIs to focus on more vulnerable schools, who need confident and skilled inspectors?»

Over the last 20 years, schools across the United Kingdom and throughout Europe have practiced an increasingly refined practice focused on pupil consultation.

Career advising and development is an increasingly prevalent topic in policy conversations, but too often only focuses on high school - level strategies.

What Dale proposed was a contrast to Stein's style: Instead of embracing the «no - excuses» model that is increasingly popular in high - poverty schools, Dale focused on skills that he believed were more important than test - taking.

At the same time, states are increasingly focused on developing more equitable K — 12 education financing systems, including reducing funding disparities between districts and providing additional funding for high - poverty school districts.

Independent schools are increasingly focusing their resources on robust science programs, with strong faculty in both their physical science and natural science departments.

All of our schools, wherever their location, will become increasingly «international» schools with a global focus in upcoming years.

This discussion will focus on DC's Ward 7, where a growing number of schools share increasingly meager resources.

Recognizing that teacher quality and school leadership are the most important school - based factors that influence student achievement, states and districts are increasingly focused on overhauling their educator evaluation systems.

WHEREAS, the over-reliance on high - stakes standardized testing in state and federal accountability systems is undermining educational quality and equity in U.S. public schools by hampering educators» efforts to focus on the broad range of learning experiences that promote the innovation, creativity, problem solving, collaboration, communication, critical thinking and deep subject - matter knowledge that will allow students to contribute and thrive in a democracy and an increasingly global society and economy; and

Response For the past decade, attention has focused increasingly on various strategies to improve schools and student achievement.

The state is increasingly focusing on school accountability to determine whether its money is being wisely spent.

But it's increasingly clear to many educators and officials, in Louisiana and elsewhere, that Race to the Top represents more than a one - time competition; that, directly or indirectly, the program's focus on charter schools, relentless use of data, and common standards reflect the Obama administration's education priorities.

The obliquely celebrated «individual» still motivates many modern choice proponents, but contemporary reforms focus increasingly on the development and selection of individualized school cultures.

College persistence is often overlooked but is becoming an increasingly important statistic because policymakers realized that focusing only on matriculation was insufficient if students later dropped out of school.

At the same time that P - 3 approaches are gaining force, the education world has increasingly focused on the central role of school principals.

Due to privatization, the expansion of school voucher programs and charter schools, attacks on teacher unions, and a focus on standardized testing as a means of evaluation, teachers find themselves increasingly playing defense.

In particular, the challenges of mathematical and scientific formulae need to be solved, and technology providers need to respond to the educational market with increasingly cost - effective, end - user focused and school environment appropriate solutions.

In a 2007 report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (Carnegie Report), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching reported on a number of gaps in legal education and set out a series of recommendations for bridging those gaps.2 Among the authors» findings was the «increasingly urgent need to bridge the gap between analytical and practical knowledge...» 3 The resulting recommendation that the teaching of legal doctrine be integrated beyond «case - dialogue courses» and into courses that focus on more practical skills acknowledged that this idea was «building on the work already underway in several law schools...» 4 One of the schools where the teaching of legal analysis has long been integrated into practice - focused courses is the University of Maryland School of Law (Maryland).

Several law schools have experimented with introducing foreign and international issues into basic LRW instruction.68 Some have responded to these arguments by creating either upper - class elective seminars with a global LRW focus, 69 or by creating a specialized foreign / international section of the basic LRW course.70 Typically, this has been accomplished in a largely ad hoc fashion through the creative efforts of individual instructors, who sometimes offer a special «international» section of the basic LRW course.71 Additionally, LRW professors whose primary responsibility is to educate foreign students have naturally gravitated toward incorporating global dimensions in their problems and assignments.72 Faculty specializing in teaching legal English have observed that English is increasingly the language of choice for transnational negotiations and legal instruments, even in circumstances where the underlying transactions do not involve Anglo - American law.73 Consequently, they also emphasize a transnational approach that responds to the needs of their students.