Sentences with phrase «influence more public schools»

With so much research showing the importance of student voices to school quality, why do they not influence more public schools — across New York City and nationwide?

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«Our study affirms and may help explain why people who regularly use cocaine are more willing to partake in risky sex when under the influence of cocaine, and underscores why public health officials and physicians should be ensuring that cocaine users are supplied with condoms to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted disease,» says Matthew Johnson, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

The teacher unions have more influence on the public schools than any other group in American society.

According to the Hartford Courant («Public Schools Studying Future in Advertising,» April 24,1998), «In 1997, U.S. children 12 and under spent and influenced spending at a record $ 500 billion... increasing by 20 % a year,... that could lead to more than $ 1 trillion in such spending by 2002.

If you look at the Fund's «990» tax form, you'll find even more reason to question the veracity of the mayor's concern about the malign influence of private money in public schools.

Faculty compensation in college, unlike public high school, is also influenced by market demand for those faculty members, so people in some fields are paid significantly more than others and outside offers are sometimes matched.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

• Of all the influences on parental choice, by far the most powerful is school performance: The less satisfied parents are with the performance of the public schools, the more likely they are to go private.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

Second, Don McAdams, founder of the Center for Reform of School Systems, argued that philanthropy typically entails limited dollars in the grand scheme of things, but has an outsized influence because this money is nimble and can be used to drive a state or a district's reforms, where it's hugely difficult to redeploy more than a sliver of public funds.

«Our general view is, the more adults you have in positions of influence like school boards and planning committees, the more adults engaged in learning about and understanding public education, the better off you are,» says Tompkins.

Private school principals report more influence over curriculum than their public school counterparts report.

Especially in the areas of setting discipline policy and establishing curriculum, private school teachers in 1993 - 94 were more likely than public school teachers to report that they had a great deal of influence.

The teachers unions have more influence of the public schools than any other group in American society.

More than two decades later, the influence of Choudhury's grandfather is clear in his own work to engineer equity and access for public school students in San Antonio as the district's first chief innovation officer.

However, these amendments, leftover relics of discrimination from more than 100 years ago when a surge of Catholic immigrants caused some to worry about their religious influence in what was then Protestant public schools, continue to be used by opponents of school choice as whips against policymakers who have no interest in inviting litigation.

Today, ASCD resources can be found in more than 38,000 U.S. public schools, and ASCD members and materials influence more than 18 million students.

From 1977 to 1999, the number of black elected officials with influence over public education in cities (mayors, council members, school board members and superintendents) more than doubled, to 5,815 from 2,724

Given that many more students in charter schools have the advantages of a positive family structure, a peer group that is a positive influence, and their own inner drive that many students in traditional public schools do not, it is reasonable to expect that charter school students would perform very much better than they do.

In fact, it is going to take a much greater infusion of parent choice and private sector influence — meaning competition from private schools, not just a few recovery school experiments — for Georgia's public schools to be even more motivated to improve.

The organization representing more than 600 public school boards across the state says how science is taught in the classroom will influence how a generation of students think about climate change.