Sentences with phrase «just particular schools»

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But Prof. Bruce Ryder of York University's Osgoode Hall Law School said that case differs from B.C. because the legislation addresses all heavy oil, not just one particular project.

You can't mention your god in schools because christians in particular have a very, very nasty habit of not just mentioning it, but of trying to ram it forcibly down the throats of the unwilling, and giving them the power of the state and an innocent audience of children to practice this forced indoctrination on has never worked out well in the past.

Bigger, more established providers like schools and health visiting services can be the hardest to get on board, she adds: «We had a particular problem with health visitors because what we wanted was something more significant than just handing out a leaflet, but less «formal» than a referral.

«With this particular group of kids, there's been a lot of behavioral issues, and they just didn't seem to take school very seriously,» said Fairmont's assistant principal, Anthony Wilkinson.

I hate uniform at the moment, in a school where they can only wear one particular shirt available from just one local shop they had my daughter's class drawing with oil pastels and no aprons!!

This summer, in the Kingston City School District and in particular at Kingston High School, the beginning of a new school year isn't just marked by the perennial questions about class schedules, homework and where the locker wiSchool District and in particular at Kingston High School, the beginning of a new school year isn't just marked by the perennial questions about class schedules, homework and where the locker wiSchool, the beginning of a new school year isn't just marked by the perennial questions about class schedules, homework and where the locker wischool year isn't just marked by the perennial questions about class schedules, homework and where the locker will be.

Through my experience in schools and talking in particular to head teachers, I saw that there is a group of young people who aren't just disadvantaged economically.

They include water loss (a section of the Delaware Aqueduct to New York City slated for replacement is losing some 20 million gallons a day), contamination (not just chemical infiltration such as what's happened in Newburgh, but also lead in old pipes, particular of concern in schools), natural disasters, vandalism and even cyber-attacks.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

«Just because a drug is new or exploits a new mechanism does not mean that it adds clinically to treating particular diseases,» said co-author Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, associate professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.

We are at drama school, and there are MANY gay guys who would just die to get their hands on him... one in particular that we are both good friends with, but it is so painfully obvious that our mutual friend fancies my boyfriend badly.

2018-04-08 17:23 We are at drama school, and there are MANY gay guys who would just die to get their hands on him... one in particular that we are both good friends with, but it is so painfully obvious that our mutual friend fancies my boyfriend badly.

Or maybe you did start by buying some expensive prepackaged program that just isn't working for your school's particular needs.

... But elements of the flipped classroom, where you're just identifying things in your teaching and learning practices in the classroom... perhaps maths is a great example even in primary school, where a lot of students just require a particular maths example to be explained over and over and over, using different examples.

Schools that fail to make adequate yearly progress (meet achievement targets) for three consecutive years, even if it's just for a particular subgroup of students, must offer free tutoring to all students.

Just as these things exist for a particular city or region, they exist, and are often more deeply rooted, at our schools and on our college campuses.

Martinez in particular credits Senior Lecturer Karen Mapp's course on family and community engagement and Senior Lecturer Richard Weissbourd's Moral Adults: Moral Children for reinforcing her belief that schools need to teach more than just academic skills.

In Chicago in particular, Leap Innovations is trying to spur the creation of a cluster by not just working on building breakthrough schools, but also on supporting education technology companies by helping them pilot their tools in its schools and collect research.

A question of particular interest was whether schools that failed to make AYP in the previous school year responded strongly to the incentive to target instruction to students at risk of falling just short of the proficiency threshold.

Outstanding schools are not good at just one particular thing, they are very good at many things.

Seeing these miracles has been the greatest blessing of my life, but today I want to talk about one particular student who taught me to believe in the impossible and allowed me to learn that impossible is just a starting point to profound change, both in an individual, school and even society.

If you're going to go along and change a school it's not just about «give it a go in this particular area».

At the beginning of every year I do that — I have a substantial session, not just with teachers but with the entire staff and it's on school improvement and what we're doing to improve particular areas of the school.

«We can debate facts at particular schools but you just can't deny that some places are getting phenomenal results — results that should be celebrated, not called out as fraudulent.»

Says Pittinsky, the most honest strategy for addressing academic inequities today is «an approach that involves not just giving adult family members a sense of security that the school is working for their children, but an «all hands on deck» sense of urgency — of just how important education is and how helpful and important it is for education to be reinforced at home by the most important adults in any particular child's life.

You can return to the Denver Post or Chalkbeat articles in just about any year just after the release of test score data to find the «it» schools of a particular year getting pages of press in their first year only to be soundly forgotten about when the new «it» schools come online and some of the previous years» schools fail to live up to expectations.

The study found that students from particular demographics were even less likely to use a voucher: just over half (51 percent) of high school students awarded a voucher used it the next year, and only 63 % of students from «schools in need of improvement» (the target students for the program) who recieved a voucher used it the next year.

Many school systems have gotten the message that they need to be more data driven, and they are now awash in data - not just yearly student test scores, but figures on how different groups of students are doing in particular subjects or grade levels, how successful a school is at attracting and retaining teachers or closing the achievement gap among disadvantaged students, or how equitable funding is from school to school.

In particular I'll be taking closer looks at trends related to charter schools, educational equity, and the broader area of school choice, just to name a few topics.

Each of the schools has a particular story of success and achievement to tell, such as Southview School in Witham which advanced from an Ofsted category to an outstanding judgement in just a few years; and Glenwood School who advanced from a Satisfactory rating at the outset of the partnership to be judged as outstanding in their past two inspections.

Just how states address this issue if the participation rate of all students (or a subgroup of students) at a particular school falls below 95 percent is up to them.

«They reflect the particular circumstances of the schools and the time at which the inspections took place, in some cases just a couple of days into the start of the new school year,» he said.

«It's just that the turnover is such that we have these staffing problems in particular types of schools.»

They're just people who have been trained to teach in a particular way, and may or may not have seen that this particular way is not terribly effective with this particular child or the children in this school.»

This particular example of unwillingness to adapt to the modern world is a reason why just one out of every five middle - school students in seven states — California, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington State — was provided Algebra 1 courses during the 2009 - 2010 school year, as well as why 300,000 students in the nation's Class of 2012 have never taken an Advanced Placement course even though they have demonstrated their aptitude for doing so, according to the College Board.

«There are individual schools in voucher program, independent charter schools and in MPS that are standing out, but it's not because of what segment the schools they're in; it's just the (particular) schools.

In a unanimous opinion, SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that public schools must provide students with disabilities an «educational program [that is] appropriately ambitious in light of [a particular student's] circumstances, just as advancement from grade to grade is appropriately ambitious for most children in the regular classroom.»

In part, that's because, as organizations with a particular mission, many early sponsors chartered just one or two schools and thus lacked the capacity to do more than rely on the schools» boards to keep things running smoothly.

This particular paper lays out how instances of fraud and mistreatment of students can happen systematically — how they're embedded in the system and not just examples of rogue charter school operators.

«OCR are rightly apologetic but just exactly how they propose to mark this particular paper will leave many students, their schools and their parents with an anxious wait for their results.

The report's school accountability approach emphasizes two equally important goals for these new systems: 1) ensuring that accountability systems drive toward equal education opportunities by creating a system for identifying and acting on chronic low performance by particular groups of students and 2) ensuring that accountability systems are broadly framed in order to drive toward a comprehensive conception of student and school success and a culture of continuous improvement rather than just shame and punishment.

You have in your packet a blue sheet that gives you the order of the day, so I won't belabor that too much, but I will just remind you that we're going to start out with a session on history this morning; then go to a lunchtime segment that will focus on some of the relevant federal constitutional issues, including evaluations of the federal attacks on and defenses of the Blaine amendments; then we will finish off the day with a session that will focus on litigation strategy related to these amendments and some of the arguments being made for and against them in that litigation, as well as a focus on how debates over faith - based initiatives and school vouchers are affected by these particular state constitutional restrictions.

If a particular «fad» is just not working right in our school setting.

Now, instead of just mandatory annual testing and punitive measures for struggling schools, cash - strapped states — who had little choice but to pursue the multi-billion-dollar grant money — were made to implement specific federally supported education reforms.19 In the end, despite the Obama administration's efforts to distance itself from NCLB, and the failure of NCLB's testing mandates (in particular the mandated but statistically impossible 100 percent proficiency rates), the act's design provided the policy blueprint that led to RTTT.

It's not just about helping a particular type of school, but will be about school improvement across the board, including helping good schools to become outstanding.»

Assistance in finding the right college doesn't just mean finding a school that offers a particular major, either.

At least in the early going, teachers may just need to trust their school or district leaders» judgment on the value of particular materials.

Traditional districts, in particular, do as little as possible to inform families about their options; the penchant of districts to inform families of kids in failing schools of their options in June — just as families were going on summer break — is one reason why the No Child Left Behind's school choice provision has never worked as envisioned.

I've been exposed too often to distressing news such as pushing not just religious dogma, but that of one particular religion into public school curriculums and textbooks — «reading» would then render one to be a captive of... the Twilight Zone.

A lot of students just hate writing school essays as this task demands some particular academic writing and research skills and much hard work as well.