Sentences with phrase «keep schools pointed»

Only empowered and informed parents, responsible and transparent government oversight, and vigilant and powerful advocates can keep schools pointed toward excellence.

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But to assume prices will keep rising as a result misses an important point, says Josh Gordon, assistant professor at the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University.

Flombaum and Enbar, who self - funded the operation up to this point and who say tuition alone can keep the school easily afloat, say they want to work first on perfecting the methods their more than a dozen instructors employ before expanding to other cities or to online courses.

And the consequence of these answers is real, too: «If we cannotanswer a confident «Yes» to the last three of these questions, the point of keeping our schools is lost and the project of education in our diocese has failed».

«I was playing tennis competitively in high school and I was at a point where if I wanted to take my game to the next level I needed to drop some of the extra pounds I'd been keeping around,» Greenwald remembers.

and you keep mentioning atleti and while i applaud them for there accomplishments that was 1 year where they «schooled» the big boys and now they are 10 points behind 1st place.

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And you raise a good point about open campuses — once kids are in high school, if they have transportation and funds, there's nothing to keep them from eating fast food every day, just as you say.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

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Many schools are taking extra precautions — some focus on keeping weapons out through random locker and bag checks, limiting entry and exit points at the school, and keeping the entryways under teacher supervision.

Overachieving kids, he says, are distorting their high school experience to create a perfect but phony profile they deem necessary to get into the best schools, while those who can't keep pace, often for family reasons, feel there is no point in trying.

When these teenagers reported on the coach's bullying, the school could not point to his winning status to justify keeping him in position.

At this point, keep your discussions about school pretty general; you don't want to overwhelm your child with a lot of details that may worry her even more.

In addition, it is best to keep the control (decision - making) decentralized and as local as possible, because as you noted centralized decision - making tends to lead to «one size fits all» solutions which really don't work (as those who are in the school nutrition reform movement are fond of pointing out.)

Okay I'm kind of an old fashioned guy and don't mind a bit of candy for me or my kids, but the whole point should be on keeping it reasonable, ice creams ok, but to bribe kids with it is lame, but if a parent does not want they're kid eating this stuff couldn't you just teach your kid not to, or send a note to school saying you want your kid not to have these things?

Make a point to keep the other parent informed, whether that be phone, email, counselor, or direct communication from their school of successes and difficulties your children may be experiencing.

«I believe also that this particular special edition is going to go down as a historic edition and I don't want to miss that point because it's something that we must be able to put in all our institutions so like I said we are going to get many copies to be able to give to embassies, our hotels, our schools, our libraries, all our institutions, in the secondary schools and also to be able to keep for those yet unborn to be able to see in pictorial form of the things we have tried to do in the last 50 years and maybe inspire some other people to do greater things than what has been recorded here,» the Governor said.

«People say there is no point keeping a kid in school who doesn't want to be there because he won't learn anything and he'll be disruptive,» Cook said.

The study's focus groups confirmed one other essential point for parents and school leaders to keep in mind.

On the other hand, part of the point of those regulations is to keep out low - performing private schools.

The School Teachers» Review Body, which recommended the removal of the incremental pay points, has suggested keeping a reference pay scale to help show teachers what they could expect to be paid at the different stages of their career.

New Teacher Placement, Retention Can Exacerbate Achievement Gaps Education Week, July 18, 2012 «Marty West, an assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, said the results point to the need for districts to take a closer look at who they keep and lose both in individual schools and the district as a whole.

I get angry when fellow reformers cavalierly propose to do away with Common Core for the sake of school choice or, more to the point, when they suggest that «pausing» the implementation of the standards or tests is necessary to keep them from disrupting the move to consequential teacher evaluations.

At one point, I even considered whether my commitment to my school being a First Amendment School had prevented students from becoming proficient readers yet had kept Fairview from the stigma of being designated a low - performing sschool being a First Amendment School had prevented students from becoming proficient readers yet had kept Fairview from the stigma of being designated a low - performing sSchool had prevented students from becoming proficient readers yet had kept Fairview from the stigma of being designated a low - performing schoolschool.

Email is another viable tool for communicating with the school community, if messages are kept short and to the point, added Hazeltine.

Every person in the school should understand their role in maintaining security, whether this is the importance of ensuring any access points are kept secure, or what they are expected to do if they notice a possible breach, e.g. procedure if seeing an unknown person.

Similar to others out there however I have made the RAG = Understanding 123 = Effort As a lot of schools now have a numerical effort score so seemed logical to keep that the same It is double sided and has a checklist of teacher and student points I print mine in colour A5 and have them laminated on my tables

Schools in Mississippi give Black students more than one - out - of - school suspension three times as often as they do to White students; Michigan does this four times as often to Black as White students, resulting in nearly a fifth of Michigan's Black students being kept out of the classroom at some point in their school careers.

Moreover, if it was to keep its promise of acting as a kind of venture capitalist for education reform, at some point these design teams would need to become self - sustaining, taking fees from school districts in return for their expertise.

This is in keeping with the clear principle behind the progress measures: schools should be judged by the progress their pupils make rather than the starting points of their pupils.

An Achieve3000 district since 2012, students at Southwest Parke Community Schools are now seeing their Lexile scores rise at an average of 10 to 20 points per month — a gain Rachel Porter, digital curriculum integration specialist, attributes to keeping an eye on the numbers.

Critics of the use of CABs as a financing option have also pointed out that their issuance has increased since the downturn in the housing market as schools have struggled to keep up with facilities needs despite a drop - off in state support.

At this point her options were to keep Cole in their district school and pay for private services or enroll him in the 3 - D School, a school specializing in dyslexia about 30 minutes away in school and pay for private services or enroll him in the 3 - D School, a school specializing in dyslexia about 30 minutes away in School, a school specializing in dyslexia about 30 minutes away in school specializing in dyslexia about 30 minutes away in Petal.

Many schools depend on the subsidies for their existence, and make it a point to keep their tuition rates below the average to ensure almost anyone who wants to enroll, can.

The recommendations also pointed to some themes that are worth keeping an eye on as the school board begins its series of discussions about the proposed changes.

The graduation rate is still 18 percentage points higher than in the year before the 2005 storm, but schools now face the possibility that they've hit a plateau and need to rethink how to keep making progress.

For schools that are struggling to keep teachers, other experts point to research that shows money may not solve the problem.

It is noteworthy, however, that Polk School Board member, Billy Townsend, keeps pointing toward an exhaustive report done by Stanford University that clearly tracks all students across multiple grades to build a robust picture of student growth (or lack thereof) on standardized tests, which, as anyone in public education knows, is the only metric deemed worthy of consideration by the Florida Legislature.

Given that pace, attaining 12 more points to reach a 60 by the end of the school year is within reach, the officials said — and that much improvement by individual students would likely be rewarded with 10 «bonus points» from the state to end at the 70 needed to keep College Prep operating Sylvanie Williams.

While Bill and Hillary Clinton have been charter supporters going back to his presidency in the 1990s (when the first schools opened), late last year Hillary Clinton recited some of the critic's points in a speech where she said too many charters «don't take the hardest - to - teach kids, or if they do, they don't keep them.»

One way to keep implementation on track and assure successful results is to meet with an Empowering Writers» master trainer at points during the school year.

The resolution, as now written, outlines nine points for the district with the goal to improve public education and to keep students in traditional schools.

However, it is a critical point that school districts will keep some or most of the federal funds and local funds because they are not tied (or loosely tied) to student enrollment.

CORE researchers found out that students had a 95 percent chance to graduate from high school if they maintained a 2.5 grade point average, had no suspensions and kept a 95 percent attendance record, Miller said.

It helps to keep your prospective learners engaged with your school at any point throughout their online journey and has the potential to power up your conversion.

As an argument, it fails to acknowledge that there are many other, and far more interesting, points of data that can be used by teachers, parents, and schools to keep far more compelling tabs on student progress throughout the year.

Likewise, states could propose the measures, component weights, and labels within their new accountability systems — some went with A — F school grades, while others kept a system of performance targets similar to NCLB, developed a point system for ranking schools, or created other approaches.

Rosario's attitude changed as she watched Eagle Point School District administrators fight to keep her older sister in sSchool District administrators fight to keep her older sister in schoolschool.

Under the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, states are provided with funding to develop the technical skills of secondary and postsecondary students who elect to enroll in CTE programs.46 Currently, 12.5 million high school and college students are enrolled in CTE programs.47 These programs help keep students in school; the graduation rate of CTE students is about 90 percent, 15 percentage points higher than the national average.48 However, research on their effectiveness is still in the preliminary stages.49 The best and most effective CTE programs are linked to and supported by local business or industry; provide real - world experiences or work opportunities; give students tangible outcomes such as an industry credential or college credit; and create pathways for pursuing college or career after graduation.50