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Those who graduate under higher standards, however, are more likely to make on - time payments and keep up with their bills, and they understand how to manage those obligations better than students who were not exposed to personal finance and economics in school, the data show.

Inspired by the students who survived the Florida shooting and are demanding more be done to keep high - powered guns out of the reach of killers, about 80 teenagers, mostly students and recent graduates of Clarence High School, gathered in a Clarence park to send a message: «Enough is enough.»

I keep evocative memories of my math teacher, during middle school, who was very dedicated in preparing his students for national competitions.

In fact, First Reformed plays so much like old - school Schrader, you might confuse it for the work of a dutiful grad student: Once again, we get a tortured Travis Bickle voiceover (Hawke's Ernst Toller keeps a journal from which, in between hitting the sauce, he reads passages like «I know there is no hope»); here, too, is a troubled woman who needs saving (Amanda Seyfried, playing a character named Mary), and Toller's own memories of his soldier son, killed in IraIn fact, First Reformed plays so much like old - school Schrader, you might confuse it for the work of a dutiful grad student: Once again, we get a tortured Travis Bickle voiceover (Hawke's Ernst Toller keeps a journal from which, in between hitting the sauce, he reads passages like «I know there is no hope»); here, too, is a troubled woman who needs saving (Amanda Seyfried, playing a character named Mary), and Toller's own memories of his soldier son, killed in Irain between hitting the sauce, he reads passages like «I know there is no hope»); here, too, is a troubled woman who needs saving (Amanda Seyfried, playing a character named Mary), and Toller's own memories of his soldier son, killed in Irain Iraq.

92, who teaches math at Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, Wash. «You just keep making it happen for those students.»

Survey results indicate that inclusive schools have several strengths in promoting STEM education in students who are underrepresented in STEM fields, such as recognizing that some students need extended instructional time, keeping students with teachers for multiple years, providing students with higher levels of contact with mentors in STEM fields who mirror the students» backgrounds, and emphasizing career and technical preparation.

Five years ago, Evie G. Dennis, who was then the superintendent of the Denver schools, decided to do something to keep more of the district's students in school.

Schools who are keeping back some budget for the new curriculum announcements in 2014 should remember that to date, every prouncement made by Rt Hon Michael Gove has been based on the foundations of «freedom» for schools to do what they see is best for their individual stSchools who are keeping back some budget for the new curriculum announcements in 2014 should remember that to date, every prouncement made by Rt Hon Michael Gove has been based on the foundations of «freedom» for schools to do what they see is best for their individual stschools to do what they see is best for their individual students.

In an effort to lower chronic absenteeism among its Native American elementary school students, the district worked with the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde to hire a coordinator who worked with families to address transportation, bullying, and other issues that were keeping kids out of school.

The Ohio study matched EdChoice students with descriptively similar public school students at baseline and kept every student in their original group after that, regardless of who in either group actually attended private or public schools.

Maybe there's that one teacher who is amazingly talented at what she does; or the teacher's aide who serves as a de facto grandmother to half the student body; or the chess club leader who manages to keep young boys engaged in school through early adolescence; or the superstar math teacher who seems solely responsible for a middle school's stellar math scores.

Capping the number of students who can participate in choice programs has kept school districts from suffering any severe drops in enrollment.

• While students who are expelled or suspended can easily fall behind, be held back, or drop out of school, Epstein warns that similar negative impacts may await other students if the offenders are kept in school.

The superintendents of three Los Angeles County school districts are planning a joint appeal to their Los Angeles Unified counterpart in a bid to keep some 3,000 city students who collectively bring in millions of dollars in state funding to their districts.

School administrators and educators can identify chronic absenteeism early on and help keep students on track; schools and support programs can provide extra resources for students who may need them to graduate and be prepared for college; and finally ~ we can strive to provide all students with the opportunity to apply their knowledge and realize their passions while in sSchool administrators and educators can identify chronic absenteeism early on and help keep students on track; schools and support programs can provide extra resources for students who may need them to graduate and be prepared for college; and finally ~ we can strive to provide all students with the opportunity to apply their knowledge and realize their passions while in schoolschool.

Instead, schools should work to keep those teachers who are producing large gains in student achievement and remove those who are not producing gains.

Finally, it is important to keep in mind that, although we found that students who likely would have attended the closed schools fared better elsewhere, they still did not fare well.

Through this plan, any student who had been enrolled in district schools for at least one year could apply for a voucher of approximately $ 4,600, equal to 75 percent of state per - pupil funding, to attend a «partner» private school, with the school district keeping the other 25 percent.

However frustrating it may be at times, I'll keep in mind that the people who do the work in schools, communities, and colleges are usually far better positioned than I am to make judgments about «what works» for their students.

With that in mind, the school has decided to keep its fees to an absolute minimum, and provide scholarships to students who show outstanding potential.

In order to keep all students motivated, especially those who struggle or have been disengaged from school, educators need to ensure that engagement is built into the very DNA of the course design.

Finding a wellness - accountability buddy — a peer who agrees to support and keep you accountable to your wellness goals — or using a professional learning community as a space to check in with other teachers are also ways to get that support, offers Alex Shevrin, a former school leader and teacher at Centerpoint School, a trauma - informed high school in Vermont that institutes school - wide practices aimed at addressing students» underlying emotional school leader and teacher at Centerpoint School, a trauma - informed high school in Vermont that institutes school - wide practices aimed at addressing students» underlying emotional School, a trauma - informed high school in Vermont that institutes school - wide practices aimed at addressing students» underlying emotional school in Vermont that institutes school - wide practices aimed at addressing students» underlying emotional school - wide practices aimed at addressing students» underlying emotional needs.

The UFT and its backers have kept up a steady drumbeat of false claims against charter schools in New York City: Charters cherry - pick their students, push out those who need extra support, and generally falsify...

These five schools have made great gains in keeping students who needed extra time and seeing them through to earning a high school diploma.

KIPP spokesperson Debbie Fine said staffers at the two original schools, and at the KIPP to College program, have been keeping track of all 546 students who have completed eighth grade since the two schools began in 1995.

Teachers across the nation report being pressured to fudge grades, pass students who don't deserve it, and accept students into classes they can't keep up in, all because of school evaluation models that use these metrics to keep up appearances for taxpayers.

Those who have said they'd like to apply include a couple who run a Montessori preschool in Enumclaw and want to expand to grades K - 3; another couple who operate a home - school support program in Mount Vernon and wish to offer a tradition - based schoolhouse education to K - 12 students; a parents» group in Lewis County that hoped to keep Packwood Elementary School open despite school board plans to close it; and the principal of a private K - 8 school in Seattle seeking to add a charter high sschool support program in Mount Vernon and wish to offer a tradition - based schoolhouse education to K - 12 students; a parents» group in Lewis County that hoped to keep Packwood Elementary School open despite school board plans to close it; and the principal of a private K - 8 school in Seattle seeking to add a charter high sSchool open despite school board plans to close it; and the principal of a private K - 8 school in Seattle seeking to add a charter high sschool board plans to close it; and the principal of a private K - 8 school in Seattle seeking to add a charter high sschool in Seattle seeking to add a charter high schoolschool.

By grading lawmakers on a scale of A-F, just like students and schools, Empower Mississippi's Education Report Card gives a clear and comprehensive assessment of who is truly keeping the promise of a quality education in the Magnolia State.

And here in Connecticut, we know, thanks to Steven Adamowski, Hartford's former superintendent of schools, who presently serves as Malloy's «Special Master» for the Windham and New London schools that when you keep one out of every ten students from taking the Connecticut Mastery Tests, your test scores go up, as long as the 10 percent are the lowest performing students.

Every since the 1990s, Clinton has expressed support for charter schools, but in Saturday's remarks, she said something that is likely to irritate her supporters within the Democratic Party who are avid backers of charter schools as a principal means of reforming public education: that most charters don't accept those students who are the most difficult to educate, or, if they do, they «don't keep them.»

Any productive discussion of educational transformation must address the ways in which schools keep kids off the books, so to speak, who don't fit the mold of a successful student as defined by school authorities.

By embracing the tests — which are designed to measure students» knowledge of the more rigorous standards — college officials are at odds with many parents who have protested their use in schools and kept their children out of the exams.

Salas's story is common, especially in school districts with too few guidance counselors to keep track of the large numbers of poor, transient students who move from school to school and across districts.

We recently spoke to administrators from three urban and suburban Oregon middle schools dedicated to keeping students in school and who are collecting data that show their success in changing their discipline policies and practices.

To keep these students from starting secondary school without the English skills they would need, school leaders developed an after - school journalism program that targeted students in grades 3 — 5 who were struggling with English proficiency.

The principals voiced concern for two top priorities: (1) maintaining and perhaps adding staff, because keeping personnel is key to a low student - teacher ratio and caring relationships in school; and (2) providing targeted support to the students who need it most.

But there is no closure, much less moral triumph in this episode — certainly not for the many independent charter schools in NYC that go to great lengths to work with and keep all their students in school and who are continually associated in the public eye with the practices of no - excuses charter schools.

Funding our schools is important; however, we must make sure to keep our focus on fixing our broken system so that funding goes to the classroom and supports a system that is based on the accountability and effectiveness of the adults in this system — the teachers, principals and administrators who serve our students.

In a rare look inside the network, including visits to several schools and interviews with dozens of current and former employees, The New York Times chronicled a system driven by the relentless pursuit of better results, one that can be exhilarating for teachers and students who keep up with its demands and agonizing for those who do not.

The need for better school leaders is the reason we believe in supporting districts to improve how they recruit, support, and retain those highly effective principals who foster student success and keep our great, highly effective teachers in the classroom.

In a world in which poverty, language barriers and the need for special education services are the three greatest factors limiting educational outcomes, charter schools have a lower percentage of poor students, fail to accept and keep their fair share of students who aren't fluent in English and take far fewer students who need special education serviceIn a world in which poverty, language barriers and the need for special education services are the three greatest factors limiting educational outcomes, charter schools have a lower percentage of poor students, fail to accept and keep their fair share of students who aren't fluent in English and take far fewer students who need special education servicein which poverty, language barriers and the need for special education services are the three greatest factors limiting educational outcomes, charter schools have a lower percentage of poor students, fail to accept and keep their fair share of students who aren't fluent in English and take far fewer students who need special education servicein English and take far fewer students who need special education services.

Outgoing NEA President Dennis Van Roekel said his members were «understandably frustrated» with Duncan and vowed to keep pushing the department to develop «student - centered» policies «that are influenced by those who know best — educators working in our classrooms and in our schools — rather than profiteers.»

This flexibility means that the number of students who may be in school at a given hour on any given day is inconsistent, so administrators attempt to limit school enrollment to keep cycles from becoming overcrowded.

Carson, 39, wants to offer students that opportunity in a school, scheduled to open in 2016, where every classroom is filled with teachers who share a common goal and who keep often - bitter debates over education policy out of the building.

Shamsun Nahar, who came to the city from Bangladesh in 2013, said her elder son was among those who needed the help: An 18 - year - old student at a high school in the Bronx, he still has difficulty with English, which has left him socially isolated and could keep him from graduating on time.

Charter schools become the «solution» lying around for parents who want to keep their students close to home in a school that will not be closed the following year.

With me are panelists who will help us learn more about what is going on in schools and how we can create a learning environment that is safe and keeps students in the classroom.

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Cleveland County Schools» Exceptional Children Director Nellie Aspel, who is charged with managing all of the moving parts related to the education of her school district's special needs students, has had to stretch a slim budget in ways that keep her up at night.

By Lindsay Wagner Cleveland County Schools» Exceptional Children Director Nellie Aspel, who is charged with managing all of the moving parts related to the education of her school district's special needs students, has had to stretch a slim budget in ways that keep...