Sentences with phrase «kids get a great education»

Having many, many more kids get a great education — and doing whatever it takes to allow our schools and country to provide that education — is what will make Startup: Education a success.

To be clear, progressives» use of equity arguments to ensure all kids get a great education is in the finest traditions of American public education.

From high standards to aligned assessments, data transparency to school accountability, advocates for reform are championing efforts in their states to ensure that kids get the great educations they deserve.

As for middle class kids getting great educations... way does ACT report 75 % of incoming college freshmen aren't prepared for college?

Not exact matches

«Bill Perkins is a guy who went to elite private schools and he represents a districts where most people can't afford elite private schools and charter schools are their opportunity to get their kids a great education,» Bloomberg told WOR's John Gambling.

«These remarkable kids are getting a great education,» Ryan said.

Things aren't great at the new, much smaller school, and White chooses to switch sports and coach a young group of Latino kids in cross-country running, after seeing the potential in a few of them as they balance a troubled home life, a near - full time job picking fruit in the surrounding fields, and getting an education.

Games such as dodgeball and other elimination or human target games have lost their audience in recent years as physical education curriculum has become infused with a greater focus on getting kids moving, and removing any opportunity for bullying or singling out students.

But as Andy Rotherham points out, forcing people to «go private» in order to get a customized education for their kids is not a great political strategy for building broad support for the public schools.

«We need every kid to get a great education, whether they live in Mexico or Nigeria or Pakistan.»

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«TFA has the most powerful brand in teaching and they've got tons of kids with great resumes lining up at the door,» said Frederick Hess, director of education policy at the American Enterprise Institute.

We need more school options for families, not fewer: kids shouldn't have to rely on a lottery or their parents» ability to buy a house in a certain neighborhood to get a great education.

But for those families, especially single mothers and blue - collar households, choice sounds great in the abstract until one thinks about the high cost of transporting their kids out of their own neighborhoods just so they can get a high quality education.

When you ask education leaders in Omaha why the achievement gap is so glaring, you get the usual answers, «Those kids don't care, they're too poor to achieve at high levels, their parents don't get involved, etc. etc.» Fortunately we know that when schools expect ALL students to achieve, and give them great teachers who believe in their ability, students can beat the odds and rise above the challenges.

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, I offer some steps parents and caregivers can take to get their kids a great education once school starts back up.

Attract the «best and brightest» to teaching and every kid will get a great education, so the logic goes.

Steele refers to this phenomenon, leaving the classroom you love to be an administrator, as the greatest mystery in education: «Why is it that the further away you get from kids, the more money you make?»

They do great work helping kids in need get an education.

Griffin has been a great choice for my daughter who has excelled all the CRT testing this is all thanks to the great staff who make sure you have all the tools needed for the child to succeed like books websites from the Liaison from Griffin to the Principal who tries within his power to make sure kids are on time and follow instructional classes in a respectful way to staff who are always friendly and ready to help out when is needed to the awesome teachers who put up long hours making sure students are getting the best education there is in Cobb.

I feel like my kids are getting a great education here I am very happy to be at Ward School!!!