Sentences with phrase «kind of school system»

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So, people who studied business - production systems or kind of old - school business philosophy maybe are familiar with it.

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In other words, during the transition from a racially segregated to a desegregated school system, it may be desirable to substitute for the previous racial groupings new kinds of educationally pertinent groupings, in which any deficiencies of the less favored race can be taken into account automatically, without reference to race as such.

While it's probably acceptable that public schools should go out of their way to blacklist MAJOR religious holy days from exams or deadlines (some kind of authoritative national list would be required, but I'll bet even with community involvement it won't please everyone, sheesh) I don't buy having our public school system bend over backwards for religion.

In the space of time available to him, of course, Mr. Clinton could offer little more than a hasty outline of this proposal, but he did manage to make clear that what he was referring to was some sort of system whereby American high school (and, as it was to turn out, also college) graduates would exchange some years of service, either as policemen, environmental workers, or offerers of some form of assistance to poor children, in exchange for the government's subsequently paying their college tuition» a kind of GI Bill for non-GIs.

Suburban schools are also unprepared for new kinds of students who enter the system from non-English speaking or reading impoverished backgrounds.

«I have that kind of patience,» says Macon, who is already tutoring in Philadelphia's public school system.

Unfortunately, she is typical of a breed of teenagers who have become so focused — by their parents, their schools, the culture, their peers and themselves on gaming the system, cheating when necessary and believing that money and material goods are the foundation of a life well - lived — that they have little opportunity to develop the kinds of ideas that used to be typical of teenagers.

To chef Ann Cooper — who famously overhauled school lunch systems in Berkeley, Calif., and now Boulder, Colo. — that kind of multitiered lunchroom menu has drawbacks.

Things I'm thinking about could be things like having his seat changed in class so he's next to someone he has conflict with, learning new skills at school that he's not confident about and is struggling with, some new kind of food he's ingesting at school that has something that's irritating his system (artificial dyes or sweeteners would be my first guesses), something other kids are talking about that are scaring him (movies or tv shows or stories).

And we don't right now have a system for helping kids who arrive in the school system stressed out with all of the effects that that has on their ability to make it through the day, so we're not using the right kind of tools to help them.

So what Joel Klein has done, what John Deasy is doing right now in school systems, is giving more advantage to lots, more opportunity, to lots of kids, especially those who wouldn't have that kind of opportunity otherwise.

As Geoffrey Canada put it in one conversation I quote in my book, «The question is, can you build a system where kids in middle school won't need these kinds of interventions in order to be successful?

While outright bans may be seen as going too far, some kind of restriction on junk food in schools seems like a sensible adult decision, given the impact of obesity on children, families, and the health care system so well documented in Weight of the Nation.

Modern tech means that our county has an online payment system where students can «bank» school lunch money and debit the system based on how many lunches they buy, which is kind of neat!

The politicians seem to be unable to move away from grand gestures which they think will impress the electorate rather than consider the fundamentals of what makes the kind of education system that the public wants - good local schools in every neighbourhood.

«These are exactly the kinds of things you want to see from a school system — and it's working.

The city school system — the largest of its kind in the country — is on the verge of dramatic change, and Gov. Cuomo has bet his second term on an aggressive campaign to transform a system he claims has failed more than 250,000 students over the past decade while state bureaucrats twiddled their thumbs.

Whatever else it has and has not done, the system of mayoral control of schools as practiced in New York City must have set some kind of record for the creation of toothless bodies.

Joining de Blasio on a press call this afternoon, Duncan insisted that the mayoral control system has both led to improvements to local schools and created a rare kind of electoral accountability for educational performance.

She also encourages early - career scientists to volunteer in the local school system or science museum — another way of finding out if you like this kind of work.

Growing up, I went to an international school that was in the public school system in Taiwan (kind of a weird situation, I know).

Waiting For Superman Premise: The United States public - school system is all kinds of fucked - up.

Mitchell Chester: What the accountability system does, and what No Child Left Behind does, is create some transparency in the system and put those of us in the education profession in a position of having to confront the realities about the kind of achievement we're accomplishing with kids — especially kids from groups that traditionally have not been well - served by schools.

All kinds of research are being produced that could count as «instructionally relevant,» after all, from studies of systems - level factors like curriculum quality and school operations to those focused on what's happening in learners» heads, to those examining classroom - level techniques.

Until last week, the North Carolina Community College System, which as of the 2006 - 07 academic year had 112 degree - seeking undocumented high school graduates among about 800,000 students of all kinds at its 58 campuses, followed the same policy.

The second company, EDUmetrika, is working with a school to develop a new kind of school information system that emphasizes the use of data — metrics and key performance indicators — to help with decision - making.

Most schools were asking students to adjust themselves, whatever kind of students they were, to a rigid system; CAST wanted the system to be elastic enough to fit all the kids.

My argument here is that a «diverse provider» environment (where an area has an array of operators running an array of schools) allows for a very different kind of accountability system.

Such a system would entail allowing parents to choose the schools their children will attend, because the many different kinds of schools established under such an arrangement would correspond to the values and needs of educators, students, and parents.

This approach will be innovative in its integration of personalized screening measures that validly identify different kinds of learners; personalized educational interventions that are matched to the needs of individual students, in and out of school; and personalized resources that build the capacity of educators and parents, and the systems in which they work, to adopt and integrate these personalized tools and measures.

Given the outdated model of many school systems, what kinds of learning environments might better serve all students?

In the spring of that year, Cumberland mayor Daniel J. McKee posed a question: «What kind of public school system would we have if we could just build it from scratch?»

«This has led to a very vibrant charter school movement in Washington in part of the great search to find out what kind of education or educational system will establish better school systems for all — white, black, brown, yellow,» Ottaway says.

As Kolderie points out, if private firms, which are built to respond to competition, are unable to make this kind of leap, we can't expect gigantic, byzantine school systems, which are insulated from competition, shackled by union contracts, and constrained by a sticky web of regulations, to do so.

I hope this latest round of effort toward reforming our system of schooling will finally yield the schools our kids deserve, they kinds of places where we'll all feel privileged to participate.

The researchers conducted interviews with 10 primary heads, some of which were in MATs, about system leadership in their local area and found that they believed schools should be placed in some kind of grouping such as a MAT, teaching school alliance or federation.

I will develop myself to be that kind of instructional leader I believe we need more of throughout our school systems.

Buying a student information system for your school has always been on your mind but no software technology has ringed a right kind of bell in your ears.

It's a new kind of teamwork, and one that's under - emphasized in our testing - based school systems.

The No Child Left Behind Act imposes the wrong kind of testing on schools, educators need better systems to interpret the test data they get, and the federal government should help pay for the mandates it imposes, according to several advocates who last week addressed a private panel studying the education law and how to improve it.

These schools, in some cases, school systems, have been transformed by the kind of dedication exemplified by some Teach for America graduates and some fearless superintendents like Michell Rhee and Paul Vallas.

In this kind of system, schools would be accountable for the rate that students accelerate.

But there seems to be little evidence that this has happened and a huge body of evidence that high - stakes tests of all kinds focus school systems on teaching and learning.

In 2007, when Dan McKee was mayor of Cumberland, Rhode Island (in 2014 he was elected lieutenant governor of the state), he famously asked, «What kind of public school system would we have if we could just build it from scratch?»

«We look at a range of different models — project - based, no excuses, Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, and spaces within schools; not only core disciplinary class but also electives and extracurriculars — to identify the conditions under which powerful learning does emerge, and to understand what kinds of systems might make this kind of learning more the exception than the rule,» he says.

Schools now using various kinds of weighted priority systems include Brooklyn Prospect, DSST, Upper West Success, and Community Roots.

White met «heroic educators who were saving lives,» and he saw quickly «what an impact one teacher could make, and I thought, what an extraordinary thing it would be if we started creating groups of teachers and even schools and school systems that were doing this kind of thing.»

This means that the entire system will benefit from greater levels of communication between Government schools, Catholic schools and independent schools of all kinds.

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