Sentences with phrase «knew of a particular school»

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In particular, the New York - based bank is known for its expertise in the issuance of catastrophe bonds, Qualified School Construction Bonds in the US, and bonds issued to finance debt restructuring around the world.

The discovery of this fact about the Gospels is often popularly attributed to a contemporary school of scholars known as «Form critics,» but the fact was well established long before this particular school emerged and rests upon grounds considerably wider and firmer than those which support this school's particular claims.

Adopting «in Jesus» name» as the necessary minimal condition for a counting as a «Christian congregation» for the purpose of a theological school's study does not, of course, require any particular answer to the quite different question whether God is truly known and worshiped by groups who do not worship in Jesus» name or whether God is redemptively present to them.

In particular, such stressors compromise the higher order thinking skills that allow students to sort out complex and seemingly contradictory information such as when the letter C is pronounced like K (what psychologists call «executive functioning»), and their ability to keep a lot of information in their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and work.

If the family has a particular set of religious beliefs, they will no doubt teach their children about them, whether they're in school or not.

Waldorf is dedicated to providing its middle school students with an academic curriculum with rigor and purpose — one that is creatively designed to meet the particular needs of middle school students — along with exceptional teachers, regular class travel, a no - cut athletic program, and fine arts and performing arts courses.

Within the important new category of «School Food Reform Resources for Parents,» there are two sites in particular that I want to be sure you know about.

But for other secular homeschoolers, those who do not follow a particular philosophy — which may either mean that they fall into the group of homeschoolers known as eclectic or that they use many public school methods — they don't or don't seem themselves as having a single, shaping vision that guides all their choices other than providing their children with an excellent, safe education.

Funded hospital education places can be found in maintained special schools (usually a particular type of special school known as a hospital school), maintained PRUs (sometimes known as medical PRUs), special and AP academies and free schools.

Underlying all of these incidents — no matter how misguided the particular actions of school personnel — is a laudable desire to ensure that kids, especially economically vulnerable kids, get a decent meal at school.

He told the cheering crowd that his pledges are not made in vain pointing out that they could see the results for themselves adding the location of this particular school is the best situated especially when he knows the terrain too well since the people are his in - laws.

So I know that the school board will be taking action on that particular matter to also include that violation in the petition they're filing to the commissioner for the removal of Mr. Paladino,» explained Scott.

In particular, Shah and her colleagues — her student Been Kim, whose PhD thesis is the basis of the new paper, and Cynthia Rudin, an associate professor of statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management — were trying to augment a type of machine learning known as «unsupervised.»

The result is a little like knowing the number of students and distribution of grades in a particular school, but having no idea if the student who sits in the third row actually likes math.

In particular, it is not known whether teachers leave schools with high concentrations of disadvantaged and low - achieving populations for financial reasons or because of the working conditions associated with serving these students.

All of them require trust, upfront communication, and a little dose of courage — and only you know your particular school's culture — but I have seen great success when teachers give these strategies a try.

While home schooling may have particular appeal to celebrities, over the last decade families of all kinds have embraced the practice for widely varying reasons: no longer is home schooling exclusive to Christian fundamentalism and the countercultural Left.

«That's why so many dyslexia advocates in particular have been calling for this type of skills check to be put in place at an early level for many, many years because they know that you can get much, much earlier identi cation, intervention, and therefore assistance to help ensure that the early years of a child's education are successful which then enables them to be successful for the rest of their schooling.»

Middle and high school kids in particular often demand to know the purpose of doing an assignment or of learning some seemingly irrelevant skill.

Professor Howard Gardner, one of Rose's first professors at the Ed School, says, «Todd's focus on what we know about the individual student and how we can mobilize pedagogical and curricular resources to meet the particular student is of fundamental importance.

«They know that going into high school, if they perform at this particular level at this GPA and class rank, they can get into the University of Colorado guaranteed,» said Jack O. Burns, the university's vice president for academic affairs and research.

Put simply, a principal and leadership team that knows how to use the resources and expertise available to them in ways that maximise the outcomes students can achieve is a key determinant of the success of the school and, in particular, the extent to which teachers can deliver high quality teaching to each and every class.

In particular, we know each student's gender, ethnicity, whether they received free or reduced - price lunch through the federal lunch program, whether they were English language learners or received special education services, and their record of suspensions and absences from school.

It's unfair and unnecessary to risk confusing children with topics — sailing, BMX racing, snowshoeing — that low - income urban children, in particular, are likely to know little about and have no out - of - school experience with.

No matter the dynamics of the country, schools can serve a mechanism to reinforce the sociocultural norms of that particular society.

Interventions (both in - school and out - of - school) for any particular age group tend to be very similar in purpose, no matter what their label.

A former middle and high school math teacher, Star's research has explored the development of flexibility in mathematical problem solving, with flexibility defined as knowledge of multiple strategies for solving mathematics problems and the ability to adaptively choose among known strategies on a particular problem.

Eric Twadell, the current superintendent of Adlai Stevenson High School District 125, says the culture of collaboration is so deeply embedded in teacher practices that it's no longer a subject of particular discussion.

A renewed commitment to those goals, rather than to the particular means pursued during the past several decades of reform efforts, may help both liberals and conservatives see their way to bold, constructive ideas for improving American schools — and toward alternatives to schools as we know them.

For primary school students it was a narrower set of choices: «high school», «TAFE», «university» and «I don't know»; for the secondary students it was a little bit more detailed in terms of postgraduate study and things as well, but we collapsed it into those four key categories for this particular analysis.

We know that the current «drill and kill» testing regime, school closures, privatization, the criminalization of students of color, and the unconscionable lack of resources for schools in poor communities in particular, create and exacerbate achievement gaps between rich and poor.

I knew them to be serious scholars of the practice of teaching particular school subjects, and preparing novice teachers to deepen their understandings of these practices.

We therefore use a variety of fixed effects approaches to estimate the link between student achievement and these three forms of being to new one's job assignment — new to teaching, new to school, or new to position within the same school — with a particular focus on the latter given that so many teachers experience within - school reassignments and we know so little about how students are affected by it.

«We also know, because teachers repeatedly tell us, that disruptive, violent and challenging behaviour is one of deciding factors for them leaving a particular school or teaching altogether.

Our community includes a lot of people who sit on charter school boards, work in the charter school industry, but I knew that even a lot of people who are pro-charter in general were anti this particular charter, and I wanted to ensure that we could build a coalition that was as wide as possible.

Underlying many school reform efforts is the notion that classroom teachers are in the best position to know their students» needs and interests, and therefore should be the ones to make decisions about tailoring instruction to a particular group of students.

However, not all schools and districts have leaders and teachers with backgrounds in gifted and talented education who also know how to best address the particular needs of gifted students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and / or questioning (gifted LGBTQ).

In particular, they want to know the number of places allocated across different routes: through higher education institutions (HEI), school - centred initial teacher training (SCITT), and School Direct, to get an accurate picture of recruitment and local needs and to «plan for the future&rschool - centred initial teacher training (SCITT), and School Direct, to get an accurate picture of recruitment and local needs and to «plan for the future&rSchool Direct, to get an accurate picture of recruitment and local needs and to «plan for the future».

If the result is such that they know instinctively that the grade is not representative of what's going on in a particular school, then it's failed to provide the transparency and the information that it wants.

I am an active supporter of my local library and have been in all the communities where I have lived and know how important they are to so many people and in particular the very young children and school children.

If you want to know if a particular school requires an essay to apply, search «[name of school] international student admissions requirements» on Google.

One school in particular really surprised me because there was not one student or adult that knew, or had even heard of, what a microchip is.

Is fond of wearing khaki pants no matter the situation, will start lecturing you on the minutiae of a particular topic if you stop to make conversation, and is often bullied by every other group in the school.

These three painters are graduates of the New York Studio School, well known for its connection to the original New York School luminaries and its emphasis on a particular facet of composition known as «the picture plane.»

My background — coming to New York in 1959 and studying painting at Cooper Union Art School, in and out of the museums and the Cedar Bar, knowing other painters, the Abstract Expressionists in particular — I had no choice but to be well versed.

This new Dutch Realist School of genre painting also led to enhanced realism in portrait art and landscape painting, flower pictures, animal compositions and, in particular, to new forms of still life painting, including the Protestant - inspired genre known as vanitas painting (flourished 1620 - 50).

They're the adults now who don't have any particular interest in science but «remember the science from school» and so unlikely to question whatever the AGW green agenda pushes, and even those in actual science fields where real knowledge of gas properties isn't relelevant, but what I find astonishing though, is how many in actual science fields who come together to discuss AGW continue to not question something as basic as the difference between heat and light claims in the AGW energy budget which is well known still in the real science world.

We advise employers on the full range of employment issues, with particular expertise in Restructuring, TUPE & Outsourcing, Trade Unions & Industrial Relations and Equal Pay, areas which we know are highly relevant to academies and free schools.

Students leave law school knowing what consideration is, what the test is in a particular area of law, etc..

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