Sentences with phrase «least at the level of the school»

We need our teachers to be paid at least at the level of the school districts around us, which we are not.»)

Not exact matches

On one level, the announced liquidation (at least in the U.S.) is yet another familiar story about the sorry state of old - school retailing.

Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.

Unless I see some kind of, at least high - school level assertion or argument from you, that we can go after....

Baseline pre-injury and post-injury neuropsychological or neurocognitive testing is now commonplace at the professional and collegiate level, and has become more and more common at the high school level as well, with a recent study showing computerized neuropsychological testing being used to assess fully 41.2 % of concussions at schools with at least one athletic trainer on staff in the 2009 - 2010 year, [2] an increase of 15.5 % from the 25.7 % of concussions in which such testing was used in assessing concussions during the 2008 - 2009 school year.

I believe that an equal playing or significant playing time should be the rule rather than the exception, at least up until high school varsity or until players are playing at the highest levels of their sport.

The laws of every state now mandate - at least at the high school level - that athletes with suspected concussion not only be removed from the game or practice in which they are participating, but be barred from returning to play that same day, and obtain written authorization to return to play from a health care professional with expertise in the identification, diagnosis, and management of concussion.

Local - level: State Board of Education Rule 160 -5-1-.22 (2000) requires each school system to employ at least one full - time school nutrition program director.

To apply for the Baxter Equipment for Education Grant, you must be an active SNA director - level member who has been a member of SNA for at least one year, as of January 1, 2015, and be the person responsible for directing the school nutrition program of the school district.

Who can apply: Applicants must be an active director - level SNA member of at least one year, and the person responsible for directing the school nutrition program of the school district.

Schools applying for the grant program must have support from their school principal, district school nutrition director and school nutrition manager, have school enrollment of at least 500, have a breakfast participation level less than 40 % and demonstrate an opportunity to raise breakfast participation.

Then, if the child comes back and says the he or she will never like Billy Bully or Domineering Donna, then it's perfectly fine to allow the child not to interact with those kids, beyond a basic level of civility, so they'd know how to get along if they ended up in the same class at school, just like you'd require a child to learn at least minimal swimming skills, in case they fall out of a boat.

Inclusion criteria: ≤ 25 years, low educational level (primary school or prevocational secondary school), maximum 28 weeks of gestation, no previous live birth, understood Dutch, and at least 1 of the following additional risk factors: no social support, previously or currently experiencing domestic violence, psychosocial symptoms, unwanted and / or unplanned pregnancy, financial problems, housing difficulties, no education and / or employment and alcohol and / or drug use

An analysis conducted by the pro-charter school lobbying group Families for Excellent Schools shows NYC's Special Commissioner of Investigation charged with policing the school system opened the fewest cases in at least five years in 2016, even as complaints of school worker's misdeeds reached record levels.

According to the fundamental document, in order to qualify for election to the office of the President, an individual must be «educated up to at least School certificate level or its equivalent».

However, American students are finding themselves ill prepared to excel in college; 20 percent of high school students entering college have to take at least one remedial class to prepare for university - level coursework.

Finally, Joan Roberts, is a former home economics teacher, inspired us with her vision of a curriculum for the high school and college level to educate men and women of reproductive age to eat traditional nutrient - dense foods for at least six months prior to conception in order to fortify their bodies to give birth to optimally healthy children.

The exam, called the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test (LAST - 2), was designed to ensure that all teachers have at least a high - school - level knowledge of the liberal arts and sciences.

In addition, a survey of English language arts classrooms published by the Fordham Institute found that most elementary - school teachers, at least in the early stages of common core implementation, assigned books based on students» abilities, rather than grade - level complexity, as the standards state.

For primary school children, setting up drop off zones some distance from each school so that children could walk independently under supervision at least some of the distance to school would rapidly improve children's physical activity levels,» she said.

The existence of an orderly learning environment throughout the school — established through positive rather than negative means, whereby there are high levels of teacher consistency about how it is «enforced» and structures in place to ensure that all students are known well by at least one adult in the school — is a fundamental precondition for improved teaching and learning to occur on which the subsequent improvement in student learning outcomes can be based.

With a large share of the population convinced that schools and teachers should be given more money, or at least be held harmless, few if any interest groups or politicians have an incentive to dramatize the fact that spending levels and teacher salaries are much higher than most people believe.

By the 4th grade, public school children who score among the top 10 percent of students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are reading at least six grade levels above those in the bottom 10 percent.

Many of these schools are graduating at least 80 percent of their students and sending them off to college, even while facing significant challenges, such as serving high levels of low - income, minority, and special - needs students.

(WTTW, 11/14/16)» «Obviously education was not a central issue for either candidate, at least at the K - 12 level,» said Martin West, associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and editor - in - chief of Education Next.»

The primary goal is that he demonstrate gains of at least.8 grade level in the first year and 1.0 grade level in all subsequent years of his schooling.

Upon successful completion of their first year, T2MS students earn the equivalent of the Initial Teaching Certification from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in at least one science or math subject area at the middle or high school level and a Masters of Education degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Educschool level and a Masters of Education degree from the Harvard Graduate School of EducSchool of Education.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

Up to 45 nations participated in at least one aspect of this cooperative study of schools, teachers, students, and learning in math and science at three age levels, making it perhaps the largest survey ever undertaken in the social sciences.

When this is equated to other countries via the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), we find (in math, for the high school graduating class of 2009) that sixteen other nations had at least twice as large a fraction of their fifteen - year - olds scoring at that level.

In communities where at least one charter school is located, overall levels of support are only somewhat higher: 48 percent of the public favor the formation of charters, while 20 percent are opposed.

A small number of CMOs will have grown to serve at least 20,000 students, placing them among the largest 2 percent of school districts nationally in terms of size, while delivering a level of performance that will change the current paradigm of delivering performance at scale.

We can provide all students with the opportunity to participate in at least one after - school sports program a year and we can strongly encourage all students to participate — regardless of skill level or academic standing.

The upshot is a rare glimpse into one of the most important, yet least studied questions that can be asked at the school or district level: What materials are you actually putting in front of the kids?

In this post I cited a report which asserted that, in some American classrooms, as many as fifty percent of students are performing above grade level, and, in the majority of schools, at least ten percent are.

Although there are lots of ways to engage families throughout the year, given that most open houses are fairly well attended (at least at the elementary level) and one of the first events of the school year — and sometimes the only face - to - face contact parents have with teachers — it's critical that schools rethink their back - to - school night.

Our strictest test of the program's impact indicates that NLP schools show higher scores of 1.5 percentile points and a 2.5 higher percentage achieving at least level 4 in mathematics.

As for the latter, states must to find ways to get charter schools to a decent level of per - pupil funding, plus facilities funding, if not in comparison to traditional public schools then at least in terms of real dollars.

He has four children, for one thing, and while they attended private schools, Schwarzenegger's kids at least gave him a partial window into a world that was completely unknown, on a personal level, to three of the four governors who had preceded him in the office.

Rigorous studies consistently show that the impact of a more - effective teacher is substantial A high - performing teacher, one at the 84th percentile of all teachers, when compared with just an average teacher, produces students whose level of achievement is at least 0.2 standard deviations higher by the end of the school year.

«I hope I have had the effect on at least a few of my students that both of these teachers had on me,» added Newlin, who recently moved from the principalship to a district - level (Kent County Public Schools, Chestertown, Maryland) position as supervisor of mathematics.

In other words, the charter advantage, from the perspective of parents, is at least as great at the high - school level as at the elementary level.

In the transition from high school to college, that means that students are enrolling in colleges which are at least at their level of academic preparation (or higher).

Now school buildings do not tend to be «system built», they tend to vary in age, layout, fabric, etc, but the DECs can at least give a general idea of energy efficiency levels.

The school must post such information in clearly visible locations so that it is readily accessible for students and employees by: (1) posting such information on the district and / or school's website (s), if such a website exists; (2) posting such information in highly - visible areas of school buildings; (3) making such information available at the district and school building - level administrative offices, where applicable; (4) providing such information to parents and persons in parental relation at least once per school year in a manner as determined by the school, including, but not limited to, through electronic communication and / or sending such information home with students; and (5) providing each teacher and administrator in the school with such information.

Her statement on company letterhead emphasized in boldface that 63 percent of students gain at least two grade levels in reading and 77 percent make grade - level growth in math after attending ALS schools for at least a semester.

«A State must define annual meaningful differentiation in a manner that... [r] esults in a single rating from among at least three distinct rating categories for each school, based on a school's level of performance on each indicator, to describe a school's summative performance....»

«Obviously education was not a central issue for either candidate, at least at the K - 12 level,» said Martin West, associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and editor - in - chief of Education Next.

To make adequate yearly progress, or AYP, under the federal law, schools and districts must meet annual targets for the percentage of students who score at least at the proficient level on state reading and mathematics tests, both for the student population as a whole and for certain subgroups of students.

All states participating in Title I must implement assessments of student achievement, linked to state content and academic achievement standards, for all public school students in each of grades 3 - 8 plus at least once in grades 10 - 12, in reading and mathematics and at three grade levels (at least once in each of grades 3 - 5, 6 - 9, and 10 - 12) in science.