Sentences with phrase «like rocketship»

It doesn't look like a rocketship and it works just like a regular car, and we think this is the right choice for the future.

Yes Magazine exposes the Rocketship Style corporate reform movement: profiteering instead of education Yes Magazine's February 2014 article exposes charter school operators like Rocketship and their underlying interests to privatize the education market.

While it is uncomfortable and perhaps even inappropriate to cast minority children into the position of being a commodity market share, the large scale Charter Management Organizations like Rocketship leave little choice.

Some charter schools, like Rocketship for example, register as nonprofit corporations to create the illusion that they are not concerned with making money.

Charter schools like Rocketship spend enormous sums of money to help charter - friendly candidates get elected to public school boards — something public schools can't do.

Billionaire Netflix CEO Reed Hastings recently declared that charter schools, like Rocketship, should fully replace public schools by 2040.

As more schools like Rocketship build hybrid and blended systems, however, and as more entrepreneurs develop the missing - piece systems, the tipping point may be reached, fueling rapid growth of this new approach to schooling.

Schools like Rocketship will have important lessons to share.

Not exact matches

Stanley Fish zooms across the firmament of American higher education like Flash Gordon's rocketship.

Whenever we had to slow for a turn or pull up at a traffic light, the engine threatened to die, but when that Chevy hit the open road with the engine wide open, it felt like we were strapped to a rocketship blasting off for Planet Punani.

Although some charter school operators, such as Rocketship Education and KIPP Empower, as well as some school districts, like Riverside School District, have created stellar blended - learning models, the most advanced school districts in California in online and blended learning have seen their efforts frustrated and curtailed.

Which means, a charter operator with campuses in multiple states, like KIPP, Uncommon Schools, Achievement First, or Rocketship Education, can not freely move a teacher or school leader between their schools in various states.

The K - 2 structure is a Rocketship - like lab rotation model.

The use of highly effective, cost - efficient individualized instructional programs like DreamBox Learning is allowing Rocketship to realize its mission of closing the achievement gap.

Rocketship's data guru, Charlie Bufalino, says that to date, vendors haven't invested sufficiently in the R&D and technical fixes that would make a standardized stream of data possible and take menial tasks like attendance out of teachers» hands.

And starting next year, university authorizers expect nationally recognized charter school companies like KIPP and Rocketship Education to take a more active look at opening schools in Michigan.

Like Lighthouse, Rocketship in Milwaukee is a franchise — part of a national charter school chain.

Rocketship (see Barbara Miner's report from our new Save Our Schools issue) uses computer programs to teach children for a significant portion of the day, and eschews «extras» like school librarians, art, gym, and social studies, which further reduce staff costs.

With the additional money, fund executives hope to attract outside charters like California - based Rocketship, YES Prep from Texas, East Coast - based Uncommon and more KIPP — Knowledge Is Power Program — campuses.

Students like that can do really well [at Rocketship].

The announcement, made by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), comes as some states are lifting caps on the number of charter schools, and as major charter - management organizations (CMOs) like KIPP and Rocketship Education are receiving federal dollars to expand their programs.

CCSA and the Special Education Team would like to congratulate Ms. Logan Juve Janicula from Rocketship Los Sueños, for becoming the first STAR Award winner!

It also has sections examining the efficacy of some of the most over-hyped online programs like Summit PLP, Rocketship and New Classrooms, as well as widely used online assessments like MAP and i - Ready.

That seems like remarkable value for an all - carbonfibre, 200 - plus mph car, especially one that combines rocketship styling with the durability of Mercedes - Benz and the kudos of McLaren pedigree.