Sentences with phrase «like in your school of choice»

Once you get a better understanding of what a potential college student should look like in your school of choice, put yourself in the shoes of a professor.

Not exact matches

Keep in mind that some choices, like changing schools and majors, taking longer than prescribed to complete your program, or studying abroad, could increase your costs of school.

Less freedom of food choice in our public schools or places like NYC.

Those famous soft thick bakery sugar cookies with frosting (seem more like discs of cake though), the soft chewy ones you make at home to decorate for various holidays, or those not soft, sad, no flavor, gross kind of sugar cookies that kids would bring in on there birthdays in elementary school since their mom thought it was a «healthier» choice than cupcakes.

And even though I'd like to think I'd make a different choice in the situation when my kids are high school age, now that I do have children of my own I'm a lot more sympathetic to my dad.

We recently sat down with Kern Halls, Area Manager of Orange County Public School Food & Nutrition Services, to discuss ways the OCPS district has engaged students in their food choices through creative initiatives like My Food Face — a sort of «internal Facebook» for students and their families — and the use of a food truck for school events and field School Food & Nutrition Services, to discuss ways the OCPS district has engaged students in their food choices through creative initiatives like My Food Face — a sort of «internal Facebook» for students and their families — and the use of a food truck for school events and field school events and field trips.

Children who like or benefit from a lot of structure may struggle to learn in a Montessori or Waldorf school, as both of those philosophies place emphasis on child choice rather than rigid classroom structures.

It then distributes it to a child in need through a non-profit organization of the buyer's choice — everything from local schools to national and global organizations like Baby2Baby, Volunteers of America's Operation Backpack, and the Salvation Army.

«Being «out» in the workplace is a matter of personal choice, but too many LGBTI teachers tell us they would like to be out but do not feel their school is a safe environment for them to do so.

Firstly, to prevent a person from making a choice to wear religious clothing (like the hijab) in public or private schools or institutions, in the absence of justification compatible with human rights law, may impair the individual's freedom to have or adopt a religion.

Most Council members had two unstated reasons for supporting Greenfield in using tax money to fund religious schools: they either have constituents who would like their choice to send their children to these schools to be further subsidized or they want to buy themselves good will with the increasingly powerful and cohesive blocs of Orthodox, fundamentalist, and Catholic voters should they decide to seek higher office.

Meaning, firearms like the very popular AR - 15, which has increasingly become a weapon of choice among many mass shooters, including the individual who murdered seventeen people in the shooting last month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

In a series of experiments with middle school and high school students, Blikstein is trying to understand the best ways to teach math and science by going beyond relatively primitive tools like multiple - choice tests to assess students» knowledge.

Coconut oil is especially beneficial with its high content of lauric acid, which is both anti-viral and anti - bacterial.7 Since the children are constantly exposed to illnesses in school, coconut oil seems like a good choice.

Sometimes it seems like oxfords are the perfect shoe — wearable in all seasons with anything from cuffed trousers to a sundress — and that's probably why they've been the footwear of choice for prep school students for decades.

In the past few years, new statewide voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio and the steady growth of a tax - credit funded scholarship program in Florida have offered a glimpse of what expansive private - school choice might look likIn the past few years, new statewide voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio and the steady growth of a tax - credit funded scholarship program in Florida have offered a glimpse of what expansive private - school choice might look likin Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio and the steady growth of a tax - credit funded scholarship program in Florida have offered a glimpse of what expansive private - school choice might look likin Florida have offered a glimpse of what expansive private - school choice might look like.

It feels like almost everything of note gets lost in debates about whether «school choice works» and amidst hoary claims of «privatization.»

When school closures are embedded in a strategy to create better school choices for children, it feels like less of an attack.

There's lots of choice in school systems like Charlotte - Mecklenberg and Seattle.

To many in the media, both studies sound like they are estimating the effectiveness of charter schools or maybe even the impact of school choice — so shouldn't the answer be the same?

Also in these ranks: leaders like former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick (Milton Academy and Harvard), former Tennessee congressman Harold Ford, Jr. (St. Albans and UPenn) and, of course, U.S. Senator Cory Booker, the lone public school graduate among these (Northern Valley Regional in affluent Bergen County and Stanford), who has also been the most vocal supporter of school choice.

Mike Petrilli and Rick Kahlenberg are among my favorite people (I don't know Sam Chaltain, although I might like him, too), but their piece in Sunday's Washington Post smacks of nanny - statism rather than school choice and educational effectiveness.

That's the crucial role of mundane considerations like authorizing, quality control, and market dynamics in assessing the likely benefits of school choice.

Critics of ESAs and other school choice efforts like to allege that the programs will «siphon» resources from public schools or harm students in some way.

We need to learn from the contagious successes of outstanding public schools and choice programs like the Amistad Academy in Connecticut, the Green Dot schools in California, and the voluntary interdistrict transfer program in St. Louis.

Whether it is the role of money in politics and the so - called «donor class,» the emergence of Republican majorities in formerly blue states like her native Michigan, or the still - rocky relationship between accountability and school choice, DeVos has become a convenient proxy for these larger issues.

What they all have in common is an enrollment process open to all students in the district, usually by lottery, to ensure that schools like Bravo don't cream the crop (though it is true that, by dint of applying, students and their families may indicate a higher motivation and sophistication about making educational choices).

The chart above also makes it clear that some families in Cleveland still choose low - performing schools, probably for reasons the Plan hasn't yet or can't address: a lack of transportation to better options or the pull of neighborhood history that can make a low - performing school seem like a good choice.

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

Expanding school choice, like almost all of education reform, occurs in the states, so who is in charge in DC will not make too much of a difference other than turning a headwind into a tailwind.

It will please all others who fear competition in education, who don't like the idea of parental choice in schools, or who harbor antagonism toward religious schools.

Since Donald Trump's election and Betsy DeVos's selection as Secretary of Education put private - school - choice programs in the national spotlight — after years of slow - and - steady growth at the state level — advocates across Twitter and the blogosphere have been offering ideas on what a big push at the federal level might look like.

Or consider private school choice mechanisms like voucher and tax credit scholarship programs: Despite the positive impacts of these programs, only eleven of our thirty cities are located in states where they are legal.

In this context, is it any wonder that organizations like the Black Alliance for Educational Options, and urban legislators like Wisconsin's Polly Williams, have promoted school choice as an avenue for escaping the «savage inequalities» of inner - city schools?

That said, for reasons I discussed last week in terms of merit pay, I'm skeptical that research can «settle» arguments regarding complex organizational reforms like school choice.

I want every child to have quality school choices, I want stronger (and broader) external standards, I want more open paths to becoming an educator, I want empowered school leaders (really empowered, in ways that would also break the union stranglehold) who are compensated like CEOs, I want super pay for great instructors and no pay for incompetents, and I want a complete makeover of «local control.»

«Being «out» in the workplace is a matter of personal choice, but too many LGBTI teachers tell us they would like to be out but do not feel their school is a safe environment for them to do so.

According to the survey, parent opinion reads like a photocopy of the union's agenda — supportive of more investment in schools and teachers, wary of standardized testing, skeptical about evaluating teachers based on student performance, and resistant to the expansion of choice.

They are able to focus on abstract goals — like test scores, teacher quality, or school choice — in debates divorced from the challenges of making reforms actually work in situ.

If entrepreneurs can be «too nice» in a public forum, self - styled reformers can be too vague — choosing to bang familiar drums like «teacher unions,» «school choice,» «accountability,» or «incentives» rather than talking clearly and concretely about the mechanics of reinventing K — 12 education.

Potter, who like many education reformers supports public school choice in the form of charter schools but opposes vouchers, argues Nevada's private schools will be exempt from requirements to teach the more challenging students, including those with disabilities or those from poor families.

In one sense, the upshot of charter laws has been much like that of private - school choice programs: They gave families more K - 12 options from which to choose.

«It is absurd that Connecticut's current funding system severely underfunds urban schools and keeps high performing schools of choice, like the one my children attend, in a separate and unequal system,» she said.

The notion of portable funding to expand school choice has been backed by conservatives like former Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who made it a big part of his education platform in 2012.

I like that DeVos hasn't spent her life in education bureaucracies, is an outspoken champion of all kinds of educational choice, strikes those who've driven Obama - era school reform as an «outsider,» and is a small government conservative.

In her Senate confirmation hearing, DeVos did not say that she would seek to add a mandatory school choice voucher - like program into the Every Student Succeeds Act, but did tell senators,» I would hope I could convince you of the merits of that, maybe in some future legislation, but certainly not in a mandate from the department.&raquIn her Senate confirmation hearing, DeVos did not say that she would seek to add a mandatory school choice voucher - like program into the Every Student Succeeds Act, but did tell senators,» I would hope I could convince you of the merits of that, maybe in some future legislation, but certainly not in a mandate from the department.&raquin some future legislation, but certainly not in a mandate from the department.&raquin a mandate from the department.»

I see real value in having Washington make it easier for states and communities to more readily expand options if they'd like, but that calls for a clear - headed discussion of Washington's role — not reflexive cheerleading for school choice.

The question we should all be asking of DeVos and Trump's education team is not whether they like school choice in the abstract, but what they intend to do in Washington.

And the president's proposal to allow $ 1 billion in federal funds to follow poor children to the public schools of their choice — while thin on details — sounds a lot like a proposal that failed to pass the GOP - led Senate in 2015.

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