Sentences with phrase «lip service to student»

Unless parents and community members demand that substantive steps are taken to revise the contract, the Portland Association of Teachers will continue pay lip service to student safety, while protecting the worst of the worst.

And, unfortunately, lip service to student voice is common.

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Very few other authors, with the exception perhaps of Schmalhausen and a few of his students, have done anything more than pay the merest lip - service to the idea that selection operates on phenotypes.

All the protests notwithstanding, it's heartening to see universities, through their support of Prop 42, paying more than lip service to the term student - athlete.

It is only in the past couple of years that Kentucky has paid even lip service to the idea of recruiting Negroes who could qualify, in the NCAA's lexicon, as «student - athletes.»

She looks like she's in a great school and her students seem to be engaging appropriately in the learning process... I honestly hope this video is not lip service.

He's aware, though, that he'll have a tough sell with teachers unions, which give lip service to more - stringent teacher evaluations but prefer existing pay and promotion schemes based on seniority — even though they often end up matching the least experienced teachers with the most challenging students.

Giving students the opportunity to voice their opinion can be a «very positive thing» as long as the feedback is «not lip - service» and adults follow through, incorporating students» ideas into the school or district's mission, structure, and curriculum.

Though the Common Core State Standards, the content guidelines for Sandra's and her peers» courses, claim to promote «college and career readiness,» the career part seems like mere lip service; the nationwide dearth of trade and vocational programs for students is evidence to that.

Give more than lip service to improving social and communication skills — so that students and teachers alike can cultivate a caring classroom community?

Both sides pay lip service to equity, quality and student outcomes, but it's more of an afterthought.

It will take more than lip service to reform these institutions, but if the voters reject giving more money to the public school system in their state, they should at least demand a re-evaluation of policies that are systematically disadvantaging key demographics of students.

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