Sentences with phrase «little our schools encourage»

Damon is astute in noting how little our schools encourage purposefulness.

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In schools all across America, when kids are introduced to the concept of investing, they're often encouraged to become little Buffetts — playing stock - market games where they pick individual stocks.

I've known ever since I was a little girl that I wanted to be writer, and so each year, my elementary school teachers encouraged me to attend the Young Author's Conference at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Preschool aged kids are learning educational skills they will need for school that encourage them to play games with friends, use their imagination for pretend play with little characters, and develop skills to learn how to recognize different colors and letters.

You may have limited family time to spend with your child (by the time you get home from work and you eat dinner together as a family and go through your evening routines — make sure homework is done, school bags are packed for the next day, teeth are brushed, baths are done, and so on — there's very little time to sit and review schoolwork with your child); but you can try to look over what your child is doing with his tutor, and try to use free time on the weekends to incorporate fun into learning by playing math games, reading fun books and helping your child pick out books he likes to encourage reading and more.

One VERY important thing that I also send with my kids for school lunches (other than a little encouraging note!)

«The Little Millennium Play School, Pitampura Engaging - Inspiring - Encouraging!

While a therapeutic boarding school in Washington is probably your first choice, we encourage you to see what advantages can be found in facilities a little further from home.

Coming up with such cute and fun kids braided hairstyles together with your little one will surely take away the jitters of a new school year, so I highly encourage you to give any of these awesome hairdos and try!

Increases in federal aid provide little incentive for these other players to worry about rising tuition, and new evidence suggests that the availability of student loans encourages schools to charge more.

For more than a decade after Brown, southern states and school districts did little to desegregate their schools, and the Court tolerated this foot dragging and in some ways encouraged it by proclaiming, ambiguously, that desegregation had to occur with «all deliberate speed.»

Building a relationship between home and school is vital to encourage your little one to talk about school successes at home, and have them discussing personal triumphs in class.

... The governor of Maine, Angus King, who is a very progressive, forward - looking person, encouraged me to create a little project — made it possible to create a little project where with just ten kids, we took them out of the regular school and they spent their time — five hours a day — doing project - based work.

The sad truth is that there is very little about the traditional structure of school that encourages people to build communities that love, serve, and create.

Programs are training principals to do the things they have traditionally been empowered to do — monitor curricula, support and encourage faculty, manage facilities, and so on — but do little to equip them to take advantage of tools newly available to school leaders.

The court also called for the establishment of magnet schools in predominantly black neighborhoods in Little Rock and encouraged the three districts...

While this activity requires a little more time than the tools above, it helps build relationships between students and teachers and reinforces the school's larger effort to encourage students to pay attention to each other's feelings and treat each other with respect, sympathy, and compassion.

The ESA might even encourage new high - quality, low - cost schools — like Acton Academies, which often charge as little as $ 4,000 in tuition — to enter the market.

58 As Catharine MacKinnon argues in the pages of this Issue, these decisions have undermined efforts to hold schools accountable through the private right of action because schools can do very little and still satisfy the standard.59 As such, it is possible that this state of affairs further encourages individuals to seek relief from OCR, elevating the need for OCR to provide «effective protection» and decrease the time it takes to investigate claims.

«No mainstream free school approved since 2012 has closed because I think the department learned that going hell for leather, really building a sense of momentum, enthusing, encouraging, was going a little bit fast in some cases and so some schools closed.

Zaner - Bloser, the most popular handwriting curriculum used today, deems that too little and is encouraging schools to up that amount to at least 15 minutes a day.

A little more than six months after beginning a technology realignment, Northeastern School District reports encouraging progress, and is now poised to put an aggressive 1 - to - 1 learning initiative in place for the district.

You and your co-authors make the case that, just as with subprime mortgages, the federal government is encouraging the expansion of charter schools with little oversight, and the result could be a charter school «bubble» that blows up in urban communities.

Yet school reformers have done little or nothing to encourage, support, or honor responsible parenting, and have seemed remarkably unconcerned with the possibility that their reforms might harm those parents who are trying to do the right thing.

If the parents of any community are indifferent to the best interests and the proper training of their children, if they elect unfit men as school officers, if they permit petty quarrels and jealousies to interfere with the administration of the school, if they try to run the schools on the cheapest basis, if they encourage tardiness, irregular attendance, and insubordination in their children, then the schools of the community may be little better than training places in shiftless habits, incompetence, disregard for the law, and even positive immorality.

Thrivent believes in principled lending and actively encourage their borrowers to borrow as little as possible and to look for alternative solutions other than borrowing money for school such as going to a cheaper school or finding scholarships.

Thought leaders and colleagues from a long list of organizations have encouraged us, nudged us and been our «media mentors», including: Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media at Saint Vincent College; American Library Association (ALA); Association of Children's Museums (ACM); Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC); Catherine Cook School; Center for Media and Child Health at Boston Children's Hospital; Center for Media and Human Development at Northwestern University; Chicago Children's Museum; Chicago Public Library; Chicago STEM Pathways Cooperative; Children's Technology Review; Columbia College Chicago; CPB / PBS Ready to Learn; Early Childhood Australia Digital Policy Group and Live Wires; Early Childhood Futures, Learning Sciences Institute Australia, Australian Catholic University; Early Childhood Investigations; Early Childhood STEM Working Group; HITN Early Learning Collaborative; Illinois Computing Educators (ICE); Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT); Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop; Kohl Children's Museum; Language Castle; Little eLit; National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC); National Association of Media Literacy Education (NAMLE); New America; New Zealand Tertiary College; Technology and Young Children Interest Forum of NAEYC; and Waterford Institute, Early Education and Technology for Children (EETC)