Sentences with phrase «lower quality schools»

The survey found that the same is true of women and practicing Christians who teach at lower quality schools — despite their qualifications — than do liberals.

Unfortunately, this does not happen for many of the country's low - income students because, given the prevalent approach to public schooling, they are more likely to end up in low resource and lower quality schools.

My point is that if 2/3 of the schools refuse to participate, including most of the best schools, it does you little good even if regulation ensures equity of access among the 1/3 lower quality schools than are willing to participate.

And the minority of private schools that are willing to participate are likely to include many of the lower quality schools.

This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools.

White and Hispanic students were more likely to move to a higher quality school while Blacks were more likely to move to a lower quality school.

If you do, you're either getting ripped off or are signing up for a very low budget and low quality school.

No parent would allow their kid to study the driving education lessons under the substandard and low quality school.

Not exact matches

«Among the characteristics needed to join the elite group are stable macroeconomic policies,» says Kate Phylaktis, director of the Emerging Markets Group at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.»

Spending $ 40 per lead on two external lead directories and having no control of its website led to poor lead quality, low conversions, and minimal sales, and the massage therapy school knew it needed to make a change.

That these black children enter school already behind and usually into lower quality institutions.

Bettina Siegel blogs about food and food policy related to children over at The Lunch Tray, but you may know her better for her work on «pink slime;» in 2012, she garnered more than 258,000 signatures on a Change.org petition that led the USDA to change its policy on a low - quality ground beef product used in schools.

Whether or not Congress chooses to increase reimbursements, the first step to providing resources for higher quality school meals is to ensure that federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals are used for their intended purpose — providing nutritious breakfasts and lunches to low - income school children.

However the economies of scale do apply and if the food in a school is proven to be good over a sustained period, then universal takeup can lower the price while maintaining the quality or indeed further improve the quality (for example in our school when the takeup reached more than 60 % they were able to switch to entirely free range organic meats where they had previously managed just decent quality local meats).

Klopfenstein and Thomas (2010) offer three significant ways in which non-AP students at a school may pay the price for the AP program: they may receive lower instructional quality, as the best teachers are siphoned off to teach AP students; they are in larger classes, as AP classes are smaller than typical high school classes; and non-AP course offerings are reduced or limited in order to fund, staff, and expand AP course offerings.

Because the USDA houses the National School Lunch Program, and the agency's main job is to sell highly subsidized conventional crops (like corn, soybeans, rice, and wheat) and farmed foods (like dairy and beef), behemoths like Chartwells wind - up pushing cheap, low - quality surplus food into our schools.

The School Nutrition Foundation focuses on providing the resources that educate and empower SNA members to provide high - quality, low - cost meals to students across the nation to foster an environment where children achieve overall wellness and lifelong success.

Brought to you by the School Nutrition Association (SNA), a national, nonprofit professional organization representing 57,000 members who provide high - quality, low - cost meals to students across the country.

That is, their school day starts earlier than is appropriate for their unique circadian rhythms thus affecting the quantity and timing of their sleep while prompting them to try to make up for lost sleep at other times causing their sleep to be lower quality and their schedules to be irregular.

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

That's why so much of my time is taken up in trying to publicize just how important it is for our lowest income and most vulnerable students to have access to the highest possible quality of food at school.

The six districts formed the Urban School Food Alliance in 2012 to combine their purchasing power of $ 520 million to force lower prices on better quality food, supplies and more environmentally friendly packaging and cutlery.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetSchool Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetSchool Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetschool year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

At a minimum, Chicago - area school lunch providers say they probably would have to raise prices or lower quality, which would discourage countless children from eating lunch.

Selling poor quality meat to public schools (lower standards than those met by fast food industry — where 3/4 of the meat is positive for things so heinous I shudder), as an example.

Investigating successful kids and programs at low - income schools and high - achieving prep schools, as well as interviewing psychologists and neuroscientists, Tough challenges some conventional wisdom on causes of failure (poverty, teacher quality) and contends that nurturing character in children and young adults is the key to success.

«Because my school has a closed campus, it's either bring your own, buy low - quality food you don't like, or go hungry.»

The Project Development Objective is to increase access to senior secondary education in underserved districts and improve quality in low - performing senior high schools (SHSs) in Ghana.

The second results area (Pillar 2) focuses on improving the quality of education in 125 selected low - performing SHS through: (i) strengthened school management and accountability; (ii) improved mathematics and science teaching and learning; (iii) expanded information, communication technology and internet connectivity in schools; and (iv) the implementation of school performance partnership plans.

Or is it morally acceptable to have a situation where those who don't get their name down first, are only able to choose from a lower quality selection of schools and hospitals to be treated at?

Commenting on the TUC opinion poll * showing that two thirds of voters thought paying teachers less in lower - pay areas would make it harder for schools to recruit and retain good quality teachers, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said:

It's clear the association will continue to support candidates who implement the same unproductive policies that maintain the schools in low - quality conditions.

TUC Opinion Poll on Regional Pay Commenting on the TUC opinion poll * showing that two thirds of voters thought paying teachers less in lower - pay areas would make it harder for schools to recruit and retain good quality teachers, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «Only Michael Gove has expressed any support for local pay in teaching.

Low - quality meat, fizzy drinks and chocolate will be off the menu at English schools from September under tough new guidelines announced today.

On the one hand, there is the camp of Michael Gove armed with the old argument that it is the low quality of teaching in primary and secondary schools in deprived communities that prevents many students from competing with their more fortunate peers.

There was his burning passion, the quality that pushed Cuomo from his first - generation Italian immigrants parents» grocery store in Queens to law school to mediating an ugly dispute over low - income housing.

Billy Easton, Executive Director of the Alliance for Quality Education, points out that test scores dropped much more dramatically in schools with high rates of poverty where school funding is significantly lower.

«While offering free college tuition to low - income families is laudable, the reality is that many students» paths to college are limited because their local K - 12 public schools lack the resources to support them,» said Jasmine Gripper, Legislative and Policy Director of the Alliance for Quality Education in a statement.

The suit claimed also that the «outsider restriction policy» effectively is «entrenched segregation» that makes it hard for low income New Yorkers to move to neighborhoods with high quality schools, green space and better jobs.

«Our study group has spent decades studying the health effects of diet quality and composition, and now this new data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to lower risk of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

Examples include: tighter supervision and international regulation of the food supply; an international code of food marketing to protect children's health; regulating food nutritional quality in schools along with programmes to encourage healthy food preferences; taxes on unhealthy products such as sweetened drinks and subsidies on healthier foods for low - income families such as vouchers for fruit and vegetable boxes; and mandatory food labelling as an incentive for industry to produce more nutritional products.

Indeed it may be more pressing, he notes, in school districts where test scores have been perennially low, and where larger disparities in school quality may exist.

«The findings of both studies support a growing body of research that suggests lifestyle interventions lower biomarkers associated with breast cancer recurrence and mortality, and improve quality of life,» said Melinda Irwin, PhD, co-program leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both studies.

Even the advantage of attending a higher quality school was not enough to compensate for the disadvantage of a lower birth weight, according to the study.

The researchers point out that despite its low status and variable content and quality, school based SRE is seen as vital by policy makers for protecting young people from ill health, unwanted pregnancies, sexual abuse and exploitation.

Participation in high - quality early childhood programs at ages 3 and 4 years is associated with greater school readiness and achievement, higher rates of educational attainment and socioeconomic status, and lower rates of crime.

«There is mounting scientific evidence that diets including less low - quality carbohydrates, such as white breads, potatoes, and sweets, and higher in protein - rich foods may be more efficient for weight loss,» said first and corresponding author Jessica Smith, Ph.D., a visiting scholar at the Friedman School and a research fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The authors caution that many schools — particularly those in low - resourced communities — do not have the personnel, training, or expertise to implement quality mental health services without additional support and partnerships with mental health professionals.

Patients who had major surgery at high - quality hospitals in the U.S. cost Medicare less than those who had surgery at low - quality hospitals according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

They found that diet quality scores during school hours averaged nine points lower among children aged 14 - 17 compared to children aged 6 - 8.