Sentences with phrase «make educational choices»

Because the direct and intended beneficiaries of the program are the families it empowers to make educational choices, the Institute for Justice (IJ) teamed with two parents who applied for scholarships.

Laura Lavine (LR): Families of financial means who are interested in making educational choices for their children often, in the city of Syracuse, choose to send their children to non-public schools, or they leave the city all together.

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).

«My ability to make an educational choice that best meets the needs of my children has allowed them to grow and thrive.

Making the Educational Choice for Your Child When parents are making educational choices for their child they often wonder what distinguishes one school from another.

In the Foundation's continual quest to make its educational choice program eligibility calculations more accurate, the team scoured the various data tables available through the National Center on Education Statistics and the American Community Survey in the summer of 2015.

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I'm sure there is a case to be made for this type of vouchers, but trying to make historical claims and claims to limitation of educational choice is disingenuous.

If it is as widely read and discussed as it deserves to be, I Am Charlotte Simmons will at least encourage parents to ask more searching questions during the recruitment process, and to make informed choices among educational institutions.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

What is significant, in an educational sense, is that this is the first time congregations are recognized by the national agencies as the locale in which curriculum choice must be and in fact is made.

Regardless of the educational options available or schooling choices made for their own children, Christians can serve and strengthen public schools through volunteering as tutors or reading partners.

Campers enjoy healthy snack choices, participating in fitness games, educational activities, and making new friends!

With your help, we also review educational toys and books, and give recommendations to show you how to make the best choices for your children.

The program includes over 20 videos, handouts, educational materials, and action steps to help you make the best choices for yourself and your baby.

These collaborations help to fund additional KidsHealth educational programs that provide knowledge, advice, and comfort — and inspire families to make the best choices possible.

Help us to give Parents some feedback for making good choices when choosing the best educational toys or games for their kids.

In many cases, this is true, but if you are putting your confidence in the educational choice you have made, you could be in for rude awakening.

This bill will help further deploy the much needed educational programs into our schools to teach kids to stay safe, make wise choices online and be better digital citizens.»

These educational toys hold up well through multiple children, making them a great choice for families as well as staples of preschool and kindergarten classrooms.

The purpose of this educational statement is to provide information about healthy hip development to guide manufacturers in the development of safe designs of infant equipment, and to help parents make informed choices about the devices they use for their babies.

We work with you and your family to make sure that you understand the information about your child's hearing loss and the treatment, educational and communication choices that are available for your child.

As the dust settles on the party's choice, the question remains of how, in practical terms — and how much, in political terms — the WFP endorsement will help Nixon, an actress and educational activist making her first run for political office.

A Former Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr. Ekwow Spio - Garbrah has asked educational institutions to make conscious efforts to tap into the rich expertise and experiences of their alumni in making career choices and counselling of students.

Other announcements expected include reform of the system for diagnosing and helping children with special educational needs to give parents more choice in how they are schooled; reforms to the family justice system to speed up care proceedings so no cases take more than six months; and promised changes to the adoption system to make sure parents and children are matched more quickly.

WHEREAS: Oneida County wishes to thank all the partners of this essential educational program aimed at keeping children safe and assisting them in making constructive choices instead of destructive decisions

In a letter to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, Community Board 2 has called on the Department of Education to approve plans for Hunts Point High School for Sustainable Community Initiatives, a school to prepare students for green jobs, saying the school «is capable of changing the landscape and mindset of the area and making Hunts Point a preeminent educational and vocational destination of choice.»

The heaviest will be her decision to send her son James to a private, fee - paying school, a position she herself described as «indefensible» and «intellectually incoherent», given her position on the left and her criticism of Tony Blair and Harriet Harman for making the same educational choices.

Emotional and educational support is key so that you can make the best choices for YOUR birth and feel prepared and empowered for your VBAC journey.

Through their unique ability to be located both outside and inside buildings, OfficePOD's range of products offer unrivalled choice for those who need to make better use of their valuable educational facilities, removing the need to consider a move or costly refurbishment.

The educational charity is now taking bookings for the next academic year and is calling on teachers and parents to make the Science Centre their first choice for school trips.

With the school - choice alternative, for example, parents wanting the best education for their child often need financial means and knowledge of the educational options to make an informed choice of another school, resources not always available in low - income communities.

School choice and supplemental educational services were not high on the political priority list under the first Bush administration, but it does not follow that these two vital provisions for parents can not be made to work.

By enriching the Alimentarium Academy online educational platform with new resources for the younger population, the Alimentarium and Discovery Education are together making an important contribution to raising consciousness worldwide for more informed choices from an early age.»

With such a model in hand, «a paradigm shift for us,» says Carroll, Brighter Choice was able to go to scale with quality and begin to make deep changes in the city's educational system.

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

What has made the school choice movement successful is not allowing peripheral issues — however important they are — to interfere with our work to help as many families and children as possible access more and better educational options.

Some of these are the same people who have made once - esoteric educational questions — like school discipline, collegiate Title IX policies governing due process, school choice, teacher evaluation, and determination of testing subgroups — into hero's journeys defined by bitter battles between those fighting «for the kids» (their side) and the forces of malice (the other side).

Fourth is a call to «empower» parents by providing them with more information to make better educational choices for their children.

This is not just about saving money it is about giving schools the chance to make the right educational choices and helping them ensure that they are getting the maximum life from the equipment and resources that they buy.

Schools could make the «desirable» efficiencies that the Department judges feasible or could make spending choices that put educational outcomes at risk.

Bridwell - Mitchell studies educational leadership, management, and organizations, often exploring the tension between structure and agency — «how we make choices within constraints,» as she describes it.

This is valuable information for us because educational providers want to know what students are looking for and how they make their choices.

By taking into account factors such as where a child lives and their attainment at school, the research provides a unique analysis of how educational choices made at the age of 16 can have a deep impact on a child's future career and earnings.

As of my last update in late September, 15 states had adopted 21 new or expanded educational choice programs, including three education savings account laws, clearly making 2015 the «Year of Educational Choice.&choice programs, including three education savings account laws, clearly making 2015 the «Year of Educational Choice.&Choice.»

All of which makes one thing obvious: The only system of learning compatible with a truly free society is not one of government domination, but one rooted in educational choice — public education, not schooling — in which the public assures that all people can access education, but parents are free to choose their children's schools and educators are free to educate how they wish.

Extensive sensitivity analyses indicate that, while differences between model frameworks and alternative parameter choices make a difference, the economic impact of improved educational outcomes remains enormous.

That, after all, is one reason we support schools of choice: we expect them to bring to the educational process the social capital that reflects the common values of a group of teachers, a community of parents, and their children - and to make education more effective by so doing.

2) Families that send their children to charter schools are making a choice that best fits what they seek in an educational experience.

As someone who favors efforts to expand educational choice, I can't think of anything less helpful than making this broad - based, decentralized effort feel more like a creature of Washington.

Parents have made it crystal clear to lawmakers that they want educational choice and they don't want it limited to public school choice.