Sentences with phrase «make rural schools»

The purpose of the report is to make rural schools — both the opportunities and the problems they present — more visible at the national level.

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The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

As numerous cities make energy choices to tackle climate change, so too should municipalities invest in farm - to - hospital and farm - to - school programs that deliver healthier food and strengthen rural communities while emitting fewer greenhouse gases.

I'm currently in graduate school in a rural part of the US where nary a box of matzoh can be found so I wanted to bring the spirit of Hanukkah by making latkes for my friends.

«To support more opportunities for the girl child, especially those in the rural areas and those who were not opportune to go to school, we are planning on setting up six Women Development Centres to make it easier for them to access projects and programmes set up by government to better their living conditions», she said.

You used an extracurricular rifle safety program in a rural Upstate county to make it sound like Rob would threaten the safety of school children?

This small measure actually has been proven to reduce rates of unintended pregnancy by up to 30 percent; it makes a big difference people with jobs, school, or who live in a rural community far from a pharmacy.

According to a recent study, the Summer Community Program offered by the University of Missouri School of Medicine has made a significant impact on physician access in rural communities.

However, I would encourage you to speak with students attending schools in various areas (rural, city) in order for you to make the best decision for your needs.

Robert Foster, of rural Caldwell, Idaho, added online courses to his high school schedule to make up for missing credits and graduate on time.

Trying to put their fingers on how the school makes students so enthusiastic about learning, visitors from other schools have mused that the small size, rural setting (New Orleans is 30 minutes away but worlds removed), or old - fashioned church values students absorb at home might be responsible.

Twenty - two Democratic senators are telling U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan that he should make sure rural schools get a fair shot at the roughly $ 3 billion in new competitive - grant money the Education Department is seeking in the president's fiscal 2011 budget request.

«I think that means a lot in a rural context where the school is often the heart of all the opportunities that can be made for students.

«In a further significant announcement, the government has made clear that small rural schools are not under threat from its policies on school structure.

* Some state charter laws have provisions that make starting a rural charter impossible or close to it * Rural charters get substantially less funding than district - run schools and face high costs related to transportation and builrural charter impossible or close to it * Rural charters get substantially less funding than district - run schools and face high costs related to transportation and builRural charters get substantially less funding than district - run schools and face high costs related to transportation and buildings

An education system custom - made for rural communities would ensure that those who wish to stay in their community, and those who might return after venturing out, have access to relevant career education while they are in high school.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

The 2016 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al - Khalifa Prize recognizing two outstanding projects that make innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education for the benefit of disadvantaged groups will be awarded on 21 February to the Online School Project, operated by Jaago Foundation in rural Bangladesh, and to Harnessing the Power of ICTs in Higher Education, run by the German NGO Kiron that serves displaced persons.

Education secretary Nicky Morgan made the announcement in a speech at the Policy Exchange, saying that rural schools and coastal schools will be the focus on the new plans, which will see teachers offered higher salaries, future leadership roles and relocation costs as incentives.

The approach includes: adapting the existing curriculum to make it more relevant to rural environments - there is a particular focus on practical learning; teacher recruitment and training; and involving parents in school management and teacher training.

And in New Mexico, public officials are following the lead of other states and looking to support bulk purchasing of school bandwidth, possibly via new regional hubs that would make it easier for more providers to reach rural and remote areas with affordable Internet service.

The challenge was to ensure rural schools had supplies, while making things easier for the teachers who are tasked with delivering multiple subjects and family education (lots of the students are living with grandparents because their parents are working in remote cities).

Over the past two years, the country has made huge strides in connecting schools, including those in rural areas.

Urban schools can make just as much use of their surroundings as rural schools, providing unique learning opportunities that make lessons real and crystalize connections for students.

The 2016 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al - Khalifa Prize recognizing two outstanding projects that make innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education for the benefit of disadvantaged groups will be awarded on 21 February to the Online School Project, operated by Jaago Foundation in rural Bangladesh, and to Harnessing the Power of -LSB-...]

Led by the federal government, the country is in the midst of a massive effort to make affordable high - speed Internet and free online teaching resources available to even the most rural and remote schools.

Increase Parent Involvement With First Day of School Activities Read about how schools across the nation — in urban, rural, and suburban areas — are breaking down barriers with parents and their communities by making the first day of school an exciting holiday with special activities that include eveSchool Activities Read about how schools across the nation — in urban, rural, and suburban areas — are breaking down barriers with parents and their communities by making the first day of school an exciting holiday with special activities that include eveschool an exciting holiday with special activities that include everyone!

This paper, written for the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, offers policymakers and philanthropic leaders a set of recommendations to capitalize on the potential of technology to serve students: expand broadband access to schools lacking it, create an elite corps of proven teachers who would be made available to students across the state, and provide districts and schools with the flexibility to develop new models of staffing and technology and to achieve the most strategic combination of personnel, facilities, and technology.

They explore complex contemporary issues and problems facing education and society — including issues of community - focused leadership development for high - poverty rural schools, college access and student success, sexual violence, cross cultural counseling, community college leadership, and state and institutional policies that affect children and adult learning — with a view toward solutions that will make a real, positive difference for students, teachers, counselors, administrators, policy makers, and communities.

Designed to provide teachers and administrators with a range of practical suggestions for making the schoolyard a varied and viable learning resource, Moving the Classroom Outdoors presents concrete examples of how urban, suburban, and rural schools have enhanced the school site as a teaching tool.

Connecting and supporting educators across urban, rural and suburban districts to make research - based decisions about school improvement.

Arguing that current federal reform models are failing struggling rural schools, a new report makes the case for a new «community schools» turnaround option.

«This will be our first public - school project in a rural community, and the largest grant we have ever made for precollege education,» according to Paul Ostergard, the foundation's president.

Putting aside the fact that NCLB requires assessments to be given to all students and even dings schools in its accountability requirements if they have low participation rates (after all, the law could change), sampling would make it more difficult to produce usable achievement data for individual districts and schools, especially in small schools or rural areas.

But choice, save for the virtual kind, is harder to make work in spread out suburbs, small towns, and rural areas, where one seldom has workable access to multiple schools.

This could make it easier to fill those spots, but critics as well as rural schools advocates say it depletes the quality of a teaching license.

Shootings at schools outside Dallas and in rural Kentucky made headlines last week.

This strategy makes relevant face - to - face learning opportunities available within a reasonable distance to school leaders in remote rural areas.

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For years, the funding formula for schools has been based off of this dynamic so we shouldn't be shocked as to why inner city, urban and rural school Districts struggle with making sure that children in America outside the bubble of privilege receive adequate educational resources.

In this meeting, the Utah State Board of Education gave approval for the state to seek waivers offered by the federal government under No Child Left Behind; agreed to form a work group to study and make recommendations for an RFP for statewide assessments for Utah's core curriculum; and granted a requested from rural Juab County's Tintic School District to move to a four - day week for sSchool District to move to a four - day week for schoolschool.

Nationwide, we have seen major cities, rural counties and towns make the decision to close schools.

Andy Smarick said that it can be harder for rural areas with fewer people, a smaller workforce, and less ability to attract charter school operators, to make the changes seen in large cities.

But since the Legislature's budget committee nixed Walker's proposal and made the program available statewide, private schools in rural areas also have begun to take a closer look.

Some schools in the rural and suburban parts of the diocese don't expect to have large enough low - income student populations to make it into the top 25, Lancaster said.

Providing a rigorous pre-college curriculum has long been a struggle in many of the more than 7,100 U.S. rural school districts, where a lack of teachers, dwindling enrollment numbers and tight budgets make it difficult to offer electives, foreign languages and even basic classes that are a given in many suburban and urban schools.

If that's not enough, the document — inked by a rural Lee County private school, which is eligible to receive public funds under the state's controversial Opportunity Scholarship Program — goes on to make this declaration:

The effect of this charter school growth is hard to measure in smaller communities, but we know that rural students face unique challenges in accessing the same level of opportunities made available to urban students.

In Texas, the creation of the Grow Your Own initiative was prompted by recommendations made in a report from the Texas Rural Schools Task Force, which was created in 2016 to examine current challenges and best practices for the state's rural school distrRural Schools Task Force, which was created in 2016 to examine current challenges and best practices for the state's rural school distrrural school districts.

They were promoted as a way for students in isolated rural schools to tap into advanced classes not offered in their towns, or for students at risk of dropping out to make up credits.