Sentences with phrase «making schools work»

School reform In Making Schools Work:...

[5] Hendrick Smith, «Interview with Mike Feinberg, Co-Founder of Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP),» Making Schools Work, accessed March 31, 2017, http://www.pbs.org/makingschoolswork/sbs/kipp/feinberg.html.

Making Schools Work.

As for resources, the making schools work Web site at http://www.pbs.org/makingschoolswork offers more reform oriented resources.

Question Given the variations in the programs you profile in Making Schools Work (e.g., in whether they have curriculum or not, or their level of structure), what do you think accounts for their uniformly strong outcomes?

Response Yes, we learned a lot about dealing with cultural and linguistic diversity because most of the programs we covered in MAKING SCHOOLS WORK confront that kind of student demographics.

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While it certainly conveys the importance of keeping teaching and learning at the forefront of decision making, it is no more meaningful, in and of itself, than admonishing the leader of any organization to keep his or her eye on the organizational «ball» — in this case, the core objective of making schools work better for kids.

For more than 30 years, the Intercultural Development Research Association has committed to making schools work for all children, especially those children who are historically left behind — low - income students, minority students and those who speak a language other than English.

Making Schools Work examines various approaches that schools are currently undertaking to raise student achievement, including Comprehensive School Reform models, such as the Comer School Development Program and Success For All.

Pulitzer Prize - winning former New York Times reporter and Emmy Award - winning producer, Hedrick Smith answered questions about school reform and discussed his upcoming two hour prime time special, Making Schools Work, which aired on PBS on October 5, 2005.

Making Schools Work is the sixth prime time miniseries that Hedrick Smith has created for the PBS national program service.

And how about that 1997 figure cited by William Ouchi in Making Schools Work that just 42 % of those responsible for instruction in our schools are actually doing it?

In Making Schools Work, Lydia Segal and I detail the results of an empirical study of nine school systems that vary dramatically in their degree of decentralization.

What would make the schools work better?

The crowd was there to back the school board majority's change agenda and plans to make the schools work better than data shows they are.

«For years the two of us had been having discussions about education and about how to make schools work for all kids,» says Davis.

Allison Hertog is a member of the Step Up for Students governance board and is the founding attorney of Making School Work, a private law firm whose mission is to help parents access the right placement — public or private — for their special needs children.

What proponents hail as a bold attempt to make schools work for every child, the superintendent of the Montgomery County, Va., public schools sees as a mountain of needless paperwork, mandates, and unrealistic expectations.

Making School Work is a unique law firm for disabled students who are not performing to their potential.

It would be one thing if we had the resources simply to pay all the costs for all schools but «money follows the child» only works if there is enough money to make every school work.

The varied perspectives and in - depth stories we heard about what made schools work affirmed an essential truth shaping MCIEA's school quality measures work: school quality is more complex and human than any test score or algorithm can capture.

San Antonio has many committed and dedicated educators who are helping to make schools work for all students.

I want to make our schools work, first, to make them competitive so we can compete on our terms.»

A school governor at the centre of allegations about a Muslim plot to make schools work to more Islamic principles has said he is the victim of a «witch hunt».

We need a shift from fighting what is wrong to leading the way to what we have to do to make the schools work.

About Rhee's qualification to be D.C. Chancellor, «she certainly knew everything there was to know about what was needed to make schools work.»

We must take a closer look at each goal by presenting a definition for it and some issues related to it that must be addressed before we are able to answer the question, «How do we make schools work for all learners?»

Bradley talks about the role of the nation's 10 equity assistance centers, including the IDRA - directed South Central Collaborative for Equity, in addressing these civil rights issues (gender discrimination, sexual abuse, racial hostility, etc.) and working to make schools work for all learners.

How then do we make schools work for all children?

Whenever possible - make school work relevant.

For CityBridge, student participation in school redesign is essential to dismantling many of the inequities that have made schools work for some students and not others.

Rashid Davis, P - TECH's principal, chats with GigaOM about what makes his school work and how it could be replicated around the country.

Not exact matches

Who says high school sweethearts can't make it work?

I also personally know several teachers who work a second job during the school year in order to make ends meet.

Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and psychologist Steven Kramer, authors of the incisive The Progress Principle, pored over 12,000 daily work diary entries and were surprised to find out that making progress — even small wins — on meaningful work is the most powerful motivator,» reports the book.

Make sure an introduction includes the statement «I'm a student at...» This especially works well when networking with graduates of your own school.

In their new book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisions.

Dreaming of opening his own pizza chain while working at a parlor in high school, John Schnatter made the goal a reality in 1985 — but it took a bit of creativity.

At Code School, we do this by setting aside one day every month where we encourage our employees to work on anything that makes them better at their job.

The first grants went to girls in Swat Valley who used to work to help their family make money, freeing them up to attend school.

The OECD has estimated that 44 percent of American workers holding less than a high school degree work in jobs made up of «highly - automatable» tasks, while just 1 percent of Americans holding a bachelor's degree or higher hold such jobs.

After careful consideration, Brad has decided to continue to make Kid President videos, write a book, and work to connect with schools across the country to empower students, teachers and families.

Business schools are looking for candidates who show leadership and the ability to work in teams, so make sure to highlight your experience with both on your application.

A Harvard Business School working paper «Rainmakers: Why Bad Weather Means Good Productivity» discovered a similar trend, claiming dismal weather makes for busy workers.

«We actually looked to distillers and suppliers in several countries to partner with on making an old school Carta Blanca rum, like the ones that came from Cuba during Prohibition, There were distillers that make excellent rum and were willing to work with us, but didn't have the knowledge and capabilities for the style we wanted to create.»

They make an unlikely duo — Donahoe, 53, was an econ major at Dartmouth, got an MBA at Stanford, and worked at Bain & Co. for nearly 20 years; Chesky, 32, graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and started Airbnb to help pay his rent.

«Many of the ones I've worked with mock org charts as old - school, even though their customers, investors, suppliers and channel partners can not function without clean organization charts that make it crystal clear who's in charge, accountable and responsible.»

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

The company partnered with a Harvard Business School professor to develop a program that helps their employees manage a better work - life balance by rethinking their work processes and making work more meaningful.