Sentences with phrase «many public school classrooms»

Meanwhile, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, has ruled that the government of Italy must remove crucifixes from public school classrooms throughout that country.

(For the record: I got 9 out of 10: I would fully expect to be cuffed by the local police if I brought out a Bible in a public school classroom for any reason.

The debate tournament segment of the class was probably the one that formed me most — it caused me to join Pacilio's debate team for a couple years, and it was the first, and probably last, time that I and my peers were treated to full - throated political discourse in the public school classroom.

By allowing just the crucifix to be shown in a public school classroom, the government is essentially endorsing one religion: a clear threat to a supposed «secular» government.

No religious symbols have place in a public school classrooms.

The court ruled that teaching creationism in public school classrooms was a violation of the Establishment Cause in the Constitution, which is commonly referred to as the separation of church and state.

Creationism does NOT belong in a public school classroom.

Following this approach, we might exclude parochial schools but not nonreligious private schools from a school - voucher program, or bar religious student groups but not chess clubs and neighborhood - watch associations from meeting in public school classrooms.

They often work with standardized materials designed to complement what is being taught in the public school classroom, many offer diagnostic testing to determine your student's needs and are able to develop a plan based on that information.

Well, good for you for sticking to your guns, but prepare to be furious when your child comes home on the last day before the winter break vibrating like a tuning fork from all of the «holiday» (read «Christmas») treats that well meaning parents send for the traditional pre-break party that happens in virtually every public school classroom on the last school day of the calendar year.

The number of New York City kids eating free breakfasts in public school classrooms is growing, but the obesity rates are not, a new study finds.

It is intended to be used with school age children and is designed to meet the requirements of different settings; for instance, a home school unit, a public school classroom, the local library, or your community center.

At 8:30 a.m., Assemblywoman Maritza Davila, NYC Councilman Antonio Reynoso, parents and advocates challenge the NYC Department of Education for giving public school classroom space to charter schools, School Building K111, 35 Starr St., Brooklyn.

Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged on April 25 to install air conditioners in every public school classroom by 2022 in a $ 28.75 million project.

The plan includes $ 36 million — increasing to $ 177 million by 2021 — for a full - day «3 - K for All» program for every city 3 - year - old, and $ 28.75 million over five years to install air conditioning in every public school classroom.

«I guess it's just too far to travel to the public school classrooms.»

Five years after the Dover trial pushed intelligent design out of public school classrooms, how has evolution instruction fared?

I'm not referring to the double - sided ad promoting the best - selling essay - compiling companion book, but a $ 25 DonorsChoose.org gift card to benefit the public school classroom of your choosing.

Contrary to the assertion that these programs focus on «values» — the «Gospel message» is about salvation, and contains no «values lesson» — it is a religious doctrine, and because of this, belongs to religion — and not in our public school classrooms.

In regard to the American public school classroom, Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson, authors of The Case for Contention, place themselves squarely in this tradition:

Cell phone use is typically forbidden in public school classrooms.

When the deadline for outfitting every public school classroom with a «highly qualified» teacher rolls around at the end of the 2005 - 06 school year, many states are likely to claim they've met it.

TEACH, a new film by Waiting for Superman director Davis Guggenheim, profiles four very different elementary, middle, and high school teachers and their public school classrooms.

Gorsuch observed that «Congress did not provide in IDEA a guarantee of self - sufficiency for all disabled persons,» and that Congress «prescribed that IEPs should generally be addressed to and carried out in the least restrictive environment available — usually the public school classroom.»

South Delta Elementary School is the kind of place Gov. Ronnie Musgrove of Mississippi had in mind when he announced that his state was the nation's first to provide an Internet - accessible computer in every public school classroom.

Most states have developed alternative routes to certification, meant to ease the entry of nontraditional candidates and career switchers into public school classrooms.

Do you run from any mention of religion in your public school classroom?

Here the norm is that the student first takes a methods course and then spends time in a public school classroom.

When it comes to real kids (When was the last time a Supreme Court Justice was actually in a public school classroom?)

They will look at issues of meaning, identity, and interpretation amongst musicians of diverse backgrounds, and the ways these challenging yet profound experiences mirror what often happens in public school classrooms.

Today, students from every definable race and ethnic category study and squirm shoulder to shoulder in the same public school classrooms, learning about something called segregation — as a vocabulary word on a pop quiz, a chapter in their history textbooks, or a topic for the debate team.

In these ways, we can help set the stage for engagement and excitement, for original observations and deepening interest and understanding — in history and other subject matters — in public school classrooms.»

In 2004 (the most recent year for which data are available) minority teachers were seriously underrepresented in the nation's public school classrooms.

Kerry received the 2014 Yale - Lynn Hall Teacher Action Research Prize for her submission on the use of mobile devices for a paperless public school classroom.

When coupled with effective pedagogy, voice recognition tools can provide valuable assessments that reach beyond the human capacities of the average public school classroom teacher.

Doug Lea, NBCT, is an elementary school band director in his hometown of Columbia, Maryland with more than 25 years» experience in public school classrooms.

Could giving underprivileged families vouchers for private school to get their kids out of chaotic public school classrooms reduce crime down the road?

Kai Ryssdal: For those who haven't been in a modern public school classroom lately, there have been some changes since the days you had to whack the erasers together after class to clean them out.

In California, almost 296,000 teachers worked in public school classrooms in 2014 - 15.

«Instead of diverting scarce resources from existing public school classrooms and spending it on unaccountable charter schools for a few students, we should be investing more in the innovative public schools we already have,» Mary Lindquist, president of the state teachers union, said in a news release in response to the signature turn - in.

As more children with autism are served in public school classrooms, teachers need skills to meet their needs.

This progression begins in our Early Childhood Learning Lab (ECLL), a demonstration preschool located in the School of Education, continues with a public school placement in a local kindergarten, and culminates with a final student teaching placement in a local first or second grade public school classroom.

He know what is going on in our public school classrooms, knows the challenges children and teachers face and he is continually using his talent, time and energy to make a difference.

These visits provide an in - depth perspective on UEI's work to improve teaching and learning in public school classrooms in Chicago and across the nation.

He was a public school classroom teacher for 15 years and then a Responsive Classroom presenter, consultant, and developer for more than six years.

The Teaching Artist Development (TAD) Studio provides professional development opportunities to the many Teaching Artists working in Chicago Public Schools classroom.

Director Davis Guggenheim first started his research ten years prior while covering a public school classroom and from there gained insight into the problematic system now in place to educate the nation's children.

«At this point, what you don't want in this mixed - delivery system is that the private providers become the farm league for the public school classrooms.

Lawmakers in recent years have passed a «drumbeat» of education legislation that «is deafening and deflating» to teachers in public school classrooms, state schools superintendent Tony Evers said Thursday in his annual address on the state of education in Wisconsin.

(Calif.) There's a problem in California when it comes to civic participation and many experts agree that one of the best places to start turning that around is in public school classrooms.