Sentences with phrase «many public schools around the country»

In the case of «Lifeboat» he calls out the warning about something that was being taught to many of our grade school children in public schools around the country, namely, values clarification.

Last year it was offered to 19 other public schools around the country as part of something called Summit Basecamp.

This fall, faculty at a dozen public schools around the country started combing the ULC's stacks for the first time — reviewing and responding to an early pilot version.

Boston Globe, 3/15/16 «There's also a perception that public schools around the country don't teach the subject well — a concern that isn't new, according to Jon Star, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

MetWest is one of twenty - seven small public schools around the country — enrollment in each is limited to 150 students — opened since 1996 under the aegis of the nonprofit Big Picture Company.

There's also a perception that public schools around the country don't teach the subject well — a concern that isn't new, according to Jon Star, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

In fact, the New York Times reported, «there are about 750 public schools around the country with at least one single - sex class and 850 entirely single - sex public schools.»

Public schools around the country are returning from summer break to face a challenge: integrating and paying for the influx of migrant children who have streamed across the Mexican border this year.

Today kicks off national Public Schools Week, March 12 - 16, celebrating the success of public schools around the country.

For the past 20 years, we have worked as teachers, administrators and advisors in public schools around the country.

The model is familiar in many public schools around the country, but it is generating insights as more schools implement it.

Public schools around the country are emerging as quiet supporters of digital technology in light of sources that say a typical cost for a high school student's textbooks is around $ 400.

Not exact matches

While tooling around the Internet one day I stumbled upon the story of Sara Salo, a public health advocate in Bend, Oregon who is going to be biking across the country to bring attention to school food reform.

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and other top journalism schools around the country have issued a letter of concern to the nation's largest owner of local television stations, Sinclair Broadcast Group.

At 11 a.m., amid a growing flood of reports of lead in school drinking water around the state and the country, a coalition of New York public health, environment, and healthy schools advocacy groups will call on state government leaders to take action, LCA Press Room (130), Legislative Office Building, Albany.

«Every school and public building in the country will be emblazoned with a new «national motto» under Gordon Brown's drive to encourage patriotism and Britishness... Members of the public will be asked to come up with five or six - word slogans, perhaps based around ideas of fair play or national pride.»

Environmental scientist Michael Aitken of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health predicts that recycling will become increasingly important as a supplement to water supplies around the country.

Susan C. Miller, professor (research) of health services, policy and practice in the Brown University School of Public Health and lead author of the study in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, worked with colleagues to survey nursing directors at more than 1,900 nursing homes around the country between July 2009 and June 2010 to assess their knowledge of palliative care and their facility's implementation of key palliative care practices.

Pressure Cooker (Unrated) Uplifting documentary chronicles the efforts of Wilma Stephenson, a demanding Culinary Arts teacher at an inner city, Philadelphia public high school, as she inspires underprivileged students to apply themselves in her class in order to earn college scholarships to some of the most prestigious cooking institutes around the country.

School districts around the country are experimenting with programs that allow students to home school for part of the day but take certain classes at the local public sSchool districts around the country are experimenting with programs that allow students to home school for part of the day but take certain classes at the local public sschool for part of the day but take certain classes at the local public schoolschool.

McCoy and colleagues at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, where the research was conducted, used data collected between 2005 and 2015 from caregivers of about 100,000 three - and four - year - old children, in 35 low - and middle - income countries around the world.

Taking a cue from a number of public and charter high schools across the country, administrators in charge of the eleven high schools in California's capital city opted to reorganize the system around a school - to - career theme.

The folks in Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) probably put more time into building community consensus around their Compass 2015 initiative than any district in the country.

«It will put around $ 2300 per student on average into schools across the country, but delivers the fastest growth to the public schools who need it most and to the public schools who got the most unfair deals in the past,» he said.

USP codirector Senior Lecturer Deborah Jewell - Sherman was pleased with the event as a celebration of the program and Peterkin, noting that it attracted not only alums from around the country, but also superintendents from large urban districts such as Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall.

The President and members of his Cabinet visited schools and universities around the country later in the week to drum up public support for the Administration's «Middle - Class Bill of Rights» and...

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

To be sure, the population of public school children in New York City is different from that of many other school districts around the country.

As anyone at the company would freely admit, Edison does not foresee making money until it assumes management of many more schools; it would do well, say company sources, to capture around 1 or 2 percent of the 92,000 public schools in the country.

The network, a partnership between the National Association of Secondary School Principals and its state affiliates, is developing a series of public - service announcements that will be distributed this fall to radio stations around the country.

Lately ~ he's been bouncing around the country talking to educators and the public at both K - 12 schools and institutions of higher education ~ all in an attempt to better...

The administration has yet to release a proposal for how the federal government might foster more school choice in states and localities around the country, although its initial budget proposal included additional funding for charters and other forms of public school choice, as well as funding for a new private school choice program.

Producers from seven public - television stations across the country followed high school seniors around for a day last May for «High School Stories: One Day in America's Schools.&school seniors around for a day last May for «High School Stories: One Day in America's Schools.&School Stories: One Day in America's Schools.»

Formed in 2003, PELP continues its mission with the development of tools such as the PELP Coherence Framework and the book Achieving Coherence in District Improvement, and with the annual executive education summer institute which brings public school leaders from around the country to Harvard to focus...

That's rare in the world of selective - admission public high schools, as Jessica Hockett and I learned in our recent examination of some 165 such schools around the country.

Last year, under the NCLB rules, more than 8,600 schools around the country were listed as «in need of improvement» by state departments of education-less than 10 percent of all public schools in the country.

Formed in 2003, PELP continues its mission with the development of tools such as the PELP Coherence Framework and the book Achieving Coherence in District Improvement, and with the annual executive education summer institute which brings public school leaders from around the country to Harvard to focus on their districts challenges as well as possible solutions.

In the 2013 — 14 school year, 651 new charter schools opened around the country, and 202 charters closed, a 3 - to - 1 ratio that has held steady for the past five years, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, an advocacy and researchschools opened around the country, and 202 charters closed, a 3 - to - 1 ratio that has held steady for the past five years, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, an advocacy and researchSchools, an advocacy and research group.

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

As Nelson Smith, former executive director of the DC Public Charter School Board, puts it, «David went around the country vacuuming up best practices.»

To celebrate this milestone, our team at the Ed School — in collaboration with teachers from around the country — asked hundreds of public K — 12 students, «What would you tell your friend about Scratch?»

The movement to bring healthy foods into public schools has been growing; first lady Michelle Obama has thrown herself in to it, and there are efforts around the country to change the traditional school meals lunches into something edible and nutritious.

Founder of Art of Inquiry, LLC (math circle at Rockville, MD); NASA engineer; former astronaut instructor; former math / science teacher at public and private schools around the country.

Levin and Feinberg, more than a decade later, have invented something very rare in American education: a way of teaching low - income children that actually works in 36 public middle schools, producing the largest and fastest learning gains around the country.

In 2010, Steve formed Future Is Now Schools, built on the successful secondary Green Dot Public Schools model, union reform and systemic district change, to take the foundational principles, lessons learned and successes achieved on the local level of Southern California and expanded this base to other communities around the country.

Although there are other efforts around the country to bring restorative practices into public schools, this is a relatively new field of work.

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.

The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools is linking together parents, educators, students, school staff and community members in dozens of cities across the country on and around February 17 as they WALK - IN to support the quality public schools that all our students dSchools is linking together parents, educators, students, school staff and community members in dozens of cities across the country on and around February 17 as they WALK - IN to support the quality public schools that all our students dschools that all our students deserve.

«Along with our friends at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, we agree that families are demonstrating the true support for educational choice by virtue of the 3.5 million students in publicly - supported private school choice programs and charter schools around the cSchools, we agree that families are demonstrating the true support for educational choice by virtue of the 3.5 million students in publicly - supported private school choice programs and charter schools around the cschools around the country.

Charter schools are much easier than public schools to open or close, and they have shown varying degrees of success around the country.