Sentences with phrase «many schools experimenting»

The GOP's Biggest Charter School Experiment Just Imploded How a washed - up lobbyist built a charter school...

His old - school experiment led to three main conclusions.

«Michael Gove is so ideologically obsessed with his free schools experiment that he's willing to see children struggle to get suitable school places,» a senior government source said.

A few years later, however, at the age of 13, he fell in love — not with biology, but with physics, when he realized that mathematics could predict the outcome of high school experiments.

The Sun has a magnetic field that, at first glance, might remind us of the middle - school experiment where you sprinkle iron filings over a bar magnet to get a butterfly shape.

Started as a school experiment but I really like it.

The end result feels more like an art - gallery installation than a movie (or, worse yet, a film - school experiment gone horribly wrong), and there's ultimately exceedingly little here that actually works.

Amanda Rose Wilder's Approaching the Elephant is a remarkable document of a utopian schooling experiment that shows great restraint in withholding judgment on its outcomes.

In addition to those issues of contention, Buras raised conspiracy theories in which she accused other hands at work — mainly the government — of eyeing New Orleans as the «charter school experiment of the nation.»

«It's a wonderful First Form or primary school experiment and they use a more sophisticated version when they're in Year 12.

For instance, let charter schools experiment with alternative approaches to personnel.

One of the teachers is hired to work at New York City school experimenting with a model that allows it to pay low - six - figure salaries, but the approach is inexplicably left unclarified.

Several recent developments underscore the difficulty of making good on the trade - off at the heart of the decade - old charter school experiment: A scathing...

Student scores on basic - skills tests have improved in 12 of 17 New Jersey schools experimenting with the «effective schools» program, according to a new state report.

The Charter School Experiment After 10 Years by the American Federation of Teachers

The free school experiment has failed in its most important purpose; ensuring every child has a school place.»

A set of six videos and written resources — Brian Cox School Experiments — aimed at Key Stage 2 students (age 7 - 11 years) are available on the -LSB-...]

A set of six videos and written resources — Brian Cox School Experiments — aimed at Key Stage 2 students (age 7 - 11 years) are available on the Royal Society's website and YouTube channel, the STEM Learning resources page and the Times Education Supplement (TES) resources pages.

A large live school experiment On Thursday 17 March, secondary school teachers of science will be taking part in Demo Day, celebrating the art of the science demonstration and showcasing creative, practical demos.

In the Newsweek cover story about the problems boys were having, Ortiz read about a Colorado school experimenting with single - sex education.

Our results cast serious doubt on the wisdom of the middle - school experiment that has become such a prominent feature of American education.

The OSP, along with the successful D.C. charter school experiment, has created an atmosphere of receptivity for changing how we view K — 12 education in our nation's capital.

In the meantime, policymakers should exercise caution before extending the middle - school experiment to school districts that still enjoy the K — 8 configuration.

School districts had alternative schools for years before the charter school experiment.

Washington voters Tuesday appeared to reject Referendum 55, which would have launched a charter schools experiment in Washington.

Also trailing was Referendum 55, which would have launched a charter schools experiment in Washington.

A New York Times story looks at Houston public schools experimenting to see if «techniques proven successful in high - performing urban charters can also help raise achievement in regular public schools.

The Charter School Experiment: Expectations, Evidence, and Implications, Edited w / P. Weitzel (Harvard Education Press)

it, many observers see the closures as an indication that the district is phasing out the Renewal Schools experiment (an interpretation bolstered by the fact that officials haven't added any new schools to the program, either)

Christian Science Monitor: New Orleans charter school experiment shifts to home rule http://bit.ly/1YlStbf

The New Orleans Advocate: Guest column: Without blueprint, New Orleans schools experiment poised for next phase http://bit.ly/1TOBddm

It is unclear whether traditional schools have adopted any «innovations» learned from North Carolina's charter school experiment.

The more I have learned about the charter school experiment nationally, the more impressed I've become about the success of charter schools to harness market forces and improve student performance.

Design, evaluation, and sustainability of private schools for the poor: the Pakistan urban and rural fellowship school experiments

Those results are consistent with private school experiments elsewhere.

New Orleans's charter school experiment is built on the notion that the invisible hand of the free market, made manifest in «unprecedented» parental choice, will improve the quality of public schools through competition.

At base, Shanker suggested, the charter school experiment was not working.

Ten years later, cities and states around the country have embarked on their own charter - school experiments and are watching New Orleans closely, laser - focused on outcomes.

I think the charter school experiment will continue to flourish.

«Massachusetts» 23 - year - old charter school experiment has long enjoyed bipartisan support,» the Globe reporter observes, but that bipartisanship support seems to be a thing of the past.

As teachers and schools experiment, some thoughtful and innovative practices are developing.

Many teachers and schools experimenting with personalized learning also report early success with boosting student and parent engagement, improving student attendance, increasing teacher retention, and other measures of progress.

Tabor Academy in Massachusetts is an example of a school experimenting with rethinking how to operate to enhance deeper learning, the report points out.

3 Richard Orange (10 September 2011), «Doubts grow over the success of Sweden's free schools experiment», The Observer [online], Available here.

Sweden, where the free schools experiment originated in the early 1990s, has slipped dramatically down the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) rankings and there is clear evidence that free schools have increased educational and social segregation.

5) National / Ohio: Mother Jones explains how «The GOP's Biggest Charter School Experiment Just Imploded.»

The charter school experiment is in many ways still in its infancy.

In fact, it is going to take a much greater infusion of parent choice and private sector influence — meaning competition from private schools, not just a few recovery school experiments — for Georgia's public schools to be even more motivated to improve.

Gorman was one of six superintendents who inherited the small - school experiment at Olympic before Clayton Wilcox decided to end it.

Decades into the charter school experiment and more than a decade into the DeVos influenced school landscape, Detroit has 30,000 more school seats than it needs and schools go into heated competition to fill those seats in time to get state money determined by headcount.