Sentences with phrase «mean access to better schools»

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It means making sure every child has access to a good school place.

These parents, probably the majority of home schoolers, are mainly middle - class parents who believe in prolonged intimate contact between family and child, but who do not mean to impede their children's access to higher education and jobs or their ability to act as good citizens.

A Department for Education (DfE) spokesman said: «Pupils are already benefiting hugely from the academies programme and thanks to our reforms more of them than ever before are going to good or outstanding schools, meaning more parents can access a good school place for their children.

Where is the district's trust in well - meaning, hardworking students when their Internet access is limited to the school home page and CNN?

This «schooling without learning» is a wasted opportunity, the report argues — widening social gaps for already disadvantaged children, for whom the promise of education was meant to offer much greater access to good jobs, higher wages, better health, and lifelong security.

While improvements in access to education has meant young people in Kenya are better educated than ever before, 67 % of young Kenyans between the ages of 15 and 24 are thought to be out of work and millions more enter unstable employment each year.i The mismatch between what is learnt at school and the skills required in the 21st century labour market, along with a lack of access to information about jobsii, are among the most frequently cited causes of youth unemployment.

But despite a series of unanimous Supreme Court decisions meant to reverse this trend, in the ensuing years large numbers of black students failed to gain access to the best programs the newly integrated schools offered.

Liaising directly with a school means that every supply teacher will have access to the Teacher Pension Scheme as well as free continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities that they may not have otherwise had access to.

This means early childhood education for all children, funding all schools so they can better serve those with special educational needs, access to health and well - being services for all children in all schools, and a national curriculum that insists that schools focus on the whole child rather than narrow academic achievement.

And it's a sad fact that the schools that do get closed almost always have some kids attending them — and these kids, too often, are the least fortunate youngsters of all, boys and girls whose families lack the means, the concern, or the savvy to access better options for their sons and daughters than the neighborhood school whose continued existence can not be justified on any other grounds.

That means putting students over special interests, expanding access to high - performing schools, empowering parents and loosening the federal government's grip on education policy decisions that are better left to local officials.

«Pupils are already benefiting hugely from the academies programme and thanks to our reforms more of them than ever before are going to good or outstanding schools, meaning more parents can access a good school place for their children.»

Audrey Lane, Chief of Access & Equity — «Choosing «better» schools has always been an option for parents who had the means to afford better options or make the necessary changes to their lifestyles to secure better options for their children.

First published in 1995 as How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed - Ability Classrooms, this new edition reflects evolving best practices in education, the experiences of practitioners throughout the United States and around the world, and Tomlinson's continuing thinking about how to help each and every student access challenging, high - quality curriculum; engage in meaning - rich learning experiences; and feel at home in a school environment that «fits.»

This means that all schools large and small, urban and rural, public and private, brick and mortar or virtual, need to provide access to teaching expertise in the library as well as best resources, technologies and physical and virtual learning spaces to support learner needs as they evolve.

«This gap between being eligible for legal aid and being able to afford counsel that she fell into meant she wasn't able to get the legal assistance that could have prevented the crime from happening,» said Lorne Sossin, dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, addressing members of the legal community who came together last week in Toronto to launch the second year of Flip Your Wig For Justice, the pledge - based fundraiser, which aims to raise awareness as well as money for access to justice programs in Ontario.