Sentences with phrase «more great schools for all children»

We stand ready to fulfill our mission of supporting and growing more great schools for all children.»

Not exact matches

A larger population would mean more children, and hence a greater demand for schools, teachers, books, transportation, and so forth.

So instead of worrying about DeVos, we really should be focusing on: (1) Congressional Republicans, who've already shown great enthusiasm for weakening the nutrition standards for school meals and limiting their accessibility to low - income kids (see my Civil Eats piece, «3 Things You Need to Know About the House School Food Bill «-RRB-; (2) the as - yet - unscheduled confirmation hearing for Agriculture Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue, during which we're likely to get more information on how he views the NSLP; and (3) whoever eventually is appointed Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, the USDA official directly in charge of child nutrition proschool meals and limiting their accessibility to low - income kids (see my Civil Eats piece, «3 Things You Need to Know About the House School Food Bill «-RRB-; (2) the as - yet - unscheduled confirmation hearing for Agriculture Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue, during which we're likely to get more information on how he views the NSLP; and (3) whoever eventually is appointed Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, the USDA official directly in charge of child nutrition proSchool Food Bill «-RRB-; (2) the as - yet - unscheduled confirmation hearing for Agriculture Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue, during which we're likely to get more information on how he views the NSLP; and (3) whoever eventually is appointed Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, the USDA official directly in charge of child nutrition programs.

But having more money in the pool also improves the food that can be served, and while I believe some parents at these schools complain, I've also heard anecdotally that when every child and teacher is sitting down to the same meal, it can have benefits like a more cohesive environment, opportunities for informal nutrition education, and a greater likelihood that kids will try new foods.

Spend a few minutes crafting and you can have a beautiful gift for your child's teacher which will be a great way to decorate their classroom at the start of the new... MORE school year.

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I just started reading Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children, and so far the authors have some great suggestions for healthy lunches, but more interestingly, they have some intriguing ideas about how we could be changing the lunches that kids are fed in school.

It's why we are saying to the great private schools that — in return for their charitable tax status — we want them to do more to take on children without the means to pay, or set up and sponsor good state schools.

«This is another great example of how using a synthetic «bottom - up» engineering approach and leveraging the power of biological design — this time at the scale of individual molecules interacting on cell membranes — can lead to breakthrough technologies for medicine that overcome limitations that hold back more conventional approaches,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

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Thousands of primary schools have little or no suitable outside space for PE, sport and active play, according to a recent consultation by Sport England — but with physical inactivity and childhood obesity rising, there has never been a greater need for children to be more active.

Thanks to the MDGs, more children have attended school and there is a greater demand for quality education.

They told us the new standards were easier and more intuitive to use to plan interesting and creative menus, which has got to be great news for children and school food.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

«The more the school and the family are joined as partners in educating young people, the greater the child's chance for success.»

«That's why these new schools are so important - they give us the school places we need for the future, and they also give parents more choices to find a great school place in their area that's right for their child.»

In March Booker devoted half of his hour - long State of the City address (his fifth) to education, saying «More than anything, we must do better for our children's education... We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.»

I want every child to have quality school choices, I want stronger (and broader) external standards, I want more open paths to becoming an educator, I want empowered school leaders (really empowered, in ways that would also break the union stranglehold) who are compensated like CEOs, I want super pay for great instructors and no pay for incompetents, and I want a complete makeover of «local control.»

Whatever you think, schools are being judged and scrutinised now more than ever about what facilities they are offering to children to fulfill learning criteria in the early years curriculum and this provides a great chance for landscapers to be creative and help in providing teachers with fantastic, unique outside spaces.

«With today's concerns about growing educational disparities, we carry an even greater responsibility as educators to make decisions and take actions that contribute to more equitable educational opportunities for children and families in and out of school.»

«Great Ouse Primary Academy will provide much - needed high - quality places, driving up standards and ensuring even more parents have the choice of a good school place for their child.»

Reiterating Education Minister Nick Gibb's call for greater social mobility, Wilshaw said it was a «moral outrage» that independent schools were failing to do more to help disadvantaged children in neighbouring state schools.

Such integration can also «bring political benefits and greater accountability,» through «a critical mass of active and engaged parents» who are «more likely to have the clout to fight successfully for resources,» to monitor «principal and teacher performance,» and contribute to the effectiveness of their child's school.

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

Or you might prefer a more traditional role for charters as alternative schools with greater flexibility and freedom, not necessarily having to be all things to all children.

In a more recent, longitudinal study on schools implementing special strategies for educating disadvantaged children, Stringfield et al. (1997) found that the schools demonstrating the greatest achievement gains worked hard at both initial implementation and long - term maintenance of an innovation.

«Subtle» aspects of family involvement — parenting style and parental expectations, for example — may have a greater impact on student achievement than more «concrete» forms such as attendance at school conferences or enforcing rules at home regarding homework.144 Some researchers, policy makers, and practitioners argue that these subtle forms of family involvement are not easily influenced by schools.145 In contrast, we argue that the value of creating participatory structures in schools lies in its potential for increasing family and community members «sense of engagement in children «s education, and, as a consequence, augment and reinforce the subtle behaviors responsible for improved outcomes.146

More good schools mean more opportunity for all children to get a great public education.&raMore good schools mean more opportunity for all children to get a great public education.&ramore opportunity for all children to get a great public education.»

Better school climates and better relations with administration and the community were also reported, as well as greater parent involvement and more parents with high expectations for their children's future educational attainment.

The commission wants the government to focus future contracts for teacher training providers, including with Teach First, on «areas of greatest need» and highlighted ten areas where more than one - fifth of children were in failing schools: Blackpool, Knowsley, Northumberland, Doncaster, Reading, Stoke - on - Trent, Oldham, Bradford, Telford and Wrekin, and Central Bedfordshire.

The week is also designed to empower parents to choose the best educational environments for their children and supports a variety of school choice options — from encouraging increased access to great public schools, to public charter schools, magnet schools, virtual schools, private schools, homeschooling and more.

If we could get back to the basics — great schools — and empowering families to make the decisions that best suit their child's education, we might see more success stories for students, which is at the heart of why educators like McKeon signed up for this work in the first place.

According to Education Week's Alyson Klein, thanks to the U.S. Department of Education's new «Weighted Student Funding Pilot» program, school districts now have the chance for local, state, and federal funding to «follow children, so that kids with greater need have more money attached to...

Pointing to LA Unified's soaring numbers of students living in poverty and learning English, Caputo - Pearl suggested, «If Broad and other billionaires want to ensure a great education for every child, they should invest half a billion dollars, and more, in an LAUSD foundation, run by the democratically elected school board, to fund sustainable neighborhood community schools that address the myriad educational and socio - economic needs of our students.»

According to Education Week's Alyson Klein, thanks to the U.S. Department of Education's new «Weighted Student Funding Pilot» program, school districts now have the chance for local, state, and federal funding to «follow children, so that kids with greater need have more money attached to them.»

Gray administration officials said schools have been receiving more money for special - education students since the per - pupil funding formula was adjusted two years ago to reflect the greater needs of children with disabilities.

Love ya Brutus — good on ya for pursuing that law degree — you will be great — but where you got it wrong — and you know me — is the New haven teachers union is giving power to teachers more than ever before — and TFA has run its course (but has provided bodies in classrooms where none were there before)-- no nonsense my friend — only a vision and creed that will change the lives of our children, families and school community for the better — we need you to be a part of this as you should be — no more negativity, for this is our time — the stars are aligned and the proper people are in place to make this magical — and we will — T

They can choose to deny children access to a great education by continuing to enroll them in seriously low performing schools, try to find enough money to move to a more affluent neighborhood (good luck with that) or face possible jail time or probation for using another address, in another zip code, just to get a chance at a good education.

The promise of a great public education for all children is under pressure not only from out - of - touch legislators, but from economic and societal factors outside school that make it much more difficult to achieve success within the classroom.

Decoding experts suggest that for most children, about 30 minutes per day is necessary to teach decoding in grades 1 and 2 (more and with greater intensity for struggling students).23 Where schools spend 90 — 120 minutes per day on reading throughout the elementary grades, that leaves at least an hour per day that could be devoted to imparting the language and world knowledge that is most important for competence in listening, talking, reading, and writing.

Students of National Board Certified Teachers learn up to two months more than their peers, with an even greater impact for students of color and low - income children.54 A career continuum supported by a system of meaningful professional learning would put teaching more on par with other modernized professions such as medicine, engineering, and architecture.55 Such a continuum should support every teacher to aim for accomplished practice from the start of their career, to work in school - based teams to demonstrate and improve their knowledge and skills, and to expand their impact as accomplished teachers through a variety of leadership roles, which would allow them to continue teaching students.

When you give to Golden Apple Foundation today, you will help shape a more hopeful tomorrow for our community's children and schools in greatest need.

Supt. King has been a champion for children for her entire career, and Great Public Schools Now was proud to partner with her to replicate two of South Los Angeles» highest performing schools so that even more students will have a chance attend a high - performing Schools Now was proud to partner with her to replicate two of South Los Angeles» highest performing schools so that even more students will have a chance attend a high - performing schools so that even more students will have a chance attend a high - performing school.

School districts nationwide are looking to increase participation in their school choice programs and parents are seeking greater access to a more diverse set of high - quality school options for their chiSchool districts nationwide are looking to increase participation in their school choice programs and parents are seeking greater access to a more diverse set of high - quality school options for their chischool choice programs and parents are seeking greater access to a more diverse set of high - quality school options for their chischool options for their children.

The report recommends that the next government reviews the impact of constrained school budgets on mental health services as well as urging more training for teachers, and greater consideration of children's well - being by school inspectorate Ofsted.

Indeed, hiking trails abound — from short nature walks for preschoolers, to longer, more rugged treks for teens.The 3 - mile walk to famous Delicate Arch is great for school - aged children — a trail I highly recommend.

«With the recent national push for more STEM programs for children in schools, partnering with City Dads Group and the Los Angeles Public Library was a great opportunity to highlight the level - design capabilities of Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS,» said Doug Bowser, Nintendo of America's Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

It is difficult to compare our findings with studies of general population youth because rates vary widely, depending on the sample, the method, the source of data (participant or collaterals), and whether functional impairment was required for diagnosis.50 Despite these differences, our overall rates are substantially higher than the median rate reported in a major review article (15 %) 50 and other more recent investigations: the Great Smoky Mountains Study (20.3 %), 56 the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development (142 cases per 1000 persons), 57 the Methods for the Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders (6.1 %), 32 and the Miami — Dade County Public School Study (38 %).58 We are especially concerned about the high rates of depression and dysthymia among detained youth (17.2 % of males, 26.3 % of females), which are also higher than general population rates.51,56 - 61 Depressive disorders are difficult to detect (and treat) in the chaos of the corrections milieu.

Studies consistently suggest that exposure to trauma or chronic early life stress may impair the development of executive function skills.6, 7,9,10,11 These skills appear to provide the foundation for school readiness through cognition and behaviour.3, 12 Children with better executive function skills may be more teachable.3 Indeed, in a high - risk sample, children with better executive function skills at the beginning of kindergarten showed greater gains in literacy and numeracy than children with poorer initial skills.12 Considering there is evideChildren with better executive function skills may be more teachable.3 Indeed, in a high - risk sample, children with better executive function skills at the beginning of kindergarten showed greater gains in literacy and numeracy than children with poorer initial skills.12 Considering there is evidechildren with better executive function skills at the beginning of kindergarten showed greater gains in literacy and numeracy than children with poorer initial skills.12 Considering there is evidechildren with poorer initial skills.12 Considering there is evidence that

While it is great to have food for the hungry children, I feel that the families should have more of a role in the school than the execution of such menial tasks.»