Sentences with phrase «more high quality school»

Our children deserve more high quality school choices, not more political posturing from union bosses.

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New Jersey — a wealthy, educated state with ready access to world - class health care in Philadelphia and New York City — has «better access to higher - quality information that lets us be more complete» in screening, Walter Zahorodny, a New Jersey Medical School professor and director of the New Jersey Autism Study, said in a conference call about the findings.

A research study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, led by a team at the Rotman School of Management, shows that taking a moment to assess your best qualities leads to better results when negotiating a high - stakes deal with someone who has more power than you.

Second, their schools have very small kitchens and salad bars have allowed Garmong's staff more space to prepare high quality entrées.

The school offers a high quality education at a more affordable price than comparable Princeton private schools, as well as generous tuition assistance to qualified applicants.

Local school districts have been improving the quality of food they've been serving for years, but Tanner wanted to see the district leverage its considerable buying power to serve higher quality food to more students, more consistently.

One 7 - year followup study showed that children enrolled in a high - quality home visiting program were more likely to participate in a gifted program and less likely to receive special education services or report skipping school than were children in the control group.

When compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.

Second, their schools have very small kitchens and salad bars have allowed Garmong's staff more space to prepare high quality entrées.

More than 6,300 youth organizations and 1,100 high schools signed up for Heads Up Football in 2015, improving the quality of the sport for their athletes (because they fell for our marketing).

Every now and then, an article will appear somewhere touting a «school food miracle worker» who is able to serve what appears to be healthier, higher quality food than what is typically found in school lunch programs, and sometimes the claim is made that the meals cost no more than what a typical school district spends on a less healthy meal.

I have been proud to lead the fight in creating several high - quality schools with more on the way, opening new public parks and upgrading our waterfront, new retail, and the rebuilding of the World Trade Center.

The Governor is helping to create the conditions for further growth of high quality charter schools and is giving hope to thousands more children.

These 15 schools are leaders in Dual Language education and, through collaborative practices, we can ensure a supportive, high - quality multilingual experience for even more students.»

This short of the $ 1.5 billion education advocates like the Alliance for Quality Education say is necessary to provide more equitable funding for poorer schools deemed to be in high - needs districts.

The Alliance for Quality Education's Billy Easton says New York has fallen far behind in carrying out an order issued eight years ago form the state's highest court saying schools, particularly the poorest districts, deserve billions of dollars more in state funding each year.

Billy Easton, Executive Director of the Alliance for Quality Education, points out that test scores dropped much more dramatically in schools with high rates of poverty where school funding is significantly lower.

«Under their leadership, rental assistance for new and expanding New York City charter schools will increase, translating into more high - quality schools being opened.»

The critical report is part of the Alliance for Quality Education's multi-year campaign to get billions more in school aid for districts like Utica that suffer from high poverty rates.

She told lawmakers at a joint legislative budget hearing in January that it is a top priority, citing studies that indicate children who participate in high - quality preschool programs are 50 percent less likely to be placed in special education courses, 25 percent less likely to drop out of school, and 60 percent more likely to attend some college.

«To ensure the best and brightest are teaching our children, the State Education Department will increase the standards for teacher certification to require passage of a «bar exam,» in addition to longer, more intensive and high - quality student - teaching experience in a school setting,» Mr. Cuomo said.

«We look forward to helping more Bed - Stuy parents choose a high - quality school for their children.»

AAAS Science Assessment Website — Science educators have easy access to more than 700 high - quality multiple choice items for testing middle and high school students» understanding of 16 important topics in earth, life, and physical science and the nature of science.

«Access to high - quality early education contributes to more positive elementary school classroom environments, as well as to fewer subsequent placements in special education.»

«There is mounting scientific evidence that diets including less low - quality carbohydrates, such as white breads, potatoes, and sweets, and higher in protein - rich foods may be more efficient for weight loss,» said first and corresponding author Jessica Smith, Ph.D., a visiting scholar at the Friedman School and a research fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Their quality of life suffered too, as those with higher genetic risk missed work and school more often and were more often admitted to the hospital because of asthma.

Experts from the Pharmacy Faculty and the Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineering (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica — ETSIA) of the University of Seville have published a study that shows that when reducing the water used to water cherry tomato crops by more than 50 %, the product not only maintains its quality, both commercially and nutritionally, but it also even increases the level of carotenoids, compounds of great interest in the food - processing industry.

«High school students with higher - quality best friendships tended to improve in several aspects of mental health over time, while teens who were popular among their peers during high school may be more prone to social anxiety later in life.&raHigh school students with higher - quality best friendships tended to improve in several aspects of mental health over time, while teens who were popular among their peers during high school may be more prone to social anxiety later in life.&rahigh school may be more prone to social anxiety later in life.»

Children's Hospital Los Angeles, a nonprofit teaching hospital affiliated with University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, provides more than 107,000 children with high - quality pediatric care every year.

«Getting back into a school routine means, for many families, juggling a variety of schedules,» said Dr. Bazilian, who is also a wellness consultant for NOW, a leading natural products manufacturer with more than 1,400 high - quality and affordable foods, sports nutrition, dietary supplements and personal care products.

And a second study, involving more than 1,200 high school athletes, found no differences in self - reported quality of life over two years of follow - up, regardless of whether or not they'd had a concussion.

«High - quality civic learning teaches the importance of community (both within the school and more broadly), respectful dialogue about controversial issues, creative problem solving, collaboration, teamwork, and the importance of diversity,» according to the authors.

The quality of student work speaks more eloquently about the good things going on at the local high school than anything else can.

There is research that shows that schools with high poverty are more likely to focus on reading and math in order to meet AYP at the expense of quality hours studying science.

Help can include targeted, high - quality professional development; curriculum improvements; additional time for student learning after school or in the summers; establishment of wraparound services, including community school models; redesign of schools to support personalization and more authentic work in classrooms and internships; or pairing of struggling schools with successful ones serving similar students.

If the current funding does not change, this will likely require school leaders and governing bodies to become more confident in both managing their workforce and in setting pay policies that enable performance based awards and targeted salaries to retain high quality staff.

The plans, first outlined by Prime Minister Theresa May, form a core part of her education reforms, including plans to open new grammar schools, which she claims will raise education standards, give more pupils access to a high quality education and improve social mobility.

A more constructive approach is the road we've been traveling for 20 years now: expanding school choice via new, high - quality options.

For example, the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act allocates additional funding to school districts with a high percentage of low - income students, who are more likely to have poor educational outcomes for reasons unrelated to school quality.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

But the end result might be the creation of more nimble, responsive, and high - quality school systems that prepare the next generation of American citizens.

Each fortnight, more than a dozen student volunteers from Kincumber High School walk down to their local creek to conduct water quality tests — monitoring the health and the quality of the waterway in their local community.

Author Meredith Liu writes that in contrast to sustaining innovations, by which education schools might add some new faculty or online course offerings but not change their brick - and - mortar model, fully - online degree programs offer the potential to «transform the industry into one that has lower costs and higher quality, and is more widely accessible.»

High - quality career and technical education needs to be a viable option for many more kids, beginning in high schHigh - quality career and technical education needs to be a viable option for many more kids, beginning in high schhigh school.

In fact, charter school authorizers are now expected to play an even more assertive role in ensuring that charter schools offer parents high - quality choices and not simply more choices for their children's education.

But I'm convinced that, at this point in time, the way to create lots more «high - quality seats» for lots more kids is to make sure that charter schools and private school scholarships receive funding parity with «the system.»

Schools will leverage online learning for academics, which means they will be able to act as community centers in essence and focus far more on providing well - kept facilities that students want to attend with great face - to - face supports, high - quality meals, and a range of athletic, musical, and artistic programs — things that receive short shrift all too often today.

The state department of education is seeking to establish teacher - preparation schools that are free from state regulations so long as they produce high - quality teachers — a variation on the concept that has led to the creation of more than 3,000 K - 12 charter schools in 41 states since 1992.

We might be concerned that, over time, there will be more private schools with a majority of students on FTC and that these schools might not be the highest quality (as evidenced by the fact that families do not attend if they have the pay the full price).

The situation would be even worse in high - and moderate - poverty schools, which tend to have lower levels of teacher quality to start with than their more advantaged counterparts.