Sentences with phrase «much autonomy over»

Daniel became principal of an elementary school in a medium - size suburban district that gives its schools much autonomy over curriculum and management.

Not exact matches

Bellhops are able to execute moves year - round and have complete autonomy over their schedule, who they work with, and how much money they make.

His apparent assumption that the debate is over — «Vehicles that we're producing are capable of full autonomy,» he said — is a little scary, considering how much still needs to be learned about the functioning of fully autonomous cars, and about the interaction of autonomous systems with humans in the cockpit.

In many cases the choices you offer aren't really choices so much as ways to clearly communicate to your child what each of you has control and autonomy over.

While parents and teens may fight over just how much space a teen needs, understand that your child's need to separate from you is a very important aspect of child development and leads to developing autonomy.

Whereas today you have a soldier using a joystick to manipulate a robot much like a video game, what's next are a few pieces of autonomy that enable the robot to take over some of its own navigation, like cruise control.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

«If a government school receives a cut in funding, the blame squarely falls at the feet of Ms Jones who has complete autonomy over how much each school receives and, most importantly, how it is used.»

Over the last 20 years, England didn't abolish its «local education authorities» — Blighty's version of school districts — but it conferred so much autonomy on individual schools and their boards of governors that it essentially marginalized those authorities.

Experts say many of these new charters haven't changed much about their day - to - day operations after making the switch: for instance, by making use of the autonomy over calendar and curriculum that charter schools are afforded.

Over time the term has become associated with technology - laden, self - paced learning, preferably on a device, with little adult teaching and much more student autonomy.

The state has given the charter schools full autonomy over curriculum, hiring and firing and budgets, while keeping its traditional schools on a much tighter leash.

Foy - Yamah also points out that, over time, arbitration has been proven to provide the much - desired results of speed, privacy, party autonomy and efficiency in dispute resolution compared to litigation.

In my opinion, Mabior is a marked improvement over Cuerrier both because it is much more systematic in its approach; and because it more fully considers the parameters of consent; the special nature of sexual assault; and the vital importance of safeguarding personal autonomy.