Sentences with phrase «national demonstration»

«An analysis of data from the second year of TASC's national demonstration of an expanded school day for elementary and middle school students shows that ExpandED Schools improved school culture, decreased rates of students» chronic absenteeism and helped students develop positive learning habits and attitudes.

As a staff developer, Rob has provided instruction at AVID Summer Institutes for administrators as well as for AVID National Demonstration Schools, and has conducted tutor trainings throughout the U.S. Beginning in 1994, Rob created AVID's journal ACCESS and has been its lead writer and interviewer.

The bill will, for example, make organising the 2014 annual TUC Congress or organising a TUC national demonstration in the 12 months before the 2015 general election criminal offences.

Three more schools have been identified as emerging AVID National Demonstration sites which provides a glimpse of evidence of the districtwide impact of the FCPS AVID College Readiness System.

Principal Rainey also highlighted several aspects about the school: - 2015 National Excellence in Urban Education Award by the National Center for Urban School Transformation - 100 % of the students receive free and reduced lunch - 99 % minority - 75 % of seniors took at least one AP course during high school - 2nd charter school in the country to be named an AVID National Demonstration School - 1st charter school in the country to be fully funded by bond money

Plus, we discuss how Houston students are participating in national demonstrations against gun violence this weekend.

But the first large - scale, coordinated national demonstration is planned for March 14, when organizers of the Women's March have called for a 17 - minute walkout, one minute for each of the 17 students and staff members killed in Florida.

There are two certification ratings: Certified National Demonstration Magnet School (exceeds the criteria) and Certified National Magnet School (meets the criteria).

On Saturday 18 October, hundreds of thousands of people will come together to demand an alternative to cuts, privatisation and falling living standards on the Britain Needs a Pay Rise national demonstration.

MPs will debate the plan to raise tuition fees to # 9,000 a year asstudents stage their third and largest national demonstration against the plans.

It called a second national demonstration outside Parliament on May 28, 2010, which it claimed had an attendance of 2,500 people.

At the National Union of Teachers» (NUT) annual conference in Brighton this morning, members voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion that would seek to organise a «national demonstration around the crisis in education as soon as practical» and «build a campaign to persuade members that national strike action will be necessary».

HSUS's Stop Puppy Mills campaign has held several national demonstrations against Petland's support of cruel puppy mills, in coalition with other humane groups.

Students walked out of schools across Anne Arundel County around 10 a.m. Wednesday, joining an unprecedented national demonstration in favor of gun control.

Since joining MDRC in 1986, Rowser has specialized in the design, development, and implementation of national demonstrations serving families and children, adolescent dropouts, and other disadvantaged populations.

An analysis of data from The After - School Corporation's (TASC) national demonstration of a longer school day shows that elementary and middle school students improved their academic achievement, attended school more often and benefitted from improvements in school culture.

Additionally, one high school (Falls Church HS) and one middle school (Glasgow MS) hold the distinction as an AVID National Demonstration Site.

Among these certified schools 15 have been designated as National Demonstration Schools.

But the first large - scale, coordinated national demonstration is planned for March 14, when organizers of the Women's March have called for a 17 - minute walkout, one minute for each of the 17 students and staff members killed in Florida.

It took bringing the Resolution into law and policies in many countries, further Resolutions at the Assembly and, finally, national demonstrations in the UK to prompt change.

In fact, O'Farrell is an AVID National Demonstration School, expecting all students to perform academically at a high level.

Workers» unions and agrarian cooperatives had called for a national demonstration in opposition to the Free Trade Agreement.

Their message of hate can not be allowed to undermine the ideals of hope, tolerance and respect which is why PCS is supporting Saturday's national demonstration and parade.»

Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) will be joining other trade unionists, anti fascist, anti racist campaigners and the public tomorrow (21 June), in a national demonstration and carnival parade organised by Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) and Unite Against Fascism (UAF).

Commenting, Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, said: «The national demonstration and carnival parade will see the anti-fascist majority coming together to say to no to the racist fascist ideology of the far right organisations like the BNP.

Fiona Edwards, a Student Assembly Against Austerity National Organiser, reports on Saturday's national demonstration and the next steps in building the fightback.

See: «Results of the National Demonstration Project to Reduce Violent Crime and Improve Governmental Effectiveness in Washington, D.C.» Social Indicators Research, 47, 153 - 201.

«So let's start campaigning and mobilising for our national demonstration against the cuts next Spring in London's Hyde Park on Saturday 26 March.

It comes after the TUC said a national demonstration will be held on 26 March next year in London's Hyde Park.

The U.S. Department of Energy has committed to paying 50 percent of the funds, but that isn't enough to keep the project moving, and Morris says that regulators don't see why local customers should pay for what is supposed to be a national demonstration project.

The team selected the Missouri Headwaters Basin in southwest Montana for a national demonstration project.

This report from the second phase of the project presents a proposal for a national demonstration program to determine how one might prepare PhDs to be productive members of the K - 12 education community.

These are tips I developed during the planning and implementation of a program that helped my school, Hellgate Elementary in Missoula, Montana, become a National Blue Ribbon School and a national demonstration site for the effective use of classroom technology.

The Fresno youths are part of a national demonstration project testing the benefits of combining remediation with a jobs program..

The conference also backed a national demonstration, a lobby of Parliament and a broad - based campaign to challenge the government's education policy.

Now, we are recognized as a Kentucky Rewards school, a National School of Merit, a national pilot site for Plato software, a national demonstration site for Project CHILD, and a Distinguished Media Center for Kentucky.

He is an advisor to Completion by Design, a national demonstration program of community college reform, and to an evaluation of the Florida College and Career Readiness Initiative, which is implementing an idea he proposed in 2001.

about Year Four of ExpandED Schools National Demonstration: Lessons for Scale and Sustainability

The findings in this brief draw on data collected by PSA researchers through observations, interviews and a survey administered to students in each of the 11 national demonstration schools in spring 2013.

The evaluation of the first two years of the national demonstration of ExpandED Schools (the 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 school years) focused on the implementation of TASC's model and on strategies used by schools and community partners to scale up and institutionalize expanded learning.