Sentences with phrase «new educational alternatives»

With new educational alternatives open to parents, independent schools look to big - business marketing techniques to increase enrollment.

Not exact matches

It could mean reducing occupational licensure requirements, and educational reforms that make it easier for workers to acquire new skills through alternative training programs.

Available in three tasty flavor combinations: Fruit & Veggie 1,2,3, Carrot Raisin Crunch, and Banana Squash Squares — the new line offers families a smarter cereal alternative made from real, organic ingredients that kids want and need and packaged in way that's educational and fun.

Her genial foil is Paul Rudd, who runs a rural New Hampshire high school that's a progressive Eden of alternative educational grooviness.

400,000 students, or approximately 15 percent of all students in New York State attend nonpublic schools, providing an important educational alternative in virtually every corner of New York State — and especially so in communities where the existing public schools are failing.

400,000 students, or approximately 15 percent of all students in New York State attend nonpublic schools which provide an important educational alternative in virtually every corner of New York State — and especially so in communities where the existing public schools are failing.

That's means we are far away to break current educational paradigm, but, at least, we are thinking and proposing new alternatives.

Under the new OCR rules, once federal officials determine that the distribution of any resource disadvantages a protected minority, the district must demonstrate that its policy is «necessary to meet an important educational goal» and that no «comparably effective alternative» is available.

It will be difficult to persuade the current community of educational evaluators to begin doing randomized experiments solely by informing them of the advantages of this technique, by providing them with lists of successfully completed experiments, by telling them about new methods for implementing randomization, by exposing them to critiques of the alternative methods they prefer, and by having prestigious persons and institutions outside of education recommend that experiments be done.

«This book was designed to show what new evidence exists about integrated education and its relationship to equality of educational opportunity; what the political prospects are; what we know about new policy alternatives, including using socioeconomic status; and what the federal role could be in encouraging such options,» write Frankenberg and Debray.

Of course I was predisposed in that direction because I'm a huge admirer of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter schools — more than 40 of them now, in four boroughs of New York City — which are knocking the top off state test scores and providing terrific educational alternatives for thousands of youngsters, mostly poor and minority, who would otherwise be stuck in some of the country's worst urban schools.

If the new information surprises respondents by indicating the district is doing less well than previously thought, the public, upon learning the truth of the matter, is likely to 1) lower its evaluation of local schools; 2) become more supportive of educational alternatives for families; 3) alter thinking about current policies affecting teacher compensation and retention; and 4) reassess its thinking about school and student accountability policies.

Also, after talking with one of their promoters, Franco Lacomella, Global Education Magazine and the new project emerged after the documentary, Reevo, will work together in the future to create opportunities for dissemination of alternative educational experiences worldwide.

TFA alumnus Cami Anderson is superintendent of New York City's district of Alternative Schools and Programs, where she oversees the educational needs of 50,000 young people at a variety of facilities, including transfer schools and correctional education facilities.

Getting these incentives right can make Course Access policies an R&D engine for new educational paradigms, while radically expanding Course Access for students whose current alternative is nothing at all.

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Under the new rules, alternative educational experiences could count towards a secondary diploma as long as:

Some studies in both Massachusetts and New York City have found that a «No Excuses» educational approach — characterized by mandated intensive tutoring, longer instruction times, frequent teacher feedback, strict disciplinary policies, and high expectations for students — is a common feature among charter schools with the biggest positive effects (however, the most effective of these schools are located in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods, making it difficult to disentangle whether this is due to the No Excuses approach or sub-par public school alternatives).

The 1997 Amendments to IDEA contain new regulations about sending students to alternative educational settings for drugs, weapons, or «substantial evidence that maintaining the current placement of the child is substantially likely to result in injury to the child or to others...» (Section 300.521) As a result, the number of students in alternative programs could increase.

If your kids always want to play on your iPad or Android tablet, youth educational entertainment company LeapFrog has a new kid - friendly tablet that might be a more suitable alternative for them — though you'll have to wait until later this summer.

She is passionate about furthering the ideals of access in education, conceiving new alternative educational models, teaching the intersectionality of struggles, and promoting open source and new media alternatives for activists and frontline communities.

The programme highlights how the deployment of new and innovative materials and technologies, as well as shifting cultural and social attitudes is affording alternative frameworks and understandings about contemporary experience, from educational models and street culture to collectively designing museums for African contexts.