Sentences with phrase «number of schools across the country»

Although hard figures are not yet available, it appears that a substantial number of schools across the country have asked to be excused from meeting the first deadline set by the federal asbestos law.

A select number of schools across the country will start trialling the multiplication tables check from next month.

Called the Instructional Change Study, this project is working in a number of schools across the country, trying, in a sense, to «scale up» the inquiry approach, but to ensure that the whole school is engaged in the effort.

There is no real formal national certification for medical assistants, however, a number of schools across the country offer medical assisting courses.

Not exact matches

Instead of competing over the same small number of hyper - talented players as his neighbors, he decided to innovate: He became one of the first college coaches to track and pursue high school recruits from across the country.

This number is only the beginning of the problem: students across the country battle fear every day when boarding the bus in case we are the next victims in America's ongoing epidemic of school massacres.

DR: I talk to colleagues across the country and I belong to a number of different school food organizations, such as the School Nutrition Services Dietetic Practice school food organizations, such as the School Nutrition Services Dietetic Practice School Nutrition Services Dietetic Practice Group.

That's why Justine Greening and I have set out a new package of reforms, building on Michael Gove's success, to increase the number of good school places across the country...

This effect has been true even in academia, in which the number of foreign students, who made up the majority of computer science (CS) departments, has dwindled in graduate schools across the country.

With another season of scholastic football in full swing at school districts across the country, a growing number of physicians and athletic trainers are re-evaluating how they diagnose and treat head injuries suffered during practices and games.

A number of districts across the country have moved to equalize across schools the share of poor students, as measured by eligibility for subsidized lunch.

We are piloting a number of partnership programmes across the country where a new physical education offer, alongside a whole school approach to wellbeing is generating promising evidence of impact.

Taking a cue from a number of public and charter high schools across the country, administrators in charge of the eleven high schools in California's capital city opted to reorganize the system around a school - to - career theme.

Over the course of the week, schools, colleges and organisations across the country will be getting involved with National Apprenticeship Week by holding a number of different activities and events.

Students at a small but growing number of high schools across the country are moving toward an integrated - mathematics pathway, in which they learn a blend of topics like algebra, geometry, and statistics each year.

As Huw Williams explains: «Although the tablet initiative had great initial interest from schools across the country, a limited number of schools progressed with the opportunity to purchase, which further highlights that the format for purchasing tablet technology isn't as simple as looking at a device in isolation.

This culminating event is repeated annually at all our schools for all graduates and a growing number of our Envision Learning Partners across the country.

First, I don't see the number of high - performing schools growing quickly enough to meet the incredible need across the country.

If the students at SOTA — and at a growing number of schools and centers across the country — are any indication, he may be right.

Interestingly, the number of schools advertising for a teacher of Physics differed considerably across the country.

As the number one advocate for youth, the 4,100 Boys & Girls Clubs across the country and on U.S. military installations worldwide work to ensure great futures are within reach of the nearly 4 million members by helping them stay on track to graduate from high school with a plan for the future, demonstrating good character and citizenship, and living a healthy lifestyle.

We do have a number of partnerships with various companies and organizations, and are also present in over 3,000 schools across the country.

At a recent national convention of the NASSP, he had the sense that schools across the country have taken a number of steps to institute tougher rules and more security measures.

Across the country, a small number of schools and districts are modifying or extending the academic year.

Private school choice is already spreading across the country, with states tripling the number of programs over the last decade to more than 60 today.

Ofsted has warned that a number of young people are at «significant risk of harm» from attending unregistered schools across the country.

Unfortunately, this is a common headline across the country with «U.S.» interchangeable with any number of school, district, or state names.

At the time of writing, there are more than 690 free schools open or approved to open across the country, with a record number of applications in the pipeline.

Speaking about the re launch of this new brand, Robert Carpenter, Managing Director of i2o Limited said: «We are proud to work with a large number of schools and nurseries across the country.

There might be more than 450,000 people working in state schools across the country, but even that number is not enough to satisfy the demands of a growing school age population.

In response to the publication of the SEN Code of Practice for parliamentary approval by the Department for Education, the AEP has stressed that an uncertain funding future for the initial training of the educational psychology workforce and the ever increasing demand for educational psychologists» posts will mean that there will be an insufficient number of educational psychologists supporting local authorities and schools in future, which could put the wellbeing of vulnerable children and young people across the country at risk.

A record number of schools across Australia took a stand against bullying on 16 March, with almost two million students set to participate in the country's key annual anti-bullying event.

Among 657 Playworks partner schools across the country surveyed in Spring 2017, 95 percent of school staff reported an improvement in overall school climate; 97 percent witnessed an increase in the number of students engaged in healthy play during recess; and teachers reported an average of 19 recovered learning hours in the classroom.

A record number of schools across Australia took a stand against bullying on 16 March, with almost two million students signed up to participate in the country's key annual anti-bullying event.

As the debate on school choice heats up next week, I share this post as a voice in support of the nation's public schools, which remain the number 1 choice, a great option for families and communities across the country.

A 2009 study of seventh and eighth grade students at 10 Boys & Girls Clubs across the country found that those attending afterschool programs skipped school fewer times, increased school effort, and gained academic confidence; moreover, the first two outcomes cited above increased as the number of days attending afterschool programs increased (Arbreton, Bradshaw, Sheldon, & Pepper, 2009).

As Innosight Institute has written in several reports, there are a growing number of schools and districts across the country that are implementing blended - learning models.

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A research professor of education at New York University, Ravitch recently published a book, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools — which argues that the crisis in American education is not a crisis of academic achievement, but of the destruction of public schools across the country — that landed in the number 10 spot on the New York Times Best SelleSchools — which argues that the crisis in American education is not a crisis of academic achievement, but of the destruction of public schools across the country — that landed in the number 10 spot on the New York Times Best Selleschools across the country — that landed in the number 10 spot on the New York Times Best Seller list.

From classrooms with modern broadband connections to state - of - the - art science laboratories and energy efficient green building design, such legislation would help upgrade the number of outdated school buildings across our country.

This year in our school, as in schools across the country, we have seen the number of standardized tests we are required to administer grow sharply, from 25 to more than 50 (in grades 6 - 10).

The rate reflects the number of students earning degrees but also, importantly, how well schools track down students who leave, because a school must show that a student has reenrolled in another school, whether across town or in another country.

With the vast number of gun shootings happening across the country, schools have been faced with uncertainty with how to respond.

Across the country, the number of community schools continues to grow, as local educators, community leaders, and others look for equitable, efficient, and effective ways to provide the broad range of supports and services that allow young people to become truly well - prepared to enter college or a career.

Cleland, in a statement sent to Schools Week, said: «The education sector is facing a number of significant financial challenges across the country with all schools, academies and multi-academy trusts being afSchools Week, said: «The education sector is facing a number of significant financial challenges across the country with all schools, academies and multi-academy trusts being afschools, academies and multi-academy trusts being affected.

The goal was to get a handle on the number of schools in districts of varying size across the country and the locations of those districts.

Education Cities is a nonprofit network of 30 city - based organizations in 25 cities working to dramatically increase the number of great public schools across the country.

Across the country, the number of charter schools that are diverse by design has been steadily rising in recent years, in cities including New York, Denver, and Washington D.C. Scholars at the Century Foundation in Washington D.C., a nonpartisan research organization, estimate that about two dozen such charters have opened in recent years although they still comprise only a tiny fraction of charter schools.

The government will need to ensure that there are sufficient places available for pupils across the country — whether that be through the establishment of new free schools, or the expansion of existing schools — to cater for an increase in secondary pupil numbers over the next 5 years.

Blended learning has been embraced by a growing number of Catholic schools across the country in the last five years or so.