Could she benefit from some type
of alternative schooling approach?
Not exact matches
«Physicians treating ragweed allergy sufferers may soon have an
alternative to the current
approach to managing ragweed allergy, which usually involves weekly or monthly visits to the doctor's office for allergy shots and carries the risk
of swelling and pain at the injection site, plus risk
of anaphylactic shock,» says Creticos, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine.
At a time when government testing
of spelling, punctuation and grammar can lead to less creativity in the teaching
of writing, the project provides compelling
alternative approaches for
schools and their teachers which will engage children and give them a strong investment in their writing, whilst also being able to satisfy curriculum demands and statutory testing.
In particular, we wanted to find an
alternative to the very punitive
approach of suspension and expulsion that most western style
schools adhere to.»
Ho's research highlights contrasts between current
approaches to measuring student and
school proficiency and proposes
alternative metrics that address some
of the problems that have emerged in standardized testing since the 2001 enactment
of No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
This behavior contrasts sharply with the
approach of the
alternative, nondistrict chartering authority in D.C., the D.C. Public Charter
School Board, which has chartered nearly 20
schools, none
of which has been closed.
This paper evaluates an
alternative approach,
school inspections, which may better capture the multifaceted nature
of education production.
This
alternative approach, which now educates more than 30 percent
of public -
school kids in 19 cities, requires a new structure in order to work.
The researchers»
approach to measuring the causal effect
of competition between private and state
schools uses the fact that the amount
of competition in education today has in large part been influenced by the Catholic church's efforts in the nineteenth century to construct an
alternative school system wherever the state religion was not Catholic.
Researchers also saw examples
of the positive impact
of schools adopting Indigenous cultural practices — including the adoption
of smudging ceremonies, talking circles and eagle - feather ceremonies in Canada and an
alternative approach to student discipline in New Zealand focusing on restorative practices.
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The teenagers wrote opinion pieces on whether all students should be encouraged to attend college, the value
of alternative teacher preparation programs such as Teach For America, the importance
of desegregation, or the best
approach to
school discipline.
California also intends to include a proportionate share
of alternative schools identified under this separate
approach within the five percent
of schools identified for comprehensive support.
Explicitly endorsing or encouraging states to use one
of the two above - mentioned
approaches as an
alternative to proficiency rates as the primary measure
of school performance.
Over the past twenty years, educators have developed a wide variety
of approaches and programs that come under the umbrella
of SEL including: character education, conflict resolution and peer mediation, restorative justice and other
alternatives to punitive discipline / suspension, bullying prevention,
school climate work and more.
To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her
approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns
of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage
of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy
alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter
schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects
of virtual
schools, and ignore the negative effects
of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.
Other research has pointed to the possibility that top - down and bottom - up
approaches need not be viewed as
alternatives, but can be combined.235 Recent research on the district role in
school - improvement activity has focused increasingly on the identification
of specific district - level policies, actions, and conditions that are related to improvement in teachers «and students «performance.
To engage in screening using this
alternative approach, it is necessary to examine the base rate
of risk across an entire
school and within each classroom.
The documented results
of these programs, together with the growing research on public
alternative schools (Kleiner, Porch, & Farris, 2002), provide a knowledge base about comprehensive
approaches to increasing both academic achievement and high
school completion rates — which generally go hand in hand.
By implementing Positive Behavior Support, the
school moved from a disciplinary
approach involving out -
of -
school suspensions, expulsions, and even placements to
alternative schools to a schoolwide code
of behavior that all students and adults agreed to uphold.
Threat assessment represents an important component
of a comprehensive
approach to
school safety that gives
schools an
alternative to zero tolerance discipline policies that have proven to be ineffective and counterproductive.
Proponents
of alternative approaches to keeping order in
schools support various interventions, most
of them based on an
approach called social and emotional learning, or SEL, which develops students» skills in recognizing and discussing emotions, relating to and empathizing with others, and defusing and resolving conflict.
The letter takes a decidedly tongue - in - cheek
approach to the often tedious job
of school fundraising, giving parents some comical
alternatives to baking, selling, walking or serving on a committee.
Restorative
approaches offer an
alternative for
schools to begin building problem - solving skills while fostering a level
of understanding and community that ultimately help to resolve conflict.
That same whole - child
approach became central to conversations about the design
of a new
alternative high
school that the district planned to launch, said Principal Lyle.
Even «
alternative» educators need to consider whether their
approach is overly «child - centered» in a troubled world, because, they assert, being neutral or indifferent to the moral condition
of the world into which we are educating children ultimately amounts to an endorsement
of the transmission model; it is to say, in effect, that learning is an objective process and that the purpose
of education is to transmit «knowledge» into young minds, even if the form
of transmission doesn't look as harsh or artificial as it does in conventional
schooling.
In the course
of monitoring charter
schools with high and disparate discipline rates, federal and state civil rights enforcement agents should insist that
schools relying on «broken windows» theory or similar zero - tolerance
approaches consider less discriminatory
alternatives.
Furthermore, since the «Sit and Stare» policy violates the SBAC Testing Protocol, let alone the fact that the
approach is nothing short
of bullying, Connecticut public
school students who opt out must be moved to a safe, secure,
alternative location and may not be left sitting in the testing room during the Common Core SBAC test.
Offered as an
alternative to the area's traditional
schools, many
of which serve a predominantly low - income population, Ridnouer says Veritas implements a «whole child»
approach, utilizing healthy lunches, classroom breaks for exercise and at least 90 minutes
of exercise per day.
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).
Out
of the
school's
alternative and immersive pedagogical
approach the JSS in Civita Italy summer program evolved and is now attracting serious artists from around the world.
This project further investigates the artistic production
of those two decades in a location far from the main artistic centers, from Paris to New York, and explores the development
of alternative scenes generated in art
schools and academies, namely the
School of Art Institute
of Chicago, which critically competed or opposed Minimal Art's industrial and essential
approach.
Portland, OR About Blog Ginevra Liptan, M.D. is a graduate
of Tufts University
School of Medicine, board - certified in internal medicine, and trained in functional medicine, a holistic
approach that blends both western and
alternative medicine.
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