Sentences with phrase «of awful schools»

There are absolutely a bunch of awful schools out there that need to do better.

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«To a large extent globally, rather than just the US, there's still an awful lot of experimentation for schools, and in education broadly, to get a grasp on which OS is most appropriate,» Blaber said.

A primary objective of education today, in homes, in schools, and through the mass media of communication, should be the full and forceful dissemination of knowledge about the extreme destructiveness of modern weapons of war and about the awful consequences for everybody which would result from their use in any large - scale conflict.

I would not be at all surprised if The Tablet had not been looking for an opportunity to make clear its displeasure at what they have seen as his betrayal of the liberal cause ever since their bitter disillusion all those years ago over the establishment of the firmly Catholic St. Gregory's School in Oxford and the dismantling of its truly awful ecumenical (which in effect meant functionally secular) predecessor.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

Here, after years of neglect and such awful books as Weaving the Web, Icons and Here I Am all backed by the Catholic educational establishment, we have had an encouraging sign with the publication by the Bishop of Lancaster of his inspired document, spiritual and practical, on Catholic education and schools.

Without you, I wouldn't have made it out of the prenatal years of this blog when I posted about 10 gazillion awful pictures in each post and then abandoned the blog for an entire school year.

Don't do this in the middle of an awful work month, school finals, or any other major events (weddings, holidays), or you will set yourself up for failure.

The one thing that Nova has had for the past 5 - 10 years is 2 things — 1 an awful on - campus arena and 2) the hope and / or potential that the smart leadership of Villanova would see the limitations of the current situation and then fight to get a much better situation for the school.

They are doing so well at school and I am incredibly proud of all of them, but they are most definitely all a challenge in their own funny little way and there is an awful lot of bickering at the moment that is driving me a bit crazy.

I know many kids who would live with cramps rather than eat food like spinach or curry sauce, which all got thrown out this week at my school, which has restyled meals, which are awful, and much of the food gets tossed.

That said, I think it's deeply ingrained in our students that school cafeteria food is awful regardless of how tasty the offerings.

I am sorry to hear about your son secondary school is a challenging environment and for many - like me - it can be place that brings back awful memories and takes up such a huge chunk of your life.

Given the awful statistics of schools in general (see Waiting for Superman) it's doubtful ANY algebra is being taught, let alone, learned in many schools.

I also think there's a difference between constantly correcting the toddler or preschooler, for whom mastery of silverware and other niceties is asking an awful lot, versus the older, school - aged child who can reasonably be expected to use good table manners, at least most of the time.

The food was awful, and take - up correspondingly low: only 40 of our pupils out of 400 ate school meals, even though nearly 60 children were entitled to them free of charge.

«When you're afraid that your children go to school in the morning, you may not see them again, or if your family goes to an event of some sort, that some awful thing will happen to them, we don't need to live like that,» she said.

«Together the pro-fossil fuel team of McMorris at Interior and Scott Pruitt at EPA is a disaster in the making for efforts to reign in CO2 before we hit truly awful tipping points,» said Jack Tuholske, director of the Vermont Law School Water and Justice Program.

«The most important thing we found is that they react an awful lot faster than we predicted,» said Carl Percival at the University of Manchester School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences.

Work has been bonkers and I've been helping out with our school play making copious amounts of costumes for «Charlotte's Web» so I've been awful lately getting to my blogging friends.

This scene will likely hold its place in film school classes teaching the awful power of the camera's gaze.

Amazon has released the pilot (you can watch it here for free), and while it's not awful, it feels like some kind of high school theatrical adaptation of the movie.

Hoskins and Schaub, who had no inkling that anything was ever amiss at their idyllic high school, serve as ready - made characters through which «Keepers» director Ryan White («The Case Against 8») can sort through a story that is painfully tangled up in broader, awful details of ritual rape and a coverup by both church officials and local police.

Looking back at high school, I recognize it as an essentially unhappy time, and still I miss it — the more you know, the less awful it all seems, and Permanent Record somehow balances the silliness of being seventeen with the beauty and the horror of it.

I was alarmed at how much we were spending on SIG and the awful track record of previous turnaround efforts, and I was sure that districts would pick weak interventions and that kids were going to continue languishing in these schools while we went about this misguided adventure.

Tisha, an experimental mover and 32 - year - old mother of two, explained that despite how awful the children's schools were, it was up to the child to «get what she needs.»

The standards they had in place before the Common Core were simply awful: Disconnected, discombobulated pabulum of feel - good sentiments, half - baked ideas, ed school jargon, and politically correct nonsense.

It will save so many victims of our awful, failing schools.

If we can wrap our minds around this core proposition — that accountability is about outcomes, not inputs, practices, curriculum, staffing arrangements, budgets, uses of time, etc. — and the related proposition that families have the right to choose the schools they think best for their daughters and sons, we can save ourselves an awful lot of grief, not to mention many regulations and much bureaucracy.

By contrast, when a district school fails, school employees face the truly awful consequence, in most cases, of drafting so - called «school improvement» plans that promise long - term reform.

«Not having what we need is aggravating, and it's awful for the children,» says Lisa Sutherland, a secretary at Vardaman High School, of the district's slow Internet connection.

Each child was adorable, and the viewers» emotions became engaged with their plights and their dreams of escaping from awful public schools (and in one case a Catholic school).

«It's an awful lot to try to get accomplished in the short amount of time that is left,» John Barge, Georgia's state school superintendent, said at the time.

The effect of charter school choices «depends an awful lot on the details of the regulations» set by states, says Richard Murnane, an economist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, school choices «depends an awful lot on the details of the regulations» set by states, says Richard Murnane, an economist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, School of Education in Cambridge, Mass..

(Oh, and a third relevant premise is that teacher education programs and school districts generally do a mediocre job of preparing educators and a pretty awful job of screening out lousy educators.)

Not only will this put in place an awful evaluation system that we oppose for the reasons stated in our letter, it is also an affront at collective bargaining and our ability as educators to have meaningful input into the governance of our schools.

And of course Ravitch, Cody and their ilk are against closing any public schools no matter how awful they are, no matter how empty they are because parents refuse to send their children there.

If the lawsuit succeeds, the awful schools will remain open to damage another generation of children.

As that afternoon wrapped, my teacher - brain was exploding: never would I have tolerated such awful instruction from myself in front of my high schoolers, so why did I permit myself to «teach» that way in front of my peers?

Event Description and Location: On Nov. 19th, students at Barringer High School will walk out of school in protest of the chaos and awful learning conditions at their high school under the One NewarkSchool will walk out of school in protest of the chaos and awful learning conditions at their high school under the One Newarkschool in protest of the chaos and awful learning conditions at their high school under the One Newarkschool under the One Newark Plan.

«This has got to be a professionally run campaign, and an awful ot of school corporations are hiring consultants and using technology and making a great effort,» he says.

So, while Malloy won't touch those suburban and gold - coast districts, an awful lot of children, parents, teachers, and other school employees will suffer.

For an awful lot of Wisconsin, especially rural parts, they've had declining enrollment for a while and it comes down to, it costs the same to have the school building, it costs the same for the lights, it costs the same for transportation,» Vos says.

These words rang in my ears as I stood in a crowd of grieving families, angry students and concerned students in Parkland the day after an awful school shooting.

«It's awful to say «we don't know what to do with these kids so we've got to move them out of the school they're in.»

And so we have now found out that the charters perform no one iota better but an awful lot of privately held schools are being shuffled about in get - rich schemes.

«It's hard to feel good or gratified by any of it, because it is so awful to think about what has been going on every year and the kids not being served by their schools and just passed along,» she said.

«Out - of - school suspensions for elementary students don't do an awful lot of good.

Today's school - choice programs are little short of a godsend for impoverished families stuck in awful city schools, but they generally have little to offer most middle - class families.

Many of those children, along with others from around Connecticut, will soon learn the awful truth that the failure to adequately fund Connecticut's magnet schools means they won't be attending a magnet school in September.