Sentences with phrase «of children leaves»

But then again, trying to work from home and take care of children leaves little time for house keeping!

CNN: Massacre of children leaves many asking, «Where's God?»

Stage 6: Parents of Children Leaving Home.

I would like to know, what would Mitt do if one of his children left the church?

Kozol visits schools where the policies of No Child Left Behind are being enacted.

We've got a school board election next week, and I've been very disappointed at how little concern the candidates have expressed about the effects of No Child Left Behind on our schools.

At a meeting with concerned parents, the school superintendent sympathized with our concerns, but explained how much pressure the administrators were under, because of No Child Left Behind, to raise standardized test scores.

Lori's ability to reflect, use self - talk, and then act based on the best interests of her children left all feeling inspired and more equipped to reflect for themselves.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

Nonetheless, a depressingly large number of those children leave the vegetable side dishes untouched and they go right in the trash.

Last fall, I experienced one of life's bittersweet moments when not one — but two — of my children left home for college.

Perhaps to prime us for a lifetime of our children leaving things behind, it turns out that babies shed fetal cells before being born.

«But the locus of decision making is rightly shifting back to states and districts away from the one - size - fits - all mandates of No Child Left Behind.»

Gibson carries a bill that he said would roll back testing requirements to before the 2001 passage of No Child Left Behind.

The federal act was drafted by U.S. Secretary of Education John King, the former New York state education commissioner, following the repeal of the No Child Left Behind Act on Dec. 10, 2015.

On the Today Programme this morning, William Hague said that 40 percent of children leave primary school unable to read or write.

GR: What do you think about this effort on the part of some activist parents to get parents to hold their kids out of school during the standardized tests that are part of the school evaluations and the teacher evaluations that are a part of the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Sen. Patty Murray, joined by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (r.) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (l.), speaks to reporters after the Senate voted to end debate on the makeover of the No Child Left Behind Act on Tuesday.

The new numbers are a far cry from the goals of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the ambitious education law signed by President George W. Bush in 2002.

According to Darling - Hammond, the provisions of No Child Left Behind effectively forced states to employ inexpensive, multiple - choice tests that could be scored by machine — and it is all but impossible, she contends, for such tests to measure deep learning.

Since the enactment of No Child Left Behind in 2002, parents» and teachers» opposition to the law's mandate to test «every child, every year» in grades three through eight has been intensifying.

In the 1990s Darling - Hammond points out, some American states had begun to administer such tests; that effort ended with the passage of No Child Left Behind.

The birth of a child leaves its mark on the brain.

Since the 2001 passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, test - based accountability has been an organizing principle — perhaps the organizing principle — of efforts to improve American schools.

(These requirements are already part of the No Child Left Behind Act.)

In the early days of No Child Left Behind and high - stakes testing, a handful of reform - minded schools, including those of the «No excuses!»

«The staying power of service - learning can be seen in that it has survived and continued over these past five years, despite considerable pressures, such as school budget cuts, focus on meeting state mandates, and concerns with implications of No Child Left Behind,» said Ellen Tenenbaum, a researcher at Westat, the firm responsible for conducting the survey.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has officially ended the era of No Child Left Behind and the subsequent forms that it took under Secretary Duncan's waiver regime.

This recommendation was sufficiently radical to guarantee that states would still be wrestling with it in 2003, in the context of the No Child Left Behind legislation.

Traditional Waldorf schools are private, but the number of public schools inspired by Steiner's methods is growing, fueled in part by the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act and the charter school movement.

One disappointing element of the task force's report vis - á - vis accountability is its weak endorsement of the No Child Left Behind Act - such as its dissatisfaction over the act's «relatively slow timelines,» Washington's «scant leverage over states and districts,» and the «few real consequences on educators whose schools fail.»

Data - driven instruction began its spread across the country about a decade ago, in the footsteps of the No Child Left Behind requirement that schools administer yearly achievement tests.

As one fourth - grade teacher told the writer, «The demands of No Child Left Behind have made it almost impossible to devote enough time to science.»

The requirements of No Child Left Behind - which include, for the first time, real consequences for schools that do not show academic progress for all students - are beginning to break the stranglehold that entrenched interests have had on our schools for far too long.

One of the big mistakes of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was enshrining its aspirational target of 100 percent student proficiency in reading and math by 2014 in the accountability system itself.

Coincident with the renewal of the No Child Left Behind Act comes your noisy dislike of its ubiquitous acronym.

The good news is that there's been a seismic shift away from the federal mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act to a more local push for deeper learning.

President Bush issued a pointed rebuttal last week to critics of the No Child Left Behind Act, rejecting arguments that the law heaps unrealistic demands on schools and vowing to oppose any efforts to weaken it.

Homeless children can still sue as individuals to enforce their educational rights under a 17 - year - old law that is now part of the No Child Left Behind Act, a federal judge has ruled.

It is a travesty and an outrage that the few rotten apples in this study may be used by opponents of educational accountability, like the reforms of the No Child Left Behind Act, to charge that testing should be eliminated because the pressure it brings causes cheating.

In the age of No Child Left Behind and the Common Core, how can the system be improved?

Waiver: Comprehensive flexibility that the U.S. Department of Education has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turnarounds.

Clearly the schools are not marching to the edicts of No Child Left Behind.»

This makes a mockery of the disaggregation requirements of No Child Left Behind.

President Bush sits with 4th graders, from left, Khadijah McCain, Damien Goolsby, and Darlet Horton, at Pierre Laclede Elementary School in St. Louis on Jan. 5, 2004, for the second anniversary of the No Child Left Behind Act.

For example, achieving and sustaining progress toward the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) will require more and better - quality research on the policy and community contexts of reform.

Reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act remains stalled in Congress, but the Obama administration continues to push ahead with big changes to the accountability system at its core, with more than half the states now having been approved for waivers from major mandates of the law.

The Title I program was initially created under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and is now part of the No Child Left Behind Act, the most recent reauthorization of that law.

Innovative schools in urban areas show that all children can achieve at high levels given the chance, building on the promise of the No Child Left Behind Act, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige said while visiting the Amistad Academy charter school in New Haven, Connecticut, in 2004.

There is no Plan B. And the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 raised the stakes considerably by setting hard goals and deadlines and real penalties for missing them.