Today kicks off national Public Schools Week, March 12 - 16, celebrating the success
of public schools around the country.
Not exact matches
In the case
of «Lifeboat» he calls out the warning about something that was being taught to many
of our grade
school children in
public schools around the
country, namely, values clarification.
While tooling
around the Internet one day I stumbled upon the story
of Sara Salo, a
public health advocate in Bend, Oregon who is going to be biking across the
country to bring attention to
school food reform.
The S.I. Newhouse
School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and other top journalism
schools around the
country have issued a letter
of concern to the nation's largest owner
of local television stations, Sinclair Broadcast Group.
At 11 a.m., amid a growing flood
of reports
of lead in
school drinking water
around the state and the
country, a coalition
of New York
public health, environment, and healthy
schools advocacy groups will call on state government leaders to take action, LCA Press Room (130), Legislative Office Building, Albany.
«Every
school and
public building in the
country will be emblazoned with a new «national motto» under Gordon Brown's drive to encourage patriotism and Britishness... Members
of the
public will be asked to come up with five or six - word slogans, perhaps based
around ideas
of fair play or national pride.»
Environmental scientist Michael Aitken
of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Public Health predicts that recycling will become increasingly important as a supplement to water supplies
around the
country.
Susan C. Miller, professor (research)
of health services, policy and practice in the Brown University
School of Public Health and lead author
of the study in the Journal
of Palliative Medicine, worked with colleagues to survey nursing directors at more than 1,900 nursing homes
around the
country between July 2009 and June 2010 to assess their knowledge
of palliative care and their facility's implementation
of key palliative care practices.
Pressure Cooker (Unrated) Uplifting documentary chronicles the efforts
of Wilma Stephenson, a demanding Culinary Arts teacher at an inner city, Philadelphia
public high
school, as she inspires underprivileged students to apply themselves in her class in order to earn college scholarships to some
of the most prestigious cooking institutes
around the
country.
School districts around the country are experimenting with programs that allow students to home school for part of the day but take certain classes at the local public s
School districts
around the
country are experimenting with programs that allow students to home
school for part of the day but take certain classes at the local public s
school for part
of the day but take certain classes at the local
public schoolschool.
McCoy and colleagues at the Harvard T. H. Chan
School of Public Health, where the research was conducted, used data collected between 2005 and 2015 from caregivers
of about 100,000 three - and four - year - old children, in 35 low - and middle - income
countries around the world.
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.
USP codirector Senior Lecturer Deborah Jewell - Sherman was pleased with the event as a celebration
of the program and Peterkin, noting that it attracted not only alums from
around the
country, but also superintendents from large urban districts such as Atlanta
Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall.
The President and members
of his Cabinet visited
schools and universities
around the
country later in the week to drum up
public support for the Administration's «Middle - Class Bill
of Rights» and...
Comprehensive
school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning
around the
country's lowest performing
schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal
of review, comprehensive
school reform emerged as one
of the
country's best hopes for
public school improvement on a grand scale.
To be sure, the population
of public school children in New York City is different from that
of many other
school districts
around the
country.
As anyone at the company would freely admit, Edison does not foresee making money until it assumes management
of many more
schools; it would do well, say company sources, to capture
around 1 or 2 percent
of the 92,000
public schools in the
country.
Last year it was offered to 19 other
public schools around the
country as part
of something called Summit Basecamp.
The network, a partnership between the National Association
of Secondary
School Principals and its state affiliates, is developing a series
of public - service announcements that will be distributed this fall to radio stations
around the
country.
Lately ~ he's been bouncing
around the
country talking to educators and the
public at both K - 12
schools and institutions
of higher education ~ all in an attempt to better...
The administration has yet to release a proposal for how the federal government might foster more
school choice in states and localities
around the
country, although its initial budget proposal included additional funding for charters and other forms
of public school choice, as well as funding for a new private
school choice program.
Formed in 2003, PELP continues its mission with the development
of tools such as the PELP Coherence Framework and the book Achieving Coherence in District Improvement, and with the annual executive education summer institute which brings
public school leaders from
around the
country to Harvard to focus...
That's rare in the world
of selective - admission
public high
schools, as Jessica Hockett and I learned in our recent examination
of some 165 such
schools around the
country.
Last year, under the NCLB rules, more than 8,600
schools around the
country were listed as «in need
of improvement» by state departments
of education-less than 10 percent
of all
public schools in the
country.
Boston Globe, 3/15/16 «There's also a perception that
public schools around the
country don't teach the subject well — a concern that isn't new, according to Jon Star, a professor at the Harvard Graduate
School of Education.
Formed in 2003, PELP continues its mission with the development
of tools such as the PELP Coherence Framework and the book Achieving Coherence in District Improvement, and with the annual executive education summer institute which brings
public school leaders from
around the
country to Harvard to focus on their districts challenges as well as possible solutions.
MetWest is one
of twenty - seven small
public schools around the
country — enrollment in each is limited to 150 students — opened since 1996 under the aegis
of the nonprofit Big Picture Company.
In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with
school districts
around the
country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers,
public school choice systems, and the effect
of charter and pilot
schools on student outcomes.
As Nelson Smith, former executive director
of the DC
Public Charter
School Board, puts it, «David went
around the
country vacuuming up best practices.»
To celebrate this milestone, our team at the Ed
School — in collaboration with teachers from
around the
country — asked hundreds
of public K — 12 students, «What would you tell your friend about Scratch?»
There's also a perception that
public schools around the
country don't teach the subject well — a concern that isn't new, according to Jon Star, a professor at the Harvard Graduate
School of Education.
Founder
of Art
of Inquiry, LLC (math circle at Rockville, MD); NASA engineer; former astronaut instructor; former math / science teacher at
public and private
schools around the
country.
Levin and Feinberg, more than a decade later, have invented something very rare in American education: a way
of teaching low - income children that actually works in 36
public middle
schools, producing the largest and fastest learning gains
around the
country.
In 2010, Steve formed Future Is Now
Schools, built on the successful secondary Green Dot
Public Schools model, union reform and systemic district change, to take the foundational principles, lessons learned and successes achieved on the local level
of Southern California and expanded this base to other communities
around the
country.
Although there are other efforts
around the
country to bring restorative practices into
public schools, this is a relatively new field
of work.
Throughout Washington, D.C., and
around the
country, parents are raising hundreds
of thousands — even millions —
of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some
of their districts» least needy
schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice
of the funding for the nation's
public education system.
The Alliance to Reclaim Our
Schools is linking together parents, educators, students, school staff and community members in dozens of cities across the country on and around February 17 as they WALK - IN to support the quality public schools that all our students d
Schools is linking together parents, educators, students,
school staff and community members in dozens
of cities across the
country on and
around February 17 as they WALK - IN to support the quality
public schools that all our students d
schools that all our students deserve.
«Along with our friends at the National Alliance for
Public Charter
Schools, we agree that families are demonstrating the true support for educational choice by virtue of the 3.5 million students in publicly - supported private school choice programs and charter schools around the c
Schools, we agree that families are demonstrating the true support for educational choice by virtue
of the 3.5 million students in publicly - supported private
school choice programs and charter
schools around the c
schools around the
country.
Charter
schools are much easier than
public schools to open or close, and they have shown varying degrees
of success
around the
country.
Since our last look at the rampant fraud and abuse
of school voucher programs
around the
country, North Carolina has implemented its own voucher program that provides low - income students with funds to flee the
public school system in...
This e-news features a link to a video documenting the
school pushout crisis in Florida, a report on Restorative Justice Practices in Chicago
Public Schools, the DSC's comments on the Department
of Education's Proposed Teacher Incentive Fund, and education news from
around the
country.
Public Impact and the Clayton Christensen Institute examined innovative staffing arrangements and use
of blended learning in eight district, charter, and private
schools around the
country.
Tom Toch takes us inside four very different small
schools around the
country - from an entrepreneur's high - tech charter
school in San Diego to a
school formed out the
of the breakup
of a huge
public high
school in Manhattan.
That fall I joined the first gathering
of the newly - formed Green
Schools National Network (GSNN, https://greenschoolsnationalnetwork.org/), a collaboration of public, private and parochial schools from around the country working to promote environmental education and sustaina
Schools National Network (GSNN, https://greenschoolsnationalnetwork.org/), a collaboration
of public, private and parochial
schools from around the country working to promote environmental education and sustaina
schools from
around the
country working to promote environmental education and sustainability.
Public schools around the
country are returning from summer break to face a challenge: integrating and paying for the influx
of migrant children who have streamed across the Mexican border this year.
Since our last look at the rampant fraud and abuse
of school voucher programs
around the
country, North Carolina has implemented its own voucher program that provides low - income students with funds to flee the
public school system in exchange for a private education.
Recently a distinguished group
of public school superintendents
around the
country signed off on an essay which appeared in many major newspapers.
Although state laws vary widely in terms
of the policies governing charter
school oversight and accountability, these publically funded institutions, which receive freedom from the rules and regulations
of traditional district
schools in exchange for meeting agreed - upon performance targets, now serve an estimated 2.9 million students in more than 6,700 schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS],
schools in exchange for meeting agreed - upon performance targets, now serve an estimated 2.9 million students in more than 6,700
schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS],
schools around the
country (National Alliance
of Public Charter
Schools [NAPCS],
Schools [NAPCS], 2015).
But Atlanta
Public Schools and a sprinkling
of districts
around the
country are trying to give data a new reputation.
Using an innovative partnering approach that matches successful
schools with low - performing
schools, Shanghai has valuable lessons to teach on turning
around public -
school systems — lessons that transcend several
of the unique characteristics
of the Chinese educational system, as well as the
country's rich pedagogical traditions.