Sentences with phrase «of schools across the country»

Thousands of schools across the country participate in the federal student aid programs; ask the schools you're interested in whether they do!

Currently, we're helping hundreds of schools across the country respond to the challenges of new standards, more rigorous tests, and new demands for college and career readiness.

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

A majority of schools across the country that accept voucher students are religious schools — many run by evangelical Christian churches.

Yet that is what empirical analyses implicitly assume when they focus exclusively on differences in average years of schooling across countries.

Recently we published guidance which will help thousands of schools across the country open up their sporting facilities to the local community.

The infographic shows the uneven distribution of schools across the country.

This is affirming of the college - going culture of schools across the country.

The mission statements of schools across our country share a common theme: All students can learn, and we will help them to achieve.

Despite the challenges, states and districts are attempting to make it happen in tens of thousands of schools across the country.

Hundreds of schools across the country are located near roads with illegal and harmful levels of air pollution.

Unfortunately, the threat of violence is a presence in many communities and has grown in a number of schools across the country.

Envision Learning Partners is working with schools, districts and networks of schools across the country as they adopt the Envision Schools College and Career Ready Student Performance Assessment System.

As students walked out of schools across the country Wednesday to protest gun violence, a Senate hearing examined law enforcement agencies» failure to heed multiple warnings about the Parkland, Fla., man accused of killing 17 people at a high school, as well as the long record of failed gun control measures in Congress.

This year I've worked with lots of schools across the country where they're using Chromebooks to give students a space to document their learning.

«There are so many ways to do this wrong,» said Camille A. Farrington, a researcher at the University of Chicago who is working with a network of schools across the country to measure the development of social - emotional skills.

In addition, because the participating schools were recruited from target areas where support could be provided by Health Promotion Specialists in piloting the programme, the results may not be representative of schools across the country as a whole.

For almost two decades, scores on math and reading tests have dominated how success was defined in American schools; low test scores led to the restructuring — and in some cases closure — of schools across the country under No Child Left Behind.

Charters currently educate more than 600,000 students at 3,000 of the nation's 88,000 public schools; they have grown tremendously over the past decade and appear likely to grow even more as No Child Left Behind identifies thousands of schools across the country for possible closure because of poor test scores.

My Healthy School Sponsored by Kiwi magazine, this helpful website is dedicated to providing teachers, administrators, parents and students with resources on how to improve the health of schools across the country — with action plans for parents, suggested nutrition goals, advice for starting a school garden, and strategies to minimize environmental toxins.

Kay Brown, who produced the GAO study of eight districts, says they visited a range of schools across the country with differing levels of participation in free and reduced lunch and with widely different characteristics.

The legislation that brought forth the abolition of the ILEA also brought large - scale reform that changed the face of schools across the country.

Drawn from the practice of schools across the country, the framework is meant to serve as a tool for reflections and discussion among school leaders and partners, with relationship at the core of every stage in the process.

In a handful of schools across the country, students are trying a new twist on traditional physical education — one targeting fitness of mind as much as firmness of body.

State efforts at carrying out requirements to test English - language learners under the No Child Left Behind Act are receiving increased scrutiny, as hundreds of schools across the country fail to meet goals for adequate yearly progress at least in part because of such students» scores.

It comes as no surprise, then, that their perceptions of schools across the country remain unmoved when they receive information on their local district's ranking.

Blaetz says that there are thousands of schools across the country ready for the same kind of creative economizing.

«Our focus is also on enhancing the professional development of schools across the country,» Acer adds.

There is also wide variation in the standard of schooling across the country, with more than a quarter of schools deemed underperforming in Poole, and a similar picture for Medway, Doncaster and Bedford.

To assert that schools should exist solely as collections of classrooms is to not only deny the reality of schools across the country, but also to waste the potential of using these community centers to promote social justice as defined by that particular school community.

«The leaders they have trained are closing the achievement gap in dozens of schools across the country.

Most of the schools across the country that have received SIG funds are middle schools.

Sajan George and Dr. Amy Swann are two of the minds at Matchbook Learning, a nonprofit founded by Sajan in 2011 to help turn around the bottom five percent of schools across the country.

Here's the option they hit upon in Lee County, one that's similar to steps being taken in an increasing number of schools across the country: Kids who can't pay get one free hot lunch.

Working as a therapist is a noble occupation and there are hundreds of schools across the country with programs perfectly tailored to fit your needs.

Organizations such as the Education Trust have identified hundreds of schools across the country where disadvantaged kids routinely buck the trend of underperformance.

This report only sampled 20 schools so can not be representative of schools across the country.

This introduction is based on my work in thousands of schools across the country with Project ACHIEVE, our evidence - based (as cited on the National Registry of Evidence - based Programs and Practices — NREPP).

Indeed, we have so far established more than 36 of these schools across the country.»

The Send My Friend to School campaign is a UK based schools - action which brings together thousands of schools across the country to campaign for th...

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.

The Send My Friend to School campaign is a UK based schools - action which brings together thousands of schools across the country to campaign for the right to education.

Jules White, headteacher of Tanbridge House School in West Sussex, who co-ordinated the survey, said: «It is clear that devastating cuts to staffing and educational provision are occurring in thousands of schools across the country.

He's opened thousands of schools across the country.