Sentences with phrase «of schools around the nation»

This was great news for the rest of the schools around the nation competing for a playoff spot, and this weekend we've got huge matchups including Notre Dame / Miami, TCU / Oklahoma and UGA / Auburn.

Like a rapidly growing number of schools around the nation, Ms. Dubos said, hers is considering using portfolios as a way of measuring student performance in writing.

It's the reluctance of schools around the nation to investigate and use scientific research on how the brain learns to read.

Join the hundreds of schools around the nation that are participating in the University Outreach Program, including:

Not exact matches

Stopping by to pick up a book, I look around the quiet office, I close my eyes and reflect on the biggest youth and high school sports stories of the year and wonder if we as a nation are any closer to our MomsTEAM mission of making sports safer, saner, less stressful and more inclusive or if we continue to spin wildly out of control in the crazy vortex that is youth sports in the 21st century.

The longest - running exhibition of African - American art in the U.S. features more than 100 dynamic works of art from amateur and professional African - American artists from around the nation, as well as a youth category which features work by a dozen area high school artists.

While Bettina and I are not SNA members, we are long - time, vocal advocates of healthier school food, and have gotten to know like - minded school food professionals around the nation.

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.

I often share digital best practices at national and regional conferences such as AAPC, Art of Political Campaigning, CampaignTech, Campaigns & Marketing Summit, NTC, Netroots Nation, Organizing 2.0, the Reed Awards, and RootsCamp, webinars for Progressive Majority, Salsa Labs and others, and trainings in - person for small groups around the country including for Wellstone's Advanced Campaign Management School, Amalgamated Transit Union, Camp Wellstone, Center for Progressive Leadership, Clean Air Task Force, Democracy for America, HRC, New Leaders Council and New Organizing Institute.

As liberal - arts colleges around the country face financial woes and skepticism about the value of their degrees, rumblings of distress are emerging from arts - and - sciences professors at even one of the nation's most elite schools: Columbia University.

A month ago in this space, I raised the idea of establishing a local gun buyback program similar to those that have been established around the nation in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.

Now, researchers from the University of Michigan Medical School and colleagues around the nation will try to get to the heart of this mystery, and perhaps find new ways to spot those most at risk.

Duncan said of the results, «There's dramatic change happening in these schools, and in the long - term process of turning around the nation's lowest - performing schools, one year of test results only tells a small piece of the puzzle.»

Virtually no other nation around the world has school boards as we do, yet most of their school systems aren't run in tyrannical ways.

CCT programs are used around the world — in both the developing world and in wealthy nations — to reduce poverty and encourage a variety of goals, including school attendance and achievement.

«What made this convening so impressive is that while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools,» said Lecturer Chris Gabrieli, cofounder and chairman of the National Center on Time & Learning, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded education.

The experiment in place - based education earned the 17,000 - student Grand Rapids school district a coveted $ 10 million grant from XQ: The Super Schools Project in 2016, one of 10 awards made to schools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high schSchools Project in 2016, one of 10 awards made to schools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high schschools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high school is.

As districts nationwide struggle to meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, the U.S. Department of Education has shifted its focus to turning around the nation's lowest - performing schools.

The implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); debates about a potential large - scale federal school - choice initiative; and deep disagreements about civil rights enforcement continue to captivate — and roil — all of us involved in education policy, in D.C. and around the nation.

There was a time when Secretary Duncan confidently discussed turning around 5,000 of the nation's lowest - performing schools.

A researcher at Harvard surveyed 10,000 middle and high school students in 33 different schools around the nation about what they thought their folks cared about most: that they achieve at a high level, that they are happy (defined as «feeling good most of the time»), or that they care for others.

The Change Leadership Group will be the first - in - the - nation program to recruit, train, and supervise a network of education experts to deliver on - site training and support to school districts around the country.

For the master's candidates who will soon be serving as reading specialists in schools around the nation, Mason said the video exercise demonstrates the importance for teachers of focusing on the learners in the classroom first.

As I've traveled around the country, I've seen powerful examples of schools that have gone from being among our nation's worst to among our nation's best.

The U.S. Department of Education has finalized its rules governing $ 3.5 billion in school improvement grants for states and districts, making only small changes despite criticism that its four models for turning around the nation's worst schools are too prescriptive.

Less than 20 percent of whites and African Americans accord the nation's schools an «A» or a «B,» and only around 40 percent give the schools in their community one of these two top grades.

Officials from the island nation are eager to find ways to improve their education system by observing schools in the United States — despite this country's mediocre finish in that study, the biggest and broadest ever conducted comparing the math and science performance of 7th and 8th graders around the globe.

Education secretary Arne Duncan has said that if the nation could turn around 1,000 schools annually for five years, «We could really move the needle, lift the bottom and change the lives of tens of millions of underserved children.»

As I see it, discussion of Success should revolve around one big question: Why do Success's academic results seem so outsized, even compared to some of the nation's other, most - accomplished charter schools?

So too did a January 27, 2007, article in The Boston Globe, which mentioned that several districts around the nation were moving toward the return of K — 8 schools.

The U.S. secretary of education's call to «turn around» the nation's 5,000 worst - performing schools has found a warm welcome among educators and policymakers who see that focus as long overdue.

Beyond helping schools directly, data from Tripod surveys provide the AGI, graduate students, and research colleagues with a way study opportunity patterns in tens of thousands of classrooms from around the nation.

Around the nation, a new definition of educator is emerging as schools work in partnership with many community - based groups to extend learning beyond the school clock and the building's walls with noncredentialed instructors.

Equipped with high - vis vests, posters, banners and the loud voices of thousands of children, schools across the nation took part in a 500m safe walk around the roads surrounding the school, creating an eye - catching giant human bus.

O - MUN is open to high school students with the goal of bringing a quality Model United Nation's experience to youth around the world, and at no cost.

The Schools of Opportunity Recognition Program recognizes public high schools around the nation that are creating remarkable opportunities to learn for all their stSchools of Opportunity Recognition Program recognizes public high schools around the nation that are creating remarkable opportunities to learn for all their stschools around the nation that are creating remarkable opportunities to learn for all their students.

Students from around the nation joined in the walkout against gun violence on the 19th anniversary of the shooting at Columbine High School.

Officials of the network will survey the 63 school foundations it has helped establish around the nation to determine what programs they currently are supporting, according to Wendy D. Puriefoy, the group's president.

Across the nation a consensus may be building around the legitimacy of standardization, pushing decentralizing reforms such as charter schools and vouchers to the side.

But the estimated effects on achievement of adding 30 days to the school year are tightly clustered around the 0.10 estimate for the nation as a whole.

Although CEL has worked in partnership with school districts around the nation, until this fall the Center had never begun a partnership with a salmon bake, campfire, and singing in the middle of the desert.

Additional turnaround resources include «Back from the Brink: Lawrence, MA,» an ERS case study of Lawrence Public Schools, and «Turning Around the Nation's Lowest Performing Schools,» a CAP and ERS publication that recommends five steps for districts to improve their chances of success.

School districts around our nation have had their fair share of walkouts, strikes and labor disputes, but for some parents at Lusher Charter School, the way this panned out at their children's school was disheartSchool districts around our nation have had their fair share of walkouts, strikes and labor disputes, but for some parents at Lusher Charter School, the way this panned out at their children's school was disheartSchool, the way this panned out at their children's school was disheartschool was disheartening.

The public debate ought to revolve around the clear issue of whether we as a nation want good public schools for all students, most particularly for low - income students.

«The issue of school funding and accountability are not just Florida or Orlando issues, but issues which affect our communities around the nation.

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.

But a Washington Post review found that hundreds of students use their voucher dollars to attend schools that are unaccredited or are in unconventional settings, such as a family - run K - 12 school operating out of a storefront, a Nation of Islam school based in a converted Deanwood residence, and a school built around the philosophy of a Bulgarian psychotherapist.

Alison DeNisco writes in District Administration that «in light of a looming ESSA mandate to increase transparency around education spending,» district leaders across the nation «have been struggling to calculate per - pupil spending by school in accordance with state and federal requirements.»

As a nation, we're nibbling around the edges with accountability measures and other reforms, but we're ignoring the immutable core issue: much of white and wealthy America is perfectly happy with segregated schools and inequity in funding.

The life and death — and now, the reincarnation — of Global Village illustrate the complexities of turning around the nation's lowest performing schools.