Sentences with phrase «of weak schools»

Universal school choice that provides access to quality educational options, as Paul Hill of the University of Washington observes, will «depend on the supply - side, that is, on the success of arrangements that promote the creation of a wide variety of school options, expose all schools to performance pressures through competition, and permit constant replacement of weak schools by promising new ones.»

Yes, one can argue that the cap is what's led to quality control in Massachusetts charters and that loosening it would lead to a flood of weak schools.

The nation must avoid a polarised education system where good schools get better at the expense of weaker schools.»

The biggest handicap of the weakest schools is that they are generally staffed by the least experienced teachers and principals, those least equipped to educate struggling learners.

Not exact matches

They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

Jesus wept over Jerusalem; but Jesus was definitely not weak in spite of all the bad Sunday School material that attempts to present him as «gentle Jesus, meek and mild.»

America takes the good out of schools to keep from offending a few; then fills them with bad science, political trash, and weak discipline.

The research of James S. Coleman and his colleagues confirms the finding of the Kauai group that, for a child whose family is weak or broken, a certain kind of school can make a remarkable difference.

When evaluation of the core curriculum took place in the mid -»90s, a number of faculty protested anonymously that the course was «Sunday school proselytizing» with weak intellectual content.

To speak of the Sunday school as being weak and in trouble is to slight the fact that tens of millions attend it — also on the soil of mainline Protestantism around the world.

Although a number of studies have investigated the evidence for anti-obesity programmes at school, the results have been mixed and the studies weak.

247sports is reporting that Luiji Vilain, the No. 8 weak side defensive end, will be in Ann Arbor this weekend with one of his coaches from Episcopal High School in Virginia.

Though they never got the respect due from the College Football Playoff committee, which continuously put them low on its rankings because of their weak schedule, the Badgers had one of their most memorable seasons in years, finishing the regular season undefeated for the first time in school history and coming a few plays away from a Big Ten title.

Six states had strict laws restricting the sale of so - called competitive foods — snacks and drinks sold in vending machines, school stores and during fundraising projects, which compete with school - served meals; seven states had weak laws; and 27 states had no laws governing competitive foods in middle schools.

Remember also that there are a lot of regular people home schooling, and they have all found ways to deal with their own lack of knowledge in certain subjects (they either learn the subjects they are weak in, or have someone else teach their children that subject).

GBENGA ADENIJI and SIMON UTEBOR write about the hideous face of cultism which is dangerously polluting the academic milieu in the nation's public secondary schools Looking forlorn and weak, Miss Lillian Friday, a 16 - year - old pupil of Community Secondary School, Otuoke in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has yet to get over her -LSB-...]

«Children who are born with high abilities but who come from poor backgrounds are overtaken in recorded levels of achievement at primary school by children of weaker ability from wealthier socioeconomic backgrounds.

«The findings from DFID - commissioned research published in recent years indicates that there is weak evidence that market competition enhances the quality of schools in the private or public sectors.

«This is all happening in the middle of the governor having a total freak - out moment over just the rumor that Cynthia Nixon, who is a school equity champion, might run against him,» said Easton, who called Cuomo's track record on school funding «weak.»

«This all happening in the middle of the governor having total freakout moment over just the rumor that Cynthia Nixon, who is a school equity champion, might run against him,» said Easton, who calls Cuomo's track record on school funding «weak.»

In Gov. Andrew Cuomo's angry ultimatum on education, he inserted $ 8 million into his executive budget to fix the state's lowest - performing schools using «receivership,» a strategy with two decades worth of weak results.

After 14 years of continuous Labour rule Wales has a weak economy, underfunded schools and an NHS that costs more but delivers less.

Schools are her weak spot: she expected flak about choosing City of London School for her child, rather than one of the comps in her constituency.

Together with her brother, who works in logistics software, and her husband, a professor at George Washington University Medical School, she developed a mobile app to collect all of the data on the supply chain to expose weak points that can be improved.

George Daley of Harvard Medical School said on December 1 that he and his team have seen multiple patients affected by NEMO deficiency syndrome, a disorder where an inherited faulty gene results in a weak immune system and leaves patients prone to serious infections.

Ofsted is concerned that a large proportion of 8 - to -11-year-olds have a shaky foundation in maths, leaving them in a weak position when they go on to secondary school.

Forty one per cent of schools are «less than satisfactory in this respect», and children's understanding of maths is «particularly weak in half of all schools».

The lab, at times, feels like a seething primordial soup of Darwinian selection, where only the strongest survive (i.e., publish papers in Science, Cell, or Nature), and the weak fade into oblivion (i.e., become anorexic, turn into technical sales reps, or go to law school).

It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.

The tendency to work with a director of the student's own nationality was strongest in the lowest - ranked schools and weakest in the highest - ranked ones.

In the paper «Banning Smoking In Parks and on Beaches: Science, Policy, and the Politics of Denormalization,» published in the July issue of the journal Health Affairs, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the evidence for these claims and found them to be far from definitive and, in some cases, weak.

In one of the four newly - published papers, Petersson and his colleague Riccardo Torre of the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, outline a particle that would have very weak interactions with other particles and would exist within a framework of theories known as supersymmetry.

«Child - parent dietary resemblance in the U.S. is relatively weak, and varies by nutrients and food groups and by the types of parent - child dyads and social demographic characteristics such as age, gender and family income,» said Youfa Wang, MD, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor with the Bloomberg School's Center for Human Nutrition.

As well as the rest of Russian women, Volgograd representatives of the weak sex still have very strong old - school morals.

Enter Arthur (of Avalon fame) who is nothing but a weak «loser,» constantly the target of the school bullies.

This British drama represents the second screen version of Terence Ratigan's play about a school teacher with a weak heart facing forced retirement.

Most of this expository stuff, however, serves as a weak excuse for the film's performers to have some fun acting like idiots, and there's no doubt that Old School has its fair share of inspired gags, most of them revolving around former SNL standout Ferrell.

OK, its launch alongside an untested and in many quarters untrusted console ensured pretty weak sales, but the fact that Ubisoft chose to give its Wii U horror debut the spirit of old - school Resident Evil rather than Left 4 Dead is one hell of an interesting sign.

Even weaker are the inclusion of two of her school peers — romantic interest Ray (Reece Ritchie) and resident goth Ruth (Carolyn Dando) who drift in and out of the narrative with little significance.

Much as weak signals from the outer realms of the universe are both hard to detect and even more difficult to interpret, so, too, preliminary findings about the ways in which new forms of school choice will shape the public schools are hardly definitive.

Do school board members need to peruse Education Next's reader - friendly version of this econometric study, then take appropriate steps to replace weak teachers with high performers?

Finally, we must recognize that school boards are relatively weak governing bodies, composed of part - timers with other obligations, limited expertise, and little incentive to engage in contentious negotiations.

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.»

In taking accountability away from school systems and placing it on individual schools and their employees, reform calls into question the current system of governance — and leaves no room for «excuses» such as weak family structures, poverty, discrimination, lack of aptitude, peer pressure, diet, television, etc..

Research from inside and outside the ed school consistently shows that teacher education is an extraordinarily weak intervention in the process of socializing teachers, whose main influences are a long apprenticeship of observation as K - 12 students before entering teacher education and the powerful culture of the school in which they begin to teach.

We find that, while statistically significant, the strength of the relationship between living with a single - parent family and educational attainment is comparable to the relationships for family size and the age of the mother at the time of the child's birth and weaker than the relationship for maternal schooling.

After visiting the schools, Gustafson reported that all four — each an independent «mom - and - pop» operation with no links to national groups — faced a host of challenges, including strained budgets, low enrollments, curriculum problems, inexperienced staff, weak professional development for teachers, and board members ignorant of testing and other academic essentials.

Pupil involvement is a powerful way of improving your school's e-safety provision, despite being one of the weakest areas for schools.

The central idea here is that teachers could face relatively strong or weak incentives under the same merit pay program as a result of the number of teachers at their school.

Weak governance was also flagged with four trusts exposed as lacking in these areas — namely Theale Green Academy Trust, Durham Free School Limited, the Business Academy Bexley, and the Bishop of Rochester Academy Trust.