Sentences with phrase «only focus of a school»

When student learning measures are the only focus of a school's data analysis efforts, school personnel end up using their time figuring out how to look better on the student learning measures.

Not exact matches

A recent study from the Wake Forest School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina found that listening to music can help people focus their attention, but — and here's the catch — only if it's music they like.

The Shannon School of Business offers the only MBA program in North America with a specific focus on community economic development.

With this new money, Regeneron and the Society hope to expand the reach of their competition so that it doesn't only focus on prestigious schools.

«If we were smart, not only would we be focusing on encouraging the best technologists in school to go down this path — with programs designed and incentivized — we would be fighting to become the place where the brainpower of the world wants to come to live.

Members of Congress passed their own school safety bill in March, though it only focuses on increasing security and safety training for students and school staff.

Though these two elements — integration and formation — are the most costly parts of college life, they are also the only reasons not to reduce the spendy, four - year residential model to a two - year, web - based, vocation - focused, trade - school model of higher education.

This sounds overly simplistic but once the focus goes to getting kids out the door and off to school these important small hallmarks of intimacy can end up being directed only at the kids.

Only when we can identify these matters will we be in a position to respond to objections to the very suggestion that a theological school focus on the study of congregations.

[6] If a theological school wants to understand God more truly, surely it would be better — to make yet another counterproposal — to focus study on the Word of God that not only calls congregations into being and nurtures them but also judges and corrects them.

It is noteworthy that, in contradistinction to the older Bible - centered training in the past, most of these students had come up through the modern graded Sunday Schools in which not the Bible but the child has been central; in which the Bible has been brought into the focus of attention only when the situation demanded it.

The French Pastry School of Kennedy - King College at City Colleges of Chicago is the only world - class culinary program focused exclusively on baking and pastry arts that is 100 % taught in state - of - the - art kitchen environments.

Our focus for the day was staying ahead of Redlands Home School, since they were only 50 points behind us in the overall, and we did that.

I only played competitive matches when in secondary school, so not sure how much that accounts for:) I do remember that focus was the key — once I had that dialed in, I was capable of ignoring the opposite fans and their bad influence.

Numerous concussion and biomechanical studies have been conducted involving high school and college football players, but only few studies have focused on players under the age of 14, who represent more than 70 percent of those playing the sport.

I received a media advisory yesterday from my friends at School Food FOCUS indicating that Chicago Public Schools and its food service provider Chartwells will announce today a first - of - its - kind initiative to serve only * chicken raised without antibiotics to the city's K - 12 students.

While the focus of the Beyond Breakfast blog is universal in - classroom breakfast, we haven't limited our blogroll to only that subject; you will find information on our BIC partners, relevant policy issues, general food and nutrition concerns and school lunch as well.

Recognizing the significant difference that this could make in and to our nation, Ghana has launched a campaign, under the auspices of UNICEF, to end child marriage in our nation by focusing not only on getting young girls in school but also on keeping them there their education is complete.

While last night's meeting in Saint Joseph University Church occurred only days after the massacre in Las Vegas, the panel discussion focus was the effect of violence on kids in city schools.

It also seemed to point out that only a small fraction of the city's public school students attend charter schools, and said its main focus was on improving opportunities for all children.

ESF, the only school in Onondaga County with an approved Start - Up company, has also been careful in recruiting because of its specialized environmental focus.

«We can and will overcome these terrible circumstances, but only when we take anger and hate out of the equation and focus our energy on the future we want for our children,» said the father of a school - age daughter.

Future research should not only compare how embryonic stem cells, iPS cells and adult stem cells differentiate, but focus on what effects the niche in which these cells will reside, when transplanted, will have on their characteristics, including tendencies to mutate into cancer cells, notes cell and stem cell biologist Olga Genbacev at the University of California, San Francisco, (U.C.S.F.) School of Medicine.

The knowledge system in schools is ultimately a normative standard that can only be understood in a social and historical context,» explains Lucien Criblez, the overall manager of the SNSF project and since 2008 Professor of Education at the University of Zurich with a focus on historical education research and analysis of education policies.

«To date, the focus of diagnosis and management of carotid artery blockages has been prevention of stroke since that was the only harm that these blockages were thought to cause to patients,» said Brajesh K. Lal, MD, with the VA Maryland Health Care System's Baltimore VA Medical Center and the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.

Barnes, who focuses more on race - based bullying, said the team could only find two types of interventions used at schools that addressed race.

«We decided to investigate cardiovascular risks of this therapy in a large health care database since these previous studies were modest in size and only focused on men 65 and older,» said the study's senior author, Sander Greenland, a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a professor of statistics in the UCLA College of Letters and Science.

Reddi, now the dean of the graduate school at Florida International University, realized early on that «hundreds of opportunities that could connect my research to other areas» would have been lost if he had been only focused on his own day - to - day activities as a researcher and not on also keeping his eyes open to new opportunities.

«The public is asking questions different from those of the regulators,» who focus only on risk, says survey coordinator George Gaskell of the London School of Economics.

«Nearly half of today's high school athletes specialize in one sport: Only 22 percent of professional athletes want their own children to focus on a single sport.»

MD - PhD programs are not the only available approach for training future physician - scientists, but they have, in many respects, become the most visible.2 — 4 In an MD - PhD curriculum, students complete the requirements for both the MD and the PhD, usually by starting with the first two years of medical education and then focusing on graduate school before returning to complete the medical degree.

And so I just - I think it's so important that we focus a lot of our efforts on making sure that, you know, that food tastes great for those kids so that they learn that what - that the foods that they're getting in school not only tastes good and will fill them up, but will also make them feel good in the afternoon, after lunch and, you know, the next day as they're trying to get through their classes.

While most fans only know about Lois Lane's relationship with Superman, which does become a part of the show in later years, at first the focus was on Clark's high - school crush Lana Lang.

If only to keep things manageable, I'm just thinking about the small strange inhabited by those of us focused on schooling and expanding opportunity for our nation's youth.

For Stephany and many of her Techbridge classmates, the girls - only focus immediately made the after - school club attractive.

The CTA has recently focused its attention of how it can better meet the needs of schools and colleges with the introduction of the Safe and Legal Education Transport Network, with CTA membership costing only # 49 a year.

The two - day conference, is the only two day event solely focused on the needs of the school business management professional; providing a wealth of keynotes from educational experts and practical workshops from practitioners, plus a 90 strong exhibition running alongside it.

Only with the magic mix of latitude and laser focus on outcomes will school systems be able to embrace a «productivity agenda.»

Further, they caution that the analysis of G&T programs within regular schools focuses only on students who are on the margin of entering a gifted program and hence may not apply to higher achieving students.

The Think Tank is one among more than 30 Programs in Professional Education hosted by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the only one that focuses on how to develop global citizens and global competency among students in K — 12 schools.

Whereas a business can focus mainly on serving its customers, public schools serve a multiplicity of stakeholders, of which parents and students are only two.

Hess's second case study focuses on the five - year - old voucher plan in Cleveland, where he finds that the potential benefits of choice and competition were neutralized by multiple factors, including frequent changes in leadership, the state's move to take over the city's schools, the modest size of the vouchers (only $ 2,250), and the existence of strong unions.

The police training is part of a larger focus on SEL within the Oakland district that started in 2011, driven by research showing that children with social and emotional skills are not only more likely to do better in school, but also have better lifelong success, such as attending college and getting good - paying jobs.

To achieve this the Havering team focused - on working collaboratively to build partnerships with companies and other organisations that not only provide new products and services for schools, but also an ongoing income stream to help cover the operating costs of the not ‑ for - profit organisation.

The only film that I remember capturing kids and educators in the inner city as effectively was season four of the great TV series The Wire, which focused on a middle school.

We could have focused only on 8th - grade results, as Hanushek et al. did, but in doing so we would have greatly reduced the number of test results on which we were doing the calculations for school districts.

The high school completion rate for 18 - to 24 - year - olds has risen only slightly over the past three decades, despite an ever - sharpening focus on education issues over that same period, the U.S. Department of Education has reported.

Charter firms, including Aspire, Green Dot, Alliance for College - Ready Public Schools, and smaller charter operators, put forward one - quarter of the takeover plans, but only one plan was aimed at turning around a chronically low - performing focus school.

How very refreshing, even exhilarating, the inclusion of superintendents and boards in a results - based accountability system, rather than the customary focus only on schools and their principals and teachers (and sometimes the kids themselves).

They might also want to give partial credit for getting kids to the basic level so that we don't repeat NCLB's mistake of encouraging schools to focus only on the «bubble kids» just below the proficiency cutoff.