Sentences with phrase «ordinary school»

Unfortunately, in most ordinary schools it is difficult for a gifted child to develop appropriately.

The Education Trust has been identifying such schools for years, but it had never been able to go into those schools and say what they do differently from ordinary schools.

Whether we deploy many more «whole schools» of this kind or opt mainly for specialized courses and programs within ordinary schools, the kinds of rigorous and advanced education that selective - admission schools seek to provide, and the youngsters that they serve, need to rise higher in our national consciousness and our policy priorities.

-- Jay Mathews, Columnist and Author The Washington Post Discover how 12 ordinary schools achieved extraordinary results

In holding that providing textbooks to parochial school students at public expense violated the U.S. and New York constitutions, the Appellate Division held that furnishing books and ordinary school supplies to the pupils of religious schools aids those schools.

The E.A. Young Academy helps families meet the challenge and fulfill that responsibility with unique features virtually unheard of in ordinary school settings.

Moving Ordinary Schools to Extraordinary — Five Essential Skills for Every Effective Principal

Set in modern times, it replaces dragons and orcs with bizarre aliens and its heroes are ordinary school kids who find themselves wrapped up in a fierce conflict which puts the fate of the world in the balance.

The handicapped children are sometimes placed in specialized classes in ordinary schools and in almost all the cases they are branded with names such as lunatics, specialists, morons, etc..

Watching ordinary people sink into an ordinary plastic tub in an ordinary school gym in an ordinary small city in western Canada is one of the most extraordinary and sacred moments of my life.

It was an ordinary school assembly, taken by me, an ordinary Baptist minister, one December...

If they hadn't had the ordinary school days, I don't think they'd have appreciated the other days so much.

Schools in this category tend to be schools of choice or private schools because they typically insist on longer hours of school attendance each year and have a greater focus on behavior modification than an ordinary school could manage without meaningful consent from parents.

Barbie Princess High School is famous because it is not an ordinary school.

Why does Frank feel so strongly that Mary should attend an ordinary school and make ordinary friends?

The blend of horror and black comedy takes place in an ordinary school that is about to have an extraordinarily bad day.

Think of this: You have a young daughter in first grade who could do college - level work in mathematics but who is bored with the ordinary school she attends and is so above all others academically that she does not make friends.

Just have a look at this tutorial and you will see that it could be done by any ordinary school teacher having only a home computer or laptop.

The line between fantasy and reality is constantly crossed; students worry about exams, and their teachers are as warm or caustic as teachers in an ordinary school.

Once again, the issue is how to enable the ordinary schools to do for ordinary kids what the wealthy have always done for their kids.

Cheshire Island Academy is no ordinary school.

The law, however, requires that the physical education instruction occur during the ordinary school day.

As the story goes, it was the sound of snapping fingers that turned an ordinary school principal, Benny Krupp, into superhero Captain Underpants.1 But in Lakewood, Washington, it was the unusual quiet of 460 elementary students reading hundreds of library books that brought on the transformation.

This is no ordinary school administrator.

Still, the attention his district has received is testament to the growing demand for examples of how high - tech classrooms actually function in the messy reality of an ordinary school day.

He graduated from an ordinary school with a degree in liberal arts.