Alumni principals Jim Bogrette and Martin Kimmel created a building with many unique features and unlike most
other academic spaces.
Not exact matches
Other factors that have led to a decrease in free play time include an emphasis on
academic preparation, electronic media replacing playtime, less time spent playing outdoors, perceived risk of play environments, and limited access to outdoor play
spaces.
It's unclear how a board system would work once students return to school, considering the number of decisions on massive contracts, contentious
space - sharing agreements and
other school governance matters that have to be taken up during the
academic year.
In the postsecondary
space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with
other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online
academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.
We have found that there are opportunities for charter and district schools to work together to improve shared
spaces and complement each
other's
academic programming.
According to Edge's new research, students are entered for 8.1 GCSE exams on average, and although schools are free to offer subjects outside the «core» EBacc areas, it leaves pupils with «very limited
space for anything
other than this narrow
academic diet».
To be fair, the USA Today piece does give some
space to describing structural problems for low - income high school graduates such as challenging
academics, lack of guidance or support, and struggles with fees and
other expenses related to going to school.
Funding, staffing and
other resources for equity - based excellence that are manifested in the existence of equitably assigned qualified staff, appropriate facilities,
other environmental learning
spaces, instructional hardware and software, instructional materials and equipment, and all
other instructional supports, are distributed in an equitable and fair manner such that the notion that all diverse learners must achieve high
academic standards and
other school outcomes become possible.
(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the
academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a
space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or
academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable
academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to
other non-charter public schools.
Only four of the 20 voucher programs and both operational ESA programs required private voucher schools to accept all students with vouchers (if there was
space); the
other programs allowed private schools to deny students for admission for a variety of reasons including disciplinary history,
academic achievement, and religious affiliation.
Because the strategy is likely to work only in districts that have
other schools with higher
academic achievement and
space for more students, the results of this Chicago study are not surprising.
On the
other side,
academic works provide less
space for innovative writing experiments because it is formal way of writing, not casual, and students can seek help from custom essay writing service to master the skill of formal writing.
He has also shown widely, including at the Venice Biennale and
other notable international exhibitions and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the British Museum in London, as well as at
other museums, galleries, public and non-profit
spaces and
academic institutions.
The audience featured an intergenerational mix of the city's most renowned artists — including Michael Craig - Martin (1970s), Anish Kapoor -LRB-»80s), Rachel Whiteread -LRB-»90s), and Jeremy Deller -LRB-» 00s)-- as well as curators, dealers,
academics, critics, and directors of
other local
spaces.
Mostly funded by grants from the NEA, NYSCA and
other, outside money, the
space encouraged the production of art that was not dictated by the contemporary art market or
academic art training.
Liz is represented by Barry Whistler Gallery in Dallas, and her work has been shown in art
spaces such as The Dallas Contemporary, Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Richland College, UT Dallas,
Academic Gallery in New York and many
other galleries and exhibition
spaces.
Other programming highlights of the fall include an exhibition curated by Tirdad Zolghadr, LUMA Fellow and CCS Bard Senior
Academic Advisor, and Fionn Meade, Independent Curator, along with first - year CCS Bard students, at Family Business, Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gioni's exhibition
space in New York City, opening on October 12, 2012; the CCS Bard Speakers Series, including Sarah Pierce, Gregg Bordowitz, and Julia Bryan - Wilson; and the Nova Benway Conference, Methods and Models: Experimental Education at the Hessel Museum of Art, on October 18, 2012.
There also will be some retailers, and about 70,000 square feet will be dedicated to
academic uses, though the
space may be leased by
other institutions.
If
academic and professional institutions with lots of expertise on scientific issues of great import shy away from the public arena, they leave that
space to
other groups that may put some background agenda ahead of accuracy.
Given that law libraries, whether
academic, courthouse or private law firm, are constantly under
space pressures, does this mean that we should be discarding the
other 80 - 94 % of the collection and using the
space for something else?
This campaign isn't just about our proposals — it's also about creating a
space for the tech community, inventors,
academics, and
others to express their concerns and suggestions for dealing with the patent system.
It will have
space, for example, for mentioning the different competitions, prizes, and
other academic and co-curricular activities.
Coordinated with deans, department heads, faculty, and
other academic personnel in scheduling all university classes, optimizing time,
space, and instructional needs of faculty and students
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One of the reasons I dropped out because I felt like I didn't belong, but Michael McDaniel created a
space where there were lots of
other Aboriginal people —
academics, support workers and students.