Sentences with phrase «other high quality school»

This support would come from Teaching Schools or other high quality school improvement providers — people with a proven track record.

Other high quality schools — both in and out of the MPCP — have significant economic benefits as well.

Not exact matches

Founded in 1946, Cincinnati - based Pierre Foods uses high quality, USDA - inspected meats and hearth - baked breads to produce a wide variety of fully cooked frozen sandwiches and other products for schools, military, foodservice, retail, vending and convenience store markets.

Today, the Foodservice segment serves high quality products to broadline distributors, institutions, quick service restaurants, and casual dining, including but not limited to restaurants, schools, hospitals and other catering formats.

Beginners can expect to come away with a better understanding of basketball and the skills necessary to become successfully involved with high school, middle school, CYO, AYB, and other quality programs.

While we know that not every camp can engage in a large evaluation process, we hope that our findings will be useful to others and inspire reflection about how camps can excel as high quality learning environments where kids can practice many of the essential skills they need for school, job, and relationship success.

The Center is well - known for providing high - quality, multidisciplinary services using highly professional staff for their child - centered, family - focused services in client's homes, schools, clinics and other community venues.

Children who participate in high - quality early childhood programs show remarkable improvement in school performance, social skills, and other factors critical to future success.

This is a theme that's been echoed here before by, among others, TLT's anonymous school food professional, Wilma and Justin Gagnon, CEO of Choicelunch, a private, high quality school food caterer in California.

But the reality is that there are many things that would affect that other than just individual parenting skills — like a long line of trickle - down societal expectations; the way kids are treated at school; not to mention a high - quality, state - funded daycare system that most parents choose over staying at home permanently with their children.

Chartwells has encountered problems in other parts of the country, including a well - publicized student boycott at a Connecticut high school last fall over the quality of the food the company provided.

The programme also registered suppliers to distribute farm produce to public institutions including the School Feeding Programme, the Free Senior High School Programme, Prisons, Defence and Police, among others to ensure availability of quality food in a timely manner in these institutions.

Before people filled the auditorium at Hoosick Falls Junior - Senior High School for a state Senate hearing chaired by Marchione on the Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh water crises and other water quality issues, Shaun Francis held a news conference to unveil a billboard critical of his opponent's response to the discovery of perfluorooctanoic acid, a suspected cancer - causing chemical, in both the village water system and wells in the village and surrounding town of Hoosick.

But they also understand that what needs to happen in their schools for their kids, it's not about testing... they make sure they have tons of sports programs, art and music, they're experimenting, they go on trips, they have high - quality this, that, and the other, they have libraries with librarians in them.

Researchers from NYU Langone's Department of Population Health will evaluate these services so that the NYC Department of Education and other urban school districts can continue to improve on efforts to provide high - quality family - centered educational experiences to all children.

Shalat says that poor children are both most likely to be exposed to lead — from factory smelters, dust, soil and paint — and to suffer the worst effects of that exposure, thanks to poor access to health care and other resources such as proper nutrition and high - quality schools.

Apart from the high quality scientific program, the 2018 Golden Helix Summer School offers an attractive social program that includes a visit to the Apollo Theater in Hermoupolis, and a traditional farewell dinner, allowing participants to get to know each other in a very informal way.

Apart from the high quality scientific program, the 2018 Golden Helix Summer School will offer an attractive social program that includes a walking tour of Hermoupolis and a visit to the famous Apollo Theater and a traditional farewell dinner, allowing participants to get to know each other in a very informal way.

First kisses, break - ups and polyamory are among the topics covered in Personal and civic responsibility, love of learning, and empathy for others: these are the qualities that Wayland High School seeks to instill in its students.

Both Professor Lavonen and the principals of the schools we visited expressed that one of the key factors of why the Finnish system trumps all others is the huge investment that is made in developing high quality teachers.

Most of all, families and students need both sides to get past their defensiveness and mistrust and get to work creating citywide information, funding, enrollment, transportation, and other systems that will improve equity and access to high - quality schools.

However, many others believe charters divert resources from traditional public schools and don't meet up to accountability measures.These opposing views often lead to friction among people who actually have much in common: a genuine concern for children and the national right to high - quality public education.

All schools will use chronic absenteeism as an indicator of school quality; high schools will also be judged on two other indicators involving 9th grade academic progress and high school completion

Factors other than school quality could help to explain high levels of achievement of charter school students in these states — including the ability of parents to close underperforming schools.

He, along with Terry Moe, Clay Christensen, Paul Peterson, and others, envision large numbers of hybrid virtual schools offering higher quality customized education at dramatically lower costs.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

A productive response to that question would not contemplate the merits of «voucher programs» per se but would instead view vouchers as one vehicle among others for growing the number of high - quality individual school choices available to low - income families.

If traditional public schools refuse to provide a safe, orderly, academically enriching environment for young adolescents to prepare for college preparatory high schools or high - quality career and technical options, then we should encourage the development of charter schools, magnet schools, and other choice strategies that do.

If other states also allow students to blend together a curriculum that combines on - site with online learning, and encourages competition among providers while checking to make sure that only quality courses are provided, secondary schools will move as quickly toward online learning as does the higher education sector.

If that path is taken, students will be able to access high - quality, specialized courses on line while still enjoying the sports program and benefiting from the other traditions of the Catholic school.

The world's top - performing school systems and those coming up fast have a lesson to teach the others: Put high - quality teaching for every child at the heart of school improvement.

The Assemblies Website from the The Welsh National Centre for Religious education aims to provide high - quality, primary and secondary school assemblies for teachers and others leading collective worship.

He called the results a turning point that demonstrated the political power of charter school backers as well as others who are seeking more high - quality learning opportunities for local students.

There have been some investments in Teach for America and other talent - recruitment strategies, but many observers believe they need an even stronger focus on human capital to bolster nascent high - quality local school providers.

Small gains in the education of teachers relative to other workers may not be evidence of declining quality, however; additional years of schooling may be more valuable for teachers because, as highly skilled workers, they face higher opportunity costs of staying out of the labor force.

It will launch in September next year and will mirror entry criteria and high - quality course content currently required of all other teacher trainees and will give schools across the country the opportunity to use the apprenticeship to recruit and train new teachers in - house.

The Programs in Professional Education (PPE) institute, The Leading Edge of Early Childhood Education, is structured to highlight the best of what we currently know about healthy child development and high - quality systems, schools and classrooms of early learning, while also bringing in new thinking from other fields to provide insights that bear on the design of preK improvement and expansion.

Not a dramatic difference, but completely consistent with the other findings reported here, it bolsters the evidence that Catholic schools deliver a high - quality civic education.

«The installation of high quality intruder alarms and their integration with other security systems, such as access control and CCTV, can provide vital peace of mind that the site is being protected both in and out of school hours.

• In - depth view on what the industries really want from graduates • The support of each education tiers — Early, primary, seconday and higher learning in shaping holistic graduates • Asessing the quality and cost of Malaysia's education in comparison to other ASEAN countries • Gaining insights on new teaching methods — Outdoor learning and trust schools • Transforming education system to cater new generation

To sum up: 1) low - stakes tests appear to measure something meaningful that shows up in long - run outcomes; 2) we don't know nearly as much about high - stakes exams and long - run outcomes; and 3) there doesn't seem to be a strong correlation between test - score gain and other measures of quality at either the teacher or school level.

Nevertheless, many English language arts teachers (including 56 percent at the middle school level) assign none of the literary or informational texts listed in the survey, which represented both CCSS exemplars and other high - quality texts.

Most schools need products that help with the implementation of standards, that link instruction to assessments, that are grounded in solid and reliable data that enable better decisionmaking, that work seamlessly with other programs to create blended and personalized learning environments, and that are backed by a reputable company that provides high - quality, ongoing service and support.

While students in other schools have access to CTE courses, RVTS offer more variety in terms of the program of study, and the programs themselves are typically higher quality than those found in comprehensive high schools.

Common Core or other high - quality «national standards» are the best path toward getting Uncle Sam to back off from micro-managing how schools are run.

Readers also can submit comments on our articles and other education topics at myednext.org, a new community space for all who are interested in high - quality schools.

Let me now revisit a fifth potential asset, which is also the main reason that small - government conservatives should favor the Common Core or other high - quality «national standards»: This is the best path toward getting Uncle Sam and heavy - handed state governments to back off from micro-managing how schools are run and to return that authority to communities, individual schools, teachers, and parents.

Among a number of other measures, Gibb outlined the introduction of a new National Teaching Service (NTS) which will aim to recruit high quality teachers and place them in challenging schools.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is also expected to announce four other measures concerning educational policy, including the protection of spending per - pupil, a guarantee ensuring all teachers in state - funded schools will be qualified by September 2016, the establishing of a Royal College of Teachers and a National Leadership Institute to promote high quality leadership in schools in deprived areas.

An obvious advantage of a higher family income is that it enables parents to spend more money on books, computers, high - quality child care, summer camps, music lessons, private schooling, and other enrichment opportunities for their children.