Sentences with phrase «other schools across the nation»

A tentative agreement reached last week would for the first time allow the Los Angeles Unified School District to use students» standardized test scores to rate teacher effectiveness, something many other schools across the nation are already doing.

At Latin College Prep in East Point, we celebrated National College Signing Day like many other schools across the Nation.

He presents case studies so readers can compare their situations to those faced by other schools across the nation.

Not exact matches

«Mr. Speaker, today in First Nations communities across the country, the unemployment rate can reach 80 %, half of the housing units are in a pitiful state and schools and students receive 30 % less funding than others,» Thomas Mulcair reported.

To some, Adderall abuse may sound foreign, but Adderall and abuse of other attention - deficit drugs is growing among high school and college students across the nation.

Despite the differences between the food in America and in other foreign nations, school lunches across the world do share one thing in common.

Leading the charge to roll back the regulations was none other than the SNA, whose constituents are now dishing out the fruits, vegetables and whole grains required by law in school lunchrooms across the nation.

School start times vary considerably, both across the nation and within individual communities, with some schools beginning earlier than 7:30 a.m. and others after 9:00 a.m. Districts often stagger the start times of different schools in order to reduce transportation costs by using fewer buses.

National Inclusive Schools Week has become a vehicle for these schools and communities to share their successes with others across the Schools Week has become a vehicle for these schools and communities to share their successes with others across the schools and communities to share their successes with others across the nation.

In light of the ongoing push to establish common academic standards across states, the authors examined data from the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress to see whether citizen ratings of school quality are responsive to the level of student performance relative to the nation as a whole or only relative to other schools within the same state.

Dee Alpert says that New York City, like other big cities, provides test accommodations to a higher percentage of students than do schools across the nation.

For the 17 students at St. Johnsbury, as well as other elementary school and middle school students across the nation whose teachers have been deployed to the Middle East, someone has left who not only taught them but also bonded with them.

In Tacoma and 16 other cities across the nation, school districts are boosting student attendance by sending home what they call «nudge» letters when students miss too many days of school.

But with roughly 5,500 kids across the state still dropping out of high school every year, Professor Reville and others acknowledge that Massachusetts, widely recognized as having the nation's leading education system, still has a long way to go.

MDRC is evaluating the training of teachers and other school staff in this vision of MTSS - B in schools across the nation.

I hope the Newark experience inspires parents and educators across the nation to find more ways to work together, and with other public education partners, to find innovative solutions that not only help your own school but transform public education system for your city or state as a whole.

At CEI, as with many across the nation, we were stunned by the senselessness of the acts of a lone gunman on a December day at a small school that was very much like many schools across the U.S. Like others, we keep asking: «why, and when will it stop, what will it take?»

Governor Christie on Friday called for schools across New Jersey and the nation to emulate the performance - pay provisions in Newark's new teachers» contract, but some skeptics were asking how other districts could afford to follow suit.

The Sacramento City Unified School District, the Hacienda / La Puente Unified School District and many others across the nation have used this approach.

We are also pleased to see that many publications across the nation - from the New York Times to the Washington Post to many California newspapers - as well as literally thousands of other community leaders have been galvanized to express new levels of support for charter schools at the very moment when the NAACP has made this misguided decision.

For more information: Jesse Hagopian, Teacher Garfield HS, 206-962-1685, [email protected] SEATTLE — In perhaps the first instance anywhere in the nation, teachers at Seattle's Garfield High School will announce this afternoon their refusal to administer a standardized test that students in other high schools across the district are scheduled to take in the first part of January.

He began his career as a teacher, then later transitioned into school administration, and soon after promoted to lead the implementation of education reforms in Florida and other states across the nation.

The outcome of the Florida case will have a resounding impact on school choice across the nation as the state has served as model for other programs, and continues to be a leader in choice options.

It was such a pleasure to present at the Model Schools Conference and to share ideas and concepts with other educators across the nation, which genuinely deepened our appreciation for the work we do.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students and others involved in March for Our Lives events in Washington, DC, and across the nation have actively used Twitter to spread news and information about their efforts to organize.

Narrowing the Curriculum: No Child Left Behind, which judged schools solely on their students» math and reading test scores, prompted schools across the nation to abandon science, social studies, art, music, physical education and other subjects in pursuit of high scores in the tested subjects.

Despite these challenges, they are optimistic that their voices and those of other students across New York City's public schools will gain ground — as the nation's largest school district struggles to raise its own quality review score from «developing» to «proficient.»

Sadly, shootings and other violence have become all too common in schools across the nation.

It is designed as a guide to help jurisdictions, principals and other school leaders enhance current approaches to develop and strengthen school leadership across the nation and is presented in two sections.

Standardized testing has come under increasing scrutiny across the nation, particularly in its use for high - stakes decisions such as student promotion, in teacher evaluations, and for other school personnel decisions.

Putting aside the reality that the actual number of poor parents with four or five children in the school system is extremely low, the stunningly ignorant and disturbing approach to «doing something» about the crippling impact of poverty in Hartford is a stark reflection about how out - of - touch many in the Corporate Education Reform Industry actually approach the real issues that are limiting educational achievement in Hartford and other poor communities across Connecticut and the nation.

NAEP, dubbed «The Nation's Report Card,» is a set of standardized tests given to a representative sample of students in 4th grade, 8th grade, and high school from all states every other year, and it is the only consistent measurement of student knowledge across 4 decades of administration.

Like other public schools across the nation, Colorado charter schools are faced with health challenges and learning barriers related to the physical and mental well - being of their students, families, and staff members.

On June 30th, our school was shut down, joining the 50 other charters that were shuttered in the 2016 - 17 fiscal year in California and the 200 - 300 charters that are closed each year across the nation because of poor performance, financial issues, low enrollment, nepotism, violations against students with disabilities and English language learners, and fraud.

The students are competing against seven other schools from across the nation.

The Litchfield Law School would flourish from 1784 until 1833, providing practical legal training to students from across the nation, and producing many illustrious graduates.57 Other private law schools cropped up in the 1790s as well.58 They comprised not only the first attempts to systematically teach the law, but also set the mold for contemporary legal education.59 The moot court model pioneered by these schools would become the preferred way to teach practical skills such as writing and rhetoric.

In fact, other schools and networks across the nation have joined our district in teaching with curricula that encourage the kind of group problem - solving and risk - taking classroom climate that we're using.

Interview by Jacob SimasEDITOR»S NOTE: Schools across the nation are increasingly adopting punitive measures as a way to control and deter violence and other disruptive behaviors.