Sentences with phrase «particular school based»

Potential employees will make their decision whether they want to work for a particular school based on a number of factors such as Ofsted ratings, reputation and catchment areas.

However, this analysis does not account for the possible sorting of students into particular schools based on characteristics not captured by their prior achievement and demographic characteristics.

Not exact matches

In particular, the New York - based bank is known for its expertise in the issuance of catastrophe bonds, Qualified School Construction Bonds in the US, and bonds issued to finance debt restructuring around the world.

In addition, schools should be able to gauge the particular needs of their student populations on a case by case basis to determine which dates are ideal for scheduling major academic programs in the first place.

There are plenty of private schools that are religious based that one can go to if they truly believe in their particular religion.

A church - state conflict arises when government adopts a policy that has the effect of restricting freedom of conscience or of imposing on all a policy essentially based on the ethos of a particular religious tradition (example: a law outlawing contraception or mandating devotion to Mary in a public school).

The NCAA tries hard to prevent people from using recruits to get jobs — and to keep schools from making hiring decisions based on which parent, uncle, or high school coach might give them the best shot to land some particular recruit.

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

Acceptances into the Early Childhood programs at the Hartsbrook School are based on the school's ability to meet the particular child's needs, as well as on factors such as age ratios in the School are based on the school's ability to meet the particular child's needs, as well as on factors such as age ratios in the school's ability to meet the particular child's needs, as well as on factors such as age ratios in the class.

There are a couple of experimental classroom interventions that I think seem particularly promising, including Tools of the Mind, which uses extended make - believe play and other teaching strategies to develop self - regulation in 4 - and 5 - year - olds, and OneGoal, the Chicago - based high school program that teaches juniors and seniors a particular set of non-cognitive skills designed to help them persist in college.

«Based on the relatively high competence of Waldorf pupils in natural science, combined with exceptionally high indicators of motivation and reflective cognition in these subjects as well as the different pedagogical principles, it is reasonable to conclude that public education can learn from the Steiner Waldorf schools, in particular with regard to being able to concretely apply knowledge in natural science.»

Principals of participating schools get to choose the community - based organization they partner with to address the particular needs of their student body, New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariñschools get to choose the community - based organization they partner with to address the particular needs of their student body, New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen FariñSchools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said.

Since the inherited risk is based in family genetics and is therefore beyond clinical reach, McFarlane relies on multifamily group therapy and social supports at school and at work to protect vulnerable patients from environmental triggers — illicit drugs and emotional stress in particular — that might send them over the edge.

Lead author Dr Nadja van Ginneken, who completed the research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's Centre for Global Mental Health with funding from the Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD programme, said: «Many low - and middle - income countries have started to train primary care staff, and in particular lay and other community - based health workers, to deliver mental health care.

So anyway, we headed down the canyon, and I should say that the reason we did this particular trip was because it was put together by the National Center for Science Education, which is the Oakland based group that really does the frontline work with protecting evolution education in the nation's public schools.

In particular, Shah and her colleagues — her student Been Kim, whose PhD thesis is the basis of the new paper, and Cynthia Rudin, an associate professor of statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management — were trying to augment a type of machine learning known as «unsupervised.»

Professor of Post-14 Education Policy and Curriculum, Jeremy has research interests in education and training policy for 14 - 19 year - olds, in particular curriculum innovation and change and school - based vocational curricula.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

In particular, we take advantage of the lottery - based admissions process for charter schools to compare the academic performance of two groups of students: those who wanted to attend a charter school and were randomly admitted and those who wanted to attend but were not admitted and remained in traditional public schools.

Consultant for inner - city public school districts, specializing in customized models and solutions based on the assets of the particular districts / cities

Scores and grades usually reflect the difficulties of the particular assessment activities on which they are based and generally are not directly comparable across teachers or schools.

Schools were assigned an overall rating based on the pass rate of the lowest - scoring subgroup - test combination (e.g., math for whites), giving some schools strong incentives to focus on particular students and suSchools were assigned an overall rating based on the pass rate of the lowest - scoring subgroup - test combination (e.g., math for whites), giving some schools strong incentives to focus on particular students and suschools strong incentives to focus on particular students and subjects.

When speaking in relation to the model of inquiry - based learning and the use of iPads for fieldwork in Stage 2 Science, one school leader in particular states: «It's always been fundamental, like a part of our school... but it's actually been a lot easier, having the technology, to go and do inquiry - based learning now...»

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Nearly all the schools surveyed placed students in particular attainment groups purely based on their previous attainment levels.

It is crucial that such a commission is impartial to the self - interest of particular networks and district self - interests, and base facilities decisions on school quality, student need, and efficient usage.

Some of the criticism of NCLB in its latter days focused on the core failings of test - based accountability — in particular, the extent to which the pressure to raise scores had come to dominate schooling.

What they love, in particular, is the place - based social capital that school districts provide.

More subtly, concluding that students in a particular school are performing well «given their socioeconomic backgrounds» or «given the proportion of Indigenous students in the school» reflect reduced expectations based on group membership.

Working with HGSE students, she has developed case studies focusing on particular dilemmas of justice in schools and school districts like ethics of grade inflation, eighth - grade promotion and retention policies, lottery - based school assignment, disciplining socially fragile children, and teacher firings.

This depends on how schools assign students to such programs, in particular, whether a child's eligibility is based on a comparison to other children in his grade or to other children his age.

We promote education reforms of all stripes, with a particular focus on school choice and standards - based reform.

In particular, in low - income schools where academic resources are scarce, motivated parents are more likely to choose teachers based on their perceived ability to improve academic achievement.

Well - functioning school choice requires a federal role in gathering and disseminating high - quality data on school performance; ensures that civil rights laws are enforced; distributes funds based on enrollment of high - need students in particular schools; and supports a growing supply of school options through an expanded, equitably funded charter sector and through the unfettered growth of digital learning via application of the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause.

The apparent absence of educational triage in one state does not invalidate documented accounts of the practice in particular schools, nor encroach upon other arguments to modify NCLB's proficiency - based school rating system.

«School reform» has taken on a very particular meaning in the past decade: reformers are those who support things like charter schooling, accountability, test - based teacher evaluation, and the Common Core.

And the fact that the Coleman findings are based on differences between schools means that it ignores important differences in resources — teacher quality in particular — that we know today exist within schools.

7) Reasonable funding levels based on the needs of particular student enrollments and other factors outside of district control, but also discretion by local district taxpayers to augment the funding of their schools.

The Rural School and Community Trust, which emerged from the Annenberg initiative, defines place - based education as learning grounded in «the unique history, environment, culture, economy, literature, and art of a particular place.»

The HSE does not advocate, support or promote any particular provider and schools are free to chose whichever provider best suits their requirements, based on their needs assessments and appropriate due diligence.

School - based performance pay: All professional staff in a school earn a bonus if students meet particular School - based performance pay: All professional staff in a school earn a bonus if students meet particular school earn a bonus if students meet particular goals.

Any attempt at zero - based budgeting would require decisionmakers to understand and work within the constraints imposed by these funding streams, each of which is typically earmarked for a specific group of students or a particular school program.

If the curriculum makes clear what all students are to be taught and should learn by particular times in their schooling, for example, by the end of Year 6, and if all teachers and students are held accountable for meeting these time - based expectations, then overall levels of achievement should improve.

A particular design idea at a school with trees was based on the tree top canopy walkway at Kew Gardens.

We have a couple of international schools, schools based overseas, and some local Australian schools — each one with a particular profile.

«So you could have some states starting school with children at five years of age, versus 6 years of age, you could organise schools in one particular way or have different needs - based funding models in place and if the policy is a success the other states can copy it, however if the copy is a flop the damage is contained and it's easier to work out what to do next because they have other successful models in place.»

If required, there are consultants who can do this for organisations and provide feedback and recommendations based on the results for the particular school.

In each case, the school district relies upon an individual student's race in assigning that student to a particular school, so that the racial balance at the school falls within a predetermined range based on the racial composition of the school district as a whole.

The ESSA also requires that, if students fall behind in meeting these standards, States and local educational agencies (LEAs) implement evidence - based interventions to help them and their schools improve, with a particular focus on the lowest - performing schools, high schools with low graduation rates, and schools in which subgroups of students are underperforming.

However, I do question whether it tells us something about the value of a given regulation to protecting kids or what particular regulations are the basis for schools choosing to opt in or out.