Sentences with phrase «pitted against other schools»

Not exact matches

In basketball - crazy Indiana the Nostalgia Sectionals pit old high school rivals against each other

The big - money free - for - all is pitting New York City real state, business, and charter school interests — which support the Republicans — against the teachers unions and other liberal activists backing the Dems.

«We need, rather than a competitive system, pitting schools against each other over test scores, we need a system that embraces all children.

But Powell said he didn't understand why the unions were pitting the schools against each other.

That's because the arrays will also allow Butte students to get real world training for the green jobs of tomorrow, much like the semiannual Solar Decathlon, which pits students from schools around the country against each other to design and build solar - powered houses.

The largest haddock being his dream of being on University Challenge, Britain's classic and eternally - aired quiz show that pits two opposing school against each other in a contest of superior intellect.

The British Esports Championship will pit schools and colleges against each other... Read More»

Minnesota's largest districts are pitted against school systems in other states that can afford to offer bigger salaries and better raises for top jobs.

By contrast, government - run schools turn the curriculum, what books are read, and what values are taught into political decisions, which can pit factions against each other and create winners and losers.

Well - meaning participants in the debate on school reform (and I believe that to be the vast majority) want better school quality and greater equity, and we need to start talking about the specific vehicles that will get us there rather than the misleading crap that stops the conversation and pits potential allies against each other, leading to unproductive bickering and stagnation.

«Too often public rhetoric pits charters and public schools against each other, when really all we care about is better opportunities for our kids.

The fight pitted parents against teachers, school board members, and other parents.

The competition pitted NYC schools against each other, competing to be named «Top School» by passing their online math lessons.

There's no reason to pit school models against each other when we have so much in common.

Couched in concerns over Duncan's «failed agenda focused on more high - stakes testing, grading and pitting public school students against each other based on test scores,» the item was introduced at the behest of the California Teachers Association.

Since the system creates winners and losers, government schooling too often pits citizens against each other.

The rise of high - stakes standardized testing has pitted schools against each other, narrowed the curriculum, and reduced teaching and learning to a bubble test.

CO-LOCATIONS — The state MUST develop a better process in determining co-locations in public school buildings in New York City because it is pitting parents against each other.

Parents and teachers have historic, close ties to each other; the parent trigger process pits parents against teachers and undermines home - school partnerships, which are critical to student success.

-- Begin to address formula and funding mechanism flaws in the way that charter schools are funded; a good formula will set rates appropriately and not pit groups of children against each other.

The state superintendent race pits two former school district superintendents and longtime educators against each other — a proponent of expanding school choices and an opponent of the state expansion of taxpayer - funded school vouchers.

Rather than pit district and charter schools against each other, we need to continue working together to help ensure children in New Haven have a bright future.

With the clock ticking and under intense pressure, four teams of high school students pitted their skills against each other as they disassembled and rebuilt high - performance Chevy 350 engines at the first - ever Hot Rodders of Tomorrow Engine Challenge Showdown at SEMA.

Trey Wingo, who is set to host Bracket Genius, shown on set during an unrelated ESPN aired event.ESPN debuted a new quiz show last week that pits undergraduate college students from different schools against each other in a bracket style competition to win a prize of $ 100,000.

You can go old school and play rounds with one life per player or try new modes like Bomb Squad which pits teams against each other defending and defusing bombs.

Subsequent stages of the Challenge pit student groups against one another in a variety of assignments (complete with cheat sheets); prizes include Break the Addiction parties hosted at their colleges or universities, and a grand prize of a $ 10,000 eco-renovation of one school's student lounge or other «hang space.»

It is well documented and proven that long drawn out custody battles that pits parents and children against each other causes permanent damage, emotional damage (parental alienation), and behavioral problems like drug use, smoking, early pregnancy, dropping out of school; and long - term health problems like depression, anxiety, and suicide.