Sentences with phrase «places at the school rather»

So far as the Roman Catholic parents I represent in the Ravenscourt Park Ward are concerned they would be pleased if preference was given to their sons for places at the school rather than being nabbed by Islington socialists.

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So how does your school of thought apply regarding the fewest of explanations and fewest assumptions apply when it comes to God who does not want to be made readily known in the first place, but wants us to develop faith in that God instead.Your school of thought could apply well if the notion of God was a God who either wants to be made known or doesn't care whether or not to be made known, but your school of thought doesn't apply at all if said God does not want to be made known but would rather have humanity develop faith, which is not a perfect knowledge.

According to a recent study by PEW and reported by The Verge, teens increasingly find Facebook to be «stressful, an extension of their daily lives at school and home rather than a place where they can relax and be themselves.»

It's getting really bad in France under that aspect, but some places of resistance still stand, the obligation of eating 4 rather balanced meals, the same for all, at school to compensate the junk they eat at home is one of the last memories of «Frenchness».

Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School, is well - known for inventing and spreading the concept of network neutrality, or net neutrality — the principle that all Internet service providers should treat Internet data equally rather than placing restrictions on its use.

The existence of an orderly learning environment throughout the school — established through positive rather than negative means, whereby there are high levels of teacher consistency about how it is «enforced» and structures in place to ensure that all students are known well by at least one adult in the school — is a fundamental precondition for improved teaching and learning to occur on which the subsequent improvement in student learning outcomes can be based.

David Hopkins, who Morris appointed to the key role of head of the Standards and Effectiveness Unit at the Department for Education and Skills, believes that «when students begin to take ownership of the learning behavior, you see something quite transformational taking place inside the school, because then it is the students who actually control learning rather than the teacher.»

By visiting these famous houses and London landmarks, children will be walking into the places where history happened, rather than being in a museum setting and simply looking at artefacts, school groups will be standing in the environment where a significant person lived.

Rather than trying to convert their entire schools to project - based learning all at once, principals in Whitfield County started with a single grade and tried to place the teachers who were most eager to make the transformation in that group.

When author Karin Chenoweth began to investigate what goes in to making a school successful, she looked at a rather unexpected place: schools in low - income communties that, despite their lack of resources and supports, were showing impressive levels of student achievement.

The policies that were criticized were those that increased attention to academic outcomes at the expense of children's exploration, discovery, and play; methods that focused on large group activities and completion of one - dimensional worksheets and workbooks in place of actual engagement with concrete objects and naturally occurring experiences of the world; and directives that emphasized the use of group - administered, computer - scored, multiple - choice achievement tests in order to determine a child's starting place in school rather than assessments that rely on active child engagement, teacher judgment, and clinical opinion.

While some schools and teachers, like the ones at Liberty, have fully bought into the changes and have access to resources to help them make those changes happen, in other places Common Core is seen as more of a top - down content shift rather than something that will produce significant changes in teaching.

Sir David Carter, the national schools» commissioner, has previously said parental choice was reduced, rather than enhanced, if children did not get a place at any «centres of excellence» within an academy trust.

Regardless of how one twists and turns, must inspections necessarily place the individual school in a context of dispassionate, rather bureaucratized analysis at the end of the day?

There are many schools to choose from and we went for this one as it was cheaper than the others ($ 100 a week rather than $ 160 at most other places) and we also met someone who'd had a good experience there.

Rather than starting in the middle, approach your argument like your law school professors used to tell you to approach exams: address each issue one at a time, proceeding step by step without returning to places you've already been.

Personally, I'd rather keep the life insurance, use the cash values to supplement my investments and / or use the cash value to pay my income in the years the stock market goes down (like 2001, 2008, etc) so that I don't end up worse off than when I began because at the end of the day that account can't lose its value, I can't be sued for the value of it, I don't need to report it on my son's FAFSA form for college, AND if I pull money out of it for my son's school, the dividend still pays the same amount as if I hadn't drawn the money out in the first place (fun fact: that last point isn't something that a northwestern policy does, but new york life and massmutual's contracts do).

Rather, they act as the middle man to help you obtain education at a truck driving school, obtain your CDL, then place you with PAM.