Over time, laws changed to provide scholarships, tax credits, and other vehicles that tied resources to a family's
preferences for schooling.
Thus, in Denver, for school year 2012 — 13, the data set also includes information about student
preferences for schools according to the city's school - choice policy.
[1] School choice literature has documented a similar dynamic, whereby parents often express
a preference for schools of higher academic quality but often are unable to prioritize that consideration when selecting schools.
Supplementing these data with surveys of principals, the authors find principals» stated
preferences for school characteristics mirror observed distribution and transfer patterns.
Not exact matches
To build genuine loyalty — a customer base with intrinsic
preference for your brand — retailers need to break with old -
school tactics, realizing instead that earning consumer trust,
preference and loyalty is a strategic initiative that goes far beyond points, coupons, discounts and mass - blasted emails.
School, personal
preference and child - care responsibilities dominate reasons
for working less than full time, according to Statistics Canada.
Transforming and improving the
school experience There are, no doubt, other education ventures into which Powell Jobs has put money, but we may never know about them because of her
preference for anonymous giving.
Mass online forums such as Twitter and Facebook potentially make it much easier
for forecasters to rapidly sample the consumer
preferences of millions of people, says professor Giovani da Silveira of the University of Calgary's Haskayne
School of Business.
I'm not convinced going back to
school for a master's degree would be a great idea due to expense as well as personal
preference.
The remarkable
preference for efficiency we see in the overwhelmingly Democratic student body at Yale Law
School also sheds light on today's progressive priorities, which focus on identity politics, especially sexual identity.
My own
preference is
for number one simply because there are a number of thinkers whose ideas, though not directly influenced by the Chicago
School or Whitehead and Hartshorne, yet bear such a striking family resemblance that they merit classification in the process s
School or Whitehead and Hartshorne, yet bear such a striking family resemblance that they merit classification in the process
schoolschool.
The
preference for a male may be unspoken or obliquely voiced by search committees, especially in liberal Protestant denominations where «it is totally unacceptable to refuse» pastor candidates because of gender, race or ethnicity and it is «frowned upon» to make age or marital status an issue, said the study, published last year as part of the Pulpit & Pew project at Duke Divinity
School.
«I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute — where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners
for whom to vote — where no church or church
school is granted any public funds or political
preference — and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.
It is actually a double option which determines Professor Radhakrishnan's explicit and implicit evaluation of religion: his
preference for the apprehension of ultimate reality as proclaimed by the seers and sages of India and, within this tradition, his
preference for the teachings of the Upanisads in the peculiar interpretation of the Advaita
school.
Among the high
school coaches that I played
for, their
preference was to get first time players so that they didn't have to uncoach bad habits.
Hey, with
preferences on player types (Hunter Greene is a high
school pitcher, and maybe the Twins don't want a high
school pitcher) and the occasional desire
for the top team in the draft to value going under slot over picking the top talent, these things can happen.
This education provision is designed to be flexible and to provide support
for each player to achieve whilst remaining in their
school of
preference.
it's time
for schools to stop letting kids call the shots on menu items by focusing on kids»
preferences.
In some cases, you may have to fight
for your rights to ensure that the
school will honor your
preferences.
While many goals overlap with those of Farm to
School, preschoolers» young age allows
for an additional focus on habit formation and
preference setting.
One of the highlights of this project was to develop and test procurement models using U.S. Department of Agriculture's guidance on geographic
preference,
school food purchasing and bidding requirement that work
for both
school districts and farms / food producers.
Although challenges remain
for school nutrition professionals — the new professional standards, challenging finances, and balancing customer
preferences against nutritional requirements — it's clear that Mark sees all of these as additional opportunities
for growth
for both himself, and his colleagues.
All that said, I think it's important
for advocates to be aware of the constraints of
school lunch and to keep in mind that some of our ideas about lunch may reflect our own
preferences rather than the actual nutrition or nutrition education
school lunch offers.
By the time the students got to middle
school, they were more positive about eating in the cafeteria, seemed to have a
preference for produce in season and were conscious that their eating choices could help or hurt the environment, according to the report.
In the search
for a new Arlington Heights
School District 25 superintendent, about 800 comments from parents, teachers, administrators summed up their
preferences.
So, to summarize, fruit and vegetable waste continues to be a problem
for schools, but no more so than before the HHFKA standards were implemented, and the requirement that kids take a fruit or vegetable at lunch has caused a measurable increase in both fruit and vegetable consumption, with kids showing a
preference for fruit over vegetables.
Kids are subjected to — what is it, $ 10 to $ 12 billion * of advertising a year worth of targeted advertising — almost all of it
for sort of unhealthy foods, so they come to
school with
preferences shaped by what manufacturers want to sell them.
One of the keys to success
for school breakfast — or
school lunch,
for that matter — is adapting to student
preferences.
And Melissa Mark - Viverito's
preference for an exciting arts community over another public
school does make one wonder what her vision
for New York really is.
96.9 % of year 6 pupils in Cornwall have been allocated their first
preference secondary
school for September.
We will work with parents to ensure that
school places are found
for pupils in accordance with published admission arrangements and we will accommodate parental
preference where possible.
BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «
For years now we have seen religious teachers being given preference to work in state funded «faith» schools, not just when they would be expected to teach Religious Instruction or lead Collective Worship, but regardless of which subject they are applying f
For years now we have seen religious teachers being given
preference to work in state funded «faith»
schools, not just when they would be expected to teach Religious Instruction or lead Collective Worship, but regardless of which subject they are applying
forfor.
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.
Avella's concern has been echoed by other parents and
school advocates, who have complained that Bloomberg's selections
for the
school boss spot have revealed a
preference for businessmen and women rather than those with a background in education policy.
A recent study on the career
preferences of science graduate students, published in PLoS ONE, has attracted a lot of attention
for one of its conclusions: that student interest in academic research careers declines over the course of graduate
school.
On one hand, we need to acknowledge that individuals bear some responsibility
for their health, and on the other hand recognise that today's food environments exploit people's biological (eg, innate
preference for sweetened foods), psychological (eg, marketing techniques), and social and economic (eg, convenience and cost) vulnerabilities, making it easier
for them to eat unhealthy foods,» explains Dr Christina Roberto, from the Harvard T.H. Chan
School of Public Health, USA.
Examples include: tighter supervision and international regulation of the food supply; an international code of food marketing to protect children's health; regulating food nutritional quality in
schools along with programmes to encourage healthy food
preferences; taxes on unhealthy products such as sweetened drinks and subsidies on healthier foods
for low - income families such as vouchers
for fruit and vegetable boxes; and mandatory food labelling as an incentive
for industry to produce more nutritional products.
Dr Louise McDowell, Dr Deborah Wells and Professor Peter Hepper from the
School of Psychology at Queen's, recruited 44 cats
for the study and found that while there was no overall population
preference like the human
preference for right handedness, there was a gender
preference.
In recent times, industrial relations has been in decline as a field, in correlation with the decline in importance of trade unions, and also with the increasing
preference of business
schools for the human resource management paradigm.
He argues that those
preferences should not replace minority
preferences — as affirmative action opponents propose — because most minority students at elite
schools come from middle - and high - income families.9 These new economic
preferences will definitely improve the situation
for low - income students.
Whilst fish kept under normal conditions consistently chose the familiar
school, fish reared under high CO2 conditions showed no
preference for either the unfamiliar or familiar
school.
«This study provides a new framework
for understanding the diversity of American views and relationships with the natural world, and how those views affect environmental behavior, lifestyles, and policy
preferences,» said Anthony Leiserowitz, a faculty member of The Yale
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
They said: «sorting along educational attainment might not reflect a
preference for a partner of a certain education level, but rather the fact that many people spend much of their time in the company of others with a similar level of education in
school, college, or at work.»
Texas About Blog Addicted to Teaching with a
Preference for Middle
School Science.
At the time of release I was happy to pay
for it, as a MGS old
school fan, so I can only guess how much happiness you guys who took it
for free had when it arrived on PS Plus
for free... Whatever, the game also had a series of side missions which you could enjoy once you ended the story mode, so you could both practice with what was coming next in The Phantom Pain and spend more time on the game based on your
preferences.
Teachers decide whether to remain at a
school for a multiplicity of reasons, which can be divided into four main categories: 1) characteristics of the job, including salary and working conditions; 2) alternative job opportunities; 3) teachers» own job and family
preferences; and 4)
school districts» personnel policies.
These «step - and - lane» schedules, which legislatures and
school boards have accepted, reflect union
preferences for wage agreements that increase member solidarity and benefit the most union members.
Each year, students have the opportunity to state a
preference for up to five
schools — including charter and district
schools.
Results indicate that
school gardening may affect children's vegetable consumption, including improved recognition of, attitudes toward,
preferences for, and willingness to taste vegetables.
In kindergarten, 5.6 percent of students who listed at least one charter
school as one of their five
preferences had an IEP, while 7.8 percent of students who did not list a
preference for a charter
school had an IEP.