Sentences with phrase «presented the school system»

Alternatives — realistic, aggressive, and viable competitors — to the present school system must be found.

In recognition of BCPS» efforts, the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future presented the school system with its 2009 Award for Visionary Leadership in Local Food Procurement and Food Education.

Not exact matches

This ingenious system is called Eyeagnosis, and Kopparapu - a high school junior - recently presented it at the O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence conference in New York.

Furthermore, the achievement gaps, long plaguing school systems around the country, aren't present in the homeschooling environment.

This class covers the efficacy of play therapy and how to present it to school systems or mental health clinics.

«First, what percentage of State funding should be used to equalize the disparity presented by our inherently inequitable property tax funding system; and second, what percentage of State and local aid should go to the poorer, lower performing schools.»

At present, whatever the merits of individual schools under the system, the free schools programme as a whole is in danger of helping to unravel a national school system developed in successive pieces of legislation over the past 70 years.

She is likely to celebrate CUNY's proud legacy of creating opportunity for New York's striving class, but the present for the school — and entire system — is troubled.

Cuomo and NYSUT have been at odds over the evaluation push, as well as the governor's strong support for charter schools as an alternative to the present public education system.

Language barriers presented by the 40 + languages spoken by our very large refugee population and students attending the New York State School for the Deaf that will lead to language interpretation «killer apps» to facilitate communication in healthcare, education and the courts system

In the report, StudentsFirstNY also presents recommendations for New York City schools including financial incentives for retaining effective teachers and an agreement between the City and the teachers» union on a new teacher evaluation system.

Health Systems & Reform presents the article «Zika Virus and Health Systems in Brazil: From Unknown to a Menace,» a commentary by Professor Marcia C. Castro, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, on the Zika Virus epidemic in Brazil and the Americas.

«Earlier studies have shown that vitamin E can help regulate the aging body's immune system, but our present research is the first study to demonstrate that dietary vitamin E regulates neutrophil entry into the lungs in mice, and so dramatically reduces inflammation, and helps fight off infection by this common type of bacteria,» said first author Elsa N. Bou Ghanem, Ph.D., postdoctoral scholar in the department of molecular biology and microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM).

A comprehensive, integrated, academic health system affiliated with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Lifespan's present partners also include Rhode Island Hospital's pediatric division, Hasbro Children's Hospital; Bradley Hospital; Newport Hospital; and Gateway Healthcare.

Given the ample evidence that change over time is a crucial property of planets, including our own, of stars, of galaxies and of the Universe as a whole, it is important for the nation's school children to learn about the great age of, and changes in, astronomical systems, as well as their present properties.

These experiments at Helix High and in the Georgia school system are presented in the video entitled Better Food for Better Students, available from the Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, San Diego.

Her mission is to educate, inspire & empower people to create health by authentically sharing her knowledge, expertise & experience as she travels across Canada & the U.S. offering specialty PhysioYoga Therapy workshops, presenting at international yoga therapy conferences, lecturing at medical college programs, instructing at numerous yoga therapy schools (including teaching medical therapeutic yoga to health care professionals at the Professional Yoga Therapy Institute), collaborating on Life is Now Pain Care Yoga projects, instructing at Blissology Yoga Teacher Trainings, offering individual assessments & treatments, and actively promoting the integration of yoga therapy into our current healthcare system.

Currently, Shelly travels across North America offering specialty Yoga Therapy workshops, lecturing at Medical College programs, instructing at Yoga Therapy Schools and Yoga Teacher Trainings, and presenting at Medical Conferences and International Yoga Therapy Conferences while actively promoting the integration of yoga therapy into our current healthcare system.

school of cultural analyst, though it does present an unorthodox system of balancing the scales.

Time may prove him right in the case of schools, though it is possible that the loosely federated Catholic systems will continue to thrive in their present organizational form.

In the first legal skirmish over «intelligent design» since a federal judge declared it to be illegitimate science, a rural Southern California school system has agreed to drop an elective philosophy course presenting the highly charged topic.

The results present a stagnating set of figures and continue to highlight ongoing challenges for schools, school systems and governments, says Australian Primary Principals Association (APPA) President Dennis Yarrington.

On Thursday, May 31, the Harvard Graduate School of Education presented six outstanding educators from the Boston and Cambridge public school systems with James Bryant Conant FellowSchool of Education presented six outstanding educators from the Boston and Cambridge public school systems with James Bryant Conant Fellowschool systems with James Bryant Conant Fellowships.

In his second major release, Visible Learning for teachers: Maximizing impact on learning, Hattie presents eight «mind frames» or ways of thinking that must underpin every action and decision made in schools and educational systems if they are striving to improve the quality of education.

On Friday, May 19, the Harvard Graduate School of Education will present two outstanding educators in the Boston and Cambridge public school systems with James Bryant Conant FellowSchool of Education will present two outstanding educators in the Boston and Cambridge public school systems with James Bryant Conant Fellowschool systems with James Bryant Conant Fellowships.

This potential shift to a fully academised system presents an extensive yet, in NGA's view, underplayed change, one where all schools are effectively moved into the third sector and so bringing about a transformation to governance by trusteeship.

Download PASA's «Initiative - Wide Logic Model»: A tool for presenting PASA's after - school, system - building strategy to key stakeholders (264KB)

In the present system, students always have access to a school that must accept them.

In this way, as school microcosm embodies the true reflection of social structures macrocosm, of their own phenomenological and hermeneutical context, the future of humanity passes by the curricular (re) adjustment of the present education systems before the globalizing techno - economist dynamics.

By undercutting these reform strategies and presenting evidence on the powerful influence of social class on student achievement, Rothstein hopes to convince us that we can expect little from focusing on reform within the school system.

REC Education identified the need for more teachers in 2012 as the school system struggles to cope with present levels of demand and faces up to even greater challenges in the coming years.

«It appears that the situation in education at present is that in system and whole - school contexts NAPLAN is the sole currency.

The School Music Award, sponsored by Stage Systems, is presented to the educational establishment that can demonstrate a commitment to improving the quality of musical learning through the provision of a first class teaching environment.

The first half of the book is a rehashing of arguments against «corporate reform» that were mostly presented in her previous book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System.

The Ed School students presenting their final projects for Associate Professor Jal Mehta's course, Deeper Learning for All - Designing a 21st - Century School System, anticipated tough questions from the panel of experts, including Professors Ronald Ferguson and Andres Alonso.

I say we should radically multiply charter schools, because they begin to provide a degree of diversity in the system that has not been present.

Under present day standards and accountability systems, states, pushed and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills and to do something about schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts, schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career, and life.»

They don't present evidence regarding effects of these initial efforts on student achievement but do explain how RAND diagnosed the weaknesses in the Qatari system, devised the Education for a New Era reform model, and the challenges of implementing standards, independent schools, and the Qatar Student Assessment Ssystem, devised the Education for a New Era reform model, and the challenges of implementing standards, independent schools, and the Qatar Student Assessment SystemSystem.

On Tuesday, June 16, the Harvard Graduate School of Education presented five outstanding educators from the Boston and Cambridge public school systems with James Bryant Conant FellowSchool of Education presented five outstanding educators from the Boston and Cambridge public school systems with James Bryant Conant Fellowschool systems with James Bryant Conant Fellowships.

The approach presented in Towards Self - improving School Systems provides a new way of thinking about how this can be achieved.

Although presented by supporters as an opportunity for states to put forward their best and most innovative ideas, in fact the selection criteria amounted to a detailed list of commitments in areas ranging from state standards and data systems to teacher evaluation systems and strategies to turn around low - performing schools.

Just days before, they had presented an updated fractions policy to school governors and wondered if they could use the system to moderate work instead of using the traditional book trawl.

New Orleans presents the opportunity to study an urban school system where charter schools comprise more than 90 percent of school campuses and total student enrollment.

But since Newark's school system has been under state control since 1995, Baraka's entrée presents more questions than answers.

Had our public education system been funded using school choice mechanisms in the past, they all might be experiencing a different present.

But amidst the search for a kinder and gentler education politics, research demonstrating the positive effect of these New York City strategies makes the moral case clear for an incoming President and for states and districts rethinking education policies: The American education system presents intolerably long odds to low - income children attending persistently struggling schools, and sometimes the most appropriate response to dramatic failure is dramatic intervention.

Whereas present choice systems that are viewed as models for other districts to emulate are designed to achieve the closest possible match between parental preference and school assignment, future choice systems might be redesigned to obtain greater diversity in school - level student populations.

For the present analysis, I aggregate to the district level the data on racial imbalance at individual schools from the SRI and link it to the ECCI data on the choice systems of large districts.

Adding more years to the present public - education mandate would simply give ineffectual school systems additional time to fumble around while entangling pre-K education more tightly in the web of school politics, federalism disputes, bureaucratic rigidities, and adult interest groups.

Thus one of the reasons local activists opposed the 1997 partnership agreement, which severed the link between the school system and the mayor's office, was the threat it presented to a patronage system that had come to serve their interests.