Sentences with phrase «public schools as a whole»

Americans today give the public schools as a whole poor marks.

When asked to grade the nation's public schools as a whole, Americans offer decidedly mixed assessments.

Providing... captive parents with broad school - choice options is the only chance to improve public schools as a whole.

«For me... that is the problem with the movement of charter schools is that it's about fighting and dividing, not collaborating and strengthening public schools as a whole entity,» Nelson said.

Not exact matches

Some of those that are religious are certainly not Christian, and to display Christian icons in public schools is not only unfair to the students, but to the population as a whole.

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So while I appreciate the argument that keeping our kids in public school benefits the community as a whole, I'm also not willing to keep my kids in a sinking ship so the school can reap an extra $ 5000 / year per child for the benefit of our community.

In response to the USDA's recommendations that public schools cut back on sodium, starchy foods like potatoes, saturated fats and total calories in school lunches, while including more whole grains and a wider variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, Congress decided that the tomato paste in pizza should count as a «vegetable.»

United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, however, bluntly blasted DeVos as having a strictly business philosophy rather than an educational one, noting that her whole career has been about removing funding from public schools.

As scientists at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health recently found while investigating whooping cough outbreaks in and around Michigan, «geographic pockets of vaccine exemptors pose a risk to the whole community.»

Consuming a plant - based diet — especially one rich in high - quality plant foods such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes — is linked with substantially lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

A team of researchers from Harvard School of Public Health recently published the results of two cohort studies that had been conducted over the course of 26 years showing how the health benefits of whole grains - such as oats, maize, and amaranth - may increase longevity.

One of the top six recommendations for increasing your fibre intake on the Harvard Public School of Health's website is «experimenting with international dishes (such as Indian or Middle Eastern) that use whole grains and legumes as part of the main meal (such as Indian dahls)» (6).

But if the public thinks better of local public schools than it does of those in the nation as a whole, it is definitely more satisfied with local private schools than with public ones.

Whatever their agendas, however, most supporters of school choice build their political case on the virtues of competition for public education as a whole.

The public is also famously and enduringly off the mark regarding the academic performance of their local schools, still sipping the warm waters of Lake Wobegon and giving honors grades to «the public schools in your community,» even while conferring far lower marks on «the public schools in the nation as a whole.»

Americans assign far higher grades to the public schools in their local community than to the public schools of the nation as a whole.

Ferro and her co-director Deborah Hoard focused on U.S. public schools which seek to create a «culture of intellectual life» and to respect «the whole child as a learner and as an adult in training.»

• For parents as a whole, public school ideology is almost as important as equity concerns in shaping the desire to go private.

The findings, available here, also reveal that poor, minority and less educated citizens are just as informed about school quality as the public as a whole.

• What grade would you give the public schools in the nation as a whole?

Accordingly, public evaluations of the nation's schools have only slightly improved since 2007 among the public as a whole as well as among Republicans and Democrats.

Increase target women knowledge about gender issues and human rights with improvement in their skills to advocate their rights and to participate in decision making, it will also has impact the children through the work with teachers and within schools - as well as the whole community through public event community mobilization and so on.

In addition to the views of the public as a whole, we pay special attention in this year's survey to two potentially influential types of participants in school politics: the affluent and teachers.

Our readers are more likely to have opinions on charter schools than the public as a whole (all but 7 percent take a position in contrast to the 39 percent of the public who take a pass on this item), but the ratio of support to opposition is roughly the same: about 3:1.

Viewed as a whole, selective public high schools have a surprising demographic profile.

He is the co-author with Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Gregg Vanourek of Charter Schools in Action: Renewing Public Education; co-author with Peter Frumkin and Nell Edgington of The Strategic Management of Charter Schools: Frameworks and Tools for Educational Entrepreneurs; co-editor with Frederick M. Hess of Customized Schooling: Beyond Whole School Reform as well as many articles on K — 12 education policy and reform.

And on the specific claim the article makes that «half the charters perform only as well, or worse than, Detroit's traditional public schools» this is what the Stanford study has to say: «In reading, 47 percent of charter schools perform significantly better than their traditional public school market, which is more positive than the 35 % for Michigan charter schools as a whole.

While the public as a whole is split down the middle, readers are nearly twice as likely to think they are a stumbling block to school reform.

Smith, who has taught for more than a decade in both D.C.'s public charter and traditional district schools, immediately saw the benefit for students, but says she was most captivated by the opportunity to elevate teaching practice and the profession as a whole.

Taken as a whole, information about local school rankings has a less substantial impact on public thinking about teacher policy than it has on thinking about school choice policies.

Nonetheless, the results suggest that public school students profit nearly as much from increased private school competition as do a nation's students as a whole.

EFFECT ON PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS The previous portions of our study investigated the impact of private competition on student achievement in the educational system as a whole.

Although the college - sending rates of the highest - performing high schools in the sample are low relative to Texas as a whole, our findings suggest that offering eligibility for automatic admission may not be effective at accomplishing even the narrow goal of increasing access to the top public universities for students in the most - disadvantaged settings.

«Our results suggest that students in public schools profit nearly as much from increased private school competition as do a nation's students as a whole,» West and Woessman note.

When focused on cities with large numbers of charter schools, these comparisons reliably show that African American students are more racially isolated in charter schools than in the districts as a whole — as are African American students in traditional public schools in the same neighborhoods.

A solid majority of the public as a whole, and a plurality of every subgroup, support education tax credits for low - and moderate - income parents who send their children to private schools.

In recent years, one Jersey City public school, PS 24 (better known as Watters School), has focused more on the whole child and has used a systematic social, emotional, and character development program in grades six through school, PS 24 (better known as Watters School), has focused more on the whole child and has used a systematic social, emotional, and character development program in grades six through School), has focused more on the whole child and has used a systematic social, emotional, and character development program in grades six through eight.

For the most part, both the public as a whole and the various groups appear equally likely to support proposals that would use government funds to help pay the private school tuitions of either «low income students» or «all students.»

The bill would give states the option of using the funds now distributed through a host of federal programs — amounting to about $ 24 billion a year on the whole — as a single block grant to states for public and private school vouchers.

Americans as a whole believe private and parochial schools do a better job of educating students than public schools do, something that might be remedied with the right federal or state public school education policies.

The project will invest $ 100 million into 10 new or newly expanding schools that are rethinking how schools should operate, with the ultimate goal of inspiring changes to how the U.S. public education system as a whole teaches high school students.

In the United States as a whole, the enrollment rate for youths in all secondary schools - public high schools, private secular and religious high schools, and the preparatory departments of colleges and universities - soared from 1910 to 1940 (see Figure 2).

Figure 1 reports the original NCES results for public and private schools (both sectors taken as a whole), and then those from the three alternative models.

But when they expect the state to educate their children at public expense, the public has a right to know whether those children are learning anything (no, not whether Johnny and Mary are learning, but whether the children of Waco — or Scarsdale — are learning); whether taxpayers are getting a decent ROI from the schools they're paying for; and whether their community, their state, their society will be economically competitive and civically whole in the future as a result of an adequately educated populace.

Independent schools, when taken as a whole, still represent the majority of the country's charter schools — 55 percent of them, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Sschools, when taken as a whole, still represent the majority of the country's charter schools — 55 percent of them, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Sschools — 55 percent of them, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter SchoolsSchools.

With a new year comes new opportunities to work together to address challenges charter schools face in Northeastern California, and to improve public education as a whole.

I hope the Newark experience inspires parents and educators across the nation to find more ways to work together, and with other public education partners, to find innovative solutions that not only help your own school but transform public education system for your city or state as a whole.

Taking aim on the entire charter sector and ignoring the same issues in district schools does nothing to improve public education as a whole.

These were the last students to have experienced Locke as a public school, back when they were freshmen, and the last to represent Locke High School as a whole; younger students have been placed in small, individual academies on campus, each of which reports separately to the school, back when they were freshmen, and the last to represent Locke High School as a whole; younger students have been placed in small, individual academies on campus, each of which reports separately to the School as a whole; younger students have been placed in small, individual academies on campus, each of which reports separately to the state.