Sentences with phrase «rather large high school»

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The last thing they want is too high a funding level that would enable schools to have working kitchens (rather than large ovens to heat up trays prepared in a central kitchen) and a skilled staff capable of serving healthy homemade meals.

The report suggests that government efforts should be geared not only towards academically - minded young people, but also towards the large number of high school graduates who want to start working rather than go on studying.

The producers should also be commended for hiring inexperienced young actors in the lead and supporting roles rather than the typical seasoned stars of the high school / frat pack genre, who you would normally associate with films of this nature, and they by and large acquit themselves rather well.

For too many students, large comprehensive high schools are a place to get lost rather than to thrive.

For an analysis of how district administrators differentiate support for improvement to schools, for example, we focused on medium - to large - sized districts serving multiple schools at all levels, rather than small districts with only an elementary, middle, and high school.

Rather, the key factor was that higher - performing students transferred in large numbers from public to private schools.

This process began by thinking of the large school system of 300,000 high school students not as a school system, but rather a system of schools — which meant that every school had to be a good school.

In Singapore, for example, teachers have 20 hours per week scheduled to work with colleagues, including time for «action research,» through which teachers identify and solve shared problems through discussion and classroom experimentation.20 Research suggests that professional learning in many high - performing countries tends to yield positive results when it is part of a larger school effort, rather than a patchwork of isolated activities not connected to school - level goals.21

In a forum in Los Angeles marked by subtle distinctions rather than large differences, three candidates for California's next state superintendent of public instruction called Monday for more transparency in school spending of state funds, while making guarded endorsements of the state's five - year - old school funding formula targeting funds at high - needs students.