Sentences with phrase «represent different schools»

When it comes to education policy, the two of us represent different schools of thought.

«We are expecting over 100 parents, representing different schools across the state,» said Long, who is bringing a group of parents from the Bay Area.

Schools were chosen to represent all different school types in Germany (Hautpschule, Realschule, Gymnasium, Gesamtschule).

Not exact matches

Many public school teachers that are Christians have been fired because of their beliefs, especially around Christmas and Easter time, when they merely mention the reasons behind the seasons and don't advocate Santa Claus and the Easter bunny with its colored eggs (funny how the different colors of eggs represent the rainbow's colors).

Different schools and different denominations doubtless represent different perspectives and emphases in their understanding of this Church; yet they participate in the common life insofar as they respect and gain profit from each other's contrDifferent schools and different denominations doubtless represent different perspectives and emphases in their understanding of this Church; yet they participate in the common life insofar as they respect and gain profit from each other's contrdifferent denominations doubtless represent different perspectives and emphases in their understanding of this Church; yet they participate in the common life insofar as they respect and gain profit from each other's contrdifferent perspectives and emphases in their understanding of this Church; yet they participate in the common life insofar as they respect and gain profit from each other's contributions.

Ryan Valentine of the Texas Freedom Network takes a different view: «Academic study of the Bible in a history or literature course is perfectly acceptable,» he says, «but this curriculum represents a blatant attempt to turn a public school class into a Sunday school class.

Barton represented his school at seven or eight different sports, but pushed himself all the way when it came to football.

Parents are often the most invested in school district concerns, but every community member in the district has a voice, and various groups represent different perspectives.

Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «People from across the political spectrum, representing a range of different religions and beliefs, are united on this one point: whatever your views on faith schools themselves, it can not be right for taxpayer - funded schools to divide and discriminate against children.

«In the Cretaceous amber we examine, the ants and termites represent the earliest branches of each evolutionary tree, and the species are wildly different from what their modern relatives look like today,» said co-author Phillip Barden, a recent graduate of the comparative biology doctoral program at the Museum's Richard Gilder Graduate School and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University.

Dr Vera Weisbecker of UQ's School of Biological Sciences said the study represented the first dataset comparing brain growth in different mammals, gathered through a novel method of non-invasive micro-CT (computed tomography) scanning which allowed the fast data acquisition of soft tissue growth in tiny mammals.

Philip von Rosen's studies include 680 elite athletes representing 16 different sports at 24 such schools around the country who have completed a series of surveys on injury occurrence and the volume and intensity of their training programmes.

«Having a group of distantly related species, representing markedly different ecologies and biology, is as important, or more important, than just having more species in general,» said Brian R. Silliman, Rachel Carson associate professor of marine conservation biology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

Describing, organizing and reducing, representing several different sources say that the percentage of high school relationships going into marriage is from 8 % to 11 % and 5 % don't get divorced.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Net differences represent the effects of a closure, showing us the impact on students who had to choose a different high school.

The premise of Rethinking School Finance is that the financial issues raised by today's broad - scale education - reform strategies represent a school - finance agenda that is «dramatically different from the traditional concern with fiscal disparities across school districts within states.&School Finance is that the financial issues raised by today's broad - scale education - reform strategies represent a school - finance agenda that is «dramatically different from the traditional concern with fiscal disparities across school districts within states.&school - finance agenda that is «dramatically different from the traditional concern with fiscal disparities across school districts within states.&school districts within states.»

The coalition is more than teachers unions and includes school boards, administrators, PTAs, and noncertified employees represented by several different unions, including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

As students traverse different courses and grade levels throughout high school, they should experience all aspects of the Student Voice implementation continuum represented in the following table.

When Shoemaker was teaching middle school science and social studies classes, her students wanted to know why gadgets use different kinds of batteries, so she created what she thought would be a quick - and - easy project: She put together an Excel spreadsheet of battery data and asked students to create a graphic that visually represented the information.

They represent a different way of life — a time when schools were «right there» in the neighborhood.»

Over the last three years, faculty from the Harvard Graduate School of Education have brought together 30 national educational leaders from different corners of the field, representing diverse backgrounds and perspectives, with the goal of thinking broadly about what ideas and approaches are likely to lead to a more promising future.

Although we observe that RSD - governed schools tend to cluster together, there are multiple governance - type combinations represented in each cluster, and a CMO can have schools in up to three different clusters.

To start or recommit to this climate work, one strategy is to «convene a team of stakeholders who represent different parts of your school community — families, community members, teachers, support staff, and youth,» says Brion - Meisels.

Although the teacher who summed up his classroom as 52 different learners represents one class in one Finnish School, the comment and model represents a model for aspiration for special education.

The cohort represents 19 different schools and organizations mostly based in the East Bay, including Project H, ACOE's Integrated Learning, and the Oakland Public Library.

«In many respects, the schools serving white and Asian students and those serving black and Latino students represent two different worlds,» say the researchers.

By aggregating across measures that represent very different dimensions of performance, the summative score may not identify schools as low - performing if they are very low on just one measure, even if they are merely average, or even moderately low, on others.

The new reviews mark a different approach with the TSC, a group that represents teaching schools and system leaders, commissioned to lead the projects.

The magazine notes, «Ana represents the growing number of extraordinary school leaders working to provide a transformational education that puts children in low - income communities on a different life trajectory than their socioeconomic background would predict.»

Its record of achievement has continued to attract a diverse cross section of students, including families from each of the city's 32 school districts representing children zoned for 576 different elementary schools in both low - income and mixed - income neighborhoods.

But even so, data representing how students experienced your class, your staff, or your school feels really different than student test score data.

If we, the citizens of Oakland, want the district to be financially viable, AND we want many good schools representing a variety of models to meet the needs of different families and communities, we need to ask a different set of questions.

The move would represent an unprecedented change to the inspection of leading private schools which are currently regulated under a different system administered by the Independent Schools Inspectorateschools which are currently regulated under a different system administered by the Independent Schools InspectorateSchools Inspectorate (ISI).

It is designed for teachers and school leaders who wish to build solid shared understandings about the kinds of data used in schools, the different ways in which data can be represented and what they can tell teachers about student learning.

Lawyers representing parents will argue that under the European convention on human rights and corresponding case law, the state is obliged to treat different religions and beliefs on an equal footing and that religions should not be elevated above non-religious world views in the school curriculum.

But one of the attorneys representing the 25 plaintiffs in the case who oppose the school voucher program, North Carolina Justice Center's Christine Bischoff, offered a different perspective.

Dan Rossmiller, lobbyist for the school boards association, said his organization's voice does not replace WEAC's because it represents a different perspective.

The Trustees on the board represent a range of school types from across the educational landscape and bring a variety of different experiences with them.

«While we obviously would have preferred a different decision from the National Board of the NAACP today, we are greatly encouraged to see how thousands of voices across this country representing the interests of historically underserved students have registered their clear support for charter schools continuing to grow and expand their positive impact on public education in communities across the United States.

The eight schools participating in the REL Northwest study represent significantly different communities — from urban comprehensive high schools to rural schools to schools on or near Indian reservations.

More than 30 teachers that represented nine different systems or schools attended a STEM \ \ venture Day at the Fulton County charter school.

And what a different political world we lived in 1954 — the year the current system was put in place — before Martin Luther King, integrated schools, and elected officials who truly represented New Orleans» diversity.

While all the things that go bump in the night tell us that tests and standards and accountability are responsible for the complete and utter fall of western civilization as we once knew it, a large and impressive group of superintendents (present and former) representing some of the nation's largest school districts have a different view.

Eight case studies were included, representing eight different countries in all three IB regions (Americas, Asia Pacific, and Africa, Europe, and Middle East), and both public and private schools.

High school teams representing 30 different Oakland County high schools had six weeks to design and build robots to play this year's OCCRA game.

The 286 schools — 210 elementary schools, 22 middle schools, 53 high schools, and one K — 12 school — represent promising ideas in different settings, from rural areas to major cities.

The 16 winning applications represent 55 different school districts, including rural districts, charter schools, large consortia of districts, and traditional districts.

Certainly simpler than the complex politics of a city school board representing multiple constituencies and independent governance in 32 different community districts.

Although they represent the extremes, these very different districts illustrate a troubling pattern that emerges in the school - spending data: The 10 most expensive schools have some of the lowest graduations rates, and the 10 schools that spend the least per student have some of the highest.