Sentences with phrase «required school reading»

It's been awhile since I have read it (and at my son's request because it was required school reading) but I do remember the ending didn't leave me with any outstanding questions or a feeling of disappointment, so there you go.

Either one is a signal that you may want to step in and supplement required school reading with literature more appropriate to your tween's skill level and interests.

Not exact matches

This should be required reading in business schools so that we can avoid another headline - grabbing avalanche of corporate misdeeds.»

«This book should be required reading for school, college, and university students who need to improve their communication skills, especially those preparing for a career in business.»

«During early adulthood, about half of Boomers (51 %) and Gen Xers (54 %) said they approved of U.S. Supreme Court rulings that banned the required reading of the Lord's Prayer or Bible verses in public schools; 56 % of Millennials took this view in 2008.»

I even loved the required reading list my teachers handed out at the end of the school year.

It could be because civics was required when I went to school and most of what I read is history and politics.

If anyone would like a little more insight into what it is like in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and what is REALLY going on there, please read «Three Cups of Tea» and «Stones into Schools» by Greg Mortenson — 3 Cups of Tea is now required reading for US State Dept officials and Greg Mortenson has been a consultant to many of the top US Generals in command of the War in Afghanistan.

When the members of the school board of Dover, Pennsylvania, a small community near Harrisburg, required students to read a short statement concerning intelligent design before studying ninth - grade biology, they met stiff resistance from some parents and teachers.

I was raised Mormon, then went to a Baptist school for my elementary years, then had to read the damned thing again in high school, and when I took an Honors English class (The Modern Legacy) at my college, we were required to read the vile New Testament, in addition to the Enuma Elis and the Epic of Gilgamesh.

It was required reading at my school, and though my college was not Christian I did have a Christian (Catholic) instructor for that class.

That's what I think of when I read Paul's «reject a factious man...» I think of it like the old school tent that required tension to be a safe and dry place.

It emerges in the required reading and in the stress on church roots, according to both school and faculty survey comments.

But I do remember, Senator, that, in the course of my own education in Catholic schools, we were required to read the Constitution of the United States; perhaps you were, too?

I'm reminded of a book that was required reading back in Bible School.

In other words, any school requiring students to listen to daily Bible readings or to recite the Lord's Prayer or other officially endorsed prayers is in violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution and the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Gary McLain's simple, straightforward, powerful account of his addiction ought to be required reading for every junior high school student.

WEAKNESSES: Turnover prone in college and needs to better protect the football, specifically with his pocket movements (21 fumbles in his 24 starts)... elongated, wind - up release... chaotic lower body throwing mechanics, influencing his ball placement... too willing to deliver off - balance without setting his feet... bad habit of locking onto targets, leading defenders to the intended receiver... made too many high - risk throws in college, not locating lurking defensive backs... spotty offensive line play in 2017 caused him to play skittish and quicken his reads / movements, leading to mistakes... relatively inexperienced, playing only one full season at quarterback in high school and two years at USC... durable in college, but missed his junior season after a broken foot (Sept. 2013), requiring surgery.

The new policy, modeled after one that shook up the Chicago Public Schools in the mid-1990s, requires 8th graders to demonstrate comprehension of fractions, percentages and ratios in math and broad themes in reading before being allowed to graduate.

San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow has published an excellent piece today that should be required reading for anyone interested in improving school food.

This book should be required reading for day - school educators and parents alike.

A few weeks ago, the Internet was buzzing over news reports that an elementary school in Richmond, VA — allegedly in accordance with federal law — is requiring parents to obtain a doctor's note if they want to send a home - packed lunch to school... [Continue reading]

One of the less talked about mandates of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, the federal legislation overhauling school food, is a provision requiring schools to provide children with free, potable drinking water wherever school meals are... [Continue reading]

The USDA has just announced that, at least for the remainder of this school year, it is no longer requiring that districts comply with the weekly caps on grain and... [Continue reading]

Just coming out of the post-graduate school fog, I'm awakening to the world of actually choosing what I read rather than primarily reading what is required — yippee!

This should be required reading for anyone engaged in school food reform.

Recently Wilma had a moment of frustration and sent me an email which I felt ought to be required reading for any public school parent concerned about school food.

«Free for All» should be required reading for all school meal activists and school administrators.

My son had it as a book he could read (suggested, not required) in high school.

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) State Senator Chris Jacobs says he was surprised to learn only public schools were required to report claims of sexual abuse by teachers after reading the Nichols report on decades of inappropriate relationships between teachers and students.

In less than a month, all contractors who perform renovations, painting and remodeling that might disturb lead - based paint in houses, child care facilities and schools built before 1978 will be required to meet stricter guidelines under the new regulations established... Read more

A new mandate that will require New York public middle and high schools to implement sex education classes providing graphic details and descriptions of various sexual acts... Continue reading →

«Ms. Black, currently executive vice president of Hearst Magazines, lacks the required educational and professional qualifications for the position of Schools Chancellor as determined by state law,» reads the petition, which is addressed to New York State Education Commissioner David M. Steiner.

As a result of this critical analysis, the article is now required reading for at least one the school's research labs.

The biologist at University College Cork in Ireland was required by the school to attend 2 years of counseling for reading aloud from a scientific paper about fruit bat fellatio.

In a pioneering study, Joshua Cowen and colleagues found that voucher schools in Milwaukee saw a large jump in math and reading scores the year after a new law required them to release the results.

In September 2005, in Kitzmiller v. Dover, 11 parents sued the Dover Area School District over a pro — intelligent design disclaimer the school board required to be read when evolution was tSchool District over a pro — intelligent design disclaimer the school board required to be read when evolution was tschool board required to be read when evolution was taught.

From the classics to required reading in high school, Olympia Le - Tan's unique clutches have become a must - have accessory.

If you've read John Steinbeck's novella «Of Mice and Men» which is frequently required high - school reading, you'll immediately recognize the fraternal bonds of Connie and Nick as reflecting the tender relationship of George Milton and Lenny Small.

by Guest Contributor Pamela Vetter Jules Verne's novels were required reading when I was in high school.

I think it is pretty safe to say that almost anyone that read their required reading list in high school has read «The Catcher in the Rye».

High Schools That Work (HSTW) has required participating sites to administer a set of achievement tests in reading, mathematics, and science.

Context is also lacking in his September 3 column, where he noted, «The federal system uses a single yearly proficiency goal - for North Carolina, 68 percent of students reading on grade level this year - and requires all schools to make that number.»

Other benefits highlighted by these stakeholders included: Literacy and numeracy assessments can be used to celebrate learning, identify strengths, needs, barriers to learning and allow teachers to make informed and objective judgements about learning; Focusing teachers» and schools» attention on the need for phonics to be taught explicitly and systematically to achieve the necessary level of word reading skills that are required to develop skilled reading; Early identification of children with learning difficulties or [those who] need additional instruction.

The remedies that the new leaders proposed and implemented were also similar: bringing in the best consultants, introducing new curricula, removing and replacing the principals of poorly performing schools, adding math and reading coaches, requiring summer staff training, bringing in charter school organizers to manage the worst - performing schools.

Like all the other students in Joanna Ecke's American - literature class at Wilton High School here, Sister M. Andrina Logan dutifully carries her textbook to class four days a week and does the required readings by Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, and Benjamin Franklin.

At the same time that thousands of school districts nationwide are beginning to implement the Common Core State Standards in English / language arts, many also face new state reading policies for the early grades that call for the identification of struggling readers, require interventions to help them, and, in some instances, mandate the retention of 3rd graders who lack adequate reading skills.

It should be required reading at our college and university schools of education.

NCLB required that states test students in math and reading each year, that average student performance be publicized for every school, and that schools with persistently low test scores face an escalating series of sanctions.

NCLB mandated reading and math testing in grades 3 through 8 and at least once in high school, and it required states to rate schools on the basis of test performance overall and for key subgroups.