Sentences with phrase «requiring grammar schools»

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The introduction of grammar schools, reducing other schools to the equivalent of secondary moderns, is an example of a tumultuous and contentious policy change that requires the verdict of the voters first.

Their selective ethos makes grammar schools repugnant to educational egalitarians, who believe that equality of opportunity requires all children to have the same standard of education.

She also said that the plans will not mean a new grammar school in every town and people wanting to set up a new selective school will be required to show that they are genuinely reaching out into communities and working to give opportunities to young people from poorer backgrounds.

Add to this nebulous college entrance environment the challenge presented by the proliferation of four - year high schools, whose numbers skyrocketed from 2,526 in 1890 to 10,213 in 1910, and it is easy to see why the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation felt the need to define college: «An institution to be ranked a college must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.»

However, schools like Geelong Grammar are working hard to model a paradigm shift in education that requires ongoing support for teachers, students and parents in their ability to translate and apply scientific findings.

Half of academies sponsored by grammar schools are rated as requiring improvement or inadequate, casting doubt on the effectiveness of government plans to get more selective schools running other nearby schools.

Data released by the government on the day it called the general election shows that eight of the 18 schools sponsored by grammar schools that have been inspected by Ofsted are rated as requires improvement, while two are inadequate.

It doesn't seem to be a potent symbol like grammar school education because it requires a whole network of small, slow unglamorous policy changes.

She said: «We need to look at, for example, should children on free school meals be able to enter grammar schools if they have lower than the average [test score] that is required in Kent?

Five other grammar schools were previously rated as requires improvement and one — Chatham grammar school for boys in Kent — fell into special measures.

A grammar school does not guarantee education quality, shows a new analysis of Ofsted data that reveals some grammars require improvement and have been in special measures.

Five years later, the legislators issued a corrective in the form of the Old Deluder Satan Law: «It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures,» the law intoned, «it is therefore ordered... that everie Township [of 100 households or more] in this Jurisdiction» be required to provide a trained teacher and a grammar school, at taxpayer expense.

In exchange for a parent's agreement not to enroll their special needs student in a public or charter school, the state agrees to make quarterly deposits into an educational savings account in an amount slightly less than the public school would have received to educate the child.14 Parents are required to «provide an education for the qualified student in at least the subjects of reading, grammar, mathematics, social studies and science.»

While legally required to offer a public - school - equivalent education, there is an ongoing New York City investigation into practices at some schools in the highly insular ultra-Orthodox community, with claims that more than a few used by the Hasidic religious group prioritize religious studies to the point that many students graduating 12th grade are near ignorant when it comes to anything more than basic math, grammar, science or history, leaving them all but unemployable.

The council took a decision three weeks ago to hold back further plans for the school, which would have required an investment of # 100,000, until a final decision was reached on the Weald of Kent grammar school extension.

The opening of new grammar schools, which require pupils to pass the 11 + test to gain admittance, was banned by Tony Blair's government in 1998.

May is also expected to announce that grammars will be required to sponsor other schools, particularly primary schools in deprived local areas.

Ministers are proposing that grammar schools be required by law to have strategies in place to «ensure fair access», but for the second time today Gibb went further, suggesting the ability of grammars to select their pupils could depend on the school improving access for poorer pupils.

Schools Week revealed last month that half of the academies currently sponsored by grammars were rated as requires improvement or inadequate by Ofsted.