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Editor Lord Lucas said featured schools were chosen by parents who were more interested in sending their children to state schools now than in the past.
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This weekend pays tribute to a specific era, 1985 - 89, and features a host of initiatives like cars with old - school car paint schemes, commemorative ticket and program designs, specially - designed apparel, retro food offerings at the track... unlike, say, baseball or football throw - back games where the only real change is the team's uniforms, Darlington and its partners goes all in.
In addition to the Metro rail system, he said, Prince George's is sandwiched between major airports in Baltimore and D.C., features an urban area with ample space to build, and is surrounded by several universities, particularly Maryland's flagship school.
PARAMUS — As Paramus Catholic High School officials prepare to host a football camp Wednesday featuring Michigan's Jim Harbaugh, authorities are said to be investigating a series of acts that the school president called vandSchool officials prepare to host a football camp Wednesday featuring Michigan's Jim Harbaugh, authorities are said to be investigating a series of acts that the school president called vandschool president called vandalism.
«Interestingly, [our] study did not find significant clustering of muscle - enhancing behaviors within schools,» said Eisenberg, which suggests that, «rather than being driven by a particular sports team coach or other features of a school social landscape, muscle - enhancing behaviors are widespread and influenced by factors beyond school, likely encompassing social and cultural variables such as media messages and social norms of behavior more broadly.»
Crawford said she and other officials working on the village's crisis plan recently attended an event featuring a parent whose child was one of the 20 students killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in December of 2012.
In response to written questions, a Chicago Public Schools spokesman said that recent food service improvements include the elimination of trans fats and deep - fat fryers; a universal breakfast program aimed at reaching more students; a sliced - fruit pilot program in 31 schools featuring produce from farms within 150 miles of Chicago; and an initiative to serve local, frozen vegeSchools spokesman said that recent food service improvements include the elimination of trans fats and deep - fat fryers; a universal breakfast program aimed at reaching more students; a sliced - fruit pilot program in 31 schools featuring produce from farms within 150 miles of Chicago; and an initiative to serve local, frozen vegeschools featuring produce from farms within 150 miles of Chicago; and an initiative to serve local, frozen vegetables.
«They've helped to destroy successful schools across the city of New York,» Thompson said during a panel discussion on education policy at NYU, hosted by the New York City Working Group on School Transformation, which also featured Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio who are presumptive candidates for mayor.
BASC regional director for the south west, Jamie Stewart, said: «We had a fantastic venue in the form of Taunton school with its gothic features and superb staff.
«Four consecutive austerity budgets featuring tax cuts for the rich and underfunding of schools and public services is nothing to boast about,» said Hawkins.
«Over 100,000 Connecticut children are in underperforming schools,» the narrator says in the ad, which features shots of Foley holding an iPad surrounded by children and standing on a playground talking to parents.
He said his progressive tax reforms would also fund «A Green New Deal for New York» featuring full employment, living wages, single - payer health care, fully - funded public schools, affordable housing and mass transit, and a 100 percent clean energy system by 2030.
The chairman of the Conservative Party Grant Shapps said Labour's policy on free schools remains unchanged and still features a «load of bureaucracy attached».
The UFT is releasing a television ad on March 8 featuring a New York City public school parent saying, «The city's got a $ 3 billion surplus.
«Corruption has been a feature of government in the Empire State for a long time,» said Schneiderman at a forum hosted at New York Law School by good government group Citizens Union.
Life Cycle Stacking Blocks $ 19.95 at forsmallhands.com; ages 2 to 6 Paperboard boxes that stack nearly three feet high and feature beautiful illustrations of the life cycles of the butterfly and frog are accompanied by an informative poem, says Julie Frey, a fifth grade teacher at Stuard Elementary School in Aledo, Tex..
«The physical features of the disorder are not well known, making it difficult for pediatricians to diagnose,» said Dr. Close, who conducted this study while a doctoral student at Columbia University School of Nursing.
«The ability to suture a thread - based diagnostic device intimately in a tissue or organ environment in three dimensions adds a unique feature that is not available with other flexible diagnostic platforms,» said Sameer Sonkusale, Ph.D., corresponding author on the paper and director of the interdisciplinary Nano Lab in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University's School of Engineering.
«Our study is important because tropical cyclone intensity forecasts for several past hurricanes over the Caribbean Sea have under - predicted rapid intensification events over warm oceanic features,» said Johna Rudzin, a PhD student at the UM Rosenstiel School and lead author of the study.
«We looked at how various features support educators in knowing what students know,» said Barry Fishman, a professor at the U-M School of Information and the School of Education.
At a meeting here last month of the American Schools of Oriental Research, team members said they have more than tripled the number of published archaeological features in Afghanistan, to more than 4500.
«People have been trying to figure out for quite a while whether the way that we react to music is based on the culture that we come from or on some universal features of the music itself,» says Stephen McAdams, from McGill's Schulich School of Music.
«There are probably some features in music that make you feel a certain way, but it's your experience with it that is even more important,» said Burdette, who also is professor of radiology and vice chairman of research at Wake Forest School of Medicine.
«Mouse behavior isn't the same as human behavior, so we need to be cautious, but we were surprised and heartened by the fact that the mutant mice responded to lithium treatment — a gold standard for treating human bipolar disorder and alleviating features of mania and depression,» says Christopher Ross, M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
«A Mediterranean diet isn't a magic diet, but it has a lot of features that we know are generally healthful,» says Richard Hellman, MD, an endocrinologist and clinical professor of medicine at the University of Missouri — Kansas City School of Medicine, who was not involved in the research.
That said, the game isn't strictly old - school — the game features an innovative battle system, and eight characters with unique powers, strengths, and weaknesses.
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He says the school uses the design terminology of «soft systems» (the things you do, such as decision - making, timetabling, pedagogical approach) and «hard systems» (physical features such as the classroom walls, furniture and equipment).
Not as well as they could be, says Donald Leu, professor of education at the University of Connecticut Neag School of Education and the featured speaker at this year's Jeanne Chall Lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Jorge Sá Couto, Chairman of JP - IK said: «NetSupport School was an obvious choice to include in our Education software offer, mainly because of its feature - rich content.
But head teacher Phil Dover said: «Despite the dip in money, I feel that we have acquired a compact and very modern school with features, such as a library, we have not had for years.
Looking at school uniform policies, there's a middle ground where schools do allow normal clothing, but maintain restrictions over, say, certain brand labels or styles of dress; BYOD could achieve a similar balance between opening the door to more diverse devices and limiting certain features to prevent them from setting some students apart from their peers.
«Within three blocks of my house, kids are attending at least six different public elementary schools,» said Hewson, who found that many parents she knew were opting for schools with stronger performance or special features like dual - language immersion.
«Protective Behaviours education is embedded in our school's ethos and is an important feature in one of the school priorities of Student Wellbeing,» Gorton says.
«Next century, schools as we know them will no longer exist,» says a feature in The Age publication, based in Melbourne, Australia.
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Key features make the difference The key element is a whole - school inclusive ethos that says we welcome all children, parents, carers and families and see them as the cornerstone of our school community.
«When I introduced Brightspace to my Grade 10 French Immersion class — I was transitioning from my class website in First Class — and then started using some of its features in class (i.e. the discussion forum), I faced some vociferous opposition from a few of my students,» says Katherine Graham Burra, a teacher with the Limestone District School Board.
«More parents who can afford to make the choice are now choosing to send their children to state schools, many more of which are featuring in the lists of the nation's top performers,» he said.
Catholic school leaders say these features are needed to compensate for flaws in the SES score, and the formula does need to be reviewed.
Because BVP includes students with special needs in standard classrooms, the new high school really didn't need many special features for those students, said DeMatteo.
A key tool in the campaign, it says, is a 90 - minute film called «IndoctriNation: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America» which was released in 2011 which features the producer, Colin Gunn, traveling around the United States in a bus with his family and talking to various «education authorities» who are really extreme libertarians, evangelical preachers, teachers who have left public schools because they couldn't bring Jesus Christ into the classroom and politicians who oppose public sSchools and the Decline of Christianity in America» which was released in 2011 which features the producer, Colin Gunn, traveling around the United States in a bus with his family and talking to various «education authorities» who are really extreme libertarians, evangelical preachers, teachers who have left public schools because they couldn't bring Jesus Christ into the classroom and politicians who oppose public sschools because they couldn't bring Jesus Christ into the classroom and politicians who oppose public schoolsschools.
This week, a report by a Rand Corp. economist was featured in the Los Angeles Times and Education Week, which says that charter school migration has not only strained public funding for education, but also squeezed the public sector, i.e. public and catholic schools.
Tooele High School website redirects to «lingerie girls» page after domain lapses Former domain now features young women posing in lingerie; new owners say pony up $ 9,800 to get old site back.
The Madison School Board had been expected to vote June 30 on whether to spend $ 273,000 over three years on software whose developers say features algorithms that can predict which prospective teachers are likely to raise student test scores.
Ms Hutt, who was officially started the scheme on a visit to Brynnau Primary School near Llanharan in Rhondda Cynon Taf on Tuesday morning, said: «The foundation phase takes a different approach to learning and a key feature is using the outdoors to encourage children to learn about conservation and the environment.
When hit with a class - action lawsuit over its discipline policies, Marcovitz said he and his team saw it as yet another moment to adjust their model, which now features «schools within schools» to address the needs of students with behavior issues, for example, with services like garden and music therapy.
At the same time, many researchers say that attempting to simply replicate features of high - performing countries» education systems in the United States is a mistake, unless policymakers account for the role that cultural norms play in shaping school policies in other nations.
«We partnered with BloomBoard because of the platform's impressive set of features and high - quality content that support, motivate, and record progress on our teachers» unique personal learning needs and goals, as well as larger district initiatives,» said Dr. Philip W.V. Hickman, Superintendent at Columbus Municipal School District.