Sentences with phrase «school as a means to an end»

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It means we will be able to use that money to invest in our priorities at home, such as housing, schools and the NHS, and it means the days of paying vast sums to the European Union every year are coming to an end.

But with huge plant investments and the nightmare of retrenchment facing educational institutions, the temptation is to see students not as ends for which schools exist, but as means to the economic survival of the institutions themselves.

Using this form of violence as a means to an end may cause children to use violence to get what they want not only at home, but also at school.

All state - maintained schools should be held to the same standards of equality and non-discrimination in the way they operate as each other and be inclusive, and that means an end to religious discrimination in admissions, in the curriculum and in the staffing of our schools.»

By Ian Dunt Follow @IanDunt The opening shot of The Iron Lady shows Margaret Thatcher's hand taking a carton of milk from a fridge, an allusion to her reputation as the prime minister so mean she tried to end free milk for school children.

During a radio appearance Tuesday, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña touted mayoral control as a means of seeing initiatives all the way through to their end.

«With this very early impact on the heart, you end up with an animal that just can't pump blood through its body as well, which means it can't swim as well to capture food, form schools, or migrate,» said Mark Carls, toxicologist at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center.

So I chose the fabulous Bella Dress to review and style, and let me start by saying I was blown away with the craftsmanship of this dress — As a side note for many of you who don't know me I went to fashion design school for 4 years so I can really see when a piece is well made, the seams match perfectly and are beautifully finished in all the details, there's no extra thread or twisted lines, all I'm trying to say is that that bit of care takes a garment to another level, that's what we mean when we talk High End, luxe clothing.

The real series lead is Imogen Poots as Kelly Ann, a serious young gaffer who wants to leave the crew and go to film school, but ends up being drawn back in once she feels like she's not only being heard, but that the music means something to her again.

«As long as we get the ends, we have a lot of flexibility to decide on the means,» said Lynni Nordheim, 30, a 4th - grade teacher who came to the school after teaching six years in Las VegaAs long as we get the ends, we have a lot of flexibility to decide on the means,» said Lynni Nordheim, 30, a 4th - grade teacher who came to the school after teaching six years in Las Vegaas we get the ends, we have a lot of flexibility to decide on the means,» said Lynni Nordheim, 30, a 4th - grade teacher who came to the school after teaching six years in Las Vegas.

The measure will end the use of local tax referendums as a means of increasing funds for schools by 1997, according to the state education department.

The superintendent of the Fairfax County, Va., public schools has opted to retire early at the end of this year in the wake of negative public reaction to a school - board plan to add his early - retirement benefit to his current salary as a means of keeping him on the job longer.

Building community also means connecting with kids, so United for Success starts and ends each school day with an advisory period, during which a small group of students meet with a particular teacher, creating an in - school family of sorts to support students academically and personally as they navigate the rough waters of adolescence.

Through this NPRM, we intend to carry Head Start forward into the 21st century to ensure all Head Start children receive sufficient exposure to high quality services that will promote school success and reinvigorate the promise of Head Start envisioned in 1965 as a means to help end the effects of poverty child by child, community by community.

While the national discourse focuses on the merits of school choice initiatives in their own right and for their own sakes, as leaders of state and local education systems, as educators of diverse regional, political, and professional backgrounds, we believe that these policies are better thought of as means to critical ends, and that the goal of these and other education policies should be, above all else, the enhancement of skills for America's youngest generation and expanded opportunity for children to thrive as adults.

By comparison, the Matthew Effect means that those students who do not develop effective reading skills as expected according to grade - level criteria will end up being behind in reading throughout their later school experiences.

The fantastic collaboration of experts and researchers helped define and shape the process as it unfolded, but in the end School Readiness was not only an academic question, it was an aspirational question: «What does it mean to be Kindergarten Ready?»

This type of thinking correctly positions the blended model as a means to an end — a strategy for accomplishing the school's educational objectives.

Schooling as socialization, which he described as ««vocational guidance» to fit people wherever they are needed in the productive system,» troubled Goodman in means and ends.

«What we're looking for is solutions to end the cycle that's going on in these schools, and if that means an innovative solution happens to be from one of these superintendents and these districts, as long as it's not the same thing over again and just injecting more money,... we are interested,» said Diaz, a Hialeah Republican.

Fewer state dollars means higher property taxes as schools unable to make ends meet head to referendum.

Clinton used «below average» as shorthand for low - performing, which indicates a lack of understanding of exactly how schools end up tagged low - performing, and how the stack ranking of schools is pernicious, inaccurate, and guaranteed to always result in schools labeled low - performing (and for that matter, what «below average» really means).

Although corporate education reformers love to talk about providing students with «school choice,» this latest effort to put another Achievement First, Inc. school in the North - end would mean that the children of Clark any remaining public school children would be provided «choice,» as long as their «choice» was a charter school.

The fact that highly - educated families end up using proxies such as class sizes have no relation to quality of teaching and curricula means that they are merely guessing when it comes to helping their kids get into great schools.

Bangladesh has a program which covers 80 percent of teacher salaries in private schools.15 Vouchers or various other financial support structures from the government appear to be widely available in and embraced by developing countries as a means of increasing enrollment at the bottom end of their socioeconomic ladders.

«This does not mean 153 schools will end up as an Academy - the application has to be agreed, a consultation exercise followed and a Governing Body may well change its mind in between an Academy Order being granted and the Funding Agreement signed.»

Friedman views a market system as the solution to America's education inequality problems and school choice, specifically vouchers, as the means to that end.

Jones also spoke to GoodeReader about the possible reasons why digital textbooks have seen a greater adoption at the higher education level than in the public schools, namely that in those arenas that students are accustomed to paying for content, as well as the fact that they see the means to an end in this kind of investment towards their degrees and ultimately their careers.

If a book is slated to be discussed in high school or college English courses, or if it's marketed as a book club selection, the author and publisher may elect to include a section at the end of the body text that introduces questions about the story and facilitates an academic discussion of the themes, characters, and deeper meanings.

The less fortunate school friend, never went to college in the end but not due to lack of means but rather due to early retirement as his inherited dilapidated family building broke auction records as Mouille Point collected it's residential property title of the Golden Mile during the property boom.

Being somewhat limited in my freedom to be entertained as a kid, for many years of my life, gaming served as a diverse means of escape for me away from the trappings of a mostly mundane, repetitive life, at the end of the school day I would often think to myself «alright... so what are some of the good things that I have to look forward to when I get home...», one of the first things that I would do as soon as I got home after school was play FINAL FANTASY on PlayStation, I would eagerly walk home as quickly as I could just so that I could continue playing from the part where I had last left off the day before, as pathetic as this may come across, I can confidently say that many of the happiest moments that I have had in my life have been while being utterly enthralled by the developments in the games, I think that reminiscing about aspects of a video game with great fondness is a hallmark of an impactful form of entertainment, I would often be so «in the zone» while playing that anything aside from what was taking place on the screen would become completely null and void in my mind to the point where I forget that I was playing a video game, even though I did not live the events of the game, I can emphatise with them as if I had, that is the sort of impact that the emotional depth of the story, the characters, the music, the design and the overall world of the series have had on me, what appeals the most to me is that FINAL FANTASY allows us the luxury of divorcing ourselves of our current reality to assume that of a world of fantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy another day

I always wondered if this was an artifact of the means - to - an - end trade school mentality that most of these same students possessed, or if their supposed pragmatism was actually a facade erected to hide their genuine lack of curiosity and interest in the law as an intellectual construct.

According to the Insurance Research Council, as many as one in five convictions for traffic violations never end up on motor vehicle records due to lack of shared information between courts and motor vehicle departments, or because a conviction has been erased through alternative means, such as driving school for a speeding ticket.