Sentences with phrase «school at little cost»

The dual - credit program that allows students to get college credits while in high school at little cost is proving to be a national model, but benefiting most are middle - class students who planned to go to college anyway.

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When school is in session, needy families know their kids can eat at least one nutritious meal each day at little or no cost.

With peer pressure, in young kids it's very easy to go down the wrong route and it takes a split second to take the wrong decision that can cost you,» he says, though he admits that he wished he «had done a little bit more at school».

«While sickle cell newborn screening is standard in the U.S., very few infants are screened in Africa because of the high cost and level of skill needed to run traditional tests,» says Dr. Little, Director of the Adult Sickle Cell Anemia Center, UH Seidman Cancer Center and Associate Professor at the School of Medicine.

«There is very little data on the time cost of healthy eating,» said Pablo Monsivais, Ph.D., M.P.H., the study's lead author and a senior university lecturer with the Center for Diet and Activity Research at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine in England.

Since 1946, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has made commodities (surplus food) such as meat, cheese, and butter available to public schools at little or no cost.

But this strategy, if well executed, could probably effect meaningful change in some schools, and that would be a real win for children at very little cost.

This is the world our children have at their fingertips... this article presents a few solutions you can use at little or no cost in your school district.

'Em bodied Learning» Blends Movement, Computer Interaction Education Week, October 9, 2012 «Christopher Dede, a professor of learning technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said embodied learning has potential, but there is little academic evidence to suggest the results are conclusively worth the cost, as the field has not yet been thoroughly researched.»

In an irony unforeseen by effective - schools researchers, lawyers in a school - finance suit in New Jersey are using the concept to argue that poor districts can improve their schools at little or no extra cost to the state.

Fellows have the unprecedented opportunity to launch schools that have the freedoms and flexibilities of charter schools and the financial support and services of a district school, including a school building at little to no cost.

Although Gaetz's bill does not include fiscal expenditures, as noted in the main text (§ IV, supra), in reviewing the start time / academic achievement studies undertaken by fellow economists, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics Jonah Rockoff and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, concluded that delaying middle and high school start times «from roughly 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. -LSB-,]» will increase academic achievement by 0.175 standard deviations on average, with effects for disadvantaged students roughly twice as large as advantaged students, at little or no cost to schools; i.e., a 9 to 1 benefits to costs ratio when utilizing single - tier busing, the most expensive transportation method available.

Several districts and charter schools have taken a middle - of - the - road approach: developing or purchasing a Common Core - aligned curriculum teachers can use as a resource at little to no cost.

This ingenious incentive, managed by the district's human resources office and celebrated publicly at a year - end board meeting, costs the school system little, but provides a priceless boost for the program's accountability and local brand.

VCEE is the primary resource for Virginia's K - 12 teachers and school divisions seeking training and classroom resources for economic and financial education, at little or no cost thanks to financial support from partners.

Although few public schools have employed peer tutoring on anything close to the scale that St. Luke's did, it is something that could be done in every school tomorrow morning at little or no cost.

For instance, many schools are partnering with volunteer organizations — such as AmeriCorps and Citizen Schools — to bring on extra staff at little to no cost to help lengthen the schoschools are partnering with volunteer organizations — such as AmeriCorps and Citizen Schools — to bring on extra staff at little to no cost to help lengthen the schoSchools — to bring on extra staff at little to no cost to help lengthen the school day.

The center uses federal funds to offer its expert services at little or no cost to school districts.

When college costs increase 4 % year over year (at least) for private schools, then a CD or savings account will do little to keep pace (even with the likely increase in market interest rates coming later this year).

The Keep Kids Fire Safe Foundation develops and distributes educationally sound innovative fire safety related materials at little or no cost to children and their caregivers, fire departments, schools and other organizations.

With raciones averaging at around the $ 11 mark and medias at around $ 6.50, lingering here will cost you a little more than it would in an old - school tapas joint, and aficionados of the traditional tapa scrum might find the atmosphere a little subdued.

With our focus on engaging people who traditionally have had little — if any — access to national parks, the Center has developed strong partnerships with schools and community centers in underserved areas, providing a majority of its programming for free or at low cost.

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