Sentences with phrase «school backgrounds included»

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Shortly after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, 89 % of the U.S. population, including 84 % of gun owners and 74 % of NRA members, supported universal background checks.

«The more your network includes individuals from different cultural backgrounds, the more you will be creatively stimulated by different ideas and perspectives,» according to research by Harvard Business School professor Roy Y.J. Chua.

Their art - school background ended up being an asset that helped set them apart from competitors (better user interface), along with a perfect wave of external factors including timing, price, and a shift in consumer preferences towards artisanal experiences.

But like Cruz many mass killers exhibit a common set of traits that include depression, troubled family backgrounds, a fascination with guns and violence and aspirations of becoming a soldier, said Peter Langman, a psychologist and author of two books on school shooters.

My background includes designing and managing career programs and courses as Director Career Services for a global Top - 1oo MBA school.

The spending legislation, which was viewed as the last opportunity this year for Congress to enact major new gun restrictions before the midterm elections in November, included only some school safety measures and modest improvements to the background check system.

«While cultural background is always a significant consideration in making this decision, so too are other factors including remaining in the local area to promote contact with the child's family and for the child to continue at the same school in order to give them as much stability as possible.»

They collected and published otherwise unavailable comparative information about Protestant theological schools» student bodies, including their educational backgrounds, programs of study, finances, and governance, and also about these schools» faculty, including their educational backgrounds, teaching methods, religious life, etc..

I would invite all Christians — evangelicals or not — to visit 2FP's website, closely read the background and FAQ material (including the «Four Horsemen» articles), as well as Wigg - Stevenson's Fermi Project paper («A World Without Nuclear Weapons»), his and Wilbanks» Relevant articles and the Spring 2009 issue of Yale Divinity School's Reflections, which was devoted to «Faith and the Future of Nuclear Weapons» and was guest - edited by Wigg - Stevenson.

I know that site is laughable with the rumors, but this article has some solid background on his recruiting abilities at Duke, Oklahoma, and VCU, including some interesting breakdowns of how those schools fared before / after Capel arrived.

Since entering the field in 1996, Dr. Sellwood has garnered a diverse professional background that includes working as an elementary and middle school counselor, college and regional center disabilities specialist, executive director of a non-profit organization in psychology, consulting psychologist at hospitals and in - patient medical facilities, and an academic Professor of Psychology at several graduate schools.

Guidance Materials: A February 2005 memo to School Food Services Directors / Managers from the state Department of Education provides guidance and suggestions for creating local wellness policies, including links to resources, background information, rationales, and policy process guidance.

Martin's educational background includes a Bachelor's Degree from Amherst College, a Master's of Science in Teaching from the New School, and an Associate's Degree in Culinary Arts from the Culinary Institute of America.

Her background in non-profit administration also includes serving as an admissions officer at Columbia Law School, publications coordinator at the Detroit Grand Opera Association, and public relations assistant at NYC's Museum of Contemporary Crafts, as well as sitting on various independent school bSchool, publications coordinator at the Detroit Grand Opera Association, and public relations assistant at NYC's Museum of Contemporary Crafts, as well as sitting on various independent school bschool boards.

Dr. Bavolek's professional background includes working with emotionally disturbed children and adolescents in schools and residential settings and with abused children and abusive parents in treatment programs.

In the wake of the Florida school massacre, the Democrats will tack on bills that have been stonewalled in committees — including banning bump stocks plus beefing up background checks and a law that allows courts to take away a disturbed person's guns — to unrelated legislation already up for votes.

The intention is to allow parents and pupils to see how schools are performing in key academic subjects and to encourage schools to give all pupils, including those from the poorest backgrounds, the opportunity to study academic subjects.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

In the waiver application, expected to be accepted on Monday, the mayor emphasized Black's managerial background as Chairman of Hearst Magazines, but also noted her membership to several educational boards including that of the Harlem Village Academies Charter School.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Jumping out ahead of Washington, New York state enacted the nation's toughest gun restrictions today and the first since the Connecticut school massacre, including an expanded assault - weapon ban and background checks for buying ammunition.

Chacon comes from a large, extended Hispanic - American family and says concerns about money might also include «background issues» that can bring additional stress while attending school or embarking on a new career.

The information included high school records, demographic and background information from more than 10,000 males and females.

The four - day program draws children from all backgrounds, including public and private school students and homeschoolers, according to Gerald Smith, who taught sessions at Woodridge Library in Washington from Aug. 7 - 10.

He was no stranger to students from other backgrounds — his best friends during high school included three Pakistani boys, one Haitian, one Guyanan, a couple of Brazilians, one African American, and one boy who was half Puerto Rican, half white.

The comparison group included 375 first - generation immigrant children of similar racial / ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic status who attended the same schools before the intervention was implemented.

Recent college graduates with a strong science background are invited to apply for a 1 to 2 year supervised research experience, which includes scientific mentoring and training that provides excellent preparation for medical and graduate school or careers in biotechnology.

And plenty of people get locked in this church — school kids on a field trip, church employees including a painter and a newly wed couple using the historic church as the background for some wedding pictures.

One suggestion for improving the mental health of the teaching body was for schools to keep a record of the teacher's «attainments and attitudes,» including her cultural background and her community leadership.

«Coming to HGSE from a private think tank and the World Bank, Felipe's unique professional background has informed his design of innovative interventions, including a conditional cash transfer program in Manizales, Colombia and a project studying incentives paid to private schools in Uganda.

The survey followed the government's proposals to lift the 50 per cent cap on religious selection in faith schools included in the education green paper, which would effectively allow them to select 100 per cent of pupils based on their religious background.

«Improvements in the program include a new student mentee contract for the upcoming school year, early background checks, more field trips, and monthly mentor training sessions for new staff members and community stakeholders,» shared White.

But it's not just developing great teachers and leaders — our offer extends to other programmes that we know are priorities for schools, including our highly successful Futures programme which helps students from disadvantaged backgrounds get into top universities.

Raymond and her team removed the family background variables from the Quality Counts Chance - for - Success Index to create a new index that includes only school - related factors.

NISW highlights and celebrates the progress U.S. schools have made in using inclusive practices to ensure a quality education for an increasingly diverse student population, including students with disabilities, those from low socio - economic backgrounds, and English language learners,» according to a release from the organizers.

Usable Knowledge asked Mason — whose background includes 19 years as an elementary school principal — to talk about the challenges facing principals and the characteristics of effective leadership.

The study compared student growth in classrooms led by teachers in Opportunity Culture roles to student growth in non-Opportunity Culture classrooms in both the same schools and in different schools, controlling for various factors including student background and prior performance.

The index combines indicators related to family background, wealth, education levels, and employment with schooling measures, including kindergarten enrollment and selected National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test scores.

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This approach privileges family background over any indicators of school resources or peer group relationships, as it implicitly attributes all shared variation to those variables included in the first step of the stepwise modeling.

The most commonly used national data file, the Schools and Staffing Survey, includes a survey in which roughly 42,000 public school teachers were asked about their education backgrounds and teaching credentials.

The school population, which includes students from seventy - six nations and ethnic backgrounds, is more than 65 percent minority, and almost half low income.

This semester or yearlong project might include, say, writing a biography of someone in the school who is very different in background; creating a video comprising interviews with other students, custodians, school secretaries, and various other school community members about what constitutes a just community; or developing a board or video game that promotes empathy and responsibility.

We compare the test scores of students in each of the seven categories, taking into account differences in the students» socioeconomic characteristics, including parent schooling, self - reported household income, the number of non-school books in the home, and the quality of the peer groups (calculated by averaging family background and home resources for all students in the classroom).

Despite his solid Minnesota credentials, Pearlstein comes out of Far Rockaway High School in Queens, New York, whose decline from a nurturer of future Nobel prizewinners, furnishes much of the background to his distress over American education (as the decline of so many other once - great New York City high schools serves so many others, including this reviewer).

We also confirm that we obtain similar results when we control for student characteristics measured at or before the PSAT / NMSQT, including sex, parental education, family income level, whether a student took the PSAT / NMSQT in 10th grade and his or her previous score, indicators for ethnic background (for example, Mexican, Cuban), and controls for the type of high school attended, including affiliation (public or private), urbanicity (that is, city, suburban, rural), size, and concentration of Hispanic students.

The incoming cohort includes students from Afghanistan and Sierra Leone, students with backgrounds from military service to fashion design, and even some law school alums.

I have varied experience with students of different cultural and social backgrounds, including four year experience at the International School of Choueifat, Bahrain.

With a background that includes teaching in independent schools, management consulting, and urban school reform, Holleran — who also spent four years as...

With a background that includes teaching in independent schools, management consulting, and urban school reform, Holleran — who also spent four years as executive director of Bay...

The report said: «In the context of creating a fairly funded system, government should also consider the external effects that may combine to compound the effects on pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, including place poverty (living in neighbourhoods with high proportions of poor children, attending schools serving higher proportions of disadvantaged pupils) gender and ethnicity.»