Sentences with phrase «school brain drain»

This data is compounded by news of the law school brain drain - the latest trend of the smartest undergraduate students taking a pass on law school entirely.

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Locals call it the «brain drain»: Homegrown entrepreneurs from Hawaii follow the jet stream to the mainland for school and pretty much never return.

Maja Pantic, a professor of affective and behavioral computing at Imperial College in London, tells Sample she is worried about a one - way brain drain from schools to tech companies:

«More difficult, I think, is the question of whether home schooling poses any sort of a problem for society; a threat to social cohesion, for example, or a brain drain from the public schools.

«Kids shouldn't spend the first few weeks of school this fall relearning the same concepts they learned the previous school year because of brain drain,» said Bryan Wunar, the Museum's director of community initiatives.

Charters are indeed good for individual families looking for a stricter disciplinary setting, but when you move all the motivated kids in a neighborhood into a charter school, the public schools experience brain drain.

As schools everywhere begin to wind down on the school year, the worry around the summer brain drain begins.

Virginia's Maggie Walker Governor's School eases «brain drain» angst by reporting each student's test scores to his or her «home school,» where they get included in the school's state reportSchool eases «brain drain» angst by reporting each student's test scores to his or her «home school,» where they get included in the school's state reportschool,» where they get included in the school's state reportschool's state report card.

The policy resulted almost immediately in a brain drain from nearby schools.

Wilshaw said that the UK is facing a «brain drain», as teachers are «flocking abroad» to work in the growing international sector, often working for overseas branches of elite UK public schools.

Citing a long list of recent laws that many argue will hurt public education, Ravitch anticipated a brain drain for the state thanks to bad policies, said that charters and vouchers do not save kids from failing public schools but instead pave the way for resegregation, and bemoaned the loss of teacher tenure.

By facilitating active, engaged and educational roles for students through Meaningful Student Involvement, the approach can be essential for retaining learners, graduating students and decreasing the brain drain in rural schools.

West Virginia's shrinking GDP, among other factors, has contributed to severe brain drain, and educators told me schools could be key to abating that trend and reviving the state's economy.

New York, N.Y. (May 10, 2012)-- Every summer, millions of kids suffer brain - drain and lose up to three months of math and reading skills gains they had achieved during the school year.

Oh, and my brain retains snapshots from infants school — learning to sing «Frere Jacques», poking around in drains for coins to buy 6 - cent packets of Chickadees from the canteen, being mortified about not pronouncing «choir» correctly during a reading test with the principal (couldn't understand why it wasn't choy - er), sitting on painted circles drinking warm milk out of glass bottles for morning tea, hiding my bananas behind the sink in the classroom because someone called me a monkey, sliding down a pole and injuring myself in an intimate area with a sharp bolt, blood on my undies, terror about the damage I might have caused down there, never telling a soul until now...