Earlier this week, Education Next released two articles that shed light on how parents who exercise
school choice feel about the schools their children attend.
Not exact matches
A teen - age girl, coping well with her
school - and peer - relationships,
felt confused by the value
choices facing her.
I've been overwhelmed with all of the options (I do better with limited
choices) and, while I haven't actually visited any of the
schools in person yet (I have talked with some moms about where they are sending their kids), I haven't
felt peaceful about the whole process.
Like many high
school teachers, she
felt mystified by the behavior and
choices that some of her students made.
Even if your
school provides healthy options, it can be too easy to give in to temptation and pick a less healthy
choice when you're
feeling really hungry.
Three commentators here on The Lunch Tray
felt the caps: made it harder to serve healthy
choices like sandwiches and soups; discouraged scratch cooking over the use of processed foods; and gave
school food directors an incentive to serve «empty calories.»
For my 12th grader it is all about the administration getting the
school on the Newsweek top 1000
school list by making sure the high
school kids are taking the max number of AP classes and if they aren't, trying to make them
feel guilty for not doing so by telling them they will never get into the college of their
choice with «a schedule like that!»
For example, our high
school menu has 10 - 12 entree
choices a day, 2 hot vegetable
choices + fresh veggie salad bar, and 6 - 8 fruit
choices EACH DAY — high
school students respond to
feeling empowered and trusted to make
choices.
Boarding
school might
feel like a drastic
choice for some parents, but many teens who spent time away at
school have fond memories of the experience and most come away ahead of their peers academically.
If you
feel that language immersion
school is a good
choice for your child,
feel free to enroll them at the earliest opportunity.
Do you
feel it is possible to emphasis taste better in American
school menus and in other local environments, still while keeping the
choice option that is common in the American culture?
I guess my
feeling (and I can't tell if you disagree or not) is why not let this be a matter of parental
choice, and keep the
school environment treat - free?
Do you
feel it is possible to emphasis taste and variety better in American and other country's
school menus while keeping the
choice option that is common in the American culture?
For example, if you have a highly active child who'd rather run than read or who has to touch and
feel an object to really understand its function, then a strict, buttoned - down Catholic
school that emphasizes discipline and basic skills may not be the best
choice.
It's not mandatory, but if you want your child to learn how to exist in a classroom environment and you
feel confident about the quality of the education at the
school of your
choice, then you should seriously consider it.
Neither Sayigh's son or daughter, 18 and pursuing a nursing degree, ever went to public
school, a
choice their mother said stemmed from anxiety she
felt sending them into a world of grades, tests and stifling structure.
Nevertheless, Cuomo was successful this year in forming a new teacher evaluation system as well as making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure — a move that state lawmakers
felt they had no
choice but to accept given the policy's linkage to an increase in
school aid.
«Being «out» in the workplace is a matter of personal
choice, but too many LGBTI teachers tell us they would like to be out but do not
feel their
school is a safe environment for them to do so.
Whether you're thinking about a career change or going back to
school for more advanced education, your resources are precious, and we here at the Institute for the Psychology of Eating want you to
feel confident that you're making the right
choice.
As the story follows Lady Bird through her last year of high
school, Ronan and Gerwig capture the typical phases of a young woman's life with an ease that
feels casual yet is built on a thousand brilliantly - observed
choices.
So, as these young teachers came into the
school, they were happy to take maths if they
felt comfortable with it, they had some
choice then in what they did in their senior areas.
It
feels like almost everything of note gets lost in debates about whether «
school choice works» and amidst hoary claims of «privatization.»
When
school closures are embedded in a strategy to create better
school choices for children, it
feels like less of an attack.
At the community level, support for
schools might also be enhanced under a regime of public
school choice, because fewer people would
feel compromised, silenced, or alienated in an environment where well - intentioned
school officials are forced to accommodate conflicting constituent demands and wind up doing so in ways that favor the most vocal, affluent, or well - organized.
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If states continue to implement the standards in ways that undermine systems working to improve education in their state (like teacher evaluation,
school accountability,
school choice, etc.) more and more states will
feel the pressure to abandon the standards.
Even where there is limited
school choice,
school boards and superintendents
feel the pressure when outcomes lag.
Two thirds of the report's participants
felt that they hadn't realised how their subject
choice might affect their future career prospects when at
school.
«As time has gone on in the program, I
feel like it was a better
choice as someone who wants to work in a
school.
The byproducts that Young didn't anticipate, however, were the
school - wide improvements in positive behavior and the sense of ownership and power that the students
felt from knowing they has a
choice.
And 24 percent of nonscholarship students said they didn't
feel safe at
school, compared with 9 percent of
choice students (see Figure 2).
A compatibility effect — some teachers, even though they've gone through all their training and have spent time in classrooms, discover initially that they don't
feel very compatible with the teaching that they get to do, so that's a personal
choice and not necessarily because of the lack of support of a
school, if that's the case.
The research was conducted by Youth Sight and found that just 50 per cent of university applicants
felt their
school had not provided sufficient information regarding how their subject
choice could affect their
choice of degree and university.
«Being «out» in the workplace is a matter of personal
choice, but too many LGBTI teachers tell us they would like to be out but do not
feel their
school is a safe environment for them to do so.
How the public
feels about the
school choice setting in New Orleans can shape education policy, and education policy can shape the OneApp's role, now and in the future.
When we are focused and paying attention to our thoughts,
feelings and
choices, we have a much greater opportunity to change those thoughts and
feelings that are not serving us well in life and in
school.
These supply - side issues intersect in New Orleans, where it can
feel like a decentralized
school -
choice system operates alongside a centralized one.
These families
feel strongly enough about
choice that they pay extra to opt out of the public
school system.
«Our
feeling is that charter
schools can really engage parents in their children's learning, because parents make an active
choice - especially when there aren't that many good
choices available,» said Jim Shelton, an assistant secretary of education, in a recent phone interview.
Sam Chaltain, author of the forthcoming book, Our
School: Searching for Community in the Era of Choice, suggested that co-location might sometimes be effective, but noted that it could invite uncomfortable comparisons between schools: «in the worst case, it could make one school feel inferior.&
School: Searching for Community in the Era of
Choice, suggested that co-location might sometimes be effective, but noted that it could invite uncomfortable comparisons between
schools: «in the worst case, it could make one
school feel inferior.&
school feel inferior.»
«With the spotlight shone on public
school choice this election year, we've seen a stirring up of opinion... and we've also seen expensive, sustained, and coordinated campaigns to discredit charter
schools, led by teachers» unions and special interests that
feel threatened by families having a
choice in public
school.»
The idea is that consumer
choice can satisfy the public's need to
feel involved and represented, and that competition will make
schools accountable for their results, obviating the need for powerful external overseers.
Jason Crye of Hispanics for
School Choice argued that the way race gets framed in education debates can
feel out of step with the real world.
Because he did not consider the possibility that advantaged children might have had high achievement precisely because their parents could choose good
schools and ditch bad
schools, policymakers
felt comfortable denying
school choice to disadvantaged families for decades.
If that
feels unfair, don't forget the Republican wave election of 2010, which ushered in the Year of
School Choice.
As long as
choice plans are small and the financial pinch on districts is modest, it is unlikely that public
school educators or policymakers will
feel compelled to respond to competition.
I'd welcome the chance to frame
school choice as a debate about whether Washington ought to be telling states and communities how to run their
schools, and to turn the issue into a referendum on how one
feels about Trump.
This pressure will also come from some of the creators of the new
schools of
choice, who will
feel the effort to reach the standard will undermine what is original and distinctive in the
school's approach, the reason for its creation in the first place.
School choice is a controversial movement that advocates for parents to «choose» the school (public, private, religious, charter, home, online) they feel is best for their chi
School choice is a controversial movement that advocates for parents to «choose» the
school (public, private, religious, charter, home, online) they feel is best for their chi
school (public, private, religious, charter, home, online) they
feel is best for their children.
They get invested in the
school their kid is going to; rather than
feeling like «it was the
school I had to send my kid to, and there was no
choice, and they don't want me there anyway.»