Sentences with phrase «school efforts alone»

The trial of this program found that students whose families participated in the program had significantly greater reductions in victimisation than control families who were relying mainly on school efforts alone to resolve the problems (Healy & Sanders, 2015).

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This entails a closer look at major events already presented by Greene and now fleshed out with the accounts of other people: his life in and around the Berkhamstead School, where his father was headmaster; the more or less serious attempts at teenage suicide; the startling decision of the family to respond to this crisis by sending the boy to board with a psychoanalyst in London; later games of Russian roulette played all alone in an effort to beat boredom and make existence seem precious; and his conversion to Roman Catholicism.

She critiqued the practice of administering strong drugs to schoolchildren in an effort to promote better school performance in Why Ritalin Rules and extended her treatment of the topic in her book, Home Alone America.

Recent recruitment efforts have drawn more English language learners to charter schools; the increase was nearly 3 percentage points last year alone.

New York has proved that high school reform is possible; that boosting graduation rates of the poor and unprepared, even if the effort is begun in high school, is possible; that small alone is not enough; that choice alone is not enough.

Efforts at the state level have been supported by the Clinton administration's class - size reduction program, passed in 1998, which was to fund the hiring of around 29,000 new teachers during the 1999 - 2000 school year alone.

In New York City alone, 44 low - performing high schools were closed between 2000 and 2014 as part of efforts by then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the city's schools chancellor, Joel Klein, to eliminate so - called dropout factories and improve education for students who would typically attend a failing school because they lived nearby.

Drawing inspiration from dozens of interviews conducted over the course of a two - year period, Lawrence - Lightfoot focuses on the experiences of 11 individuals in particular, including an Iranian teenager forced to flee political strife and come to America alone, a middle - aged gay man and his coming out, a bullied child whose parents take him out of school, and a psychotherapist who guides abuse victims in an effort to finally «terminate» therapy.

When school systems begin to use measures of effective teaching to assess the effectiveness of their own efforts, teachers will understand that the burden for improving teaching does not sit upon their shoulders alone.

With fewer resources, public schools that are already struggling may be hard - pressed to sustain their infrastructure, let alone advance reform efforts designed to boost student achievement.

As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.

While Malloy and the Democratic controlled General Assembly are instituting unprecedented cuts to public schools, thanks to the «reformers» lobbying effort, more than $ 110 million in public dollars will be handed over to charter schools this year alone.

RESCs» cost efficient, cooperative efforts have saved money for Connecticut school districts and have enabled schools to expand services beyond what they could have accomplished alone.

The candidates embraced successful efforts to reduce suspensions and expulsions in California, but said that fewer students being pushed out of school alone isn't the answer.

The whole notion of diverting the best teachers away from the classroom and into charter school - run «training,» at a time when there aren't enough staff to even maintain existing programs, let alone enhance efforts to promote quality educational programs, is a farce.

The foundation has been focusing efforts on building schools in Haiti where, according to a report from the United Nations, the earthquake damaged or destroyed 8,000 schools that served 1.8 million children in and around the capital of Port - au - Prince alone.

A bachelor's degree can be more valuable than experience alone, so if you're still in school put in the effort to get good grades.