Sentences with phrase «school experience increased»

As her youngest child's school experience increased in difficulty, she left medicine to aid in his education.

Schools experienced increased expenditure, largely mirroring operational growth in the sector.

Whereas the schools identified for closure experienced an increase of 6.5 percentage points relative to their projected graduation rate, the other low - performing comparison schools experienced an increase of 1.4 percentage points.

The three ELL contexts identified are: a middle school experiencing an increasing ELL population shift, an elementary school in a long - standing ELL community, and a secondary school in a long - standing ELL community.

Not exact matches

Just as the streaming service can predict whether someone will enjoy a Judd Apatow movie, Brightspace can forecast the grade a user will receive in a biology course and customize the learning experience to increase her odds of getting an A. Welcome to the future of school.

«In an effort to continue his memory, this scholarship is being created to help other students experience the joys of music as well as fund increased security at schools.

Established by the Jarislowsky Foundation in 2006, the Jarislowsky Fellowship in Business Management is intended to increase the depth and breadth of the learning experience at the Haskayne School of Business by providing students with access to professionals with real and relevant senior - level business experience.

The first time I experienced the 50 % business valuation increase was when we sold the company I co-founded in grad school — Nexus Engineering.

The students, nine men and eight women suggested by the deans of their respective schools, represented not only denominational diversity but a variety of backgrounds and work experiences — reflecting the general increase in the number of older and second - career students currently attending seminary.

Instead of teaching their own positive convictions, which can help overcome a dehumanizing orthodoxy and so transform the life of the church, these schools seem to think that they will transform society and church by offering this or that course in urban studies, by relocating the setting of education to the places «where people live,» and by increased field experiences.

As we have seen, process thought not only affirms pluralism, which is reflected in our schools, universities, and colleges no less than in our society, but advocates such an attitude of openness towards individuals, groups, cultures, and ideas different from ourselves and our own groups, cultures, ideas that the possibility of increased contrast, richness of experience, of mutual transformation, without loss of integrity, is enhanced.

Run by radicals for approximately twenty years, Berkeley has experienced the virtual ruin of its public school system, a vastly increased municipal bureaucracy, a greatly diminished housing stock (thanks to stringent rent controls and other restrictions on property rights), increased crime and drug abuse, widespread corruption, and wholesale waste of public funds.

Months before the Florida High School Athletic Association voted in late September to mandate soft headgear for girls lacrosse for the 2015 season, Stenersen told MomsTEAM that he believed it would be «highly irresponsible» for high school associations and youth leagues to focus solely on requiring increased protective equipment if it meant ignoring what Stenersen viewed as «the most critical component to a safer, more enjoyable lacrosse experience: requiring nationally - standardized, sport - specific training for coaches and officials as a fundamental qualification to assure that the boys» and girls» lacrosse is being taught (and the rules are being enforced) correctly.&School Athletic Association voted in late September to mandate soft headgear for girls lacrosse for the 2015 season, Stenersen told MomsTEAM that he believed it would be «highly irresponsible» for high school associations and youth leagues to focus solely on requiring increased protective equipment if it meant ignoring what Stenersen viewed as «the most critical component to a safer, more enjoyable lacrosse experience: requiring nationally - standardized, sport - specific training for coaches and officials as a fundamental qualification to assure that the boys» and girls» lacrosse is being taught (and the rules are being enforced) correctly.&school associations and youth leagues to focus solely on requiring increased protective equipment if it meant ignoring what Stenersen viewed as «the most critical component to a safer, more enjoyable lacrosse experience: requiring nationally - standardized, sport - specific training for coaches and officials as a fundamental qualification to assure that the boys» and girls» lacrosse is being taught (and the rules are being enforced) correctly.»

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

WASHINGTON — American schools are experiencing increasing numbers of food - borne illness outbreaks, but complex federal laws and bureaucratic turf battles hamper the government system designed to protect children from harm, a congressional watchdog agency reported Tuesday.

When kindness is taught in school, children experience increased self - esteem, increased motivation to learn, improved attendance, and decreased bullying and violence.

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

Kids gain knowledge of the outdoors and increase awareness, confidence and self - reliance, while having fun, positive experiences,» says Dave Scott, founder of the Earth Native Wilderness School, in Bastrop, Texas.

American schools are experiencing increasing numbers of food - borne illness outbreaks, but complex federal laws and bureaucratic turf battles hamper the government system designed to protect children from harm, a congressional watchdog agency reported Tuesday.

«The economy is worse than in school year 2004 - 2005, and their own experience tells them that participation drops when you increase prices,» Pratt - Heavner said.

Just wondered if other parents who co-slept with their children into grade school experienced their children gaining a natural desire for increasing independence and at what ages...

Due to increasing experiences and improving cognitive skills, the self concept continues to grow as kids move into high school.

With almost two decades of experience under her belt, Matuszyk saw the Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools grant as the perfect opportunity to bring positive change to her lunchroom and increase her average daily participation.

«In the past 47 years, I don't remember ever seeing a proposed tax increase below 1 percent,» said Joseph Dragone, assistant superintendent for business in the Roslyn district and one of the region's most experienced analysts of school financial issues.

The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has described as inaccurate, reports that the increased enrollment under the Free Senior High School policy is solely to blame for cases of congestion and infrastructure deficit being experienced in some schools.

«To ensure the best and brightest are teaching our children, the State Education Department will increase the standards for teacher certification to require passage of a «bar exam,» in addition to longer, more intensive and high - quality student - teaching experience in a school setting,» Mr. Cuomo said.

Despite decades of educational reform and legal efforts, many U.S. schools are experiencing increasing segregation, with 16 percent of public schools serving both minority and high poverty students.

Middle - aged people who experience temporary blood pressure drops that often cause dizziness upon standing up may be at an increased risk of developing cognitive decline and dementia 20 years later, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests.

They demonstrate that neighbourhoods in the catchment of schools with more grade inflation experience a more pronounced increase in the number of grocery shops, restaurants and coffeehouses surrounding schools, most likely because local retailers respond to the arrival of richer homeowners.

In middle and high school, increased opportunities such as science camps like SciGirls, recruitment of girls to participate in upper level science courses or extracurricular activities, informal science learning experiences and increasing visibility and access to women scientists both fictional and real are other methods to sustain girls interest and engagement in so called «hard science» fields.

«I believe Dr. Landers makes some excellent, thought provoking recommendations,» said Alfred Tallia, MD, MD, MPH, professor and chair of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, «The Home Visit Service at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical Group has experienced an explosive increase in demand for services, and Dr. Landers» recommendations would go a long way to helping us better serve patients in the home, which is where patients prefer to be, and where costs can be significantly less than in other settings.»

There is a great need to increase development training to interview children who have experienced trauma for social services, refugee situations, doctors, police and schools.

«We found that genetic susceptibility to BD can increase the risk for suicide attempt, but only among those who also have experienced traumatic stress such as bullying, sexual abuse, and domestic violence,» said lead author Holly Wilcox, PhD, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Privately insured children and those with Medicaid at the time of a cancer diagnosis experience largely similar survival trends, with slight evidence for an increased risk of cancer death in children who were uninsured at diagnosis, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Well, you'd have to experience it for yourself, but Dr. Helen Lavretsky, a psychiatry professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA told the New York Times that participants will often experience «deep mental and physical relaxation» that would «increase the parasympathetic autonomic nervous system tone» and decrease the stress response.

The South experienced the largest increase in school integration and the Northeast the smallest.

Schools that received F grades in 1999 experienced increases in test scores that were more than twice as large as those experienced by schools with higher state - assigned Schools that received F grades in 1999 experienced increases in test scores that were more than twice as large as those experienced by schools with higher state - assigned schools with higher state - assigned grades.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadschools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Female teachers in large urban school districts would require a 25 percent initial increase in compensation, rising to more than 40 percent when they reach three to five years of experience.

Abstract: In response to growing demands to provide more real - life experiences for children during the school day that are based on improving critical thinking and increasing awareness and use of lifeskills, Life Vest Inside ™ (hereafter referred to as LVI) has designed a Kindness Curriculum.

And when provided with the actual numbers on salaries and spending, the researchers say, Americans experience «sticker shock» — and become much less likely to support an increase in government funding for public schools.

While the schools in our district are not far apart in terms of distance, it is often difficult for them to make connections with each other even though we have the best intentions and we all realize the potential for increased engagement when we do facilitate these experiences.

Similarly, even if targeted to the most disadvantaged schools, any increases in salaries would almost certainly go to new and middle - career teachers alike, even though our results indicate that salary differentials are nearly irrelevant for women teachers with ten or more years of experience.

Going back 15 years to the days of Tony Blair's «education, education, education» statement stressing his commitment to the sector, schools have experienced a budget increase of, on average, 3.5 per cent per annum.

And we know that starting from about age 11, or the entrance to secondary education, «that physical bullying declines with age but... other forms increase... when children experience puberty and change schools (Berger 2007, p. 95).

The Department for Education will target its programmes to ensure children get the best start in the early years, to build teaching and leadership capacity in schools, to increase access to university, to strengthen technical pathways for young people, and work with employers to improve young people's access to the right advice and experiences.

Barking and Dagenham is one of 11 London councils that face high increases in secondary school demand and has experienced the biggest growth in London in the number of children aged up to four.

Both groups of schools saw an increase in the average math and reading scores during the first two years of the bonus program; treatment - group schools, however, did not experience a statistically significant improvement in average test scores relative to the schools in the control group.

Alongside this increased flexibility, it provides an opportunity for teachers to gain a wider range of experiences working in a variety of different schools.

This research also found an increasing trend towards the use of mobile devices in schools as teachers and pupils become more familiar with using tablets as part of their learning experiences.