Sentences with phrase «school is a turning»

Instead of buying iPads, schools are turning to low - cost Chromebooks, with a Google - provided operating system, which made up 51 % of institutional purchases during the quarter, according to the study.

E.g., I was surprised to learn that many high schools here in Houston have a single lunch hour for thousands of kids and this is one reason schools are turning a blind eye to the illegal junk food sold on campus as fundraisers.

Headteachers in Russia's schools are turning foreign children away — fearing hefty fines and pressure from the migration services.

The shadow education secretary argued a lack of confidence in GCSEs and A-levels means many independent schools were turning to exams such as the IGCSE, the pre-U or the international baccalaureate (IB) to stretch their pupils.

School children in a part of Berkshire have returned to the classroom after their school was turned into a help centre for the local community during the recent floods.

For the driving training to be as close to reality as possible, a mid-sized car made in Germany and frequently applied in Chinese driving schools is turned into a driving simulator.

Whether it's a simple arrangement between colleagues to observe each other in action, or a more formal approach like teacher rounds (an iterative, inquiry - based cycle of observations between larger teacher teams), schools are turning teachers into lieutenants of their own learning.

The results also indicated that to make effective use of iPads as a learning tool, many CC21 schools are turning to popular instructional models.

Many poor schools are turning to alternative - certification programs to find teachers to fill their classrooms.

Bousted said that too many schools are turning their libraries into classrooms and discarding books, with some school libraries being too small and having inadequate numbers of computers for children.

After a dip in the school - aged population in the 1980s and 1990s, a number of local schools were turned into community centers, but as the population steadily increased in recent years, most schools in the area are now overcrowded, according to Zee, an information technology (IT) business analyst.

A speedy, solid solution Schools are turning to off - site construction for a cost - effective answer to the expansion conundrum, and one that offers speed as well as flexibility.

The Department for Education (DfE) has claimed that the education of 350,000 children has been transformed after their previously underperforming schools were turned into sponsored academies.

Starting school is a turning point for children, where teachers become an additional influence, the second leaders in each child's life.

On a mission to improve student performance, some schools are turning to boot camp - like programs to motivate kids before state tests.

It will address the frustrations schools face in working with companies during digital content adoption, how an increasing number of schools are turning to open educational resources, the uneven growth of the English language learner market, and more.

Some Chicago high schools are turning to innovative programs — such as intensified math and competency - based learning — to address the «high school challenge.»

We would not support schools being turned into prisons.

Too many schools are turning their libraries into classrooms and throwing away books, a teaching union warned today.

Although the state aims to arm school districts with the tools they need to transform themselves, some schools are turning to outside help.

As late as 1900, more than two - thirds of all US high - school graduates got their diploma from private schools; public schools were turning out only 62,000 graduates a year.

The Locke takeover served as the model for L.A. Unified's Public School Choice initiative, in which new schools and some failing schools were turned over to outside groups that filed the most promising applications.

Indeed, there are virtually no documented instances of troubled schools being turned around without effective principals.

Out of necessity, many schools are turning to classroom libraries as a solution to the problem.

Some of the schools were turned over to private managers, some to local universities, and others were «restructured» — overhauled and given extra support by the school district.

Walker's positions contradict a Senate bill's proposal to create two new review boards — one for public and charter schools and one for private voucher schools — and also a provision in the Assembly's version that would require persistently low - performing public schools be turned into charter schools.

Under the new agency, all the teachers were fired — most of them were union members — and management of most schools was turned over to charter organizations.

His comments come after NUT deputy general secretary Kevin Courtney warned that schools were turning to the «easy way» of improving outcomes by «shovelling kids around», which has reportedly become so prolific it's being referred to as «attainment - pruning».

One strategy that more and more schools are turning to is the teacher home visit.

Indeed, while the Orleans Parish School Board owns the majority of the city's public school property, the recovery district took over operation of the properties when schools were turned over.

So schools are turning to an alternative called restorative justice.

According to Nelson, many North Carolina charter schools are turning to for - profit management companies like CSUSA to help overcome financial problems of starting a school.

Parents will have little or no voice once a school is turned into a charter; most charter school boards are made up of businesspeople who do not have children in the school,

(Md.) More and more, schools are turning to research - based programs to engage parents and guardians in the education of their children — a strategy that evidence is showing may be a key impact upon a student's academic achievement.

However, most public schools are turning to something more casual and more acceptable to parents and students: khakis or jeans and knit shirts of varying colors.

When our schools are turned into nothing but purely academic institutions, many students are driven away.

There are virtually no documented instances of troubled schools being turned around without intervention by talented leaders.

Ahead of the National Primary School Offer Day new figures reveal that the education of 350,000 children has been transformed after their previously underperforming schools were turned into sponsored academies - where education experts and leading headteachers take over the running of the school.

Independent schools are turning from modular A-levels towards traditional ones where all papers are taken after two years, a survey suggests.

If a school is turned down by the school district, it can continue to operate if it is overturned on appeal by either the county or the state.

I think it's also important to point out that in many of these conversations (not that it will necessarily happen in this one), people will often assume that no one reads books anymore, but in reality, that vast majority of American adults read at least one book a year -LSB-(75 % according to a Pew Study)-RSB-(http://www.pewresearch.org/2013/06/25/library-readers-book-type/) and the median number of books read was 5 in 2013, so I don't think we can say that school is turning kids off reading, because most of them grow up to be adult readers.

He does feel that there are fewer such opportunities today because schools are turning out large numbers of value investors who are competing against each other.

But as the tide filled in the surf schools were turning up in droves with soft tops stacked on the roofs.

We live in an era where law schools are turning down millions of dollars in the name of academic freedom — so perhaps our new institute should not be created as part of a law school at all.

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (CNN)- Some students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were turned away Wednesday from meetings with political representatives at the state Capitol.

Lincoln High School is turning discipline into an opportunity to connect, invest and acknowledge their students.

Not exact matches

The South Koreans, in turn, are rattled by President Trump's wild swings from school - yard taunting to bromantic fawning over Kim, and so are pursuing rapprochement on their own.

As the economic environment continues to soften, many young professionals are contemplating returning to graduate school so they can «take shelter» during the downturn and be set to reenter the workforce as the job market turns around a couple of years from now.

«Turning the gesture of sending young school children books into something divisive is unfortunate, but the First Lady remains committed to her efforts on behalf of children everywhere.»

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