Sentences with phrase «school system history»

The graduation rate in Wake County is the highest in school system history, with 29 high schools exceeding 90 %.

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This is one of the wealthiest and most exclusive areas in the country and it's known for its large, historical homes, rich architectural history and top - notch school system.

Expelling Cruz from the Broward school system altogether was never an option, and what little is known of the teen's educational history illustrates the sharp limitations that confront school administrators who must deal with profoundly troubled students.

a school of writers, commonly known today as the Deuteronomists, compiled their history of Israel in such a way as to demonstrate that the meaning of history is to be discerned as a system of just rewards for good and bad behavior.

America was built and prospered on a private school system, directly reflecting individual parental values; modern Americans, indoctrinated by many years in government schools, recoil at such history / ideas... mistakenly seeing it as beyond belief or reason.

Calling it a «pivotal time in the history of our school system,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew focused on the need to rebuild public education in New York City after Mayor Bloomberg in his speech at the union's annual Spring Education Conference at the New York Hilton on May 11.

The prime minister refused to take that one lying down, however, saying: «The truth is that while we've been producing the lowest waiting lists in the NHS, the best school results in the history of our school system, the strongest economy this country has ever seen, whilst we've been facing up to the difficult decisions, he's been ducking them.

This SNSF - funded project clearly showed that ever since the Swiss school system was created in 1830 the importance and content of every subject in the curriculum, whether language, history, handicraft or physical education, has been in flux.

The dramatic shift has been partially attributed to First Nations peoples (a term that replaced the word «Indians» in the 1970s) gaining local control of education in 1973 and changing the on - reserve school system from a more traditional education to one mixed with First Nations history, culture, and values.

Island Catholic Schools (ICS) is a system rich in tradition and history dating back to the mid-nineteenth century.

Her 1974 book The Great School Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the scSchool Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the scschool history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the schools.

The syllabus required that I address the history of our current school system, debates over reform, standards and testing, teacher preparation, and more.

To mark International Women's Day today, home education provider Oxford Home Schooling is celebrating women in education by compiling a list of the top female figures from recent history who have influenced the British system.

He is currently working on two projects: In Search of Deeper Learning, a contemporary study of schools, systems, and nations that are seeking to produce ambitious instruction; and The Chastened Dream, a history of the effort to link social science with social policy to achieve social progress.

Fischel's approach differs from most histories of the American school system.

In fact, in every generation throughout the history of public education on this continent, progressive voices have called for a school system that encourages, and seeks to nurture, deep, connected learning.

Most important, for perhaps the first time in Chicago's history, low - performing schools were pressured to do better, and students and their parents encountered a system that did not just pass everyone through regardless of what they learned.

It will be a state - led initiative to replace the urban district as the delivery system for public schooling, thereby breaking with 100 years of history.

But job security is history; everyone in the Algiers Charter School system, including Lewis - Carter herself, works on a one - year contract.

Chapter Five of my book The Urban School System of the Future chronicles the intellectual history of chartering, which includes motivations well beyond district R&D.

«The history of the CPS art collection is in many ways the history of the last century of the Chicago public school system,» says Robert Eskridge, executive director of museum education at the Art Institute of Chicago and one of the key players in the collection's revival.

Since 1979, more than 200,000 fourth graders in the Hillsborough County School System, in Tampa, Florida, have learned about the city's history and built environment through a program started by Tampa Preservation.

No one has a better feel for the political history of the Boston schools than Joseph Cronin, a scholar and administrator who has spent a lifetime acutely observing the school system's life and times, fully aware that its governing committee treated it mainly as a job - placement firm.

After a career that includes stints teaching high school history, vetting nominees for President Clinton's first presidential administration, running a couple of businesses (Edison Schools and Sangari Global Education), and helping Joel Klein reinvent New York City's education system, he is arguably one of the most seasoned education - reform leaders in the land.

Georgiana Hardy, who served on the Los Angeles school board longer than any other member in the system's history, is dead at 78.

Currently, he is working on two projects: The Chastened Dream, a history of the effort to link social science with social policy to achieve social progress; and In Search of Deeper Learning, a contemporary study of schools, systems, and nations that are seeking to produce ambitious instruction.

«I wanted to explore the relationships between core topics in education like the history of schooling, how it created the teaching and learning we see today, and how we can use what we know about child and adult development to improve our education system.»

«Karen Mapp brings an enormous amount of experience in how to best engage families, communities, and school systems,» said Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education and dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Educschool systems,» said Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education and dean of the Harvard Graduate School of EducSchool of Education.

In a growing number of simulations, ranging from the off - the - shelf SimCity and to Muzzy Lane's Making History to MIT's experimental Revolution and Supercharged, students — even elementary school children — can now manipulate whole virtual systems, from cities to countries to refineries, rather than just handling manipulatives.

As of September, the EBacc system will become compulsory, meaning all pupils will have to study core subjects - English, maths, science, history or geography and a language - as part of a Government performance measure of schools.

The ARCH project, developed through a Teaching American History grant partnership between the Howard County Public School System (Maryland) and the Center for History Education at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), is a framework for assessment that measures the process of historical thinking, as well as the retention of prior knowledge.

Yet, the genius of the Founders was to devise a system that grants citizens at the levels of the state, the school district, and the classroom the freedom to teach not only history, but also every other subject as they see fit.

And, experts say, recognizing that accepted «norms» — among them, a strong federal involvement in American schools, such as No Child Left Behind and Common Core — were anything but normal, in a system that for the majority of its history has been under state and local control.

This raises a serious problem, but on the whole it is an argument that is being made abstractly or on the basis of history - without considering the existing public school systems and how well they are presently carrying out this aim.

And, in fact, Nocera ignores most of the last 150 years of American history, during which time our public school system did rather well educating poor people.

One of the most shocking examples of corruption and incompetence in the city's recent school history is the mind - boggling cost of building new schools and the system's inability to do anything about overcrowding that was predicted years ago.

Still Waiting After All These Years: Inclusion of Children with Special Needs in New York City Public Schools This report looks at the history of special education services in the New York City school system and at the differing views regarding how children with disabilities should be treated....

As educators and trusted messengers in our communities, we must make sure the public is informed and not fooled by presidential candidates who say they believe in a world - class education system but have a history of starving our public schools of critical funding and supporting flawed so - called reforms that don't work.

During the 2013 — 2014 school year, Facing History worked with lead teachers around the country to develop Facing History units that combined our content and pedagogy with performance tasks created using the Literacy Design Collaborative's online instructional design system.

2017 was a big year for education news in Los Angeles, drawing national attention to the most expensive school board race in U.S. history, the looming fiscal cliff exacerbated by declining enrollment, and a new state accountability system that has sparked sharp criticism from parent groups across the state and education advocates across the nation.

So how can a school system leader who understands the sordid history of standardized testing use the results of those tests to push for changes intended to rectify the vestiges of the past?

Together, the organizations» histories mark some of the most important milestones for advancing New York City's public school system.

DETROIT»S CHARTERS CREATED «A CASTE SYSTEM» OF SCHOOLS A powerful article in the New York Times this week traces the history of Detroit's failed experiment with charter sSCHOOLS A powerful article in the New York Times this week traces the history of Detroit's failed experiment with charter schoolsschools.

The surprise announcement by WCPSS Superintendent Dr. James Merrill that he will retire effective Feb. 1, 2018 will end an era unlike any other in the school system's history.

Even as a commission spent the past two years planning for the largest school district merger in the nation's history — the former Memphis city district and an adjacent suburban system became the unified 140,000 - student, 222 - school Shelby County district on July 1 — the landscape of governance within the legacy city school system was changing rapidly to favor parental choice and more autonomous schools.

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Further, while we already had a network of school - based teams charged with coordinating social services and academic supports (the district had a long history of doing this kind of work), we realized that we had to expand it, given that our EWI system promised to identify many vulnerable students who had previously slipped through the cracks.

The Department of Law Enforcement shall implement a system that allows for the results of a criminal history check provided to a school district to be shared with other school districts through a secure Internet website or other secure electronic means.

As authorized by law, the Department of Law Enforcement shall retain the fingerprints submitted by the school districts pursuant to this subsection to the Department of Law Enforcement for a criminal history background screening in a manner provided by rule and enter the fingerprints in the statewide automated biometric identification system authorized by s. 943.05 (2)(b).

By reading this book, I learned not only the history of American school system but also American policy making process.