Sentences with phrase «school system which»

school system which sees over 50 % of its students walk out the door before graduation, an attrition rate more than two times higher than West Point.

Once students are a part of BASIS schools, they become part of a school system which sees over 50 % of its students walk out the door before graduation, an attrition rate more than two times higher than West Point.

Arne Duncan, Obama's Secretary of Education, is infamous for his claim that Hurricane Katrina was, «the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans,» because it wiped out the existing public school system which allowed it to be replaced with one that is totally privatized, completely made up of charter schools rather than public schools, and no longer employs teachers who belong to unions.

But Labour's Ian Mearns questioned how she could run a school system which could have 10,000 separate academy trusts.

We have since devolved into a zip - code monopoly, a government - run, technocratic and often unionized school system which frequently delivers a substandard product.

This situation is extremely advanced and is clearly the most egregious example of abuse of the charter school system which Mr. Biddle adores.

We hope today's report — and our ongoing literacy campaign — will go some way in building a reliable and self - improving primary school system which will ensure as many pupils as possible, regardless of social or geographic background, can read and write well.

It was also noted that the best school leaders and the best - performing academy trusts are spread too thinly within the school system which means the support needed to improve schools can not be provided.

For example, since the 1970s, Finland has implemented a comprehensive and fully publicly - funded school system which enrols all children regardless of their socioeconomic background or personal abilities and characteristics.

After the family moved to Orlando, he entered a segregated school system which seemed to further nurture his intellectual ability.

That's the promise from the Buffalo school system which helped the college admission rate jump nine points, from 57 percent of graduates in 2012 to 66 percent last year.

I simply have an education for the public school system which taught me that evolution was fact, but I was skeptical and still am.

He was a product of a vastly inferior, segregated school system which used the hand - me - down textbooks that came from the white school system, while all the time listening to the white people proclaim that ours was a separate but equal school situation.

Frank Riessman, The Culturally Deprived Child [New York: Harper, 1962]-RRB- This is why middle - class talk therapies are inadequate and why the poor may not do well in middle - class - oriented school systems which emphasize verbal skills, abstract reasoning, and knowledge for knowledge's sake.

Schools and school systems which are successfully involving families began by responding to the qualities, characteristics, and needs of the parents in order to overcome the barriers which interfere with communication.

Similarly, school systems which would rather commit resources to Career Technical Education (CTE) programs to ensure their students are workforce - ready upon graduation should be permitted to seek additional state funding to implement those programs.

Not exact matches

Nor can the nation's school systems account for foreign - educated adult immigrants, the dated skills of older workers and the changing needs of workplaces, which are often driven by technological change.

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.

«I think it's a shock to see the school system getting on board with the changing Ireland we live in and it becoming the «norm,» which helps the cause against bullying so much,» Ryder told INSIDER.

The company's plan, which prioritized community amenities, called for affordable homes that Hershey workers could rent or own, as well as public schools, an all - boys orphanage, shops, restaurants, and a trolley system.

For example, the US Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund, which offered $ 4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms, spurred innovations that hold promise for school systems across the country.

Students begin crafting their network and community within the business world the minute they arrive at Columbia, thanks in part to the school's cluster system, which places first - year students in «clusters» of 65 to 70 people who take all their core classes together.

Just consider the ways in which patients are clamoring for more telemedicine and virtual doctor visit options while medical schools are harnessing virtual reality systems like Microsoft's Hololens to teach anatomy to young surgeons.

The squeeze system Sharei then designed to temporarily disrupt cell membranes — for which he's been granted most of his 10 patents — is the basis for SQZ Biotech, the company he co-founded in 2013 with the pioneering MIT professors he worked for: Klavs Jensen, the school's head of chemical engineering, and Robert Langer, a renowned bioengineer and serial entrepreneur.

Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.

A few months ago, our kids» school district, one of the largest in South Carolina, was hit with a virus that spread «ransomware,» a malicious software designed to block computer systems by encrypting the data in which the attackers gain access.

«The state and city used Katrina to wipe away the dysfunction and corruption in the school system,» Medberry says, referring to the city's charter school initiative, which largely replaced public schools with privately operated institutions after 2005.

It was «The Education Channel» which is basically public access for the county school system.

The STOP School Violence Act, which Kashuv strongly supported, creates an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems for school safety (and doesn't mention School Violence Act, which Kashuv strongly supported, creates an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems for school safety (and doesn't mention school safety (and doesn't mention guns).

She took a job in the Denver school system, which is not part of the PERA system.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&school system.»

The spending legislation, which was viewed as the last opportunity this year for Congress to enact major new gun restrictions before the midterm elections in November, included only some school safety measures and modest improvements to the background check system.

The STOP School Violence Act might be just that, although House Republican leaders voiced some support for the Senate's Fix NICS Act, which would only reinforce existing laws requiring state and federal agencies to report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

At the event, which was hosted by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law in New Haven, Powell highlighted three specific areas where blockchain technology is affecting change in regard to the Federal Reserve's «broad public policy objectives»: the creation of real - time payment systems, use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement services, and the issuance of digital currencies by central banks.

It includes The New Payments Platform (NPP) for instant transactions between all the Australian market participants, effective interbank worldwide payment system which successfully substitutes old - school SWIFT.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education,» he said.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education.

As traditional theology was a relatively well defined system, the same in certain basic respects — despite all sorts of philosophical and ecclesiastical differences — in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Maimonides, Leibniz, Calvin, Immanuel Kant, and some schools of Hindu thought, so the new theology which many be contrasted with the old is found more or less fully and consistently represented in thinkers as far apart as William James,... Henri Bergson, F. R. Tennant,... A. N. Whitehead,... Nicholas Berdyaev,... and in numerous others of every brand of Protestantism, besides a few... Roman Catholics.

Recently it has been divided into two departments with the general department continuing the old system and a special department which is composed of faculties of theology, jurisprudence, and the Arabic language, to each of which is attached a number of primary and secondary schools.

Under the influence and tutorship of Whitehead3 and Bertalanffy, Laszlo has developed a unitary vision of systems which falls within the general conceptual framework of western philosophy.4 Despite his acknowledged position as the founder of systems philosophy, no school has developed around his efforts.

In other words, during the transition from a racially segregated to a desegregated school system, it may be desirable to substitute for the previous racial groupings new kinds of educationally pertinent groupings, in which any deficiencies of the less favored race can be taken into account automatically, without reference to race as such.

For this reason it is important for a democracy to have a strong public school system, and parents who cherish democratic ideals do well to send their children to schools, either public or independent, in which traditional class distinctions are minimized.

It is within the province of public schools not only to see that students are correctly informed about religious matters, but also to provide a setting in which older young people may learn to recognize and sift out irreligious and idolatrous tendencies and perversions in the various religious systems of mankind.

It was an illusion of Horace Mann and the other reformers who shaped our educational system in conscious opposition to «sectarian» schools that a coherent «common» education could be provided by stressing only those convictions on which «men of good will» agreed.

A perfect counter-example is Hinduism, which by construction is more spiritual than religious — it's adherents do not have strict rules or norms, and there is incredible diversity of norms within one umbrella (some who believe in caste system, even though a large majority of urbanites study in Christian missionary schools; some who believe cows are sacred though 2/3 of Indians are actually non-vegetarian).

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

There are various ways in which the church has entered the lists on the side of humanity and fought for better health systems, schools, mental health programs, and the like.

Until now only the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board has pioneered in providing their church schools with materials via a leased satellite which feeds local cable systems throughout the country, and, in some cases, is picked up directly by local churches.

Which is one very sensible reason why the majority of teachers in the big city systems do not send their own children to the public schools.