Sentences with phrase «school time era»

Mathematics has been over the century a great menace of fear and disaster of our results slips during the school time era.

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Exciting times ahead but the end of an era and once they start school the time just flies.

Depending on your childcare choices, your kiddos may be having any number of experiences, including but limited to daycare, school, time with a nanny, time with a relative, and time on their own in fancy hotels thwarting burglars in»90s - era New York at Christmastime.

The idea arrived at a key time — nearly a decade into the No Child Left Behind era, when schools nationwide focused obsessively on year - to - year improvements in students» basic math and reading skills.

Interestingly Death Wish, the millennial - era remake of the gritty mid 70's crime thriller of the same name, notoriously arrives in theaters at an increasingly awkward moment in a divisive national climate (particularly in the aftermath of the most recent high school shooting) where the political stakes regarding gun violence in America are at an all - time high.

Boxcar Bertha (Twilight Time, Blu - ray)-- Martin Scorsese was just another college film school grad with a student feature under his belt (Who's That Knocking at My Door) when producer Roger Corman tapped him to direct AIP's entry in the Bonnie and Clyde craze of depression era gangster films.

Coogler will probably get first dibs at a Black Panther sequel — though first he's got another film in the works with frequent collaborator Michael B. Jordan, this time about the 2013 Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal — but beyond that he's already earned a must - watch status from the onset of his career in the mold of Jaws - era Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Ridley Scott.

While watching Richard Linklater's (Before Sunset, The School of Rock) semi-autobiographical homage to his high school days in Dazed and Confused, it's almost impossible not to think about another film that similarly captured the essence of a time and place for teenagers in an older era, George Lucas's American GraSchool of Rock) semi-autobiographical homage to his high school days in Dazed and Confused, it's almost impossible not to think about another film that similarly captured the essence of a time and place for teenagers in an older era, George Lucas's American Graschool days in Dazed and Confused, it's almost impossible not to think about another film that similarly captured the essence of a time and place for teenagers in an older era, George Lucas's American Graffiti.

Special delivery Active from the 1940s to the mid -»80s, writer - director Richard Brooks exemplified the extraordinary changes Hollywood went through during that time, and this all - star Western marks the transition between old - school Hollywood entertainment and the darker tone of the post-studio era.

Under the NCLB - era accountability regimes in many states, practically every school serving lots of low - income students was eventually designated as failing («needs improvement») because the dominant measures of school performance at the time — especially proficiency and graduation rates — are strongly correlated with prior achievement and student demographics.

Indeed, it is one thing for the new chancellor of the nation's largest school system to dial back the heated rhetoric that marked much of the Joel Klein reform era, but let's hope Walcott doesn't set the pedagogical time machine arrow to the 60s and 70s.

I am pleased that this strategy is already moving forward in many, many states; that our nation's governors and state legislators of both parties are choosing to make a solid commitment to boost education, to advocate high standards, and to take advantage of this era of budget surpluses and good times to make our schools better so that we'll have even better times in the future.

Living through the changing attitudes, dress codes and technologies of the nation's classrooms over the decades, participants in Back In Time For School will experience the lessons, sports, school trips and even school dinners of yesteryear, and decide which eras were «the best days of our lives&rSchool will experience the lessons, sports, school trips and even school dinners of yesteryear, and decide which eras were «the best days of our lives&rschool trips and even school dinners of yesteryear, and decide which eras were «the best days of our lives&rschool dinners of yesteryear, and decide which eras were «the best days of our lives».

In an era of school budget and time constraints, this sense of empowerment is necessary when students go out into the real world and try to use Scratch or their own creative Scratch - like projects to change learning, Brennan says.

While other areas of education, from teaching through operations have joined the digital age, board meetings remain firmly rooted in an analogue era, and it's high time that school meetings were given a modern makeover.

Like school inspectors of an earlier era, a time when American education was justifiably the envy of the world.

Seeking Help in the Accountability Era Long known for its role in preparing students to take college entrance exams, Kaplan, Inc. now is spending more time helping school districts with curriculum and professional development.

RH: During the No Child Left Behind era, many schools felt pressured to raise these math and reading scores, and cut down on recess in favor of more time in the classroom.

Maurice Holt's recent Phi Delta Kappan article, It's Time to Start the Slow School Movement, reminded me of my own learning experiences during an era when it seemed teaching was more about savoring the learning than just getting through it.

Kentucky's curriculum standards would include the time designations B.C.E., or before the Common Era, and C.E., or Common Era, under regulations given initial approval by the state school board this month.

The Bridgeport Board of Education needs to realize that the «Vallas Era» is over and it is time to recruit a new superintendent of schools.

Dismal Voucher Results Surprise Researchers as DeVos Era Begins (New York Times) Professor Marty West shares his views on the most recent research on private school vouchers.

The transition to teaching a viable curriculum based on the CCSS, then monitoring student learning to see which students have fully learned essential skills and behaviors, then adjusting instruction to give some children additional instruction or more practice time, will be an exciting era in American schools.

Arguing that post-recession budget cuts and Bush - era testing policies have prompted schools to cut art (in order to spend more time prepping kids for math and reading tests), they've come up with an idea: convince states to adopt new art standards — à la Common Core — to get schools to focus on art again.

Arguing that post-recession budget cuts and Bush - era testing policies have prompted schools to cut art (in order to spend more time prepping kids for math and reading tests), they've come up with an idea: convince states to adopt new art standards — à la Common -LSB-...]

«Choices, Changes, and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era» finds that since the enactment of NCLB, 62 percent of school districts increased the amount of time spent in elementary schools on subjects that are tested for accountability, while 44 percent of school districts cut time on science, social studies, art and music, physical education, lunch, or recess.

Current school structures are rooted in the industrial era and prepare students for a time that no longer exists.

Take Action It is time for a new era for education in Philadelphia The Mayor and City Council are, at this moment, engaged in what is happening at the School District of Philadelphia in a way that we haven't seen in a long time, maybe longer.

The nearly 70 - year - old program once seemed a relic of the «vocational education» era — a time when a much larger percentage of high school graduates went right into the workforce.

If the Progressive Era created the organizational imprint for the rationalization of schooling, a now almost forgotten standards movement in the 1960s and 1970s reenergized the desire for scientific management of schools, this time at the state rather than the district level.

It is long past time that the era of backroom deals that delivered new funding to schools represented by politically powerful members of the legislature has ended.

But our state's school districts still face financial insecurity — and that insecurity won't end until the state enacts Senate Bill 1, the new school funding formula that ends an era of inequitable funding and ensures classrooms open on time this fall.

Rather than resolve individual complaints about sexual assault or harassment on campus, or racial disparities in K - 12 school discipline, the Obama - era OCR would begin «a full - blown investigation of the entire institution» every time it received an individual complaint.

We are at a critical time as our community makes plans to unify our schools and begin a new era of education excellence in New Orleans,» said Kemp.

As we end October, which is National Principals Month, during a time with myriad distractions, and in an era where plenty of quick fixes for schools are promoted, people often ask me, what should the focus of school leaders be?

, during a time with myriad distractions, and in an era where plenty of quick fixes for schools are promoted, people often ask me, what should the focus of school leaders be?

This unsupervised time puts children at risk for negative outcomes such as academic and behavioral problems, drug use and other types of risky behavior, yet schools with a need to slash costs in an era of constrained budgets often choose to scrap their afterschool programming.

Well, those of us who would actually like to see a longer day at some point had to be worried — but not surprised — to read this comment from CPS CEO J. C. Brizard tucked into a Sun - Times article yesterday about the «new era» in Chicago Public Schools under Mayor Emanuel:

Old Time Hockey channels classic arcade style action (NHL 94, Blades of Steel, and Tecmo Bowl to name a few) with an old - school aesthetic from the 70's era.

Now, in a new era of austerity, the idealistic notion of School Prints has found its time again.

Ranging from a documentary film screening, lectures, a gallery exhibition, and a presentation with local school children, students, faculty and the public took the time to remember and reflect the actions of those in the civil rights era.