Sentences with phrase «school with a reading»

The study is the first of its kind to examine the effect of Experience Corps, a national volunteer service program that trains seniors to help children in urban public schools with reading and academic success in other areas.

In Gov. Minner's first term, she introduced a program to provide schools with reading specialists.

Schools with reading and math assessment test performance in the bottom 10 percent of the state's results automatically failed Step 1.

In California most students are introduced to the Holocaust in Middle School with the reading of Anne Frank and then again in 10th Grade World History but the testimonies provided on IWitness work in many subjects including English, Government, Economics, Geography, US History, Digital Media to name a few.

Harrow boys help Year 6 pupils from Welldon Park Primary School with reading on a weekly basis (while we are on the winter timetable).

The aim is for pupils from The Manchester Grammar School to support children from Reception to Year 6 at Medlock Primary School with their reading and maths skills.

One third of pupils start at Michaela community school with a reading age below their chronological age; many have been thrown out of their previous schools.

Not exact matches

As Canadian Business columnist and Ivey School of Business economist Mike Moffatt noted last month, a few widely read economists this year have used their associations with various publications to stridently assert that fiscal stimulus won't work.

Sounds like a must - read for everyone who's struggled with awkwardness, in high school and beyond.

I read it in high school and have always carried the core ideas with me regarding the balance of power between nations, companies, industries, value chains, and people.

The book, Swimmy, by Leo Lionni, which Kalin read with the careful intonation of an elementary school teacher, is about a small fish that bands together with other fish to scare away a hungry tuna.

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I read books about the female brain, met with science and math elementary school teachers and nonprofit educators who were doing programs to get kids interested in STEM.

The 20 - something Richard Branson racked up a résumé that would impress no one: high - school dropout with poor reading and math skills.

He has an M.A. in International Relations and Economics from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and he speaks and reads Arabic with proficiency.

Twelve Zavala Elementary School students celebrated their reading accomplishments today with a pizza party and a pep talk form a special guest speaker.

«Im going to be a professional school shooter,» read the comment, left by a user with the name Nikolas Cruz.

A student who says she reported warning signs about the suspect in the Parkland school tragedy more than a year before last week's mass shooting said her friendship with him quickly turned to fear in the years leading up to... Read More

My son Grey came home from school the other day with an urgent need: «Dad,... Read more

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Some of their signs read: «Arm me with school funding,» «Never again,» «End school violence,» and «Common sense gun laws!

It allows you to do the things that really matter to you such as going to your kids» little league games, school plays, reading, having coffee with friends, vacations with your spouse, or whatever else it is that you value highly.

Read the piece on her in New York Mag and tell me you're not rooting for her new eponymous firm, which also aims to go old school, with clients who will actually pay for her research and execute trades with her shop.

As I recall, Plymouth actually stayed rather small and insular for some time while the Boston Bay Company took off with their colonies in what's now called Boston, New Bedford, and I believe the Cape Ann area but I'd have to re-read a book I read while going to school down on Cape Cod a few years back.

Chinese Internet message boards have also featured photos from Hefei, capital city of the eastern province of Anhui, where several «elementary school students» staged a protest with a banner reading «Oppose Carrefour, Shopping is shameful».

The precedent for blending a scholarly reading of Tocqueville with personal narrative was set by Poulos's graduate school mentor, Joshua Mitchell, in his Tocqueville in Arabia: Dilemmas in a Democratic Age (2013).

He was arrested in 2009 after he lodged a protest with local education officials after learning his child was being forced to read from the Quran, the Muslim holy book, in school.

However this discussion develops, the way to get the moral questions into clear focus begins with a careful reading of John Coons» «School Choice as Simple Justice.»

Moral Life and the Classical Tradition: for rising high school juniors and seniors, with readings in Plato and Aristotle, and discussion of contemporary moral issues from a Judeo - Christian perspective.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

if you read between lines, article sounds like a desperate cry of NRA, first sent some stupid with crazy idea of beefing up schools with guns, and now retaining some cheap bible preaching goon as spoke person

The books are published by the Oxford University Press as a direct response to something that has been worrying educationalists for some while - the fact that boys vastly outnumber girls in illiteracy rates, and that many start secondary schools with very poor reading skills and no apparent interest in acquiring any.

She's been reading aloud to her six kids (preschool to high school) ever since, and has spent the last few years chatting with experts, authors, parents, and leaders, discovering how a simple choice to pull a book off a shelf and share it with a child is one of the very best decisions a parent can make.

I'm concerned about Tony's theology, whose philosophical foundations I criticized pretty consistently while I was involved in EC in 2004 - 7 before bowing out because Tony seemed more into pushing with some arrogance a pomo philosophy he never really studied in school than he was into fostering dialogue (I went back to just reading the wonderful books of Brian McLaren which is how I got involved in the first place).

A perennial favorite read aloud that deeply moves (I never get through the school scene with the native boys without crying) and one Hope has read at least a handful of times.

With fall education programs getting under way and Sunday school teachers beginning another year of teaching, it may be disconcerting to hear this reading from James: «Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.&raWith fall education programs getting under way and Sunday school teachers beginning another year of teaching, it may be disconcerting to hear this reading from James: «Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.&rawith greater strictness.»

Along with advocating for better education in schools regarding reading the news, Cook says that companies like Apple have to do their part to walk the line between preventing fake news and censoring free speech.

Well considering your writing sucks, your reading comprehension is worse and your facts are completely wrong (starting with the US being the world's lowest and ending with Hitler wanting to only kill jews) I was insinuating that your education was so terrible it must have been on another planet because I have more faith that a public school in Rwanda could give a person a better education than the one you apparently received.

The summer before I began teaching in a RCC school, first grade, I was going through the bookshelves and reading anything I wasn't familiar with.

I can remember in college and graduate school reading Eliot, Yeats, Auden, Beckett, and Camus while bemoaning with everyone else, including the teacher, the loss of a shared vision about the purpose of human life.

But the larger incongruity for me were the stickers professing affiliation with churches and Christian schools bearing names like Good Shepherd alongside the oval sticker on the rear window which read «Proud Member of the Angry Mob.»

I was a public school teacher so I became familiar with the general impact of poor reading skills on learning in any field.

«If parents didn't come into school, didn't come to parents» evening, didn't read with their children, didn't ensure they did their homework, I would tell them they were bad parents.

At first when I started reading this I felt it was unfair on the part of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS), but reading until the end, I have to agree with their decision.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

For example, the study of Homer is postponed until secondary school, after the student has learned to read competently, when in fact it was intended for illiterate audiences and shared with them orally for centuries.

Well... I'm done reading your crappy reports and comment sections CNN, you've successfully turned another educated person away, and what do you care honestly, every time you turn away someone who understands logic and reason, you bring in 10 more lowly people with degrees from state college (I mean, «yes, they're ph.ds, but from state college??? that shouldn't really count, or at least should be considered the equivalent of a masters degree at a good school).

I think I would enjoy Dylans book, I have only been reading books for a short time now, my friend from church, loaned me Angels in my hair, by Lorna byrne, I was hooked straight away,,,, Not having much schooling as a child this is also helping me with reading skills....

Their discomfort with cultural issues is reflected in their protests that matters such as partial - birth abortion, school prayer, or same - sex marriage are not proper items for political debate; they are rather «wedge issues» that conservatives illegitimately bring into the public arena in order to divide the nation (read: in order to cost Democrats votes).

The league tables show schools with «a religious ethos» make up 62 % of the schools that reached the government's targets for pupil's levels of reading, writing and maths.