Sentences with phrase «school year length»

It might be worth asking why, as school year length in the United States largely has remained unaltered since the 1960's.

School year length and student performance: Quasi-experimental evidence.

This article reviews laws that homeschoolers must follow to meet state requirements in the areas of age, homeschool curriculum, assessment, and school year length.

Not exact matches

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

wow this is great, i haven't read any thing in CS Lewis's words at length for a long time... not since high school... wow that was 6 years ago.

The band that dominated your high school life sold 186,000 «equivalent albums» — adjusted to take streaming songs and full albums into account — of their brand new full length California Of that number, 172,000 were traditional album sales, which is the third largest week for a rock album this year.

By «re-structuring» I mean such changes as altering the length of school year, the time allocated for class periods, or the number of required science or «literacy» courses.

After traveling most of August and facing the whirlwind of starting a new school year, the longest I had spent in the kitchen up to this point was the length of time it took to fry an egg.

Program Length: The dance program runs for 32 weeks generally following the school year.

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State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and members of the Board of Regents announced Monday the length of those tests will remain at three days this and next school year.

The length of the governor's emergency plan also troubled school advocates, who said that the extender, which effectively freezes funding at last year's levels, added a troubling wrinkle to the budgeting process of districts.

During the 60 million years before the die - off, various types of fish and sharks had grown steadily in size, with some fish reaching the length of a school bus.

The two Chinese judges agreed that this year's applicants, with an average length - of - service of 2.5 years, showed «outstanding performance in science news reporting,» said Tai Zixue, an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Telecommunications at the University of Kentucky.

«We had the idea for this study more than seven years ago, but it took the laboratory three months to finish quantifying telomere length for just 100 samples, which was not enough to draw any meaningful conclusions,» said Yuan, also a professor of epidemiology at Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health.

For the school dance my freshman year of high school, I was the 14 - year - old who wore a black tea length, tulle dress with a sweetheart neckline.

Once, in a single week, I received 6 dick pics, one novel - length email about a guy's desire to have 8 children with a woman willing to home school them and a request to meet a man twenty years older than me in the middle of the night.

After being dumped by his high school sweetheart after a relationship that ran the length of their college years, the newly graduated, newly single American flees to Paris to get away from it all and find himself.

Any of these films would be worthy of an Oscar win, but I'm personally rooting for the race documentary «13th» (a must - see for anyone, the kind of film they should show in schools) and «O.J.: Made in America,» which is a marathon at nearly eight hours in length (it was shown in parts on ESPN earlier this year), but a completely fascinating look at race, media and society as it was in the 1990s and today, and just happens to be a tragic portrait of the worst fall from grace for a sports star in the history of our country.

We can not measure charisma, but we can measure the length of the school year.

In fact, 12 days is the standard deviation in the length of the school year among charter schools.

Last year, some elementary schools took up to 540 minutes to test students, more than double the length of the SAT.

The report doesn't specify a length, but says the checks should be «brief in duration (to cater to attention of 5 - 6 year old children and time pressures in schools)».

(The new contract would have increased the length of the workday and the school year for principals.)

The estimated impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a gain of 5.3 scale points in reading.

We also examine the effects of court - mandated spending increases on three commonly used proxies for school quality: the length of the school year, teacher salaries, and student - teacher ratios.

As well as full - length performances of Verdi's La traviata and Mozart's La finta giardiniera for secondary school pupils, Glyndebourne has commissioned a brand new work for 7 to 10 - year - olds.

Specifically, spending increases associated with court - mandated reform are much more strongly related to improvement in measured school inputs (e.g., student - to - teacher ratios, length of the school year) than ordinary spending increases.

That estimate provides the impact on all those who ever attended a private school, whether for one month, three years, or any length of time in between (see Figure 1).

When studying the pattern of charter school enrollment across the country, we took into account how each of three factors contributes to or retards charter school growth: per pupil expenditures (also measured during the 1989 — 90 school year), length of time a charter law was on the books, and degree of permissiveness of each state's charter school law, as measured by the CER index.

This feature - length documentary, produced by Point Made Films in partnership with The Calhoun School, attempts to offer a roadmap through the story of 12 teens in New York City who come together for one school year to talk about race and privSchool, attempts to offer a roadmap through the story of 12 teens in New York City who come together for one school year to talk about race and privschool year to talk about race and privilege.

In Turkey, Gombas observed firsthand the effects of sweeping education reforms in the 1990s, which increased the length of compulsory schooling from five to eight years.

The exact length of summer break is highly controversial, since some teachers likely work both before and after the official school year.

She also keeps her students engaged through Reading Buddies, a program that recruits staff and students from the Ed School to volunteer time once a week for the length of the academic year to read to an Amigos student.

That estimate, Wolf noted, provides the impact on all those who ever attended a private school through the voucher program, whether for one month, three years, or any length of time in between.

Although the evaluation found no impact on student math performance, the estimated reading impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a statistically significant gain of more than 5 scale points.

For example, perhaps the choice of curricula, types of teachers employed, or length of the school day and year are associated with better or worse outcomes.

ClaaS is designed to help schools: · Maximise their budget with savings that can amount to as much as 40 percent when compared to an outright purchase · Release capital from their existing IT assets to help finance their new ClaaS subscription · Receive ongoing servicing, training and maintenance which is covered by the agreement, ensuring schools and teachers get the most from technology · Add more equipment and services as and when required · Potentially include other equipment and services such as; tablets, PCs, printers and Wi - Fi from other best of breed suppliers · Build in a regular refresh to ensure they always have the latest learning technology · Be flexible: choose a convenient term length (for example: 3, 4 or 5 years) with the ability to renew the contract, negotiate a new contract or end the contract at the end of the original term Jane Ashworth, UK Managing Director, SMART Technologies commented: «We are thrilled to announce Crystalised as our third distributor in the UK, effective October 1st.

The problem, according to the commission, is not just the length of the school year but also the lockstep «gridding» of the school day.

«Rendezvous,» a picture set during the Revolutionary War, is the creation of the school's own Elmhurst Cinema Productions, which for the past several years has written and produced full - length feature movies.

Students in the same year of school are broadly the same age and have been at school for the same length of time.

Through local collective bargaining agreements, teachers have a say in district salary schedules, the number and type of sick and personal leave, the length and timing of the school day and year, the number of students per classroom, the amount and type of support services offered to students, and the professional development provided for teachers.

Our science textbooks continue to get bigger, but the school year remains the same length.

These states» governors have taken cost - cutting approaches that harm students: reducing the length of the school year in order to forestall layoffs.

A further problem in the American context is that there is little recent variation in the length of school year.

Work we conducted separately in 2007 and 2008 provides much stronger evidence of effects on test scores from year - to - year changes in the length of the school year due to bad weather.

First, it can allow districts to game accountability systems by rearranging school calendars so that students have more time in school prior to the exam, even as the overall length of the school year remains constant.

Just three years ago, a student could receive a ten - day suspension for having a phone in school, although the length of the suspension could be reduced at the discretion of the principal, Dr. McDonald told Education World.

But in that fifth year, the TEACH Grants automatically convert to loans, because it has become impossible for her to meet the length - of - service requirement to teach at a high - needs school.

Would increasing the length of the school year or school day raise students» achievement, or would it be more advantageous to alter how we use the time we currently have?