Sentences with phrase «school year resulted»

As the Washington Post's savvy Nick Anderson reported,» Faulty calculations of the «value» that D.C. teachers added to student achievement in the last school year resulted in erroneous performance evaluations for 44 teachers, including one who was fired because of a low rating.»

Martinez believes investing in that kind of teamwork from the beginning of the school year results in a consistency of approach that provides teachers with the support they need and helps students understand just what's expected of them throughout the day, no matter what class they're in.

4 unexcused absences in one month or 10 unexcused absences in a school year result in Truancy.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

The number of applications for university places this year has fallen by 25.4 per cent in Western Australia, as a result of the change 12 years ago in the school starting age.

That has resulted in the organisation reducing some of its community education programs that were offered to 30,000 school children last year

Kohl's (kss) on Thursday reported better - than - expected financial results as shoppers who had stayed away in droves earlier in the year starting showing up again just in time for back - to - school shopping season.

«Children are looking for what's cool for the new school year, and as a result, loyalty to a retailer or brand is being eroded.»

The higher price tag is likely a result of student enrollment at four - year private schools.

As a result, you must plan for roughly 80 - 90 years of life after secondary school.

The report card provides parents with information they can't easily get anywhere else: In addition to five years of academic results, the report card shows which schools are improving or falling behind.

The 2007 Associated Press investigation identifies 2570 public school teachers who, from 2001 through 2005, had their teaching licenses «taken away, denied, surrendered voluntarily, or restricted» as a result of sexual misconduct with minors» an average of 514 per year.

The results of these and other Supreme Court decisions call to mind the warning issued by Justice Arthur I Goldberg (no Moral Majoritarian, he) some 25 years ago in the School Prayer Cases.

As a result, a five-fold increase in the number of mass shootings has occurred, when comparing the 30 years of impact of school prayer (i.e. 1949 - 1981) against the impact of no school prayer (i.e. 1982 — 2012).

We begin to formally educate a child at the age of six, and twelve years later frequently find we have failed, not because school material is intrinsically difficult (the task of learning a new language is much more so, yet the child masters it in thee years); we find failure because we have ignored the fact that the developing personality has a natural sway, to and fro, which Whitehead says results in a «craving» to be continually refreshed by the experience of starting anew.

Although he recognizes that the shift in recent years from strict, no - aid separationism to an equal - treatment - of - religion model has produced some good results (upholding school vouchers, for example), he insists that neutrality and equality are not enough.

It is very possible that the people killed in the last few years as the result of «school shootings» may in fact be the first victims / results of this experiment.

The latest results, like others in recent years, show an apparent contradiction between strong support for more parent choice among schools, and....

We do these experiments every day of every year for their entire high school experience, with the children praying each day that the result will be different.

After all, it was through political and legal struggles over many years, and as a result of compromises, that other Western democracies recognized the pluralistic nature of a free society and adopted policies protecting the rights of parents and of educators to maintain and receive public funding for faith - based schools.

This initiative has resulted in a 90 percent reduction in beverage calories shipped to schools between 2004 and the end of the 2009 - 2010 school year.

Back then we played so good, creating chances after chances, only to be led down by school boys defending mistakes, and today we play with our hearts out just to have the same results as years ago.

All I could think about after I saw that result was my high school coach Kevin Perry who passed away during my freshman year of college

The Nationals were of unusual importance this year, since the results would decide the selection of swimmers for the Pan American Games three weeks hence, and this, in turn, allowed Big Ten schools (if they wished) to enter the meet under their team colors.

Cheerleading is one of the highest risk sporting events for direct catastrophic injuries that can result in permanent brain injury, paralysis or death, with cheerleading accounting for an astounding 66 percent of all catastrophic injuries in high school female athletes over the past 25 years.

The UK's public services — maternity and early years services, schools and social workers — have been and remain almost entirely mother - centric, and as a result consistently fail to support greater sharing by mums and dads.

The results of a recent randomized trial of CSRP showed that children who spent their prekindergarten year in a CSRP Head Start classroom had, at the end of the school year, substantially higher attention skills, greater impulse control, and better performance on executive - function tasks than did children in a control group.

Fortunately, as result of my first - hand experience, working closely the past four football seasons (on many football fields) with six different sensor manufacturers, the high school football program in Newcastle, and, most recently, the youth football program in Grand Prairie, TX, and from covering the concussion beat, along with a team of experts and staff journalists, for the past fifteen years, I believe MomsTEAM and I are in a unique position to explain just what impact sensors are all about.

The on - site improvements (e.g., computers, books, lower student / teacher ratios — the secondary school used to operate at a 1:67 ratio) and quantitative results (e.g., in the past 5 years, the rate for passing university entrance exams has climbed from 60 to 89 %) are remarkable and I wanted to share some audio and video.

Being held back a year in school is usually a result of a child just not being ready for the next grade level — yet.

The results for the 2013 - 14 school year show an average of 11.2 million low - income children ate breakfast at school each day — an increase of 320,000 from SY 2012 - 13.

If you are concerned that your child really is not ready for kindergarten and should wait another year to begin k - 12 schooling, the results of a kindergarten readiness assessment can help you make that decision.

In the long term, any resulting anxiety and depression would then be the forbearers of later emotional problems during early school years, adolescence, and in adulthood.

High school athletes suffer an estimated two million injuries every year, resulting in 500,000 doctor visits and 30,000 hospitalizations.

Although Luther North College Prep will not officially begin their new academy model until next year, the National Academy Foundation has completed numerous studies to find that this type of educational balance results in more kids staying in school and, more importantly, more kids staying interested in being in school.

This was during the first few years of the Harlem Children Zone's middle school, which were a struggle, and those KIPP schools, which had very good test results, were for the Promise Academy administrators both a standard to be aspired to and a frustrating reminder that their own students weren't performing at the same high level as KIPP's students.

But wait just a minute: The researchers didn't have data on milk waste from the previous year at the 11 Oregon schools, so they used results from five New York City elementary schools (where chocolate milk was still available) as a comparison.

And as a result of this happy alliance, school food — historically a bipartisan issue — suddenly became a politically charged topic, even spilling over into this year's presidential campaign.

We gave the survey results to the administration, along with recommendations for alternative ways to celebrate birthdays based on parent feedback, and they implemented a new policy before the beginning of the school year.

The Government has also committed to investing # 150m a year until 2020 to improve the quality of sport provision in every state primary school in England in the form of the PE and sport premium, because high quality provision — resulting from approaches like HDHK — can lead to dramatic improvements in children's health, behaviour and attainment.

For starters, the trend toward sugary, processed foods in school has been in place some 30 years now and the results are clear for anyone to see: it's killing our kids.

I had another «friend» several years back with a different child whom was only 6, call the principal of the school to complain about an incident between the children resulting in my child getting in trouble when both children were equally at fault.

Spill continued the presentation of the KITS study results, shifting her focus to findings about the challenges of implementing the updated standards by the start of the 2012 - 13 school year.

Kentucky districts participating in the national school meal programs served more than 128 million breakfasts and lunches during the 2013 - 14 school year, resulting in more than $ 265 million in federal reimbursements.

As a result, USDA issued final regulations aimed at providing lunches high in nutrients and low in calories that better meet the dietary needs of school children and required that they be implemented beginning in school year 2012 - 2013.

Alabama districts participating in national school meal programs served more than 129 million breakfasts and lunches during the 2013 - 14 school year, resulting in more than $ 272 million in federal reimbursements through the national school breakfast and lunch programs.

Earlier this year, the SNA successfully lobbied to insert language in the Congressional report accompanying the 2014 Omnibus Spending Bill, advising USDA to grant schools a one - year waiver on either requirement, if implementing the requirement would result in increased cost.

Eight of every 10 Chicago public schoolchildren qualify for a free or discounted school lunch this year, according to preliminary results released Friday.

I can so relate to what you have written my kids too are two years apart and attachment parenting always has positive results the transition to school is far easier kids are emotionally secure

The second year in which the School Nutrition Foundation promoted Giving Tuesday resulted in 40 contributions totaling $ 6,200.