Not exact matches
When the
school year ends, saying goodbye to homework is
often cause for celebration, but for kids with sensory issues the loss of an orderly
schedule can spell disaster.
I'll be honest, our
schedule isn't quite as home centered as I'd like it to be, but we're definitely home more
often than we were last
school year.
During the middle of the
school year when family
schedules are rushed and hectic, a nutritional breakfast can
often be overlooked.
The study, which is
scheduled to be published next
year, «shows how an
often - discussed phenomenon — that
schools serving poor children get less qualified teachers than
schools in the same district serving more advantaged children — is hard - wired...
Often, private
schools operate on an enriched
schedule, with extended
school years, briefer
school vacations, and longer
school days.
These
school schedules also do not match up with the established science that suggests that teenagers
often stay up late due to hormonal changes — such as melatonin increases that occur in the brain during one's teenage
years — and so while teenagers need nine hours of sleep per night, they typically get only around seven hours and have a harder time waking up.
Like private
schools, charter
schools are independent enough to choose their own curriculum or experiment with new teaching methods, creating their own
school day and
school year schedule, and
often have a very high level of family involvement.
Teacher pay is
often determined by a standard salary
schedule, meaning that pay is based on a teacher's
years of experience and education level.64 Before the passage of Act 10, teachers would negotiate the details of this salary
schedule with their
school system through their union.
Often a
school will
schedule a set amount of conferences during the course of the
year, figuring that parents will ask for more if needed.
There has, however, also been evidence in recent
years that separate (
often charter)
schools can change the trajectory of the lives of gifted, poor children — as long as families are willing to enroll them, get them to
school regularly, and tolerate a demanding academic
schedule.