Sentences with phrase «schoolhouse doors»

«Personal racism no longer comes in the form of white southern sheriffs and governors blocking black children from schoolhouse doors.

Our hope is that these resources can help states and communities build on their successes; identify further opportunities and priorities for improving the prospects of their students; spur collaboration and coordination beyond the schoolhouse doors; and promote a shift from narrowly defined student achievement and traditional education reform to broader efforts that recognize the crucial out - of - school factors that influence learning and truly prepare students for success in college, career, and citizenship.

Keeping the schoolhouse doors open is hard enough in rural Arizona.

The legislation also indicates that one purpose of the recognition program is to help spur systemic collaboration and coordination within and beyond schoolhouse doors and to promote a shift from narrowly defined student achievement and traditional education reform to broader, more comprehensive efforts that recognize the crucial out - of - school factors that influence teaching and learning.

With innovative leaders opening schoolhouse doors for the last 22 years, -LSB-...]

With innovative leaders opening schoolhouse doors for the last 22 years, changes have occurred in the last two decades at both the state and federal level.

The 23,500 - student district is in the third year of a collaborative project with the nonprofit Providence After School Alliance that enables students to earn digital badges and even course credit for experiences that take place beyond the schoolhouse doors.

Technology has literally helped open schoolhouse doors for disabled students and given impetus to the «full inclusion» movement, which calls for teaching disabled students in regular classrooms whenever possible.

Pamela L. Summers, the ACLU lawyer defending the prohibition of religion, says, «For the governor of a state to do this is exactly like George Wallace standing in the schoolhouse door.»

Financial struggles at home don't stop at the schoolhouse door, said Keith Pain, superintendent of Frankfort's Summit Hill School District 161, where the number of students eating free and discounted lunches climbed from 162 in August 2008 to 215 in April.

«He stood in the schoolhouse door and said, «No housing in my county.

«It led him to play George Wallace in the schoolhouse door and that's exactly what he did,» he said referencing the former segregationist Alabama governor.

Asked about the Apollo school's fate on Sunday, de Blasio seemed to leave the schoolhouse door open.

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Yet when many of our students reach the schoolhouse door, it's like the Internet and social media don't exist.

This crazy outcome — whereby students enjoy more rights than their teachers do — is the result of free - speech confusion going all the way back to Tinker and its declaration that students don't abandon their rights «at the schoolhouse door.»

Every generation of education reformers debate whether or not their efforts begin and end at the schoolhouse door.

Now we have nine judges — the U.S. Supreme Court — assigned the task of deciding whether and how the nation's schools may (or may not) recognize the race of the children at the schoolhouse door.

It's the profile of 165 free public secondary schools in the United States, many of them in big cities known for sky - high dropout rates, low test scores, metal detectors at the schoolhouse door, and rapid turnover among teachers.

Charters have been praised for opening the schoolhouse door to entrepreneurial, energetic teachers and leaders as well as for raising student achievement in high - need regions.

But by the time we reach that schoolhouse door, you'll probably feel like you walked for miles, uphill, in the snow to get there.

Advocates of such alternatives have learned, to our sorrow, that while putting a «charter» sign on a schoolhouse door certainly indicates potential, it is no guarantee of quality — or even of a genuinely different approach to education.

But, it says, states need to do far more to get homeless children to the schoolhouse door.

that have thwarted the participation of a number of schools, slamming the schoolhouse door on those most in need

In his book, Bolick describes how he helped orchestrate the mainstream media's first use of civil rights language in defense of school choice while discrediting a voucher opponent as «blocking the schoolhouse door to minority children.»

«When Gov. John Bel Edwards stands in front of the schoolhouse door to block lower - income children from exercising educational choice, he does it with bravado.»

Wolves at the Schoolhouse Door chronicled a national crisis of inadequate and deficient school facilities, and served as a wake - up call that America was educating its children in buildings that were not conducive to learning and potentially dangerous.

Wolves at the Schoolhouse Door, by the Education Writers Association, chronicles a national crisis of inadequate and deficient facilities.

«The NAACP, a proud organization with a historic legacy of expanding opportunity for communities of color, now itself stands in the schoolhouse door, seeking to deny life - changing educational opportunities to millions of children whose parents and families desperately seek alternatives to schools that have failed them for too long.»

Some parents have a notion that they can drop off their child at the schoolhouse door, and behold, 12 years later, they will be able to pick up a perfect specimen of a human being — well - rounded, academically proficient, emotionally sound, physically fit and ready to meet the next phase of life.

Miller: I think it's a shorthand, manufactured issue to keep these reforms away from the schoolhouse door.

Speaking with One Voice — A foursome of school reformers with foundation backgrounds nail their statement of principles to the schoolhouse door in this KAPPAN piece subtitled: «A Manifesto for Middle - Grades Reform.»

• Fifty years ago, Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama to block desegregation.

That being said, we can not continue to use VAM estimates (emphasis added) to support claims about bad teachers causing low achievement among disadvantaged students when VAM researchers increasingly evidence that these models can not control for the disadvantages that disadvantaged students bring with them to the schoolhouse door.

The path to literacy doesn't begin when children enter the schoolhouse door.

The ad features the image of Alabama Governor George Wallace's infamous stand at the schoolhouse door, in which he refused to allow black students to register for classes at a segregated university.

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She knew, the moment the door to her son's classroom opened, that her trip to the schoolhouse that afternoon had become a turning point.

If I once thought, like many educators, that copyright had little place in the schoolhouse, I've now come to think that it offers the means of throwing open the classroom door to the history and economy of ideas, to what is regarded by law as common to us all and what is revered as distinct about our ways of understanding the world.

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«In the main living room of this converted heritage schoolhouse, the doors flanking the fireplace mantel are the original boys» and girls» entrances to the school.