Sentences with phrase «schools about their circumstances»

As all children were eligible, some low - income families stopped informing schools about their circumstances.

Not exact matches

Some other news about young people: 57 percent said that the primary reason they helped others was that it «makes them feel good personally»; 19 percent would not fight for their country under any circumstances, 24 percent were uncertain and 60 percent would not be willing to volunteer one year to serve their country; 17 percent could think of no famous person or celebrity they admired (only 1 percent admired Mother Teresa, and Donald Trump received a similar vote — indicating that religious and business leaders are among the least admired adults); 65 percent would cheat on a major exam in school, while 36 percent would lie to protect a friend who vandalized; 53 percent claimed that growing up for them is harder than it was for their parents (minority young people were more likely to say it was easier).

It's about what children need in order to thrive — especially children growing up in difficult circumstances — and what kind of practices and policies, in the home and at school, will provide them with the best possible chance at success.

Being considerate includes letting your ex know about school functions, being flexible with your schedules, and recognizing that — regardless of the circumstances that led you to this point — learning to work together and put your kids first requires sacrifice, which isn't easy for either of you.

I tweeted Monica Eng, the reporter behind this story, to ask follow - up questions about this particular school's circumstances, but she hasn't yet replied to me.

An article in today's Journal News suggests that the arguments in Albany about the East Ramapo School Board revolve around the question as to whether State Intervention in appointing a monitor would be a «unique circumstance» or a «dangerous precedent».

I have not attended a high school reunion, but I imagine it is as equally enjoyable and awkward as the one presented in 10 Years, a bittersweet ensemble comedy about how much people and circumstances can change while staying quite the same.

The NEU states that many schools don't have policies about transitioning at work, and in some circumstances trans employees have been asked to manage their transition themselves or asked inappropriate questions.

Because all tenure deliberations are confidential, I can not speak publicly about the specific circumstances of any decision; however, I do wish to address an issue that some have raised concerning the school's broader interest in certain methods of inquiry or areas of study.

While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

One of the basic critiques of using test scores for accountability purposes has always been that simple averages, except in rare circumstances, don't tell us much about the quality of a given school or teacher.

My colleague Julia Freeland and I will have more to say about the importance of integrating backward in an interdependent way in schools in a few weeks in an important white paper that we're releasing on how schools can address the achievement gap at scale, but suffice to say, integrating in an interdependent way past one's supposed core competencies is a critical tool in any innovator's toolbox in certain circumstances.

You make decisions about closing schools, in normal circumstances, with city hall, with the police and transportation department — as part of a team that is thinking about how the city functions.

In special circumstances, school personnel may be able to obtain more information about specific children.

He has been «incredibly explicit,» he says, about «the definition of success for us, [which] is that we dramatically increase the number of children, regardless of birth circumstances, who graduate from high school ready for college and career.»

Like high - poverty, high - performing schools, any school that enrolls students who live in poverty should seek to acquire as much understanding as possible about the life circumstances of their students.

I'm convinced that state tests are highly imprecise, very limited in what they cover, subject to test - prep and manipulation, unable to capture the diversity of school goals and circumstances, and seldom used to make intelligent decisions about improving schools.

The two - step approach sends signals to schools about how they are doing relative to other schools in similar circumstances, rather than relative to all schools, many of which operate in quite different contexts.

«If there are circumstances where things aren't going right in the parent's eyes, go and talk to the school principal, go and talk to the teachers and resolve those issues adult to adult — it's about engaging with each other for the benefit of the child and then we leave the child in a space of confidence and positive attention to what they're trying to do at school.»

We don't know a lot about what kind of school will work for which kids under which circumstances — there are all these different kinds of community schools out there — so these research challenges are very important as well.

It's about our shared belief that every family in the Commonwealth deserves a quality public school in their neighborhood — no matter their economic circumstance, ethnic background or zip code; it's about opening currently closed doors and giving more Massachusetts students a seat at the table.

To these, each of the 21 student research teams added questions that were specific to their own school and circumstances, typically developed after engaging classmates in focused discussions about what needed investigating.

Although the LSP regulations explicitly state that they «exist to minimize the rare harmful circumstance rather than to regulate day - to - day conditions in participating schools,» [48] many schools have chosen not to participate in the scholarship program due to concerns about the impact of the regulations on school autonomy.

Whereas social scientists have bent themselves out of shape studying the effects of, say, test - based accountability, charter schools, and other «structural» reforms — and have produced some reasonably solid findings about what works for whom under what circumstances — curriculum is relatively little studied and what's learned almost never makes the New York Times (or even Education Week).

Russakoff tells inspiring stories about some teachers and students doing remarkable work in impossible circumstances, and the much - ballyhooed KIPP charter schools actually seem to be living up to their reputation in Newark.

Leaders in these districts engaged school staff members in collaborative inquiry about the unique circumstances affecting student learning or teacher performance in their schools.

We lack detailed, comprehensive information about the ways in which states are interpreting federal legislation and exercising leadership in adapting legislation to specific circumstances and needs arising in their schools.

When I sat with these students yesterday, they talked about their circumstances at home: «I'm the first of my family to go to school, my brother told me about this school,» or how they got to where they are.

Confusion about the different actors within the system... who has the power to do what and on what basis, the exact circumstances that could lead to enforced structural or leadership change at a school.

I ask because I learned about this school via a story on Public Radio International's The Takeaway, where co-host Celeste Headlee investigated the trying circumstances of America's working poor and homeless families in the run up to the 2012 election.

Ofsted say they are making the changes to give their regional directors greater discretion about the date of re-inspection and thishis will allow them to reflect the circumstances and progress of the schools in question.

I strained hard to retain everything in case I decided at some future point to write a story about a girl in her last year of high school, desperate to escape her circumstances: she passes this window with a sign, army recruiting women today, and inside is handsome Major Marjac with her welcoming smile.

If you are still in school or about to enroll, we will look at your financial circumstances — including those of your family, if appropriate — and discuss your expectations for the future to help guide you toward a program that will serve you going forward.

As Australia's Ambassador for the Environment, Peter Woolcott, pointed out at a recent public forum at ANU Crawford School, views will diverge about «what Australia can realistically achieve given its unique national circumstances and characteristics, including its resource endowment, and economic and population growth».

To help us out, the Harvard Law School Library has published a post on Royal Wedding: Pomp, Circumstance, and Law to explain all the legalities about how people in the British royal family get hitched.

Additionally, you'll find information about circumstances that may require you to complete traffic school, such as a court order, major traffic offense, or driver's license suspension.

Under normal circumstance you can complete the traffic school course in about 4 - 8 hours.

While the data do not provide detailed information about the family or household circumstances prebirth or postbirth, previous research demonstrates that households with heavy parental alcohol use are at risk of instability, as well as concomitant risks such as abuse, poor family functioning, mental health problems and illicit substance use.13 17 29 This is likely to be an environment in which school attendance is not prioritised.

See the research and articles at http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/) So, given that there are just not all that many options to choose from in deciding upon a child custody arrangement, and given that those options overwhelmingly will be constrained or even dictated by fairly obvious facts about the parties» circumstances such as work and school schedules, or how far apart they live from each other, and similar considerations, one really has to query what all the painstaking attention to detail and «science» (or pretext to science) is all about if, when all is said and done, the decision will boil down to the application of a default personal preference, and pragmatic ways of arranging custody and visitation schedules to accomplish this while avoiding liability for placing children into situations in which detriment too obviously or easily can be proved to be the direct result of the arrangement.

Due to a range of factors, including systemic barriers and life circumstances, Aboriginal children are absent from school about twice as much as non-Aboriginal children.