Sentences with phrase «schools across the country now»

To avoid a digital divide developing, schools across the country now realise that the Government's removal of ring fenced funding for technology was simply its message that technology should now be embedded across the curriculum and that schools now have the freedom to buy what is needed for their specific learning needs.

More than 4,500 schools across the country now have a Let's Get Cooking club, and the network covers every local authority area.

Many schools across the country now approach intervention through the «three - tiered triangle» that's characteristic of Response to Intervention (RTI), a model for identifying and supporting students with learning challenges that many districts have adopted.

The variation in union strength identified in recent literature, the new policy experiments occurring in states across the country, and the sheer availability of large administrative datasets that link individual students to teachers in school across the country now allow a new field of highly focused questions that link educational outcomes to rules, regulations and conditions directly attributable to union efforts.

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But teachers and staff in schools across the country say the spinners do nothing but distract the students, and schools now are banning them.

«Right now is a time that change seems like it's so close, and the youth, all these high schoolers across the country, are the ones that are going to push us over that line.»

«Take a look, for example, at U.S. schools where 4,322 districts across the country now have farm - to - school programs — a more than four-fold increase since 2006.»

Right now, across the country, a lot of positive things are happening with school food.

I do know that if fuel costs go up to Europian highs it will cost too much to feed the kids school lunch the way they do now, because they wont be able to ship stuff across the country like they do now.

Now advocates have a new tool to help achieve just such a lofty goal: It's called the Good Food Purchasing Policy and after its successful passage in 2012 by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proSchool District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool lunch, is procured.

From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

«While budgets are tight right now, there are schools across the country that are showing that it doesn't take a whole lot of money or resources to give our kids the nutrition they deserve.

The Truck of the Month (TOM) program has now given students in Central Florida the chance to enjoy fresh «Walking Tacos,» a healthier school version of the famous street tacos sold by vendors across the country.

Now, however, schools across the country (even those without activist parents or community members insisting on better food) will have the tools and — equally important — the financial support to re-imagine the meals they serve their students.

With local officials from school board on up now hearing from internet - organized constituents, and with cadres of veteran Obama volunteer commandos dug in across the country post-election, we may see an explosion of email, online video, social networking outreach and all of the other tools of electronic advocacy in the coming months — but this time turned on the projects in the stimulus bill, not on electing a candidate.

He now speaks in schools across the country about the destructive nature of school bullying, and his story is the subject of a documentary, Bullied, produced by The Southern Poverty Law Center.

A new report on public school funding across the country finds that most states are now providing less support per K - 12 student than before the 2007 - 2009 Great Recession — and that some states continue to cut funding.

More than $ 1 billion in federal aid is now available to schools across the country for physical education.

The DfE said the latest approvals means there are now 331 open and approved free schools across the country, creating 175,000 school places.

A technical field with the explicit raison d'etre of helping people, biomedical engineering, arose in the past century as a partnership among medical researchers, clinicians, physical scientists, and engineers and has evolved into a separate discipline now taught at engineering schools across the country.

Whether they can help shift eating norms across the country remains to be seen, but regardless millions of American kids will likely now get their healthiest meals of the day on a tray in their school cafeterias.

Now, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and colleagues from across the country have identified how the parasite makes its way in.

A friend of mine managed to stay close to home for grad school, but now she has to pick up and move halfway across the country for a postdoc, leaving her daughter with her parents for a while.

They've put together a toolkit that helps people either start or join a school garden, so really, this great program now can be taken into communities across the country.

Started by a school in Washington, D.C., as a homegrown repository for screencast lessons by their best teachers, they got funding to go big, and now teachers across the country can participate.

It is now seeking eight new classroom teachers to join as trustees, who will be involved in leading the organisation as it opens membership to teachers and schools across the country.

Now, 19 states have passed laws relating to the purchase of fresh fruits and vegetables, and the National Farm to School Network counts more than 2,000 programs across the country.

The Metropolitan Opera's Live in High Definition series, which transmits liveperformances to movie theaters around the world, is now available freeto students in New York City schools, as well as at select theaters inregions across the country.

In schools across the country, in response to recent federal laws, students with special needs are now being integrated into mainstream classes.

If the problem is visible, and I find that across the country now more and more people are accepting that you need to have course work on schooling, but you need to also now invest time and energy in figuring out what to do with learning, I think that increasingly more and more solutions will emerge.

Now video is more accessible to schools across the country through low - cost smart devices and webcams.

Backed up by solid evidence that the Partnership impacts positively on children's life chances, the partnership is now offering unique, tailored solutions for local areas and delivers real, evidence - based, impact in schools and communities across the country.

Higer buses have been in the Australian market since 2008, and can now be seen serving schools across the country, from the most prestigious schools in Sydney and Melbourne, to smaller schools in regional centres.

Enthusiasm for kitchen gardens in schools has swept across Australia over the past decade, springing up as tiny pocket - sized patches and vertical gardens in the inner city to expansive plots in country areas.Nobody knows what proportion of schools have a kitchen garden, but anecdotal evidence at least in New South Wales suggests about 50 per cent of primary schools now have them.

During his twelve - year tenure at NAS, he played a key part in developing the National Science Education standards that are now used in schools across the country.

The fate of Ohio's school - finance system, the target of a long - running legal battle that has been watched across the country, now rests in the hands of just seven people.

Reichgott Junge's work has been replicated in states all across the country in a movement that now enrolls more than 2 million students in over 5,600 schools all across America.

Other reform tactics included reducing the size differences between secondary schools (secondary schools used to be the largest across OECD countries but are now the smallest), decentralization, increased school autonomy, professional development, and the introduction of national exams.

The Lingotot accredited programme, which has been benchmarked at entry level 1,2 and 3 has been welcomed by primary schools across the country who can now officially recognise the efforts and achievements of their pupils.

Established in 2010 in the north east, Lingotot now engages with more than 10,000 pre-school and primary - school children across the country each week, learning a variety of languages including French, German, Spanish and Mandarin.

With 1.9 million more children now in good or outstanding schools across the country, standards are rising.

Having excited critics and audiences with its hip - hop exploration of America's revolutionary era, the show has now been shared with high school students all across the country.

First broadcast out of the Royal Flying Doctor Service in the Northern Territory's Alice Springs, there are now over 16 schools of the air working with Australian communities across the country.

Right now, across the country, cities and schools are faced with the question, «Should we celebrate Columbus?»

In addition to the farm and residential visits, The Country Trust offers a ground breaking Food Discovery programme which has now run in over 30 urban schools across England.

In response to this, and to help improve RSC's management of the wide range of trusts we now see across the country, Sir David Carter, the National Schools Commissioner, has developed a four tier system.

Schools can play an important role in the renaissance now required in children's play across the country — in opening up the physical and mental health benefits of outdoor play to children from all backgrounds.

This week: how rural schools are bringing cutting - edge tech to their students, the wave of teacher strikes across the country and their implications for CA and the value of teacher diversity especially in a state where students of color now comprise three - quarters of public school enrollment.

Thanks to the hard work of teachers across the country and our ambitious programme of reforms, there are now 1.4 million more pupils being taught in good or outstanding schools compared to 2010.

Smart Money published June 29, 2009 Consumer Action by Lisa Scherzer School may be out for the summer, but across the country school boards are now wrestling with mammoth budget shortfalls that will require painful cuts in the upcomingSchool may be out for the summer, but across the country school boards are now wrestling with mammoth budget shortfalls that will require painful cuts in the upcomingschool boards are now wrestling with mammoth budget shortfalls that will require painful cuts in the upcoming year.