Sentences with phrase «schools across the nation use»

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Yet many schools and teachers across the nation who've used Fast ForWord have seen astronomical gains in their students» reading capabilities.

School start times vary considerably, both across the nation and within individual communities, with some schools beginning earlier than 7:30 a.m. and others after 9:00 a.m. Districts often stagger the start times of different schools in order to reduce transportation costs by using fewer buses.

When asked to grade the nation's schools on the same A to F scale traditionally used to evaluate students, only 18 percent of survey respondents give them an «A» or a «B.» This equals the percentage that awarded one of the top two grades in 2009, which had been the lowest level observed across the three years of our survey.

In communities across the nation, faith - based organizations (FBOs) provide out - of - school learning programs designed to help students attain improved education outcomes, and faith - based leaders use their voices to advocate on behalf of the needs of the students and families they serve.

Washington, D.C. (February 21, 2018)-- States are pursuing innovative policies and using best practices to improve the nation's schools, and a coalition of organizations representing America's chief state school officers, legislators, state board members and state education policy leaders today announced a campaign to highlight the progress underway in states across the country.

HFRP's mission in out - of - school - time is to promote the strategic use of information to improve the quality, accessibility, and sustainability of out of school time programs across the nation.

A tentative agreement reached last week would for the first time allow the Los Angeles Unified School District to use students» standardized test scores to rate teacher effectiveness, something many other schools across the nation are already doing.

The National School Boards Association (NSBA), representing over 90,000 local school board members across the nation, is pleased to submit this Statement for the Record regarding the need to create and sustain positive and safe learning environments and to offer our perspective on the appropriate use of seclusion and restraints for all stuSchool Boards Association (NSBA), representing over 90,000 local school board members across the nation, is pleased to submit this Statement for the Record regarding the need to create and sustain positive and safe learning environments and to offer our perspective on the appropriate use of seclusion and restraints for all stuschool board members across the nation, is pleased to submit this Statement for the Record regarding the need to create and sustain positive and safe learning environments and to offer our perspective on the appropriate use of seclusion and restraints for all students.

Teachers across the nation report being pressured to fudge grades, pass students who don't deserve it, and accept students into classes they can't keep up in, all because of school evaluation models that use these metrics to keep up appearances for taxpayers.

This prestigious award is given to select schools across the nation that The U.S. Department of Education (USED) Green Ribbon Schools recognizes as schools that save energy, reduce costs, feature environmentally sustainable learning spaces, protect health, foster wellness and offer environmental education to boost academic achievement and community engaschools across the nation that The U.S. Department of Education (USED) Green Ribbon Schools recognizes as schools that save energy, reduce costs, feature environmentally sustainable learning spaces, protect health, foster wellness and offer environmental education to boost academic achievement and community engaSchools recognizes as schools that save energy, reduce costs, feature environmentally sustainable learning spaces, protect health, foster wellness and offer environmental education to boost academic achievement and community engaschools that save energy, reduce costs, feature environmentally sustainable learning spaces, protect health, foster wellness and offer environmental education to boost academic achievement and community engagement.

There were about 400 test titles being used in the nation's largest urban school systems in the 2014 - 15 school year, and students sat over 6,500 times for tests across the 66 school systems studied, the research found.

As the Singapore Math Method gains popularity, it's starting to be used in more schools across the nation, leaving more parents to figure out what this method is all about.

The Sacramento City Unified School District, the Hacienda / La Puente Unified School District and many others across the nation have used this approach.

But it also breaks new ground by using empirical data across two of the nation's fastest - growing counties to site schools based on the learning needs of changing communities and their children.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) looked at computer use among 15 - year - olds across 31 nations and regions, and found that students who used computers more at school had both lower reading and lower math scores, as measured by PISA or Program for International Student Assessment.

Also this week, the Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson traveled to Southern California to announce the nomination of Environmental Charter High School for the federal Green Ribbon Award, which will recognize schools across the nation that are using and teaching their students green technology.

Similarly, in his visits to schools across the nation, Pflaum (2004) found that computers were rarely used to facilitate and enhance instructional practice and more often were used for student and teacher productivity.

The authors use data from the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) to measure variation in time practices across the nation's traditional public, private and charter sSchools and Staffing Survey (SASS) to measure variation in time practices across the nation's traditional public, private and charter schoolsschools.

Imagine Learning, leading developer of award - winning digital language, literacy, and math curricula, today announced the winners of its 2017 - 2018 Imagine Nation Awards in which select schools from across the country were honored for their exceptional use of Imagine Learning programs.

Tools for Conquering the Common Core is being used in schools across the nation to help teachers develop students» thinking and literacy skills.

What began at the turn of the 20th century as a movement from highly variable one - room schoolhouses to a district - level «one best system» had by century's end become a national effort to use the power of the federal government to create uniformity across the nation's public schools.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students and others involved in March for Our Lives events in Washington, DC, and across the nation have actively used Twitter to spread news and information about their efforts to organize.

Standardized testing has come under increasing scrutiny across the nation, particularly in its use for high - stakes decisions such as student promotion, in teacher evaluations, and for other school personnel decisions.

The nation is seeing legitimate and significant gains in high school graduation rates in schools, districts and states across the country that now calculate and report their rates using the same formula.

The American Association of School Librarians is an affiliated organization that aims to ensure schools across the nation have quality libraries for students to use.

Throughout Middle School Matters» work with schools across the nation, several important «building blocks» for enhancing the use of research - based practices emerged.

CodeRVA's design builds on next generation high school models across the nation that rethink the use of time and space, leverage technology to personalize and accelerate learning, and redesign curriculum to align with competency - based progressions.

The school's design builds on next generation school models across the nation that rethink the use of time and space, leverage technology to accelerate learning, personalize learning experiences, and redesign curriculum to align with competency - based progressions.

Slekar says Common Core standards, the educational benchmarks now being implemented in school districts across the state, are not the right yardstick and points out that the nation's best and most exclusive schools do not use them.

The session focused on how k — 12 schools and school systems across the nation are using performance assessments to capture students» deeper learning skills and competencies, and the ensuing opportunities to use rich, authentic student work generated from such performance assessments to inform higher education admission, placement, and advising decisions.

Teachers across the nation become members of the National Education Association, which advocates on behalf of public school educators and provides resources for use both in and out of the classroom.

Programs to help new solos launch their own law firms with the guidance of the schools that used to teach them are cropping up across the nation.

One drawback: unlike scientifically conducted public opinion polls, the survey isn't a random sample of high school students across the state or nation; it's the high schoolers whose schools use Newsela.

In fact, other schools and networks across the nation have joined our district in teaching with curricula that encourage the kind of group problem - solving and risk - taking classroom climate that we're using.

States across the nation are using Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) to improve the quality of child care, preschool, and school - age programs.