Sentences with phrase «schools and systems do»

Rather, it's to recognize that policy can make schools and systems do things, but it can't make them do things well.

Results from the School Improvement Grants have shored up previous research showing that pouring money into dysfunctional schools and systems does not work, Smarick said: «I can imagine Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump saying this is exactly why kids need school choice.»

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It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

(Laughs) I've done things in IT and engineering but after school I joined the Navy, where I designed cockpit systems for the Department of Defense.

Many of the highest return infrastructure investments — such as improving roads, repairing 60,000 structurally deficient bridges, upgrading schools or modernising the air traffic control system — do not generate a commercial return and so are excluded from his plan.

And a new report finds that while many low - income students fall behind and fail to graduate on time from U.S. colleges, the University of California system supports them significantly better than other schools And a new report finds that while many low - income students fall behind and fail to graduate on time from U.S. colleges, the University of California system supports them significantly better than other schools and fail to graduate on time from U.S. colleges, the University of California system supports them significantly better than other schools do.

The STOP School Violence Act, which Kashuv strongly supported, creates an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems for school safety (and doesn't mention School Violence Act, which Kashuv strongly supported, creates an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems for school safety (and doesn't mention school safety (and doesn't mention guns).

The documents show that Cruz was very much on the radar screen of mental health professionals and the Broward County school system, yet very little appears to have been done other than these evaluations.

In the House, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced a vote on the STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems.

On Wednesday afternoon, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and upgraded reporting systems.

The STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns in any substantive way but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems to bolster school safety, passed 407 - 10 WednSchool Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns in any substantive way but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems to bolster school safety, passed 407 - 10 Wednschool safety, passed 407 - 10 Wednesday.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education,» he said.

Bottom line is this, keep it out of the public square; learn to respect others beliefs / disbeliefs; stop trying to tell LGBT they are wrong; stop trying to tell women what they can and can't do with their bodies; stop trying to push bogus creationism crap (backed with zero evidence) on innocent children in the public school system; just stop pushing it outside your home or church.

School funding's been decimated by the recession and by taxpayers who want the best education system in the world but don't want to pony up the taxes to pay for it.

Further, if one removes the emotional aspect from whichever belief is held, it must be conceded that Ham did offer an objective and indisputable fact concerning how the public school system has intentionally excluded the intelligent design argument.

Why do you think the «christians» are trying so blasted hard to ruin school systems here in the states by making them teach «intelligent design» and «abstinence only»?

Schools will improve if the system allows competition and closes schools that parents do not Schools will improve if the system allows competition and closes schools that parents do not schools that parents do not choose.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

However, I DO NOT support your right to force your nonsense onto me and my family either through the school system or legislation.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education.

Fine, teach them in the home and in Sunday school, don't force feed it to them in the school system.

One does not have to abhor homosexuality in order to understand that the recent change in law has opened a wide door that will leave the school system, and children in general, vulnerable to further legal changes that will always go towards greater licentiousness, and less protection for the vulnerable.

Through circuitous routes, the idea caught on among conservative Christians worried about the militant secularism promoted by the public schools, and mainly among evangelical Christians who, unlike Catholics, did not have a school system of their own.

Many from each group wonder about what millions of new immigrants will do our economy, our schools, our hospitals, and our welfare system.

Beyond the obvious question of how well the school actually can assess relevant background knowledge and experience is the fact that the system does not take into account other worthy commitments in a student's life, like work or ministry responsibilities outside the school.

Since relative rankings do have a permanent and necessary place in every social system, some numerical measures of school accomplishment may still be desirable.

For this reason it is important for a democracy to have a strong public school system, and parents who cherish democratic ideals do well to send their children to schools, either public or independent, in which traditional class distinctions are minimized.

Frank Riessman, The Culturally Deprived Child [New York: Harper, 1962]-RRB- This is why middle - class talk therapies are inadequate and why the poor may not do well in middle - class - oriented school systems which emphasize verbal skills, abstract reasoning, and knowledge for knowledge's sake.

Don't let the media, the school system (mainly ours) and popular belief fool you into thinking that every single scientist claims that the evolutionary theory is a fact.

Why doesn't the school system come up with a list of officially sanctioned holiday dates and allow kids to pick a fixed number of them.

Why don't we do away with public school system recognition of all holidays pertaining to religion, and instead just allow students to be absent from class without penalty if they wish to observe a religious holiday, as many colleges and universities do?

A perfect counter-example is Hinduism, which by construction is more spiritual than religious — it's adherents do not have strict rules or norms, and there is incredible diversity of norms within one umbrella (some who believe in caste system, even though a large majority of urbanites study in Christian missionary schools; some who believe cows are sacred though 2/3 of Indians are actually non-vegetarian).

I don't have to believe what you believe, just as you do not have to believe what I believe... all I ask is that we start allowing out children to grow up and make the decision for themselves; that religion be kept out the government and school systems and that I don't have to hear it on the street corner... if you don't want to hear us then don't let us hear you.

Or did you just fail English as a fifth language in the Pakastani Public School and Gulag System back in the 90's?

In the space of time available to him, of course, Mr. Clinton could offer little more than a hasty outline of this proposal, but he did manage to make clear that what he was referring to was some sort of system whereby American high school (and, as it was to turn out, also college) graduates would exchange some years of service, either as policemen, environmental workers, or offerers of some form of assistance to poor children, in exchange for the government's subsequently paying their college tuition» a kind of GI Bill for non-GIs.

Only a few did and the Blair government abolished the system though it was willing to continue it for church schools; it was the Catholic Education Service who wanted the system scrapped.

In the 1960s, the Harold Wilson Labour government forced secondary schools to become comprehensive and the Catholic system changed in a matter of years almost as if going comprehensive was something to be done «in the spirit of Vatican II».

Governments, nonprofits, schools, healthcare systems and churches lack the infrastructures to help the way they do in the cities.

The elementary and secondary school system (to name just one Catholic institution affected by the drop in vocations) serves approximately half the number of students it did in 1960, despite the greater presence of lay teachers and administrators.

Don't miss this opportunity to meet with 9,000 buyers and chefs from institutional foodservice, multi-unit establishments, independent restaurants, food stores, universities, school systems, plus retailers, nutritionists, dietitians and distributors.

Outdated ideas, bad rotation, tactics, system, plays players out of position, does not make the necessary signings to strengthen the team in the transfer window, is uninspiring on his warm seat, talks media school b@llocks in press conferences and is generally aloof.

Schools playing by this egalitarian set of rules from the NCAA's days of old should not be able to compete, but by a combination of their systems and their player development, they do.

I read all the time about mal - practice in hospitals, incect cases in churches or schools, not even speaking about how our education system fails in a basic thing like teaching all of our children to read (you do your research and find out the number or illiteracy in this country).

Pope's book is about high school students who «do school,» gaming the system, cheating, getting by, and otherwise performing school without engaging in actual learning.

This same bureaucratic divide occurs at the state and county level, where, with rare exceptions, early - childhood and school - system administrators do not collaborate or even communicate much.

In reality, though, many schools and school systems look at students who are struggling in those areas and instead think: How do we discipline them?

Would you help us by, you know, learning how to teach this course, going on the road, so - to - speak, and doing the parents and teachers allied program because parents need the school system to understand what's going on inside their homes, and they don't.

If your child's school doesn't have the option for them to compost their leftover food (perhaps you can inquire about it and get a system started), ask them to bring home their leftovers rather than throw them into the trash so you can either save them if they are salvageable or compost them yourself.

We don't believe everyone deserves a trophy, but we have seen the problems associated with a ranking system, and have urged schools to consider other ways to honor their top students — ways that rely less on a grade point average and that are more similar to the MVP status on a sports team - where multiple skills and traits are valued.

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.