Sentences with phrase «schools are low quality»

Some of the online Oklahoma driving schools are low quality, low budget, or simply outright scams.

Most online driving schools are low quality and very boring.

Not exact matches

«Among the characteristics needed to join the elite group are stable macroeconomic policies,» says Kate Phylaktis, director of the Emerging Markets Group at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.»

Whether or not Congress chooses to increase reimbursements, the first step to providing resources for higher quality school meals is to ensure that federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals are used for their intended purpose — providing nutritious breakfasts and lunches to low - income school children.

However the economies of scale do apply and if the food in a school is proven to be good over a sustained period, then universal takeup can lower the price while maintaining the quality or indeed further improve the quality (for example in our school when the takeup reached more than 60 % they were able to switch to entirely free range organic meats where they had previously managed just decent quality local meats).

Klopfenstein and Thomas (2010) offer three significant ways in which non-AP students at a school may pay the price for the AP program: they may receive lower instructional quality, as the best teachers are siphoned off to teach AP students; they are in larger classes, as AP classes are smaller than typical high school classes; and non-AP course offerings are reduced or limited in order to fund, staff, and expand AP course offerings.

Because the USDA houses the National School Lunch Program, and the agency's main job is to sell highly subsidized conventional crops (like corn, soybeans, rice, and wheat) and farmed foods (like dairy and beef), behemoths like Chartwells wind - up pushing cheap, low - quality surplus food into our schools.

That is, their school day starts earlier than is appropriate for their unique circadian rhythms thus affecting the quantity and timing of their sleep while prompting them to try to make up for lost sleep at other times causing their sleep to be lower quality and their schedules to be irregular.

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

That's why so much of my time is taken up in trying to publicize just how important it is for our lowest income and most vulnerable students to have access to the highest possible quality of food at school.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetSchool Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetSchool Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetschool year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

Selling poor quality meat to public schools (lower standards than those met by fast food industry — where 3/4 of the meat is positive for things so heinous I shudder), as an example.

Investigating successful kids and programs at low - income schools and high - achieving prep schools, as well as interviewing psychologists and neuroscientists, Tough challenges some conventional wisdom on causes of failure (poverty, teacher quality) and contends that nurturing character in children and young adults is the key to success.

«Because my school has a closed campus, it's either bring your own, buy low - quality food you don't like, or go hungry.»

The Project Development Objective is to increase access to senior secondary education in underserved districts and improve quality in low - performing senior high schools (SHSs) in Ghana.

Or is it morally acceptable to have a situation where those who don't get their name down first, are only able to choose from a lower quality selection of schools and hospitals to be treated at?

It's clear the association will continue to support candidates who implement the same unproductive policies that maintain the schools in low - quality conditions.

Low - quality meat, fizzy drinks and chocolate will be off the menu at English schools from September under tough new guidelines announced today.

On the one hand, there is the camp of Michael Gove armed with the old argument that it is the low quality of teaching in primary and secondary schools in deprived communities that prevents many students from competing with their more fortunate peers.

There was his burning passion, the quality that pushed Cuomo from his first - generation Italian immigrants parents» grocery store in Queens to law school to mediating an ugly dispute over low - income housing.

Billy Easton, Executive Director of the Alliance for Quality Education, points out that test scores dropped much more dramatically in schools with high rates of poverty where school funding is significantly lower.

«While offering free college tuition to low - income families is laudable, the reality is that many students» paths to college are limited because their local K - 12 public schools lack the resources to support them,» said Jasmine Gripper, Legislative and Policy Director of the Alliance for Quality Education in a statement.

The suit claimed also that the «outsider restriction policy» effectively is «entrenched segregation» that makes it hard for low income New Yorkers to move to neighborhoods with high quality schools, green space and better jobs.

«Our study group has spent decades studying the health effects of diet quality and composition, and now this new data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to lower risk of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

Indeed it may be more pressing, he notes, in school districts where test scores have been perennially low, and where larger disparities in school quality may exist.

Even the advantage of attending a higher quality school was not enough to compensate for the disadvantage of a lower birth weight, according to the study.

The researchers point out that despite its low status and variable content and quality, school based SRE is seen as vital by policy makers for protecting young people from ill health, unwanted pregnancies, sexual abuse and exploitation.

Participation in high - quality early childhood programs at ages 3 and 4 years is associated with greater school readiness and achievement, higher rates of educational attainment and socioeconomic status, and lower rates of crime.

«There is mounting scientific evidence that diets including less low - quality carbohydrates, such as white breads, potatoes, and sweets, and higher in protein - rich foods may be more efficient for weight loss,» said first and corresponding author Jessica Smith, Ph.D., a visiting scholar at the Friedman School and a research fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

«Patients, technologists and radiologists want the best quality X-rays at the lowest dose possible without repeating images,» said Steven Don, M.D., associate professor of radiology at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo. «This technology is a tool to help achieve that goal.

«Air quality in the U.S. has benefitted from more protective federal standards in response to evidence from health studies, and there are likely further benefits to be gained by standards even lower than those now recommended by the ATS,» said ATS President Marc Moss, MD, who is Roger S. Mitchell Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Consuming a plant - based diet — especially one rich in high - quality plant foods such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes — is linked with substantially lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

«When you consider that, overall, high school athletes have been shown to score higher on quality of life than their non-athlete counterparts, the risk of not playing sports could lead to lower quality of life than playing sports and sustaining concussion,» he theorized.

(I think they may have been part of a really low - quality boy's school uniform?)

Once their profile is live, members can not create another account with that same email address or school, eliminating the chance for low - quality people to game the system with multiple profiles.

Even making the payments on a low - interest loan is a heavy burden for many charter schools - a burden that detracts from their ability to offer a high - quality education.

Of particular importance here is how policy might induce students to enroll in lower - quality schools.

In addition, he is looking to work with partners for creative solutions on delivering quality early literacy education, which he sees as a vital initiative for stemming the low - performance culture of Holyoke public schools.

For example, the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act allocates additional funding to school districts with a high percentage of low - income students, who are more likely to have poor educational outcomes for reasons unrelated to school quality.

Because prior research has shown that children from low - income families may be more sensitive to changes in school quality than children from more - advantaged backgrounds, we also separately examine the effects of spending on low - income and nonpoor children.

The results here suggest that, to the extent that low - quality schools are also persistently dangerous, allowing students to leave them might benefit individual students as well as society as a whole.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

One possible explanation for the difference is that the less - educated often attend lower - quality schools, so perhaps their perception reflects reality.

Thanks to the free education policy, classrooms in public schools are overcrowded and the quality of education is low.

For youth in the highest risk group (top 20 %), the gain in school quality indicators is «roughly equivalent to moving from one of the lowest - ranked schools to one around the district average.»

Similarly, when urban districts need to close a set of schools in order to consolidate, they increasingly ensure that school quality is the first consideration — preserve high performers and close low performers.

For youth in the high - risk group, the gain as measured by these quality indicators is roughly equivalent to moving from one of the lowest - ranked schools to one around the district average.

And the minority of private schools that are willing to participate are likely to include many of the lower quality schools.

Author Meredith Liu writes that in contrast to sustaining innovations, by which education schools might add some new faculty or online course offerings but not change their brick - and - mortar model, fully - online degree programs offer the potential to «transform the industry into one that has lower costs and higher quality, and is more widely accessible.»

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»