A researcher at Harvard surveyed 10,000 middle and high school students in 33 different
schools around the nation about what they thought their folks cared about most: that they achieve at a high level, that they are happy (defined as «feeling good most of the time»), or that they care for others.
Not exact matches
But the fact that the
schools chancellor isn't even aware that this ongoing project exists — one year later — speaks volumes
about the miles we have to go to turn things
around here in the
nation's captiol, right outside Michelle Obama's door.
As liberal - arts colleges
around the country face financial woes and skepticism
about the value of their degrees, rumblings of distress are emerging from arts - and - sciences professors at even one of the
nation's most elite
schools: Columbia University.
«While the media hyperventilate
about MOOCs and higher education, and K 12
school districts
around the country form technology committees, the
nation's preschoolers have the situation well in hand.»
The implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); debates
about a potential large - scale federal
school - choice initiative; and deep disagreements
about civil rights enforcement continue to captivate — and roil — all of us involved in education policy, in D.C. and
around the
nation.
When asked
about public
schools around the
nation, these grades drop.
When asked
about the
schools around the
nation, whites, Hispanics, and African Americans offer similar assessments, as do public
school employees and the remaining population.
«A new
school year has begun for
about 41,000 Native American students in 185 BIE
schools around the
nation,» said Senator John McCain....
Describes the
School Administration Manager process or «SAM process,» an approach that
about 700
schools around the
nation are using to direct more of principals» time and effort to improve teaching and learning in classrooms.
American middle and high
school teachers report spending more time at the front of the classroom than teachers in nearly every other country in the developed world.9 While U.S. teachers deliver instruction for
about 80 percent of their workday, the international average is
around 60 percent — and teachers in high - performing
nations like Japan, Korea, and Singapore spend only
about one - third of their time providing instruction directly to students.10 We know that it does not have to be this way for U.S. teachers.
Discussions were taking place in Hartford
about turning over one or more of the local
schools over to the
nation's biggest charter
school chain, the KIPP Foundation, which runs 130
schools around the country.
The figures talk
about everything: local chapters
around the
nation; the party's free lunch program, free medical clinics, Liberation
Schools, and newspaper; Eldridge Cleaver, George Jackson, Fred Hampton, and Bobby Hutton; members being jailed, accused of inciting a riot, firearms charges, murder, and more; the Free Huey and Free Bobby campaigns; and the party's Ten Point Program, the principles for which it stood.