Sentences with phrase «schools around the nation using»

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CCT programs are used around the world — in both the developing world and in wealthy nations — to reduce poverty and encourage a variety of goals, including school attendance and achievement.

Like a rapidly growing number of schools around the nation, Ms. Dubos said, hers is considering using portfolios as a way of measuring student performance in writing.

But a Washington Post review found that hundreds of students use their voucher dollars to attend schools that are unaccredited or are in unconventional settings, such as a family - run K - 12 school operating out of a storefront, a Nation of Islam school based in a converted Deanwood residence, and a school built around the philosophy of a Bulgarian psychotherapist.

School districts around the nation use a variety of interview instruments to select school leaders and they can not afford to get the principal interview School districts around the nation use a variety of interview instruments to select school leaders and they can not afford to get the principal interview school leaders and they can not afford to get the principal interview wrong.

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.

It's the reluctance of schools around the nation to investigate and use scientific research on how the brain learns to read.

Election - to - Work agreements have been used in a variety of school districts around the nation, including in New Haven, to promote pilot projects that lengthen the school day or year or outline duties and obligations that administrators and teachers have beyond those in the standard contract.

«A Washington Post review found that hundreds of students use their voucher dollars to attend schools that are unaccredited or are in unconventional settings, such as a family - run K - 12 school operating out of a storefront, a Nation of Islam school based in a converted Deanwood residence, and a school built around the philosophy of a Bulgarian psychotherapist.»

While the school board in San Diego has stepped up and joined boards, superintendents and principals around the nation in condemning the annual standardized testing system, CABE and CAPPS are busy using their taxpayer - funded budgets in support of their «Big Six» lobbying agenda.

Using insights from a 13 practitioners who have implemented and sustained collaborative cultures of continuous improvement in schools around the nation, this anthology answers the most important questions surrounding professional learning communities (PLCs).

The ARRA provides $ 3 billion in School Improvement Grants to support the transformational changes that are needed to turn around the nation's persistently lowest - achieving schools by using rigorous school intervention mSchool Improvement Grants to support the transformational changes that are needed to turn around the nation's persistently lowest - achieving schools by using rigorous school intervention mschool intervention models.

This scaled model of collaboration used to create partnerships between legal aid organizations, courts, and law schools to create A2J Guided Interviews around the nation.