Sentences with phrase «schools as a whole do»

SM: There has been a lot of talk about charter schools in the context of education reform, yet some studies have shown that charter schools as a whole don't necessarily perform better than traditional public schools.

Thankfully, this is something that each teacher can institute even if the school as a whole does not stress such involvement.

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as a catholic who went through catholic school from nursery to my college graduation i whole heartedly believe that God does not condemn people from using birth control pills for their health and well being as well as from preventing pregnancy because if pills and condoms werent used future abortions would happen and kill innocent lives and men and women could contract life threatening diseases that could kill them

Similarly, although many schools do excellent work promoting knowledge and understanding of racism and poverty, it is much rarer to find even Catholic schools having Pro-life Awareness Weeks as a standard annual whole - school activity in which pupils are encouraged to understand the justice and coherence of Church teaching on abortion and related issues.

My enemies are people who would deny me my religious freedom, not Christians as a whole, and the best remedies tend to involve civil conversation, the courts, and the occasional school board meeting... When doing inter-faith work the goal is not to convert anyone or get them to agree with you, but to help them see you (and our community) as a positive.

I've taken no theology or philosophy classes (other than a year or two of Catholic Sunday School as a child), though I've done a a whole lot of reading in both subjects.

Mainly, because in all the verbiage about freedoms of beliefs there is something so important, so blatantly acute yet everyone do not even mention it, except - oh genial me: Why would anyone in the whole world support any type of creed / belief / religion where a whole lot of humans — as in millions of human women — are not allowed to go to school, to even just read and write - less become a teacher, doctor, lawyer, president of their own companies, their own countries, mutilated by the millions when they reach puberty, WHY is this allowed?

In fact, they were the only ones I could think of who were doing strictly church work, as opposed to work with Christian institutions — schools and hospitals — in the whole of the Punjab.

As guide of the immature it seeks to lead them to a knowledge of the whole complex of action in which they are to act; as illuminator and critic the school endeavors to aid the Church to understand what it is doing and by understanding to modify or redirect these actionAs guide of the immature it seeks to lead them to a knowledge of the whole complex of action in which they are to act; as illuminator and critic the school endeavors to aid the Church to understand what it is doing and by understanding to modify or redirect these actionas illuminator and critic the school endeavors to aid the Church to understand what it is doing and by understanding to modify or redirect these actions.

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By the way, the reason there is more flavored milk and such is the federal government has stated that fat must be greatly reduced so the way our schools as a whole are doing this is by getting rid of the extra fat like butter for biscuits rather than baking, not frying, or by just not having chicken nuggets.

The whole family whistling «Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's off to school we go» as you file out the door gives everyone a boost of energy as does cranking the tunes and doing a happy dance as every one finishes off the cleaning with a dust rag in hand.

And as every Mom can relate, I have that whole mixed bag of feelings going on — relief that I'll no longer have to pack lunches, help with homework and stick to the school schedule but also panic about what to do with them for the entire summer!

Instead, what teachers need to do to help develop those qualities in their students is create an environment, in the classroom and the school as a whole, that makes students motivated to persevere.

Doesn't seem like a huge shift, but «it's important for parents to remember that if you add it all up, the new standard will mean that in a given week, school kids will be eating only 40 % whole grains in total, which is not quite as high as health experts recommend,» says Siegel.

Specifically, the SNA is asking to: keep the level of whole grains in the total number of grain foods served at 25 %; avoid further reductions in sodium; eliminate the requirement that kids take fruit or a vegetable with their meal (returning to the old system in which kids could — and often did — pass up those healthful foods); and allow schools to sell on a daily basis a la carte items like pizza and fries, as opposed to the current plan which would allow these items to be sold only on the same day they appeared on the main lunch line.

One further question — of these 90 + % of schools that offer whole grain items, do you have data on what percentage of * all * their grain offerings are whole grain, as well as how often whole grain items are available?

In addition to lobbying for more funds for school lunch — and the schools as a whole — we need to focus on conserving resources and reducing waste, as Chef Ann has done in her school systems.

One school or district may have a partnership with a large corporation, like Whole Foods, allowing them to source some healthier food items for a favorable price; if your school district can't get the same deal, then this will affect whether you can offer the same kind of meal for the same price as a district which does have a low cost source for better food.

Intersperse using these books during the whole school year as you are doing the other workbooks.

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

But we're going to make this a very urgent effort, and Aimee will have the ability to track each and every one of the schools, the ability to call in the school leaders on a rotating basis as is done at CompStat, question them, find out what they need, push them harder, make sure they're doing their job, and if she doesn't see what she likes, just as at the NYPD, there's a whole host of actions that can be taken to improve the situation and to address the leadership dynamics,» Mr. de Blasio said.

Fariña also announced that kids who did not show up would be officially marked as absent, saying, «At the course of a whole day, you can still get to school.»

The teachers union president says when it comes to her thoughts on the system as a whole, the differences between schools doesn't just come down to parity in funding, but parity in opportunity.

Honestly I have haven't been able to implement any of them yet due to financial reasons but as soon as I finish school and get a better job, I will have my whole house designed and just need to do it!

Unfortunately, even though it did allow Diaz to swear it up as promised, that's all it really boiled down to — crass, unfunny humor and as a whole comes off as a poor man's Bad Santa except set in a school.

For anyone who happens to be sane, however, no, it's not, it feels as if the whole thing has been made by a 19 year old who's done one semester of film school.

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion gets the job done as popcorn entertainment, but in the end I can't say that a whole lot really goes on in its 90something minutes — ditzy Romy and Michele go to their reunion and get their revenge — and the film is just about instantly forgettable.

With all the recent changes in the curriculum and in technology as a whole, it's definitely a challenge but schools are willing to acknowledge the need to have just as much ownership of the service and operational side of ICT as they do on the curriculum, teaching and learning side of things.

But if the public thinks better of local public schools than it does of those in the nation as a whole, it is definitely more satisfied with local private schools than with public ones.

A whole - school approach Valuable and interesting as such studies are the reality is that we don't really need data to tell us these key points.

The Department for Education insists that every school must have a rigorous whole - school literacy policy which is implemented systematically across the curriculum, that all teachers view themselves as teachers of literacy and language regardless of their subject specialism and that all schools must do everything possible to ensure pupils can read.

I wanted to understand more about education as a whole, why we practice the way that we do, and different strategies to engage students who are struggling with school,» Gavin explains.

We can do the same thing for our students impacted by trauma when we remove barriers and use trauma - informed strategies as a whole school.

Dweck: I think that undue emphasis on testing can be harmful if it conveys to students that the whole point of school is to do well on these tests and if it conveys to them that how well they do on these tests sums up their intelligence or their worth as a student.

So even though the child may not have learnt English as a first language, they still may be adept at it and on the whole they seem to do better at school.

As well as, frequently, school principals, school leaders in small communities have a range of extra responsibilities — which usually aren't found in larger centres and certainly not in metropolitan areas — to do with teacher housing, bus services, accessing specialist services to support students, and just coming to grips with the whole issue of distancAs well as, frequently, school principals, school leaders in small communities have a range of extra responsibilities — which usually aren't found in larger centres and certainly not in metropolitan areas — to do with teacher housing, bus services, accessing specialist services to support students, and just coming to grips with the whole issue of distancas, frequently, school principals, school leaders in small communities have a range of extra responsibilities — which usually aren't found in larger centres and certainly not in metropolitan areas — to do with teacher housing, bus services, accessing specialist services to support students, and just coming to grips with the whole issue of distance.

Finally, as someone who's been there and done it Chesterfield says, when developing and implementing a whole school framework, it's important to remember it's not an instant change.

Many authorities turned to temporary solutions, otherwise fondly known as «huts», and whilst the huts of 2015 provide good classrooms, there is still the tendency to send either the Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT) or the long service teacher out to the hut but they do not solve the problem of needing to integrate them into the school as a whole and so they often stand detached and forlorn at extremes of the playground with teachers and pupils having to brave the elements to gain access to the main building.

Indeed, with the exception of student and school accountability measures, Americans as a whole do not stand steadfastly behind any single reform proposal.

We could spend an entire EdNext volume arguing over the CREDO results alone, but I think some things are clear: one, nationally, low - income kids gain faster in charters than in district schools; two, many of CREDO's state and city - specific studies show very strong comparative gains for low - income charter students; and three, the movement as a whole has made significant progress by doing exactly what the model calls for and closing low - performing schools.

Nonetheless, the results suggest that public school students profit nearly as much from increased private school competition as do a nation's students as a whole.

«Our results suggest that students in public schools profit nearly as much from increased private school competition as do a nation's students as a whole,» West and Woessman note.

Just as a commercial restaurant needs to design its whole dining experience to attract its target audience so academies and schools need to do the same.

This process is really about mitigating risks; while children can not be safe 100 per cent of the time, we want to make sure that we've done everything — as a whole - school community — that we possibly can to help minimise these risks.

Key recommendations include: extending the national child measurement programme to also measure fitness as a slim child does not necessarily mean a fit and healthy child, rebranding the «PE & Sport Premium» as the «Physical Activity & PE Premium» to address the core notion of inactivity, and recommending that head teachers take a «whole day» approach to physical activity by engraining it throughout the entire school day.

If they do this, then over time we should see a refinement of that targeted provision, as the majority of needs will be met by high - quality whole - school provision.

The mediocre performance of Arizona's charter sector as a whole should not overshadow the impressive work being done in some individual schools.

Americans as a whole believe private and parochial schools do a better job of educating students than public schools do, something that might be remedied with the right federal or state public school education policies.

From a policy - maker's point of voew the important issue is not whether private schools out - perform government schools in the education of students who want out (voucher applicants), but whether choice systems as a whole perform better than systems which do not feature choice.