Sentences with phrase «schools discussion over»

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«Over the last 10 to 20 years, because of blogs and the applicant community and discussion forums, people have developed a really good sense of what the admissions process looks like, down to what kinds of questions are asked and how they manage the interview,» Vice Dean Karl T. Ulrich explained in an interview when the school announced the new test.

The Church of England carried on discussions over sexuality at its General Synod (when is it not talking about sexuality) but it was its advice to its schools which hit the front pages that encouraged teachers to let pupils cross dress.

The tension between class and classification is nowhere more evident than in the continuing discussions over ability grouping versus mixed grouping in the schools.

We hope that what happens at Emory over the next few years will stimulate discussion, debate and creative ideas at other graduate schools, leading them to take up these challenges in their own ways and build other educational models for preparing practical theologians.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Such discussions over school lunches and healthy eating echo a larger national debate about the role government should play in individual food choices.

NEW LENOX — The possibility of a Park District takeover of New Lenox Elementary School District 122's Cherry Hill School has been turned over to the school district's Site Committee for discuSchool District 122's Cherry Hill School has been turned over to the school district's Site Committee for discuSchool has been turned over to the school district's Site Committee for discuschool district's Site Committee for discussion.

So much to consider and so much to still explore, but reading about these schools really did add a lot to those discussions in the woods, even if it was just me quoting from the book to anyone who was nearby - «Did you know that today's college graduate will have as many as seven career paths over the course of their working years?»

Lunch Tray readers come from all over the U.S. (and the world), so I don't want to get too deep into a Houston - specific issue, but then I realized that this correction could be a springboard for a bigger discussion about the future of school food in America.

I've had countless discussions over the past year with adults about school lunch.

Although I find that my experiences in Houston are a great springboard for discussions of school food reform generally, only about 1 / 9th of my readers are from Houston — the remainder come from all over the U.S. and over 50 foreign countries.

At Wednesday's Buffalo School Board meeting, the long struggle over getting more minority and women - owned businesses among the vendors to the district system turned into a discussion about using student labor.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: «While the NUT has had a number of policy differences with the Conservatives, particularly over «free schools», Michael Gove has always been open to discussion with the union about his plans.

NYT:»... the election followed a fierce, if brief, campaign in which a debate over same - sex marriage, which Mr. Peralta favors and Mr. Monserrate opposes, often overshadowed discussions on issues that are vital to many of the largely Hispanic district's working - class and immigrant residents, like affordable health care and school overcrowding.

CAI2R and NYU School of Medicine team comprising scientists, clinicians, technologists, and graduate students will deliver over 100 research events, including educational talks, focused discussions, oral presentations, as well as electronic and traditional posters.

Funded by the Department for Communities through Northern Ireland Screen and by Derry City and Strabane District Council, Foyle Film Festival delivers a comprehensive programme of documentaries, short films and feature films from all over the world; a full programme of educational events for schools, youth, and adults and a variety of industry networking events and panel discussions.

When reporting about Butterfield's casting, Variety let slip that after talks with Viggo Mortensen fell through, discussion over who would play the Battle School Commander began to center around alternatives, including Harrison Ford.

Over the past year, Education Secretary Justine Greening has suggested discussions about reforming SRE guidance, which currently allows free schools and academies to opt out of teaching the subject in class.

At the time, there was discussion of dividing Robinson, which had been expanded several times over the years, into two schools.

The debate over school integration now requires discussion of school accountability, parental choice, and measures designed to enhance the quality of the teacher workforce.

On November 13, 2014, Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute hosted a discussion with Cami Anderson, superintendent of Newark Public Schools since 2011, focusing on the challenges she has faced since taking over a system with a 50 percent graduation rate.

After NACA started showing initial results with students and our community partners, the discussion over how to expand the reach of our best practices began,» Bobroff says of the tuition - free public charter school that uniquely blends Native American traditions with college preparatory education.

Like a concerned parent faced with a child's lackluster report card, Rhode Island has begun a statewide discussion over how to jump - start its school improvement efforts.

More controversial in state and national policy discussions have been proposals to enable parents, especially low - income parents, to exercise greater choice over their children's education through school vouchers, tax credits, charter schools, or home schooling.

The school embraces depth over breadth and places heavy emphasis on discussion and critical thinking.

This growing interest comes hand in hand with discussions over whether the traditional definitions of schooling and learning need to change in the 21st century.

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

The school discipline discussion has paralleled the wider debate in urban America over «broken windows» or «quality of life» policing, which entails aggressive enforcement of low - level crimes if they threaten to disrupt the social order — vandalism, turnstile jumping, public drinking, and the like.

The backdrop for this discussion is what has happened to U.S. public schools over the time since Capitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose entered into the intellectual fabric of the country.

The most heated discussion focused on the state's merit - pay program, which lawmakers decided to fund for the 1985 - 86 school year at $ 16.6 million, despite a rancorous debate over the quality of the evaluation process that has been used to choose the first year's crop of merit teachers.

This one - page film guide on the adaptation of The Tempest is designed to support pre - and post-screening discussions of character, costume and the nature of adaptation for use with school students aged 11 and over.

School administrators could ward off bitter battles over issues of sexual orientation by taking an active role in bringing people of different views together for discussion before controversies erupt, according to a resource guide for educators and parents developed by a center that promotes First Amendment values.

This one - page film guide on the film West Side Story the musical adaptation of the play Romeo and Juliet, set in 1950s New York, incorporates themes around street crime, immigration and the American dream, is designed to support pre - and post-screening discussions of character, genre and the key themes of the film for use with primary school pupils aged 7 and over.

NR: We currently don't have a formal relationship, and part of what I'm going to do over the next ninety days is to see if we can come up with informal ways of working more closely with groups like NACSA, especially since the discussion around quality is so focused on what authorizers are doing and how quickly they're shutting down poorly performing schools... Of course, it's very difficult to shut down a school that has a following, but I don't think our sector has done a very good job of explaining to families what a good, high quality school looks like and why it's so important to not tolerate poor performance.

The main topics covered were: 1) the respondent «s perceptions of the major state - level policy initiatives of importance over the last few years (allowing the respondent to determine the starting year / policy); 2) specific policy initiatives in two arenas: accountability and promoting school leadership; 3) a discussion of the policy initiators and actors, and their stakes and stands on major policy initiatives; and 4) their comments about the way in which groups and individuals work together or separately to exercise influence over educational policy.

As the discussion and debate over next year's Boston Public Schools budget begins, the Boston Education Justice Alliance is fighting for the schools our communities dSchools budget begins, the Boston Education Justice Alliance is fighting for the schools our communities dschools our communities deserve.

Reality: In Compton, there was no discussion of parents taking over the school.

Their discussion with Ashley Carter largely centered on the separate powers of the organizations which preside over DC public and charter schools.

Former LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who once attempted to take over LA Unified and later founded a public school network, criticized the state's new accountability system Wednesday at a panel discussion with education experts.

Future plans based on current discussions with governing boards and not - for - profit foundations indicate the possibility of opening two to three schools over the next three to five years depending on community demand.

We have asked the STRB to ensure that, should it decide to limit its recommendations on the basis of any concerns over affordability, it sets out what should, in its view, be the appropriate levels of pay for teachers and school leaders in the absence of such concerns, in order to inform the political discussions which will then ensue.

Our discussions with clients over past few months indicate schools believe it's great to deliver «personalized & interactive lessons» while corporate entities believe it is an important device in the future of workplace learning.

Karen Vieth, a Sennett Middle School teacher, described in her blog delivering a speech at the Chicago Labor Temple in which she drew a connection between the Chicago teacher union contract negotiations and Madison's upcoming discussions over an employee handbook to replace the current contract.

The trust runs fours schools in west London, and is due to open a free school in Cambridge in 2021, with discussions ongoing over other new schools joining it.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

New York City — November 20, 2014 The Community Health Academy of the Heights (CHAH) hosted an event called «Creating Community Schools,» which featured a series of panel discussions on what it takes to create community schools, what's working and how to replicate successful strategies in light of New York City's plans to substantially increase the number of community schools over the next severalSchools,» which featured a series of panel discussions on what it takes to create community schools, what's working and how to replicate successful strategies in light of New York City's plans to substantially increase the number of community schools over the next severalschools, what's working and how to replicate successful strategies in light of New York City's plans to substantially increase the number of community schools over the next severalschools over the next several years.

Over the course of a year, NCLD gathered top special education and personalized learning experts from across the country — including educators, advocates, researchers, state and district leaders, school leaders, and parents of children with disabilities — and engaged them in discussions to learn and explore ways to ensure that personalized learning systems integrate and benefit students with disabilities.

Over the course of five sessions held throughout the 2016 — 17 school year, the Career Readiness Fellows shared established practices such as financial literacy seminars they have led, career day events they have organized, and panel discussions they have created with their alumni.

Arne Duncan Spars With State K - 12 Chiefs Over District Waivers While most of Duncan's discussion with the Council of Chief State School Officers was congenial, one point of contention was over district - level No Child Left Behind Act waivOver District Waivers While most of Duncan's discussion with the Council of Chief State School Officers was congenial, one point of contention was over district - level No Child Left Behind Act waivover district - level No Child Left Behind Act waivers.

The nomination of DeVos, who supports school choice, has renewed the national discussion over the importance of opportunity in K - 12 education.