Sentences with phrase «schools educating children»

This is despite schools educating children in, supposedly, logical sequences.

Schools educate children, not in opposition to the state, but simply because children need to be taught.

Bertschi School educates children to become compassionate, confident and creative learners in a global community.

High Schools educate children in grades 9 through 12.

But many argue that test scores — even with academic growth weighed into the mix — still offer a limited picture of how well schools educate children.

If Charter schools educate children who are less poor, have fewer language barriers and few special education needs, they will, by default, end up with high standardized test scores.

We also know that in case after case after case after case, Connecticut's charter school educate children that are less poor, have far less language barriers and need fewer special education services.

The bottom line is this: charter schools educate all children regardless of their circumstances.

Not exact matches

After a successful 32 - year investment banking career, Bill Henson, a decade ago, made the transition to inner city education, initially joining the board of Cristo Rey New York High School, a private Catholic college preparatory high school that educates children of all fSchool, a private Catholic college preparatory high school that educates children of all fschool that educates children of all faiths.

But it has also educated roughly 6,000 children through in - school nutrition programs.

Similarly integral projects are funded by Virgin Money, our bank, which helps schools to educate children in the basics of entrepreneurship.

Changing entrenched views about girls and education is a long - term process, she says, but so far her organization's efforts have helped to educate 1.3 million children, including more than 80,000 girls that it has brought into the school system.

She says the typical Waldorf parent, who has a range of elite private and public schools to choose from, tends to be liberal and highly educated, with strong views about education; they also have a knowledge that when they are ready to teach their children about technology they have ample access and expertise at home.

They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well - educated teachers and a sound educational program.»

Over the past three decades, the number of homeschooled children has grown by at least 7 percent a year» the number may now exceed the number attending charter schools» and between 6 and 12 percent of all students are educated at home at some point between kindergarten and twelfth grade.

So we learned about generations of indigenous children who had been removed from their homes, their parents, their communities, and their families to be placed in government - sponsored religious schools beginning officially in 1880 so the «Indian» could be educated out of them.

Nova, a highly rated public charter school with a classical curriculum, had educated six of my seven children over the years.

What if every white Christian sending their son or daughter to private school contributed some of their income toward educating an African American child?

Christian education is in the world and for the world... man must work out his salvation in the concrete situation in which God has placed him; not by protection but by contributing to the whole human community of which he is an integral and inseparable part... parents, who have the first and the inalienable right and duty to educate their children, should enjoy true freedom in the choice of their schools, etc..»

We begin to formally educate a child at the age of six, and twelve years later frequently find we have failed, not because school material is intrinsically difficult (the task of learning a new language is much more so, yet the child masters it in thee years); we find failure because we have ignored the fact that the developing personality has a natural sway, to and fro, which Whitehead says results in a «craving» to be continually refreshed by the experience of starting anew.

I know, let's just close the schools down — all together — and move quicker to third world status; because, 1) It's a burden on the economy as we, clearly, don't have the money to continue educating future generations; and 2) It doesn't appear they're learning anything anyway, except how to harass little children and make their lives as miserable as possible for writing on their desks.

If you want to educate the citizens about Islamic culture, perhaps you could use these days as teaching tools and head down to the schools and clear up some misconceptions people have — like the Jewish parents and Islamic parents did when I was a child.

Unless parents have sufficient means to have their children educated at private schools they often seek to have their children educated outside the Borough.

It strikes me as a dangerous exaggeration that may seem to justify a differentiation in the pedagogies and the social policies that are enacted or applied within such neighborhoods, with greater emphasis on rigid discipline than on the informality and intellectual expansiveness that are familiar in the better schools that educate the children of rich people.

And in the 2013 report Knot Yet, a team of researchers including Wilcox found that 58 percent of high school — educated women bear their first child outside marriage.

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My «fleshy desires» have me giving to various charities (not the church) to help educate, feed, and cloth children the world over, spending years in the field helping those less fortunate, volunteering my time teaching inner city school children, and doing my best to live in love not in fear.

The general later showed the CFI president the school where his troops» children were being educated.

In light of varying perspectives about this appointment, Christian leaders will need to think afresh about their relationship to local public schools, where more than 90 percent of America's children are educated.

Schools should educate children for a practical future; and education should not be abused as a way to a soft living as a Massing priest.

«I know schools are already doing so much to cut food waste and educate children about food and agriculture.

Robert Cuellar's voice is cheerful and enthusiastic as he begins to describe his school's vibrant salad bar program, the importance of educating and engaging students with healthy eating, and how his own children motivate him to continue to improve school food every day.

Funds are used to raise awareness about child hunger in the U.S.; create public - private partnerships that align kids with the resources they need; support nutrition programs like school breakfast and summer meals; and educate kids and their families on how to cook healthy meals with limited resources.

But what the research I've described here makes clear is that intervening in the lives of disadvantaged children — by educating them better in school, helping their parents support them better at home, or, ideally, some combination of the two — is the most effective and promising anti-poverty strategy we have.

«A Teachable Moment,» August 17, 2008 «While it is true that for decades the children of New Orleans toiled in a substandard school system, they have also continually faced countless other obstacles to success — inadequate health care, poorly educated parents, exposure to high rates of violent crime and a popular culture that often denigrates mainstream achievement.»

The schools and classroom interventions that I've described educate a tiny fraction of the nation's poor children, and they are competing against a dominant culture in education that only very rarely considers whether there might be another, better way to motivate and engage children who are growing up in poverty.

Yet schools that educate large numbers of children in poverty are generally run, even more than others, on principles of behaviorism rather than self - determination.

I've always believed that it's our responsibility to educate our children — and that schooling should be the «supplement» experience — most especially during their early years — where we are their trusted guides.

And yet most of our schools, especially schools educating poor kids, operate in ways that steer children away from those experiences.

When you visit a school like WHEELS or Polaris, it is hard not to feel hopeful, not just for the prospects of the students there, but for the possibility that a new approach to educating low - income children, rooted in the science of adversity, might be taking hold more broadly.

I have seen too many children educated in the «herd» who end up thinking school is about memorizing study guides and taking tests.»

• If one parent is better - educated than the other, some children may benefit from the better - educated parent undertaking more care: e.g. in Norway, girls (but not boys) have been found to do better at school when a father who was better educated than their mother took longer - than - average leave (Cools et al, 2011.)

At Honolulu Waldorf School, we educate each child to find meaning, passion, and purpose in life and to contribute to the creation of a better world for all.

The Waldorf School of Garden City educates children to meet the world with purpose, gratitude and respect.

East Bay Waldorf School prepares children for the future with its uniquely vibrant and well - rounded education that blends the unconventional and the traditional, reconnects children with the world, and educates on a human scale.

The Waldorf School of Baltimore educates and inspires children to think, feel, and act with depth, imagination, and purpose.

And since many kids aren't being educated about food at home, the school setting can play a very important role in helping children learn to love the stuff that will love them back.

Type II diabetes can be treated with diet, true, and I think educating children in elementary school about nutrition is extremely important.

They need to do a great job in educating children, and we need to insist on schools being accountable for education.

Whereas a school might try and force a kinaesthetic child to conform, perhaps even recommending drugs, a wise home educating parent will encourage frequent breaks for exercise, and not worry about fidgeting.