Sentences with phrase «schools feel less»

We need prisons to act more like schools, but we certainly have to make schools feel less like prisons.

«Content - area teachers in middle and high school feel less prepared to teach reading skills, and they also view reading skill as something that should have happened at the elementary level,» says Lecturer Pamela Mason, M.A.T.» 70, Ed.D.» 75, director of the master's program in language and literacy and the Jeanne Chall Reading Lab.

Not exact matches

CrisisGo is a less visible solution to help assuage the panic school administrators are feeling — a sort of emergency response Slack for the education market.

Only half support more teaching about Asia in Canadian schools, and less than one - third feel we should focus more on teaching Asian languages.

Stevens offered not a word of concern about whether religious students might feel themselves to be less than full members of the political community if, by order of the nation's highest court, their messages and only their messages are categorically excluded from the school's public arena.

Maybe the political protests were sometimes inspired by feelings of personal guilt (for evading the draft by going to school) and thus were less «political» than was claimed.

Curtis Berger shocked his Columbia University Law School associates at a convocation for the opening of the school year by saying, «I do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed about the injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.&School associates at a convocation for the opening of the school year by saying, «I do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed about the injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.&school year by saying, «I do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed about the injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.&school.»

This talk on education makes me feel less crazy about my school experience - straight A student who was fidgety and hated every minute of school, until college.

But there is a reason why I have such fond feelings for my Healthy School Night recipes board and #Recipes: 10 Minutes or Less board on Pinterest.

And so in these schools, where students are most in need of help internalizing extrinsic motivations, classroom environments often push them in the opposite direction: toward more external control, fewer feelings of competence, and less positive connection with teachers.

Students at these high - achieving schools can be ranked in the bottom quartile even with excellent grade point averages, and consequently feel «dumb» and «less worthy» compared to the majority of their peers.

Suddenly I felt a lot less guilty for her missing a week of school.

When students feel able to meet parent expectations, they are less likely to be worried and stressed about their schoolwork and less likely to suffer from physical symptoms of stress and Students are more motivated and engaged in school, and are more likely to persevere when they feel supported by their teachers

In an experiment in the Minneapolis area, when schools started later, students felt less sleepy, got higher grades, had fewer depressive feelings, fewer conflicts, and less bullying — and SAT scores went up.

It is vital to learn these lessons in high school as the adult world is much less forgiving than high school — and young adults with behavioral or developmental problems often experience deeper feelings of failure as they move into their adult identity.

Are there places you feel less comfortable talking about parenting, like your child's school, or around family?

Even if your school provides healthy options, it can be too easy to give in to temptation and pick a less healthy choice when you're feeling really hungry.

I'm not sure how sensitive these sensors are supposed to be, but if the general public's boobs move around as much as mine do, those bras are going to feel less like support and more like your first boyfriend after the middle school dance.

To help me feel a little less terrified about the new school year and to give me a lesson or two on how to ease my child into reception year, I have enlisted the help of some fellow mummy bloggers.

The more you can do to organize your week ahead of time, the less hectic school mornings are going to feel.

Reading the comment carefully, you understand that the father (and child) feel less shame about taking advantage of school meals at breakfast, where the service is universal (available to all regardless of economic need) versus at lunch, where there is often a more visible distinction between paying and nonpaying students, or between students on the federally reimbursable lunch line versus those who can purchase for - cash (and often more desirable) «a la carte» food, or (in the case of high schoolers) between students who can go off campus to buy lunch at convenience stores and restaurants versus those with no money in their pockets.

Recent research tells us that children are hardwired from birth to connect with others, and that children who feel a sense of connection to their community, family, and school are less likely to misbehave.

I can understand how Mrs. Q could end up feeling less than par after eating the school lunches just from the pictures posted.

But I have worked my way through some of the school lunch «staples» like granola bars and energy bars so she can feel a little less «crunchy kid» and a little more like her friends.

To help your child feel less shy, introduce him to as many of his future classmates as you can on your visits to the school.

'' I really needed to do dishes (and a million other things) but with school starting, I feel like I've had less and less time with the kids and they've been a little fussy.

Kids who feel rejected by peers become less motivated at school, which can lead to a downward spiral of lower achievement, increased behavior problems, and even more social rejection.

The Potty School's presentation made me feel less afraid and intimidated.

OK, granted, maybe girls are different — but I'd wager that boys could care less about the many new «back - to - school» items most Moms feel compelled to buy.

Our kids will go to any school and do well... will know how to fall in love and love unconditionally... will cry and never feel less for it... will never fear to be who they are, because they see joy and power in being themselves.

I do feel that is unfortunate that RD's in schools may seem to have less power over influencing how school lunch programs are run, often because they have less oversight and are often guided or trying to follow the school nutrition standards.

When asked about how financial pressures affect pupils, 72 % said they were more likely to be absent from school, 65 % said they were less able to concentrate in lessons, 60 % said they caused behaviour problems and 40 % said they felt alienated and disaffected.

County leaders are feeling the squeeze this year, as are other local government and school district officials, given the allowable growth in the state's cap on property taxes is less than 1 percentage point.

Less than one in ten (8.3 %) women teachers feel that flexible working requests are encouraged in their schools;

If more scientists come to think of a new publication as a larval stage of scientific knowledge and if fewer schools and funding agencies prize the high - profile journal article — basing tenure, grant and promotions on it — then researchers will feel less pressure to cut corners and manufacture dramatic results.

Additionally for young women, school was associated with them being less likely to have felt distressed about their sex life or experienced sex against their will.

Music making in class, particularly singing, may encourage pupils with learning differences and emotional difficulties to feel less alienated in the school environment.»

Researchers led by Dr Lex Mauger from Kent's School of Sport and Exercise Sciences found that tDCS delayed exhaustion of the leg muscles by an average of 15 % during an exercise task, and that this was likely caused by the participants feeling less effort during the exercise.

for Schools program felt less impulsive, while students in a control group that didn't participate in the program showed no change.

A study by Emily Hunter and Cindy Wu at Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business found that people who took morning breaks at work reported feeling more energized, more able to concentrate and more motivated, and were less likely to report symptoms like headaches and lower back pain.

«Some studies have shown that menthol smokers have had less successful rates of quitting smoking than non-menthol smokers, feel less confident in their ability to quit, and have more relapses and quit attempts than non-menthol smokers,» says Olivia Wackowski, MPH, a tobacco specialist at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Public Health, in New Brunswick.

As reported in 2005 by Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph.D, assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, researchers in Germany found that women with mental illnesses reported feeling less stress and fatigue after three months of regular yoga classes.

, because it forced me to get creative and mix + match what I got to look good and feel confident in myself (in middle school, no less).

It's hard to believe that summer is almost over, especially because we've had a really mild summer and most of it hasn't even felt like summer, but the kids are all heading back to school in less than 2 weeks!

Sara, a student from London University, said:» The guys in school looks childish and less of romantic, they have no money and do not know how to love and take care of girls, but sugar daddies look soft and have enough money to make your life easier and comfortable, most girls feel that it is a fashion to date a sugar daddy».

Every scene in School Pride feels like the seventh or 10th take and too contrived, even by the low standards of reality TV... I will say that School Pride seems less manipulative and showy than its forebears.

This feels no less old - school Italian: weird, intriguing, baffling.

It's Hoberman's way of making Saturday's screening feel less like school.

His supporting arc — involving a long - lost high school sweetheart — is designed as a less literal counterpoint to the time travel plot, but feels instead like a half - hearted distraction.

Best of all, the entire school takes on a palpable hum of productive effort; learning feels less forced and more about the joy of doing something useful.