Should state virtual
schools focus on areas where they can provide economies of scale and support services that too costly at the district level?
Not exact matches
Focusing on security around the door and adjacent
areas, Allegion produces a range of solutions for homes, businesses,
schools and other institutions.
«This is a deliberate attack
on the Chaldean Catholic Assyrian community of Detroit,» said Wisam Naoum, a community activist helping coordinate legal assistance for detainees and their families at a Chaldean -
focused charter
school in the
area.
It
focuses on three critical
areas — the marketplace, the workplace and
schools.
He
focused on club soccer for his first two years at Brookfield East High
School in the Milwaukee suburbs before joining the school team and earning all - conference and all - area h
School in the Milwaukee suburbs before joining the
school team and earning all - conference and all - area h
school team and earning all - conference and all -
area honors.
Perhaps your child does sit down every evening in a distraction - free
area and
focuses on their
school work, only an assignment that should 10 minutes actually takes 40 minutes.
In Paul Tough's first book, «Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America,» he
focused on the Harlem Children's Zone, a 97 - block
area where Canada set about overhauling the neighborhood with comprehensive social programs, such as after -
school activities and parenting classes, that extended beyond the classroom and reshaped the childhood experience.
Administration (Key
Area 3): Presentations will
focus on ways to manage and administer the challenges of today's
school nutrition program, including ensuring sound business and financial practices, human resources excellence and district organization.
The second results
area (Pillar 2)
focuses on improving the quality of education in 125 selected low - performing SHS through: (i) strengthened
school management and accountability; (ii) improved mathematics and science teaching and learning; (iii) expanded information, communication technology and internet connectivity in
schools; and (iv) the implementation of
school performance partnership plans.
The state - funded initiative, first announced last year and
focused on a 46.5 - square - mile
area of central Brooklyn, funds
schools, housing, health care, jobs and more.
«Hearing their stories, looking at the work they've done to promote character education and identify the values they want to embed in their
schools and seeing how positive they are about this
area of their
school life has confirmed to me that
focusing on character sits alongside gaining knowledge.
After achieving the passage of a new evaluation system that will rely
on a mix
on at least one standardized test and in - classroom observation, the governor is renewing his
focus to
areas NYSUT has opposed, including a lifting of the cap
on charter
schools and a $ 150 million education investment tax credit, which is strongly backed by private and parochial
schools.
Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN)- Calling Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz «incompetent» for threatening to hold back sales tax funds from
area school districts as a way to force district consolidations, Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw as asking County Executive should
focus on the deplorable road conditions...
Other estates
on the fringes of Leeds in the Seacroft
area come under Elmet which is also a Labour Stronghold and represented by former Foxwood
School history teacher Colin Burgon, however there is a proposal [citation needed] to alter the boundaries, bringing these
areas in with Seacroft and
focusing Elmet
on Wetherby, Garforth and Rothwell.
«SUNY will propose and adopt regulations in accordance with The New York State Administrative Procedure Act... SUNY's first
area of
focus will be teacher requirements in SUNY authorized charter
schools,» Jody Perry, a spokeswoman for SUNY, said in a statement
on Thursday.
Speaking to a crowd of around 2,000 who waited for hours in the cold to hear the address at Cohoes High
School in the Albany
area, Clinton
focused on economic issues, saying she'd push for rebuilding crumbling infrastructures, and mentioning the ongoing water crisis in nearby Hoosick Falls.
Mr. Rivera said his campaign would
focus on fighting the
area's high unemployment rate, providing rent protection for low - income families and addressing
school crowding.
Trained as a general surgeon, Pories was asked to
focus on the profitable
area of obesity shortly after arriving at the Brody
School of Medicine in 1977; the Roux - en - Y ultimately became his favored technique.
But the foundation lists an additional 1623 institutions that grant bachelor's degrees, not counting institutions with a «special
focus»
on areas such as engineering, music, or health professions — including 52 medical
schools where doctor training is the main objective.
Reddi, now the dean of the graduate
school at Florida International University, realized early
on that «hundreds of opportunities that could connect my research to other
areas» would have been lost if he had been only
focused on his own day - to - day activities as a researcher and not
on also keeping his eyes open to new opportunities.
«We know alcohol outlets can be associated with unsafe nuisance activities in urban
areas, but this study appears to be the first to suggest U.S. tobacco shops may also impact public health,» said Andrew Subica, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the
School of Medicine, who led the study that
focused on South Los Angeles, Calif. «Our analyses show that in South Los Angeles tobacco shops as well as liquor stores were associated with high levels of violent and property crime around their locations.
Women's sexual health is one of several research
areas focused on within the IU
School of Public Health's Center for Sexual Health Promotion (sexualhealth.indiana.edu).
«Childhood obesity is a major
focus area on both USC campuses,» Keck
School of Medicine Dean Rohit Varma said, referring to the University Park and Health Sciences campuses.
Going through graduate
school and into a postdoc, you necessarily
focus on a narrower and narrower niche
area of science.
For Jersey City Public
Schools teachers, hands -
on STEM education is an important
area of
focus — but one that is often difficult to adequately fund.
Her current
area of research
focuses on how youth in out - of -
school - time science clubs, such as the Pulsar Search Collaboratory and Skynet Junior Scholars, learn to see themselves as scientists and choose to pursue careers in science.
Since they arrived last August, the Jains say they've mainly
focused on classes that will help them revamp or refine certain
areas of their
schools that still need work, such as inclusion and Universal Design for Learning, as well as technology.
«By supporting good and outstanding
schools to help others improve, and
focusing on disadvantaged
areas where our young people need extra help, we can continue to make a difference to people's everyday lives and build a Britain that's fit for the future.»
Governors are
focusing much of their attention
on two critical
areas of education policy — high
school and preschool — a 50 - state look at the nation's governors and their leadership
on education over the past year shows.
Eden's
focus on the importance of outdoor learning and play can be seen throughout the work of the project as well as through the
schools education team, with the ever - popular den building activities that take place in the project's arena during the summer and the landscaping and design of the play
areas and gardens around the site.
The language challenge This
focus on academic subjects is also clearly going to disadvantage
schools in certain
areas.
States should seize the possibilities for more innovative approaches to
school improvement posed by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaces a law much criticized for its heavy - handed federal role and for
focusing schools heavily
on teaching for low - level multiple - choice tests in reading and math to the neglect of other subject
areas and higher - level skills.
The creative writing
schools fund will be delivered to children between eight and 12 and will
focus particularly
on children from impoverished
areas, with the aim of easing the transition from primary to secondary education.
«Reassessing the Achievement Gap: Fully Measuring What Students Should Be Taught in
School» argues that NAEP results offer a «distorted» picture of student achievement because of their exclusive
focus on academic skills and take attention away from nontested
areas that often fall under the purview of
schools.
Building
on this, Cahill proceeded to set forth a «dynamic model,» arguing that, for true transformation that will allow
schools to most effectively move forward with Common Core,
schools can not just
focus on one
area of design, but instead, need to approach reform from a number of different angles.
Positioned away from flood risk
areas and
on the edge of the sports playing fields, we twinned the build to the
school's most popularly used outdoor learning space to maximise the sensory -
focused adaptability of the build.
Community organizers, another addition, will now join the teams already working with these
area superintendents; they will
focus on building family networks and training
school staff.
Sicat now leads the University of Southern California's charter network, Ednovate, which
focuses on high
schools in high - need
areas in and around Los Angeles.
«That's why at the Academy, we
focus on supporting teachers in the Bay
Area, especially at the elementary
school level.
Specifically, our
focus will be
on the nation's largest metropolitan
areas and the local advantages that accrue to earning a high
school diploma.
Monitor student performance data across the
school to ensure teachers are
focused on areas of need; and,
While it is suggested in the Australian Curriculum that the personal and social capabilities be addressed in all learning
areas and at every stage of a student's
schooling, the ASD - ENA findings suggest that work
on the personal and social capabilities needs to go beyond integration in other learning
areas and, for many students
on the spectrum, will require far more explicit instruction and ongoing
focus on these capabilities.
Harvard Graduate
School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content
areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular
focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).
Currently, she is
focusing her efforts
on improving middle -
school literacy outcomes in partnership with other Boston
area researchers and the Boston Public
Schools.
Instead of
focusing on the severity of the strategies applied to
schools in restructuring, a more significant question is whether they are aligned with the
areas in which the
school needs to improve and implemented well.
The prime
areas focus on the core knowledge and skills which are the foundations for children's
school readiness and future progress.
Many times when
schools integrate technology, they recommend applications that
focus on content
area subjects or project - based video.
Set up time «blocks» when everyone in the grade /
school is
focused on one
area of the curriculum (reading, math, language arts)?
Buchanan says the
school is still using the same idea and principles,
focusing on one priority
area at a time, but also Simon Breakspear's work
on learning improvement sprints.
I've classed the resource as suitable for ages 7 - 14, but it really does depend
on the age at which your students begin their FRENCH, and what
areas of learning they might need to
focus on at particular times during the
school year.