Sentences with phrase «schools focused mostly»

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The de Blasio administration's long - awaited plan for integrating NYC schools was promised by the mayor to be a «bigger vision,» but it has landed with a whimper and not a bang, focusing mostly on small bore policy changes.

Independent charters are particularly desperate for facilities funding, while large charters — mostly sited in co-located public school space — are focusing on increasing the amount of public money each charter school student receives.

So far, the climate science used in courts has focused mostly on overall trends and gradual processes such as sea level rise, said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change litigation.

Teaching Yoga for Youth is designed for yoga teachers and yoga teachers in training who have a genuine interest in teaching yoga and mindfulness to youth in schools and community organizations, with a focus on those that mostly work with underserved youth.

The film is mostly told from Lady Bird's perspective, and like most high school seniors, her attention is all focused on herself and her own troubles.

While the show mostly focused on Spot's adventures in school, when the film opens, it's June and the last day of school, setting up a clear departure from the series» confines.

Tower (Keith Maitland, 2016) Astounding in its focus and empathy, this mostly animated documentary offers a panoramic view of the first mass school shooting in the US, in 1966 at the University of Texas.

With I'm First, Cotignola focused mostly on the college partnerships — researching which partner schools would be able to give the best advice about various webinar topics, blogging articles relating to issues of first - generation students, and developing an online newsletter for all the college partners to collaborate and share best practices.

It initially focused mainly on choice — mostly through expanding charter schools — and accountability, mostly through implementing the No Child Left Behind Act.

These obviously relate to everyone who is in a school — from the staff and students, to parents, school crossing supervisors and even a casual subcontractor — but I'll focus here mostly on members of staff.

Media coverage of such polls focuses mostly on findings around school choice.

The opposition movement is even starting to draw in conservative Christian groups that in the past have mostly focused on promoting home schooling.

Keeping in mind that test - based accountability mostly focuses on the level of test scores, not changes, and virtually never relies upon a rigorous identification of how test scores are caused by schools and programs, we have no way of knowing that that the kinds of schools, programs, and practices that we are pushing in education will actually help kids later in life.

Competitor K12 Inc., which launched in 1999, began by focusing mostly on providing services to already home - schooled students.

A bill to allow more charter schools for certain groups of students — such as minorities or those with disabilities — to open each year was scuttled as the Idaho Legislature focused mostly on regular public schools, which face the worst budget year for public education in the state's history.

The moderating effects of organizational characteristics are to be expected, since district size and school size almost always «make a difference,» no matter what the focus of the research is.180 Elementary schools are typically more sensitive than secondary schools to leadership influence, although previous leader - efficacy research has reported mostly non-significant effects.181 And the rapid turnover of principals has been widely decried as anathema to school improvement efforts.182 Now we have some evidence that the positive effects of leader efficacy are also moderated by school and district size (the larger the organization, the less sense of efficacy among principals).

Schools rarely respond to ELL needs in systematic and systemic ways, mostly focusing on curriculum or instruction.

These suggestions focus mostly on the different types of systems that resulted in school improvement.

The report, while focused mostly on Florida, suggests schools all over the country (again, possibly in TN) may be pushing low - performing students, many of whom are black, into «alternative schools,» as a way of preventing their low test scores and graduation rates from dragging down the average.

It focuses mostly on standards for accountability and transparency, and vastly increases the amount of information states will be required to share in annual «school report cards,» which will give parents better data on school performance and help guide where federal education money is most needed.

However, schools that focus primarily on raising test scores, implement RTI as a series of discrete actions rather than an on - going process, implement RTI mostly to comply with the law, or see student failure as a failure in learning will struggle to reap the benefits of RTI.

A strict focus on test preparation and behavior has helped the network, which serves mostly low - income and black and Hispanic students, to significantly outperform the city's public school students on state reading and math tests; however, critics charge that student attrition skews the results (2015).

In elementary schools, they protest that a laser focus on the subjects tested, mostly math and reading, crowds out science, social studies and the arts.

Both are mostly small schools for younger students, with a focus on the developmental needs of students.

The constant public focus on standardized test scores suggests the belief that the threat of sanctions or promise of rewards (mostly in the form of increased funding) will enhance students» test scores and improve school quality — that schools can somehow be coerced or seduced into improvement.

Delta State overhauled its program to focus on instructional leadership, featuring a full - time internship and financial support so teachers can spend a year preparing to become principals who can transform schools in a poor, mostly rural region.

In one urban middle school, conversations about improving student achievement focused mostly on sending «bubble kids» (whose results fell just below cut scores for proficiency levels) to tutoring or after - school programs (Horn, Kane, & Wilson, 2015).

The initial work was mostly focused in 500 + «sports colleges» (schools that specialise in PE) between 2005 and 2010.

At Purdue I focused mostly on small animals and was able to be educated at a great veterinary school before starting my career in Chicago.

I've always enjoyed looking at art but it was around high school when I began to focus a good portion of my time on making artwork (mostly paintings and photographs) and studying with other artists.

While Black Mountain College was a year - round liberal arts college offering a general course of study, Black Mountain School's month - long session focuses mostly on studio art practice.

An assistant professor in the School of Creative Media, the City University of Hong Kong, his multi-disciplinary artistic practice ranges from photography and video to text, performance and installation, focusing on the relationship between anticipation, perception and understanding in communication, mostly in an urban context.

As Professor Long acknowledges, the authors of the Report would reject his characterization of their approach as anti - intellectual.96 But even if it was not the Report's intent to advocate a utilitarian approach to legal education, the Report has at least provided law schools with a rationalization for embracing a mostly practice - oriented focus.

For years, mostly non-lawyer consultants have encouraged managing partners to focus myopically on business school - type metrics that maximize short - term profits.

Recently, my posts have focused mostly on topics of interest to incoming law students or law school graduates preparing to take the bar exam.

For those reasons, this page will mostly focus on traffic schools you can complete online.

The 16 - year - old is looking to carve his own niche in advertising with a particular focus on blockchain projects, at a time when his peers are mostly concerned with school or other social activities.

My work has mostly focused on urban schools, like the ones I taught in when I was a high school teacher.