Sentences with phrase «schools is itself under pressure»

With the extent of changes taking place throughout all areas of the sector, a review of the national curriculum and a significant tightening of the purse strings, schools are under pressure from all angles to continue to provide the exemplary education that has come to be expected.

So as digital becomes more and more a part of education and its curriculums, schools are under pressure to enable pupils digitally whilst also protecting them from the darker side of the web.

As the digital world becomes more and more a part of education and its curriculums, schools are under pressure to enable pupils digitally, while also protecting them from the darker side of the web such as illegal activity, cyberbullying or radicalisation.»

At the same time schools are under pressure to raise educational standards, while seeing budgets squeezed.

At the same time, the capacity of local authorities to monitor and support financial management in schools is itself under pressure.

Schools are under pressure to balance the books, so it has never been more important to justify the educational benefits of trips and demonstrate value for money

In June 2016 Schools Week reported that schools were under pressure to become «mini welfare states» to support vulnerable pupils as child poverty increased.

They claim that schools are under pressure to «teach to the test», a practice that could limit curriculum.

Because schools are under pressure to make adequate yearly progress, administrators who may have bristled at parents getting involved in academics are learning to take all the help they can get, Henderson says.

Like other legal institutions, law schools are under pressure to innovate.

Not exact matches

Schools are constantly under pressure to cut back and most are overseen by governments and that has hurt the company.

Congress is under pressure to act after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last month that left 17 dead.

In college, I was a policy debater and also coached high school debate, which resulted in a habit of numbering my answers to questions and speaking extremely quickly under pressure.

It seems a pity that, under government pressure, the school has not been allowed more discretion to select candidates.

You never once smacked one of those kids, the ones there on full scholarship with visions of patched sport coasts in the Ivory Tower, you never once icily mentioned that you were working full time, going into debt, commuting two hours to school, that you had three small babies at home, that you worked in a fast - paced and exhausting industry under tremendous pressure just to come home, kiss your kids for a brief moment, launching into that thesis until well past midnight, just to get up at 6 the next morning and do it all over again, relentlessly.

... This set of statistics may even be an underestimate of the direction of travel as... Catholic schools and colleges often feel under pressure to demonstrate theirCatholicity and can inflate actual numbers in their «self - declaration» of Catholic staff and pupils.»

Our monitoring of several hundred urban schools under the pressures of racial change has made one thing very clear: while the elements of failure are depressingly similar from school to school, those of success are unique.

At a meeting with concerned parents, the school superintendent sympathized with our concerns, but explained how much pressure the administrators were under, because of No Child Left Behind, to raise standardized test scores.

If your child is under pressure — because of school, or friends, or something happening at home — giving him a break may be just what he needs.

But I know what intense pressure the public schools are under — it's challenging to get everything in.

Julia Bauscher, who is president of a national advocacy group called the School Nutrition Association, says administrators are under intense pressure to increase instruction time and boost standardized test scores.

In it, writer Sarah Kliff attempts to calm the ruffled feathers of school food reform advocates like myself who are outraged by Congress's watering down of school nutrition standards last week under pressure from food industry lobbyists.

State Education Commissioner David Steiner, who is under intense pressure to either grant or deny a waiver to Mayor Bloomberg's NYC schools chancellor pick, Cathie Black, is keeping a fairly low profile these days, but he did respond to a letter from minority lawmakers who hoped to meet with him prior to his decision.

«Governing Bodies should be warned that where our members are asked or put under pressure to undertake additional work in the light of a headteacher boycotting the SATs, there is a real possibility of the school facing a formal dispute with the NASUWT.»

Congress is under pressure to act after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last month that left 17 dead.

Labour failed to control immigration and our schools, hospitals and green space are under pressure as a result: 73 %

As the Lancaster community becomes more divided over whether the school district's nickname should remain the «Redskins,» school leaders are under increasing pressure to make a decision soon about whether to phase the name out completely.

School Places, NHS Waiting Lists, Home purchasing are under extreme pressure.

MPs are to quiz private school heads as independent schools are placed under pressure to justify their charitable status.

The Panel for Educational Policy, a 13 - person body that votes on billions of dollars in school spending, is under - trained in financial oversight and pressured to do whatever de Blasio asks, members say.

He's also under pressure to reject another education reform initiative — raising the charter school capthat the Senate Republicans want to make part of a deal on extending mayoral control.

But Governor Cuomo, my understanding is that this school is located within the explosion zone of the Pressure Station that is now under construction despite impending litigation by the homeowners and other concerned citizens in our area to stop it.

Minister will be under renewed pressure today to scrap school testing for 11 - year - olds following a damning select committee report on the subject which found the tests undermined education standards and harmed children.

Liberal pressure came to a head in May of 2014, when Cuomo was under fire from the labor - aligned Working Families Party, which was threatening to endorse Fordham Law School professor Zephyr Teachout.

With less than two weeks before the Buffalo school board is slated to vote on its budget for the fiscal year starting July 1, it's under pressure to spend millions to put aides on every school bus.

The Buffalo Public School District is under pressure to improve failing schools and boost graduation rates and it's a contentious time for school leadeSchool District is under pressure to improve failing schools and boost graduation rates and it's a contentious time for school leadeschool leadership.

«But I am also very cognizant on a daily basis of the kind of pressures our schools, our students, our teachers are under because of Common Core and these other tremendous sea changes that are being implemented in our schools,» she said.

Lawmakers are under enormous pressure from local school districts to reject that plan.

The Panel for Educational Policy, a 13 - person body that votes on billions of dollars in school spending, is under - trained in financial oversight and pressured to do whatever Mayor de Blasio asks, members say.

The Bureau said since the commissioning of the Osogbo Government High School on Thursday, there have been calls from far and near by parents who are under intense pressure from their children who desire to be enrolled in Osun schools.

Lead researcher Dr Konstantinos Chalvatzis, of UEA's Norwich Business School and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, said: «China's energy sector is under pressure to achieve a secure and affordable supply while at the same time reducing its carbon emissions.

One factor is that schools and universities are under greater pressure than ever before.

«Under normal circumstances, myofibroblasts stimulate wound healing, but when there's an ongoing injury to an organ (e.g., the liver of a hepatitis C patient, the heart of a patient with high blood pressure, or the kidney of a patient with diabetes) these proteins clog up normal functioning,» said Humphreys, a Harvard Medical School associate professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital, who leads the Harvard Stem Cell Institute Kidney Program.

As she enters high school at the age of 15, Hit - Girl finds that despite her warrior skills and physical strength growing gloriously in training with every passing day, she is under pressure to abandon everything and be a normal, simpering teenager interested only in clothes and boys.

For a good bit, The World's End appears to be parodying a you - can - go - home - again / recapturing - your - youth reunion flick: Five friends from school days, under pressure from the one who never grew up or moved on - Pegg's Gary King - return to charming Newton Haven to complete the mission they abandoned in their adolescence.

The pressure to inflate grades, bogus credit - recovery courses, and plain - old D.C. - style fraud don't happen just because school districts are under pressure to graduate students, contends Greene.

They commonly serve disadvantaged students; they are all under pressure to attract parents and to satisfy a small number of authorizers; one school may deliberately imitate another by adopting a policy that seems to be working in the other school; schools may also imitate one another unconsciously (as when teachers who have worked at one school are hired by another and bring their knowledge with them).

Murphy would argue that school leaders today are under tremendous pressure as they work for social justice and navigate the uncharted swamp of high and conflicting expectations, limited resources, and unprecedented social problems.

«Principals are under so much pressure to create a school culture that promotes academic excellence,» said a principal who asked to remain anonymous.

Murphy goes on to identify three trends that may help — or force — schools of education to change: First, today's political climate introduces powerful external pressure for schools to perform and leaders to reform, and schools of education are under pressure to produce principals and superintendents who can ensure results.