Sentences with phrase «schools mean today»
What local control used to mean is sort of what charter schools mean today.
http://www.bluum.org/ Not exact matches
Today a free market means that predators are free to extort any price from the public, they are free to deregulate, free to lie to consumers, free to exploit, free to load any company they want down with debt, and basically lead (us) to a world of debt peonage... So the whole concept of freedom has been turned upside down by the Chicago school and by the Bush administration.
mama - Today public schools teach evolution as a means to species as fact, even though science knows from the Global geological record and Dr. Gould's work that species occur rapidly followin a mass extinction; in violation of the same seperation claus.
The background assumption of this book means, finally, that so far as its content is concerned the best hope of saying things of general relevance to persons involved in all types of theological schooling today lies in making some particular and fairly concrete proposals that may turn out to be directly pertinent only to a few types of theological schools but may provoke and help other persons in other types of schools to think through these issues for themselves.
During a faculty meeting at a venerable Roman Catholic girls» school in California, teachers struggle with what it means to be a Roman Catholic high school today.
a school of writers, commonly known today as the Deuteronomists, compiled their history of Israel in such a way as to demonstrate that the meaning of history is to be discerned as a system of just rewards for good and bad behavior.
If this means that the Old Testament is being taught in such schools today as a part of theology it does not mean that the historical and critical approach to it is ignored or that inspiration and devotion have taken the place of scholarship.
To be an NBA superstar today means wanting a world stage, like LeBron, and not just that of a single school or city or state.
Today is Friday, May 1, 2015 which means that School Lunch Hero Day is here!
The kids are back in school and today is the unofficial end of the summer season which means we all know the cooler Autumn air will be here soon.
The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, up for a vote as early as today, would attempt to fix some of these problems through a variety of means, including allowing schools in high - poverty areas to offer free meals to all students without any paperwork, making foster children automatically eligible for free meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification rates.
Over the last couple of years, I've been so into dresses that I now have enough to outfit a girls» finishing school - which means I'll be holding back today.
What this means for parents of children and teens in school today is that a wide variety of homework policies will be encountered in the schools.
Oh, I tried but, honestly, when you walk by your four year old's bedroom and see him with the dog's tail in one hand and a greased up thermometer in the other, the only suitable response is, «what the FUCK is going on in here????» And when your four year old says to you, «the dog has a little fever but she still has to go to school today», which means that — for one thing — you are never, ever, ever going to use that thermometer again, any response other than, «are you fucking SHITTING me?»
Just want to say that tomorrow is the last day of school in our district, which means I'm running around like crazy today.
While you were served a meal of meatloaf, mashed potatoes, peas and carrots and a canned pear half, today's children (if they have the financial means) can pay for a meal of processed «kid fare» which has to meet only the most minimal federal standards — chips, ice cream, and (particularly if they're in secondary school) items like brand - name pizza, breaded chicken sandwiches, Rice Krispie Treats and slushies.
While back - to - school may dredge up pictures of harried parents rushing their children through the store to gather up last minute supplies of crayons and glue sticks, back - to - school today often means online classes, business people purchasing huge textbooks and moms dropping their children off at grandma's house while they head to a late - night college class.
Round and round it would go, nothing of any importance being said, and then finally, at the end of the day, a few words whispered in the half - dark: this girl was mean to me at school today, homework was too hard, I cried on the football pitch.
The governor said the state is «living in the margin of our means» and now has run out of money three times — including today (he didn't elaborate), forcing him to hold back scheduled payments to school districts and local governments.
She told Radio 4's Today programme that this meant the government wanted to help children who «don't perhaps quality for free school meals, the pupil premium, but they are growing up in families that are on below median incomes».
Parents are flocking to them in their droves - and today's announcement means that over 18,000 more children can benefit from a place in a free school.
«From a historical perspective we can see that what has to be taught and learnt in schools has by no means always been what we assume today to be an integral or essential part of the curriculum.
«The formidable challenges to improve the way we educate culturally and linguistically diverse students mean teachers and schools can no longer work in isolation,» said Lynch School of Education Associate Professor Martin Scanlan, co-author of a study presented today at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting.
Until that time, «matter» meant anything with substance; even today school textbooks give this definition: «matter takes up space and has mass.»
This means that today's high school kids being forced to watch Al Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» — some of them 4 times in 4 different classes — will be nearly eligible for AARP (age 50) retirement group membership by the time warming resumes if these new studies turn out to be correct.
Our Easter holiday continues today with the kiddos off school which means I'm going to try my best to churn out this blog post in a hurry.
Today means there's only two more days until the weekend... and then that marks only one week left until I return to school!
Today is our last day of school with students and teachers get to check out tomorrow so that means SUMMER is on my mind.
The New School will present its first arts festival, which will explore the relevance of the classic genre of Noir and evaluate its meaning today.
OTL is the chief means by which yesterday's fixation on school inputs and services reasserts itself in today's era of results - based education.
Much like a character in The Walking Dead, schools today are confronted with a difficult moral decision: disregard graphic violence in video games and media at the risk of casting our youth adrift, or make allowances for graphic content as a means to productively reflect on and contextualize violence.
«I don't have to tell you what being a high school dropout means in today's economy.
In today's interview, we talk more about what it means to enact respectful, school - wide behaviour policies and the role of school leaders in doing so.
Through the stories of these two schools he addresses the meaning of community in multicultural America, the pros and cons of school choice, and what this all means for today's big education policy debates.
Schools will leverage online learning for academics, which means they will be able to act as community centers in essence and focus far more on providing well - kept facilities that students want to attend with great face - to - face supports, high - quality meals, and a range of athletic, musical, and artistic programs — things that receive short shrift all too often today.
Consider what it would mean if all of our schools did this today.
What do you believe being «good at school» means today and what do you believe it should mean instead?
In fact, Miller v. Skumanick (eventually Miller v. Mitchell in the appeals court) got even more interesting because the prosecutor told the dozen students caught up in the affair, that he would not prosecute them if they accepted school suspension, submitted to drug tests, wrote an essay about their infractions, and attended a five - week re-education program in which they would admit that what they did was wrong and — for the girls — had learned what it meant to be a girl in today's society.
Of the children who are in school today — especially those in rural areas — 50 per cent of the mothers have probably not had any schooling or very little schooling, which means that the ability at home to help children with learning is very low.
Today, it means that some of the 3,000 boys and girls who attend day or boarding school on the 600 - acre campus must board buses just to get to their next classes.
And the fact that the Coleman findings are based on differences between schools means that it ignores important differences in resources — teacher quality in particular — that we know today exist within schools.
As we gather today at our school to sing The Twelve Days of Christmas ~ we honor the spirit of the holiday ~ the meaning of the season ~ the foundation of our school ~ and the joy of the season.
The president's success in reasserting a serious Republican claim to education means that for all of his party's problems, lack of concern for schooling isn't among them today.
That doesn't mean I'm complacent about today's high schools.
The problem is that today's stand - off means reformers — once you strip away all the happy talk — distrust teachers, unions, and school systems.
«Many people go there to see what they'd like in their own green schoolyard,» she says about this «Mercedes model,» but the Tule Elk outdoor redo cost a half - million dollars more than it did a decade ago, far beyond the means of most public schools today.
We have exceptionally expensive benefit systems that mean a big chunk of school funding is going to pay retirees rather than today's teachers.
Most tests gaining attention today are achievement tests, including those commonly referred to as «high stakes,» meaning that crucial decisions are made about a student, teacher, or school based on the results of the test.
SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that it will invest $ 335 million to support effective teaching as a means to ensure all students receive the education they need to succeed in high school and beyond.
Commenting on figures released today by The Children's Society, showing that one million children in England will miss out on free school meals under plans to «means test» universal credit, Dr Mary Bo...