Sentences with phrase «schools misses the mark»

The current debate on the role of charter schools misses the mark.

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New government mandates regarding school lunches, albeit well - intentioned, are missing the mark in some cafeterias.

Childhood obesity is on the rise, lunch is an important part of a child's daily nutrition, and National School Lunch Week is October 11 - 15, yet First Lady Michelle Obama's child nutrition bill has stalled in Congress leaving school lunches underfunded and missing the mark on good nourisSchool Lunch Week is October 11 - 15, yet First Lady Michelle Obama's child nutrition bill has stalled in Congress leaving school lunches underfunded and missing the mark on good nourisschool lunches underfunded and missing the mark on good nourishment.

«No one should be forced to choose between celebrating a sacred holiday or missing school,» Mark - Viverito told the long list of lawmakers gathered in front of the Queens Library Friday.

New research led by the School of Medicine shows that an influential 2003 study about the interaction of genes, environment and depression may have missed the mark.

I think Smith was going for suspense, because the fate of the high school kids is up in the air at that point, but he misses the mark here.

Berberian Sound Studio may have just missed the mark but it's a interesting modern - day look into the world of old - school horror and will no doubt find many fans who enjoy a stylish claustrophobic film with an amazing lead in Toby Jones.

Tutors have said that the recent marking of primary school papers has fuelled the rise, after children missed out on marks because their punctuation marks were misshapen.

While this number was, and essentially remains, twice the national average of high school graduates who graduate from a four - year college, we were concerned because although nearly all of the students who left our school were college - bound, we suspected we had missed the mark of college readiness for some of our students.

But the Muslim students in Baltimore County and every other Maryland school system who observe the holiday by missing school will be marked absent — despite efforts in the Free State to give them flexibility to take the day off.

Because of this insensitivity, when students» scores on such tests are used to evaluate a school's instructional performance, that evaluation usually misses the mark.

Yet, unless high school reformers take on a more ambitious and meaningful agenda, they risk missing their mark.

You can run the Make Your Mark Challenge in your school or college at any time but you'd be bananas to miss taking part during Enterprise Week 2008!

And for the naysayers who insist that Abeles is missing the mark, I'd only remind you that I work with former admissions officers from Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Caltech, UCLA, MIT, and a host of other highly selective schools.

When a school thoroughly misses the mark for academic performance, it isn't fulfilling its charter.

Shoddy marking standards mean that hundreds of teenagers are wrongly missing out on places at their first - choice universities and eroding public confidence in Britain's exam system, the leader of Britain's top independent schools will warn.

But little has been written about the fact that the proposal misses the mark when it comes to the real challenges facing the vast majority of school districts across the country.

Politico Magazine is out with a new piece from freelance journalist Ben Hattem on the use of restraint and seclusion in schools that not only misses the mark, but leaves readers with the unfounded impression that the overuse of these practices are primarily an issue at charter schools.

And when students miss school, they do worse there — marking a cycle of continuous involvement with crime.

Under state law, if any of the four schools miss state accountability marks this year, the Texas Education Agency is required to either close the campus or take over operation of the entire school district and appoint a board of managers and a new superintendent.

Strengths: This book is great for learning the content you may have missed in school like how to find the main idea, where to put quotation marks or how to solve inequalities.

Indeed, a new study of state assessment data indicates that 49 percent of all public schools in the country did not make AYP in the 2010 — 11 school year, a dramatic increase from the 39 percent that missed the mark the previous year.

If that message was supposed to subtly constrain school boards from speaking out, it missed its mark; 43 boards have adopted resolutions against the OSD.

Have you made school - wide behavior and academic adjustments that are missing the mark?

Unfortunately, North Carolina has too many students attending schools that miss the mark.

District and state interventions mandated uniformly across all low - performing schools often miss the mark because they fail to account for contextual factors that vary from school to school.

Holtz said that about a third of Wisconsin's high schools «are missing the mark of graduating young adults who are college ready,» a «pass rate of 66.6 percent.»

Adam spent the money, he went to school, but due to the fraud, missing documentation, lack of evidence and documentation, Adam ended up paying practically nothing on this alleged debt and the derogatory marks left on his credit will be removed if any were reported in the first place.

However, for employees who took the «traditional» path of graduating high school, going to college, and then entered the workforce, tuition reimbursement plans miss the mark.

In a post at the law school's The Faculty Blog, Garnett said that Stone missed the mark in drawing the distinction between religious belief and morality.

The new iPad certainly improves things, but Apple misses the mark on what makes Chromebooks so great for schools.

It's easy for educators to make assumptions about how their students experience school — but they often miss the mark.