Sentences with phrase «schools of any particular state»

It was not designed to be used to evaluate the schools of any particular state or district.

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You can't mention your god in schools because christians in particular have a very, very nasty habit of not just mentioning it, but of trying to ram it forcibly down the throats of the unwilling, and giving them the power of the state and an innocent audience of children to practice this forced indoctrination on has never worked out well in the past.

The state, and the republican school in particular, must play its role in transmitting this inheritance to each new generation and to immigrants by assuring mastery of French language, literature, and history, and socializing students into the French way of life.

Although many philosophers in history have written from a process perspective, the term today is reserved for a particular school of thought centered around the works of Alfred North Whitehead, whose philosophical writings spanned the two decades of the 1920's and 1930's and the two countries of England and the United States.

A church - state conflict arises when government adopts a policy that has the effect of restricting freedom of conscience or of imposing on all a policy essentially based on the ethos of a particular religious tradition (example: a law outlawing contraception or mandating devotion to Mary in a public school).

The University has recently opened a Benedict XVI Centre specialising in Catholic social teaching, and is proud of its particular links with Pope Emeritus Benedict, who addressed a vast crowd of children gathered there from schools across Britain on his State Visit in 2010.

Not to say that I never feel frustrated during school, but this particular state of stasis is leaving me feeling a little dull.

State schools shunned for home education (Guardian, 08-02-08) General article about the increasing numbers of parents seeking alternatives to state education, in particular home educaState schools shunned for home education (Guardian, 08-02-08) General article about the increasing numbers of parents seeking alternatives to state education, in particular home educastate education, in particular home education.

Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.

He told newsmen that the principals had also been told to pay particular attention to state of sanitation in the schools without delay.

School districts, in particular, should not expect anything approaching a repeat of this year's record $ 1.5 billion (6.5 percent) state aid increase — although advocacy groups will surely demand it.

But the ad - targeting world changed in 2014, with vendors like DSPolitical (via DemocraticAds.com), CampaignGrid (via CampaignGridDirect) and Targeted Victory launching «self - serve» platforms that allow down - ballot campaigns for state legislature, mayor, city council and even school board to buy banner ads and even pre-roll video ads (if enough volume is available) that appear on a huge range of content websites, all targetable at particular slices of their own electorates.

The various infrastructure development in the state are to further enhance the welfare of government workers in particular: quality and affordable schools for their children, affordable medicare, good neighborhoods to live in, good roads to drive on without the frequent wear and tear on their vehicles.

In particular, he hit the governor over his failure to deliver the billions of dollars that the state's highest court determined Albany owed New York City schools in the 2003 Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State state's highest court determined Albany owed New York City schools in the 2003 Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State State case.

The sheer magnitude of continued spending cuts forced by the two percent spending cap — $ 1.7 billion in FY2017, $ 3.3 in FY2018, and $ 4.8 in FY2019 — although particular program areas are unspecified today, will inevitably starve our schools and public universities and prevent our state from making the investments needed to expand opportunities for those struggling to lift themselves out of poverty.

So that our school districts, in particular, have the benefit of full knowledge of what their state aid's going to be.

Misgivings have been widely expressed in the media about the state of science teaching in schools and, in particular, whether recent changes have made the situation worse.

According to JoAnn E Manson, MD, DrPH, of Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, and Andrew M. Kauitz, MD, of the University of Florida College of Medicine, «Most primary care residency programs in the United States don't provide adequate education in women's health in general or in menopause management in particular.»

In both films, old - school order must bow in resignation to the new state of capitalist - inflected criminal affairs, but unlike the Coens» postmodern western, Cut Bank never offers a pointed directorial perspective on these matters, and indeed never really develops a committed focus in any particular aesthetic or thematic direction.

This leads me to wonder whether students of classical music, who show particular promise, are encouraged to apply for scholarships at specialist schools, as the state system is simply not tuned up to provide the high - level teaching required for the most talented?

A primary role of school systems, states, districts, and charter - management organizations, the pair write, «is to create the conditions in schools through which teachers can become experts at teaching the curriculum they are using and adapting instruction to the needs of their particular students.»

In particular, the report shares lessons learned in targeting key economic regions, analyzing regional assets and gaps, and focusing technical assistance and support on helping states and regions with such things as early career advising and exposure, engaging employers, and building intermediary organizations that can link employers and schools to scale up the provision of workplace learning opportunities for young people.

When speaking in relation to the model of inquiry - based learning and the use of iPads for fieldwork in Stage 2 Science, one school leader in particular states: «It's always been fundamental, like a part of our school... but it's actually been a lot easier, having the technology, to go and do inquiry - based learning now...»

In particular, independent research — once viewed as controversial but now increasingly acknowledged by elected and appointed officials in the highest levels of government — has revealed a state of affairs in which three in ten students fail to finish high school with a diploma and in which barely half of historically disadvantaged minority students graduate.

When students at a particular school are outpacing the typical student in the rest of the state, most people would agree the rate of learning is, at least, better than average.

In today's low - return environment, the pension promises being made to state and local employees in general, and public school teachers in particular, have become very expensive and difficult to maintain largely because the largesse of the pension plans assumes long run returns on the order of 7.5 percent (or higher).

The apparent absence of educational triage in one state does not invalidate documented accounts of the practice in particular schools, nor encroach upon other arguments to modify NCLB's proficiency - based school rating system.

Two researchers from New York University's school of education found that raising the number of students taught in special education resource rooms appeared to have triggered a marked decrease in particular in their state assessment scores in reading.

In particular, Rodriguez will be coordinating efforts in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where the school district was recently placed under state receivership due to years of underperformance.

Most importantly, we control for the letter grades that schools received from the state's accountability system; schools with lower grades may feel particular pressure to increase their scores to avoid accountability sanctions, independent of the effects of the FTC program.

But a more productive response is to recognize that the unions are frustrated by the same things that have frustrated conservative school reformers in recent years — the eagerness of the Obama administration to impose its particular school - reform agenda on states, as rapidly as possible and by whatever means necessary.

In particular the data revealed that state secondary schools were having to accommodate for a rising number of pupils, increasing by 2.8 per cent.

The authors stated that they were unable to come up with particular ways in which school districts could spend money to improve the average verbal ability of their teachers (though other researchers such as Ferguson and Manski have suggested that higher teacher salaries might do so), so they left out possible ways that money might be spent to raise verbal ability.

Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age of Comparison, [and] the loss of leisure and childhood...» Among her favorite culprits for this state of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.

The package included a «Dear Colleague» letter, issued jointly by DOE and DOJ, warning against intentional racial discrimination but also stating that schools unlawfully discriminate even «if a policy is neutral on its face — meaning that the policy itself does not mention race — and is administered in an evenhanded manner but has a disparate impact, i.e., a disproportionate and unjustified effect on students of a particular race.»

For students of color as a group in a particular school or district, the initial goal might be to reach and exceed state - level averages for white kids.

Those states should revise their requirements to support models such as those profiled here and others that customize teacher training to fit the challenges of particular schools and districts.

«So you could have some states starting school with children at five years of age, versus 6 years of age, you could organise schools in one particular way or have different needs - based funding models in place and if the policy is a success the other states can copy it, however if the copy is a flop the damage is contained and it's easier to work out what to do next because they have other successful models in place.»

Restore The Music UK welcomes applications at any time from any state primary and secondary schools across the 33 London boroughs but, in particular, from those who would otherwise be unable to provide this level of music facility for their students.

For example, if 60 percent of independent charter schools participated in the pension plan in a particular state, then we would expect that only 15 percent of EMOs would participate.

Any questions about the inclusion or omission of a particular school must be directed to the state education agency contact in the state where the school is located and not to ED.

Critics on the right, meanwhile, worry such a plan would increase the federal role in education and pressure states to standardize state tax credit programs, many of which now allow nonprofit groups to prioritize a particular type of school, such as those of particular religious denominations, for instance.

It does not prescribe particular systems or interventions for the vast majority of schools, instead setting strong goals for states and giving them the flexibility to determine how their schools and districts will meet them.

The ESSA also requires that, if students fall behind in meeting these standards, States and local educational agencies (LEAs) implement evidence - based interventions to help them and their schools improve, with a particular focus on the lowest - performing schools, high schools with low graduation rates, and schools in which subgroups of students are underperforming.

That's because most states allow these organizations to be «mission - based,» working with schools of a particular religious denomination or educational philosophy like Montessori schools, he said.

The results of such an analysis allow us to reality - test the broad cautions voiced by the Friedman Foundation, the Cato Institute, and others — in particular their warning that holding schools to account for student achievement (especially via conventional state testing programs) will surely cause them to turn their backs on such programs and thus leave needy children without good educational options at all.

These involve recent LEA boundary changes that have not yet been incorporated into the Census database for LEAs (which usually takes two to three years), charter schools that are treated as separate LEAs under the laws of some states but are not in the Census LEA database (because they are not based on exclusive geographical boundaries), and some special purpose LEAs that provide particular educational services (such as vocational and technical education or education for certain students with disabilities) to multiple «regular» LEAs in certain states.

But the state supreme court ruled this month that the districts have no constitutional right to a set level of state money or a particular funding method, and that the amount of state money schools get is a legislative issue.

In particular, it could lower perceptions of school quality in states where many students perform poorly relative to national norms but are deemed proficient by the state.

And second, should Washington prescribe particular interventions for failing schools in all of the states?