Sentences with phrase «schools paid more attention to»

Insisting that our schools pay more attention to kids» well - being along with educating them with an eye to the needs of the 21st century.

The «Pathways to Prosperity» study, released in February, argued that job - market realities and college - completion patterns demand that schools pay more attention to the large swath of students who graduate from high school but might not earn four - year college degrees.

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Schools should also pay more attention to the philosophical issues raised by the controversy over creation and evolution — although attentiveness should not mean sneaking in sectarian teaching of religion under the subterfuge of «scientific creationism.»

«They definitely pay more attention to me this year... High school (soccer) is always physical, but you just have to be aggressive and not let people push you off the ball.

If it were Steph Curry inside Shalhevet High School on this morning, there would certainly be more attention paid to what is going on in the gym.

While more schools are starting to pay attention to wellness issues, many still are not.

«Transparency is a reality of today, with more people paying close attention to what's in their food and especially (what's) being served in schools,» said USDA spokesman Mike Jarvis.

I get it that JO has brought more attention to the school food issue, but it is so often the wrong kind of attention, the kind that seeks to blame those lowest on the food chain — the cafeteria ladies, the local schools, the local nutrition director — for problems which are coming from the top — the criminally low Federal funding that forces schools to rely on cheap processed food; the thicket of government regulation which must be followed no matter how senseless, and hoops which must be jumped through to get the pitifully low reimbursement; the lack of ongoing Federal funds to pay for equipment repair or kitchen renovation, forcing schools to rely on preprocessed food instead of scratch cooking, unless they can pass the hat locally to pay for a central kitchen to cook fresh meals.

If parents would pay more attention to their children and invest quality time in the daily life of their children the child would have a better learning outcome at school.

The Cambridge University research for the NUT found a «noticeable change in the climate of schooling» as some teachers offered incentives such as snacks or «credits» towards a day off school in a bid to encourage unruly pupils to pay more attention in the classroom.

«More attention should be paid to the safety of ART offspring as they now account for the large proportion of the population,» says He - Feng Huang, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Affiliated Women's Hospital and Zhejiang University School of Medicine in China.

There is a sense among those who pay attention to youth and high school athletics that more and more young athletes today are focusing on excelling at a single sport instead of playing a variety.

Consultancies that deal with workplace or school bullying should pay more attention to whether people are being ignored by others, as social rejection can have psychological consequences as negative as those of active aggression or bullying.

In response, I would first offer the argument, who do you think knows more about the small intestine and colon — a surgeon, who regularly operates on said organs, or some hippy who spent more time in high school biology class hitting the bong than paying attention to the material?

But despite the inevitable parent who chooses confrontation as a proactive means to ensure that you're paying attention to their child's needs, the fact is that Back - to - School Night is far more often a way to make those parents smile and feel excited about the schoolSchool Night is far more often a way to make those parents smile and feel excited about the schoolschool year.

So, we need to pay a lot more attention to the role of districts in assisting low - performing schools.

This experience catapulted me into the awareness that in order to transform schools we'll need to pay a lot more attention to professional development for teachers and leaders.

The two notions of peer effects — race and gender — have been joined as more and more attention is being paid to «black boys» and schools that cater to them.

One middle school instructor makes students who are slow to pay attention responsible for handing out material or starting the discussion and focuses on them more at the start of a lesson.

Researcher Douglas Gentile, an assistant professor of psychology at Iowa State University, in Ames, found that pathological gamers were more likely to report trouble paying attention at school, received lower grades in school, and had more health problems than nonpathological gamers.

From better pay for substitutes to special training programs, schools are paying more attention — and respect!

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Educators need to pay much more attention to strengthening the positive aspects of the school's social and cultural climate.

Ravitch is aware that the rhetoric of latter - day progressives changed more than did actual practice in the schools, where many teachers paid little attention to their theories.

Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has called for more attention to be paid to areas where too many schools are «languishing in mediocrity».

«I personally know that when I go back to school, I'm going to pay more attention to those little things — not that I was ignoring them before — but I was not really taking care of it either.

Both the affluent and teachers pay more attention to public education and participate more actively in school politics than the general public, making their views worthy of close scrutiny (see sidebar).

Professor Sue Walker joins Teacher to discuss the findings of a new study that suggests girls start school with more «self - regulation» skills — things like paying attention, staying on task and working independently.

It tells us that if U.S. schools are to improve, much more attention must be paid to the depth and focus of their curricula.

Not only are these children more prone to conditions like hypertension or heart disease, but they're also less likely to develop skills that are essential to succeeding in school, like paying attention and following directions.

Conflict resolution is and has been a powerful curriculum force in schools for years; today, even more attention is being paid to conflict resolution education.

Fourth, big changes are brewing in teacher preparation and licensure as ed schools come under fire, as «alternate routes» proliferate, as programs like Teach For America get greater traction, and as more attention is paid to what a teacher knows about her subject than to what pedagogy courses she took in college.

Whether or not girls in single - sex schools are more likely to pursue science degrees or political careers, whether or not boys in single - sex schools are more likely to write poetry or pay attention in class, single - sex schools can allow educators to address the particular interests, strengths, learning styles, and developmental stages of a single sex while allowing boys and girls to concentrate on something other than the opposite sex — at least for a few brief hours each day.

Studying current events helps students understand the importance of people, events, and issues in the news; it stimulates students to explore and learn more about the news, and to pay attention to the news they see and hear outside of school.

Few students — with the possible exception of those aspiring to business school — paid any more attention than was absolutely necessary to pass the course.

Paying more attention to student behavior at these times could directly affect the publics perception of school success.

The connection is clear: Closing persistent achievement gaps between advantaged and less - advantaged students will require paying much more attention to what happens in the hours after school and over the summer.

Wood: If we paid more attention to the physical development of children in school, this would be more obvious.

* New Report Highlights the State of Rural Schools A national report demonstrates the need to pay more attention to the special problems rural schoolSchools A national report demonstrates the need to pay more attention to the special problems rural schoolsschools face.

«It seemed like the school was paying more attention to how students dressed and their compliance to rules rather than whether or not they were learning,» he says.

And with the increased social and economic diversity, schools are finding they can not get their educational work done without paying more attention to the welfare of their families and communities.

Once their children enter a school, educated parents are also more likely to pay attention to the quality of their children's teachers and may attempt to ensure that their children are adequately served.

More recently, No Child Left Behind forced schools and districts to start paying attention to high school graduation rates.

The question: When reporting on otherwise similar studies, does the media pay more attention to those that are more or less positive about school choice?

First, our finding that accountability ratings influence citizens» assessments of their local schools coupled with the fact that citizen ratings are more strongly associated with achievement levels than with achievement growth suggest that featuring growth measures more prominently in school accountability ratings could cause citizens to pay more attention to this barometer of school quality.

While we're well aware that many schools have already paid significant attention to swimming as part of their scheduling and are achieving excellent results, it's clear that many more are struggling to provide an effective school swimming programme.

Biddle admits that like traditional public schools, some public charter schools suffer from a lack of quality control and more attention should be paid to the role of charter authorizers.

While this activity requires a little more time than the tools above, it helps build relationships between students and teachers and reinforces the school's larger effort to encourage students to pay attention to each other's feelings and treat each other with respect, sympathy, and compassion.

Tooley and Bornfreund argue educators should be paying more attention to how schools are building these skills at all ages, and even holding them accountable for it.

Paying attention to the principal's role has become all the more essential as the U.S. Department of Education and state education agencies embark on transforming the nation's 5,000 most troubled schools, a task that depends on the skills and abilities of thousands of current and future school leaders.