Sentences with phrase «schools place an emphasis»

Lubben's schools place an emphasis on the arts, with students between two to three hours of artistic training a day, ranging from performance to visual arts.

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More emphasis needs to be placed upon the difference between the function of the purely voluntary group, such as one finds in a church, and the controlled and not so voluntary group found in the classes of a theological school.

Finally, in homes, schools, and community affairs a new emphasis should be placed on patriotism, no longer as exclusive loyalty to the sovereign nation, but as devotion to country as the organized agency of articulate relationship with all mankind.

In the churches I have attended and pastored, we placed a heavy emphasis on faithful church attendance at both the church service and at Sunday school, and highly recommended that people attend a mid-week Bible study.

The more old - school form of communication is seen as placing more emphasis on the driver and their own decisions.

In particular, middle schools have been found to emphasize grades and correct answers while elementary schools place greater emphasis on enjoyment of learning.

Children who like or benefit from a lot of structure may struggle to learn in a Montessori or Waldorf school, as both of those philosophies place emphasis on child choice rather than rigid classroom structures.

In January 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA, finalized its updated nutritional standards for school meals in keeping with the Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 (Public Law No. 111 - 296), which reauthorized the school meal programs and placed an emphasis on the need to improve access to healthy foods in schools.

Republican candidate Rob Astorino's campaign on Tuesday released what amounts to an urban agenda that would create inner - city enterprises zones, place an emphasis on fathers in a family and overhaul public assistance programs through promoting school attendance and reimposing fingerprinting for food - stamp eligibility.

Too much emphasis was placed on the «mechanics» of reproduction in secondary schools, rather than the importance of healthy sexual relationships.

The governor is placing more emphasis on his plan to freeze property taxes, which is facing widespread resistance from the legislature, local government and school officials, and unions.

The changes placed greater emphasis on student test scores as a component of evaluations and established financial penalties for any school districts that did not comply.

«The fact that he visited Intermediate School 218, Salome Ureña de Henriquez, here in the Heights,» said Councilmember Rodríguez, «and that he has placed such an emphasis on education makes me hopeful.»

This was apparently the case with his plan to place a new emphasis on spelling and grammar in the primary school curriculum, which was trailed earlier this month.

Governor Cuomo is placing more emphasis on his plan to freeze property taxes, which is facing widespread resistance from the legislature, local government and school officials, and unions.

The Progressive Agreement contained a commitment that «the impact of current policy on surplus school places is reviewed, with emphasis on rural schools, to better take account of future growth trends».

Therefore, one obvious place to start would be to mandate more physical education in schools, with an emphasis on fitness over sports.

The Kaitokudo and Tekijuku are the foundations and inspiration of the «Handai style» that places emphasis on cutting - edge research, creation of new research fields, respect for liberal arts at the graduate school level, and contributions to society by active university - industrial collaboration.

«Not enough emphasis has been placed on assessing delirium severity in the ICU because there is a lack of understanding of how significant outcomes of delirium are for patients,» said IU School of Medicine, IU Center for Aging Research, and Regenstrief Institute faculty member Babar A. Khan, MD, who led the study.

A particular emphasis was placed on matching retailers with Title I schools.

But because of the emphasis most U.S. firms place on having a law degree, my career options and salary within a U.S. law firm would be somewhat limited without going back to school for a law degree.

My high school placed more emphasis on controlling student behavior rather than inspiring them to seek higher education.

Schools that place a heavy emphasis on voice create opportunities for students to inform what they learn, how they learn it and in what ways they will demonstrate that learning.

In a 2003 report, «The Complete Curriculum: Ensuring a Place for the Arts and Foreign Languages in American's Schools,» a study group from the National Association of State Boards of Education noted that a substantial body of research highlights the benefits of arts in curriculum and called for stronger emphasis on the arts and foreign languages.

The report recommends schools placing more emphasis on language skills as younger children struggle with reading, writing and verbal problem solving.

Secondly, whilst in more recent times there is more emphasis on the need for places, in fact the genesis of the idea behind the free school programme was to allow those who could demonstrate they could run schools successfully (be they parent groups, foundations and sponsors or indeed other schools) to be allowed to do so in an attempt to use competition to drive up standards.

The pilot also rightly places increased emphasis on how their students learn in the course of a school year, regardless of where they start the year on the achievement spectrum.

Ken explains how these risks can be managed in three simple steps, referred to as the three Cs: Firstly, schools spend a huge amount of time looking at content, trying to prevent children from coming across harmful or upsetting content, and while this is important, even more emphasis should be placed on the other two C's (contact and conduct).

«Peer Support Australia places an emphasis on working together with members of the school community, including administrators, teachers, students, and parents to develop a culture that is cohesive and supportive,» Greg says.

And while I've placed an emphasis on high schools, of course a similar approach could be taken in middle schools and junior high schools.

Despite making far larger test - score gains than students attending open - enrollment district schools, and despite the emphasis their schools place on cultivating non-cognitive skills, charter school students exhibit markedly lower average levels of self - control as measured by student self - reports (see Figure 2).

The decision to move NAPLAN online provides an opportunity to place less emphasis on comparing the performances of schools and more emphasis on supporting student learning.

However, the heavy emphasis on keeping these schools supplied with teachers is focusing the energy for improvement on recruitment rather than on the need to change the conditions that make these schools so hard to staff in the first place.

Higher - income parents place more emphasis on things like school values and the diversity of the student population.

If middle school really is pre-high school and pre-pre-college, some emphasis should be placed on how to help students better organize their workloads, manage their time, and develop new strategies for managing stress.

Many schools, in an effort to improve test scores, are placing a renewed emphasis on reading.

«Adaptive Learning» has been a frequently used term in education for many years but today, with the advent of more ubiquitous technology in schools, education systems are placing more emphasis on the advantages of leveraging adaptive techniques within both assessments and instructional programs.

Japanese schools place great emphasis on the high school and college entrance exams and frequently teach only the material that those exams test.

The new OFSTED framework places an increasing focus on the effective management of HR matters in schools and academies, with particular emphasis on performance management and safeguarding and the deployment of resources.

But he does like the emphasis on exercised authority — in loco parentis, schools in place of absent parents — that Gerald Grant and others have emphasized as making for an effective school.

Thus, although proponents of magnet schools have not disavowed the desegregation goal that is the program's roots, they currently place almost equal emphasis on magnets as instruments of school choice.

States could also create entirely separate accountability systems for alternative schools, weighting existing measures differently (e.g. placing less emphasis on proficiency and placing more emphasis on academic growth) and using different indicators, such as high school completion rates instead of cohort graduation rates.

«Adaptive learning» has been a frequently used term in education for many years but today, with the advent of more ubiquitous technology in schools, education systems are placing more emphasis on the advantages of leveraging adaptive techniques within both assessments and instructional programs.

Cincinnati — An Ohio citizen's group that studies school policies has recommended that the state — which was the first to mandate that every public high school offer vocational training — restructure its vocational programs to place more emphasis on academics and promote closer links between schools and the employers for whom vocational students are preparing.

I believe turnover in urban schools is so high because of the lack of targeted professional development to help teachers be successful in that environment, the huge emphasis placed on standardized testing, and the lack of shared leadership within most urban schools.

The demands of our global and technology - focused economy is leading schools to place increased emphasis on students being creators of their own knowledge.

In light of widespread efforts to hold schools accountable for student learning, a push highlighted by the passage of No Child Left Behind in 2001, we were interested in seeing how much emphasis programs placed on assessment and accountability within the core curriculum.

As with many businesses, school IT departments often struggle to place adequate emphasis on security due to a lack of understanding or budget constraints.

Ironically, although Catholics historically placed less emphasis on education than did adherents of many other religions, their resistance to state - run schooling in many countries helped create institutional configurations that continue to spur student achievement.

Particular emphasis was placed on how inequitable funding for public schools can hamper efforts to boost academic outcomes and improve achievement among vulnerable student populations, as well as on exploring what could be done to change it.