Sentences with phrase «schools stacked up»

When she divided the schools she was looking at into public and private categories and controlled for demographics, the schools stacked up quite differently.

Nothing about public school is really about the children anymore, it is about how the school stacks up next to the other schools.

Sometimes we hear generalizations about how city schools stack up to suburban schools.

Teachers and Rutherford County administrators have also seen some low - performing children sent away from the charter and back to the traditional public school system just before end - of - grade tests, an important measure of how schools stack up against each other, said Dr. John Mark Bennett, the chair of the county school board and a local family physician.

Freddie Whittaker (25 July 2016), «Fact - check: Do the arguments for new grammar schools stack up?»

Every week I'll show you where Magnolia State schools stack up in SIX national rankings.

But, at least, parents can get a sense from the start how their local public school stacks up against other local public schools.

So how does your local Smith Elementary School stack up against the new academy school opening up next semester?

Sometimes we hear generalizations about how city schools stack up to suburban schools.

North Carolina's medical assistant schools stack up against the competition nicely.

Not exact matches

At the other extreme are the striving children of well - off parents who feel pressure to perform on grades and to stack up extracurricular credentials to get in to elite schools.

Hayes systematically blows apart many common misconceptions about school food, such as how it stacks up nutritionally to home - packed lunches and the real causes of school food waste.

At one time or another, most parents wonder how their child is stacking up in school.

-LSB-...] Up on Top by School Time SnippetsCraft and Stacking Activity by I Can Teach My Child The Lorax: Truffula Tree Math Games by Inspiration LaboratoriesHandprint Paper Plate Lorax Craft by A Little DelightfulLorax Printable -LSB-...]

Magnet Names Apple Picking — Preschool Powol Packets Teaching Graphing with Apples — Extremely Good Parenting 2 - Ingredient Apple - Scented Play Dough — Rainy Day Mum How to Trace Your Name With Fingerprint Apples — Big Owl Little Owl Witty Hoots Ten Apples Up On Top File Folder Game — Views From a Step Stool Sequencing Number Words — Adventures of Adam Apple Scented Play Dough — Rainy Day Mum Finger Painted Apple Trees — Clare's Little Tots Play Dough Apple Stacking Activity — Inspiration Laboratories Science in Motion Apple Game — The Educators» Spin On It Apple Color Mixing Science Experiment — Powerful Mothering Colorful Spin Art Apple Banner for Kids — Toddler Approved Apple Color Hunt — My Bored Toddler Apple Themed Pre-Writing Activity — Sugar Aunts Ten Apples Up On Top Gross Motor Game — Still Playing School Are Apples Round?

Here's how funds for operating assistance to Long Island's 124 school districts stack up in Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's proposed budget for 2018 - 19.

Many of them already find the odds stacked against them: the poor white boys who struggle through school; the young black men who are twice as likely to be unemployed as their peers; the children growing up in the poorest neighbourhoods.

The group would also like information on how their participants stack up against the general student population in terms of completing a bachelor's degree, entering graduate school, and earning a Ph.D. «We think that our programs are adding value,» says Landefeld.

See me after school for artFUL cousin remedial work, no way would we show up in a military - derived ensemble, how would we be able to stack our Senegalese and Tibetan necklaces all down our front and around the neck with a button placket and epaulets in the way.

Such incisive moments, though, are subordinate to the filmmakers» penchant toward deck - stacking caricature, most noxiously the character of Gwendolyn (Christina Applegate), a villainous PTA president who's so invested in her high position that she, as part of the election platform she articulates when a fed - up Amy eventually challenges her presidency, seriously advocates for a 365 - day school year, citing Genghis Khan as a model.

To solve this problem, the state now requires high school students to take three years of math and science, and teachers will pilot end - of - year course assessments to gauge student performance and how well the courses stack up.

Specifically, it uses a «student growth percentile» model, which compares the progress of each student at a school to the progress of similar students at other schools and then assigns the student a «percentile rank» between zero and ninety - nine based on how his or her progress stacks up.

In a new forum for Education Next, Lindsey Burke, director of the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation, and Shavar Jeffries, president of Democrats for Education Reform, debate how Trump's policies his first year as president stack up, and whether the impact of his administration on the nation's schools and colleges has been for better or for worse.

In other words, we may need to see more schools take what Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture - capital firm, calls the «full - stack start - up» approach — the idea that a start - up builds a «complete, end - to - end product or service,» and controls even the nontechnology components of a solution if those will perform better when integrated with the technology.

Sarah Glover, executive director of the Strategic Data Project, under the Ed School's Center for Education Policy Research, says districts are hungry for strategies to make use of the data stacking up at district headquarters.

Our database also includes a «comparison clipboard» that allows users to easily click on a school or district and paste it onto an online clipboard, then add more schools or districts to see how they stack up next to each other.

«The job of, say, taking on a school in special measures in a very challenging community is very different to that of running a grammar school, and the DNA argument, that there's something about grammar schools that you can just transplant into a failing school, does not stack up,» he said.

Private School Choice: How Do Programs Nationwide Stack Up?

One charter supporter stacked the speaker sign - up sheet with people who would speak against the moratorium, by copying a typed - up charter school roster she had brought.

As our story on page 8 shows, academy trusts are starting to look at their budgets and where they don't stack up across schools, redundancies are being made.

I'll stack that up to any public school in the state, in the cities.

Below are graphs showing how our students» success stacks up to the Waukesha school district, the state of Wisconsin and the nation.

Common standards — linked to common tests — would tell schools in Illinois how they stacked up against schools in Massachusetts or California.

The OECD Test for Schools is an annual, school - based version of PISA, that provides individual schools with information on how their fifteen - year - olds stack up against countries worldwide in reading, mathematics, and sSchools is an annual, school - based version of PISA, that provides individual schools with information on how their fifteen - year - olds stack up against countries worldwide in reading, mathematics, and sschools with information on how their fifteen - year - olds stack up against countries worldwide in reading, mathematics, and science.

Let's face it: it's not always positive stories we hear in the news about school foods and physical education, our kids» health and how our academic achievements stack up against those of our global competitors.

Clinton used «below average» as shorthand for low - performing, which indicates a lack of understanding of exactly how schools end up tagged low - performing, and how the stack ranking of schools is pernicious, inaccurate, and guaranteed to always result in schools labeled low - performing (and for that matter, what «below average» really means).

There are many amazing schools in New Haven yet the odds are stacked up against non magnet schools.

Lynne Lenches - Derwid, a social studies teacher at Hillsborough High School, said parents like to see how their kids stack up.

During the first week of school, staff members and students teamed up to stack cups using a single rubber band and several pieces of string to stack cups.

Second, to see how the states» school systems stacked up, we looked at the rates of high school graduation collected by the U.S. Department of Education.

Scroll down to find see our key findings, the average debt per graduate by school by state, and how each state stacks up against the rest.

For borrowers with a lot of grad school debt, PAYE and IBR for new borrowers stack up quite favorably to the standard and graduated repayment plans, even though the standard and graduated plans have shorter repayment terms.

But as the tide filled in the surf schools were turning up in droves with soft tops stacked on the roofs.

How does this 3DS eShop title stack up against other old school 2D Action Platformers?

Does this quirky fantasy game with old school stealth stack up?

Catherine Opie focuses on the dramatic spectacle of high school football, zeroing in on a tense moment of anticipation just as the players are ready to spring into action, while Brian Jungen sets up a meditative stack of boxes repeating the mesmerizing stare of legendary basketball star, Michael Jordan.

If your monitor's stand does not let you raise and lower the screen, you will either have to be a perfect fit for it, or you will need to dig out your law school textbooks and stack them up under your monitor to adjust the height.

Before the points start stacking up, contact the Clerk of the Court to let them know you'd like to enroll online in traffic school.

Dave was recently requested to testify in Lansing at the Michigan Department of State to assess Michigans drivers education program and how it stacks up to new driving school standards across the nation.

In any event, I just picked up a large stack of school guides to include in our relocation packages and I always sift through them to see how my school district stacks up.