Sentences with phrase «schools suggested a number»

Principals at the recognized schools suggested a number of ways to improve teacher support when asked about best practices.

Not exact matches

If America wants to confront its gun violence problem, then, the research suggests it should look to reducing the number of guns in circulation — not putting more armed people into schools.

The students, nine men and eight women suggested by the deans of their respective schools, represented not only denominational diversity but a variety of backgrounds and work experiences — reflecting the general increase in the number of older and second - career students currently attending seminary.

When I shared the Waitrose cookery school's recipe for Easy Potato Dauphinoise a number of people suggested variations including the addition of onions.

It's not hyperbole to suggest that the 6» 2, 205 - pounder would be starting for a number of major schools this fall if he could somehow skip his senior year of high school.

Two of the Purdue studies [36,37] suggested that it might be possible to reduce risk of brain trauma by gradually increasing the amount of contact in the football pre-season to allow time for players» brains to adjust, and one, by finding that players who sustained more than 50 hits per game, were much more likely than those who sustained fewer hits to be «flagged» by ImPACT and / or fMRI results as having neurocognitive deficits or altered brain activity, suggested that players be limited to a certain number of plays per game (a hard rule to implement, given the prevalence of two - way players in the high school game).

Silver's attorney suggested that Taub's referrals — which were to a number of firms in addition to Weitz — were done in the most altruistic manner, and noted that he'd fought to retain his tenured position at Columbia despite being removed in the wake of Silver's arrest, because — as he said in his suit against the university that brought a temporary injunction against the school — he believed he had done nothing wrong.

Now, in a second attempt, the new task force will review the Common Core standards, the state's curriculum guidance and the tests» quality, develop a process to ensure that tests fit the curriculum and standards, examine how schools can cut back on the length and number of tests and suggest reforms, according to a news release.

And in return, Speaker Carl Heastie's office suggested in an unusually stinging rebuke that Cuomo's ongoing feud with the mayor sacrificed progress on a number of issues at the legislative session wound down in June, knocking the governor's support for charter schools in the process.

In Albany, where a number of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's policy priorities have succumbed to resistance from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Senate Republicans, documents suggest that de Blasio has turned to the real estate industry's chief lobbying group in New York as an intermediary to press politicians on a matter beyond its traditional scope: the city's public school system.

Others suggested an expansion in the number of state - authorized charter schools — which Skelos and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo favor — also could be discussed.

He has suggested that the limit on the number of charter schools needs to be raised or eliminated.

It's a unique field in that a large proportion of graduates end up in faculty posts — the jobs graduate school prepares them for — and yet its low postdoc numbers suggest that most graduates are placed in real jobs soon after receiving their Ph.D. s; few mathematicians, it seems, get stuck in the postdoctoral holding pattern.

«These findings are extremely encouraging and suggest that with sustained commitment to increase the number of people who use combination HIV prevention, it may be possible to achieve epidemic control and eventual elimination of HIV,» said David Serwadda, M.B.Ch.B., M.Med., M.P.H., co-founder of the Rakai Health Science Program and Professor at Makerere University School of Public Health in Kampala, Uganda.

The quality of the neighborhood where a child grows up has a significant impact on the number of problem behaviors they display during elementary and teenage years, a study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers suggests.

The report suggests that government efforts should be geared not only towards academically - minded young people, but also towards the large number of high school graduates who want to start working rather than go on studying.

Furthermore, recent studies suggest that this network is already involved in identifying numbers by young children who are not yet at school, and that it is very ancient in evolution, as it is present when macaque monkeys recognise physical objects.

The number of people in Bangladesh dying from chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension — long considered diseases of the wealthy because the poor didn't tend to live long enough to develop them — increased dramatically among the nation's poorest households over a 24 - year period, suggests new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

These results suggest a «strong and significant relationship» between a person's inborn number sense and his or her ability to learn mathematics in school, says psychologist Justin Halberda of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Hussein suggests working with schools to share services such as site finances and human resources teams with other schools — which has been taken on board by a number of schools as they begin to share catering and cleaning contracts.

The paper suggested that if the program were working and the system improving, those numbers should be decreasing and more middle - income parents would be sending their children to Chicago public schools.

Turning to secondary schools, where the increase in pupil numbers is not such an issue, the latest data for 2014/15 suggests that spending will increase by # 840 in a typical school to # 14,400.

And since school - board elections are typically low - turnout affairs, organized and energized interests, like teacher unions, can exert even more influence on the outcome than their raw numbers would suggest.

«This analysis suggests partial selection is not an effective way of increasing the number of good school places.»

43 % of New Teachers in New Jersey Plan to Leave Classroom Teaching; Nearly Half are Mid-Career Entrants At a time when U.S. schools will need to hire over two million new teachers to serve a growing number of students and replace a large cohort of retiring teachers, new research findings from the Harvard Graduate School of Education suggest that 43 % of new teachers do not anticipate staying in the classroom as full - time teachers for their entire careers.

The ACWP report suggests this may be down to differences in primary and secondary school environments where:» teachers tend to teach larger numbers of students, and students have to deal with larger numbers of teachers.»

And in a number of other states, voters approved education - related ballot items, suggesting a high level of local support for public schools.

This pattern suggests that NCLB generated more meaningful improvements in the achievement of black students in states where public schools served larger numbers of black students.

John Seiler, the principal of the elementary school, said that after a number of complaints from parents about the rock songs, particularly Madonna's hit song «Like a Virgin,» he had suggested that hard - rock music not be played on the buses.

Most students use free or low - cost methods to prepare for the college - admissions test, the survey suggests, with an increasing number turning to special courses offered in their own high schools.

The report, produced by the Clayton Christensen Institute, The Learning Accelerator, and the Ohio Blended Learning Network, suggests that 58 percent of schools that responded have some type of blended learning going on — and for high schools that responded to the survey that number is 71 percent.

Breakfast clubs in schools With reports suggesting that a growing number of children are arriving at school hungry, the role of school food, including breakfast clubs in schools is more vital than ever before.

The educations sector is currently struggling to recruit a sufficient number of teachers, and Howson suggested that these grammar school plans could potentially compound the problem.

The research also found that academisation continues to vary by region and phase, but suggests that these variations «do not appear to be due to the number if underperforming schools».

With reports suggesting that a growing number of children are arriving at school hungry, the role of school food, including breakfast clubs in schools is more vital than ever before.

Thanks to 16 years of constantly rising pupil numbers, recent figures suggest that an extra 750,000 school places will be needed by 2025.

The Institute of Fiscal Studies estimates that schools in the UK will face up to 12 per cent real term cuts over the next Parliament while forecasts suggest pupil numbers will increase by seven per cent, a result of rising immigration and higher birth rates over the next five years.

This suggest that a number of schools placed more than one advertisement.

The number of women named to head school districts in the state suggests that it is at least outpacing other states when it comes to the chief executive's job.

At a time when U.S. schools will need to hire over two million new teachers to serve a growing number of students and replace a large cohort of retiring teachers, new research findings from the Harvard Graduate School of Education suggest that 43 % of new teachers do not anticipate staying in the classroom as full - time teachers for their entire careers.

The program is not associated with improved high school graduation rates or increases in the number of students taking college entrance exams, suggesting that the APIP improves the outcomes of high - achieving students rather than those students who may not have graduated from high school or even applied to college.

Statistical analysis has been published in a new report, which suggests there were huge disparities in the grades awarded to pupils, with a large number of independent schools coming forward to report problems, representing 30 per cent of the national entries.

A national report suggests there is a lot at stake and that school districts considering demolition over renovation should take a second glance at the numbers.

The numbers of parents paying by cash are similar across both stages of education, which suggests that all schools are moving away from it at the same rate - more than half of parents appear to have moved past cash, but only secondary schools have dedicated software as a clear alternative, perhaps suggesting that some primary schools do not fully understand the benefits of parental payment software.

With all of the new technologies that are surrounding us, and to the many school administrators that are not feeling comfortable with Twitter, Facebook, etc., I would like to suggest three ways (as opposed to the typical round number of 10) that you can focus on your own professional development over the summer.

«The research would suggest that there are a number of parents who start off with high aspirations for their children but gradually disengage, partly because the schools don't talk a language they understand, because they have poor experiences themselves with school and they find them frightening places to go to...»

As the title suggests, this book has been written for lots of people: • Year 6 pupils who have a good understanding of number will find the early chapters useful — particularly with the onset of secondary school.

The Youth Sport Trust's PE, school sport and physical activity survey shows that most schools recognise the importance of physical activity for school children and actively promote it throughout the school day, but suggests that the number of minutes spent on PE are in decline.

Whilst the survey can not be directly compared against the last PE and School Sport Survey (2009/10), due to the use of different research approaches, the data does suggest that there may be levels of decline in certain areas including the average minutes of PE offered to pupils per week and the average number of club links.

You've talked to a number of school leaders, but all they suggest is that teachers should be excellent without any commitment of resources to help them become excellent.