Sentences with phrase «schools than any other group»

The teacher unions have more influence on the public schools than any other group in American society.

Minority students in New Zealand are actually more likely to attend an out - of - zone school than other groups, a reverse of the situation under zoning.

The teachers unions have more influence of the public schools than any other group in American society.

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I ate up studies (from Facebook and others) that argued the site actually encouraged a certain kind of information diversity, because your Facebook friends are likely drawn from a wider group of people (the guy you went to middle school with, your mom's neighbor, that rando you met that weekend at the beach) than the people you discuss news with in real life.

But believe it or not, the group doing the best at the end of the year — and which is still showing signs of strength as the page flips to 2018 — is none other than old - school commodities.

YogaFit is the largest yoga fitness education school in the world with more than 200,000 instructors trained on six continents specifically designed for presentation in health clubs, fitness facilities or other group exercise locations.

The problem I have is that these «churches» using these schools are not paying enough to even cover the cost of the overhead of opening the building for them, and that if any group other than a Christian church tried to use the facilities for religious services, they would more than likely be denied.

Update (April 18): The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Snow College has settled its lawsuit with Solid Rock Christian Club, which sued the school last winter claiming «that the school's policy unconstitutionally treated student groups affiliated with religious institutions differently than other student groups.»

She also cited a 1977 Annenberg School of Communication survey of more than 9,000 television characters, which determined that only 3.7 of them were elderly; moreover, compared to other groups, these individuals were portrayed as ineffective, unattractive and unhappy.

The sort of liberalism which looks with contempt upon conservative groups and their schools or even on conservative tendencies in theology in general, calling them all «Fundamentalist,» and the kind of conservatism that abhors all critical movements alike, cut themselves off from each other in the theological world more effectively than do Baptists from Presbyterians, Methodists from Anglicans.

This group is specifically advocating for HR 1324 and S. 934: «Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act of 2009,» which amends the Child Nutrition Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish science - based nutrition standards for foods served in schools other than foods served under the school lunch or breakfast proSchool Lunch Protection Act of 2009,» which amends the Child Nutrition Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish science - based nutrition standards for foods served in schools other than foods served under the school lunch or breakfast proschool lunch or breakfast programs.

The guidance includes: checklists; advice on implementing the standards; portion sizes & food groups; top tips; standards for school food other than lunch; good procurement and where to go for more information and advice.

But for other secular homeschoolers, those who do not follow a particular philosophy — which may either mean that they fall into the group of homeschoolers known as eclectic or that they use many public school methods — they don't or don't seem themselves as having a single, shaping vision that guides all their choices other than providing their children with an excellent, safe education.

We pass off clothes to other dads with kids younger than ours, share birthday parties with other children in our group, and even compare notes on pediatricians, schools and daycare facilities.

«He's well supported by business groups and others who seem to think this is better than having a commission or a group run the schools,» DeFrancisco said of de Blasio.

«There is no more important effort than the protection and expansion of the rights and liberties of the people,» said Richard Brodsky, a political scientist at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a former assemblyman who is working with other groups supporting a convention.

Sixty - eight percent said his cuts to school aid and tax cuts would convince them to oppose him, while 67 percent said the Committee to Save New York would keep them from pulling the lever for Cuomo, after the pollsters» described the group as a «shadowy» organization «that raised more than $ 17 million from Wall Street, real estate moguls and other business interests to promote his agenda of education cuts and tax breaks.»

Asked how unions could take advantage of gaps in the law while criticizing others for exploiting LLC loophole, Korn said, «Twelve hedge fund billionaires gave more than 187,500 teachers in the 2014 elections,» referring to charter school supporters that gave heavily to an outside group backing Senate Republicans.

He says the New York State Board of Elections alone has registered more than 500 high school students across the county, and there are also other organizations like the League of Women Voters, as well as candidate groups, that are working to get first time voters registered.

A school safety group says Massachusetts had more hoax bomb threats during the last school year than any other state.

Establish a minority support group or other cultural outlets, since some minority graduate students drop out of graduate school because of dissatisfaction with the social life rather than the intellectual environment.

He hopes that the graduate school community will recognize the need to prepare some equally talented graduate students for jobs other than doing «big research in big groups.»

Research from the University of Cambridge has revealed that, among schooling fish, groups can have different collective personalities, with some shoals sticking closer together, being better coordinated, and showing clearer leadership than others.

The findings have particular relevance for teenagers, who naturally sleep much longer and later than their school schedules allow, and thus suffer more social jetlag than other age groups.

«I believe Dr. Landers makes some excellent, thought provoking recommendations,» said Alfred Tallia, MD, MD, MPH, professor and chair of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, «The Home Visit Service at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical Group has experienced an explosive increase in demand for services, and Dr. Landers» recommendations would go a long way to helping us better serve patients in the home, which is where patients prefer to be, and where costs can be significantly less than in other settings.»

Some groups are more at - risk than others for developing magnesium inadequacy, says Shanna Levine, MD, assistant clinical professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

While Christian schoolers are commonly thought to choose Christian schooling so that their children may learn discipline and respect for authority, they are no more likely than other churchgoing Protestants to see this as a top priority in education (84 percent of both groups).

Both group and individual incentive schools also performed significantly better than other randomly chosen schools that received additional schooling inputs of a similar value.

Drawing on the expertise of teachers at other local schools, Yang has established a group of teachers who work to support psychology education lectures in schools and prisons — an initiative which has reaches more than 50 000 teenagers, teachers and parents.

Finding # 3: Graduate school enrollment rates increased substantially for blacks between the 1993 and 2008 cohorts, much more so than for other groups, and the differential growth has occurred almost exclusively in the for - profit sector.

The two groups of students are assumed to be identical in all respects other than admission to the program, allowing for a precise identification of the effect of attending a school for high - achieving students.

Latinos themselves support education reform at higher levels than other groups, but their elected officials — whether Latino or not — often reject school choice.

Third, many control group children may already have been attending a school other than one in their neighborhood as a result of expanded school choice policies, which also meant that children in the experimental group could stay in their original schools after their families moved.

Among other cultural groups, the school has more authority than the parents, and families have come to Punyon to ask the school to tell children that they can not watch television or play video games.

Writing groups convened by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association are at work on what they say will be a leaner, better - organized, and easier - to - understand version than the 200 - plus - page set that has been circulating among governors, scholars, education groups, teams of state education officials, and others for review in recent weeks.

Yet Coleman also noted that the composition of a student's peer group was more important for learning than any other school - related factor, a finding used by the Johnson and Nixon administrations to reinforce their strenuous desegregation efforts in southern states.

James J. Kemple, the executive director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, who conducted a study comparing the city's school reform efforts to a «virtual» control group modeled from other urban districts in the state, including Buffalo, Yonkers, Syracuse, and Rochester, «found New York City students improved significantly faster than the control group on both the New York state assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the reform period, from 2002 to 2010.»

After being matched by more than $ 600 million in goods and services from the local communities that were recipients, the money was given to nine large city school systems, a consortium of rural schools, and two national school - reform groups, among others.

In fact, in a multivariate analysis Schneider et al. find that black parents, as well as less - educated parents, place a higher priority on the test scores in a school than do other groups of parents.

In April, the California Court of Appeal overturned the trial court's ruling in Vergara v. California [i], in which a group of families had challenged the constitutionality of state laws governing teacher tenure [ii](California state law automatically grants tenure to teachers after sixteen months, provides extra due process protections to teachers over and above those available to other state workers, and requires schools to use seniority rather than competency in layoff decisions.)

Latinos themselves support education reform at higher levels than other groups, but their elected officials often reject school choice.

Employee groups can offer sympathetic candidates greater campaign resources than other school - related constituencies.

No other ethnic or racial group will do more to change the makeup of American schools over the next quarter - century than Hispanics.

And, of course, it's also possible that schools that serve one group better than another in the early elementary grades also serve the same group better than the other in the later elementary grades.

Writing about Illinois» newly approved NCLB waiver, it breathlessly reported that, «Under a dramatic new approach to rating public schools, Illinois students of different backgrounds no longer will be held to the same standards — with Latinos and blacks, low - income children and other groups having lower targets than whites for passing state exams, the Tribune has found.»

In some states, the API population has grown larger than other ethnic groups, especially in public schools.

The Act needs to be amended and a clause may be appropriately added to Section 26 providing that every school and any other institution, whether government or non-government, aided, unaided or autonomous, shall admit in every class such percentage of disabled students as prescribed, not less than five percent, reserving at least one seat for each of the groups with: (i) blindness or low vision; (ii) hearing impairment; (iii) locomotor disability or cerebral palsy.

Then of course there is the environment effect, which we do know about — the lack of support, a school culture which may require early career teachers to teach out of field (and we know that more early career teachers teach out of field than any other group), student behaviour, the workload, administration workload, all of those kinds of things are clearly issues.

In addition to the Buffett interview, other summit sessions that NBC recently confirmed include: The Changing Face of Education — More than one in five students in the nation's public schools are Latino — constituting the largest, and fastest growing, minority group in our education system.

• A new intergenerational study shows that for 76 % of 15 - 17 year olds, studying hard for good exam results is their biggest priority for the coming year; and they are preparing to sacrifice friendships, family time, hobbies and even sleep to achieve this, • In fact 57 % of 15 - 17 year olds feel school work must come before anything else if they want to do well in the future • And only 39 % of this age group think being happy is more important than good grades • Yet half (51 %) of UK business leaders calls on teens to develop broader life / work skills before leaving education A new report launched today by National Citizen Service (NCS) reveals that the UK ¹ s 15 - 17 year olds feel under significant pressure to excel in exams at the expense of other life skills, experiences, healthy relationships and even their own happiness, suggesting that they are struggling to juggle the demands of young adulthood.