Sentences with phrase «schools things of the past»

Chancellor George Osborne said last year the academies revolution would make «local authorities running schools a thing of the past».
Are liberal arts schools a thing of the past?

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Broward County Commissioner Michael Udine said of the many things victims» families are angry about — the shooter's ruthlessness, the response by the armed deputy assigned to the school, the failure of the FBI and BSO in preventing the attack despite specific warnings and red flags, past missteps by the Broward school district and Florida's child - welfare agency, gun policies — the handling of families and the notification process «is down the list.»
As they leave, the whole thing tends to become part of the history of the school and its curriculum, fading into the past.
Not only does the pluralism in question characterize past and present construals of the Christian thing and their respective social and cultural locations; it also characterizes particular theological schools, the practices that constitute them, and their respective social and cultural locations.
Similarly, however, and again because of God's gracious bestowments upon his creatures, most individuals and most schools of historical analysis can see some things clearly about the past.
Plans for an Indian school were abandoned, and sincere efforts at Indian missions were to be a thing of the past for some time to come.
Hence Rabbit's constant remembrance of things past: his fading stardom as a high school basketball hero in Mt. Judge, Pennsylvania; his youthful marriage to the store - clerk Janice Springer; their many sexual felicities and infidelities; the deaths that each so horribly caused in their own house; their moral enmeshment in the lives of their friends and families, especially their elderly parents and their own son Nelson; Rabbit's jobs as a typesetter and car dealer, and now Janice's belated career in real estate; their financial prosperity during the boom of the «70s when they bought vacation homes in Florida and the Poconos; now their fear of economic ruin amidst the coming Depression.
When you take into account that Arsenal fc are forever opening schooling Academy's across the Globe, one has to wonder if buying players will be a thing of the past for us.
The one thing that Nova has had for the past 5 - 10 years is 2 things — 1 an awful on - campus arena and 2) the hope and / or potential that the smart leadership of Villanova would see the limitations of the current situation and then fight to get a much better situation for the school.
When I was in graduate school my counselor told me something (actually many things) that has helped me these past 20 or so years... «The only way to get out from under the crap that's holding you back and making you miserable... is to go right through the heart of it.»
Most importantly, given the almost 14 million kids who eat school breakfast every day, I'm hopeful that the AHA recommendation, along with the new DGA on added sugar, will eventually make insanely sugary school breakfasts like this one (offered in my district before recent reforms were instituted) a thing of the past:
She has plenty of ideas and things she's made in the past that she thinks will be just right for such a craft sale, and hot on the heels of quite a few Waldorf school fairs and handmade holiday sales, a lot of new things she wants to try too.
World book day outfits have happily been a thing of the past for a few years now, but suddenly out of the blue, an email from the school about dressing up as a literary character this week.
In the past, I have sometimes been called a «naysayer» for insisting that the conversation about the real costs of school meal program improvements should be open and honest, as if saying that improvements cost more is the same thing as saying we shouldn't have improvements.
There's a petition open on their website for anyone to sign who is interested in seeing grease - filled school lunches become a thing of the past.
Be fully present and remember that time passes too quickly, the first day of school will quickly be a thing of the past!
The first thing you should do when you run for office is to make a list of every school in your district and get to know every current, past, and future PTA president.
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«The last thing they want to do is to fail,» said Angel Hsu, a professor at Yale - NUS College and Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies who has been studying China for the past decade.
For many of us, high school is a thing of the past.
Step 3: I thought once I was done with high school, my acne days would be a thing of the past.
Lies about the little things — If you find that you're always catching them in small white lies, or the details of their past just don't add up (like where they went to school, where they grew up, what they do for a living etc), this is a huge red - flag.
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Difficult because both our work schedules and the school wouldn't have to worry about a thing of the past thanks to online dating websites.
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Set on the campus of a fictional Ivy League school, a handful of black students must navigate Winchester University's institutionalized racism and its new, yet equally misguided notions about equality (racism is a thing of the past, according to the school president).
We moved on to reliving the past by proxy, the worst kind of evil, the kind that thinks its doing the right thing, and an unconventional choice for a book report Taylor made in high school that is reflected, albeit briefly, in the film.
It's just that for the past two years, working with a group of 12 - and 13 - year - olds, we began to explore how our experience of school could be transformed by focusing on things like collaborative and cooperative interactions, critical thinking, creativity, and alternative forms of communication.
Following Prime Minister David Cameron's calls in October that «local authorities running schools were a thing of the past», the announcement is due to make it easier for academy chains to take on failing schools, including those with financial or inspection problems.
And, they may be a thing of the past as schools turn to technology.
Osborne said that there will be 500 new free schools and university technical colleges, while threatening that councils running schools will become a thing of the past.
Book that you remember reading over and over during childhood: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Currently reading: Bibliotech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google by John Palfrey The thing that drew you to it: This past March, I attended the Ed School's professional development institute Library Leadership in a Digital Age where John [Palfrey], a former Harvard colleague at the law library, challenged us to create new and different partnerships, including those outside of academia, as we transition to a digital future and redefine the role and work of libraries.
The traditional A to E report card is a thing of the past at Nossal High School, where grades have been removed to give more targeted and useful feedback to students and parents.
Bruce Cantrill, Head of Marketing and Business Development for power and lighting specialists CMD, said: «The days of «one size fits all» fluorescent lighting in schools are rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
The one off «school trip» to a theme park or activity centre at the end of the summer term is slowly becoming a thing of the past as more schools embrace an approach that makes the most of Learning Outside the Classroom throughout the year, across every subject and every age group, writes Amy Nathan, project development manager, Council for Learning Outside the Classroom
Sub-Searching Made Easier Hours of pre-dawn phone calls in search of substitute teachers to fill a school's daily vacancies soon may be a thing of the past.
For many schools and districts, traditional teacher - led parent conferences are a thing of the past.
In the past few years, folks like Nikole Hannah - Jones (formerly of ProPublica, now headed to the New York Times) or Ta - Nehesi Coates of The Atlantic have reminded us of things like resegregation of schools in the South and the policy decisions that created the American ghetto.
A kite might seem like the last thing that could bring a divided country together, but 634 eager students from Pasco High School in Pasco, Wash., hope that their homemade kites will give the people of Afghanistan a reason to put past differences behind them.
During a speech at the Conservative Party Conference in October the prime minister said he wanted to see local authorities «running» schools become a «thing of the past».
There are few things more difficult than changing a position from elected to appointed, but we encourage the legislature to continue the education reforms of the past four years, and move forward with proposals this year to switch to a uniform system that includes all elected school board members, whose election coincides with the presidential election, and all appointed superintendents.
These same strategies also support ELL students in their acquisition of academic language, which is so necessary for school success but is the very thing that had often tripped them up in their past reading of texts.
«It's a reasonable thing to do because implementing new curriculum on a statewide level is a pretty large endeavor,» said Warren Sata, director of school operations at New Designs Charter School in South L.A., which has been piloting the new Common Core standards for the pastschool operations at New Designs Charter School in South L.A., which has been piloting the new Common Core standards for the pastSchool in South L.A., which has been piloting the new Common Core standards for the past year.
«Massachusetts» 23 - year - old charter school experiment has long enjoyed bipartisan support,» the Globe reporter observes, but that bipartisanship support seems to be a thing of the past.
While things have improved in Utah, the report indicates as much as a third of Utah's private lands are former school trust lands that were sold in years past, often at less than their real value.
ESL (English as a Second Language) services in Bridgeport are at an all - time manpower low, schools average 1 special ed paraprofessional for all grades, mandated sped hours are a thing of the past, reading specialists are used as substitutes, guidance counselors, social workers, Home School coordinators and school psychologists are all part - tSchool coordinators and school psychologists are all part - tschool psychologists are all part - timers.
If we keep this up, within just a few years, chronic failure in schools will have real potential to be a thing of the past.
Democrats grilled Zais during his November confirmation hearing about his support for school choice, and a past remark to the press about the futility of spending money to educate 5 - year - olds, among other things.
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