Sentences with phrase «see vast schools»

We also used to see vast schools of spiny dogfish sharks in the San Juan Islands.

Not exact matches

The vast majority of people already see this regime as a success because «We won the NIT» and «We aren't a basketball school.»

«Yet, in this report, we can see the stark evidence that the vast majority of free schools are failing to demonstrate any significant commitment to equality and diversity.

To say the school is proud of her accomplishment is a vast understatement: the first thing visitors see when they walk into its administrative office is a Lady Bird poster — prominently displayed beneath a crucifix and a photo of the pope.

The head teacher has also started a Fuel for Schools programme after seeing vast amounts of entirely edible waste food that are created each day, and also understanding that many poorer pupils depended on their school canteen for healthy cooked food.

Philanthropy itself is vast and it was such a great opportunity to really try and tap into all these different perspectives through the LEAPP project to see where their passions lie, how they come to a view as to which priority areas they are seeking to focus on, and when we butt that up against what the not - for - profits are saying and what the schools are saying we are able to see where there are points of connection and disconnection.

And yet despite all this it's highly encouraging to see that the vast majority of primary school teachers are fulfilled by the jobs that they do.»

The vast majority of respondents with school - age children in the home (87 %) have experience with traditional public schools, and most rely on them exclusively (see Figure 4).

While the vast majority of FLVS students come from district schools (82 percent in 2007 - 08), the school is open to charter, private, and home - schooled students (see «Virtual Schools,» forum, Winterschools (82 percent in 2007 - 08), the school is open to charter, private, and home - schooled students (see «Virtual Schools,» forum, WinterSchools,» forum, Winter 2009).

School unions, for example, have been cautious in their support, often seeing charters as drawing funds away from resource - starved public school districts and diverting the discussion from how to fix public schools, which continue to serve the vast majority of American stuSchool unions, for example, have been cautious in their support, often seeing charters as drawing funds away from resource - starved public school districts and diverting the discussion from how to fix public schools, which continue to serve the vast majority of American stuschool districts and diverting the discussion from how to fix public schools, which continue to serve the vast majority of American students.

Bradford looks between the polarized camps of reform advocates and charter critics to see the vast swath of centrist parents who don't know a thing about charter schools or school choice — yet.

While the No Child Left Behind era saw a strengthened federal role and increased federal funding for education, 3 states and localities have always provided the vast majority of school funding and made the majority of important decisions about how schools operate.

«Since the vast majority of complaints are resolved in these ways, it is not surprising that very few parents see the need to complain to Ofsted,» said Mr Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders.

For more information on the reliability of many evaluation systems, particularly the binary systems used by the vast majority of school districts, see S. Glazerman, D. Goldhaber, S. Loeb, S. Raudenbush, D. Staiger, and G. Whitehurst, «Evaluating Teachers: The Important Role of Value - Added.»

Over the last decade, we have seen vast improvement in the number of students graduating high school.

The vast majority of studies that have examined the classroom teacher's impact on student learning have come to a simple conclusion: Out of all aspects of schooling, the teacher has the most positive impact on student learning (for a review of several studies, see Nye, Konstantopoulos, & Hedges, 2004).

While the suspension rates for black students (who make up the vast majority of the student body) at New York schools are generally less than or equal to those of their surrounding districts, Amistad Academy and AF Bridgeport have far greater rates of suspensions for black students than the surrounding districts (see Figure 4)(Office of Civil Rights, 2017).

Walls crammed with colourful life and activity, sharks, turtles and vast schools of fish such as barracuda and jacks, and all the while the possibility of seeing something really exciting such as hammerheads or thresher sharks; this is what scuba divers from across the world flock to Pulau Sipadan to see.

For snorkelers, the eerie blue waters and vast schools of fish nestling in the shelter of the atoll make Lighthouse Reef a must - see destination.

So far we've seen verdant forest settings and a spectacularly detailed underwater mission, complete with coral reefs and vast schools of fish, ducking beneath the Spec Ops divers as they stalk an enemy ship.

Her poetic canvases, vast semi-abstractions in which mosaiclike patches of color were linked by lines into labyrinthine compositions, interested artists of the American Abstract Expressionist school, who first saw her work in New York in 1946.

They lived with me the vast majority of their lives and I it accessed of parental alienation for telling them I was going to have to arrange for them to see their dad some other way after he abducted them from school in the middle of the day and was violent at our house several times causing us to call the police.