Sentences with phrase «single goal of schooling»

To impart adequate verbal competence is the most important single goal of schooling in any nation.

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Some students will go through the line and eat a chicken patty every single day of their high school career, but Mari's goal is to tempt that student with something new.

Maybe we'll reach that goal eventually, but right now there are kids in American schools going hungry every single day, simply to avoid the shame of taking advantage of free or reduced price school food.

On Tuesday, Mr. Cuomo deliberately singled out the Success Academy in his remarks, saying the goal was to change the culture of the schools, even if that meant bucking the teachers» unions.

In «Blockers,» Leslie Mann plays Lisa, the single mom of a high school senior named Julie (Kathryn Newton), a vivacious teenager who, as the movie opens, announces a newfound goal of losing her virginity on prom night.

To dramatise this struggle, Loach typically features a single protagonist with a simple goal: Cathy (Carol White) of Cathy Come Home fights to keep her family intact once they become homeless; in Kes, Billy (David Bradley) adopts and trains a hawk to avoid the influence of his failing family and school; Janice (Sandy Ratcliff) of Family Life (1971) tries to preserve a personal identity amid domineering parents and psychiatrists; Stevie (Robert Carlyle) leaves behind a petty criminal past and adopts an assumed name to get hired as a labourer in Riff - Raff; Bob desperately scrambles for the funds to buy his daughter's communion dress in Raining Stones; Liam (Martin Compston) of Sweet Sixteen sells drugs to earn enough money to rent his mother an apartment upon her release from jail.

Context is also lacking in his September 3 column, where he noted, «The federal system uses a single yearly proficiency goal - for North Carolina, 68 percent of students reading on grade level this year - and requires all schools to make that number.»

Principal Cheryl Bracco similarly singles out the ability of the Citizen Schools program to achieve goals that extend far beyond the classroom.

In effect, Bush is overruling the Cooke committee by making school readiness — an easily measurable outcome — the single most important goal of Head Start.

The President singled out proposed cuts in the Safe and Drug - Free Schools and Communities program, the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, the School - to - Work Opportunities Act, and the Corporation for National and Community Service — all of which were proposed or significantly shaped...

«By bringing these efforts together under a single initiative, we can act more strategically to advance the School's goal of strengthening the education profession and contributing to educational improvement.»

«By bringing these efforts together under a single initiative, we can act more strategically to advance the School's goal of strengthening the education profession and contributing to educational improvement,» she continues.

States and districts should ensure that principals» eligibility to earn additional compensation is based on a variety of measures that are aligned to state, district, and school goals rather than a single measure of student achievement

Our 35 years in schools tell us that a learning - styles framework, linked to a repertoire of research - based strategies, is the single best tool for accomplishing this goal.

-- Designers of STEM PLCs should carefully consider the goals of the PLC when deciding whether it should include teachers from a single school or different schools.

NCTAF laid out a blueprint for «the single most important strategy for achieving America's educational goals: a blueprint for recruiting, preparing, and supporting excellent teachers in all of America's schools.»

All of these components drive the school system towards a single goal of graduating 95 percent of students by 2020.

Our ultimate goal is the design of a school that is built on the strengthened capacity of local resources and solutions, rather than the replication of a single, existing model.

«The OECD program has declared war on the established plurality of educational goals and discourses (which have consistently reflected and renewed these goals) in order to replace it with a single novel concept: «Schools should lay the very foundation for the attitudes, desires and expectations motivating a nation to pursue progress and to think and act economically.»

In 2005, Democracy Prep Public Schools was born with the goal of ensuring that every single student would «Work Hard, Go to College, and Change the World!»

The school met its three - year improvement goals in a single year and achieved the greatest gains in state test scores of all 35 of the state's «Level 4» schools, including significant gains in both English and mathematics.

Teachers» learning opportunities, in turn, are predominantly skill - based when schools offer short - term technology skill workshops (McKenzie, 2001; Zhao, Pugh, & Sheldon, 2002) and SCDEs offer a single course in information technology (Moursund & Bielefeldt, 1999), and this implementation of short - term skill training is not increasing the effectiveness of technology - supported content area teaching, a goal in our nation (Riley, Holleman, & Roberts, 2000).

At - risk and not at - risk adolescent girls in single - sex and mixed - sex school settings: An examination of their goals and reputations