Sentences with phrase «small high schools gave»

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When I was 17, I won the Rotary International Exchange Program scholarship, giving me the chance to finish high school in a small town in Pennsylvania.

for mother's day, our family pastor gave the sermon on sunday along with small portions by the kids minister and jr high / high school / college pastor, and this is pretty much what the latter talked about.

You might hire a high school student to provide individual or small - group lessons, just to give your child a taste of a sport he's curious about.

With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

Based on a true story adapted from H.G. Bissinger's book, «Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Dream and a Team», director and co-screenwriter Peter Berg (Very Bad Things, The Rundown) uses shaky camera work to give the effect of realism, mixed with a stylized delivery of high school football action that takes this simple small - town story and makes it feel important, like Hoosiers for football fans.

The Gates grantmakers created seven «attributes of high - performing schools» that would guide its giving to those who wanted to create small high schools: a common focus; high expectations; personalization; respect and responsibility; time to collaborate; performance - based instruction; and using technology as a tool.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

Second, given that charter high schools tend to be much smaller than traditional public high schools, charter school effects might simply be attributable to their smaller size.

By appealing to tutors» sense of service, providing a small but livable stipend, organizing low - cost housing for tutors, and above all, by giving tutors a chance to work in a high - performing school as a means for evaluating their interest in education reform and teaching careers, Match can compete alongside Teach For America for the best college graduates in the country and hire three to four tutors for what they pay a full - time teacher.

The same Bill Gates whose company was prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein has given Chancellor Klein at least $ 70 million for creating hundreds of new small high schools and charter schools.

Give young people choices among the formats: early - college high schools; smaller schools; schools within schools; charter schools; KIPP schools; high - tech high schools; virtual high schools; and more.

For example, grouping schools according to size (as is done in high - school sports) and giving awards to the top 5 percent in each size class would tend to even out the incentives (and disparities) between large and small schools.

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It may also be difficult to translate work done in this small school, where in any given year a quarter to 40 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, a federal measure of poverty, to larger, urban schools with higher concentrations of low - income students.

Of UCF's 65 departments, just six, including three small programs run through the dean's office and the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy, a graduate video game design program, gave out a higher percentage of As in their classes than the School of Teaching, Learning, and Leadership.

«I read with no small measure of disappointment the letter of the Trumbull Teacher's Association rejecting the prestigious recognition the high school received from ConnCAN... through an obvious display of ignorance of the goals of ConnCAN and an undertone of an elitist attitude, the authors of the letter have managed to alienate trusted allies and provided the missing ingredients that will sway those who were on the fence with the education reform legislation to side with the Governor and give wholesale support to the reforms proposed in Senate Bill # 24.»

«When Vallas came to Philly, students told him «We've had seven principals in five years and high teacher turnover, and something's got to give,» and they managed to get a commitment out of him for small schools,» says Helen Rowe, a YUC organizer.

We have chosen to analyze concentrated areas with low - performing elementary schools because they have the smallest geographic attendance boundaries, unlike our middle and high schools with much wider boundaries given their larger student populations.

Most of Rhee's agenda runs counter to what parents identify as their top priorities, including small class sizes, less high - stakes testing, improving neighborhood schools, recruiting and retaining strong and experienced teachers, and giving parents a real voice in governing schools.

One idea is to incorporate elements of the district's high school reform, which divides campuses into smaller academies to give students individual attention.

In addition, critics of charter schools are quick to point out that Match's small size, clear college prep emphasis and personal attention give students clear advantages that are missing from many public high schools.

I'm a 17 year - old student from France and I built a small - time web app in 2015 that allows high - school juniors and seniors like me to give them an estimate of their final grade at the exams (French baccalauréat).

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