Sentences with phrase «standard spoken at school»

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Speaking yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack offered a full - throated defense of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act «s school meal standards, the nutritional improvements which are currently at risk of being rolled back in Congress.

Speaking at the NASUWT annual conference in Cardiff Bay, Huw Lewis said «ideology has been put before standards» with millions wasted on «vanity projects such as free schools».

Speaking at the Policy Exchange, Morgan reaffirmed the government's commitment to ensuring all pupils leave school with the proper literacy and numeracy skills, announcing plans for more rigorous testing for seven year - olds and compulsory re-sits for those that fail to meet standards.

Minister for school standards Nick Gibb and minister for apprenticeships and skills Anne Milton will also speak at the Education World Forum later this week, focusing on government reforms and an increased emphasis on training and vocational skills.

Even though English is the official language of the island and children are taught Jamaican standard English (a mix of American and British English) in Jamaican schools, many of them grow up speaking Jamaican Creole at home.

Over the next few weeks, I invite you to join me and my colleagues at the Knowledge Matters Campaign as we tour schools across the country to see the many ways knowledge - building curriculum is enhancing classroom instruction — by asking students to read, write, and speak to high standards, but to do so from a wide range of topics that enrich students» understanding of the world around them — ranging from water conservation to the Revolutionary War to Renaissance architecture.

Using unflinching language, Ms. Feldman — who said she would remain president of the New York City teachers» union while heading the national union — spoke at a news conference about the importance of creating high standards and denounced using vouchers that channel students and dollars from public schools to private schools.

Speaking at the annual conference of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) in Manchester on Friday, Mr Gove said: «Head teachers and teachers have told me in no uncertain terms that the current teachers» standards are ineffective, meaningless and muddy, fluffy concepts.»

Speaking to the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson at one of England's first free schools, he said «anyone who knows about providing a good education and driving up standards is welcome through my door».

Newman also spoke about ways the Storia app is at work in classrooms, especially as more schools and educators put the Common Core standards into practice in the coming school year.