Sentences with phrase «standards in schools where»

The government still has not given any consideration as to how to drive up standards in those schools where academisation has not brought about any improvement.

In his Autumn Statement, Mr Osborne said the «very best» academy chains in the north would benefit from an extra # 10 million to improve standards in schools where not enough pupils achieved five A * - C GCSEs, including English and maths.

Not exact matches

Although subsequent administrations have continued reviewing vertical mergers, the Chicago School's view that these deals generally do not pose threats to competition has remained dominant.139 Rejection of vertical tie - ups — standard through the 1960s and 1970s — is extremely rare today; 140 in instances where agencies spot potential harm, they tend to impose conduct remedies or require divestitures rather than block the deal outright.141 The Obama Administration took this approach with two of the largest vertical deals of the last decade: Comcast / NBC and Ticketmaster / LiveNation.

there must be a deity school up there in the magical next dimension where new gods are taught their standard miracle ABC's.

I know that in practice we are not going to get a society where all will be able to benefit from the standards of the best schools and colleges.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

When the new standards for more fruits and vegetables in school lunches were first implemented at the middle school where I worked at the time, there was an increase in kids who didn't want to eat all of their lunches.

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The study found that kids who go to schools where lots of junk foods are sold are heavier than those who go to schools in states with strict standards about the nutritional quality of snacks and drinks.

Meanwhile, the SNA begins its annual conference in Boston this coming week, where no doubt the organization's current efforts to weaken school meal nutrition standards will be a hot topic of discussion.

Cuomo should invite him to tag along — and then drop by a few of the 371 New York City public schools where 90 % or more of the pupils fail to meet minimal state standards in reading and math.

«I think I would want to get a lot more understanding of how the government thinks that areas where education standards are too low are going to opt for selective schools and why they think those selective schools would make a difference to all children in that area,» she told ITV News.

we should ask where in Nigeria stands a school of the standard of the schools in Osun to the credit of a PDP administration?»

But there is persistent concern about the quality of some of the construction and this is because, local officials sometimes take bribes and allow construction companies to build things below standard and so we have a situation in the Sichuan province where the earthquake occurred, where schools were collapsing and collapsed at a much greater rate than other government buildings and the suspicion is of course that local officials have taken bribes and allowed the schools to be built this way.

Some 1,200 young people in Sweden attend a national sports high school, where they combine their regular studies with elite sports in order to attain an international standard in their particular activity.

«Calorie labeling appears to be effective in an online environment where consumers have fewer distractions, and the simpler traffic - light labeling seems as effective as standard calorie numbers,» said lead author Eric M. VanEpps, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

But it should no longer be the case that only the lucky students get to learn in schools where teachers have decided to work against standard expectations.

Not only will this help fill the shortfall in places across England, but these schools will also raise standards and provide a new choice for parents in areas where deprivation and low standards have meant no real choice except for the wealthy.

By the end of the last school year, I could write a personal letter to all the parents highlighting just where their children were based on the promotion standards and what areas they would have to work on in the pivotal fifth grade.

Still, many wondered with James Stergios of the Pioneer Institute in Boston whether one can set standards capable of driving high performance nationwide in a country that has great regional disparities in student achievement and a decentralized governmental system (where schools are «radically local,» as one panelist put it).

A related issue is where to land on the «Common Core» standards, a set of expectations in reading and math developed by the nation's governors and state superintendents, but viewed by many conservatives as a federal plot to take over the schools.

He believed that it was a serious civil - rights violation for the city's elite public schools to use race - blind admissions standards, while his own children attended exclusive private schools where money, connections, and «culture» played a major role in the admissions process.

Idaho fares well in standards and accountability, where it scores just above average and has a strong showing on school accountability indicators.

It is understandable that in schools where even just meeting the minimum standards in reading and math, amid budget cuts, would opt out of a robotics programs due to the costs of acquiring materials.

The authors point out that the Cincinnati system of evaluation is different from the standard practice in place in most American school districts, where perfunctory evaluations assign the vast majority of teachers «satisfactory» ratings, leading many to «characterize classroom observation as a hopelessly flawed approach to assessing teacher effectiveness.»

One of the most notable «laboratories of democracy» was Texas, where governors on both sides of the aisle pursued a reform agenda, starting in the early 1980s, centered on higher academic standards, standardized testing, school accountability, competition, and choice.

He also said that leaders should consider themselves responsible for raising standards in the areas where their schools operate and not just within their trust.

Need for a national audit Both reports have highlighted the need for a national audit of the extent, type and condition of asbestos and also the need for an audit of the standards of asbestos management in all schools at ground level as this is where the problems have been highlighted.

Finally, in Kenya, where the raw test scores showed students in private and public schools performing at similar levels, the fact that private schools served a far more disadvantaged population resulted in a gap of 0.1 standard deviations in English and 0.2 standard deviations in math (after accounting for differences in student characteristics).

The central concept, he says, is that the nation's 40 million K — 12 students should be offered the same high - standard education no matter where they go to school; a child in Mississippi, say, should finish each grade with the same general proficiencies as one in Maine — and ready to compete in an increasingly competitive global marketplace.

Wilshaw said that in an increasingly autonomous education system where schools have greater freedom to innovate and raise standards, the importance of effective oversight was greater than ever.

I would imagine that most head teachers and senior managers in schools would love to have an outstanding music department, where high standards are coupled with breadth of participation across the school.

«There isn't a statewide curriculum for elementary school engineering design,» explains Bryant, «but looking at the standards for where they need to be in middle school and in high school, I'm able to backward design for what should be happening at the elementary level.»

In a system where the responsibility is on individual schools or groups of schools to deliver high standards of education, without local or national government interference, then the leadership of those schools becomes central.

Houston and other urban districts must also increase their use of chartering to create new options in neighborhoods where schools consistently fail to educate students to state standards.

If school boards, superintendents, and local teacher unions put top priority on raising standards, narrowing gaps, emphasizing quality in the classroom and running world class schools, America wouldn't be where it is.

A federal appeals court has ruled that schools must use state law as a standard in serving handicapped students where its provisions exceed federal law.

With her degree from HGSE, Casselman hopes to start her own agriculture - based school within Medomak Valley High School where she pictures a «school within a school» — a place where students can focus on lessons in agriculture and sustainability while meeting the standards necessary for graduation, such as English andschool within Medomak Valley High School where she pictures a «school within a school» — a place where students can focus on lessons in agriculture and sustainability while meeting the standards necessary for graduation, such as English andSchool where she pictures a «school within a school» — a place where students can focus on lessons in agriculture and sustainability while meeting the standards necessary for graduation, such as English andschool within a school» — a place where students can focus on lessons in agriculture and sustainability while meeting the standards necessary for graduation, such as English andschool» — a place where students can focus on lessons in agriculture and sustainability while meeting the standards necessary for graduation, such as English and math.

JR: A better solution would be for states to develop a competency - based accountability structure that schools could opt in to, where they could track each student's success against each of the standards.

«There is also considerable evidence that it is schools in isolated and deprived areas where educational standards are low that are losing out in the recruitment stakes for both leaders and teachers.

Earlier this month, Tom Loveless wrote about a controversy in a school district outside of San Francisco, where parents are upset that high - achieving math students will lose access to advanced math classes as the Common Core standards are implemented there.

Their mission: to develop common academic standards in English and mathematics that would help ensure that «all students, regardless of where they live, are graduating high school prepared for college, career, and life.»

With soft landings, the handover of a school or academy is treated as a gradual process, rather than the standard way of doing things where the tape is cut, the head teacher given the keys, and the builder allowed to leg it into the night with a cheque in the back pocket.

She says: «This government's costly reorganisation to force every school to become an academy, will remove even more money, time and effort away from where the focus in schools should be — on raising standards.

David Simmons, head of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, commented that: «School autonomy is supposed to drive up standards, but in the case of school meals we now have a two - tier system where one type of school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary School autonomy is supposed to drive up standards, but in the case of school meals we now have a two - tier system where one type of school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary school meals we now have a two - tier system where one type of school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary foods.

«It is right that we should build on the high standards we've set in our schools so that every child receives a suitable and safe education — no matter where they are being taught — and that we can act quickly in the rare instances when this is not the case.

This webinar delves into digital - literacy efforts in the United States — including the development of learning standards — while also looking at where the average school's efforts are now and how administrators and teachers can improve them.

(i) Conduct a self - assessment that evaluates the program's progress towards meeting goals established under paragraph (a) of this section, using aggregated child assessment data where applicable, compliance with program performance standards throughout the program year, and the effectiveness of the professional development and family engagement systems in promoting school readiness, using classroom, professional development, and parent and family engagement data, as appropriate;

Lucy Powell, shadow education secretary, said: «There is no evidence to suggest that academisation in and of itself leads to school improvement... In some parts of the country where standards remain a concern, all schools are already academies, yet the government has no other school improvement strategy.&raquin and of itself leads to school improvement... In some parts of the country where standards remain a concern, all schools are already academies, yet the government has no other school improvement strategy.&raquIn some parts of the country where standards remain a concern, all schools are already academies, yet the government has no other school improvement strategy.»