Sentences with phrase «start of academic classes»

With an eye toward helping boys get more rest to improve school performance, The McCallie School, a boys» preparatory school, will institute a new weekly schedule for the 2017 - 18 school year, moving the start of academic classes to 8:55 a.m. every school day.

With an eye toward helping boys get more rest to improve school performance, McCallie will institute a new weekly schedule for the 2017 - 18 school year, moving the start of academic classes to 8:55 a.m. every school day.

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The same chapter also explores school - start times, a topic of heated debate this year in Palo Alto after Superintendent Max McGee decided to eliminate academic classes during the early - morning zero period at Gunn High School.

In 2008, we added a new class increasing the licensed capacity to 57 children and had reached maximum enrolment by the start of the academic year.

And perhaps we can also start to be more aware of the persistence of social class in this country, where political leaders are drawn from a narrow social elite and where birth cohort evidence shows that parental background has a huge influence on academic attainment, health and labour - market opportunities.

«Forgive some academic jargon, but the most common education reform ideas — reducing class size, raising teacher pay, enrolling kids in Head Start — produce gains of about 0.1 or 0.2 or 0.3 standard deviations.

Schools actually narrow the achievement gap; it's what affluent children get before they start school that gives them significant academic advantages over the children of the middle class and the poor, according to the research.

And another: These «e-learning labs,» were opened at the start of this academic year to help school officials get around the state law — approved in a referendum by voters in 2002 — that limits class size.

A timetable is established at the start of each academic year with the teachers from St Albans School visiting for a term of half a term to run classes at Alban City.

Clinton Middle School uses 20 - day challenge to encourage attendance ABC 8 Tulsa, August 29, 2016 Monday marks the start of week two of the academic year for Tulsa Public Schools, and Clinton Middle School is working to be an example in the district by making sure all of its students are going to class... read more.

The speakers were Joan Duffell, executive director of Committee for Children; Maurice Elias, director of the Rutgers Social - Emotional and Character Development Lab; Janice Deguchi, executive director of the Denise Louie Education Center and Head Start program in Seattle; and Keeth Matheny, a teacher at Austin (Texas) High School who offers a popular class titled «Methods for Academic and Personal Success.»

School leaders in these communities, forced by the storm to delay the start of classes or reboot just after students returned for the 2017 - 18 year, face huge academic, financial, and social / emotional costs of a months - long recovery effort.

For decades, community colleges got a bad rap as a second - class education meant for those who couldn't afford or who couldn't meet the high academic requirements of more traditional universities.Now that reputation is changing as cultural norms about post-secondary education start to shift.

Black Mountain College started outputting exceptional individuals, a direct result of a system that sought a balance between academic work, arts and manual labor within an informal class structure.

There's a program called the Responsive Classroom Program, and that program has shown that when teachers take the time to greet the kids warmly when they come into the classroom, when they have a morning meeting that actually takes some time to help the kids kind of reset the emotional balance from where they might have come in from before the start of the school day, and where the kids are involved in talking about and making the rules and reflecting on what happens in the class, when they take that time, quote - unquote, away from direct instruction, academic gains improve.

The speakers were Joan Duffell, executive director of Committee for Children; Maurice Elias, director of the Rutgers Social - Emotional and Character Development Lab; Janice Deguchi, executive director of the Denise Louie Education Center and Head Start program in Seattle; and Keeth Matheny, a teacher at Austin (Texas) High School who offers a popular class titled «Methods for Academic and Personal Success.»