Sentences with phrase «stories about school»

During the 2014 budget session, we joined forces with other education advocacy groups and organized a campaign to share student stories about school funding shortfalls and ensure the legislature restored school investment to more adequate, pre-Recessionary levels.

I have really enjoyed reading the comments where people share personal stories about school lunches in their lives.

When your child talks about her school friends, commit to memory the names of the kids in her class and listen to stories about school.

Following the stories about our school, there are interesting articles related to the principles of Waldorf education.

Sharing non-school nutrition stories about your school or district: student and staff achievements, special events, and sports news.

Here are a few of our favorite stories about school food in the news from the last week:

«He snows you with stories about the school and everything,» says Dave Quarrie, a senior goaltender, «and when he gets talking to your parents it's all over.

When Northwestern University realized that its rankings were far higher than the public's perception, it decided to develop a new story about the school.

And did you hear the recent story about a school that tried to watch «A Charlie Brown Christmas» but an atheist mom complained and it became nationwide news?

You've heard the horror stories about the schools: kindergartens with a dose of amoral sex education; teachers sowing gender confusion with the hearty support of administrators; violence and widespread drug use in the tony prep schools that train tomorrow's elites; depression, eating disorders,....

Our Google Alerts have been full of stories about schools across the country opting into the new Community Eligibility Provision.

Check out this recent San Francisco Chronicle story about the school meal program in Oakland USD, which procures 80 percent of its produce from local farms, uses by - catch fish that... [Continue reading]

If you are setting up a story about a school in which everyone breaks the rules, you can't pull any punches with the amount of carnage or excess you're prepared to show.

The other documentary from Berlinale that I almost named as my favorite is For Ahkeem, a powerful story about a school in Missouri trying to help troubled African - American teens succeed.

A story about a school which focuses on the schools weekly consumption.

A story about school construction in urban districts in the July 14, 1999, issue of Education Week misidentified Stan Childress, a Detroit public schools spokesman.

As former National Education Association president Reg Weaver put it, «At the start of every school year, we read in the newspaper... stories about schools scrambling to hire teachers.»

Design a welcoming entry experience that tells a story about your school's values and mission and gives a sense of how to move around the building.

Stories are the evidence that allow us to make judgments about what serves us well, and it is the stories about schools that allow communities to build a narrative about the effectiveness of education.

Finally, the story also may highlight the gap between how differently journalists, readers, and educators view stories about schools and the education debate.

Readers prefer newspapers — online or in print — for local news, stories about schools and education, and arts and culture coverage.

See also the March New York Times story about school nurses and naloxone.

Although educators warn that test scores can never tell the whole story about a school, it is notable that economically disadvantaged students at Lockwood made even more progress on the 2014 exams than students who were not.

The Big Picture should be able to tell a coherent story about school improvement aligned to specific student goals.

This is what I want to tell you about in this third story about school improvement.

Parents and others should note that the information in the School Report Card, while important, can not tell you the entire story about a school.

KQED's Mind / Shift - When Celebrating Learning Differences is at the Heart of School Culture (4/28/16)-- New School featured in story about schools positioning differences as strengths.

Every time we see still another story about school violence, we ask the same question: why wasn't anyone able to stop it?

The primary lesson through this logic, and through Mission High itself, is that stories about schools should not begin and end with test scores; it is dangerous and short sight - sighted to think this way.

This month we tackle unreasonable search and seizure with a story about a school principal who wants to go through her students» backpacks.

As the Foundation continues telling stories about schools that work, core strategies begin to consistently emerge: project - based learning, integrated studies, social and emotional learning, comprehensive assessment, teacher and leader development, integrated technology, and community engagement.

Just last week, there was a story about a school district surveying students at alternate schools.

Not exact matches

In my 2007 book about Lazard, I tell the story of Mina Gerowin, the first woman banker at Lazard and her arrival at the firm in 1980, fresh from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.

In my previous job, I remember front section editors asking me to report on a story about children in Ontario supposedly getting sick from the Wi - Fi in their schools.

The smaller release «The Miracle Season,» starring Helen Hunt in a story about a girls» high school volleyball team, didn't make ComScore's Top 10 list.

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B - school professor Galloway spins an engaging story about how Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple (the «Four Horsemen»), came to take over the business world.

On one level, the announced liquidation (at least in the U.S.) is yet another familiar story about the sorry state of old - school retailing.

The two wrote about the experience on their Instagram stories in advance of their movie «Night School,» which they're starring in together in September.

Another story in The Sun, about racial covenants in Rodgers Forge («Residents of Towson neighborhood confront racist legacy of covenants,» Sept. 10) was significant because, repeatedly, new residents remark that they moved to the neighborhood because of good schools and because taxes are lower than in Baltimore City.

For example, here's a story about a business that used the weather as a reason to create a relevant marketing message: I happened to learn that my kids» schools were opening late because of a snowstorm a few weeks ago from the Twitter account of a car wash in town.

The stories they heard in law school about independence, public service, and professionalism don't match up with their everyday experiences.

[This spirit of sisterhood can be summed up in one of the highlights of the conference: On Friday afternoon, Emily Scott told a story about how her high school band director, surprised that she had chosen as «unfeminine» an instrument as the trombone, tried to keep her from closing her eyes and swaying to the music by literally pulling her shoulders back and standing on her feet as she played.

At Fordham University in New York, a Catholic school, a proud mother of a grown gay son drew a standing ovation when she told a story about discovering the effect of church teachings on her child.

This particular YMCA included, «a great mix of high - end yuppie fitness facility, a wonderful community resource for families, and an old - school residence for disenfranchised men,» so Fey shares a host of funny stories about working the front desk.

Consider the extensive indoctrination children receive in school about the past; or perhaps more important, consider how powerful the motion picture industry is as a source of stories about the past.

(Tip # 1: Elementary school teachers love stories about woodland creatures working together to achieve a common goal.)

When We Were Alone by David Alexander Robertson — This award - winning book tells the story of a grand - daughter asking her grandmother the questions that lead to her learning about her family's experiences in residential schools.

And yet the novel that followed The Junkers, Monk Dawson, was about a monk: a simple story of a boy from a school not unlike Ampleforth, who on graduation joins the community, then questions its commitment to educating the sons of the rich, and applies his own idiosyncratic «preferential option for the poor,» providing shelter for a homeless family in the school theater.

One may certainly refrain from insisting, as some Jewish leaders have, upon mandated Holocaust studies in the public school curriculum: for many people, such «mandates» might appear as an effort to establish the passion of the Jews as the larger culture's defining story, thus, ironically, giving plausibility to anti-Semitic claims about Jewish power.