Sentences with phrase «stories about the school system»

Not exact matches

Things I'm thinking about could be things like having his seat changed in class so he's next to someone he has conflict with, learning new skills at school that he's not confident about and is struggling with, some new kind of food he's ingesting at school that has something that's irritating his system (artificial dyes or sweeteners would be my first guesses), something other kids are talking about that are scaring him (movies or tv shows or stories).

The story says just as much about the school system as it does about an 8 - year - old's sense of humor.

Hogwarts, the school of witchcraft and wizardry, s a celebration of the public school system with its houses, grand dining halls and traditional games as codified for lower - class kids in the early 20th century by Frank Richards in his stories about Greyfriars and St Jim's in the Magnet and the Gem.

The story is about Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin), a rich kid trying his luck for the first time in the public school system.

Freedom Writers tells the true story of teacher Erin Gruwell and her students — a class of left - behind ghetto kids nobody cared about or believed in — who, in working together, overcame the negative expectations of a school system that had given up on them.

A news story in the Jan. 4, 2006, issue of Education Week about recommendations for the Charlotte - Mecklenburg, N.C., school system («Major Change Eyed for Charlotte, N.C., Schools») should have said that the study containing the proposals was conducted jointly by the American Institutes for Research and the consulting firm Cross & Joftus LLC.

The media seems to favor writing about problematic school systems rather than inspirational stories of school and student success.

I have developed a lesson on this topic and cross-referenced it with reading results from Baltimore's school system based on Malcolm Gladwell's story about the KIPP school (also discussed in the above story).

But schools becoming academies is only one chapter of a much bigger story told in the white paper about how we create the infrastructure that allows a self - improving school - led system to flourish: what role government should play in that system, when we should offer you support and when we should get out of the way.

The Tribune's Diane Rado writes a very disturbing story this morning about the Illinois State Board of Education's proposed new state standardized tests and rating system for schools.

The web - based tool includes stories from successful community school systems and offers videos of community leaders talking about scale - up.

The Nov. 5 «Board Briefs» newsletter distributed by the Davis School District contained a story about the district's new evaluations systems for educators and other employees.

Lawmakers had expressed concerns with the system — which assigns each school a letter grade based on their students» performance on statewide tests — well before an Associated Press story raised fundamental questions about how former schools chief Tony Bennett's staff calculated of the 2012 grades.

I'm reminded of stories I've heard about the British system, in which schools are allowed to choose a limited number of literary works to have their secondary students tested on, with the result that students may spend two years doing nothing but intensively studying a couple of novels.

Most of the news stories about the voucher program focus generally on the debate about accountability and diverting money from the underfunded public school system.

Camilla Gibb, Author and Non-Fiction Judge, says: «Wab Kinew's story is a deeply moving memoir about the possibility of forgiveness and healing within a family, a community and a country coming to terms with the damaging legacy of the residential school system.

Focused on collecting stories from Nova Scotians about their experiences with legal services and the justice system, the project brings together NSBS, the Nova Scotia Department of Justice, the Courts of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Legal Aid, the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie, the Nova Scotia branch of the Canadian Bar Association and a public representative.