Sentences with phrase «students by closing»

Moreover, the process for identifying «failing schools» was neither consistent nor research - based, and disproportionately affected low - income African American and Latino students by closing schools in disadvantaged minority neighborhoods while leaving untouched those schools in more affluent areas with comparable performance and enrollments.

We encourage the district to take the next important step in protecting its students by closing this loophole and ensuring that all law enforcement agencies operating in its schools adequately protect students» personal information from unintentional disclosure to federal immigration agencies.

Excellent schools for every student by closing failing schools and establishing 70 new schools in their place; and

Not exact matches

If the teacher wasn't in close proximity, what would stop the teacher's bullets from hitting other students who might be in the way and obscured by gunsmoke?

By making these skills available to all students — not just those able to attend a private school that offers such classes — it levels the education playing field and puts all students one step closer to landing a job in New York's expanding technology scene.

«We weren't surprised that better adolescent close friendships turned out to be important, but we were surprised by just how important they turned out to be into adulthood,» Rachel Narr, University of Virginia doctoral student and lead author of the study, told New York Magazine.

The administration of President Donald Trump is closer to watering down Obama era rules that protected college students defrauded by universities from having to pay...

The event, moderated by Charlie Rose, combined two of my favorite things: meeting with college students and talking with my close friend, Warren.

By: Nadine James 4th May 2018 South Africa and other mineral - rich developing countries with close economic links to China must reassess their trade policies to provide a buffer against fluctuating commodity demand, according to Witwatersrand University School of Mining Engineering postgraduate student Peaceful Mathebula and... →

One of the ways in which industry and academia gap can be closed is by giving teacher breaks to work in industry and come back with the knowledge to share with the students.This way, the students will get both the academic and industry knowledge from the teachers.

The international student community is expected to bring close to $ 20 billion into the Canadian market by 2022.

In fact, the researchers report that «if similar success could be achieved for all minority students nationwide, it could close the gap between white and minority test scores by at least a third, possibly by more than half.»

When I learned that they were graduate students at the university and that they were enrolled in the southeast Asia program, of which I am a member by virtue of the Indian philosophy seminar I teach, I felt that I ought to restrain my impulse to close the door.

Before the new yet old view comes clear an incalculable amount of work must be done by poets and theologians, by historical scholars and Biblical students, by ministers dealing at close range with men in this encounter, and especially by these men themselves.

Bloom in THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND describes sophisticated American students as being unmoved by love and death, moved only by music that imitates the mechanical rutting of animals, and having souls which are flat or unanimated by distinctively human eros.

«14 In 1847, the AMM Seminary at Pasumalai almost closed because teachers and students refused to ignore social distinctions by eating food prepared by a low caste cook.

The students slept in dormitories with a young lecturer close by under the same roof.

Beautiful, intelligent, accomplished young woman, like one of my sorority sisters whose one - night stand «partner» could not be bothered to pay for her taxi ride home the morning after, or a friend of a close family friend whom I saw passed out on the floor at a fraternity house at 2 am with nothing on but her underwear, or a housemate of mine who was dumped passed - out drunk on our front porch one Saturday night by a group of male students with no knock, no doorbell, just a resounding «thud.»

But preliminary results already show powerful gap - closing effects for Educare students: If disadvantaged children enter Educare before their first birthday, they usually are, by the first day of kindergarten, essentially caught up with the national average on tests of basic knowledge and language comprehension, as well as on measures of noncognitive factors like attachment, initiative, and self - control.

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

«By slashing the teaching grant and making students foot the bill we will see whole subject areas starved of public funds and possibly forced to close.»

The email, titled, «Cloudy with a chance of political pandering» and written by Councilman Danny Dromm, slams Ms. Moskowitz for her decision to close all of her schools on Tuesday so that students can attend a large pro-charter rally in Albany.

With regards to the emergency question on the London Met debacle, immigration minister Damien Green said that there were three specific areas that had to be addressed: 1) why students had been studying without permission 2) a closer inspection of the university's student selection 3) the student attendance monitoring by the university.

Pay close attention to the training schedule for the date of the mandatory orientation that must be attended by each student and their chief officer.

In 2010, the Board of Regents released policies designed to prepare students for college and 21st century careers, close the achievement gap and instill a lifelong love of learning in children Regents Reform Agenda, according to a press release issued by Mr. Flanagan's office.

New York, NY — As the school year comes to a close, a shocking new report released today by leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY, The Graduation Facade: How New York City's Diploma Mills Mask College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after high school.

Meanwhile, decisions on first choice candidates by universities will end on October 15, and second choice candidates will end on December 15; after which the remaining students will be available in the market place for other institutions till the January closing dates.

Stakeholders from the Essence School in East New York pushed the DOE to allow the school to operate, with students saying they lived close by and that safety was a major concern if they were forced to travel elsewhere.

These investments will help close the «digital divide» by increasing access to technology and high - speed broadband for all students throughout the state, ensuring that no student gets left behind.

NEWBURGH — Student enrollment figures in school districts across the Hudson Valley continue to decline and that has prompted discussion about closing schools and reorganizing districts, according to a report released Thursday by Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress.

DISABLED STUDENT GRADUATION: One new measure will make it easier for disabled students to attend their high school graduation by closing a loophole that had allowed local education officials to keep some students out.

In New York, under close public supervision, they admit students by lottery and have outperformed traditional neighborhood schools.

The headmasters of some schools in the north have threatened to close down the schools and send students home due to the non-payment of feeding grants by government for students.

The final plan was approved by the City Council last year after tense closed - door negotiations between elected officials, and includes reconstruction of the Brooklyn Heights Library, a new library for DUMBO and Vinegar Hill, 114 new affordable units in Clinton Hill and a new STEM lab for District 13 students.

Of the 569 students who attended the four closing high schools during the 2010 - 11 school year, only 47 percent graduated with a local or Regents diploma (lower than the citywide average by 15 percent) and 22 percent of them dropped out or were discharged (more than twice the citywide average).

The victory, after weeks of cliffhanger budget negotiations and literally hundreds of protest actions by concerned parents and educators, was sweet indeed for teachers who can now close up their classrooms with the knowledge that they'll see their students again in September.

The city Department of Education plans to close more than a dozen struggling schools — including the Bronx high school where a student was stabbed to death by a classmate...

Making for a crowded day, Eva Moskowitz closed her 32 charter schools and shipped some 7,500 students and parents to Albany on the very same day for an outdoor rally in the cold, capped by a performance by Ashanti, who declined to say how much she was paid for her appearance.

«By packing schools with struggling students, the DOE has not only set us up to fail, they have pushed us towards failure,» said Jorel Moore, 17, a senior at Brooklyn's Franklin K. Lane HS, one of the closing schools.

have been working hard to strengthen Nevada's high - technology sector by providing our students with the skills they need to thrive in high - technology industries and by closing the digital divide.

Since school meals formulate only part of a student's daily calorie intake, Smart Snacks was added to close the nutritional gap by providing healthy foods and beverages through school vending machines, stores, and à la carte services.

Though his name is curiously absent from most biographical dictionaries of scientists, it was two papers published by the then 25 - year - old student at Columbia University in New York City in the early 1900s that demonstrated the close correlation between the behaviour of Mendel's hereditary units and that of the chromosomes in meiosis and fertilisation.

Working with UW astronomer Eric Agol, doctoral student Ethan Kruse has confirmed the first «self - lensing» binary star system — one in which the mass of the closer star can be measured by how powerfully it magnifies light from its more distant companion star.

Six months later, the students who had received the group therapy had improved by a further four points, while those using the internet version slipped closer to their old ways.

«By focusing on student's perceived ability under challenge, we are getting closer to the «real» world context, where mathematics anxiety may operate,» Perez - Felkner said.

Using micro-computer tomography (CT) scanners and advanced computing software, Anderson and study lead author Jason Pardo, a doctoral student supervised by Anderson, got a close look at the internal anatomy of the fossilized Lethiscus.

Now, a study led by Rankin's student Haley Wahl suggests companion objects orbiting the pulsars at close range could trigger the swoosh.

Vonsattel began by passing them around so the medical students could take a closer look.

After a closed - door talk at Harvard's Data Privacy Lab on Monday, Vickery showed this reporter how he could access the database by looking up the father of a Mexican student spending a year at the university.

Open to students ages 13 to 18, the Google Science Fair closes entries on April 30 — also the deadline for being considered for the $ 50,000 Science in Action Award sponsored by Scientific American.