Sentences with phrase «students less a priority»

We should encourage direct learning through movement, gestures, and dance by first making our physical control of students less a priority of classroom management, and secondly, by exploring ways that technology frees us to use gestures and movement as a means for learning.

Not exact matches

Ironically, the president's proposal would likely run counter to one of the administration's other priorities — decreasing the rate at which low - income students «undermatch» at less - selective colleges.

For example, the open enrollment system that was implemented in Charlotte - Mecklenburg in 2002 provided assignment priorities in its lotteries to students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch applying to schools where less than half of the previous year's school population was eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

Districts in which students are performing less well on state tests tend, on the other hand, to see themselves as driven by external standards and assessments, and to view the district as less able to determine local priorities and needs.

In many U.S. schools, efforts to meet individual students» needs may take less priority than efforts to ensure that all students work toward grade - level standards, progress at the same pace as their grade - level peers, or prepare for grade - level tests at the end of the year.

In its most recent report on spending on education, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds, «Thirty - five states provided less overall state funding per student in the 2014 school year (the most recent year available) than in the 2008 school year.»

The priorities start with student achievement but also include less tangibly documentable factors as school climate, student engagement, and parent involvement.

His new attacks on public education include taking $ 17.1 million out of traditional public schools, which will curtail extended day and summer programs in needy school districts, make universal preschool impossible, not fund priority districts as promised and at less than last year, and limit aid for transportation of students.

Starving the schools 250 — decline, in dollars, in per - student K — 12 funding in North Carolina for fiscal year 2015 from 2014 («Most states still funding schools less than before the recession,» Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Oct. 16, 2014) 14.5 — percentage reduction in per - pupil spending in...

Lesser isn't alone on this sentiment; Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey issued a press release saying that dealing with abuses in the student loan industry should be a priority.

For example, securely attached students experienced more fear of failure at the middle of the first semester in college than at the end of high school, felt less comfortable seeking help from teachers, and gave less priority to their studies.