Sentences with phrase «target particular schools»

Different agencies and interest groups target particular schools to carry out their programs, giving those schools additional resources.

Not exact matches

The school targets marketing toward diverse populations, whether it's women, international students, or those with particular backgrounds.

David Hogg, a 17 - year - old high school senior and one of the most vocal activists, became a particular target.

But the ad - targeting world changed in 2014, with vendors like DSPolitical (via DemocraticAds.com), CampaignGrid (via CampaignGridDirect) and Targeted Victory launching «self - serve» platforms that allow down - ballot campaigns for state legislature, mayor, city council and even school board to buy banner ads and even pre-roll video ads (if enough volume is available) that appear on a huge range of content websites, all targetable at particular slices of their own electorates.

This target was imposed upon Local Education Authorities, which are required to draw up detailed class size plans and to restrict admissions or increase teaching capacity at particular schools to enable the targets to be met.

Co-researcher Dr Susan Francis, School of Physics, SPMIC added: «The team has a special interest in new types of functional MRI using novel targets like sodium as quantitative biomarkers of disease in the body, in particular in the kidney.

The police and local councils use these maps to target prevention activities more precisely than is possible using police intelligence alone, including redirecting resources, changing police patrol routes, changing the licensing conditions of particular establishments, intervening in other locations, such as street violence hotspots, schools and parks, and the positioning of surveillance cameras.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

In light of this analysis, the Sutton Trust is calling for a renewed effort to close the attainment gap, recommending that: - Schools implement targeted improvement programmes for those students at particular risk of falling behind, including white working class children.

In particular, the report shares lessons learned in targeting key economic regions, analyzing regional assets and gaps, and focusing technical assistance and support on helping states and regions with such things as early career advising and exposure, engaging employers, and building intermediary organizations that can link employers and schools to scale up the provision of workplace learning opportunities for young people.

Schools that fail to make adequate yearly progress (meet achievement targets) for three consecutive years, even if it's just for a particular subgroup of students, must offer free tutoring to all students.

The Jobcentre Plus Support for Schools programme targets young people ages 12 - 18 who are at particular risk of being out of education, employment or training (NEET) or who face disadvantages when looking for work.

A question of particular interest was whether schools that failed to make AYP in the previous school year responded strongly to the incentive to target instruction to students at risk of falling just short of the proficiency threshold.

Although there is no evidence that schools in the study sample targeted resources to particular students, they may have allocated resources toward outcomes measured by the accountability system.

The Department for Education (DfE) has announced that the new rules will stop «secularist campaign groups» from targeting faith school admission «as part of a particular agenda».

In the»90s in particular, education reform often targeted individual schools without a clear idea of how this reform can be replicated nationwide, or even in school districts.

Voucher programs narrowly targeted to income - disadvantaged urban students reach a particular student population that appears to benefit most from access to private schooling.

If successful, these interventions could be targeted to specific disorders or patient groups, and researchers could explore how they could link across schools and other institutions in families» lives, and in particular how they could offer support to vulnerable populations.

That's why it's important to fix how we are measuring Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)-- so that schools are not unfairly punished by measurements that do not take account, for instance, where a particular student started at the beginning of the year and whether the school moved students closer to proficiency targets.

Since the most effective professional development is that which is targeted to specific challenges teachers confront in particular settings, collaboration within the school among administrators, teachers, and school staff is critical.

The study found that students from particular demographics were even less likely to use a voucher: just over half (51 percent) of high school students awarded a voucher used it the next year, and only 63 % of students from «schools in need of improvement» (the target students for the program) who recieved a voucher used it the next year.

Also, the district has oftentimes applied the policy in a discriminatory fashion, with the district searching students more frequently in schools that serve more low - income students and students of color and allowing its administrators to target particular students.

These schools, identified for targeted support and improvement (TSI), must develop and implement their own intervention plan that focuses improvement efforts on the particular subgroup (s) that caused it to be identified for TSI.

The policies with the highest benefit - cost ratios are actually later policies that are targeted in some way, either at students who are academically behind, at high - poverty schools, or at students with particular career interests.

Provided that a school adheres to the laws regarding open admissions, a charter school may, through its educational focus, target a particular population of students with a specific need, such as students with disabilities, English language learners, or students at risk for dropping out of school.

A recent Manhattan Institute study found that a large number of charter schools are specifically targeted to educate particular underperforming populations.

If the district data shows that a particular neighborhood is struggling with high levels of chronic absence, perhaps the work can be aligned with existing community resources targeting the same geographic area, such as a community schools or neighborhood revitalization effort.

In particular, since a key goal of TURN is to create positive change in school and district practice by promoting innovative ideas among union and district leaders, APA's evaluation focused on the following target: To identify districts that have implemented substantive changes in schools as a direct result of participating in SW TURN.

With the Reach Higher System Impact grant, MCAN seeks to align the investment of high school innovation resources in Priority Areas with a particular interest in the Targeted Focus Strategies.

He said the schools in question were a mix of primary, secondary and academy schools and that there was no evidence to suggest that academy schools, which are more independent than normal state schools, are likely to have been a particular target.

«Teaching unions, however, say schools could be using the approach to target particular staff» — I should blummin» well hope so.

Instead of basic workshops about bullying, Villenas says more targeted information about bias - based bullying, specifically, would help teachers understand the issues faced by particular subgroups in their schools and how they play out among students.

David Nagel describes how teacher teams at a New York charter school target precisely what skills students need to improve and require all students to stay an hour after school for help geared to their particular lacks.

Andrew Morris, head of pay and pensions at the National Union of Teachers, said that schools using such an approach «could actually be seeking to target particular individuals who would not be selected through more objective processes.

Having a targeted message, on a particular theme centered on our school, has allowed parents to be drawn into making their voices heard.

This will remove the ability to target funding to particular areas of weakness in school and pupil performance, spreading the funding more thinly in the Schools Block.

The work of this committee focused on interventions that show particular promise to support the rapid educational improvement of high numbers of students by targeting supports to these schools.

Although school funding was maintained in real - terms per pupil under the Coalition Government, all additional funding was provided via the Pupil Premium, targeted at particular pupils and therefore distributed unevenly.2 Many schools had to use Pupil Premium funding simply to plug the gaps caused by cuts in the value of other funding.

The work of this Committee focused on interventions that show particular promise to support the rapid educational improvement of high numbers of students by targeting supports to these schools.

While the law aimed to close these gaps, they persist despite incremental progress.20 Even after making statistical adjustments to proficiency rates under NCLB, by 2005 — four years after the law passed — the rates of schools making «adequate yearly progress» started to decline.21 Any school missing a single target for any subgroup for two years in a row initiated particular actions, such as offering free tutoring or the option for students to transfer to a higher - performing school.

Therefore, if a particular school improvement effort targets low proficiency students, consider choosing a more rigorous target consistent with a higher growth effect size.

Federal funds, which comprise the smallest share of school funding, are delivered almost exclusively through formula grants targeting specific populations of students or particular programs.

Through its mission to «eliminate the achievement gap in our lifetime,» Rocketship targets minority, low - income, urban students in tandem with a particular interest in engaging these students» parents as well (Rocketship Schools 2017a).

In addition to creating an extreme form of this negative environment, in reality the school is targeting not only those of lower socio - economic statuses, but generally racial minorities, in particular African - Americans.

If law schools sought out and acted on feedback from their target customers — particular prospective students, current students, alumni, and employers — they could take a significant step towards meaningful differentiation.

To make your classroom assistant resume targeted, it is important that you state your intention to work as a classroom assistant for the particular school you desire to obtain the position with.

In particular, population - level studies that capture children's developmental health and well - being as well as associated social and contextual assets from the child perspective, and at representative population levels do not exist — despite the fact that middle childhood represents a developmental period that is particularly apt for prevention and intervention efforts that target actionable factors in children's multiple environments: social relationships at home, school and community; sleep and nutrition habits; school experiences; and after - school time use.