Sentences with phrase «term over the school year»

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Over the year there are three 10 week courses to coincide with Dubai's school terms and the experience is made even better by frequent visits from current Arsenal first team players.

Eisenberg said he hopes to find a framework to assess the program's long - term effects «in terms of their physiology, weight, obesity rates, eating habits outside school and education potential over the next several years.

«We have now looked at free schools that have opened in 2011, 2012 and 2013 and over the course of these three years there seems to be very little improvement in terms of commitment to and implementation of equality duties.»

«This is just another excuse from Gov. Andrew Cuomo for why it is he absolutely refusing to fairly and adequately fund high need schools in the state,» said Billy Easton, the executive director of the AQE, a group that has gotten under Cuomo's skin over the years by pushing him to hike school aid under the terms of a lawsuit over funding.

Medical practitioners have seen the largest growth in real - terms wages over the last 30 years with a 153 % increase, along with lawyers (114 %), secondary school teachers (67 %) and accountants (60 %).

Eric Stevenson, a first - term state senator representing East Tremont and other neighborhoods in the south Bronx, said he'd planned to give his expected $ 100,000 in member item money to local tutoring and after - school programs and a cash - strapped little league, some of the same organizations that his predecessor, Michael Benjamin, had funded over the years.

The thinktank calculates that the reality of the government's small real terms increase in schools spending coupled with rising classroom numbers meant that spending per pupil would fall by 2.25 % over the next four years.

While supporters of mayoral control over the schools say it is designed to make one person accountable, Benjamin said that's not always the case, noting de Blasio, because of term limits, is a lame duck for the next four years.

«It's a bittersweet situation, I think we have a person that has poured themselves into the Syracuse City School District over the last five years and have helped us move forward in terms of improving graduation rates, decreasing drop - out rates and getting our schools off the receivership list,» Dorsey said.

Evaluating data from the 40 - year follow - up to the High / Scope Perry Preschool Program Study, Belfield and his colleagues show how preschool participation by low income children relates to significant economic benefits both to the children by the time they are in their 40s and to society more generally (Belfield et al. 2006).1 Summarizing over 160 studies conducted from 1960 through 2000, Camilli et al. found that preschool had a range of shorter and longer term positive relationships to cognitive gains, progression through school, and social - emotional development (Camilli et al. 2010).

According to the research, dealing with staff sickness has become a particular problem for schools, with three in five (59 %) having to deal with long - term sickness in the last year and a further three in five (58 %) dealing with repetitive short - term absences over the same period.

Short term rental agreements are available although we have classrooms at schools that are still being rented over 10 years after we supplied them.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has counselled that spending per pupil in schools in England is likely to fall by eight per cent in real terms over the next five years.

However, although on average they were one term ahead of students in all - girls schools and one year ahead of co-ed students the gap remained the same between the year groups, suggesting there's no value - add over time.

In terms of in - school factors, the literature that I've read and field work that I've done over many years point to a range of issues.»

Dearing examined a ratio termed the «income - to - needs» of families below the poverty line and showed that when income increased (roughly $ 4,500 per year over three years), very young children performed better on tasks where they were asked to identify colors, shapes, and letters (skills considered important in school readiness).

While the education secretary, Justine Greening, promised an extra # 1.3 bn for state schools over two years, headteachers across England calculated that this amount would translate to a real ‑ terms cut of 4.6 per cent from 2015.

Yet observations I have conducted in more than 300 classrooms in California, Minnesota, New York City, and Massachusetts over the past 15 years indicate that local school systems have commonly used bilingual education as a generic term referring to all three types of language - instruction programs.

An alternative way of defining and measuring success at school would be in terms of the progress or growth that students make over the course of a year, regardless of their starting point.

«We pride ourselves on developing long - term relationships with schools and academies,» he says, «Our average association with clients is over nine years, a clear indicator of the trust and satisfaction that they have with us.

Develop Asset Management Plans The EFA, the local councils and large academies should work together to determine long - term investment needs (say over 25 years) for the schools estate and develop whole - life - value optimised five - year asset management plans at an individual school, council and national - levels.

School places could be increased by lengthening the school day, opening longer over the year, having variety for teachers and creative «term» plaSchool places could be increased by lengthening the school day, opening longer over the year, having variety for teachers and creative «term» plaschool day, opening longer over the year, having variety for teachers and creative «term» planning.

Investment is required in the longer term where it may be more expensive to achieve the quality initially, however over the years the school estate will be more robust and sustainable, with lower running costs.

The Institute of Fiscal Studies estimates that schools in the UK will face up to 12 per cent real term cuts over the next Parliament while forecasts suggest pupil numbers will increase by seven per cent, a result of rising immigration and higher birth rates over the next five years.

Out of roughly 400 vocational high schools in the country, seven were selected to become a Meister High School in the first year, and 35 in total were converted over President Lee's five - year term.

At the end of the six - year program, not only do they come away with a high school diploma, an associate's degree in a chosen field, and career - ready credentials, but they also take over the deeds to like - new duplexes that they've collectively renovated, allowing them to begin establishing wealth by building equity while also receiving passive income and leading long - term revitalization efforts in their communities.

And our practice of holding schools (and now teachers) accountable for year - to - year gains on reading tests only encourages them to focus on things that might get a short term bump (skills and strategies) and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledge).

He said: «We've done well in terms of producing live, healthy babies over the last 60, 70 years, but, by the time children are leaving school, between 10 per cent and 15 per cent of them are in trouble emotionally or mentally, and suffer from things like obesity, eating disorders, anxiety and stress.»

Whatever the source of variation, single - year changes in test performance are very unreliable indicators of where a school is headed over the long term.

Other key findings include: - Squeezed budgets mean many schools have been forced to shed staff, with further reductions to staff spending expected over the next two years - Teacher shortages seem to be getting worse - Schools that opt for academy status are not embracing the freedoms it brings in terms of curriculum, and teachers» pay and conditions - Secondary governors are using 11 - 16 funding to subsidise their sixth forms, as cuts in post-16 budgeschools have been forced to shed staff, with further reductions to staff spending expected over the next two years - Teacher shortages seem to be getting worse - Schools that opt for academy status are not embracing the freedoms it brings in terms of curriculum, and teachers» pay and conditions - Secondary governors are using 11 - 16 funding to subsidise their sixth forms, as cuts in post-16 budgeSchools that opt for academy status are not embracing the freedoms it brings in terms of curriculum, and teachers» pay and conditions - Secondary governors are using 11 - 16 funding to subsidise their sixth forms, as cuts in post-16 budgets bite

This has the advantage of showing how the benefits can be assured over time in terms of improved attainment and more efficient use of resources as much of this takes two or three school years to work through, with noticeable improvements year on year.»

In 10 years, Room to Read has opened 1,000 schools, provided 10,000 long - term scholarships to girls and opened over 10,000 bi-lingual and multi-lingual libraries, serving over 4 million children.

In 10 years, Room to Read has opened 1,000 schools, provided 10,000 long - term scholarships to girls and opened over...

«When I became Director of Teaching and Learning here, we spent a great deal of time analysing our long - term results for our system and noted that there were a group of schools who, for various reasons — it could be that they are regional schools, had a lot of new staff and transient populations, they could be a school that are in low socio - economic areas or they could be schools with new principals — but consistently over five or six years, the Year 9 - 12 results in literacy were not showing that students were making enough progress with the amount of time they spent in a school,» Doyle shares.

Over recent years BESA's furniture group has successfully campaigned for the introduction of a new British standard for classroom furniture, BSEN1729, which ensures that tables, desks and chairs made for school use are properly shaped, sized and developed to prevent long - term damage to children's backs and help children concentrate on learning without suffering discomfort.

At the NAHT conference, Mr Hinds also announced a # 5million sabbatical find for teachers with over 10 years» experience, allowing them to take between a term and a year out of school to further their professional development.

States vary widely in terms of how much they allot for gifted education, ranging from nothing in Arizona to over $ 100 million in Texas during the 2010 - 2011 school year.

This long term study of Newark Public Schools over the last five or so years is an eye opening read.

School budgets are expected to be cut 8 per cent cut in real terms over the next five years, according to the Institute of Fiscal Studies.

In addition to over # 90m committed this year, # 187m has been guaranteed for the remainder of the Assembly term, so that schools have the stability to plan ahead.

During his eight - year term as New York City schools chancellor, Joel Klein presided over some of the nation's most promising education reforms.

Over the course of the 20th century, some of the most persistent challenges in public education — from the dropout problem in the 1950s, to educational disadvantage in the 1960s, to school discipline in recent years — have been reframed in psychological terms.

In the 2013 - 14 school year, across nine districts and over 5,000 students, the students in blended - learning classrooms outperformed those in the non-blended classrooms within the same schools and districts in terms of growth (a complete list of their results can be downloaded here).

I have been at seven different schools over the past 12 years (thank you, term contracts — not) and this is the first time this issue has ever come up.

So, we went back to our study of the beliefs, actions and impacts of 411 Head Teachers after taking over a failing school and, found that 90 % of the best long - term Heads, who we call Architects, were almost fired at the end of their second year.

Murnane will begin his term as interim dean July 1, following the departure of current dean Kathleen McCartney, who will take over as president of Smith College after eight years at the helm of the Ed School.

Next, a school district in Illinois just awarded its teachers a 10 - year contract that includes a 40 percent salary increase over its term, preserves a pre-retirement, 6 percent yearly pay spike to boost teachers» pensions, an increase in sick - days from 15 to 24 per year, and a freeze on health insurance and prescription drug costs for district employees for the 10 - year period.

Mr Clegg is quoted as having said: «It would be a good thing if the Liberal Democrats were able to run education policy on our own terms, not least because we are the only party that is prepared to give the schools, colleges and nurseries the means that they need to absorb 400,000 new youngsters over the next five years.»

«Long - term improvement is also gap - narrowing improvement,» Cheatham said, citing a 36 percentage - point rise for black students in reading proficiency in four years at Lindbergh Elementary School, and a 19 percentage - point gain for black students in reading proficiency over the same period at Glendale.

The question is whether a test score gain in a given year of schooling represents growth in skills that matter over the long term.