Sentences with phrase «than force students»

We should be encouraging school choice and encouraging schools to provide students with opportunities to improve their education rather than forcing students to accept sub-standard options.

In order to do this, Rose says that rather than forcing students to fit to the environment, we need to have the environment fit each student, just as the Air Force was only successful when it stopped making pilots fit into to a one - size - fits - all cockpit.

The open layout of the learning areas allows for frequent movement, rather than forcing students to be confined to a desk.

Not exact matches

The tools and technologies exist to build a knowledge - delivery system that fits and serves the students rather than trying to force every student to fit into an antiquated system that suits no one.

By the time they finish, they have had a far better practical education than most American students — equivalent to an American technical degree — and, as a result, they have an easier time entering the work force.

In 1987, he was accused by more than a dozen students of having forced them to participate in sex games, including sessions of sodomitical leap - frog.

In my own teaching of theology I find it best to use, rather than a single textbook with a single point of view, a reader which presents several angles of interpretation on specifics and on the whole because it forces students confronting a plurality of systems to decide for themselves what the Scriptures say.

All high school physics students can tell you that force equals mass times acceleration, and a 6 - 2, 210 - pound safety who runs a 4.5 40 is going to deliver a significantly more dangerous hit than a 5 - 10, 160 - pound safety who runs a 5.2.

With all of the activities at the three day event that is being planned, students and coaches understand that participating in The Honor Bowl is more than a win or a loss; it is a time to reflect on what our military has done and continues to do for the freedom America's Armed Forces provide us.

Beard agrees that students should understand what basic foods are, but says that with more than 60 percent of American women in the work force and a proliferation of fast - food outlets, meals from scratch and tomatoes direct from the farm are not common.

Accordingly, rather than force children to take the whole meal and throw out much of it, in 1975, Congress passed an amendment to the School Lunch Act allowing high schools to still receive federal reimbursement for meals so long as students selected at least three out of five options served, including milk.

A federal proposal to tighten eligibility for free school lunches could force large numbers of low - income children out of a program that feeds more than 800,000 students in Illinois, local school officials say.

More than 200 students have been forced to hole up in hotels after bats swarmed a Texas Southern University dormitory.

When small variations in student test scores result in failing ratings for teachers, and that can lead to automatic termination, it forces teachers to teach to the test, rather than teaching for learning.

English students will be forced to take on whole works by Shakespeare, rather than just single acts or scenes, in a bid to promote a more general understanding of the plays.

«Certainly, the Task Force's recommendations are a better Holiday present than the lump of coal that was shoved in the stockings of students and educators this past spring when the Governor and the Majority doubled down on Common Core testing and the overemphasis on standardized testing for teacher evaluations.»

The two members said they prefer Paladino have a chance to apologize to the parents and students in the predominantly black district, than be forced out.

«When small variations in student test scores result in failing ratings for teachers... it forces teachers to teach to the test, rather than teaching for learning.

«With some universities charging # 9,000 more than others, many students will be forced to choose the cheapest course, not the one that is best for them.»

That's right, while the state has spent 7.5 percent more than it did at the beginning of the Cuomo Administration, students have been forced to pay more and the state has shortchanged public colleges in the budget.

Students from Maple West Elementary School in Williamsville and King Center Charter School in Buffalo participated in the second annual «Bullying Stops Here» announcement at the downtown Central Library this morning where more than a dozen human service organizations joined forces with the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System for a community - wide, month - long anti-bullying awareness initiative.

In total, the teaching force would be down more than 6,000 positions when school begins next fall, even as student enrollment increases.

While some green efforts in schools set out to change students» behaviors, students conserving electricity by turning off unused lights, for instance, is a positive consequence rather than the driving force of the Green Schools Energy Curriculum.

Rather than flowing from one pose to the next on autopilot, Porat says learning a new variation forces her students to really pay attention to her instruction and focus on their bodies — which also means they're tuning out the outside world along with their own mental chatter.

Rather than forcing each unique body into similar alignment, I ask my students to pay attention to what feels good as they're practicing.

With dark, dour subject matter forcing possible rewrite by the school bureaucrats, a former student who would rather see it unproduced than see it altered to blunt its impact, and a meddling father who insists his son focus on his future instead of folly, Ms. Sinclair is going to have a heck of a time keeping it, as well as her own reputation, intact to the end.

Since students in the early grades generally have a limited attention span and suffer from learning fatigue in a more demonstrative way than older students, elementary school teachers are constantly forced to manage the learning state more acutely than teachers of middle school and high school.

I failed to define what I wanted my students to learn, and then forced them into a prescribed product rather than encouraging them to think about the best way to represent their understanding.

The new mindframe suggests that when thinking about assessment, including formative assessments, as a reflection of a teacher's effort more than the students» it turns assessment into a positive force for designing instruction.

Overall, a teacher can give the right instruction at the right time as his teaching becomes responsive to students, rather than responsive to other forces.

With that question as the driving force, students should focus on the learning rather than on the badges.

The first semester that Merseth taught USW35, many more students showed interest in the course than expected: 90 students for just 47 seats, forcing her to hold a lottery.

With a seniority - based layoff policy, school systems may be forced to cut some of their most promising new talent rather than dismiss more - senior teachers, who may not be terribly effective in raising student achievement.

Rather than just write down answers, students were forced to actually explain the reasoning behind their solutions.

And yes, this will force students to actually understand their materials, provided the tests do more than multiple - choice trivialities, which by the way we find even at college levels for the sake of ease of grading.

Plus, it forces us outside, into nature, where students may just make connections with something other than a textbook and a # 2 pencil.

Such trial - by - fire efforts to force a student to get up to speed may be well intentioned but are likely to do more harm than good.

Additionally, students can ask him no more than two questions during the group test, a practice that Chan says forces them to rely on each other.

Other high scorers, particularly in East Asia, are assumed — rightly or wrongly — to apply great pressures on students and to «force feed» answers to examination questions rather than to prepare students for broader modes of inquiry.

Hanushek calculates that this highly effective teacher (in the top 16 percent of the teaching force) will shift the typical student's lifetime earnings up by more than $ 20,000.

Even if a charter or private school were no better than a traditional forced - choice public school, the fact that parents and students themselves choose the school may mean they perceive distinct advantages in it, real or not.

Gov. John Engler of Michigan has signed one of the first state laws in recent years to relax, rather than tighten, legal curbs on how much force teachers can use on students.

Rather than a student presenting a report to his classmates ~ who are forced to become audience members ~ the project is presented to a genuine audience based on the nature of the work.

Less than a year after Cuomo wanted to link 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation to student test scores, he called for a «total reboot» of the system and formed the Common Core task force to investigate.

For more than twenty years, my educational foundation has joined forces with teachers, parents, students, administrators, and business and community leaders to illuminate the most innovative learning strategies to be found in K - 12 classrooms across the country.

In 9th grade, where poorly prepared boys first encounter the full force of the college - readiness curriculum, you can see a pileup, or bulge, as 9th - grade classes are far larger than 8th - grade classes, the result of students being retained before entering 10th grade.

Rather than forcing parents to navigate the system and fight on behalf of their children, investing in systems to better ensure that schools, classrooms, and curriculum meet the needs of students with disabilities can better support parents of children with disabilities.

The small number of specially qualified teachers — and the fact that they must work their schedules around literacy blocks, lunchtimes, and other set schedules — forces many schools to group special - needs students rather than to spread them out evenly among all the classrooms.

If socioeconomic differences are a major force driving discipline disparities, than we would expect to see bigger discipline disparities in districts with bigger socioeconomic disparities — that is, in places where most of the white students are middle class or above and most of the African American students are poor.

Considering that there is so little known about the NEW SAT, the Malloy administration's «mandate» means that students are forced to consider the March 2, 2016 test as little more than a «practice exam.»