Sentences with phrase «true impact of schools»

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While it's true that our letter relates to the activities of an organization of which Nancy and I are not members, let's not forget that SNA's lobbying efforts, if successful, will have an impact extending well beyond the organization's «family» of 55,000 school food workers.

As is true in all aspects of development, how your child feels about his skills and competence in other developmental areas (e.g., how he is doing in school) effects how he feels about himself socially, and impacts what challenges he is willing to take on.

The court found that the Department of Education failed to reveal the true impact of closing the schools, as required by a 2009 state law about mayoral control of schools.

«The crisis in Flint brought the true costs of a neglected infrastructure to the nation's attention, but in the finger - pointing there are deeper debates over public and private responsibility and the impact of dysfunctional politics on public health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Affairs.

«Above all, we do not want to create the impression that walking to school is bad for children's health because the opposite is true: walking or cycling to school, which builds physical activity into the child's daily routine, has health benefits that far outweigh any negative impact of air pollution» explains Jordi Sunyer, head of ISGlobal's Child Health Programme and co-author of the study.

For a generation of high school girls, these two films had a profound impact on their adolescence, specifically Mean Girls» reflection of teenage tribalism and The Notebook's depiction of true love.

Filmed by EL Education, «Austin's Butterfly, a true story about a Presumpscot Elementary School first - grade student who was tasked with making a scientific drawing of a tiger swallowtail butterfly, shows the impact of feedback and revision on creating high - quality work.

Jim True - Frost, cast member of the HBO series, The Wire, discusses portraying Baltimore public school teacher Roland «Prez» Pryzbylewski and the impact his character has had on education in media.

It may not be true that meetings are useless — they're good to keep the gears of the school twisting — but rarely do they meaningfully impact the learning and lives of students.

So is it true, as Hitt, McShane, and Wolf claim, that «a school choice program's impact on test scores is a weak predictor of its impacts on longer - term outcomes»?

If VA estimates capture teachers» true impact on their students, students entering grade 4 in that school should have higher year - end test scores than those of the previous cohort.

If we focus only on the true school choice programs — private school choice, open enrollment, charter schools, STEM schools, and small schools of choice — and we look at the direction of the impacts (positive or negative) regardless of their statistical significance, we find a high degree of alignment between achievement and attainment outcomes.

It is regrettable that the NAACP didn't take the time to research the true impact of charter schools in the communities they care about.

«But however they talk about it, the fact remains that parents want strong public schools for their kids and for all kids, and I consider it to be my job to help cut through rhetoric that is intended to confuse, and make sure parents understand the true impacts of policies on students across the country.»

Elsewhere and also even within Los Angeles, a very robust charter sector really anchoring what we know is true of Los Angeles kids is that our kids can do better when given the right supports and the right school ecosystem to really make an impact in their lives, and I'm tremendously excited to initiate this work now with the district as a partner.

Our theory of change helps us stay focused and true to what we are trying to accomplish with our kids while they are in elementary school while also articulating the link between our short - term outcomes with the long - term impact of our work.

Parents, students, and teachers in Newark are demanding a full audit and accounting of the school district's finances in order to know the true impact of state control and charter expansion in the city.

Let's have questions answered like whether the public schools students left were failing schools, whether the private schools students attended as a result of the scholarship were high performing schools, what percentage of each private school is attended by students receiving a scholarship, what is the true fiscal impact to the state of Indiana.

«Our analysis is a world - first look at the true cost of tourism — including consumables such as food from eating out and souvenirs — it's a complete life - cycle assessment of global tourism, ensuring we don't miss any impacts,» said Arunima Malik from the School of Physics at the University of Sydney.