Sentences with phrase «type of school system»

We tried to take advantage of the opportunity to build a new type of school system.

Fortunately, many countries have different types of school systems operating side - by - side within their own borders.

A 2009 literature review of the within - country studies comparing outcomes among different types of school systems worldwide revealed that the most market - like and least regulated education systems tended to produce student outcomes superior to more heavily regulated systems, including those with a substantial number state - funded and regulated private schools.

A 2009 literature review of the within - country studies comparing outcomes among different types of school systems worldwide revealed that the most market - like and least regulated education systems tend to produce student outcomes superior to more heavily regulated systems, including those with a substantial number of state - funded and regulated private schools.

Not exact matches

Classrooms at Disselboom primary school are equipped with SchoolVision, a lighting system developed by Philips that changes the atmosphere and ambience of a classroom depending on the type of lesson being taught.

Consider the interests of your employees, and consider what might compliment your type of business — for example, if you sell reading software to schools, you may want to volunteer somewhere in the school system.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&school system.»

Groomed by the American system for some job like the one he holds — high school at Roxbury Latin, undergrad at Yale (and president of Yale's prestigious Political Union in his last year there), law school at Harvard — he belongs to a type of quiet and careful civil servant that Caesar Augustus would have recognized.

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

What we'd like to see with the passage of the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act is a concerted effort by schools — whether at the state or local level — to find the best practices that work for their system, their resources, and the type of programs they already have in place.

The system was called the «tripartite system», because it also provided for a third type of school, the technical school, but few were ever established, and the system was widely regarded as being bipartite, with the best going to grammar schools and the rest going to the secondary moderns.

«Entice families to stay engaged in the educational system, by promising free college tuition, but most important, we used our resources to put various types of support in schools for students and their families to enhance opportunities for academic achievement,» she said of the program.

Cuomo noted the effort to create an objective evaluation system that could be used to improve faculty and schools statewide as well as for layoffs is being watched closely by unions representing other types of workers.

This type of system could take much of the guesswork out of patient care, says Sydney Cash, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School.

«By diversifying our labeling approaches, we also visualized different types of individual biomolecules in the chromosome - containing nucleus, including sequences in the DNA, proteins bound to DNA or the membrane that encloses the nucleus, as well as nuclear RNAs,» adds Yin, who is also co-leader of the Wyss Institute's Molecular Robotics Initiative, and Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School..

«Interacting with students on social media imposes a cost in terms of devoting critical manpower, but if universities develop strategies for managing various social platforms for different types of incidents, they can better prepare students during emergencies,» says co-author Raj Sharman, PhD, associate professor of management science and systems in the School of Management.

«Ribonucleotides are the most abundant non-standard nucleotides that can be found in DNA, but until now there has not been a system to determine where they are located in the DNA, or to identify specifically which type they are,» said Francesca Storici, an associate professor in the School of Biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

To help address these issues, researchers at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego are running a Diabetes Intensive Medical Management (DIMM) «tune up» clinic for complex type 2 diabetes patients at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System.

«Earlier studies have shown that vitamin E can help regulate the aging body's immune system, but our present research is the first study to demonstrate that dietary vitamin E regulates neutrophil entry into the lungs in mice, and so dramatically reduces inflammation, and helps fight off infection by this common type of bacteria,» said first author Elsa N. Bou Ghanem, Ph.D., postdoctoral scholar in the department of molecular biology and microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM).

With a population of approximately 1,500 students, 60 percent of whom are of color and 71 percent of whom are low - income, RHS is a national example of the type of programmatic systems change needed to move our schools forward.

They often resemble a dysfunctional family, composed of three unlovable types: 1) aspiring politicians for whom this is a rung on the ladder to higher office; 2) former employees of the school system with a score to settle; and 3) single - minded advocates of one dubious cause or another who yearn to use the public schools to impose their particular hang - up on all the kids in town.

«If Ofsted is still around in 10 years» time, the way we inspect and what we inspect would be very different in the type of school - led improvement system envisioned in the ASCL blueprint,» he said.

Our schools are dealing with a lot more new teachers than they had in the past, and defined benefit pension systems aren't set up to deal with this type of mobile workforce.

Gates support, which usually begins with planning grants of $ 100,000, pays for joint professional development; for designing a universal enrollment system; for establishing common metrics for evaluating all students, regardless of school type; and for creating more personalized learning for students.

Traditionally one of the barriers to the adoption of those types of systems by school districts has been the lack of the ability to include federal dollars, which need to be allocated to schools by the rules of the different formula streams.

Lastly, take a look at the types of organizations with which HGSE is partnering; these school systems, nonprofit organizations, mission - based for - profit organizations, and government agencies are pushing the boundaries of what is possible in preK - 12 education.

These new systems depend primarily on two types of measurements: student test score gains on statewide assessments in math and reading in grades 4 - 8 that can be uniquely associated with individual teachers; and systematic classroom observations of teachers by school leaders and central staff.

I've written about this as well, but from your perspective, what's wrong with «dashboard» type systems that simply describe performance on a range of metrics rather than trying to categorize schools into some summative rating?

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.

Moreover, the widespread adoption of mobile CCTV systems in means of transport such as school buses, to evaluate incidents and monitor behaviour of pupils, further reinforces the flexible and proactive nature of this type of security system.

One type of subjective evaluation, onsite inspection, is nonetheless used in many school systems around the world.

It's clear that we need a new type of system for urban public education, one that is able to respond nimbly to great school success, chronic school failure, and everything in between.

In the spirit of the self - improving system, the review panel was composed entirely of professionals in leadership roles of different types in schools, colleges, MATs, and nurseries.

Sure, if the mayor appoints a true «sector agnostic» that does not care which type of school is producing solid results and is insulated from the politics of school closure, it would significantly increase the chance of success in a decentralized system.

Over the last several years, we have seen new approaches to Catholic education that shake free of the older models of how schools should be organized and run and provide proof points for a new type of Catholic school system.

As schools and organizations seek after new types of eLearning experiences, many end up turning to traditional learning management systems (LMS).

While public schools in New Orleans educate mainly children from poor families, «several new schools are attracting families who could afford private or parochial school, the same type of families who started leaving the school system 45 years ago,» writes Danielle Dreilinger on nola.com.

Given the student demographics and the urban environment, the Boston Public Schools system offers an extraordinary diversity of cultures, ethnicities, class backgrounds, and types of learners.

David Simmons, head of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, commented that: «School autonomy is supposed to drive up standards, but in the case of school meals we now have a two - tier system where one type of school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary School autonomy is supposed to drive up standards, but in the case of school meals we now have a two - tier system where one type of school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary school meals we now have a two - tier system where one type of school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary foods.

By adopting these types of solutions, a school can be confident it has the systems and processes in place to reduce the likelihood of suffering a notifiable data breach and the implications this can have.

It will also explore whether Higher Achievement's new cost - efficient, whole - school model (which serves only children in a middle school feeder system) can achieve the same types of results as its traditional «magnet model.»

What is less clear is whether the type of judgment proposed for schools with low - performing subgroups is legal under ESSA: would a state's use of a grand jury system to make judgments be acceptable?

Early education is an established «diverse delivery» system: many types of providers, including Head Start programs, public schools, private childcare centers, and community - based nonprofits, are permitted to serve children.

But several new schools are attracting families who could afford private or parochial school, the same type of families who started leaving the school system 45 years ago.

This conflicts with ESSA's stated goal to identify the schools where support is most needed, as the support system would effectively focus on only one type of school because the indicators used to measure performance would not apply meaningfully to that school type.

All types of public school systems struggle with providing equitable access to quality schools, and the New Orleans system is no exception.

The organization of state superintendents and the organization of big urban school districts will work together to audit the number and types of tests administered and develop new systems that are leaner and more integrated.

«I'm excited that we have begun our work with these national leaders and that our local school districts will be able to use their expertise to help build the types of comprehensive evaluation systems that will provide meaningful feedback to teachers while gauging their effectiveness in a fair manner.»

It is simply insufficient to assign children to schools based solely on where they live; for decades, that type of assignment system has perpetuated both school segregation and racial and income achievement gaps.

These suggestions focus mostly on the different types of systems that resulted in school improvement.