Sentences with phrase «very weak schools»

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In one of the four newly - published papers, Petersson and his colleague Riccardo Torre of the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, outline a particle that would have very weak interactions with other particles and would exist within a framework of theories known as supersymmetry.

As well as the rest of Russian women, Volgograd representatives of the weak sex still have very strong old - school morals.

Ofsted data from 84 schools inspected about online safety in 2015 and self - review data from 7,000 schools using 360 Degree Safe has found that while schools are on the whole very strong when it comes to e-safety policies and filtering, they are weaker on staff and governor training, pupil involvement and evaluating impact of e-safety policies and practice.

The OECD folks offer some explanations, terming Shanghai a «leader in reform» and citing in particular its near - universal education system, its competitiveness (including admission both to universities and to the best secondary schools), a very high level of student engagement, a modernized assessment system, an ambitious new curriculum, and a program of intervention into weak schools.

There was once a time when African - American political power was still very weak, and we still had reason to believe the old solutions, offered by the leadership of that time, would solve the problems that plague our schools and our young people.

The Jacob - Lefgren study also shows that school principals are good at identifying the very best teachers as well as the weakest ones, exactly the capability needed to reward the topflyers while weeding out those who belong in another profession.

«Teachers love the idea of teaming, but it is very important to remember that any team is only as strong as its weakest link,» warned Dr. Layne Hunt, principal at Monroe (Michigan) High School.

Ofsted data from 84 schools inspected about online safety in 2015 and self - review data from 7,000 schools using 360 Degree Safe has found that while schools are on the whole very strong when it comes to online safety policies and filtering, they are weaker on staff and governor training, pupil involvement and evaluating impact of online safety policies and practice.

One in five teenagers had very weak academic skills and / or behavioral tendencies not attractive to employers and therefore would not benefit much from a high school diploma, at least given the then - prevalent «shopping mall» structure of most American public high schools.

Alaska, ranked 49th, offers very limited power to parents, a weak charter school law that limits authorization to school districts.

In an interview, he characterized the quality of educational leadership programs as «very poor,» the very weakest of education schools» offerings.

In a recent New York Times op - ed, I argued that the case for Betsy DeVos's Secretary of Education appointment rests on a very weak track record — in particular, the evidence does not support her free market approach to school reform that relies, first and foremost, on school vouchers for private schools, as well as unregulated forms of charter schooling.

Graduation rates, Regents test scores, drop - out rates, the progress of minority students, the performance of the weakest 9th grade students — you name it, and the results, as evaluated and tabulated by the respected university - based scholars at the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, were very strong, even remarkable.

In my position as Head Teacher, I was very excited about this project, but felt a certain amount of trepidation over, in what some may see, as handing the reins for school improvement over to the teachers, with what could be seen as quite a weak system of accountability.

By comparative standards, America has a weak welfare state, a decentralized education system, a segregated and unequal social geography, an underprofessionalized educational field, and very high expectations for its schools.

In a Near South Side elementary school in Chicago, in the 2012 - 13 5Essentials report, the school emerged as «weak» or «very weak» on 30 of the 35 school climate measures.

The evidence showed that high school GPA is an accurate predictor of college completion, while the SAT is very weak.

In many cases these smaller trusts had started off as a single, very strong school that had been asked to support a second weaker school.

My son's math marks in high school have always been weak so I found it very beneficial that his ACT tutor worked on solidifying his fundamentals while prepping for the ACT.

The AALS has cast a very skeptical eye on for - profit schools, compared with the ABA's weak hands - off accreditation policies.