Sentences with phrase «where good public schools»

We see this reality in many ways, from where good public schools and bad ones are found to sentencing disparities for possession of crack versus powder cocaine.

Not exact matches

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

The loss of biblical language in public rhetoric or in public education may have telling effect (Lincoln might be incomprehensible today) Sunday school and other agencies of biblical education, where the texts can be restored and minds can as well be re-stored, are neglected, signaling that citizens are not really serious when they ask for more religion in the schools.

When he was in his prime, Greenville, MS had perhaps the best public schools in the country, where Walker Percy and Shelby Foote had to struggle to get Bs in English.

Good examples of topics where this tends to happen are abortion, school funding, pray at public events, and so on.

Like Malcolm X, DuBois did extremely well in the public schools of the town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where he grew up.

They are not only getting a * far * better academic education, they are also getting a far better moral education than can be had in a public school, where morality may not even be mentioned and there is little or no talk about ethics, either.

We are making these again this year for our family and also providing the GF dough for our synagogue's Purim Carnival (where many hamantaschen will be made) as well as the recipe for our older daughter's 3rd grade (public Waldorf) class, which is studying Judaism this year, and learning about Purim, in part by making hamantaschen as a school activity.

Part of that marketing is how team members act while inside the skatepark where Halterman can observe interactions between teammates and other riders, but all team members must sign a contract that requires that they maintain good grades and conduct themselves properly in school and in public.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Organic is not a word you would find on a public school lunch menu in the U.S. where «cheaper is better» seems to be the theme.

We sit where we get the product of the, primarily, the public school system, and there are issues with what we get, even for those who, nominally, are well educated, who have high SAT scores, who've taken AP courses.

Her advocacy for youth includes providing an educational alternative in the form of Edge Hill University, where she is a Professor of Public Understanding of Science, as well as serving as the school's first chancellor.

There could be other factors involved as well, such as school - family incompatibility, multiple intelligences (where certain children learn best within environments that aren't offered in either public or private schools), as well as religious convictions and beliefs that aren't welcome in the public school system (creationism, for example).

The basic tenets of good nutrition are sneaking their way into the public consciousness, especially in school cafeterias, where concern is mounting about the typical fare of high - fat, deep - fried foods frequently served for lunch.

Michelle Silver (Camp Name «Silver») graduated with a bachelor's degree in Human Biology from Stanford University in 2007 and then received an ScM in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2009, and is currently a PhD candidate there as well, where her dissertation focuses on cervical cancer screening.

If you come from a low - income home — that's 2/3 of the District of Columbia Public School students — where breakfast is Doritos and some colored water and high fructose corn syrup called «juice» purchased at the convenience store on the way to school, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrSchool students — where breakfast is Doritos and some colored water and high fructose corn syrup called «juice» purchased at the convenience store on the way to school, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrschool, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrition?

The Post's interviews with parents and staffers at JHS / MS 80, as well as public documents, painted a picture of a school where students are allowed to shirk their studies, hurt each other and play on computers in rat - infested buildings, while administrators turned a blind eye and even discouraged staffers from reporting violence.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

«This is the state where I have been a vocal advocate for LGBTQ equality and for women's health and women's rights, including a woman's right to choose, and in the last 17 years, I have been traveling across this state fighting for better public schools for my kids but also for all of New York's kids,» Nixon said.

We believe in a New York where wages are rising, small businesses are thriving and our public schools are the best in the nation.»

Same goes for the suburbs, where public schools are the best in the state.

where school are getting better funded then the public school the bad areas get.

«Yes,» replied Cuomo, «Because we have areas where the public schools, which is not doing well, and insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.

«I believe [public school education] is where we should be putting our very best people.

Study collaborators included NIAID - funded scientists from Public Health Research Institute and New Jersey Medical School - Rutgers University, as well as researchers from Case Western Reserve University, the Houston Methodist Research Institute and Hospital System and NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories, where the comparative genome sequencing took place.

The research team, led by Joseph Graziano, PhD, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, assessed 272 children in grades 3 - 5, who were, on average, 10 years old, from three school districts in Maine where household wells are the predominant source for drinking water and coSchool of Public Health, assessed 272 children in grades 3 - 5, who were, on average, 10 years old, from three school districts in Maine where household wells are the predominant source for drinking water and coschool districts in Maine where household wells are the predominant source for drinking water and cooking.

Every once in awhile I visit a school that reminds me of what public education can be at its best, a place where I'd like to be, as a child or a teacher, a place that elicits the best in me as an educator.

«However, being a good public speaker might not sufficiently prepare you for every media interview, especially the tricky ones where your school's reputation is at stake.

With the importance of education fresh in her mind, Vegas went on to pursue a master's in public policy at Duke and then a doctorate at the Ed School, where her dissertation was an economic and research - based evaluation of «how we could design policies to attract, retain, and motivate better teachers,» she says.

The school already has over a decade's experience opening its campus to public school enrichment camps and initiatives like Growing Girls and Gardens, where they are taking best practices from their venerable independent school for girls, working with the school district, and applying the learning to benefit some of the city's neediest students — walking the walk to offer outstanding education and opportunity for promising girls.

Dianne Payne, an adoptive mother and a PTA president from Queens, asked the judge overseeing the state's 13 - year - old school finance case for $ 26,000 to remove two of her five children from what she considers inadequate public high schools and place them in private schools, where she contends schooling is better.

And I don't feel at all confident that public education is going to attract and retain teachers of color unless schools where they want to teach become better places for them to work.»

At the community level, support for schools might also be enhanced under a regime of public school choice, because fewer people would feel compromised, silenced, or alienated in an environment where well - intentioned school officials are forced to accommodate conflicting constituent demands and wind up doing so in ways that favor the most vocal, affluent, or well - organized.

As I write, Coursera offers 207 courses, ranging from astronomy to public health, presented by professors at such upscale schools as CalTech, Duke, and Stanford (where, as best I can tell, all this originated — and just a few years ago).

But most public parents have no incentive to be well informed about specific private schools (or even other public schools), so it is not surprising that they can't point to specific schools where they'd like to send their kids.

In the area where I live, Philadelphia magazine recently published a list of what it identified as «best» — the top 50 public high schools in the region.

Best known for his and John Chubb's seminal work on school choice, Politics, Markets, and America's Schools, Moe here seeks to discover where Americans stand on the voucher issue through public opinion surveys.

The fact is that state legislatures are where the traditional public - school establishment wields the most power and is best able — often working behind the scenes — to keep anything much from changing.

In a Public Agenda survey, more than 85 percent of teachers indicated that they would choose a school with well - behaved students and supportive parents over one where they would earn a significantly higher salary.

These questions include the potential value of having a socially and economically diverse group of children together prior to kindergarten; supporting families with working parents who require full - day care and education for their young children; and where best to serve children with special needs whose early education costs already are fully assumed (regardless of family income) by the public schools (based on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [IDEA]-RRB-.

Right before going to the Foundation, Scott was the Chief Academic Officer for Boston Public Schools, where he was responsible for the academic programming of the school systems, as well as overseeing all regional superintendents and schools in the diSchools, where he was responsible for the academic programming of the school systems, as well as overseeing all regional superintendents and schools in the dischools in the district.

«We spend a lot of time getting students to speak in different arenas, forums, and environments,» says Rachael Futo, a Year 7 coach, «so that they're ready and prepared for things like interviews where students who come from public schools often don't do as well.»

Perhaps society would be better off if its schools stuck to the three Rs and did a solid job in domains where they enjoy both competence and wide public support.

A state investigation had found a public «school system fraught with unethical behavior that included teachers and principals changing wrong answers on students» answer sheets and an environment where cheating for better test scores was encouraged and whistle blowers were punished.»

Charter schools are tuition - free public schools that foster a relationship between parents, teachers and students to create an environment where parents can be more involved, teachers are given the freedom to innovate, and students are provided the structure best suited for their learning.

Today, convoluted Title I formulas coupled with policies in some states that assign students to public schools based on their parents» zip code, do not make Title I a vehicle conducive to achieving its primary purpose of «provid [ing] a good education for every boy and girl — no matter where he lives.»

Her background was in business and finance, all the better to drain money out of the public schools and place it where profits can be made from our children.

The AOCC kicked off on Friday, March 3, and featured several panel discussions, as well as the Youth Action Research where Boston Public School students presented information, including survey data, about their schools» racial and social climate.

High - achieving students, especially those growing up in poverty, have not been well served by our traditional public school system, and I believe they deserve a place to go to school where they can learn to their full potential.