Sentences with phrase «where schools and school systems»

«NAPLAN is a good thing but it's early days and there's a lot of improvement needed in how they fine tune the testing and in communicating its purpose — it's not about ranking schools or school students — it's about learning where schools and school systems should allocate their own resources.

At NYCLA, we envision a nation where every school and school system is led by transformational leaders who prepare all children, especially the traditionally underserved, for success.

Not exact matches

It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

(Laughs) I've done things in IT and engineering but after school I joined the Navy, where I designed cockpit systems for the Department of Defense.

«Using machine learning to find a needle in a haystack is where computers can help us transcend our limitations,» says Professor Adam Pah from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern's Institute on Complex Systems (NICO).

Apple, as part of its response, on Tuesday announced improvements in its iWork suite at an event in Chicago, where school bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High Sschool bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High SchoolSchool.

At the event, which was hosted by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law in New Haven, Powell highlighted three specific areas where blockchain technology is affecting change in regard to the Federal Reserve's «broad public policy objectives»: the creation of real - time payment systems, use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement services, and the issuance of digital currencies by central banks.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education,» he said.

We need a smarter infrastructure where various agencies, departments, school systems, they're working in a more integrated and collaborative fashion to ensure that we can share data, we can share information, to enhance our level of effectiveness.

Schooling serves to make common sense explicit where this is thought necessary, but also to correct common sense with respect to the technical beliefs and institutional practices that constitute the reigning science, criticism, and legal system of the culture.

Like our education system, where black and brown students find themselves more segregated than they were in 1968 — stuck in schools that are understaffed and under - resourced.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education.

I think we have come to a point and time where we shouldn't recognize any religious holiday's in our school systems, federal facilities, state facilities, etc..

Lloyd was brought up in a Paulist parish, and attended the Paulist school system, where he first started thinking about a vocation.

He added: «There was a system of administration in that school over a long number of years which allowed a paedophile to flourish, gave him authority, not only over all of the pupils, but gave him authority over the staff as well and put him in a position where he could abuse people and that needs to be explored, it needs to be investigated, it needs to be enquired into.

This same bureaucratic divide occurs at the state and county level, where, with rare exceptions, early - childhood and school - system administrators do not collaborate or even communicate much.

She taught school in the Texas school system before moving to Nashville, TN in 1980, where she became a Leader with La Leche League International, an educational and support organization for breastfeeding mothers.

We don't believe everyone deserves a trophy, but we have seen the problems associated with a ranking system, and have urged schools to consider other ways to honor their top students — ways that rely less on a grade point average and that are more similar to the MVP status on a sports team - where multiple skills and traits are valued.

You may want to start with the school, where there's a whole support system that includes the teacher, guidance, and other school staff.

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.

If you really want to improve school meals, here are 10 effective ways to support the hard - working school nutrition HEROES who are reshaping local and national food systems, teaching kids about where food comes from, and feeding millions of children their best meals of the day — every day — in thousands of schools across our country.

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).

and we should make sure schools have the funds necessary to implement a system where everyone checks out the same way.

«That's where I learned the power of volume, and I realized that if I wanted to change food, change happens through education and volume, and that's what we have in the school system,» she says.

This is what my mother did when I was in Tenth Grade, as a result of her doing that and making the school system put me in a different school where I was safer, I went from being, almost a high school dropout, to being the first person in my family to graduate from college.

In a town where voters routinely approve money for new schools and additions, a $ 16 million referendum question to build an indoor recreation center and a new trail system in Naperville seemed like a walk in the park.

Basically, a parent / guardian registers their student and their food allergy restrictions and based on that unique combination of food allergies, the system securely logs the parents on to a «parent portal,» where they can view safe options for their child from the school's existing menu.

We are educating young people to make sure they understand that high standards are not the problem — school cafeterias where no cooking takes place, the power of processed food industries, and lack of control over our food systems are the real problems.

Modern tech means that our county has an online payment system where students can «bank» school lunch money and debit the system based on how many lunches they buy, which is kind of neat!

The advice comes as primary care trusts prepare for a new system in September where parents of primary school children receive letters detailing their child's weight and whether it is higher or lower than normal.

«As he inherited a system where there was a parallel operation, through the SUNY schools, and that was done with governors prior to our own governor, but I think as he mentioned, there will be lessons learned from this and to have some as trusted and well - regarded as Howard Zemsky, now in charge of it all, is really an important first step, but there will continue to be checks and balances,» stated Hochul.

«If we are going to move our school system forward, we need a policy where parents have a voice, where there are real checks and balances, where everybody has to prove their points and convince others before policy is made or changed.»

The high school programs that faced the highest number of complaints — five each — were Rockland Boces in West Nyack, in Rockland County, which had one verified, two unverified and two open allegations; Susan E. Wagner High School on Staten Island, with three verified and two open allegations; and Fayetteville - Manlius High School near Syracuse, where all five allegations related to the same incident, in which several students were arrested in 2007 for allegedly hacking into computer systems to change gschool programs that faced the highest number of complaints — five each — were Rockland Boces in West Nyack, in Rockland County, which had one verified, two unverified and two open allegations; Susan E. Wagner High School on Staten Island, with three verified and two open allegations; and Fayetteville - Manlius High School near Syracuse, where all five allegations related to the same incident, in which several students were arrested in 2007 for allegedly hacking into computer systems to change gSchool on Staten Island, with three verified and two open allegations; and Fayetteville - Manlius High School near Syracuse, where all five allegations related to the same incident, in which several students were arrested in 2007 for allegedly hacking into computer systems to change gSchool near Syracuse, where all five allegations related to the same incident, in which several students were arrested in 2007 for allegedly hacking into computer systems to change grades.

The partnership will establish a collaborative relationship where Le Moyne's Madden School of Business students have access to SU in the areas of data science and information security management, while SU students gain access to Le Moyne's health information systems and enterprise systems resources.

The system already works for schools, where the speed limits are extremely low and cars are expected to go about 10 miles per hour over a speed limit, give or take.

In Albany, where a number of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's policy priorities have succumbed to resistance from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Senate Republicans, documents suggest that de Blasio has turned to the real estate industry's chief lobbying group in New York as an intermediary to press politicians on a matter beyond its traditional scope: the city's public school system.

De Blasio's aides on Monday warned of chaos in the school system if the mayoral control law is allowed to expire and the city goes back to the old Board of Education system where the mayor appoints two members and the five borough presidents one each.

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.

Your friend Tristram Hunt of course is guilty of the same Neo-Liberal agenda, he supported free schools right up to the point where they started to fail in Sweden, then rapidly reversed to just supporting the Academies which the teaching profession reject and only work with it from imposition, even that now has turned into mass protest forcing the numskull Tories to publicly retreat, although they will secretly use the inspectors to rig the system, where good schools are deemed poor by their diktat.

A report by Professor Allyson Pollock, from Barts hospital and the London School of Medicine, and David Price, senior research fellow at its Centre for Health Sciences, found the reforms would create a system where the government «finances but does not provide healthcare».

«As we work our way out of this recession and rebuild a country which is fairer, we must ensure our school system gives every child a chance to fulfil their potential irrespective of their background and where they live.»

He said «the Secretary of State has allowed a system to continue, that continually - and on an annual basis - humiliates and demeans those schools in the toughest places, where children are at times hard to teach and their parents are at times hard to reach.»

The decade - long fight between Buffalo's school system and the Buffalo Teachers Federation over a contract surfaced at Wednesday's Buffalo Board of Education meeting where hundreds of teachers protested.

While those questions deal with specifics of how the school system is doing and where the money is going, the school board's situation became more complicated just before the meeting started.

Q) What ever happened to the Merit and Fitness Civil Service System where aspiring Public Information Officers competed for the job in a local high school with a number 2 pencil and a calculator for a PS&T (PEF represented) Grade 18 and / or 23 permanent (non-political) position against a room full of highly qualified competitors?

«I'm talking about where the kids in our school system get an opportunity to talk about their experiences, their interactions with law enforcement outside of school and inside.»

Unfortunately, following years of neglect from the Bloomberg administration, our city's school system is plagued by school overcrowding and excessive class sizes, where hundreds of thousands of our children simply don't have adequate space to learn.

is AFFIRMING that a more democratic, equitable and collaborative system is possible where local schools supported by the entire community provide excellent education and the wrap around services needed to meet each child's right to reach his / her full human potential and their community's right for social and economic development,

The Union Square's Washington Irving High School, Murray Hill's Unity Center for Urban Technologies, Chelsea Career and Tech Ed High School and the Bread and Roses Integrated High School in Harlem are among 33 struggling schools city - wide where the new evaluation systems will be introduced.

In Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, mayoral control could include a system where mayors appoint school board members or superintendents or both.