Sentences with phrase «whether more school choices»

But research on whether more school choice improves education is mixed.

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Whether it's providing more choices with less sugar in stores or removing full - calorie soft drinks from schools, we're always looking for different ways to support your efforts to make every day a balanced one.

And as I sat through this district's presentation, school food professionals in the audience were eagerly asking for more details about all of it: the cost of the coffee cups, whether the lid and cardboard sleeve were included in the price, which extra-brightly-colored Trix were used in the treats shown above (apparently Trix Swirls is the more eye - catching choice).

About 80 % of schools with more than one class in a year group give parents of twins a choice of whether to separate their twins or keep them together.

Whether you're thinking about a career change or going back to school for more advanced education, your resources are precious, and we here at the Institute for the Psychology of Eating want you to feel confident that you're making the right choice.

The researchers also compared sugary ready - to - eat cereal to oatmeal and found oatmeal's nutritional advantage (more nourishing whole food meal) made it a better choice at improving brain power and encouraging better test scores.1 Additional stats show higher test grades and better school attendance in breakfast eaters than in non-breakfast eaters too.2 Bottom line: to excel in whatever we do, whether it be school, work, play or relationships, we need breakfast to be at the top of our mental game.

Reality: While it's true that younger students, whether they be elementary school students or freshmen at your high school, need a more fundamental set of skills for both academics and behavior, students of all ages can work to know themselves better, relate better to others, and make responsible choices.

The coming debate will be over whether the solution is to create a more sweeping form of public school choice or to revive private school vouchers to create the alternative the public system has so far squelched.

Remember that my test for whether school choice raises demand for certain teacher characteristics is two-fold: 1) whether a school that faces stronger competition hires teachers with more of a certain characteristic; and 2) whether that characteristic earns a premium in an environment of greater school choice.

Again, however, our data do not tell us whether the charter presence has caused opinion to change or whether charters have simply located in areas that are more hospitable to school choice.

As the evidence on school choice continues to grow, it is tempting to compare the results achieved by school voucher programs to those of charter schools — to ask whether one option or the other represents a more promising avenue for expanding educational opportunity.

Whether your sights are set on more rigorous academic standards, foolproof reading instruction, greater teacher effectiveness, expanded school choice, overhauled governance, or almost anything else that would benefit from big - time change, the challenge is huge.

Whether it is for stronger academics, safer learning environments, empowered teachers or more personalized curriculum, Americans are seeking school choice.

Ryan is more positive about the varieties of school choice — whether within school districts, or by way of charter schools and vouchers, and of course he favors interdistrict choice — but the legislative and judicial obstacles (not to mention practical ones) to the expansion of this route are clear.

Their enthusiasm for school choice suggests that they are more confident of parents» ability to sense whether a school or teacher is effective and to act on that knowledge.

The piece was intended to demonstrate that 1) good outcomes are associated with good choices made by families and thus 2) we can not conclude that schools and neighborhoods do not matter because such conclusions are invalidated by selection; that 3) we can not tell whether «bad» families are inefficacious because they only have bad choices open to them or because they would make bad choices even if offered good ones; and 4) we ought to be far more open to any policy that makes better choices available to families who now have little or no choice open to them.

Taken together this picture of the choice process requires us to consider whether improvements in the traditional modes of providing information to parents (e.g. printed choice guides, websites) alone can substantively lead to more informed parents and by extension, expansion of parents» choice sets that include more diverse schools.

The current local controversy over whether the school board should approve two more charter schools is not about believing in school choice, it's about survival.

Two issues dominate the school choice debate: whether competition would make schools more productive, and whether choice would result in sorting or stratification.

The proposed expansion of school choice in Wisconsin comes at a time when President Barack Obama and Republicans are promoting charter schools and teacher accountability, while skeptics question whether choice programs have proven to be any more effective than traditional public schools.

The question is whether we should add more money to schools prior to demanding choice and accountability.

Still, it remains to be seen whether or not the school choice movement will have significant impact on the awareness of families for choosing more philosophically diverse schools.

Liberal courts are disposed to discover something in state constitutions that will disqualify the law, regardless of whether the constitution prohibits vouchers according to a strict constructionist reading, but conservative courts that may be friendlier to school choice also will adhere more closely to a strict reading of the letter and intent of the constitution.

Part of the purpose of making this data available was to help parents see how the students in their children's school were faring and make more informed choices, whether it's pressuring the school and district to do better, or taking their children elsewhere.

If parents who make school choices for thir own kids, but stand in the way of other parents choosing a school that best fits their needs, whether magnet, charter or anything else, they should feel far more than a little hypocritical.

Going from country to country, it is clear that more competition — whether through public or private school choice measures — leads to higher test scores for public and private schools alike.

We can debate the point whether or not charters are public schools, but I think the more important question is whether charters are providing viable school choices that families want.

More generally, at the heart of school choice, whether in the form of vouchers or charter schools, is a «belief in the power of deregulation» (Ravitch, 2010a, p. 127).

During his speech, Harker also said that educating high school students about options (whether it's a scholarship, private loan, federal grant or student loan) and consequences can also enable them to make better, more successful choices.

Whether for new high school graduates entering the job market for the first time or for older individuals seeking to transition to a more rewarding field, becoming a veterinary assistant can be an excellent choice.