Sentences with phrase «whole schools closing»

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They mourn the closing of Catholic churches and schools — never mind that whole parishes, claiming the rights of individual conscience, have contracepted themselves out of existence.

Surely the whole situation deserves close attention in theological schools.

As they have argued, family, citizenship, church, neighborhood, community, schools, and markets need to be drawn closer together in a more integrated whole, in every aspect ranging from the built environment to the cultivation of genuine local cultures arising from the varying circumstances of diverse places.

At Southern the smaller schools of religious education and church music probably offer closer - knit community experience and potentially put a whole educational experience together better than the larger school of theology.

It the proposed rules, USDA said it hoped to «encourage consumption of whole foods or foods closer to their whole state...» by requiring that key nutrients in school snacks be «naturally occurring.»

BY MICHAEL CAHILL Budget Talks, and officially closing three schools The North Rockland Central School met for a Committee of the Whole Board Workshop Session of the Board of Education Tuesday night in the North Rockland Administration Building to discuss next year's budget and vote to officially close several schools.

At a celebratory news conference at Tweed Courthouse, the headquarters of the Education Department, Mr. de Blasio said of the Renewal schools, «There are going to be some, when we go through the whole process — I'm certain some will be slated to close.»

«Studies like the current one involving rhabdomyosarcoma are giving us a close - up look at the way cancer evolves in response to treatment,» said study co-author Richard K. Wilson, Ph.D., director of The Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where scientists have extensive expertise analyzing tumor recurrence using whole - genome sequencing.

Because of the School's close proximity to the other Morningside facilities and programs, Columbia engineering students have ready access to the whole of the University's resources.

Similarly, young people with small support networks, who don't have a large number of adults and other people who they can rely on, who they feel close to... they have worse health problems, they are much more likely to be bullied at school [and they have a] much lower view of their whole lives than young people with larger support networks.

Researchers Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Jessica Hockett have explored these institutions, asking if their «whole school» focus on high achievers might play a larger role in educating top students in a national climate «consumed with gap closing.»

On the whole, the schools these entities sponsor are struggling, and far too many low - potential schools are approved to open (many of which subsequently close partway through their first year).

My assessment focus is on developing quality marking and feedback leading whole school development and closing the gap in reading.

London and the two regions closest to the capital, the South East (5.29) and East of England (5.91), all had vacancy rates per school above the national average for England as a whole, with schools across London averaging more than 6.5 advertisements per schools for main scale teachers during the period between January and the end of July 2015.

New Teacher Placement, Retention Can Exacerbate Achievement Gaps Education Week, July 18, 2012 «Marty West, an assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, said the results point to the need for districts to take a closer look at who they keep and lose both in individual schools and the district as a whole.

We could spend an entire EdNext volume arguing over the CREDO results alone, but I think some things are clear: one, nationally, low - income kids gain faster in charters than in district schools; two, many of CREDO's state and city - specific studies show very strong comparative gains for low - income charter students; and three, the movement as a whole has made significant progress by doing exactly what the model calls for and closing low - performing schools.

Schools that report very high and very low scores may report future scores that come closer to the average for the whole population.

The School's three teams, each comprised of four pupils per team, will now go on to represent the School in the next phase of the challenge, where they will be awarded points for accurately predicting the closing price of certain assets on a weekly basis, testing a whole new skillset.

In 2003, Thorstenson began laying the groundwork to implement a PLC at Work model by having her whole staff read Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap: Whatever It Takes by the DuFours and two other co-authors, and by meeting with the school board, teachers, parents, administrators and union leaders to achieve consensus on going forward with the model.

The 110,000 - student district in the Washington suburbs had announced plans to close schools down for the whole week of the Feb. 17 Presidents» Day holiday as a cost - cutting measure.

«The whole purpose of federal law and state law should be to help schools improve, not to come in and close them down and say, «We're going to start with a clean slate,» because there's no guarantee that the clean slate's going to be better than the old slate,» says Ravitch.

We have a culture in schools of radical teacher autonomy where every teacher closes the door behind them and does whatever they want, and in too many cases that means that innovation happens in classrooms, but not in departments, not in grade level teams, and not in whole schools.

From mastering fractions and whole - number division by the end of elementary school to completing more - advanced math courses by the end of high school, each milestone a student achieves is one step closer to success in school and in life.

Closer, research of the leadership and boards of many of these charter schools, and stories behind their creation are puzzling (String Theory / Spring Garden) Rep.Jim Roebuck, has sponsored Bills to create more accountability.There should be more transparency in the whole system Dept.of Education, Federal, State, and local.

Aviles de Bradley said, «The current whole class exercises that have been reported in some closing schools are simply inadequate to meet the myriad of complex individual needs of children and their families.»

The OTL Network also provides a whole - child framework for understanding the many «opportunity gaps» or disparities that exist in the public education system, from early education to school funding to school discipline, and which must be addressed in order to close persistent achievement gaps between students of different backgrounds.

Charter Schools are there to serve the community as a whole, not the community of a school that is closing down.

I find the closest LAUSD school that has similar grade range and use their whole school scores as the comparison.

Although these families live in wealthy black neighborhoods themselves, the school districts as a whole are usually not as wealthy compared to white suburbs because they have a closer proximity to poorer black areas (Lacy, 2007).

I am a cna the school I was going to closed down caused by bankruptcy they are charging me for the whole course that I wasn't able to finish do I qualify for the forgiveness?

The whole exhibition will be accompanied by a comprehensive Education Program for schools and universities, which had been developed in close collaboration with the education department of the MALBA.

When I lived in Ashland, Oregon, in 1978, the schools in nearby Eagle Point and one or two other towns were closed for the whole year.

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