Sentences with phrase «whole system of schools»

«I wanted to create a whole system of schools that would be improved, so that my legacy would not be a few more good schools.»

The goal in Boston is to improve a whole system of schools.

The challenge for urban superintendents is to improve a whole system of schools and not settle for just a few more good campuses.

Not exact matches

The school of Hanafi came to dominate the whole province of Sind to the exclusion of all other systems of jurisprudence.

Like the Sunday school system itself, this motherly - person image was a recognition that, in terms of method, the family could not be counted on to do the whole needed teaching job along with services of worship.

There are smaller steps that could be taken to accomodate the prayer needs of those students rather than rescheduling a whole school system over the needs of a small minority.

Within the esoteric tradition of these schools, hand and finger symbolism was cultivated to an incredibly skillful and complicated system of expression which makes it possible to express through finger and hand symbols the whole content of the school's secret doctrine in one worship service.

In Britain he changed the whole school system for the better and has recieved awards because of it.

The whole system puts unbelievably intense pressure on teachers, resulting in all sorts of unintended consequences like the standardized test cheating scandals, schools cutting into recess, etc. etc..

Specifically, the SNA sought to: gut the new whole grain standard from 100 percent «whole grain - rich» to 50 percent; halt further sodium reductions in school food; and revert to the old system under which kids could pass up all fruits and vegetables a lunch, instead of being required to take a half - cup serving.

The Whole Systems Design client list includes The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; Cape Eleuthera Island School, Bahamas; Vermont State Prison Farm; and a significant installation at Teal Farm / LivingFuture in Vermont.

Specifically, the SNA is asking to: keep the level of whole grains in the total number of grain foods served at 25 %; avoid further reductions in sodium; eliminate the requirement that kids take fruit or a vegetable with their meal (returning to the old system in which kids could — and often did — pass up those healthful foods); and allow schools to sell on a daily basis a la carte items like pizza and fries, as opposed to the current plan which would allow these items to be sold only on the same day they appeared on the main lunch line.

The group is planning future purchases with an eye toward foods that are typically too costly for most school systems, such as whole pieces of beef, avocado, pineapples and good quality spices, Goldstein said.

The Rethinking School Lunch Oakland Feasibility Study, by a team of experts consultants commissioned by the Center, is based on CEL's Rethinking School Lunch planning framework, a whole - systems approach developed over more than 15 years of work on school food iSchool Lunch Oakland Feasibility Study, by a team of experts consultants commissioned by the Center, is based on CEL's Rethinking School Lunch planning framework, a whole - systems approach developed over more than 15 years of work on school food iSchool Lunch planning framework, a whole - systems approach developed over more than 15 years of work on school food ischool food issues.

When school boards and whole cities are refusing to even consider putting in gardens, much less aquaponic systems because of LIABILITY issues, do we stand a chance?

«We think it would enable a local, holistic view of the whole school system in an area.

At present, whatever the merits of individual schools under the system, the free schools programme as a whole is in danger of helping to unravel a national school system developed in successive pieces of legislation over the past 70 years.

«The excellence our reforms has unlocked in some parts of our schools system has not yet spread across the whole country.

To try to compensate, the school district has raised the property taxes that support it again and again — but that only had the net effect of driving more people away, lowering property values, and making the whole system even worse.

These actions don't even begin to address the needs of child care providers or the thousands of undervalued state, local government and school employees - many work for much less than $ 15 per hour - who take care of our kids, maintain our roads, water and sewer systems and do a whole lot more necessary work.

These actions don't even begin to address the needs of child care providers or the thousands of undervalued local government and school employees - many work for much less than $ 15 per hour - who take care of our kids, maintain our roads, water and sewer systems and do a whole lot more necessary work.

«They've probably reached the point where they're going to need to start testing the missiles themselves — the whole system,» said Joel Wit, senior fellow at the U.S. - Korea Institute (USKI) at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

STEM - focused high schools are important because they constitute the first U.S. science and mathematics reform that requires whole - school transformation rather than tinkering with peripheral components of an outmoded educational system or serving just a small, select segment of the public school population.

Given the ample evidence that change over time is a crucial property of planets, including our own, of stars, of galaxies and of the Universe as a whole, it is important for the nation's school children to learn about the great age of, and changes in, astronomical systems, as well as their present properties.

The whole system consists of an e-book (Old School New Body), the F4X work out guide, and multiple reports on building muscle, losing weight, as well as improving your health and happiness.

Increasing the number of children who eat school meals helps save the whole school food system from losing money each year.

The UK project shows a great example of providing equal chance, as it provided an initial deployment across the whole school system.

So, school systems have a legacy of buying a whole lot of things, things that are underused and... have disappointment happening around them because when they were purchased they were grand ideas but it never quite happened, and it's usually because the soft systems, the learning systems, weren't altered to suit that.

«Effects of socio - economic status on educational outcomes can be mitigated, and this can be done on a whole - school and system - wide basis by the very...

Whole school approaches, like The Alannah and Madeline Foundation's eSmart system and the National Safe Schools Framework underline the importance of everyone working together to develop respectful and caring school cultures.

The whole idea was to use charter laws, which had enabled the creation of new and innovative schools, to spur new school systems.

These sources of KIPP's success, he suggests, can not be replicated on a larger scale, so imitating or expanding KIPP can not meaningfully reform the school system as a whole.

It required school districts that had previously maintained a «dual» school system to take all steps necessary to convert to a «unitary» school system, one in which no schools are «racially identifiable,» because the enrollment of each school reflects the racial balance of the school district as a whole.

This negative experience prompted me to think deeply about the potential negative consequences of publishing this data — on teachers and on the school system as a whole.

The pattern of test scores in Texas and the nation suggest that consequential accountability — adopted early by Texas, then by more states, and finally by the nation as a whole — was a shock to the U.S. school system that altered the ecosystem and led to a different outcome than had existed before.

Supporters who join the reform side can lose confidence, leave the fight, and exercise their interest in education in other ways — for example, by sending their children to private schools or supporting the improvement of individual schools, as opposed to the whole system.

The spread of whole - school reform models such as Success for All; the imposition of standards and high - stakes tests; the lowering of class sizes and slicing of schools into smaller, independent academies; the explosion of charter schools and push for school vouchers — all these reforms signal a vibrantly democratic school system.

It demonstrates that effects of socio - economic status on educational outcomes can be mitigated, and this can be done on a whole - school and system - wide basis by the very people and the same schools where low performance was once the norm.

«Effects of socio - economic status on educational outcomes can be mitigated, and this can be done on a whole - school and system - wide basis by the very people and the same schools where low performance was once the norm.

One movement in education that has already begun linking schools directly to communities by engaging kids in building more sustainable environments through food, water, and energy is systems thinking — the process of understanding how things influence one another other within a whole.

The overwhelming attention — people camped out to enroll — in the school only furthered Sanders» curiosity over how to scale schools and build systems that meet the needs of a whole child and leverage community assets to do so.

Yet because NCLB has made accountability tests the tail that wags the dog of the whole education system — threatening remediation and state takeover for schools that fall short — what's not tested often isn't taught.

With features designed to save schools and enterprises time and money whilst increasing productivity, ensuring reliability and adding security to their IT systems, the new release includes a whole host of new tools and added support, making it the ultimate monitoring and IT management solution on the market — backed by multiple awards including «Best of Show» at ISTE 2017.

It is easy with mail systems to break your audience into lists, so parents of primary students get one email, parents of high school students get another, and when a whole of school email needs to go out, send it to both lists at the same time.

Finland has a very strong emphasis on whole child development as part of its equity - focused school system.

Christopher J. Doherty, the director of a private organization that manages whole - school - reform programs in the Baltimore school system, has been named to head President Bush's Reading First initiative.

It makes the whole system transparent: parents can assess the performance of children, teachers, and schools; heads of schools can assess the performance of teachers; and the government and administration can assess the performance of different schools.

Only the two - step approach levels the playing field across schools so that «winners» and «losers» are representative of the system as a whole.

He said: «It is quite staggering the degree to which the government is unable to understand how their approach to the measurement of the performance of schools, and the system as a whole, is turning schools into exam factories.

EFFECT ON PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS The previous portions of our study investigated the impact of private competition on student achievement in the educational system as a whole.