Sentences with phrase «with conventional school»

The study also suggests that the average green school can cut energy use by one - third compared with conventional school buildings.

Despite their dissatisfaction with conventional schools, Dimensions parents say they don't want to isolate their children at home.

Opponents have hamstrung school - choice programs at every turn: fighting voucher programs in legislative chambers and courtrooms; limiting per - pupil funding so tightly that it's impractical for new schools to come into being; capping the number of charter schools; and regulating and harassing them into near conformity with conventional schools.

Not exact matches

Milyutin — who confesses that he struggled with math in primary school — cited a 1984 review by the late Benjamin Bloom, which reports that students who received one - on - one tutoring performed better than 98 % of students taught in a conventional classroom.

It is essential that a church school teacher have a growing relationship with God, though not necessarily «God» in the conventional or orthodox mode.

Christianity and Mohametanism: — For two thousand years the Greek art - forms lifelessly repeated: The Greek schools of philosophy, Stoic, Epicurean, Aristotelian, Neo-Platonic, arguing with barren formulae: Conventional histories: A stabilized Government with the sanctity of ancient ceremony, supported by habitual pieties: literature without depth: Science elaborating details by deduction from unquestioned premises: Delicacies of feeling without robustness of adventure.

Whatever your interests or learning style, with hundreds of families in the region choosing to leave conventional education in favour of home schooling you are soon bound to find others to share your journey with.

I wanted to focus on environmental issues like substituting conventional school cleaning products with more environmentally friendly options; introducing waste - free lunches; eliminating the throw - away styrofoam trays used in our lunchroom; replacing Sally Foster fundraisers with more eco-friendly options; and stopping the Cheap Plastic Crap giveaways used at school fundraisers.

Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show, Mr Twigg added such schools opened in England would be brought into line with the teaching standards of conventional education.

«Our study shows the significant impact of adding carotid plaque measurement using vascular ultrasound and coronary calcium scoring with CT scan to our conventional assessment for cardiovascular disease,» says Roxana Mehran, MD, the study's co-lead author and Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials at the Zena and Michael A. Weiner Cardiovascular Institute at Mount Sinai Heart at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Using HUNT, a Norwegian population - based health cohort study based in a rural county with 130,000 residents, the Bristol Medical School team, with co-workers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, were able to see how mortality in the parents related to both their own BMI (the conventional approach) and to the BMI of their adult children.

Similarly, if replacing the lowest - ranked school in the survey with a top - quintile school, student test scores would improve by 0.39 of a standard deviation using a conventional VAM, and 0.53 of a standard deviation when using the MIT team's own VAM method.

Diana W. Bianchi, a reproductive geneticist at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Mass., agrees that fetal genomes could inform treatment in the future, but she questions the need to replace conventional genetic testing with whole - genome sequencing to diagnose genetic diseases such as beta - thalassaemia and cystic fibrosis.

«About 15 to 20 percent of patients who start conventional treatment for drug - resistant TB don't finish, mostly because of the length, expense and discomfort associated with it,» says Emily Kendall, M.D., an instructor in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Some people enter the field from conventional medical school residencies; others are biomedical researchers with interest in epidemiology and biostatistics.

Professor Ken Naitoh of Waseda University's Faculty of Science and Engineering (Department of Applied Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering) and his associates have discovered a revolutionary energy conversion principle (new compressive combustion principle) able to yield stand - alone engines with double or higher the thermal efficiency potential of conventional engines, independent of their size.

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They may be using an outdated reference range, using «normal» reference ranges from their medical school days, and are unfamiliar with newer guidelines that in fact have a narrower optimal range (see the conventional versus optimal lab ranges below).

Soap dries my skin out, and a brief stint with a conventional soap in high school resulted in a breakout the likes of mount Vesuvius.

During a four month long cross canada bicycle trip with my now husband, I had many hours to contemplate my next move regarding school and career and I realized that conventional medicine was no longer what I wanted to aspire to.

Given the fascinatingly complex, ever - evolving central relationship it's no surprise that there's little room for substantial supporting characters, although Ben Whishaw pops up as an admirer of Lili's, while Matthias Schoenaerts plays Hans, an art - dealer and old school - friend of Einar's who provides Gerda with some much - needed masculine comfort — and the audience with the prospect of a conventional romantic resolution.

Now an enjoyable, though less daring and more conventional sequel has reunited the two young stars of that bizarre and bizarrely thrilling escapade: Dave Lizewski, Kick - Ass himself (Aaron Taylor - Johnson) is painfully readjusting to civilian existence in high school, and the newly orphaned Mindy, or Hit - Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) is trying to maintain her superhero vocation while dealing with adolescence.

From Nikhal Goyal to Sam Levin to just speaking with our students about their schooling, it should be conventional wisdom that student voices matter.

Lifelong learning arrangements, particularly those in informal and non-formal settings, can confer a number of benefits: they can provide people who live in countries that do not have universal education with access to learning opportunities on a continuous basis; they can address the problem of conventional formal schooling being too far removed from local cultural and social environments; and they can alleviate economic hardship, particularly for young people in developing countries who may experience strong pressures to earn income to help support their families or, particularly if they are girls, to take on significant responsibilities at home (1, 4).

To address the issue of student self - selection into charter schools, the researchers compared high school and postsecondary outcomes for 8th - grade charter students who entered charter high schools with outcomes for 8th - grade charter students who entered conventional public high schools, ensuring that both the comparison group and the treatment group of students were once charter choosers.

A recent investigation of achievement in one large Tennessee school district (in which I am collaborating with Sanders and Paul Wright of the SAS Institute) has found that 20 percent of math teachers are recognizably better or worse than average by a conventional statistical criterion.

«Unlike conventional corporate consulting, where experts create a plan for change but are rarely involved in the implementation process,» Wagner explained, «the Change Leadership Group will support the growth and development of school leaders by drawing on their knowledge and working with them on the process of improvement over time.»

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie BY MURIEL SPARK Set in the 1930s, this novel is about a free - spirited teacher at a girl's school in Scotland who ignores the conventional curriculum, bringing her into conflict with the school's leadership.

Newark, New Jersey, superintendent Cami Anderson (see «Newark's Superintendent Rolls Up Her Sleeves and Gets to Work,» features, Winter 2013) recalls that when she served as area superintendent for New York City's alternative schools and programs, the district had two «conventional wisdoms» when it came to evaluating guidance counselors and social workers: «The first was you'd be violating student confidentiality if you observed guidance counselors or social workers interacting with kids one - on - one, and the second was, if you weren't licensed as a clinical supervisor, you didn't have the authority to evaluate or document performance for these people.»

That is, we compare high school and postsecondary outcomes for 8th - grade charter students who entered charter high schools (the treatment group) with outcomes for 8th - grade charter students who entered conventional public high schools (the comparison group).

Conventional schools tend to assume that new teachers arrive with more teaching experience and skills.

For instance, if a for - profit voucher school operates in accord with state - directed educational purposes, ought it be regarded as analogous to a for - profit textbook maker or consultant who provides services to a conventional school?

During Lewis - Carter's four years as principal, she has led these children — disadvantaged by every conventional measure and further handicapped by the hardships of Katrina — to a stunning performance record on state - mandated standardized tests, one that compares favorably with the city's selective - admissions schools.

«I've seen work done with high school students that can convey very complicated ideas or allows space to grapple with huge community or social problems through the arts that students aren't able to do in conventional models of education,» she says.

Finally, under the heading of unintended consequences, I am very fearful that placing sole responsibility for standard setting with the federal government could result in the worst of all possible worlds: national standards and assessments that embrace the conventional wisdom and social agendas of the education «experts» who staff our schools of education, teachers unions, and national associations.

Almost half of the teachers in Ohio's charter schools quit their schools in the four - year period between 2000 and 2004, in comparison with about 8 percent in conventional public schools and 12 percent in high - poverty, urban public schools, suggesting that new organizations are not a magic formula for school stability.

Most schools are aware of the value of replacing conventional lighting with low energy versions.

Conventional comprehensive high schools do not engage the interest and effort of many teenagers, especially those who enter with weak skills.

Republic of Noise is a truly brilliant book, but one so remote from the daily activities associated with the life of a conventional classroom teacher as to make one question its relevance to school improvement.

In contrast with conventional wisdom, growth models don't let too many poor - performing schools «off the hook.»

Hussar took the study one step further, asking the children to think about four types of actions and whether or not they are wrong, not only for themselves, but for others: pushing another child (moral action), going to school with the wrong clothes (conventional deviation), expressing a particular preference (personal choice), and eating meat.

The program, informally called the Harvey Milk School, is one of 39 «off - site educational services» provided by the New York City public schools in conjunction with community - based organizations to serve youths who have problems in conventional schools, according to Joseph Mancini, a spokesman for the school School, is one of 39 «off - site educational services» provided by the New York City public schools in conjunction with community - based organizations to serve youths who have problems in conventional schools, according to Joseph Mancini, a spokesman for the school school board.

Charter schools typically operate free of many regulations that apply to conventional public schools, setting their own curriculums and schedules, for example, or hiring with a freer hand.

Gary Naeyaert, executive director of the Great Lakes Education Project and an advocate for charter public schools, was at the meeting and wondered why there was so much discussion about one charter public school when there were 40 - plus conventional public schools also with deficits.

Galloway (1995) investigated homeschooled graduates» potential for success in college by comparing their performance with students from conventional schools and found insignificant differences, except in the ACT English subtest scores.

Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show, Mr Twigg added such schools opened in England would be brought into line with the teaching standards of conventional education.

It also enrolls students with a wide range of abilities, from those who would be categorized as failures or potential dropouts to those who would be regarded as academically able in any conventional school.

Students in the online charters have less live contact with a teacher in a week than students in conventional schools have in a day.

I am not opposed to Charter choice at all, just opposed to Charters using fraud, concealment or non-disclosure together with hype to pull ADA money out of conventional public schools that are performing much better than the region's Charters in question.

Instead of the conventional (and ineffective) format of professional development for educators — filling an auditorium for a day of sleep - inducing lectures — BetterLesson supports teachers for the entire school year with regular, 1:1, virtual coaching.