Sentences with phrase «with educational choice»

Although not as ambitious as the New Hampshire Senate version, the New Hampshire House version would still make significant progress toward providing all Granite Staters with educational choice.

Fortunately for the Macias family, Arizona is one of the growing number of states with educational choice programs that empower parents to select the education providers that best meet their children's needs.

Yes, I'm a big believer in the benefits of empowering low - income families with educational choice, but I'm not interested in having disadvantaged boys and girls transfer from lousy district schools to lousy private schools.

Despite the increasing news coverage, however, polls show that most Americans are unfamiliar with educational choice programs.

Studies also demonstrate that parents — regardless of their income — make good choices when provided with educational choices.

Not exact matches

«Our research shows that this generation of business leaders wants greater control over educational choices, continued exposure to peers with deep, global experience and more opportunity in their academic experience to self - analyze and self - reflect.»

Accion is a great choice for veterans with startups or new businesses, as the lender offers special startup financing and educational resources for veterans.

You might have no other choice, but it's important to become familiar with these essential student loan definition terms before saying yes to educational debt.

She contends that educational choice will create a «two - tiered system in urban districts, with charter schools for motivated students and public schools for those left behind.»

The voluntary educational programs are multi-pronged: They promote wiser relationship and marriage choices among less - educated youth, help engaged couples approach marriage realistically, assist married couples overcome the vicissitudes of life together, and work with cohabitating couples aspiring to marriage to achieve that goal.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

The superintendent has fought vigorously against educational choice and is back in the papers with some new heroics that I will shortly report.

Firstly I was not drunk when I wrote my reply to piers.What a pathetic thing to say.Learn the English Language and do try to expand on your incredibly limited choice of words.I say things as I mean them not just foe effect.You come across as a pretty small minded person with limited educational standards when addressing someone like that.

Our mission is to promote, encourage and applaud children's enthusiasm for school and learning; take the mystery and anxiety out of the school finding process for parents; and provide families with comprehensive information on all of their educational choices.

With your help, we also review educational toys and books, and give recommendations to show you how to make the best choices for your children.

With this acquisition, Scholar's Choice became the largest distributor of educational toys and teaching materials for schools and early childhood centres in Canada.

Soft toys such as teddy bears or teething rings are a good choice, but if you can combine that with something educational, that's even better.

Northwest suburban social service agencies, hospitals, churches, park districts and parents themselves are forming support and educational parenting groups, all with the mission to offer understanding, knowledge and choices that focus on the needs of this generation of parents.

We work with you and your family to make sure that you understand the information about your child's hearing loss and the treatment, educational and communication choices that are available for your child.

Parents are bombarded with conflicting advice on using gadgets, screen time, vaccinations, educational choices, and many other subjects.

These programs help to keep children engaged in positive activities, socializing with peers in appropriate and safe settings and enjoying a wide variety of educational and recreational choices.

The bill also aims to give families more choice and control over support for children with special educational needs (SEN).

Other announcements expected include reform of the system for diagnosing and helping children with special educational needs to give parents more choice in how they are schooled; reforms to the family justice system to speed up care proceedings so no cases take more than six months; and promised changes to the adoption system to make sure parents and children are matched more quickly.

«Thank God for Jeff Klein and those who stand for educational choice and support Charter funding that leads to economic mobility and opportunity for poor knack kids,» Mr. Loeb wrote, with «knack» apparently a typographical error for «black.»

Flanagan on Monday released three different bills for one -, two - and five - year extensions of mayoral control of the city's schools, with longer renewals tied to greater support for alternative educational choices.

On the other hand, you still have to say something to your inquisitive relatives and friends, so I did come up with a few choice things in answer to the «What are you going to do when you're done» question: science policy; educational policy; working for funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, or the Packard Foundation; teaching at a minority - serving institution; university administration.

With stronger requirements for the core disciplines and no multiple - choice questions used in testing, the coursework was «much heavier and deeper» than in the American educational system, which tends to be «more broad and shallow.»

«Our mission is to encourage self - discovery by providing educational and information resources that empower them with knowledge about traditional fats, nutritional density, and the provenance of the food they purchase and how those purchasing choices affect the entire supply chain.

Two conclusions from recent PISA studies are that increased national performance is associated with greater equity in the distribution of educational resources and that equity can be undermined when school choice segregates students into schools based on socioeconomic background.

With the school - choice alternative, for example, parents wanting the best education for their child often need financial means and knowledge of the educational options to make an informed choice of another school, resources not always available in low - income communities.

Of course, whether educational preferences based on demographics or dissatisfaction with existing school performance manifest themselves in support for charter schools depends on other circumstances as well: notably, the political power of opponents to charter schools, the most prominent opponents being teachers unions; and the degree of school choice already available to parents.

With the rapid growth in online and mobile learning, students everywhere at all levels are increasingly having educational choices — regardless of where they live and even regardless of the policies that regulate schools.

Now districts with schools identified as «in need of improvement» would have to offer supplemental educational services immediately, and could delay NCLB school choice until the next year.

In the first version of its «Public School Choice: Non-Regulatory Guidance,» published in December 2002, the department built on these basic statutory requirements to encourage districts to provide helpful information to parents: «The [local educational agency] should work together with parents to ensure that parents have ample information, time, and opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to choose a different public school for their children.»

School choice programs seek to address this inequity by providing low - income students with access to educational options that best meet their individual needs, giving them the best chance to succeed in life.

[3] Just as voucher holders may benefit from a real estate broker to find housing in a high - opportunity neighborhood, low - income families in school choice systems with limited information about high - performing schools could benefit from an adviser who connects them to educational opportunities.

Fortunately, if you are stuck or paralyzed by the number of choices available, there has emerged a growing «industry» of well - read teachers who share their reviews with the larger educational community.

Keeping up with the Joneses, however, has never been a good reason for educational choices.

By enriching the Alimentarium Academy online educational platform with new resources for the younger population, the Alimentarium and Discovery Education are together making an important contribution to raising consciousness worldwide for more informed choices from an early age.»

With such a model in hand, «a paradigm shift for us,» says Carroll, Brighter Choice was able to go to scale with quality and begin to make deep changes in the city's educational sysWith such a model in hand, «a paradigm shift for us,» says Carroll, Brighter Choice was able to go to scale with quality and begin to make deep changes in the city's educational syswith quality and begin to make deep changes in the city's educational system.

Researchers and policymakers must carefully balance the need for data - driven evidence with the reality that educational choice is, at its core, an issue of parental empowerment.

What has made the school choice movement successful is not allowing peripheral issues — however important they are — to interfere with our work to help as many families and children as possible access more and better educational options.

And Districts of Choice can't reject special education students, English - language learners, or, in most cases, youngsters whose educational needs will cost more to address than the state funding they bring with them.

These results are similar to the 2012 Education Next survey, which also found that STCs are the most popular form of educational choice with 72 percent in favor.

On Jan. 24, readers questioned three members of the Teacher Leaders Network — Corrina Knight, a 6th grade language arts / social studies teacher at Salem Middle School in Apex, N.C.; Linda Emm, an educational specialist with Schools of Choice in Miami, and a consultant with the National School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional development.

With automated gates now an increasingly popular choice for school and educational buildings, it is absolutely crucial that the strictest safety measures are upheld to protect our children, whilst in the care of others.

Fourth is a call to «empower» parents by providing them with more information to make better educational choices for their children.

That feature is what lost the support of longtime social - justice warrior (and founder of the pro school choice Black Alliance for Educational Options) Howard Fuller, who in July shocked many allies by stating his opposition to the Nevada plan: «Parental choice should be used principally as a tool to empower communities that face systemic barriers to greater educational and economic opportunities... I could never approve of a plan that would give those with existing advantages even greater means to leverage the limited number of private school options, to the detriment of low - income families.»

The «hybridization» of home schooling has, along with other choice mechanisms and recent Establishment Clause interpretation, blurred the line between government and private educational spheres.

Speaking of his choice to buy gifts with an educational value, James Longhurst, whose son is four years old, commented: «As a parent I know how annoying it can be when your children get lots of plastic toys for Christmas that rarely get played with and are a nightmare to store around the house.