Sentences with phrase «with large numbers of schools»

The more obvious case for intervention is in local authority areas with large numbers of schools Ofsted says are less than good.

The Research Schools Network aims to lead the way in the use of evidence - based teaching, building affiliations with large numbers of schools in their region, and supporting the use of evidence at scale.

Speaking about the re launch of this new brand, Robert Carpenter, Managing Director of i2o Limited said: «We are proud to work with a large number of schools and nurseries across the country.

Hoxby also finds that urban areas with a large number of school districts, and therefore many options for families choosing where to reside, tend to have higher test scores than cities like Miami, where one school district covers anyone living close enough to work in the city.

Should SEAs target those districts with schools that are struggling and barely succeeding, or should they target districts with the largest number of schools in need of corrective action?

The area with the largest number of schools that went unsponsored for at least a year, was Lancashire and West Yorkshire, with 13 schools.

The district with the largest number of schools in which no EL students met the ELA standards is Los Angeles Unified School District: in 182 of the 343 schools with more than 100 EL students, no students met the standards.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Costa Rica offered a large number of available, educated workers, many with technical - school or college backgrounds.

For the budget year 2017, the state Division of Administrative Hearings docketed 244 appeals of Florida school board decisions, with the largest number of them being filed in South Florida.

«Well, this is sort of our real address — we sort of live with my nan...» We must defend our schools with confidence and the knowledge that we are offering something that large numbers of people want.

Traffic on the Ohio Turnpike is a coffle of tractor - trailers as Golden Flashes coach Gary Waters argues that the RPI, that mystical set of numbers the NCAA tournament committee consults when it hands out at - large bids, should R.I.P. Every mid-major coach is sympathetic to Waters's argument, because big - time schools insist on playing nonconference games in their own arenas, with officials of their choosing, and the RPI doesn't penalize them for refusing to go on the road.

While some of the high school students joining the trap shooting team have experience with firearms through hunting with family members or shooting BB guns and air rifles for sport, Jenson says that a large number of interested participants have never handled a firearm or ever done trap shooting.

And even with those schools added in, the south is still much larger in the number of schools.

The Sac - Joaquin Section represents itself, extending as far west as Benicia and Vallejo with a large number of member schools calling the Sacramento - metro area home.

The Association became tax - exempt in 1979 with the beginnings of a strong structure for supporting the large number of new schools being formed.

«Do you support measures that increase accountability, transparency and that increase the input of school district parents in the decision to permit and maintain charter schools, as well as measures to reduce the negative fiscal impact on school districts with large numbers of charters?»

«There is no evidence that large numbers of parents are either dissatisfied with the current system or want to run schools themselves

Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education (DfE) of «National Standards of Excellence for Headteachers», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «With increasing difficulties in recruiting new headteachers, and with record numbers of teachers wanting to leave the profession, the Coalition Government has failed to recognise the damaging effect of its policies on the morale and confidence of teachers and school leadWith increasing difficulties in recruiting new headteachers, and with record numbers of teachers wanting to leave the profession, the Coalition Government has failed to recognise the damaging effect of its policies on the morale and confidence of teachers and school leadwith record numbers of teachers wanting to leave the profession, the Coalition Government has failed to recognise the damaging effect of its policies on the morale and confidence of teachers and school leaders.

LOWER MANHATTAN — With far more applications than seats, most of Downtown's popular elementary schools have placed an even larger number of youngsters on the dreaded kindergarten wait - list than last year.

The large number of test refusals had an impact on teacher evaluations last school year, with student growth on state exams making up 20 percent of a teacher's rating.

«This study demonstrates the value of using the SEER database to analyze factors associated with surgery as a treatment for localized pancreatic cancer in a large number of patients over a prolonged period of time,» says Dr. Kim, who is also Chief Medical Officer of UH Seidman Cancer Center and the Charles Hubay Professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.

Compared with the effects of the radiation exposure from Fukushima, «the number of expected fatalities are never going to be that large,» says Thomas McKone, of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health.

Congruent with the former argument, Hitsch, Hortacsu, and Ariely (2005) have argued that older adults enjoy less involvement in «natural» institutions such as school and university that facilitate meeting by bringing together large numbers of potential dates.

Greg has found a way to avoid the trappings of high school by building vague relationships with a large number of his schoolmates so that no one really relies on him but no one dislikes him either.

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

It is generally agreed that the root cause of this problem, in addition to the large number of displaced people (the largest in the Americas) is poverty and lack of infrastructure providing young people with an opportunity to express themselves in cultural or sport hobbies after school.

Following recent demand - driven reforms, some universities are admitting larger numbers of teacher education students with increasingly low Year 12 performances — a trend that may continue as the number of teachers required to staff our schools grows over the next decade.

We recruit name ‑ blind and are proud that our cohort is more diverse than the teaching profession as a whole, with a large number having been on free school meals themselves or the first ‑ generation of their family to attend university.

A large number of these pupils come from disadvantaged backgrounds; the proportion of these pupils leaving school with strong qualifications has risen from 27.5 per cent to 32,9 per cent, equivalent to 7,150 pupils.

Especially in schools with a large number of teachers, it may be difficult to sustain a school - wide push to mobilize the efforts of most teachers.

School leaders and counselors are increasingly reporting schoolwide «anxiety epidemics,» with large numbers of students feeling too paralyzed to work, and stress being almost celebrated as proof of achievement.

Because of this, a very good teacher with a large number of teaching colleagues can do less to raise school - wide student performance than a teacher of the same quality in a school with fewer teachers.

The ACWP report suggests this may be down to differences in primary and secondary school environments where:» teachers tend to teach larger numbers of students, and students have to deal with larger numbers of teachers.»

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.

On this question, the public divides almost exactly in twain: 39 % of respondents support, but 43 % oppose «the federal government providing additional money to school districts with large numbers of immigrant children.»

«With tardy students entering the school day at abnormal times and potentially missing a large number of cumulative instructional hours, teachers must divert their attention away from regular teaching time and towards remediation,» he says.

One hundred eighty - seven CSU faculty members from 19 colleges worked with teachers at the 172 high schools in the state with the largest number of students who need remedial help when they get to one of the 23 CSU colleges.

Today, California has the largest charter - school enrollment and greatest number of charter schools in the country, with 630,000 students at 1,275 schools statewide.

He, along with Terry Moe, Clay Christensen, Paul Peterson, and others, envision large numbers of hybrid virtual schools offering higher quality customized education at dramatically lower costs.

Everyone likes the idea of boosting the number of effective teachers in schools with large numbers of poor and minority students, but in his testimony before the committee, Ed Next executive editor Rick Hess had a few warnings for those who think the obvious course of action is to encourage states and districts to move effective teachers out of schools with affluent kids and into schools with poor kids.

With a weighted lottery, charter schools could ensure that their proportion of poor students served never drops below 50 percent, even if a large number of middle - class families enters the lottery.

The near - exclusive focus on the most disadvantaged students (in New Orleans, for example) has also led to large numbers of custodial «no excuses» schools using traditional pedagogies, albeit with great rigor.

By requiring testing in the same grades as in public schools, and by enacting significant consequences for results in larger scale participants, it is designed to identify and grow effective schools, with an acknowledgment that, as in public schools, some schools will have difficulty adjusting to new academic expectations and a small number may prove incapable of ever adequately responding to expectations.

Schools with large numbers of disadvantaged pupils will receive funding to implement targeted interventions, benefiting 13,800 pupils in total.

Even with a sample this large, the number of students attending other religious and secular private schools is still quite small (80 and 102 cases, respectively).

For example, the largely white student body at Curry can get a clear idea of the issues involved in teaching at an inner - city school with large numbers of non-white or non-English speaking students through a case study of New York City's Newcomers High Sschool with large numbers of non-white or non-English speaking students through a case study of New York City's Newcomers High SchoolSchool.

Moe finds that a large number of parents are satisfied with the public schools to which they send their children.

While the overall number of teachers has kept pace with changing pupil numbers, the NAO reported that 54 per cent of school leaders in areas with large proportions of disadvantaged pupils find attracting and keeping good teachers is «a major problem».

The seven recommendations are currently informing a # 5 million campaign focused on primary schools in West and South Yorkshire, regions where the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils is large and there are a significant number of schools with a high percentage of disadvantaged pupils.