Sentences with phrase «with longer school days»

Congress could also increase funding for programs — such as Promise Neighborhoods, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, and AmeriCorps — that provide students with longer school days and access to after - school programs.

She also cited as successful a series of new initiatives, including experiments with longer school days and home visits by teachers.

With longer school days, innovative teaching, and a motivating learning environment, we are working to ensure that all of our students are prepared for college and beyond.

From Chicago to Houston to Washington, D.C., districts around the country are beginning to experiment with longer school days as a way to raise academic achievement.

Those are the same rules from which charter schools are exempt, a policy supporters say allows charters to flourish with longer school days, a focus on teacher merit instead of seniority, and other innovations.

The scholars» laboratory was the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), a 97 - block area where students from both inside and outside the zone attend what are often called «No Excuses» charter schools (with strict behavioral and academic expectations combined with longer school days and frequent assessments), and residents receive a range of community services.

Those high - quality charter networks arguably have enough on their plates with longer school days, weeks and years, and they need to keep their miraculous scores up.

I never knew those facts and find them intriguing; and indeed they may play a role, along with the long school days, in the superiority in mathematics of East Asian schoolchildren.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel focused on trying to improve the quality of public education, with a longer school day and more meaningful teacher evaluations.

Vicki Abeles, author of Beyond Measure: Rescuing an Overscheduled, Overtested, and Underestimated Generation, wrote in The New York Times last year about burdening already stressed - out students with a longer school day:

Another issue with the longer school day is that it gives students less time in the evening to participate in extra-curricular activities.

And others, like O'Connor, whose daughter has learning disabilities, worry children won't do well with a longer school day.

Not exact matches

Let's say you are a school teacher and one day you decided that we never landed on the moon and no longer accepted the codes of conduct you signed on the day of your hiring and just say heck with that I'm going to do my own thing.

Since we no longer start the school day with a prayer or saying the pledge of alliance why should there be a Muslim holiday added to the school calendar??

It was a long week in our house with the kids off from school and eight days of matzo, but we made it through.

She usually comes right home from school and does it without us asking but that day we had picked her up early and she had to go to the doctor office with me which ended up being a very long visit and we forgot about homework that night.

I noticed I haven't posted a breakfast recipe in a really long time — most likely because it's the time of the day we're rushing and being busy with eating, getting ready for the day, making school lunches etc. etc..

I didn't have school last Friday so I started the day with a wonderful long run.

But with the days getting busier, and my to - do list getting longer and longer by the hour, it is hard to find time to make healthy snacks for the school year.

As he got older (even high school) my son would attempt to recreate famous buildings with legos on those LONG days without access to technology.

Ultimately, children and young people will go on to make their own decisions about what they eat, but as long as schools offer students the opportunity to think, discuss and debate the issues as well as to cook and eat good vegetarian food, a weekly meat free day provides them with the knowledge and experience with which to make informed, responsible and compassionate choices.

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Talk to your child's school about keeping homework in line with best practices — the reason most kids don't get enough sleep is because they are struggling to complete homework after a long day.

Missing the first two days of school after winter break is okay for my future eighth grader — he will be at a family wedding, with uncles and grandparents, and extended family, and that event and those memories will be far more important in his hopefully long life than the algebra he won't be learning those days.

Especially if it's extremely hot outside or you plan to do a lot of walking at an outdoor outlet mall, be sure to bring snacks and drinks with you when you head out for a long day of back - to - school shopping.

With the hectic pace of life, including school, homework and after - school activities, in addition to long hours at work for many parents, finding time to connect each day can be challenging at best.

Other families opt to keep their children home longer and when they do begin preschool, they choose schools with flexible scheduling — full days or half days and two, three or five days a week.

Nia Dennis, 8, a student at Betty Shabazz Charter School, and Xavier Dilworth, 4, came with their parents to demand a longer schooSchool, and Xavier Dilworth, 4, came with their parents to demand a longer schoolschool day.

Emanuel charged him with the task of instituting a longer school day and year, which turned out to be a lengthy and arduous process that drew significant opposition from the CTU as well as many parents.

A longer school day would simply cut into the after school time many teachers use to grade papers, create lesson plans or confer with parents or students, Lewis said.

Such programs - with at least 16 under way in Illinois and others planned - provide children with creative and fun ways to spend their time, while giving schools a means to deal with students who show up early each day or stay long after classes are over.

It wasn't long before the two groups» talking points mirrored each other perfectly, with each espousing a pressing need for «flexibility» in school food programs, a goal which sounds innocuous but really means throwing science - based nutrition standards out the window, despite growing evidence of their success in improving the diets of 31 million school kids each day.

During the school year that ended Friday, about 84 percent of Chicago public school students received free or reduced - price breakfasts and lunches, meaning that with summer's arrival, nearly 342,000 children are no longer receiving the meals each day in their school cafeterias.

Despite severe cost cutting, scores of layoffs and wholesale restructuring last year, Chicago Public Schools faces a budget deficit estimated at $ 600 million to $ 700 million in 2013, with the cost of a longer school day still unknown, officials said.

In addition, students who have difficulty with attention, due to a disability or because small children are not developmentally ready to attend for longer periods of time, are unlikely to get more out of a longer school day.

To school and from school five days a week, a long with a bus full of unrestrained persons.

Most schools will be supportive of your child going to work with you, as long as the day doesn't fall on a field trip or big test.

-LSB-...] Readers with a long memory might recall that I interrupted our otherwise sacrosanct «School Food Reform - Free Day» last fall to tell you about his research.

so besides the exhaustion of being all day with my son and his talking and activity, and not getting alone time, and the experience with my school, i know longer spacing is better.

I had terrible nosebleeds as a kid... I got one the first day of kindergarten and thus began my long friendship with the school nurse (I fear I was a regular.)

So, right there, with my middle schoolers (who are God's nosiest creatures) listening in, I had a total fake, upbeat conversation with Bean about how silly Gus was being and how I was sure he was just going to sit around watching TV and eating peanuts all day long while we were gone.

And that was with an hour - long bus ride on both ends of the school day.

As a peace offering, Brizard had asked the union to work with the district to identify 25 schools that could pilot a longer day in January.

In addition, they (along with healthy fats) are more satiating and provide long - lasting energy, which is incredibly important as kiddos need to power through their school day.

Hoping to tell their side of the longer school day story, Chicago Teachers Union officials met with 25 aldermen in private briefings Monday.

While parents know that sending them off for a few weeks of fun and adventure is just what they need after a long year at school, it's hard to relinquish that control and closeness you have with your kid every day.

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One of the ways we want to alleviate these impacts is by using school districts to do that — so with longer days, and more creative and innovative programs.