Sentences with phrase «with weaker schools»

In June, we said that all schools would have to demonstrate effective collaboration with weaker schools for them to be rated as outstanding by Ofsted.

The evidence is that forming a lasting relationship with a weaker school gives the strong school an ideal platform to share its «educational DNA» for success.

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then you are burdened with a weak school climate.

Not exact matches

That sharply contrasts with recent analyst reports about the overall PC market like one by Gartner that said that the U.S. experienced a weak back - to - school season and that overall PC sales dropped during the a three - month - period ending Sept. 30.

No, the life - comparison danger comes from the weak ties; from those people you met at a conference, or the friends from High School that you haven't interacted with since they friended you last year.

In the controversy between the historians who say that Virginia and other southern Anglican religion was weak versus those who say it was «not so weak,» Butler sides with the «really, really weak» school.

America takes the good out of schools to keep from offending a few; then fills them with bad science, political trash, and weak discipline.

When evaluation of the core curriculum took place in the mid -»90s, a number of faculty protested anonymously that the course was «Sunday school proselytizing» with weak intellectual content.

However, neither the Skyline nor its weaker relation, the Rocky Mountain Conference, is in a class with the Coast schools.

247sports is reporting that Luiji Vilain, the No. 8 weak side defensive end, will be in Ann Arbor this weekend with one of his coaches from Episcopal High School in Virginia.

Six states had strict laws restricting the sale of so - called competitive foods — snacks and drinks sold in vending machines, school stores and during fundraising projects, which compete with school - served meals; seven states had weak laws; and 27 states had no laws governing competitive foods in middle schools.

Remember also that there are a lot of regular people home schooling, and they have all found ways to deal with their own lack of knowledge in certain subjects (they either learn the subjects they are weak in, or have someone else teach their children that subject).

«Children who are born with high abilities but who come from poor backgrounds are overtaken in recorded levels of achievement at primary school by children of weaker ability from wealthier socioeconomic backgrounds.

In Gov. Andrew Cuomo's angry ultimatum on education, he inserted $ 8 million into his executive budget to fix the state's lowest - performing schools using «receivership,» a strategy with two decades worth of weak results.

Together with her brother, who works in logistics software, and her husband, a professor at George Washington University Medical School, she developed a mobile app to collect all of the data on the supply chain to expose weak points that can be improved.

The tendency to work with a director of the student's own nationality was strongest in the lowest - ranked schools and weakest in the highest - ranked ones.

In one of the four newly - published papers, Petersson and his colleague Riccardo Torre of the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, outline a particle that would have very weak interactions with other particles and would exist within a framework of theories known as supersymmetry.

«Child - parent dietary resemblance in the U.S. is relatively weak, and varies by nutrients and food groups and by the types of parent - child dyads and social demographic characteristics such as age, gender and family income,» said Youfa Wang, MD, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor with the Bloomberg School's Center for Human Nutrition.

Couple three weak immune systems (i.e. weak «terrains») with my son and husband BOTH going back to school, and you've got a recipe for illness!

This British drama represents the second screen version of Terence Ratigan's play about a school teacher with a weak heart facing forced retirement.

Even weaker are the inclusion of two of her school peers — romantic interest Ray (Reece Ritchie) and resident goth Ruth (Carolyn Dando) who drift in and out of the narrative with little significance.

Do school board members need to peruse Education Next's reader - friendly version of this econometric study, then take appropriate steps to replace weak teachers with high performers?

Finally, we must recognize that school boards are relatively weak governing bodies, composed of part - timers with other obligations, limited expertise, and little incentive to engage in contentious negotiations.

But he believes the traditional arguments used to defend loose - coupling will grow weaker with time — particularly as market - model voucher systems, capitation grants, and charter schools take hold.

We find that, while statistically significant, the strength of the relationship between living with a single - parent family and educational attainment is comparable to the relationships for family size and the age of the mother at the time of the child's birth and weaker than the relationship for maternal schooling.

After visiting the schools, Gustafson reported that all four — each an independent «mom - and - pop» operation with no links to national groups — faced a host of challenges, including strained budgets, low enrollments, curriculum problems, inexperienced staff, weak professional development for teachers, and board members ignorant of testing and other academic essentials.

Most significantly, they have transformed teaching in Washington from a low - status occupation marked by weak standards and factory - like work rules into a performance - based profession that provides recognition, responsibility, support, and significant compensation, with some starting salaries now as high as $ 75,000 and top pay climbing from $ 87,000 to $ 134,000 (and higher in the city's year - round schools).

Weak governance was also flagged with four trusts exposed as lacking in these areas — namely Theale Green Academy Trust, Durham Free School Limited, the Business Academy Bexley, and the Bishop of Rochester Academy Trust.

It refers to schools with stubborn achievement gaps or weak performance among «subgroup» students, such as English - language learners or students in special education.

For women entering the labor market directly after graduation from high school in 1972, those with mastery of basic mathematical skills earned $ 0.78 per hour ($ 1,560 per year) more at age 24 than did those with weak math skills.

States with higher - than - expected SAT scores were less likely to pass charter school legislation; tended to adopt such legislation later, if at all; and passed weaker laws.

A 10 percent improvement in the performance of gifted students counts for naught if a tiny fall in the performance of the weakest students puts the school out of compliance with federal standards.

The interdistrict provisions in the law are weak, and charter options are not meaningful in states with arbitrary limits on new charter schools.

Many argue that the resistance from local public school bureaucracies shows that the only way to create genuine alternatives for children in weak schools is to provide them with private school vouchers.

This analysis indicates that participation in the FTC program has shifted toward schools with weaker track records of improving student outcomes, according to one broad categorization (share of students on scholarships) but not another (religiosity and denomination of school).

In addition to a north - south divide in school standards, in its annual report, Ofsted noted: an improvement in primary schools, but with weaker secondaries, teacher shortages affecting many schools, a need for better leadership in underperforming schools, free school standards «broadly in line» with other schools, early education as «never stronger» and a decline in prison education.

[iii] Experienced teachers with better track records find it easier to find jobs elsewhere and the weakest teachers accumulate in the employers of last resort — low - income schools and districts.

Dee and Jacob convincingly show that certain subgroups of children attending schools in states with weak accountability regimes prior to NCLB partially caught up with children in states with stronger programs.

With any luck, it may also start to wean more than a few would - be reformers from their affection for weak brews like mayoral control and merit pay and towards more muscular efforts to dismantle, rethink, or bypass familiar schools and systems.

Private schools may be disproportionately located in communities with low - quality public schools, causing the relationship between private school competition and public school performance to appear weaker than it actually is.

If indeed many of these are schools with weak cultures, merely telling them to reduce suspensions is likely to make things worse.

Systemic inequality is certainly a factor as well, given that children of color are more likely to attend schools with lower funding levels and weaker teachers.

It may also be that these are simply bad schools, with weak leadership, low - quality teaching, and a broken climate, and their high suspension rates are an indicator of campuses that are barely keeping it together.

As part of the Ofsted report, inspectors found that a majority of schools did not consider work - related education important and had weak links with local businesses.

Massachusetts has strong standards and high NAEP test results, but a weak charter - school law with multiple levels of restrictions.

Families voted with their feet, and weaker schools withered and eventually died.

Originally devised to serve youngsters stuck in weak schools, the Recovery School District became the city's main provider of public education, with charters as its delivery vehicle.

Yet school boards in districts with especially active parents, weak unions, limited budgets, and kids whose needs are going unmet may have incentives to embrace technological change and become early adopters.

A new study finds that participation in the state's tax credit scholarship program has not shifted toward schools with weaker track records of improving student outcomes.

However, this association seems to be weaker in schools with socio - economically disadvantaged students.