Sentence examples for encouraged school from inspiring English sources

A new generation of teacher evaluation systems has emerged since we published our 2009 report "The Widget Effect," which documented how the old systems labeled nearly all teachers "satisfactory" and encouraged school districts to treat them like interchangeable parts.

But while gun-control advocates applauded the child access law, they noted that it included something for the N.R.A. -- a provision that "strongly encouraged" school districts to provide gun-safety programs beginning in kindergarten.

Parental involvement is a perennial struggle in poor urban neighborhoods, where many innovative school leaders have run parent academies and strongly encouraged school visits or committee membership in hopes of mimicking the success of the suburbs.

He encouraged school districts across the country to include bicycle safety education in their curricula.

Mr. Pagliaro and others have encouraged school districts to recruit their players before the end of the previous school year, so the instruments can be delivered to the schools when they open in September.

The U.S. Education Department has encouraged school districts around the country to use school turnaround plans to shake up staffs, in an attempt to ameliorate failing schools.

The CSPI report was followed by a 2007 Institute of Medicine report that once again recommended new dietary guidelines and encouraged schools to stop selling junk food.

I was very much encouraged at school and had one of those teachers who people remember all their lives.

We're given a daily agenda of activities and encouraged fetishwear ("school attire" on one day, "leather and lace" the next).

Last year, Professor Dame Sally Davies, the chief scientific adviser for the Department of Health, strongly encouraged medical schools to engage with this charter.

Learning a second language can boost thinking skills, improve mental agility and delay the ageing of the brain, according to scientists who believe that speaking minority languages should be positively encouraged in schools and universities.