The court desegregation order that has shaped this city's schools since 1986 established magnet programs at several schools as a way to integrate and improve classrooms, and said that the city must provide buses to all students at those schools, no matter how far away they live.
Two of Senaki's five wings are scheduled to receive comprehensive facelifts, which will modernize and improve classrooms and children's living quarters.
We will put a qualified teacher in every classroom, improve classroom discipline and raise standards for all children".
The college has also established formal relationships with public schools around Westchester, providing faculty development, helping to prepare teacher candidates and working to improve classroom instruction.
New York City began ranking teachers in the 2007-8 school year as part of a pilot project intended to improve classroom instruction.
It is the kind of problem the president loves to address -- the way he has promoted school uniforms to improve classroom discipline and V-chips to block violent programs on television.
If the sweeping plan is approved, the district says it will improve academic standards by diverting money used for maintaining crumbling buildings to hire teachers and improve classroom equipment.
These reforms are part of the Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act of 2007, which required programs to raise teacher qualifications, improve classroom offerings and broaden access to vulnerable groups, including children who are homeless.
From Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust, a thinktank promoting educational opportunities for children from non-privileged backgrounds England's stagnating position on PISA is very worrying, and requires strong action to improve classroom teaching and opportunities for disadvantaged students.
In teleconference last week, Dr. Wieman and his co-authors said that some instructors at the university were already eager to adopt the new approach and that it should improve classroom learning broadly, in other sciences and at many levels.
Teachers were mostly enthusiastic about the impact of their underlings, saying that teaching assistants did indeed help them to improve classroom discipline, freed them from tedious administrative tasks and brought the occasional specialist skill into the classroom (computer savvy, for instance, or advice on careers).
