Sentences with phrase «american value model»

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Key to this model is understanding the role that public schools play, not only in educating our youth, but also in serving as the mediating institution to successfully transition immigrant families into the American way of life, into making American values, culture, norms, and language their own.

I believe that it is, and that an unlikely model can be found in the way American schools have in recent decades come to embrace tolerance for diversity as a preeminent value.

A 2010 study of 3,500 students and 250 teachers in six Bay Area high schools by researchers at Stanford University and UC Berkeley found that, under their model, teachers with more African American and Latino students tended to receive lower value - added scores than those with more Asian students.

1 The entire March 2015 issue of Educational Researcher, the journal of the American Educational Research Association, was dedicated to teacher evaluations and value - added models.

In Florida, the state paid Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a for - profit textbook publisher, $ 4.8 million to develop classroom observation methods and nearly $ 4 million to the American Institutes for Research, a nonprofit, to create a value - added model for grading teachers based on student test scores, according to state officials.

But in hindsight, considering the backlash from Congress and from parents upset about standardized testing, and looking at what the American Educational Research Association and the American Statistical Association and the National Research Council have said about the problems of using value - added models to make personnel decisions... do you feel like those were the right big bets?

The American Educational Research Association became the latest organization to caution against using value - added models — complex algorithms that attempt to measure a teacher's impact on student test scores — to evaluate teachers and principals.

A Measured Approach: Value - Added Models Are a Promising Improvement, but No One Measure can Evaluate Teacher Performance, Measuring Up, Daniel Koretz, American Educator, Fall 2008, AFT

Frederick Hess, of the American Enterprise Institute, and Martin West from the Brookings Institute point out that CBAs «are vestiges of the industrial economic model that prevailed in the 1950s, when assembly - line workers and low - level managers were valued less for their knowledge or technical skills than for their longevity and willingness to serve loyally as a cog - in - a-top-down enterprise.

No wonder then that the American Statistical Association released a statement in 2014 saying that Value Added Models should not be use for teacher evaluation.

Many of these research studies are highlighted on this blog here, here, here, and here, and are also summarized in two position statements on value - added models (VAMs) released by the American Statistical Association last April (to read about their top 10 concerns / warnings, click here) and the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) last month (to read about their top 6 concerns / warnings, click here).

Two weeks ago I published a post about the newly released «American Educational Research Association (AERA) Statement on Use of Value - Added Models (VAM) for the Evaluation of Educators and Educator Preparation Programs.»

Value Added Models: Teacher, Principal and School Evaluations, American Statistical Association.

In a recent post, I wrote that Randi Weingarten, the current president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has (finally) expressed her full opposition against the use of value - added models (VAMs) to evaluate and measure teacher effectiveness.

As just posted on Diane Ravitch's blog, Randi Weingarten, the current president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has (finally) expressed her full opposition against using value - added models (VAMs), the statistical measures of utmost interest on this blog, for teacher evaluation, accountability, and merit pay purposes.

There are probably, now, five + models being used today (i.e., the EVAAS, the Value — Added Research Center (VARC) model, the RAND Corporation model, the American Institute for Research (AIR) model, and the Student Growth Percentiles (SGP) model).

In fact, the American Statistical Association released a statement on value - added models that says, in part:

Rear Entertainment System (RES) 115V power outlet incorporated into RES control panel SiriusXM ® Radio HondaVAC ™ in - vehicle vacuum cleaner «Our Odyssey customers have told us some of the features they value most and we have packaged these in the new Odyssey SE model to create a special value edition that we know American families are going to love,» said Jeff Conrad, senior vice president and general manager of Honda Sales.

The brand announced today that the 2.4 - liter four - cylinder engine will now be standard on Dodge Journey SXT models, in addition to the American Value Package and SE models.

Want to see our current selection of Dodge Grand Caravan American Value Package models?

«The Fit is a premium small car with a healthy appetite for passengers and cargo, representing tremendous value well beyond its exterior footprint,» said David Hendley, assistant vice president of sales at American Honda Motor Co., Inc. «It's great to see the all - new Fit, our brand's entry model, join the much - honored CR - V among KBB.com's Best Resale Value Award winners this year.&rvalue well beyond its exterior footprint,» said David Hendley, assistant vice president of sales at American Honda Motor Co., Inc. «It's great to see the all - new Fit, our brand's entry model, join the much - honored CR - V among KBB.com's Best Resale Value Award winners this year.&rValue Award winners this year.»

«Honda models definitely punch above their weight when it comes to value with class - leading quality, safety ratings, standard features and a company commitment to avoid value - sapping fleet sales» said Mike Accavitti, senior vice president of automobile operations for American Honda.

The Grand Vitara disappeared from the American market in 2013, but you'll want to look for an older model in any case to maximize value.

Interesting features of this model are world - class supercar value, Classic American sports car, and excellent performance even in base trim We look forward to seeing you soon!

For the 1995 model year, the Legacy wagon in the North American market was available as the Alpine Sport and Sun Sport, which were Value Option Packages included on the «L» trim level wagon, and graphics denoting the option package installed.

«The Honda Accord is one of the best values in the American auto market, and we expressed our admiration for the model by naming it our Kelley Blue Book Best Buy in the hotly contested midsize car category,» said Jack Nerad, executive market analyst and executive editorial director for Kelley Blue Book's KBB.com.

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Employees are expected to adhere to all organizational policies and to act as role models, demonstrating American Humane's core values:

Our model families (the Kennedys, Jetsons, and Hartnells) will be used to easily calculate the value of the Gold Delta SkyMiles ® Credit Card from American Express over the year.

American and Alaska seem to think their high - value customers will be satisfied with a smaller bump — at least enough to not jump ship — and that they can still capture the impact of greater revenue without necessarily abandoning a distance - based model.

Whitney Museum of American Art: «Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama — Manhattan, 1970 - 1980» (closes on Sunday) Four decades ago, performance art was young, funky and clunky, beyond modernism, or maybe perversely beneath it, meant to reflect a world in which materials were transient, old models useless and values shifty.

All this happens Oct. 22 and 23 at American University in Washington, D.C. Among the topics panelists will discuss are equity investment in law firms, the impact of globalization on law firms, the value (or not) of social media, new law firm business models, and how to be «smarter» about the practice of law.

Confident, candid, acidic, impatient with the pieties that abound in American law, he exemplifies the value of «thinking things, not words,» as his own model, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., once wrote.

The Cravath System places a premium on efficiency and quality of work that no other firm matches, and it was through this value system, which we still use today, that Cravath created a new model for American law firms.

If that's the case, are we running headfirst into a collision with basic American democratic values — all because the most easily lucrative business model has led us there?