Sentences with phrase «class standard academic»

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Yet, more cleverly exposed are the ways the intellectual class, in processing the tale and its history through the standard academic apparatus, fosters the advent of the next authoritarian regime by its naïve belief in its own objectivity and its refusal to judge Gilead's practices.

Indeed, as the NCAA moves to strengthen its academic standards, perhaps it also should end its hypocritical understanding with the NFL, by which players aren't eligible to be drafted until their college class graduates.

In January, the school — which offers fashion, merchandising and illustration classes along with standard academic courses — launched a GoFundMe page to raise money for the installation of air - conditioning units in the nearly 70 classrooms that don't have them.

Catholic high schools soon «returned to conventional class - period organization, heightened academic standards and a renewed emphasis on a core of academic subjects.»

Helpfully, using National School Boards Association data, the authors are able to assess actual district conditions with respect to school finance, teacher pay, collective bargaining, class size, and academic standards, and they then matched that data with board - member survey results.

Steve realized that his students were truly interested in finding ways to help people impacted by such disasters, and that such a project could incorporate many of the academic standards that he would have to cover in that class, such as volume, fractions, measurements and averages.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

ESSA wisely eliminates cost - by - cost testing for SNS, a practice which discouraged schools from spending Title I funds on comprehensive services and perversely encouraged spending on add - ons (like pulling students out of academic classes to work with paraprofessionals) that met compliance standards but were not necessarily helpful in improving educational outcomes for low - income students.

The 40,000 - student Hamilton County district, which includes Chattanooga, began creating optional virtual courses aligned to state academic standards in 2002, and since then has converted its entire summer school program to online classes.

After congratulating the nation for working to amass current successes — including financial aid options that have «finally opened the doors of college to all Americans,» state - developed academic standards, the creation of a voluntary national test, technology in the schools, and an emphasis on class - size reduction — Clinton outlined his proposal to drive public education into the 21st century.

«Forgive some academic jargon, but the most common education reform ideas — reducing class size, raising teacher pay, enrolling kids in Head Start — produce gains of about 0.1 or 0.2 or 0.3 standard deviations.

Students achieve the highest academic standards, whilst also benefitting from broad extra-curricular activities, exceptional pastoral care and first - class facilities.

Mr Stokes said soaring public education enrolments was due to a baby boom, a strong NSW economy attracting young families and world - class academic standards.

Real personalizing of education, for example, would disrupt just about everything: from school architecture to teacher preparation, from state academic standards and grade - level class assignments to the scheduling of the period, the day, the week, and the year.

The new standards focus so much more on academic language and literacy, and I really have fewer students who struggle with language after they leave my class.

A portfolio for a student - led conference typically includes an agenda for the conference, a compilation of the student's work in the class, and usually goal sheets outlining academic and behavioral standards for them moving forward.

In an article that appeared in the Summer 2008 issue of Ed Next, Paul Peterson and Rick Hess examined the rigor of each state's academic standards as compared with NAEP and found that only three states — Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Missouri — had established world - class standards.

Parents most often based their decisions on a school's curricula, teaching methods, class size, and academic standards.

Beth Smith, president of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, talks about how the «the Common Core math and English standards place more emphasis on integration and application of skills learned in one class...

Coleman and Wilhoit told the Gateses that academic standards varied so wildly between states that high school diplomas had lost all meaning, that as many as 40 percent of college freshmen needed remedial classes and that U.S. students were falling behind their foreign competitors.

In addition, the main thrust of the report's criticism, that the state's ESSA plan is not sufficiently similar to what it would have been had No Child Left Behind remained in effect, assumes the test - based accountability strategy that these reviewers have made their careers pursuing had been effective, which it has not; and therefore, when coupled with the false claim that California has high - quality academic standards and assessments, which it doesn't (California's standards being based on the Common Core, which leaves American students 2 - 3 years behind their peers in East Asia and northern Europe), California's families remain well advised to opt out of state schooling wherever and whenever possible, until the overreach from both the federal and state capitals is brought to an end and local schools that want to pursue genuinely world - class excellence can thrive.

Once implemented, these standards will help ensure that America's prospective teachers will be drawn from the academic top half of our graduating high school classes.

To ensure college success, the academic standards at Phoenix schools are high: students must earn a C - or better to earn class credit, and students are required to receive a college acceptance letter prior to graduation.

He is charged with the mission - critical task of setting and meeting academic standards, developing instructional resources, and creating best - in - class educational offerings that address the needs of the District's students.

But it's not known how much class time students spend preparing for tests that became mandatory, starting in third grade, under the George W. Bush - era No Child Left Behind law and are a flashpoint in the debate over the Common Core academic standards.

Our recent research examines the evaluation of the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education (SAGE) program (Molnar, Smith, and Zahorik, 2000; Molnar et al., 2001; Zahorik, Molnar, Ehrle, & Halbach, 2000), an initiative that requires participating schools to maintain the student - teacher ratio in K — 3 classes at 15:1 and develop rigorous, standards - based academic curriculums.

With all of that said, charter schools are primarily chosen because of their higher academic standards, small class sizes, ground - breaking approaches, and matching educational philosophies.

The speaking and listening standards in the common core call for student engagement in academic discussion in pairs, small groups, and whole - class settings.

Principal Patrick McGillicuddy asked Eskolta to help department heads take a deeper look, and in 2013, the Eskolta team evaluated nearly 250 outcomes from a sample of classes in four disciplines to see which academic skills and abilities were measured by each individual standard.

Teachers are facing a quick turnaround as they work to align their classes to the new academic standards the State Board approved Monday.

She said District 218 began to pull kids from remedial classes a few years ago because students in those classes were not meeting academic standards in science.

He has worked to fortify California's world - class academic standards, strengthen California's school accountability and assessment systems and bolster state funding for public school classrooms.

The academic prestige score takes into account metrics such as average amount of financial need received, average class sizes, admissions standards, and the percentage of faculty holding terminal degrees in their field.

Based on first grade educational standards, individual and whole class activities that feature artistic graphics will strengthen academic skills.

We keep academic standards high but class sizes small so our extraordinarily dedicated faculty can give each scholar the individual attention he or she needs.

The Long Beach Scholars program embeds non-cognitive skills within STEM - focused college and career exploration classes to address academic standards and contribute to a cohesive 21st century graduate profile.

This framework document explores the World - Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) consortium's English Language Development (ELD) standards, which represent the social, instructional and academic language that students need to engage with peers, educators and the curriculum.

CAREER - TECHNICAL EDUCATION Technical training that is embedded through a sequence of classes and integrated with academic content standards, aligned with career opportunities in a variety of high - need, high - skill occupations, including opportunities for stackable certificates, credentials, or degrees, where relevant.

They include three ACT diagnostics each year so students can see their progress on college readiness standards, regular progress reports with academic data on class performance metrics, discipline data, reading growth data, and many others.

This focus on building knowledge of academic language, content, and performance helps prepare English language learners for non-sheltered classes, in which they will be expected to achieve to high academic standards alongside their English - speaking peers, a goal of NCLB.

Currently, PS 191, PS 199, PS 87, and PS 452 are General Education schools, where all students are placed in identical classes, featuring the standard curriculum and no tracking based on academic ability.

Petrelli states they set «world - class academic standards for student achievement» and during the same hearing, our commissioner said they were «the floor».

If a student is an English Language Learner, meaning another language is his / her first language and the student is learning the English of communication and academics, the IEP team must also consider the student's performance level in terms of the World - Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) English Language Proficiency (ELP) standards.

Our kids deserve lessons grounded in strong academic standards and tailored to individual student and class needs.

These choices are primarily based on educational reasons: high academic standards, small class size, innovative approaches, and educational philosophies in line with their own.

Additionally, to buttress individual teacher practices like the in - class deterrents, the school created a committee for academic integrity, implemented a new list of standards, and wove discussions about honesty into a major portion of the agenda.

Bridges» courses offer research based instructional approaches for meeting the core academic course standards in classes where homework help is embedded in the school day.

A writer is hired when he / she has proven his / her ability to meet academic writing standards when producing first - class custom papers.

Interpretation 501 - 1 deals with academic attrition and an incoming classes» academic credentials, while 501 - 2 focuses on admissions policies and practices and 501 - 3 states that a law school with a cumulative nontransfer attrition rate higher than 20 percent is not in compliance with Standard 501.

During class I always set out clear instructional goals to those I teach, promote a culture of excellence at every opportunity and hold my students to extremely high academic standards.