Sentences with phrase «does measured school»

How do you measure school improvement?

How do you measure school climate?

Not exact matches

The budget does not consider other cost - saving measures and does not include daycare or private school costs.

The school data used for the ranking by the FT measures such several factors that have little, if anything, to do with the actual quality of the education received by graduates.

They were an indicator of «I went to business school but don't really know what to tell you to measure so I'll have you do these.»

During their sophomore year of high school, the twins did several ergometer tests on a rowing machine to measure their speed and found to their surprise that their scores ranked them in the top 20 nationally among junior rowers.

That package also included the STOP School Violence Act of 2018, doesn't include any specific gun control measures, but increases grants for school safety measures, such as security training and metal deteSchool Violence Act of 2018, doesn't include any specific gun control measures, but increases grants for school safety measures, such as security training and metal deteschool safety measures, such as security training and metal detectors.

He did not measure himself by the cultural standards of his day, as did some others, who scoffed at the fact that he was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), nor by the greatness of the order of the intellect (his education was that which could be gained at the local synagogue school) Some of the creatures made by the Word of God are greater in these respects than the one who is the Word of God incarnate, and that one is not ashamed of his inferiority.

Don't think my school teacher ever measured the speed of light.

Since relative rankings do have a permanent and necessary place in every social system, some numerical measures of school accomplishment may still be desirable.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

Those earlier rulings also recognized that a measure extending governmental assistance to sectarian schools in the performance of secular functions does not constitute a «law respecting an establishment of religion» merely because the secular program may incidentally benefit a church in fulfilling its religious mission.

While we have no detailed picture of instruction in Alexandria, we do have a rather vivid description of his courses in Caesarea, which we may take as representative of the two schools, and, in a measure, of the best catechetical instruction in general at the middle of the third century.

Because of the money this could net, don't be surprised if a middle ground ends up being the solution and the schools that want to adopt the measures get their way while abstainers get to keep their games dry in non-premium areas.

For much of his 29 - year tenure at Kenyon, Steen has had to make do with facilities that don't even measure up to some of the pools his swimmers competed in at the high school and club level.

While I am not prone to writing in the somewhat snarky and definitly sarcastic tone Wise employed in his Tuesday column, and although he seemed to mostly align himself with the group at Aspen - led by Dr. Bob Cantu - that views football as too dangerous to be played before the age of 14 (a position with which I respectfully disagree), I did find myself agreeing with what seemed to be his main point: that whatever measures are instituted to protect player safety will get us nowhere if the culture on NFL fields (and by extension, the high school, middle school, and youth gridiron) doesn't change.

«Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well - known standard effects: (1) escape — education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack — vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy — a sullen do - nothing withdrawal.

In most families, there was no significant impact of the home visits on the children's mental development or school outcomes, but in families where mothers scored especially low on measures of intelligence and mental health, children's academic performance did improve.

Most of us agree that the SAT math section does a pretty good job of measuring a student's ability to do high school math (though there are quibbles, of course).

TOUGH: Well, I think part of it has to do with education policy, that we've been so focused on standardized tests as the measure of whether a school is doing well that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skills.

On the other hand, as I also noted in my JO post, I do tend to overlook some of Oliver's shtick — and questionable tactics — when I consider how much valuable attention he's drawn to critically important issues like childhood obesity and diabetes, our nation's over-processed diet and the abysmal state of school food in many places in the U.S. I'm just not sure he would have achieved the same high ratings with a measured, PBS - style documentary on the topic.

We don't have nearly enough experience with student performance measures to put as much weight on them as we are doing in the District and several other school districts.

Critics of the school lunch block grant idea warn that the measure does not provide enough funding to keep up with growing needs, does not guarantee a free lunch to needy students, and would prompt many schools to offer fewer complete meals or to drop their lunch programs altogether.

And, how does a healthy school breakfast impact key measures for children, including weight status and academic outcomes?

In the Assembly, Democratic Speaker Carl Heastie has said he would oppose bringing armed personnel into schools, but did not rule out additional safety measures.

The proposals for the National Curriculum and the present school accountability measures, which do not recognise vocational subjects, will continue to ensure that they are not given the status or space in the curriculum they deserve.

Nolan said the measure does not preclude individual school districts from using the test score results as part of their teacher evaluations, if everyone at the school agrees.

Nolan's bill (A. 6777) enables children to be exempted from the tests but it does not require schools notify parents of their right of refusal without penalty as Tedisco's measure does.

«Do you support measures that increase accountability, transparency and that increase the input of school district parents in the decision to permit and maintain charter schools, as well as measures to reduce the negative fiscal impact on school districts with large numbers of charters?»

The bill backed by the Assembly does not include any legislation strengthening charter schools, which Senate Republicans are seeking in the trio of measures introduced on Sunday for mayoral control.

If you were a local school board member would you like to enter into a teacher removal legal proceeding knowing (1) Pearson's tests are flawed, (2) NYSED's use of test results is inappropriate, and (3) major professional groups like the American Statistical Association have stated that value added measures can do great harm?

The best that can be said of this White Paper is that it represents a veiled admission by the Government of the failure of its school reforms since 2010, with a raft of measures clearly intended to ensure that schools are no longer left to do their own thing.

I'm going to explain why the focus has to be on what we're doing now, fixing the schools, because charters are, in large measure, addressing a crisis that is a crisis of traditional public education,» he told Politico's Mike Allen, at an event in Washington.

The final budget deal, as expected, did not include a range of non-fiscal matters, including extending the statute of limitations in child abuse cases, school safety measures, gun control, relaxing certain criminal bail requirements and any bolstering of ethics and campaign finance laws in reaction to what has become an annual parade of Albany corruption cases, including two major trials this year of people with close ties to Cuomo.

We are concerned that the mayor errs too much on the side of testing to measure school and student achievement, but those tests do show that there has been substantial improvement.

There's still plenty to disagree on: Criminal justice reforms being pushed for in the wake of the Eric Garner case remain a sticky wicket for state lawmakers and Cuomo, as does expiring measures such as rent control and mayoral control of New York City schools.

For now, the bill does not have a matching measure in the Democratic - led Assembly, where state lawmakers have been hesitant to raise the cap on charter schools.

In the end, lawmakers insisted they couldn't vote against a spending plan for schools, even if it did include a number of measures that they opposed.

When asked if he would consider using only local measures to evaluate teachers, such as observations, while schools transition to the Common Core, he said: «I'd be open to anything that allows us to do the teacher evaluations faster.»

Several high - level legislators have shrugged off the consequences, noting that counties reliant on sales tax don't put their budgets together until the fall (a measure to extend their power to tax also was not resolved before the end of session) and school doesn't being until September.

Most of the state's school children did not measure up in new tests administered last year.

«All you have to do now is not only feel sorry for the liars, but you have to go against them and pray to God that the lies can be crushed and the liars can be silenced so that real measures can be put into place to actually save children's lives,» Nugent said about the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students.

«Why we use this law to address the challenge and punish the criminals, we are also putting in place appropriate measures particularly in our schools and other vulnerable targets to prevent security breaches and it is important that we ensure that everything we do in respect of this anti-kidnapping law is in good faith and good spirit to eradicate the issue of kidnapping once and for all in the State.»

But the budget is also notable for what it did not include: a measure that would make it easier for the survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits, voting reforms such as early voting and gun control legislation Democratic lawmakers had pushed in the wake of a high school shooting in Florida that left 17 people dead.

He says the Democrats do not object to armed guards at the State Capitol, yet some Democrats voted against the school safety enhancement measures.

He said the Democrats do not object to armed guards at the State Capitol, yet some Democrats voted against the school safety enhancement measures.

Lib Dems have already helped to get the Academies Bill (which helps to pave the way for free schools) through parliament it doesn't mandate MPs to vote against a coalition measure.

The education department will also have the powers to create a second test for individual school districts, if teachers at the school don't want to use the existing standardized tests as a measure of their performance.

«It is unbelievable that the law doesn't protect all children through 1,000 feet residency restrictions because pre-kindergartens are not considered «schools» under the law or continues to allow these ticking time bombs to reside next door to children in shelters,» Klein said in a statement praising Cuomo for including the measure as a part of the budget.

Using a standard measure of kindergarten readiness, the Le Moyne researchers compared Syracuse City School District children who received the books for three or more years to children who did not.