Sentences with phrase «high school reform make»

Does the 6 +1 Model for High School Reform make sense to you and your colleagues?

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In the short period of his administration he was able to carry through epoch - making reforms in high school and university curricula.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

• Continuing to promote education reform - ensuring that high school graduates are fully prepared for college and careers, and making sure that workforce - training programs address real - world needs of New York employers.

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.

As the scandal at Ballou makes clear, the local high schools in the city's impoverished neighborhoods are the last frontier of school reform in the District.

New American High Schools Make the Grade Whether a comprehensive high school, a magnet school, a small pilot school, or a restructured vocational - technical school — the Department of Education's 30 «New American High Schools» have been transformed by research - based reform strategHigh Schools Make the Grade Whether a comprehensive high school, a magnet school, a small pilot school, or a restructured vocational - technical school — the Department of Education's 30 «New American High Schools» have been transformed by research - based reform strateghigh school, a magnet school, a small pilot school, or a restructured vocational - technical school — the Department of Education's 30 «New American High Schools» have been transformed by research - based reform strategHigh Schools» have been transformed by research - based reform strategies.

It argues that while members of the reform community continue to advance district and charter efforts, they should also support initiatives that make high - quality private schools accessible to low - income families.

Panelists mentioned various important changes that needed to be made such as a juvenile justice system reform, access and support for early childhood education, comprehensive support services for parents that includes job training, a professional teaching structure, high schools that build pathways beyond just a four - year college degree, and educational supports for children living with undocumented immigrant parents.

A high - school English teacher in her ninth year, Keigan and other fellows have been involved in shaping the details of SB 191, the Colorado reform bill that made major changes to teacher - related policies, including evaluations and tenure.

Nine major civil rights organizations today called on Congress to make reforming America's high schools and improving graduation rates for minority students the most urgent priority as it moves forward on renewing the No Child Left Behind Act.

In «A Strong Start on Advancing Reform,» Burke argues that the administration has already made some positive strides in improving K — 12 and higher education through policy changes, rescissions of Obama - era regulations, and rhetorical support of school choice.

Solution: Extend standards - based reform to high schools by making them accountable for their students» achievement and completion rates.

Making high - quality books and professional development available to schools — including but not limited to Core Knowledge Language Arts — could transform America's elementary schools, and without the controversy that follows most of today's reform efforts.

This injustice is made even more onerous by the rising importance of standards - based school reform, which seeks to hold all students and schools accountable to higher levels of learning.

High school reform should include making sure that we are measuring the relevant skills; allowing states the flexibility to design systems that produce results; using multiple measures to assess achievement; allowing the use of growth models; including commonsense flexibility for students with special needs; involving educators in planning; and effectively addressing dropout rates.

«This was a very cynical statement that she doesn't believe teachers and schools can make a difference in high - poverty areas,» says Colorado State Senator Mike Johnston, a former teacher and principal whose sweeping tenure - reform law is a national model.

«Youth Development, Participation, and School Reform: Creating Opportunities and Supports for Student Decision - making in a High School» by Matthew Calvert for University of Wisconsin - Madison.

While it may not be widely known, many of the positive changes seen in education reform over the past few decades — from replication of high - quality charter schools to expansion of teacher residency programs — have been made possible, at least in part, through partnerships with AmeriCorps and other national service programs.

Producer of reports and briefs on at - risk middle and high school students that promote increased education funding and high school reform «to help make every child a graduate.»

What reformers should do is develop the tools that can allow families to make school overhauls successful; this includes building comprehensive school data systems that can be used in measuring success, and continuing to advance teacher quality reforms (including comprehensive teacher and principal evaluations based mostly on value - added analysis of student test score growth data, a subject of this week's Dropout Nation Podcast) that can allow school operators of all types to select high - quality talents.

But the lower levels of eighth - grade achievement serves as evidence of a point Dropout Nation has made over the past few years: That the generation of reforms that culminated with the passage of No Child aren't enough to help children master the knowledge they need — from algebra and statistics, to mastering the lessons from the Wealth of Nations and other great texts — for success in higher education and in life outside of school.

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

Malloy is having particular trouble with Gary Holder - Winfield — a major player on education in the statehouse — and Roberta Willis (who sits on the state legislature's higher education panel); this will make it difficult for Malloy to pass any school reform legislation.

This study confirms the progress that is being made in Newark schools and shows that reforms undertaken — particularly in areas like citywide enrollment and expansion of high quality schools — are making a real difference for Newark students.

that «for all its complexity, the Education Reform Act can be reduced, in essence, to two propositions: We will make a massive infusion of progressively distributed dollars into our public schools, and in return, we demand high standards and accountability from all education stakeholders.»

In his Globe op - ed, Birmingham wrote that «for all its complexity, the Education Reform Act can be reduced, in essence, to two propositions: We will make a massive infusion of progressively distributed dollars into our public schools, and in return, we demand high standards and accountability from all education stakeholders.»

But for all its complexity, the Education Reform Act can be reduced, in essence, to two propositions: We will make a massive infusion of progressively distributed dollars into our public schools, and in return, we demand high standards and accountability from all education stakeholders.

All three families / foundations fund a plethora of organizations, all of which endorse, promote or in some way support one or more of the following public school reforms: charter schools, vouchers, data - based decision making, high - stakes testing, parental choice, merit pay, eliminating tenure, union busting, and superintendent training.

The diverse array of school reformers that believes public education is broken beyond repair have created a shopping list of reforms / solutions that includes the following concepts: charter schools, vouchers, data - based decision making, high - stakes testing, parental choice, merit pay, eliminating tenure, union busting, and Common Core standards.

If Texas is to reach its goal of graduating at least 95 percent of its students, then it must change course — from masking the number of dropouts to making each child count, from dropout prevention or recovery to a graduation plan for each student, from dropping out to school holding power, from at - risk students to high school reforms that produce high school graduates.

Four fifths now leave before retirement age and many blame this on working hours — high by international standards — and working conditions that have been made challenging by sweeping reforms to school curricula and an increasingly challenging environment of accountability.

The final budget bill cut state K - 12 spending by nearly $ 800 million, over7 percent — the largest amount in Wisconsin's history — and limited local governments» abilities to make up for these cuts through property taxes.14 That same year, Gov. Walker passed major tax cuts primarily targeted toward corporations and the wealthy that totaled $ 2.33 billion over 10 years.15 Gov. Walker and Act 10 proponents argued that the bill's reforms would allow schools to offset these cuts by reducing teachers» benefits and hiring lower - paid teachers, preventing budget cuts from affecting students.16 Gov. Walker also argued that eliminating requirements to bargain over salary structures, hiring, and working conditions would give schools additional flexibility needed to attract and retain higher - quality teachers.17

The report comes two years after 45 of the nation's governors joined leaders from education and business to make high school reform a national priority at the 2005 National Education Summit on High Schohigh school reform a national priority at the 2005 National Education Summit on High SchoHigh Schools.

In addition, the implementation of reforms — such as citywide enrollment and the expansion of high quality schools — are also cited as two areas that have made a real difference for the district.

Arizona Mayors» Education Roundtable: Arizona Activation Initiative Despite numerous attempts at state education reform, little progress has been made in moving the needle on high school graduation rates in Arizona.

If test results show significant widespread gains in student results temporally associated with district reform plans, if these trends are generalized across all or most schools, and if the performance gaps between previous groups of low and high performing students and schools are seen to be diminishing over time, the argument is made that district reform efforts are having a positive impact on student learning.

The evidence clearly shows that the Chicago school system is making steady progress, especially in its high - poverty schools, which would seem to make the argument to stay the course on reforms, not retreat.

But as part of a plan to make sweeping reforms throughout his state, Scott will become the first governor to endeavor to make e-readers possible in all public schools, grades kindergarten through high school, through funding earmarked specifically for digital content.

From its inception, the Modeling Instruction program has been concerned with reforming high school teaching disciplines to make them more coherent and student - centered, and to incorporate the computer as an essential modeling tool.

A group of survivors of the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School who refer to themselves as the «mass - shooting generation» have made it their mission to bring about gun reform