Sentences with phrase «improving school performance requires»

Improving school performance requires data - driven decision making at all levels, from the classroom through local and state education agencies; from early childhood through higher education.

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In the end, however, the regulations might also improve the program by ensuring equal access and by requiring that schools provide accurate information on student performance and faculty qualifications.

Examples of such initiatives include the No Child Left Behind legislation in the United States, which required schools to demonstrate that they were making adequate yearly progress and provided escalating negative consequences for schools that were unable to do this; the creation and publication of league tables of «value - added» measures of school performance in England; proposals to introduce financial rewards for school improvement and performance pay tied to improved test results in Australia; and the encouragement of competition between schools under New Zealand's Tomorrow's Schools pschools to demonstrate that they were making adequate yearly progress and provided escalating negative consequences for schools that were unable to do this; the creation and publication of league tables of «value - added» measures of school performance in England; proposals to introduce financial rewards for school improvement and performance pay tied to improved test results in Australia; and the encouragement of competition between schools under New Zealand's Tomorrow's Schools pschools that were unable to do this; the creation and publication of league tables of «value - added» measures of school performance in England; proposals to introduce financial rewards for school improvement and performance pay tied to improved test results in Australia; and the encouragement of competition between schools under New Zealand's Tomorrow's Schools pschools under New Zealand's Tomorrow's Schools pSchools program.

States participating in Title I are required to meet a variety of requirements for assessing the achievement levels of public school students, reporting results of achievement tests to parents and the public, and taking actions intended to improve the performance of schools where achievement results are deemed inadequate.

After throwing up the standard straw men — «At its core, the reform movement believes that great teachers and improved teaching methods are all that's required to improve student performance, so that's all the reformers focus on,» «reformers act as if a student's home life is irrelevant,» «Dodd [the teacher] does everything a school reformer could hope for» — he rolls out the woefully tired and hopelessly unhelpful nostrum: «What needs to be acknowledged, however, is that school reform won't fix everything.»

Two weeks later, the senators settled on a complicated formula that required states to calculate an overall performance grade for a school based on several factors, including improving test scores for poor and minority children.

The Senate version of Gov. Jerry Brown's school finance restructuring proposal would require district and county administrators to hold public hearings and develop plans detailing how they will use additional state support to improve the performance of educationally disadvantaged students...

ESSA continues requiring a single state achievement test system beginning in 3rd grade, but it would be up to the states, not the U.S. Dept. of Education, to «decide how to use the testing results to measure and improve school performance.»

And of those schools rated outstanding, good or as requiring improvement whose performance deteriorated substantially, 47 per cent of primary schools and 33 per cent of secondary schools saw their Ofsted judgments improve.

The Improving America's Schools Act — the 1994 reauthorization of ESEA — required states to assess the reading and mathematics performance of all students, including students with disabilities and English language learners, and report disaggregated results.

States would be able to choose one of six intensive interventions for improving performance in these schools, ranging from a strategic staffing strategy that allows principals to staff schools with a turnaround team of their choosing, to a whole - school reform strategy that requires schools to partner with an organization that has a research - based success record.

Further empirical research is required to assess the effectiveness of the program, but it is clear that key decision makers at every level of Shanghai school education consider the empowered - management program to be key to improving performance and equity.

Specifically, school operators would be required to help students demonstrably improve their academic performance against clearly stipulated measures — and to do so within set term limits.

Doing so requires them to develop their talent, culture, execution skills, and use of knowledge to make decisions that will improve the performance of students and the school as a whole.

They require head teachers to set objectives for every teacher which will, if met, contribute to improving the education of pupils at that school and contribute to any plan for improving the school's educational provision and performance.

Schools in the Renewal program will work along a three - year timeline, which will require improved attendance in the next school year and enhanced academic performance the year after that.

Second, the only piece of evidence that Fordham presents to support the claim that state testing requirements improve performance at choice schools is the finding that scores rose when Milwaukee private choice schools were required to take the high stakes state test.

Division - level academic reviews provide information to determine whether a local school board is meeting its responsibilities under the Standards of Quality (SOQ); provide the local school board with essential actions necessary to correct any areas of SOQ noncompliance and for improving educational performance as part of a required corrective action plan; and to monitor, enforce and report on the local school board's development and implementation of the required corrective action plan.

To fulfill this mission, ESSA requires states to measure, report on, and improve public school performance.

As a result, states are now required both to identify schools needing the most support and to produce annual report cards that include more holistic data, allowing for strategic deployment of state - and district - level resources to improve student performance.

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Initiative 1240 sets strict accountability and performance requirements The initiative sets strict qualification requirements for public charter school operators and requires strict oversight and accountability standards — including annual performance reporting for public charter schools to evaluate their success in improving student outcomes.

In fact, Title I of the 1994 Improving America's Schools Act required the use of multiple measures to judge the performance of schools, and that language carried over unchanged, in 2001, to No Child Left Behind Schools Act required the use of multiple measures to judge the performance of schools, and that language carried over unchanged, in 2001, to No Child Left Behind schools, and that language carried over unchanged, in 2001, to No Child Left Behind (NCLB):

The «serious weakness» label is applied to schools in the «inadequate» category where performance requires significant improvement, but leaders and managers have demonstrated the capacity to improve.

It requires sponsors to monitor each school's progress and provide technical assistance, including ensuring each has a plan to improve performance.

The course will culminate in assessing and presenting what is required to improve the participant's own school culture and climate and what strategies can be used most effectively to promote schools of moral and performance character to staff, parents, and decision makers.