Sentences with phrase «measuring access to opportunity»

Official Poverty Measure Fails to Provide an Accurate Assessment of Anti-Poverty Programs The Supplemental Poverty Measure Shows U.S. Child Poverty Rate Cut Nearly in Half by Safety Net Programs and Tax Policies MONTPELIER — The independent child advocacy organization Voices for Vermont's Children is highlighting the release of the new KIDS COUNT ® Data Snapshot, Measuring Access to Opportunity... Continue Reading

MONTPELIER — The independent child advocacy organization Voices for Vermont's Children is highlighting the release of the new KIDS COUNT ® Data Snapshot, Measuring Access to Opportunity in the United States.

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Opportunity is measured by levels of poverty and economic decline, and whether people have equal access to economic opportunities.

The Poverty Committee will advise Erie County government on measures to reduce poverty and its causes, including access to employment opportunities, high cost of safe and secure housing, substance abuse, mental illness, discrimination, and disability.

That's partly because traffic speed and certain environmental effects are easier to measure than social - justice considerations, such as access to job opportunities or health care for low - income groups, or balancing the interests of pedestrians and cyclists with those of motorists.

We now know that much of what the IQ testers measured was not innate intelligence, but children's access to educational and cultural opportunities.

Opportunity - to - learn indicators should include curriculum access and participation, sufficient resources, and measures of school climate.

Although extracurricular and enrichment opportunities are valuable for young people, the vast majority of low - and moderate - income children don't have access to a full measure of them.

The 2015 - 2016 Civil Rights Data Collection is a survey of all public schools and school districts in the country that measures student access to courses, programs, staff and resources affecting education equity and opportunity for students.

The CRDC collects information from schools on a variety of measures such as student access to courses, staff and resources and school climate measures that impact education equity and opportunity for students.

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

Accountability should be enforced where the necessary resources are provided and the tools used to measure success or failure are well developed, appropriate to the task, and used to inform instructional decisions.School Choice School choice is appropriate within the public school system as long as equal opportunity and access are ensured without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, socioeconomic status, or disability.

The resulting indicators range from typical accountability metrics such as student assessment results and graduation rates to less common measures such as student participation in extracurricular activities, school climate survey participation and results, information about expanded learning opportunities, preschool and kindergarten access, and discipline data.

The effect of this charter school growth is hard to measure in smaller communities, but we know that rural students face unique challenges in accessing the same level of opportunities made available to urban students.

The five Schools of Opportunity profiled here refuse to ration access to their most advanced and interesting courses, they refuse to push out or exclude students who struggle with behavioral issues, and they refuse to define test scores as their sole measure of success.

Similarly, many states are already collecting valid and reliable measures of college and career readiness that incentivize schools to increase access to advanced coursework or certifications, among other important opportunities.

This report reviews these provisions in four major areas: (1) access to learning opportunities focused on higher - order thinking skills; (2) multiple measures of equity; (3) resource equity; and (4) evidence - based interventions.

This report highlights measures of student access to highly effective teachers, access to early learning opportunities, school funding, high - quality curriculum, a well - rounded education, and student health and wellness.

Clearly we have access to some data and clearly having Pfizer participate in some of these broad industry coalitions like this most recent one, clearly there are a good amount of data and modeling about the valued impact of early diagnosis, early treatment as well as again well documented preventive measures like heartworm check, which I think is very clearly an opportunity to say the better we can assess that, we can clearly avert mortality and morbidity that is clearly avoidable.

While the focus of the document is on measuring GHG benefits, many of the methods discussed are broadly useful for understanding other important social benefits including air pollution and traffic congestion reduction, fuel savings, increased traffic safety, and access to opportunities across the income spectrum.

States should undertake, at the national level, all necessary measures for the realization of the right to development and shall ensure, inter alia, equality of opportunity for all in their access to basic resources, education, health services, food, housing, employment and the fair distribution of income.

These laws permit employers to adopt «special measures» to assist disadvantaged racial groups so that they can have similar access to opportunities as others in the community.