Sentences with phrase «measuring schools on»

Rather than measuring schools on rate of improvement, decisions are based on performance on state tests.

Measuring schools on GCSE attainment does not take into account the fact that children are at different points when they start their secondary education.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: «You have to measure schools on progress if you want to incentivise the right behaviour.

The Test Score Rating measures schools on proficiency, using performance (the percentage of students scoring at or above proficiency) on state assessments across grades and subjects, compared to other schools in the state, to produce a 1 - 10 rating for each school.

Not exact matches

Survivors of the Florida school shooting lashed out at lawmakers, gun advocates, and even President Donald Trump on Saturday at a fiery rally demanding immediate gun - control measures in the wake of Wednesday's massacre.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

Bumble is also making a $ 100,000 donation to March For Our Lives, a national rally on March 24 organized by the Parkland shooting survivors demanding increased gun control and school safety measures.

The school is closely managed on student surveys that measure the impact of the education as well as the likelihood that a student would recommend the institute to a friend or colleague.

Powerful budget committees in the State House and Senate signed off on a package of bills on Tuesday that would raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21 from 18, mandate a three - day waiting period for most gun purchases, and increase funding for school safety measures and access to mental health care.

One way or another, though, Mr. Scott has said he is determined to pass the gun package, which would also include significant funding for school safety and mental health measures, before the end of the annual legislative session, which is scheduled to wrap up on Friday.

Gov. Rick Scott signed into law sweeping changes to school safety and gun access on Friday — a measure crafted in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shoschool safety and gun access on Friday — a measure crafted in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shoSchool shooting.

Republicans squirmed over Trump's call for stricter gun laws after the assault on a Florida high school, while Democrats seized on the opening to reach beyond a modest measure gaining traction in Congress.

«We find the gaps between the stated procedures for MFP estimation [a measure of productivity commonly interpreted as technical progress] used by Statistics Canada and the BLS are substantial,» Michael Harper concluded in an open, written response (pdf) he co-authored with Alice Nakamura, another renowned expert on productivity, and Lu Zhang, both from the University of Alberta School of Business.

A funny thing happened when we asked people to weigh in on whether the new clear backpacks at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School would be an effective school safety meSchool would be an effective school safety meschool safety measure.

The Best Employers in Canada study measures the level of employee engagement at participating organizations and is based on results from a national survey conducted by Aon Hewitt, in association with the Queen's Centre for Business Venturing at the Queen's University School of Business.

The measure comes more than a month after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17, and on the eve of the gun violence — focused March for Our Lives.

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.

Subjects such as RE and music have already been hit as schools attempt to move pupils on to courses that will count towards the controversial new league table measure.

The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on a measure to reaffirm «In God We Trust» as the national motto and to encourage its display on public buildings, including schools.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

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.

(For example, information on the number of lawyers, law schools, and so forth in a society could be a substitute measure of legal development, but in that case the relationship with societal complexity would be well - nigh tautological.)

Communities Secretary Sajid Javid will call on schools to teach «British values», with one of the key measures being to boost English language skills.

A recent presentation about sustainable school catering in Turin suggested schools ought to be aiming to reduce meat - based meals by 50 %, through measures such as cutting down on certain meats; introducing vegetarian meals twice a week; and offering alternative veggie meals if children ask for them.

The industry has taken significant measures to provide consumers with more options and information to allow informed dietary choices through developing reformulated products to offer low and no - sugar varieties, voluntarily displaying kilojoule information on the front of labels and restricting sales of regular kilojoule soft drinks in schools.

Gindlesperger cited the group's voluntarily steps to remove full - calorie soft drinks from schools nationwide, put calorie labels on all packaging and other measures.

«I reckoned that if I could get some guys together from our «Glory Days» and swim them against our counterparts on the same high school's team of today,» he said, «then even if we lost, which we surely would, we'd at least know the measure of our decline.

On homecoming eve the freshmen climb up the mountain to party and whitewash the big rocks that measure more than 100 feet long and form a «W» and, though that is about the extent of any traditional activities, the school is not so new that a few guys could not come down from Idaho last month and pelt the statue of Weber's founder with some well - chosen eggs.

The girls were only allowed out one night a week, and on the Sabbath girls and boys alike were «urged» to attend both Sunday school and church and then, for good measure, to observe a «quiet hour» from two to three in the afternoon.

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.

This hasn't stopped advocates from trying to develop those measures — and even to hold teachers and schools accountable for students» performance on them.

They fall behind on measures of cognition and language development, and they have executive - function problems, too: They struggle with attention regulation; they are perceived by their teachers and parents as inattentive and hyperactive; they have trouble focusing in school.

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 topiOn 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 topion the topic.

Tucked within an Orwellian press release touting its efforts to «combat child obesity,» the Texas Department of Agriculture has made official its lifting of a decade - old ban on deep fat fryers in Texas schools, as well as rolling back other common sense school nutrition measures.

Prior to the November election, Cary Park District officials promised residents that if they voted down referendum measures seeking to fund a proposed swim center and ballfields on 80 acres near Cary - Grove High School, they'd drop a condemnation suit for the land.

Village President Elliott Hartstein was scolded this week by Buffalo Grove trustees over a lack of cooperation and his refusal to follow their recommendations on a school funding reform measure.

Research has shown that the children of same - sex couples, whether adopted or biological, fare no worse than the kids of straight couples on mental health, social functioning, school performance and several other life - success measures.

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.

And especially in this moment when we really care a lot about accountability in schools, there has been an increasing emphasis on finding measures — like a student's standardized test scores — to tell us if a teacher is a good teacher.

(1) nutrition guidelines for all foods sold on school campus during the school day; (2) setting school goals for nutrition education and physical activity; (3) establishing community participation in creating local wellness policies; and (4) creating a plan for measuring implementation of these wellness policies.

The majority of home visiting services and research have focused on the period prenatally through 2 to 3 years and thus have not measured long - term impacts on school readiness and school achievement.

Over the period from 8 to 18 years, sample members were assessed on a range of measures of cognitive and academic outcomes including measures of child intelligence quotient; teacher ratings of school performance; standardized tests of reading comprehension, mathematics, and scholastic ability; pass rates in school leaving examinations; and leaving school without qualifications.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualificaSchool Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualificaschool without qualifications.

Psychologist and step - parenting expert Dr. Patricia Papernow of Harvard Medical School believes that «authoritative parenting» is best for children on every measure imaginable, including through a difficult transition like becoming a step - family.

phcraniometer looks a lot like the protractors we all used in elementary school for drawing circles and measuring angles, and depends on subjective decisions by your baby's practitioner.

Glen Ellyn School District 41 will be going out for bid soon on constructing new classrooms at elementary schools, after board members approved the measure Monday.

DENVER, Nov 5 (Reuters)- Supporters said on Tuesday that a Colorado measure to levy taxes on newly legalized sales of recreational marijuana and earmark the first $ 40 million in revenue for public schools had been approved by voters.