Sentences with phrase «quality counts issue»

Education Week's annual Quality Counts issue is out.

Details of California's teacher - licensing system as presented in the special Jan. 13, 2000, Quality Counts issue of Education Week require clarification.

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Managing Somatic Cell Count requires continued focus and the Kerry Agribusiness Milk Quality team were available to provide advice and discuss any current issues.

Both men counted quality of life as their most important issue, but while Mr. Krupski touted his record on land preservation, clean water and controlling development in Southold, Mr. Walter said quality of life is a balancing act.

Nutritional deficiencies have been linked to ovulation issues, hormonal imbalance, poor egg quality, low sperm count, and so much more.

«Accountability for student performance is one of the two or three - if not the most - prominent issues in policy at the state and local levels right now,» says Richard F. Elmore, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education (Quality Counts, 1999)

This 10th anniversary issue — Quality Counts at 10: A Decade of Standards - Based Reform — also takes a special look back at standards - based reform in American education over the past ten years.

Each winter, Education Week issues Quality Counts as a magazine supplement to its weekly newspaper.

In 2014, Quality Counts took a hiatus from issuing summative grades in order to step back and reassess the education policy landscape.

In conjunction with the release of Quality Counts 2009, the EPE Research Center and Education Week will be hosting a series of online chats and a webinar in which QC»09 Project Director Amy Hightower, EPE Research Center Director Christopher B. Swanson, the report's senior writers, and leading experts in the ELL field will engage in lively, in - depth dialogues about this year's report and critical issues facing ELL education.

Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing countries.

As a new presidential administration nears the close of its first year in office and educators across the country grapple with the challenges and opportunities in implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act, the nation's educational performance earns a grade of C from Quality Counts 2018, the 22nd annual report card issued by the Education Week Research Center.

Quality Counts 2015: Preparing to Launch takes a broad look at the issues and forces shaping the discussion around early - childhood education.

As a new political and policy era dawns in Washington, the status of the nation's schools remains stable, though still earning a grade of C from Quality Counts 2017, the 21st annual report card issued by the Education Week Research Center.

All of the «options» Florida is offering have the same issues as public education: they are only as good as the quality of programs & people - administrators, teachers, evaluators, etc. implementing them - and more importantly, in the voucher plan there are two huge issues: 1) poor and uneducated parents rarely are aware of the range of quality and number of schools available (which I am sure the politicians are counting on) 2) Even if every parent were saavy in the needs of their child and the kind of school they should look for, there aren't enough of those schools available...

Putting an end to traditional enrollment counts — and only providing districts with dollars based on whether the student is actually attending school — will force districts to look at the underlying reasons why chronic truancy is a problem in the first place, as well as address the issues by providing children with high - quality teaching and strong, college - preparatory curricula.

As reformers learned the hard way three years ago with then - Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty's re-election defeat (and three years earlier with the defeat of Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson), you can't simply count on voters to concern themselves only with overhauling failing schools, especially if the candidate's flaws — including an inattentiveness addressing quality - of - life issues, and a demeanor at which even Winston Churchill would look askance — are too much for voters to overlook.

Quality Counts 2016 issues overall summative grades, as well as updated scores in each of the three categories that comprise the report's grading rubric.

Quality Counts grades the states and the nation on educational performance across a range of key indicators, issuing overall A-F grades based on a traditional 100 - point scale.

The First Asset Canadian Buyback Index ETF (TSX: FBE) «provides investors with exposure to a portfolio of equity securities of quality companies with active share buyback programs that have significantly and consistently reduced their issued and outstanding share count.»

Newton will oversee all activities related to procurement of commodities, including purchase orders and delivery, managing inventory through cycle counts, researching discrepancies and inventory reconciliation and analyzing quality - control reports for manufacturing issues.

So the city of Katmandu, while still reeling, has clearly been spared what could have been a far higher death count given rapid urbanization in recent years (driven in part as people fled political turmoil in the hinterlands), poor quality of construction, lack of emergency services and other glaring issues.

For more than 25 years TerraLex member firms have provided clients with trusted, quality legal service where it counts as a locally - focused, strategically - resourced, and expertly - vetted collaboration of problem solvers poised to resolve issues of all scopes.

By providing high - quality data and trend analysis, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, state and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children — and to raise the visibility of children's issues through a nonpartisan, evidence - based lens.

By providing high - quality data and trend analysis, Kids Count seeks to enrich local, state and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children — and to raise the visibility of children's issues through a nonpartisan, evidence - based lens.