Sentences with phrase «see measuring school»

Only 38 Percent of African American and 42 Percent of Latino Parents Think High School Graduates are Ready for College; 83 Percent and 80 Percent, Respectively, Agree with Need to Grade Schools; Lower - Income Parents are Among the Most Likely to See Measuring School Performance as ImportantNew York — While three...

Not exact matches

I feel like I should arrange for you to come have lunch at Julian's school to see if the Berkeley School lunches measure up to theschool to see if the Berkeley School lunches measure up to theSchool lunches measure up to the hype!

Senate Democrats back plans to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18, want to see a package of ethics measures approved, and restore funding for elementary and secondary schools.

«Obviously with the tragedy we saw with the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut I think it's important that school districts be encouraged to invest in security measures.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas students seen on the way to school wearing clear backpacks as part of the schools new security measures after the February 14, 2018 school shooting that killed 17 people.

But the measure remains opposed by the teachers union, who see it as a way of creating a back - door voucher program and not funding public schooling at appropriate levels.

However, without enough resource to provide places we are seeing some schools having to take extreme measures including converting non-classroom space and reducing playground space.»

This year alone, the groups saw major elements of their platforms come to pass, such as tying teacher evaluations more closely to test scores, adding hurdles to earning tenure and increasing the number of charter schools, measures all unpopular with the unions.

But Paterson's plan contained several measures — including $ 420 million more in school cuts — that Sampson's members saw as politically toxic.

Simeon Vambe is seen here demonstrating a prizewinning sensor for measuring the oomph with which Danielle Ali, his classmate at Torriano Junior School in London, is blowing the French horn.

«This points to two possible explanations: There are protective measures we don't see, such as resilience, or we're not asking the right questions that address adverse experiences specific to immigrant children such as fear of deportation of separation,» says Tania Caballero, M.D., M.H.S., a pediatrics research and clinical fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the paper's first author.

But when you work at a middle school where students toss out unwanted food into clear, see - through bins that essentially function as food waste «measuring cups,» it's hard not to.

We also generated measures of cultural exposure for these students based on the number of performances they had seen with their schools at the Walton Arts Center.

Without good numbers to measure and compare these decisions, however, politicians and school board members may gravitate toward easier - to - measure line items like computers and tablets that parents and community members can actually see in their children's hands.

We want to see the free meals for all infants scheme being used to measure the impact of universal school food for children's public health.

Uniform Education Standards Seen Timely The Washington Times, May 16, 2011» «Pencil - and - paper - based tests are not capable of measuring complex intellectual performances,» said Chris Dede, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.»

Evangelicals usually leave public schools reluctantly and see Christian schools as a stopgap measure in these «troubled» times.

Looking across our analyses, we see that under IMPACT, DCPS has dramatically improved the quality of teaching in its schools — likely contributing to its status as the fastest - improving large urban school system in the United States as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Parent Satisfaction Another key measure of school reform initiatives is the perception among parents, who see firsthand the effects of changes in their child's educational environment.

Next year will see the introduction of «Progress 8», a new method of measuring school performance that aims to better assess the progress pupils make between Key Stage 2 and the end of their time at secondary school.

A compelling way to see this is to look at the relationship across schools between the average test - score gain students make between the 4th and 8th grade and our summary measure of their students» fluid cognitive ability at the end of that period (see Figure 2).

The new measures are due to be announced at Bethnal Green Academy, a school which saw three of its pupils travel to Syria in February 2015.

Principal Heidi Brown said that the funding will help to reverse a decline which saw the school placed into special measures in April 2013.

«We are equally proud that this partnership has helped us on our journey of improvement, which has seen both schools being removed from special measures and rated «good» by Ofsted — an incredible turnaround in such as short space of time.»

The 2003 - 04 school year saw the first widespread implementation of the new federal education law's chief accountability measures.

Despite making far larger test - score gains than students attending open - enrollment district schools, and despite the emphasis their schools place on cultivating non-cognitive skills, charter school students exhibit markedly lower average levels of self - control as measured by student self - reports (see Figure 2).

Controlling for student demographics, 8th - grade test scores, English language skills, special education program participation, free or reduced - price lunch status (a measure of family income), and mobility during middle school does not alter the basic patterns of graduation and college attendance seen in the descriptive comparisons.

An article («Schools to See Big Windfalls From State Ballot Measures») on state ballot measures in the Nov. 13 issue misidentified, on second reference, M. Dane Waters, the president of the Washington - based Initiative & Referendum InMeasures») on state ballot measures in the Nov. 13 issue misidentified, on second reference, M. Dane Waters, the president of the Washington - based Initiative & Referendum Inmeasures in the Nov. 13 issue misidentified, on second reference, M. Dane Waters, the president of the Washington - based Initiative & Referendum Institute.

An analysis of the dissimilarity index of schools, which measures how dissimilar schools» enrollment patterns are compared to the national student population, reveals that segregation is not increasing (see Figure 1b).

Indeed, the very notion of bilingualism is changing; language mastery is no longer seen as an either / or proposition, even though most schools still measure English proficiency as a binary «pass or fail» marker.

In previous research using the 2003 principal survey data (see «When Principals Rate Teachers,» research, Spring 2006), we found that principals in the district are usually able to identify the most and least effective teachers in their schools, as measured by their students» academic progress.

You won't find much about union support, but you will learn more about how officials and average citizens are coming to see that teacher and school effectiveness can be measured and improved.

It's true that test scores are correlated with some measures of later life success, but for test - based accountability to work we would need to see that changes in test scores caused by schools are associated with changes in later life success for students.

Destination measures are increasingly being seen as key to assessing how well schools and colleges prepare their students to make a successful transition into the next stage of education or training, or employment.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

In the year prior to entering a KIPP school, 80 percent of the KIPP students are from low - income families, as measured by eligibility for free or reduced - price school breakfast and lunch (FRPL); 96 percent are either black or Hispanic; 7 percent are English language learners; and 7 percent receive special education services (see Figure 1a).

Last year's event was the company's first, with many schools attending local solar farms, seeing the dual usage of agricultural farming as well as generating electricity, discovering the biodiversity measures that many farms use to attract insects and birds through use of wildflower meadows as well as learning how solar is a home - grown solution to the UK's energy crisis.

One 3rd - grade teacher was quoted as saying, «These tests can not and never will truly measure what a child actually knows, how a child sees the world, what a child genuinely understands and grasps, and what kind of life that child lives outside the school walls.»

While this rise in risk of fraud is predominantly faced by British businesses, schools should be taking precautionary measures to ensure that the education sector does not see a similar rise.

For example, the risk of property crime increases during a recession, and if budget cuts means that this is combined with reduced spending on physical security measures, it is easy to see how schools could face increasing burglary problems.

What was intended was to establish a measurement system, if innovation can be measured in purely quantitative terms, through a representative sample of Spanish schools, both in number and geographically speaking, that allowed us to enter their centers, be with them, live with them, learn from them, and see the implementation of their projects within the innovation.

That is, we compare students with the same demographic characteristics, the same test scores in the current year and in a previous year, the same responses to the surveys for other social - emotional measures collected by the district, and within the same school and grade, to see whether students who look the same on all of these measures but have a stronger growth mindset learn more over the course of the following year.

Businesses have earning reports and stock prices as measures of success; schools seeking multiple purposes — see above — are expected to show immediate, midterm, and long - term results, many of whichare hardly reducible to numbers.

The aspiration of early headship through the new model of the «super head» that measures metrics rather than wellbeing combined with the abolition of the compulsory headship qualification means that we are seeing some very «young heads» (in experience terms) in schools who are simply ill - equipped to deal with the variety of problems that will undoubtedly come their way.

On the left, some of the opposition to Common Core and its assessments is related to broader resistance to high - stakes testing, the linking of student scores to teacher evaluations, and other reform measures such as school choice, which some see as «corporate school reform.»

It is indeed a good thing that we have those other measures because it's true that the Common Core era has failed to deliver on what many of us saw as one of its most valuable and important features: a platinum meter stick to be used to measure, monitor, and compare student achievement, not just between states but also among districts, individual schools, even individual classrooms and children.

Reporting test - score levels will allow policymakers to clearly see absolute differences in achievement across schools, regardless of which growth measure is adopted.

The ACARA report says the «knowledge, skills and understanding associated with active and informed citizenship are essential for all Australians in the [21st Century]...» It adds, «while it is reassuring to see that Year 6 results have remained stable, the Year 10 finding should be viewed as a chance for jurisdictions and schools to reflect upon the civics and citizenship learning opportunities provided in their schools and to take measures to address the decline.»

And while some see portfolios as excellent qualitative measures instead of standardized tests, we know that the subjective nature of portfolio assessment can make it an unreliable comparison between schools.

If schools and companies relying on technology followed better cyber security measures, they'd see incidents of breaches drop drastically.