Sentences with phrase «academic criteria for»

In the recent Smater Balanced statewide tests, magnets outperformed the district's independent charter schools in nearly every major category, although the demographics of magnets vs. independent charters do not match up evenly, and some magnet schools are for highly - gifted students, which requires them to meet certain academic criteria for enrollment.

Orleans Parish School Board has an impressive pre - and post-storm history of letting autonomous schools draft their own attendance zones and set their own academic criteria for entry.

But the state does not set academic criteria for the district's exit from a takeover, or a timeline for improvement.

CCSA's Minimum Academic Criteria for Renewing and Replicating Schools, 2016 - 17 1) Status measure: Above 40th percentile on SBAC

But what if Dodenhoff were correct that only 35 percent of Milwaukee parents choose, and only 10 percent choose from among more than two schools, using academic criteria for their judgment?

Not exact matches

Had he had a shred of academic or intellectual integrity, he would clearly spell out what are his criteria for Bitcoin failing or succeeding and then approach it with an open mind, and see how matters unfold and then revise his views.

Academic theologies (with their focus on such questions as method, the disciplinary status of theology in the modern university, the relationships of theology and religious studies, and the development of public criteria for theological language) are obviously related principally to the public of the academy.

During my thirty years of academic labor in the humanities, I have observed my colleagues across the country promote racial and sexual criteria in admissions and hiring, review curricula, textbooks, and tests for proper representation of groups, and elevate race and sexuality to essential research fields.

The real danger comes from a much larger group of persons who believe that Notre Dame can strive for ever - higher standards of academic excellence — and use the same criteria of excellence by which the best secular universities in the land are judged to be excellent — without forfeiting the Catholic character of the University.

It is one of three criteria — along with academic thoroughness (Wissenschaft) and openness to the times (Zeitoffenheit)-- which Kasper has developed as the basic criteria for a valid Catholic theology.

Interscholastic Athletics: Administrative Code 14:1001 (2002) states, Local school districts shall establish their own academic eligibility criteria for participation in extra-curricular activities for all extra-curricular activities except for interscholastic athletics», which are defined in Administrative Codes 14:1008 and 14:1009 (2004).

One after the other, they all identified redundancy, inappropriate qualifications, poor academic development, declining productivity, questionable certificates, disciplinary matters among other as parts of the criteria for the disengagement of the affected teaching and non-teaching staff of the institutions.

To this end, the declaration calls on the European Commission and member states to give young researchers more employment stability, notably by reducing the use of short - term contracts and clarifying the criteria for academic career progression.

We recognize and share the frustration that many have expressed, and we are committed to work with the Office of the President and the Academic Senate to reform the University's disciplinary processes, criteria and standards so that in the future we have different and better options for discipline of faculty.

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And Branka Bošnjak, president of science and education project at the Movement for Change party, said in a press release that although CANU admitted some academics with questionable references, it always had some criteria on who it admitted.

His picks for the councils were guided by «objective and quantifiable criteria,» Valeca wrote, and «will have a beneficial impact on the academic and economic development of the country.»

The awards are available in the broad areas of human nutrition and crop science to members of academic and research staff at UK universities and other organisations who are defined as eligible for funding under the criteria used by research councils.

Stout surveyed 785 of 865 accredited teacher - training schools and found that a majority identified emotional stability as being of primary importance and that approximately 45 percent actually assessed students» emotional stability, identifying it as the second most important criterion for determining fitness for teaching, behind academic credentials.

Home Bases are judged on various academic criteria and are acknowledged for overall success of the machine, creativity and teamwork.

My teens had experiences where they were encouraged to construct their learning and establish academic criteria — for example, Innovation Days at their high school.

This last finding is consistent with recent evidence showing no academic benefits of attending a Boston or New York City exam school for students who just met the admissions criteria (see «Exam Schools from the Inside,» features, Fall 2012).

Review and share various ways to develop criteria for student assessment and to communicate academic expectations to students.

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With the difficulties disabled students face and the highly varied goals and criteria for success that may be appropriate for each student, state accountability testing is not always helpful in assessing the academic progress of individual special education students.

Demanding accountability for results and measuring achievement with the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), a criterion - referenced assessment — actually, a rather blunt instrument — has spurred significant improvement in student achievement.

There are no academic performance standards beyond the criteria set by the university itself for admission.

In addition to feeding in to the criteria used to judge the area of emotional health and wellbeing for the National Healthy Schools Programme, this can also have a significant benefit in terms of behavioural standards and academic achievement.

Based on performance criteria established by the commissioner, certain school districts may be required to submit their description of academic intervention services for specific schools to the department for review and approval.

Moreover, only 0.3 percent of all non-need-based scholarships for the 1989 - 90 academic year were based solely on race; 3 percent were based on minority status without regard to need, although such other criteria as academic achievement or leadership were possible considerations; and 4 percent of all awards were based on race and financial need, according to...

While academic content standards such as NGSS lay out concepts and skills students should learn at each grade level, the curricular framework serves as a blueprint for delivering those standards and includes criteria for evaluating instructional materials aligned to the new content.

Student academic achievement, administrator evaluations, and advanced degrees are the three most favored criteria for awarding merit pay.

Respondents included only union teachers, who routinely oppose statewide tests as the chief criteria for measuring students» academic achievement.

President Obama's plan uses academic gains, instead of Bush's AYP, as the criteria for evaluating schools.

This year, Hale proposed legislation for the second year in a row that would have set criteria for academic growth, and a cap on the amount of time a conservator could stay in the district.

Second Look: For schools below the first three criteria, CCSA offers a «second look» process whereby schools may submit additional evidence of student academic gains that may demonstrate higher levels of growth than what is seen at other schools.

The Code of Virginia requires that (1) principal evaluations be consistent with the performance objectives (standards) set forth in the Board's Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Teachers, Administrators, and Superintendents and (2) school boards» procedures for evaluating principals address student academic progress.

Today, the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) called for the non-renewal of six charter schools across the state that fall below our minimum renewal criteria and perform far below average on several other academic performance measures.

The Code of Virginia requires that (1) superintendent evaluations be consistent with the performance objectives (standards) set forth in the Board's Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Teachers, Administrators, and Superintendents and (2) school boards» procedures for evaluating principals address student academic progress.

In alignment with its accountability framework, CCSA has sponsored a bill in the California Legislature to increase the minimum academic criteria necessary for a charter to be renewed.

The Board's Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Principals calls for each principal to receive a summative evaluation rating and that the rating be determined by weighting the first six standards equally at 10 percent each, and that the seventh standard, student academic progress, account for 40 percent of the summative evaluation.

This information can fill the need cited by many of the most vociferous critics of accountability schemes in education, who have railed against reliance on students» academic test performance as the sole criterion for judging school quality.

These analyses are followed by a summary of the findings of the content analysis in relation to the CCSSO criteria regarding support for all students achieving at high levels and attention to the strengths of the academic discipline.

The process and criteria described in this document will apply to the allocation of places for the 2016 to 2017 academic year.

Upon the publication of the 2013 Academic Performance Index (API) results, CCSA identified six charter schools across California that were below CCSA's Minimum Criteria for Renewal.

As documented under Section 1115 of Title I, Part A of the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA), a local education agency receiving Title I funds «may use funds received under this part only for programs that provide services to eligible children under subsection (b) identified as having the greatest need for special assistance... Eligible children are children identified by the school as failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet the State's challenging student academic achievement standards on the basis of multiple, educationally related, objective criteria established by the local educational agency and supplemented by the school, except that children from preschool through grade 2 shall be selected solely on the basis of such criteria as teacher judgment, interviews with parents, and developmentally appropriate measures».

According to analysis from legislative staff, the state currently requires that a charter school must meet at least one of five criteria to receive renewal, including having attained its Academic Performance Index growth target in the prior year or in two of the last three years or in the aggregate for the prior three years.

It also requires that CPS «develop policies to remedy academic deficiencies in schools where students are testing «at or below 75 %» standards on state assessments, and to include in those policies clear criteria for board actions relating to school facility interventions such as closures.»

The approved settlement targets schools for protection from layoffs and defines those targeted schools as the 25 ranked in the bottom 30 percent by Academic Performance Index (API) score, high teacher turnover rates, and other determining criteria.

Many elite colleges and universities no longer offer undergraduate teacher preparation programs, and many teacher preparation programs are housed within less selective colleges.5 Nonetheless, the academic profiles of teaching candidates in regional comprehensive universities are high relative to other programs offered in those schools.6 Furthermore, many teacher preparation programs do not have admission criteria beyond those of their home institution, and only have access to a pool of candidates already admitted to the overarching college or university.7 For these reasons among others, the average SAT scores of students going into education have historically been lower than those of their peers entering other professions, although there is some evidence that this is shifting.8