No
important academic decision about a student, a teacher, an administrator, a school or a district should be made solely on one type of evidence, such as standardized test scores.
These changes have triggered a cultural shift toward a more student - centered approach across Europe, including more student input into courses of study and student involvement
in academic decision - making.
It is, as Chuka Umunna is quoted in a recent FT article headlined «Labour seeks to reposition as pro-business party», a
fairly academic decision how you can cut the pie more fairly if you haven't increased the size of the pie first.
While much attention has been been on the curriculum revisions taking place nationwide to align with the Common Core State Standards, individual school district curriculum changes are what parents need to understand in
planning academic decisions for their children.
What qualifies a person to make personal family and childrearing decisions for other people — what physician a child should go to, what school,
other academic decisions, what extracurricular activities a child should participate in, family routines and scheduling decisions, seating decisions at the bar mitzvah or soccer game, and so forth?
Actively listening to students and helping assist
in academic decisions to prepare for academic and professional success
Two recent decisions from either side of the Atlantic demonstrate the favoured judicial approaches to review
of academic decisions and some of the potential pitfalls.
Using Fountas & Pinnall, and by analyzing the NWEA formative assessment data garnered from MAP testing, I can not only use the data to drive my instruction and
make academic decisions, but to conference with my students and help them make their own academic goals based on individual academic strands and areas of need.
It further noted that the court's mandate it reinstate German was an «unprecedented and unwarranted intrusion by the trial court into Harvard's
academic decision - making.»
Flicking a red rubber band bracelet on our wrist or placing a red ball cap on our heads are two practices that teachers could model and repeatedly share when a pause is needed before making a hurried emotional or
academic decision.
This transparent process gives students more control over
their academic decisions and reduces planning time for school leaders.
This serves as a reminder that the practical context of a school's
academic decision should always be front - and - centre if that decision is called into question in court.
This case exemplifies the role of the Court in reviewing
academic decisions: the Court will ensure that the process is fair, but it will not second - guess substantive academic decisions.
In addition to the specific points discussed above, an important point to note for college administrators is that the Court reinforced that deference is owed to
academic decisions.
However, Rouleau JA also held in Gauthier that a court may strike a claim at the motion stage where an action is an indirect attempt to appeal
an academic decision, and the appropriate remedy is judicial review.
[19] York submits that, even if Jaffer frames the dispute in contract or tort, the essential character of the dispute is academics as it arises out of
academic decisions and procedures of the university and is therefore beyond the jurisdiction of the court.
He said Udacity was nothing more than a «megaphone» for Georgia Tech, which he said would be making all
the academic decisions.