Sentences with phrase «academic quality counts»

In the final scoring, academic quality counts for more than price.

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This led him to speculate that if academic careers were less linear, defined less by narrow metrics such as citation counts and grants and more by wider societal benefits such as outreach activities and teaching quality, «there would be more diversity and thus innovation in the system.»
It's exactly what one would want from a publication named Quality Counts: a nice, clear focus on academic results, namely student achievement, measured on the best yardstick available.
We know, for example, that teacher quality counts more than almost any other external factor, including class size or neighborhood attributes, in determining academic success.
However, until the reviewers bring a broader and academic perspective to their observations, we can not count on accreditation to upgrade the quality of our teacher preparation programs.
The Scholars» Paradise model would use «scale scores» or a «performance index» for the «academic achievement» indicator; measure growth using a two - step value - added metric; pick robust «indicators of student success or school quality,» such as chronic absenteeism; and make value added count the most in a school's final score.
The list of qualifications included has also been restricted to those which the government says are of the highest, academic quality and the number of non-GCSEs counting has been capped at two.
According to Education Week's recent Quality Counts 2001 study, 49 states have academic standards in at least some subjects.
The Quality Counts report from the non-profit Editorial Projects in Education, the Maryland publisher of Education Week, studies the academic, social and financial forces that are shaping school districts.
The 2016 edition of Education Week's Quality Counts report — Called to Account: New Directions in School Accountability - released January 2016 - examined the role the most recent state and federal strategies have in helping schools meet academic standards as well as role these strategies have in implementing accountability measures:
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