Sentences with phrase «academic quality of public education»

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Assessment is at the heart of education: Teachers and parents use test scores to gauge a student's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the quality of their educational system, and state and federal lawmakers use these same metrics to determine whether public schools are up to scratch.

Rockoff and Lockwood also examined survey data on New York City parents whose children attended both types of schools and found that parents whose children attend K - 8 public schools rated their schools higher on education quality, academic rigor and school safety compared to parents whose children attend stand - alone middle schools.

Parents use test scores to gauge their children's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the quality of their teachers and administrators, and state and federal lawmakers use these scores to hold public schools accountable for providing the high - quality education every child deserves.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

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As Chairman of the Senate Education Committee and later as Senate Speaker Pro Tempore, Jamie was a key leader in efforts to identify and support effective teaching, overhaul Tennessee's K - 12 education funding formula, raise academic standards for Tennessee students, turn around low - performing schools, and expand high - quality public charter schools in TEducation Committee and later as Senate Speaker Pro Tempore, Jamie was a key leader in efforts to identify and support effective teaching, overhaul Tennessee's K - 12 education funding formula, raise academic standards for Tennessee students, turn around low - performing schools, and expand high - quality public charter schools in Teducation funding formula, raise academic standards for Tennessee students, turn around low - performing schools, and expand high - quality public charter schools in Tennessee.

These findings, published in Academic Atrophy: The Condition of the Liberal Arts in America's Public Schools, raise disturbing questions about education equity and quality.

It is our hope that we can collaborate with the incoming Secretary of Education to enact policies that support increased access to high - quality public magnet schools that promote choice, equity, diversity, and academic excellence for all students.»

(Update: Gov. Brown's May budget includes $ 120,000 to hire history scholars to evaluate the voluminous public comment and submit their recommendations to the Instructional Quality Commission, which oversees academic standards work for the State Board of Education.

These effects are linked to the decline in public education and academic scholarship and on the quality and performance of teachers.

In order to maintain its public school authority, charter schools must demonstrate high - quality academic performance and organizational stability to both the R.I. Department of Education and the R.I. Council of Elementary and Secondary Education, which authorizes their charter.

In - line with our mission to provide the highest quality of education to minority and low - income students, we've scaled our STEMbyTAF academic model used at our academy to partner with public schools and effectively reach more students.

Looking at the school district more broadly, a study that classified all New Orleans public schools as Tier 1 through 3 in descending order of academic quality found that, for the 2013 - 2014 school year, Tier 1 schools enrolled half and one fourth as many special education students as Tier 2 and Tier 3 schools, respectively (Adamson et al., 2015).

a. increasing public awareness of the law and the justice system; b. providing education to groups with particular legal needs; and c. assisting in the academic and professional development of those providing legal services to ensure those services are of the highest quality.

Postgraduate courses are available at public or private colleges and universities and most are licensed by the UAE Ministry of Education via the Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA) to ensure quality.

I am looking for an Elementary Teacher job with «Lotus Public School» where my teaching experience and knowledge of wide academic subjects can support in providing quality education, accomplishing mission of the institute, and building a strong foundation for the future of students.