Sentences with phrase «academic quality of public schools»

Still others are concerned about perceived deterioration of the academic quality of public schools as a result of overcrowded classrooms.

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The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point remains on warning by its academic accrediting agency even as the school has improved all but one of the five quality benchmarks it failed last year, according to a status update made public yesterday.

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.

These public displays of high - quality work enhance academic engagement and pride, among both students and teachers — and they increase the community's pride in the school building itself.

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.

Establishes a system of meaningfully differentiating all public schools on an annual basis that is based on all indicators in the State's accountability system and that, with respect to achievement, growth or the other academic indicator for elementary and middle schools, graduation rate, and progress in achieving English language proficiency, affords: Substantial weight to each such indicator; and, in the aggregate, much greater weight than is afforded to the indicator or indicators of school quality or student success.

• 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.

Finally, an individual student's academic success depends not so much on whether he or she attends a private or public school but rather on a complex interaction of abilities, attitudes, and strengths or problems brought to school; the skills and knowledge of teachers; and the quality of the learning environment.

The findings reported above represent the first systematic evidence that Americans» perceptions of the quality of their local public schools reflect publicly available information about the academic achievement of the students who attend them.

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Yet sadly, Mississippi is usually ranked last in the nation for academic achievement and the quality of our public schools.

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 Tennessee.

We are also deeply troubled by the prospect that if virtually unregulated teacher certification academies with little academic quality control are allowed to proliferate, the employers of their graduates will be either charter schools, many operating in high - poverty communities, or traditional public schools that lack the resources to be selective and competitive in hiring the best - qualified teachers.

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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.»

Research supports public opinion on the importance of teacher quality; study after study shows that the most important school - based factor affecting a child's academic success is the effectiveness of the classroom teacher.

Aspire's mission is to open and operate small, high - quality charter schools in low - income neighborhoods, in order to increase the academic performance of underserved students, develop effective educators, share successful practices with other forward - thinking educators, and to catalyze change in public schools.

The potential arises because two long - serving ACSB members will no longer oversee responsibility for academic quality and outcomes of Anaheim's elementary public school children.

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.

Created to build a pipeline of high - quality Principals and Assistant Principals for the Jersey City Public Schools, JCLI will train the next generation of transformational leaders to improve the academic outcomes for Jersey City's 30,000 students and help inspire teachers and staff while creating schools of exceSchools, JCLI will train the next generation of transformational leaders to improve the academic outcomes for Jersey City's 30,000 students and help inspire teachers and staff while creating schools of exceschools of excellence.

Factors with the highest weight included the share of public schools that are charter schools, the share of public - school students in charter schools, the growth rate of charters, the closure rate of charters (small and consistent was considered the best) and academic quality in both reading and math as measured in the equivalent of «additional days of learning» when compared with traditional public schools.

The George and Veronica Phalen Leadership Academies (PLA) is a nonprofit network of high quality public schools that help children (whom we call «scholars») excel in their academics and grow as well - rounded individuals.

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.

They also argued the rankings set a low bar for academic quality by comparing charter schools with local public districts, many of which are struggling urban schools, rather than with top - performing schools elsewhere.

«While these are essential steps toward improving K - 3 quality, they are also just that: first steps in a long line of work that can be done to ensure that the foundational years of public schooling set students on a path to becoming lifelong learners who experience academic and social success,» the report suggested.

I support Colorado charter public schools by providing them with various opportunities for academic and instructional development to support continuous growth and ongoing quality via student performance.I am fortunate to work with an amazing team of professionals in the Colorado League of Charter Schools» Academic Services department who dedicate their time to quality development in the areas of performance management and goveschools by providing them with various opportunities for academic and instructional development to support continuous growth and ongoing quality via student performance.I am fortunate to work with an amazing team of professionals in the Colorado League of Charter Schools» Academic Services department who dedicate their time to quality development in the areas of performance management and govacademic and instructional development to support continuous growth and ongoing quality via student performance.I am fortunate to work with an amazing team of professionals in the Colorado League of Charter Schools» Academic Services department who dedicate their time to quality development in the areas of performance management and goveSchools» Academic Services department who dedicate their time to quality development in the areas of performance management and govAcademic Services department who dedicate their time to quality development in the areas of performance management and governance.

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).

This is often due to the poor quality of urban public schooling in our nation, and reflects recruiting practices and priorities that privilege athletics and not academics, thus putting young people in situations where it is extremely challenging for them to excel academically.

National Public Radio notes that ESSA requires states to cite five measures of school performance, with four focused on academic achievement and a fifth tied to a «non-academic» measure of school quality or student success.

The University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary Libraries book has become a standard selection guide in school libraries because of the assessment of titles through a peer review process that assures quality and relevance for academic as well as general interest needs in today's schools.

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.

Parents persuaded the public school system to set up an accelerated academic program within one of the local elementary schools and to staff it with quality teachers.