Sentences with phrase «academic reform as»

Indeed, it is our belief that academic reform as currently manifested is even threatening future academic careers.

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Greider does his best to highlight hopeful, albeit mostly small - scale, efforts by «pioneers» who are attempting to reform the economy, people in for - profit and not - for - profit organizations as well as academics.

But I think there is a third reason for theological education's resistance to change: the social structure of theological schools as academic institutions tends to inhibit genuine reform.

Implemented in 2003 as part of an ambitious academic reform effort in Division I, the Academic Progress Rate (APR) holds institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student - athletes through a team - based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student - athlete for each academacademic reform effort in Division I, the Academic Progress Rate (APR) holds institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student - athletes through a team - based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student - athlete for each academAcademic Progress Rate (APR) holds institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student - athletes through a team - based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student - athlete for each academacademic progress of their student - athletes through a team - based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student - athlete for each academicacademic term.

In addition to almost two decades in the classroom, she has served as department chair, both academic and also grade level Dean, a parent and faculty educator, and a leader of curriculum reform.

In view of the disconcerting developments in the past few months, we the undersigned academics and political analysts, appeal to the European Union and the US, as well as foreign institutions of which they are members, to strengthen their commitment to the European future of BiH, to adopt a firm approach toward spoilers of the reform process and to jointly use their leverage potential in a coordinated manner.

Dadey was joined by a panel of academic experts on redistricting reform as well as former State Attorney General Robert Abrams.

Nationally, Natale's words struck a chord as teachers everywhere are dealing with reforms similar to those implemented in Connecticut this year — a new teacher evaluation system, new academic standards known as the Common Core State Standards, and the trial of a new computerized testing system.

The House of Commons Reform Committee reported in 2009 that they had received «universal praise», John Bercow has described them as «pivotal players in politics», and a key conclusion of the Liaison Committee's 2015 Legacy Report was that «public opinion, commentators and academic critics have all recognised that Select Committee work is the most constructive and productive aspect of Parliament».

There is growing support for a constitutional convention among academics, experts and pressure groups such as the Electoral Reform Society (ERS).

Nor can any foreseeable reform assuage the current suffering that is so widespread in academic science, as this survey shows.

The 2014 Danish School Reform emphasized physical activity during the primary and lower secondary education years — as apart of academic instruction as well.

At the same time, researchers will be testing the School Reform's positive effects on other academic skills, such as reading.

As a minister, Funeriu passed deep reforms in the national education and research system, aimed at bringing university governance, academic hiring, funding mechanisms, and evaluation in line with other European countries.

One of many changes that could be made to improve work - life balance for scientists, especially the ones working as academics, is by reforming the way in which the academic reward system is carried out.

She previously worked as Senior Officer for the Academic Cooperation Association, where she was actively involved as an expert in higher education policy developments and reforms at national and European level (Bologna, ET2010); higher education internationalisation and international cooperation; mobility; student services and attractiveness of European higher education; trans - national education.

It is dedicated to political and social reform and has long acted as a conduit between policy - makers, commentators and academics.

By all means, we should do everything we can to boost those numbers, starting as early as possible, and including common - sense reforms like reintroducing serious academic content to the elementary and middle school curriculum and replicating «no excuses» charter schools like KIPP.

In choosing this year's «Better Balance,» for example, the editors signaled that something is awry in the existing balance between the «hard» elements of standards - based reform (namely the academic standards, assessments, and interventions that make up a state's accountability system) and such «soft» components as teacher training, instructional materials, and classroom environment.

Systemic reform, as recommended by summiteers, meant aligning the chief components of education: academic goals, curricula, instruction, and exams.

Last year, when HGSE selected four books that all members of the Ed School community could read and discuss as part of the shared reading list instituted by HGSE's Academic Cabinet, it was not a surprise that one volume in the shared reading series focused sharply on school reform.

School Reform Minister Nick Gibb said: «All pupils should have the opportunity to study foreign languages as part of a core academic curriculum that prepares them for life in modern Britain.

A consensus for change is developing, but as Bridget Terry Long points out in a new policy proposal commissioned by the Hamilton Project, reform efforts often sidestep substantial questions about how to improve academic preparation and — importantly — help students avoid remedial placement altogether...

So now, here we are, barely ten years into this huge reform, with our little platoon of teachers and administrators and parents fighting feverishly on the front, beginning to make some progress on test scores and feel some confidence about improving our kids» academic opportunities — and I look up from my trench and, instead of seeing the school house door thrown open with garlands of WELCOME signs, I see teachers back to cheering from the windows as the reform generals scurry away, white flags in hand.

They differentiate themselves from those «progressive academics... who see the Obama reforms as destroying American schools» or those who see them «as shoring up a defunct system.»

While there is more emphasis on academics at all grade levels today and evidence that the middle school burden can be overcome (Williams and colleagues showed in a major 2010 study, called «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better,» that an intense focus on academics can work), it is odd that Walcott would favor reforming middle schools instead of doing what the research suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8) schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.»

While her primary focus — and the focus of many media reports about her — has been on vouchers, tax credits, and education savings accounts, organizations she has led or helped found have also advanced other reform initiatives, such as accountability for student learning and more - rigorous academic standards.

Educational change must go beyond standards for academic content and performance and include equity as a «defining characteristic» of systemic reform, the report argues.

This insight is no surprise to those of us who have long championed curriculum and rich academic content as ed reform's great un-pulled lever — or who support Common Core simply because it puts curriculum onto the reform agenda.

As a new academic year ramps up, so do goals for student achievement, curricular reforms, teacher development, and more.

By far, improving academic achievement is an important issue, as well as reforming high schools and recruiting highly qualified teachers, particularly math, science, and special education teachers.

As Schools Tackle Poverty, Attendance Goes Up, But Academic Gains Are Tepid (Education Week) Paul Reville discusses the need for comprehensive strategy in education reform.

He has written numerous articles for academic journals and other publications on such topics as school finance, school desegregation, school choice, school governance, a right to preschool, teacher compensation reform, and the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

At the end of the 2017 - 18 academic year, the first students will sit exams for the strengthened GCSE Religious Studies courses, which were introduced in September 2016 as part of the reform of GCSE qualifications.

In standards - based reform, much of the attention has been on states as the entities responsible for setting academic standards, developing testing systems to measure the standards, and then putting accountability systems in place based on those standards.

as the Best Academic Paper on School Choice and Reform 2014.

The 2014 Danish School Reform emphasized physical activity during the primary and lower secondary education years — as apart of academic instruction as well.

Admittedly, the critical pedagogues have squarely confronted two of the most enduring issues surrounding the work of education: 1) To what extent should the mission of public schools be focused on character development, societal reform, and other such affective goals, as opposed to cognitive development and academic preparation?

The researchers also calculated the proportion of the change due to «within - school» reforms (such as extended learning time, professional development, and Common Core implementation) versus shifts in enrollment toward district and charter schools with higher academic growth, a metric they call «between - school» reforms.

New York's initiative is modeled on a similar program in Cincinnati, but as a 2013 analysis by the New York Times noted, «what has gone largely unsaid is that many of Cincinnati's community schools are still in dire academic straits despite millions of dollars in investment and years of reform efforts.»

The Obama administration, as part of a strategy to promote school reform, has promised to double funding for new charter schools with high academic standards, which many believe are key to improving the nation's K - 12 system through competition with traditional public schools.

Demands for reform over the last decade have led to an increased emphasis on the core academic areas of mathematics and reading, which are seen as essential to raising the overall quality of education.

These outcomes suggest that we, as a nation, are turning our backs on the demands of business leaders and other reform advocates to make core academics a national priority.

We should continue to call for challenging academic standards in core subjects, allowing public charter schools as part of choice, encouraging high teacher performance — those kinds of things are part of the President's reform package.

As we learned from the 1990 - 2005 era of systemic state standards - based reform, when academic standards change, so do policies related to student assessment and school accountability.

This study examines the impact of the Whole Schools Initiative (WSI), an arts integration model for comprehensive school reform, on students» academic performance as evidenced primarily by their scores on standardized state exams.

As the Executive Director of High Schools for Edison Schools and the Chief Academic Officer for Great Schools Workshop in Sacramento, CA, Patrick worked with building and district administrations in nine states to implement systemic high school reform.

There are reforms that are not part of the national conversation such as lengthening the academic school year that would actually benefit students unlike voucher schools and more standardized testing.

Introduced as an ambitious educational reform at the end of the last decade to make sure that, across the U.S., students graduating from the K - 12 system are college and career ready, Common Core has ramped up academic expectations that schools everywhere, including those in Kentucky, are still far from meeting.

A new report out today finds a 50 percent better academic growth rate at nearly 500 California schools, and all of it is the result of successful union - led reforms put in place as the result of a lawsuit by the California Teachers Association against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.