Sentences with phrase «achievement against all expectations»
«Dark Horse» has all the elements of a great sports movie biography: A rise from obscurity, achievement against all expectations, a comeback from a potentially fatal injury, an irresistible «little guy vs. big guys» vibe.
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The monitoring of literacy and numeracy achievement against a set of absolute proficiency levels would require a shift in thinking on the part of students, teachers and parents who are used to interpreting test performances only in terms of year level expectations.
Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.
In the process, Obama and Duncan are retreating from the very commitment of federal education policy, articulated through No Child, to set clear goals for improving student achievement in reading and mathematics, to declare to urban, suburban, and rural districts that they could no longer continue to commit educational malpractice against poor and minority children, and to end policies that damn children to low expectations.
This purpose can be accomplished by ensuring that high - quality academic assessments, accountability systems, teacher preparation and training, curriculum, and instructional materials are aligned with state academic standards so that students, teachers, parents, and administrators can measure progress against common expectations for student academic achievement.
The achievement levels represent how that performance measured up against set expectations for achievement.
Against all expectation, the achievement of the late Hugh Lawford in building Quicklaw showed that Canadians could successfully build and maintain a domestic online service.