Sentences with phrase «achievement as a major component»

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According to Teach for America spokesperson Takirra Winfield, the program has three major components: discussions on the «history of inequity in the United States»; teaching recruits to view poor children's families and neighborhoods as «assets» to academic achievement, not liabilities (a concept borrowed from African American educational theorists like Lisa Delpit and Gloria Ladson - Billings); and introducing corps members to classroom management tactics.

In particular, we wished to explore the general issue of whether professional development, which we view as targeted support for leadership, is more or less important than pressure to increase achievement, which is a major component of state policy.

As compared to other major components of the education system, such as student characteristics, teachers, schools, and districts, superintendents account for only a small percent of student differences in achievement; aAs compared to other major components of the education system, such as student characteristics, teachers, schools, and districts, superintendents account for only a small percent of student differences in achievement; aas student characteristics, teachers, schools, and districts, superintendents account for only a small percent of student differences in achievement; and