Sentences with phrase «achievement of academic goals»

The students are therefore calling on the government to desist from delays in payment of scholarship allowances in order to fast track the achievement of academic goals.

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She does agree with his assertion that American culture has taken structured «play» with the goal of increasing future academic achievement too far.

It's easy to fall into the mindset that you'll have time to be happy and enjoy yourself after you accomplish x, y, and z. However, human nature (and plenty of academic research) suggests that after each major achievement, our brain adapts and then sets its sights on a new goal.

Academic achievement is an effect of a number of causes, not the least of which is whether or not students are inspired to work hard to reach their goals.

Due to all the hard work and collaborative energy of teachers, administration, school - based leadership teams, community partners, students, and families, the Edwards has reached and continues to meet our goals for student achievement and for providing middle school students in Boston with quality education in academics and enrichment.

The goal is literally to double or triple education results — to increase from 30 percent the number of students who perform proficiently on tests of academic achievement to 60 and then 90 percent.

Although the study showed that parents» involvement in school events still had a positive effect on adolescents» achievement, it did not rank as highly as parents conveying the importance of academic performance, relating educational goals to occupational aspirations, and discussing learning strategies.

Scenario 3 essentially projects the results of realizing the achievement goals of NCLB — getting all students to a basic level of academic proficiency — but by the year 2025.

In light of abundant data on low academic achievement and effort among high school students, Wagner's goal sounds impossible, but years of experience plus 150 interviews he conducted for the book convince him otherwise.

Because the proposed long - term goals for academic achievement are not ambitious, DDOE must revise its plan to identify and describe long - term goals that are ambitious for all students and for each subgroup of students.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Ray Pasi, in his book, Higher Expectations: Promoting Social Emotional Learning and Academic Achievement in Your School, tells how he has intra or extra-mural athletes in his schools create contracts, where they set and are held accountable to three goals in each of three areas: how will they make themselves better, how will they make their team better, and how will they make their school or community better.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Our ultimate goal is to highlight the importance of ongoing adolescent language development for educators, researchers, and policy makers by revealing how teachers» and students» ways of using language support advances in students» text comprehension, academic writing, and school achievement.

Includes State - designed, long - term goals and measurements of interim progress for all students and separately for each subgroup of students, on academic achievement and graduation rate, that expect greater progress from groups that are further behind;

The bill also eliminates goals and performance targets for academic achievement, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting disadvantaged students, does not address poor quality tests, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.

The goal of increased assessment and accountability in NCLB was to improve student achievement, reduce the achievement gap, and align instruction to academic standards.

School letter grades have a distinct advantage for educators as well: they are very effective at focusing educators on the goal of maximizing academic achievement.

«The ultimate goal of the study is to further develop the existing literature on school outcomes for LGBT students of color, and to explore possible interventions that might address the existing gaps in academic achievement and mental health,» she says.

During our final year of helping students build college and career readiness, we found associated improvements in their academic - related perceptions, beliefs, and strategies; positive personal achievement and goal orientation; rising perceptions of college; improving trends in academic performance; and stronger perseverance in high school when compared to a control group.

What to know: The Mississippi Department of Education's (MDE) plan stands out for aligning its teacher recruitment and retention efforts with its ambitious goals for increasing student academic achievement by 2025 and clearly stating its role in supporting districts to address equity concerns.10 The MDE recognizes that in order to reach its stated goals — which include a proposed graduation rate of 90 percent for all students by 2025 — they must also support districts in recruiting and retaining teachers of color who are prepared to improve student outcomes.

Obama and the Gates Foundation share some goals that not everyone embraces: paying teachers based on student test scores, among other measures of achievement; charter schools that operate independently of local school boards; and a set of common academic standards adopted by every state.

Every year, the Academic Decathalon examines teams of students» mastery of ten different skills and disciplines with the goal to inspire students of all achievement levels to work together to learn more than they ever thought possible.

CART's goals include increasing student achievement by offering students a curriculum that provides application of academics through real - world projects and experiences such as job shadowing and internships.

Program Focus LaFollette offers families an educational environment with one basic goal: the education of our children through high expectations and academic achievement.

The goal is for students to become proficient in the second language while reaching a high level of academic achievement.

If three - quarters of the definition of effective teaching involves the first goal, then the measure of teacher contributions to academic achievement for their own students should receive a weight of 0.75.

The briefs take a deep dive on state graduation rate goals, state academic achievement goals, and how states include measures of 9th grade performance.

The recognition award is part of a larger U.S. Department of Education (USED) effort to identify and disseminate knowledge about practices that are proven to result in improved student engagement, higher academic achievement and graduation rates, and workforce preparedness, as well as a government wide goal of increasing energy independence and economic security.

Charter schools are public schools, tuition - free, and open to all students, and provide innovative, alternative and diverse educational programs with the goal of improving academic achievement.

A spokesman for budget committee co-chairwoman Sen. Alberta Darling, R - River Hills, said the Joint Finance Committee reduced the increase to $ 639 million because of reductions to funding proposed by Walker for rural school districts and for schools in the Milwaukee School District that meet academic achievement goals.

Project ACHIEVE's ultimate goal is to help schools to maximize the academic and social, emotional, and behavioral progress and achievement of all students.

«The Court's decision rightfully recognized the achievement of educational benefits of diversity for all students as a constitutionally permitted academic goal.»

The goal of the Office of Drug Prevention Education is to coordinate prevention and intervention plans and programs designed to help ensure the maintenance of safe and drug - free schools so that student academic achievement will be improved.

In addition, charter schools are public schools, tuition - free, and open to all students, and provide innovative, alternative and diverse educational programs with the goal of improving academic achievement.

Clay Lacy Aviation is offering the scholarship money based on the students» higher education goals, academic achievements and community involvement at the Aviation Center (AV - Center) at Van Nuys Airport, which is part of...

When we use only academic achievement data to understand learning and school improvement efforts, we are ignoring a fundamental truth: The goals of education go far beyond linguistic and mathematical learning.

Our collective community effectively implements instructional practices geared to the individualized achievement of students» social, emotional and academic goals.

Hold the State, School Districts and Campuses Accountable: Schools must be held accountable for the high comparable academic achievement of all ELL students and must inform parents and community of progress in meeting district and campus goals.

Casey Vier, Academic Dean of CACPCS, explains, «By building key professional learning goals around the tools in Tools for Conquering the Common Core, we have given all of our teachers an easy - to - understand set of classroom techniques to raise student achievement.»

The ultimate goal of the position is to facilitate higher academic achievement and sustainable business operations in Georgia's charter schools.

Restorative Practices are relationship - focused, student - centered, and emphasize changing social norms with the goal of creating a positive school climate that increases student engagement & academic achievement.

The goal of Common Core «is not simply to improve academic achievement but also to instill federally determined attitudes and mindsets in students including political and religious beliefs,» said an anti-Common Core group.

«The Common Core standards, along with the aligned curriculum and the mining of nearly 400 data points reveal that the goal of the standards is not simply to improve academic achievement but also to instill federally determined attitudes and mindsets in students including political and religious beliefs,» states a report on the website of the Florida Stop Common Core Coalition.

When James Coleman, the great sociologist of education, analyzed the school characteristics that had the greatest impact on educational achievement and equity, he found that schools with greater academic intensity — a persistent, goal - directed focus on academics — produced not only greater learning, but also narrowed the achievement gap between ethnic groups.30 That such academically focused schools would raise general achievement is obvious since an intense focus on academics is self - evidently the most likely means to raise academic achievement.

«The learner profile is everything that makes that student who they are — strengths, areas of improvement, desires, achievements, needs, goals, and some historical academic information,» Sorensen explains.

We believe that educational equity is both a critical civil and human right and foundational to the exercise of all other rights, and that all students are capable of high academic achievement and deserve adequate and equitable resources to help them attain that goal.

«Despite NCLB's stated goal of closing the achievement gap, wide disparities in academic outcomes persist.

Goals The students agreed that grades and similar indicators of academic achievement held little or no meaning and importance for them.

Florida Education Commissioner Pam Stewart says her top goal is to close the academic achievement gap between students of different racial and economic backgrounds.