Sentences with phrase «achievement on the act»

Students interested in education have below - average achievement on the ACT, particularly in math and science.

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The ruling Swedes might recognize that religious «feeling» is a legitimate aspect of human subjectivity, but they emphatically object when people act on the fantasies produced by this feeling to the detriment of other people, or when delusionary beliefs impede the achievement of important social objectives.

As I noted in Civil Eats, it seems unlikely that the Reducing Federal Mandates on School Lunch Act will become law in the face of a Democratic Senate and an administration which regards the HHFKA as one of Michelle Obama's signature achievements as First Lady.

-LSB-...] recently began a concerted assault on your major achievement as First Lady — the 2010 passage of the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act (HHFKA).

But I have to admit, Michelle, even I wasn't quite sure we'd hear from you when some in Congress and the School Nutrition Association recently began a concerted assault on your major achievement as First Lady — the 2010 passage of the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act (HHFKA).

Your Grace, Even in those post-Peel wilderness years, Derby and Disraeli did get enough short goes in power as to never quite be out for 10 years - with Disraeli often demonstrating what now seems a rather Cameronesque flexibility.They did have one major «legacy» achievement - in the 1867 reform act - if created rather more from political opportunism than any particular principle on the franchise question.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's decision to create a 13 - man working group on health care, including staunch conservatives and ardent foes of the Affordable Care Act — but no women — has been widely seen on Capitol Hill as a move to placate the right as Congress decides the fate of former President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement.

President Donald Trump ordered senators back to the negotiating table on for a last - ditch effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, just one day after angrily accepting the measure's demise and vowing to allow President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement to crater.

At the next general election the electorate has to be convinced on three fronts: that we understand the issues, that we will act on them if they vote for us, but also that we can prove our worth through our record of achievement in office.

His advocates note that he's pushed parts of the Women's Equality Act and introduced the (un-passed) Dream Act in his budget, in addition to compiling progressive achievements including a ban on fracking and impaneling a board to recommend a higher minimum wage for fast food workers.

The House plans to vote on the American Health Care Act Thursday, and in advance on Wednesday, President Trump was expected to continue pushing for support of what would be a significant achievement for his young presidency.

AAAS sent Sen. Dodd and Rep. Ehlers letters on June 2 supporting the Standards to Provide Educational Achievement for Kids (SPEAK) Act.

Since the No Child Left Behind Act went into effect in 2002, more data than ever have been made available on schools, the quality of their teachers, and their student achievement.

Oscar will pass on the acting but probably lavish heaps of trophies on it in the technical achievement categories.

They have a special distinction award for Foxcatcher for «superb acting and achievement on every level of filmmaking.»

The fear I had going into Stronger, the film about Bauman's recovery starring Jake Gyllenhaal, was that it would cram this genuinely wrenching material into the Hollywood «based on a true story» formula, resulting in a three - act movie of tragedy, love, and stirring achievement that exists primarily as a showcase for an Oscar campaign.

There are challenges in the game, but they act as an in - game - achievement system, granting you points to spend on artwork and other bonuses.

This is a not insignificant achievement, and as icing on her cake, Kitteridge also won a boatload of other Emmys, including ones for writing, directing, lead and supporting acting for Richard Jenkins and Bill Murray, respectively, and Outstanding Limited Series.

BEST FOREIGN FILM I've Loved You So Long BEST FEMALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE: The Secret Life Of Bees BEST UNRELEASED MOVIE: How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES: Nothing But The Truth BEST MUSIC: Cadillac Records BEST ANIMATED FEMALE: Eve: WALL - E BEST FAMILY FILM WALL - E LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Meryl Streep ACTING AND ACTIVISM: Natalie Portman ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women: Changeling JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in America: Ballast KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman's place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity: Battle In Seattle COURAGE IN ACTING: Deidra Edwards in DisFigured: For redefining conventional standards of female physical beauty and pride on screen, and promoting positive images of big bodied women.

The stunning Anjelica Huston arrived in Seattle to accept the Festival's Outstanding Achievement Award in Acting along with an on - stage interview with Variety's Jenelle Riley, before screening the World Premiere of her newest film Trouble with director Theresa Rebeck also in attendance.

The Northwest premiere of Matt Ross's Captain Fantastic, filmed in Washington, will screen as part of a tribute presentation to Viggo Mortensen on Saturday, June 11, where the acclaimed actor will be presented with the Festival's Outstanding Achievement in Acting Award and interviewed on stage at the flagship SIFF Cinema Egyptian.

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN ACTING AWARD Viggo Mortensen Featuring Captain Fantastic Plus screenings of A Walk on the Moon, Eastern Promises, and The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Actor Viggo Mortensen received SIFF»S Outstanding Achievement in Acting Award followed by an on - stage discussion of his career with moderator Dave Karger.

On the first weekend, there's «An Afternoon with Molly Shannon» and the World Premiere of her new film Miles, and Viggo Mortensen will receive the Outstanding Achievement in Acting Award on Saturday, June 11 with a screening of Captain Fantastic, the spotlight section of a retrospective that includes revivals of Eastern Promises, A Walk on the Moon, and a midnight screening of Lord of the Rings: Return of the KinOn the first weekend, there's «An Afternoon with Molly Shannon» and the World Premiere of her new film Miles, and Viggo Mortensen will receive the Outstanding Achievement in Acting Award on Saturday, June 11 with a screening of Captain Fantastic, the spotlight section of a retrospective that includes revivals of Eastern Promises, A Walk on the Moon, and a midnight screening of Lord of the Rings: Return of the Kinon Saturday, June 11 with a screening of Captain Fantastic, the spotlight section of a retrospective that includes revivals of Eastern Promises, A Walk on the Moon, and a midnight screening of Lord of the Rings: Return of the Kinon the Moon, and a midnight screening of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.

Service learning can have positive effects on students» performance on subject - matter examinations and assessments and creates opportunities known to improve academic achievement, such as giving students the chance to act autonomously, develop good relationships with adults and peers, and increase personal self - esteem and feelings of self - efficacy.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has released broad principles for renewing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that seek to address perennial complaints that the law's current version — the No Child Left Behind Act — is inflexible and focuses too narrowly on student test scores to get a picture of a school's achievement.

Examining longer - term effects, however, the study's authors found that double - dosed students» scores on the math portion of the ACT (taken in the spring of 11th grade) were 0.15 standard deviations higher, the equivalent of closing roughly 15 % of the black - white achievement gap.

For instance, Peter Hinrichs, «When the Bell Tolls: The Effects of School Starting Times on Academic Achievement,» Education Finance and Policy, 2011, found no benefits in terms of ACT scores.

«College and Career Ready» indicators: Many states already include AP, IB, ACT, and SAT achievement in their high school rating systems, and we heartily endorse all of these of these measures, especially those tied to achievement on AP / IB tests, which are precisely the sort of high - quality assessments that critics of dumbed - down standardized tests have long called for.

The federal role in education has been a growth industry since at least the Johnson administration, when the Elementary and Secondary School Act (ESEA, now the Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA) was passed as a part of the War on Poverty, with a focus on closing the achievement gap and equalizing funding between the rich and the poor.

For nearly a decade, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has focused the attention of policymakers and researchers squarely on the achievement of low - performing students, with some apparent success.

In the 2001 reauthorization of ESEA as the No Child Left Behind Act, states were required to test students in grades 3 — 8 and disaggregate results based on student characteristics to make achievement gaps visible.

In 2010, leaders on Beacon Hill crafted the Achievement Gap Act of 2010, the most ambitious school reform legislation since the historic Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993.

The No Child Left Behind act is still the law of the land, and it most definitely rests on the principle that poverty is «no excuse» for low achievement.

The presence of teacher unions is positively correlated with higher student achievement on the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) and the American College Test (ACT), according to a new study presented in the Harvard Educational Review (Winter 2000).

Reville played a primary role in the drafting and passage of the Achievement Gap Act of 2010 — the most sweeping education legislation since the landmark Education Reform Act of 1993 - which included the nation's first «smart cap» lift on charter schools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across the state.

When it comes to school reform, a current wave of rhetoric and recent changes in federal education policy, including the No Child Left Behind Act, have put the spotlight on the academic achievement gap.

Nevertheless, there is still a story to be told, and the essential part of it is that the program that education reformers have tried to promote now for decades — introduce more choices of schools for students, enable competition among schools, open up paths for preparing teachers and administrators outside schools of education, improve measures of student achievement and teacher competence, enable administrators to act on the basis of such measures, and limit the power of teachers unions — has been advanced under the Obama administration, in the judgment of authors Maranto and McShane.

While student - achievement data run counter to rising public optimism, the change in public thinking corresponds with the new mood that emerged on Capitol Hill in 2015 when Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which stripped the federal government of much of its authority to direct school reforms at the local level.

After almost five years, the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act already has made a significant impact on U.S. schools, based on improved test scores and a narrowing of the achievement gap, according to U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.

Thompson: The council was one of the few education organizations in Washington to support the No Child Left Behind Act and we believe the federal law deserves credit for focusing the attention of urban schools more sharply on student achievement, and increasing the national focus on educating our neediest children.

Perhaps the most valuable byproduct of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has been the resurgence of research on the effects of teachers on student achievement, which has informed the redesign of teacher evaluation systems.

On November 26, 2002, — after almost a year of discussion and debate — final regulations regarding the Title I: Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged section of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act were released.

New Jersey's is a complex and troubled public school system: although the state ranks in the top 5 on most nationally normed tests (NAEP, SAT, ACT), it has one of the worst achievement gaps in the country — 50th out of 51 in 8th - grade reading, for example.

In an Education Sector report released yesterday — The New State Achievement Gap: How Waivers Could Make It Worse - Or Better — Constance Clark and I report the effects of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) on education inequality, the ill that the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was long ago written to cure.

«The rash of standardized testing after the No Child Left Behind Act became law in the early 2000s did not raise achievement averages very much,» he observes, but the backlash that has led states to ease back on testing isn't being replaced by anything that's apt to work better.

If we really want to improve student achievement we need to focus on the person who gently closes the classroom door and performs the teaching act — the teacher — but to do that, says Russell Boyle, we need to open those classroom doors.

The development of global values can be achieved by drawing on the well - established knowledge base in human rights education, to discern how they are upheld, and by teaching students to value these rights and to act toward the achievement of these rights.

These young, exceptionally ambitious teachers often act with a business mind and focus on statistics and figures as a key measure of their success, which doesn't always integrate well with the more moralistic measures that look at individual achievements.

If we really want to improve student achievement we need to focus on the person who closes the classroom door and performs the teaching act — the teacher - but to do that we need to open classroom doors.