The competition is a chance for passionate young engineers and entrepreneurs to design and manufacture a miniature F1 car to
race against other school teams around the world.
Unlike the old API, which boiled down to a single number plus two decile rankings, there is no single summary score and no way to easily compare
against other schools in the dashboard.
In basketball - crazy Indiana the Nostalgia Sectionals pit old high school rivals against each other
They came up
against other schools whose rubber - band qualities were superior, but they managed to finish with a respectable.500 record, 5 -5-1.
There, he formed a stage band to compete in
tournaments against other schools, and as conductor taught his students how to achieve a professional quality sound on their instruments.
(While we prefer state assessments as policy, we think any widely respected test that allows for ready
comparison against other schools or districts is a reasonable compromise);
Holtz said he encouraged implementation in order to be measured
accurately against other school districts because the state test is aligned to Common Core.
And, rather than being
pitted against other schools, charters should be part of a public education system that benefits each and every child.»
Sudbury model democratic schools» proponents argue that a school that has good, clear laws, fairly and democratically passed by the entire school community, and a good judicial system for enforcing these laws, is a school in which community discipline prevails, and in which an increasingly sophisticated concept of law and order develops,
against other schools today, where rules are arbitrary, authority is absolute, punishment is capricious, and due process of law is unknown.
We also lacked national information — we could only compare performance
data against other schools in our district and other Idaho schools.
You can join the Challenge with a class, team up with other students from your campus, or compete
against other schools while you take action on the issues that you care about during the Campus EcoChallenge.
Elementary students get the chance to work with adults, including STEM professionals from local businesses, to design, build, test, and program robots before
competing against other schools.
Her friend Rachel adds: «I'm proud of myself for entering in the first place and now having a chance to go up
against other schools in this fun competition is brilliant.»
It's important to keep tabs on how your kids are doing in school, but how do you find out how the school itself is doing — or, better yet, how it stacks up
against other schools, based on standardized tests, class size, teacher experience, or even demographic or financial information?
Offering both recreational and competitive clubs is also a good idea, as students who don't want to compete
against other schools or their peers are still presented with an opportunity to get active.
Principals and teachers like that playing Scrabble builds spelling, vocabulary, and social skills, and can give students a chance to compete
against other schools.
He explains this could be used to create an anonymised data map of school behaviour to compare schools over time, and
against other schools.
and had to compete
against other schools.