Sentences with phrase «aimed at improving»

House lawmakers released a draft 2015 - 17 budget last month that includes modest pay raises for all teachers and a patchwork of funding initiatives aimed at improving leadership and instruction.

He is also the faculty director of the Tennessee Education Research Alliance, a research partnership between Vanderbilt and the Tennessee Department of Education aimed at improving the state's school improvement efforts by connecting research to policy and practice.

The state has a brand - new law — signed by Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat, on June 1 — aimed at improving the rigor of the state's principal - preparation programs and the quality of candidates for those programs.

The maths project is aimed at improving the chances for young people growing up in a city where many traditional industries have declined.

Districts with high rates of chronic absence, out - of - school suspensions, and school drop outs will be given priority for these grants aimed at improving student outcomes by reducing truancy and supporting students who are at risk of dropping out of school or are victims of crime.

If the recent reaction from some schools of education to proposed federal regulations aimed at improving the quality and impact of teacher preparation programs is any indication, we can expect the traditional cacophony of complaints, such as «We can not hold preparation programs accountable for factors outside our control.»

Information is provided on programs aimed at improving trust and self - control among students from disadvantaged backgrounds, the benefit of student involvement in school policy - making, and student collaboration in problem solving.

The competition was designed to reward ambitious reforms aimed at improving struggling schools and closing the achievement gap.

The federal government is also continuing to change school nutrition regulations aimed at improving child nutrition for healthier meals.

It is not enough to merely launch initiatives aimed at improving the sense school leaders have of their efficacy for school improvement.

The U.S. Department of Education proposes a new rule aimed at improving equity in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act for students of color.

These charts are part of a collection of skip counting number charts aimed at improving numeracy among students; skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s would be the most important of these.

She studies policies aimed at improving the lives of children in poverty, including education, health, and income support policies.

In the next seven years, they will open 41 schools serving an estimated 15,000 students in the Achievement School District, or ASD, a state program aimed at improving low - achieving schools, which was created through Tennessee's Race to the Top plan.

In addition, except for respondents from one state, respondents believed that states, not the federal government, were driving leadership efforts aimed at improving teaching and learning.

Reforms aimed at improving reading achievement seem to have propelled Russia, Hong Kong, and Singapore from middle to top rankings on an international assessment of literacy skills, even as U.S. performance stood still, according to results released last week.

At Rick Hess's prompting, I recently had the pleasure of a 90 - minute chat with John Thompson, a thoughtful critic of the many efforts aimed at improving teaching and learning.

Both California studies point to positive effects of the SIG program in that state, providing evidence that targeted programs aimed at improving low - performing schools can be successful at a relatively large scale.

Question: Do you think that the evolving focus on policies aimed at improving the quality of our teaching force will continue, and move from almost a sole concentration on professional development (in - service) to more stringent quality controls for preservice education (admission and exit requirements), together with...

During her seven - year tenure, she gained a national reputation as one of the most effective urban district superintendents in the country for her successful implementation of «Excellence For All,» a comprehensive strategic plan aimed at improving teaching and learning and promoting community engagement.

If anything, these measures suggest that middle schools are more likely to have policies aimed at improving student achievement.

Murnane and Hoffman conclude that raising high school graduation rates further «will require a set of complementary investments and structural changes in the education system,» and that «investments aimed at improving the school readiness of economically disadvantaged children are critical.»

The release of a new report on the effects of School Improvement Grants (SIG), part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act aimed at improving the nation's lowest performing schools, called into question the viability of improving low - performing schools at scale.

When 11 initiatives aimed at improving school leadership were outlined in these pages at the beginning of 2000, I, like many others, welcomed the news.

With funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, WestEd is exploring how teachers make decisions about which instructional materials to use in their classrooms to inform efforts aimed at improving the quality and consistency of instructional materials across the country.

From the standards movement to accountability to charter schools, California has initiated policies aimed at improving educational outcomes for all children.

She also studies the effects of policies aimed at improving teaching.

Investments aimed at improving the school readiness of economically disadvantaged children are critical.

Dance has taken steps aimed at improving math instruction, including altering the course sequence.

Tim works with various agencies and publishers on a myriad of projects aimed at improving literacy.

Initiatives aimed at improving attendance and retention rates in a remote Indigenous school have paved the way for a rise in students interested in pursuing tertiary education and career pathways.

School choice reforms, which comprise a broad category of policies aimed at improving public education through the introduction of market forces that may stimulate customer choice and competition between schools, have grown particularly popular since the 1990s.

America Achieves, a nonprofit aimed at improving education and career opportunities for students, reviewed the 2009 science and math results on the Program for International Student Assessment, known as the PISA exam....

Early - childhood experts in North Carolina were near desperation when they hitched their hopes to a tiny pilot project aimed at improving the training of child - care workers.

In this instalment of The Research Files we'll be discussing student fitness and wellbeing, specifically, two simple exercise programs — the first is a new project aimed at improving adolescent health and wellbeing, and the second is being used by thousands of early years and primary students across the world.

The children's plan brings together a number of initiatives aimed at improving provision for children experiencing barriers to learning.

Ambassador Eco-School St Mary's partnered the Council to run the event, which attracted hundreds of delegates from the public and private sectors across the region and covered a variety of topics aimed at improving sustainability in the community.

There's lots of important work out there aimed at improving the way the charter sector works, but it often gets overshadowed by articles that are just thinly veiled attacks on the idea of charter schooling.

Teachers focused on drills aimed at improving test scores, and «teaching to the test» was born.

Education Secretary Angela Constance hailed the reforms as a «significant milestone for education», which includes the introduction of a National Improvement Framework, aimed at improving attainment through a more structured national testing system.

The International Reading Association welcomed a record 20,000 teachers, administrators, researchers, teacher - educators, and policymakers here for its 46th annual convention, offering nearly 1,000 sessions, workshops, and institutes aimed at improving reading instruction for students in preschool through high school.

The project, named the Maths Excellence Partnership, is aimed at improving the chances for young people in the city, where many of its traditional industries have declined.

Putting American History in the Forefront Shortly after the tragedies of September 11 sparked a renewed interest in American history and patriotism, a federal grant program announced awards aimed at improving ways of teaching U.S. history.

A resource aimed at improving literacy and keyword understanding in the classroom.

Clearly, the funds could be distributed more evenly across all schools, used for early childhood services or for augmenting children's health care, or aimed at improving postsecondary options for students from lower - income families.

A two - year research project aimed at improving student participation in STEM - related disciplines, and encouraging them to consider further study and careers in STEM, involved schools partnering with industry professionals.

Yet his administration also issued the most influential education report of the past two decades, which ultimately helped pave the way for today's federal mandates aimed at improving the nation's schools.

In her first year on the job, Jewell - Sherman launched Excellence for All, a comprehensive plan aimed at improving teaching and learning to enable students to reach high academic standards, and promoting involvement with the community as a way of addressing nonacademic barriers to student achievement.

The Department for Education (DfE) has doubled the amount of money that primary schools get for PE and sport provision to # 320 million as part of a series of programmes aimed at improving healthy lifestyles and tackling obesity among pupils.

The sabbatical fund is part of the measures aimed at improving flexible working in schools, which have included a Flexible Working Summit to explore how the profession can be more flexible.