Sentences with phrase «approaching school tests»

Reading fiction helps ease the anxieties children commonly experience facing important events in their lives, whether it's starting school, going on a first date, or approaching school tests.

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The Australian who has led the national team to success in the Six Nations and in tests against Australia will give school children a taste of the national team's approach to the game at the annual clash between Oxford and Cambridge Blues at Twickenham this year.

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

They discuss the current emphasis on these kinds of skills in American education, and the emphasis on standardized testing, and then turn our attention to a growing body of research that suggests we may be on the verge of a new approach to some of the biggest challenges facing American schools today.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday called for a permanent extension of mayoral control for city schools and criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo's approach toward standardized testing and push to make it easier for the state to takeover struggling schools.

«We are encouraged by his commitment to all children, his resistance to a «testing culture» and his support for the community schools approach.»

He is now testing that approach to the limit and his membership, which reads The Guardian more than any other newspaper, is getting to see him portrayed as Pinocchio, public school fag to the Bullingdon boss and Private Pike for his trouble.

However, officials note that «the current inspection framework is antithetical to the Steiner ethos / pedagogical approach» in terms of «Literacy in Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Key Stage 1 (KS1)», where Ofsted required «more formal learning»; «KS2 tests», as «Last year, the Academy pupils did not sit the tests (the Academy provided the exam papers and rooms for pupils to sit the exams but parents chose not to allow their pupils to sit the tests)»; and «Teaching and learning», where it is noted that the schools consider that «any process which judges learning as the immediate outcome from teaching in a lesson is inappropriate.

«We've known for several years that activating the Tie2 pathway that indirectly suppresses the effects of VEGF had great potential, and the new approach we tested in this study provides a great way to take advantage of that,» says Peter Campochiaro, M.D., the George S. and Dolores D. Eccles Professor of Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a faculty member at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins.

«There is no standardized step-wise approach to testing,» writes Dr. Elissa Abrams, Division of Paediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, with Dr. Scott Sicherer, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, New York, NY.

In what's believed to be the first study to examine the issue, the IUPUI researchers focused on the public's reaction to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut, to test their approach.

Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences report preliminary success testing an entirely novel approach — tagging bacteria with a molecular «homing beacon» that attracts pre-existing antibodies to attack the pathogens.

Now, a team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Harvard Wyss Institute for Biologically - Inspired Engineering has developed and tested a new approach to optimize the design of tunable catalytic systems.

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In «Learning from Rudolf Steiner: The Relevance of Waldorf Education for Urban Public School Reform,» a study published in 2008 in the journal Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, researcher Ida Oberman concluded that the Waldorf approach successfully laid the groundwork for future academics by first engaging students through integrated arts lessons and strong relationships instead of preparing them for standardized tests.

On the righthand side of the continuum was the formal «school in a box» approach whereby a parent purchased a full year's worth of textbooks, worksheets, tests, and assignments and attempted to reproduce in the home the same basic pedagogical strategies practiced in most schools.

There's plenty of evidence that students attending «no excuses» charter schools can do extremely well on standardized tests, but do the benefits of this approach to education extend beyond test scores?

Polling by Education Next and others continues to find that the public prefers universal programs to means - tested approaches — responding more positively, for instance, to the notion of vouchers for all than to vouchers for low - income families only (see «The 2015 EdNext Poll on School Reform,» features, Winter 2016).

Riley says this is part of the reason the Edwards School, which struggled for years with low test scores, switched from their traditional afterschool approach to the expanded day.

Likewise, Christian schools offer models that may prove useful to public schools by eschewing standardized testing; reviving Latin, logic, and rhetoric; emphasizing the place of music and foreign languages; refusing to track students by ability; or choosing an unhurried approach to learning.

States should seize the possibilities for more innovative approaches to school improvement posed by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaces a law much criticized for its heavy - handed federal role and for focusing schools heavily on teaching for low - level multiple - choice tests in reading and math to the neglect of other subject areas and higher - level skills.

It's an approach that seems to be working: Valor Flagship Academy, the first Valor school, produced outstanding academic results, including the highest standardized test scores in the city and the state, in its first year of operation (2014 — 15).

One tried and tested way to minimise costs for your pupils and school is to approach other subject leaders to collaborate on a cross-curricular trip, whether they sit in your department or not.

This approach allows us to match groups, such as high - gain and lower - gain schools, on performance on novel or inflation - resistant items and examine differential gains on items hypothesized to be most vulnerable to inappropriate test preparation (e.g., item clones).

The final step in the project has been to empirically test the suite of parent resources to assess their relevance and usefulness as a practical tool to assist in a whole of school approach to cyber-bullying prevention.

At a time when government testing of spelling, punctuation and grammar can lead to less creativity in the teaching of writing, the project provides compelling alternative approaches for schools and their teachers which will engage children and give them a strong investment in their writing, whilst also being able to satisfy curriculum demands and statutory testing.

October 13, 2016 — No - excuses charter schools raise test scores but also questions: is the popular educational approach a fad with short - term effects, or an innovative solution with long - term student benefits?

• The Proving Ground initiative at Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research helps districts and charter school networks design and use a deliberate, analytical approach to gathering and using evidence to test digital tools they might adopt systemwide.

Ho's research highlights contrasts between current approaches to measuring student and school proficiency and proposes alternative metrics that address some of the problems that have emerged in standardized testing since the 2001 enactment of No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

Even if government accountability is not the norm for government programs, some people may still favor requiring choice schools to take the state test and comply with other components of the high - regulation approach to school choice, such as mandating that schools accept voucher amounts as payment in full, prohibiting schools from applying their own admissions requirements, and focusing programs on low - income students in low - performing schools.

In the high - regulation approach, these charter schools might well be identified as the «bad» schools for failing to improve test scores, and yet they are the ones that produce long - term success for their students.

Sam's approach is to ask his pupils to test the hypothesis that environmental quality is better near the school than by the river.

They will develop and test a scalable, web - based screening tool for reading difficulties — that diagnoses the underlying causes — and a set of targeted home / school interventions that change the way we approach intervention for young children with reading difficulties.

If even rigorous research fails to show a consistent relationship between test scores and later success, why would we think that regulators and policy makers with less rigorous approaches to test scores could use them to reliably identify school and program quality?

Even so, as Taylor points out, tests are a reality in schools today, and the only teacher attitudes that will really help students are those that promote a constructive approach to testing.

This game - based approach to math has been linked to significant improvement on standardized tests in schools, but unfortunately it is not available to families in the home.

School Standards Minister Nick Gibb said: «Through this Future Talent Fund, we will test new and innovative approaches so that we can find out what works best to ensure the brightest pupils from the most disadvantaged families can excel in their education.»

This approach forced us to restrict the sample to schools in which both a 7th - grade and an 8th - grade class were actually tested and in which data on the actual class sizes and average class sizes were available for each grade.

This approach shows that the percentage of an elementary school's students enrolled in bilingual education is significantly and negatively related to a school's average test score for English Learners in both reading and math, even after accounting for the characteristics of its students.

They use creative approaches to Test Week that help build stronger school communities.

After a dispiriting experience at the D.C. charter school, he moved back home in 2004, and that summer ran a summer program for children at his local food cooperative, telling parents that if they liked his approach, he'd homeschool them for free in the fall to test out his model.

If the school adopted that dubious approach under a results - based accountability regime, the student's current ability level would need to be assessed and the school would be required to demonstrate that the child was making adequate yearly progress as determined by an annual assessment using the same testing accommodations.

Reworking the school curriculum, testing students» numeracy levels and maintaining existing approaches to teacher professional development are unlikely to produce world - class improvements.

These schools, in turn, will provide an initial test case of an operating hypothesis in the personalized learning space: that a high - quality platform and professional development supports surrounding platform implementation could be critical levers to scaling personalized approaches across traditional settings.

The results of this approach may also be biased in favor of schools serving more advantaged students if the test - score growth of disadvantaged students differs in ways not captured by the value - added model.

While both states deserve plaudits for innovative moves in recent years — Arizona for its excellent approach to school ratings under ESSA, and New Hampshire for its work on competency - based education — they have erred in enacting laws that would let local elementary and middle schools select among a range of options when it's time for annual standardized testing.

The risk with Arizona and New Hampshire's approach is that some schools will opt for easier tests — and that will exacerbate the expectations and achievement gaps.

It did open the door to such an approach in high school, where kids are already taking lots of other tests.

Meanwhile, some states have required private schools accepting voucher students to participate in state testing systems, blurring what had been a distinction between the two approaches.

In addition to our main experiment testing the ECO-C Intervention's effects on our target group of high - achieving, low - income students, we also used the same approach to study its effects on students who meet the same test - score criteria but who have estimated family income above the bottom one - third or attended a feeder high school.