Sentences with phrase «around academic quality»

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Ottersen leads a broad - based team whose objective is to promote the quality of research and tuition at all faculties, and his team aims to develop the University of Oslo into an internationally leading university with academic breadth centred around research.

For in the academic world funded by the food processing industry, macronutrients (proteins, fats and carbohydrates) loom very large, food quality is pushed to the background and there is much reeling and writhing around the Mad Hatter notion that fats should be limited.

We met with three hundred charter leaders around the state to learn more about what could be done, and then built goals and objectives for the California charter schools movement by first providing insurance, cash - flow financing, and other resources to schools willing to focus on academic quality (measured in many different ways).

«Alyssa Chan exemplifies well the qualities that distinguish students and graduates of the International Education Policy Program: a strong commitment to expanding educational opportunity for the most disadvantaged children around the world, an extraordinary ethic of hard work and rigorous pursuit of academic excellence, and an understanding of leadership as service to others,» says Professor Fernando Reimers, director of IEP.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

«We believe that HGSE, as one of the world's leading academic institutions, has the responsibility to change the conversation in order to improve student opportunity, achievement, and success in rural communities,» she says, stressing that rural education needs to be part of the dialogue around providing quality education to all.

Each of the applications will be subject to peer review in the context of five priority areas: supporting effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics education; supporting the implementation of high academic content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.

As Chairman of the Senate Education Committee and later as Senate Speaker Pro Tempore, Jamie was a key leader in efforts to identify and support effective teaching, overhaul Tennessee's K - 12 education funding formula, raise academic standards for Tennessee students, turn around low - performing schools, and expand high - quality public charter schools in Tennessee.

Two academic researchers from the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania looked at these value - added measures in six districts around the nation and found that there was weak to zero relationship between these new numbers and the content or quality of the teacher's instruction.

If the principal is the designee responsible for a school's quality, including student academic growth, then wouldn't it make more sense to simply move school leadership teams around, instead of forcibly relocating entire student bodies, resulting in commuting and logistical issues for multiple families?

Both competitions will fund projects across five priority areas: supporting effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education; helping implement rigorous academic content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.

These multi-year pathways are organized around major industry themes to deliver 1) rigorous academics that meet college - ready standards, 2) sequenced, high - quality career and technical education, 3) work - based learning, and 4) personalized student supports.

This professional learning community gives teachers the opportunity to learn research - based family engagement best practices around (1) relationship building, including home visits; (2) academic partnering such as high quality parent - teacher conferences and -LSB-...]

The district's 2012 Measure G language, which appeared on the ballot, asked voters to approve the parcel tax for: «protecting core academics — reading, writing, math, science, attracting and retaining quality teachers, providing lower class sizes for the youngest children, preparing students for college and the workforce, and improving safety on and around school campuses.»

Chief among them: using data to track students and improve their achievement; spreading uniform, rigorous academic standards across states; improving teacher quality; and turning around the worst - performing schools.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of more than 500 researchers and academics from around the country released an open letter today urging policymakers on all levels of government to support greater investments in high - quality early childhood education.

EBSCO offers more than one million high - quality e-book titles and 100,000 audiobooks from more than 1,500 major academic publishers and University Presses from around the world.

Created around a high - quality robust text, the content is suitable for the deep - reading and re-reading necessary for academic investigation,» reads the mission statement from its website.

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Supplying quality assignment writing services to students all around Darwin is the main aim of our Australian based academic helpers.

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In addition to these influences, the challenges that came with the ongoing precariousness of academic life — a lack of tools, materials and a quality educational program — led the young creators to meet and exchange their reflections on the artistic production they observed around them, as well as the situations and challenges that emerged from an educational program that took up techniques but that neither made the media needed to master them available nor contemplated the option of the gesture as a solution.