Sentences with phrase «based education system in this country»

He said proposals to be outlined today by his party would represent «nothing less than shattering the class - based education system in this country».

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Instead, the bill would create a point - based system like those used in countries such as the U.K. and Australia that use factors such as English ability, education and job offers to rank applicants.

Btwn this issue and illegal immigration, these issues show how immature so many are in this country, how even after all that education, resort to barbaric belief systems that should have faded centuries ago, yet make the basis of an entire political movement.

So how do we, as a country entrenched in an education system that distributes standardized tests and groups students based on chronological age rather than rate of learning, break through its mental barriers and start to embrace — and demand — the science of the individual?

When deciding to implement an environmental education program, the organization based in Seoul wanted to ensure maximum outreach, and it found Green Lane Diary's success in three separate countries, three distinct languages and three different school systems a good fit.

The employment patterns are most pronounced in the «apprenticeship countries» with combined school and work - based education programs (Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland in our data) and least noticeable in the countries with no formal system of vocational education such as the United States.

These patterns are most pronounced in countries that have highly developed work - based education systems such as Germany, Denmark and Switzerland.

Several of the most significant features of recent education policy debate in the United States are simply not found in any of these countries — for example, charter schools, pathways into teaching that allow candidates with only several weeks of training to assume full responsibility for a classroom, teacher evaluation systems based on student test scores, and school accountability systems based on the premise that schools with low average test scores are failures, irrespective of the compositions of their student populations.

If we provide district and school leaders with tools, resources, and guidance based on NCEE's research on high performing education systems and NISL's research on leadership development from other sectors, then they can create systems in which all schools are at least as effective as schools in the highest performing countries.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

The report also stated there was little support for the «notion that pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to succeed if they live in a country with an academically selective secondary education system», based on the OECD's definition of resilience [which measures how many pupils in the bottom quarter of socio - economic status are in the top quarter of attainment].

Developed Maine's first statewide school accountability system (A-F school grades) to ensure transparency in school performance for families and students; joining other states and cities around the country who offer these grades on schools — grades that are based on information Maine already collected but that had been sitting in file cabinets at the Department of Education.

Overview Internationally, leading countries have built education systems based on a competency - based education approach as opposed to seat - time requirements that we have in the United States.

Overview Education systems across the country are beginning to experiment with competency - based models in which students advance based upon mastery.

Much of the description of the governance systems in other countries in this paper is based on the dozens of volumes of field notes that the National Center on Education and the Economy has compiled over the course of the 25 years it has been doing research in the top - performing countries.

While competency - based education continues to spread to schools across the country, the current system is not structured to provide educators with the preparation and training required to excel in these new environments.

One reason D.C.'s education reforms attracted significant attention across the country was their timing: DCPS started using IMPACT to evaluate teachers during the 2009 — 2010 school year, just as the education reform organization The New Teacher Project (TNTP) released a report recommending that districts develop evaluation systems that rate teachers «based on their effectiveness in promoting student achievement.»

TONGA: With an economy based on farming, fishing and some tourism, there's not a huge demand for consumer books in Tonga, although the country has the highest literacy rate in the Pacific (over 98 %) and a good primary and secondary education system.

Abilene is well known throughout the state and the country for its impressive public education system; it's ranked 17th in the nation and the highest city in Texas based on factors such as student / teacher ratio, graduation rate, proximity to top universities, and education population (percentage of adults with two - year degrees or higher).