Sentences with phrase «based reform efforts»

Alignment is at the heart of standards - based reform efforts.

The goal of standards - based reform efforts is to change teaching because without new approaches to teaching, most students» learning will not improve (Cohen, 1995).

ALISA SIMERAL is a school turnaround specialist and veteran educator who has guided school - based reform efforts as a teacher, dean, and instructional coach.

Alisa Simeral is a school turnaround specialist and veteran educator who has guided school - based reform efforts as a teacher, dean, and instructional coach.

Again, I sought funds to accomplish this task, and, again, Maryland's State Department of Education provided a grant to ensure continuity of our school - based reform efforts.

Trump's recent proposal to eliminate Title II, which was advanced last month by a House Committee on Appropriations, 16 entirely puts at risk these evidence - based reform efforts, which are up to states to implement.17 Advocates must work to minimize cuts to Title II and other federal programs to ensure that states and districts have operating funds and the ability to implement innovative policies and programs with fidelity.

It could be the result of improved schooling in Grades K — 8, perhaps due to the standards - based reform efforts discussed above.

In Boston, MCAS is an important part of a seamless standards - based reform effort that includes clear expectations for what students should learn, curriculum aligned with the standards, high - quality instruction and professional development to help teachers improve their practice, and assessments that provide students with a way to demonstrate what they have learned and how they can apply it.

As long as research data is obtained through hypotheses posed in testable terms and nested in a body of established theory; as long as the data collection and analytical methods permit direct investigation of the question; and as long as the study results are open to replication and professional scrutiny, we will have a professional body of research on which to base reform efforts.

«As long as study results are open to replication and professional scrutiny, we will have a professional body of research on which to base reform efforts.»

As board member and president of the Oregon School Boards Association, she led the association's proactive response to the state's severe funding crises following passage of a property tax limitation and was involved in the development of Oregon's comprehensive standards - based reform effort.

Not exact matches

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Implemented in 2003 as part of an ambitious academic reform effort in Division I, the Academic Progress Rate (APR) holds institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student - athletes through a team - based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student - athlete for each academic term.

Challenge Success has since worked with almost 800,000 students, faculty, administrators and parents throughout the United States and across the world on efforts like changing bell schedules, reforming homework policies, shifting to alternative assessments and encouraging project - based learning with the goal of creating «healthier and more productive pathways to success.»

Q) You say early in the book that reform efforts based on content have failed to affect achievement gaps, and, that an emphasis on character in some way seems like a better alternative.

Efforts to reform the house of lords have foundered on disagreement on questions of scale - how big, what proportion should be elected and on what basis - first past the post, single transferable vote, alternative vote... a fresh start would make almost anything possible.

Mettler examines three parts of the American submerged state — subsidised bank - based student lending, private healthcare, and tax expenditures — and details the Obama administration's efforts to reform them.

The event is sponsored by Education Reform Now, a group that has ties to Taveras: the New York - based 501 (c) 3 nonprofit is helping support the national Mayors for Educational Excellence Tour, which is meant to highlight new educational efforts in four specific U.S. cities.

«Under Spitzer it went from consumer advocate to Sheriff of Wall Street; we need to reform it again to make the office the base for Albany reform efforts.»

Magee has become central to the statewide effort to battle reforms such as standardized testing, teacher evaluations based on test scores and penalties for schools that do not meet certain standards.

The other, based on China's announced reforms and environmental initiatives, is called the «Accelerated Effort» scenario.

Once that is done and a «new nexus of research» begins to form around how climate science and the climate change movement can increase racial and ethnic diversity, those fact - based findings can be used to guide public climate advocacy and policy reform efforts.

The privately funded Achieving the Dream initiative, which started in 2004 as an effort to apply evidence - based reforms to more than 200 community colleges in 35 states, has disappointed.

In the absence of race - based constraints, some reform efforts that aim to improve school quality, such as charter schools, open enrollment, magnet schools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010).

In his final chapter, Putnam recommends a variety of well - known school - based reforms, such as moving poor children into better schools, compensatory financing for schools in poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education process.

• The broader and more abstract the soft skill that is the focus of a school reform effort, the more likely is the skill to have a dominant genetic basis.

Thom Markham, Ph.D., President of GlobalRedesigns, and Senior National Faculty member at the Buck Institute for Education, is a psychologist and educator who served as a Director with Active Learning, Inc., an innovative motivational and learning skills camp program for high school and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, California.

The Providence - based Big Picture Co., which so far has concentrated its school - reform efforts in Rhode Island, will direct its latest project from a new office in Cambridge, Mass..

My own book, Education Myths, may have bolstered efforts to enact the incentive - based reforms that dominated the decade, but it did not provide the conceptual rationale for the movement.

President Obama and Education Reform was written when there was really only half a presidential term to evaluate: after the midterm elections of 2010, there was nothing the administration could do that was in any way dependent on Congress, and even the long - delayed effort to reauthorize the primary basis of the federal role in education, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it was clear, would have to be delayed further, perhaps to the next administration.

In addition to the curriculum - reform recommendations, the Elementary Grades Task Force suggested more aggressive efforts to consider ethnic background in hiring teachers, expanded social services within schools, and performance - based assessments that, in the case of limited - English - proficient students, would be given in their native language.

The release in January of the Teaching Commission's report, «Teaching at Risk: A Call to Action,» presents us with an opportunity to reconsider the importance of teacher quality as a critical variable in the current effort to implement standards - based reform and high - stakes accountability.

Efforts to keep children from dropping out of school must begin in the middle grades, a new report advises, and should include school - based reforms that enhance achievement, promote self - esteem, and provide personalized, rather than punitive, discipline.

Education Redesign: Building a New Model for All Date TBD $ 149 per person Based upon the research of HGSE Professor Paul Reville, director of the Education Redesign Lab, explore why current education reform efforts are failing and how we might work to design a new education system.

Based upon the research of HGSE Professor Paul Reville at the Education Redesign Lab, the workshop explores why current education reform efforts are failing and how we might work to design a «new engine» to drive better outcomes for all.

And yes, with a bit of effort they can be loosely grouped under the two familiar headings that we know as standards - based and choice - based reform.

Acknowledging that the Goals 2000: Educate America Act «has some political baggage,» a senior Education Department official last week urged state officials and members of the business community to redouble their efforts on behalf of the standards - based school - reform strategy and of school reform in general.

The inertia is large, however, and beyond the habits of existing school - lunch systems is the classic problem of any school - based effort to reform the larger society — junk food that can not be obtained in school can be brought from home or purchased nearby.

Governor Patrick has begun that work in Massachusetts and I believe the students will be better served by acknowledging where the state needs to improve its education reform efforts than by simply declaring victory based on past success.

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She would undo most if not all of the «structural» reforms that have been put in place in recent years — mayoral control, performance - based pay, charter laws and other choice schemes, reliance on entrepreneurship and market incentives, federal efforts to incentivize and prod the system to change in constructive directions, testing - and results - based accountability and more.

Mr. Nelson will be responsible for the daily operation of the Washington - based organization's long - term effort to reform science education nationwide.

Clearly test - based accountability does not do everything, but it is a central part to almost all serious reform efforts.

This most radical of choice based schools — where students and teachers never meet in physical classrooms and state funding flows on a performance - based, demand - driven model — has largely avoided the political and legal tangles that have stymied other reform efforts.

Based on the reforms that occurred immediately prior to and during the Klein administration, it is clear that there has been a concerted effort to alter regulations, policies and practices to improve the overall quality of New York City teachers and especially ensure that students most in need of effective teachers are more likely to get them.

Because of the way Congress creates and funds programs, the department traditionally operated in program - based silos, which led to similar silos in states and hampered efforts to link together programs in comprehensive reform.

«Equity - based reforms in teaching and learning will be central to the effort to expand access to deeper learning.»

When mentoring is integrated into research - based reforms and interventions it can strengthen efforts to reduce poverty, truancy, drug abuse and violence, while promoting healthy decision - making, positive behaviors and activities and academic achievement.

A common base of understanding about reform efforts, shared between teacher leaders, educators, and other community members, along with the community's recognition and value of their leadership expertise, helped teacher leaders to be successful in these roles.

School reform efforts should be collaborative, research - based, and data - driven.