Sentences with phrase «becoming an academy improves»

The online petition states that «there is no evidence that becoming an academy improves the outcomes of our children and young people» and demands that the Department for Education allows local authorities to «take back democratic control of the academies in their area».

New figures have cast further doubt on the government's assertion that becoming an academy improves schools — revealing inadequate schools have more chance of improving by staying under local authority control.

«And yet the Government still can not produce any evidence that becoming an academy improves education - all the evidence is that it could make it worse since only three MATs get above average results for their pupils.

Not exact matches

Struggling schools that were given more autonomy by being converted into academies under the former Labour government have seen improved exam results compared to similar schools that did not become academies, according to our new research.

One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.

In 2000 the foundation committed $ 150 million over five years to improving leadership at the school and district level and is now underwriting in 24 states a wide variety of programs: leadership academies, university - school district partnerships, research, changes in what it takes to become certified as a principal, and superintendent training.

Under a Conservative Government, any school that Ofsted says «requires improvement» and can not demonstrate that it has the capacity to improve will have to become a sponsored academy.

The freedom brought by becoming an academy is attractive and converting can help improve attainment and bring many other advantages.

It became an academy in September 2008 and was the most improved school in the country last year.

How external advice, a curriculum revamp, and becoming an academy helped one school dramatically improve its Ofsted rating

Interestingly, the schools were also fond to improve results in the year before they become a sponsored academy.

School commissioners will then review if a school requires additional support to improve, although the official line is now that the government will encourage schools to become academies voluntarily as apposed to forcing them to convert.

Andrew Hemmings became principal in 2009, and by 2012, following three years of working in temporary or dilapidated accommodation, the Academy had become the most improved school in Hertfordshire and the 35th most improved school in the country (out of 5272).

But schools becoming academies is only one chapter of a much bigger story told in the white paper about how we create the infrastructure that allows a self - improving school - led system to flourish: what role government should play in that system, when we should offer you support and when we should get out of the way.

Since launching the Kickboard school culture system in 2014 and becoming Bentley Academy Charter School (BACS) in 2015, the school has dramatically improved its culture and academic performance.

«Their own data shows that 92 % of failing schools that have been inspected have improved since becoming an academy.

Sir John Gleed has twice been judged Inadequate since becoming an academy (although the most recent said it was improving despite being Inadequate).

However, for «Inadequate» schools that did not become academies, 99.4 % improved.

But post-2010, becoming an academy no longer seems to improve the results of pupils on entry.

Mark — some of the 130 schools judged as worse than good since 2005 have become academies and have not improved since becoming academies.

The government sees Ofsted as a key way of protecting and improving standards in schools, especially since many schools are becoming academies, independent from local authorities.

For example, 37 of the 52 secondary schools judged less than good since 2005 have become academies and were found not to have improved when inspected in 2016/17.

If inadequate schools can improve before becoming academies, then why does the DfE still promote the more expensive option of mandatory academization for such schools?

Teacher training has been crying out for reform for some time and the impetus for schools and academies to become more involved has undoubtedly improved the overall quality of such training.

Shadow education secretary Lucy Powell said requiring all schools in England to become academies would be a «costly, unnecessary exercise with no evidence that standards will improve».

If the choice is become an academy because you know that actually you can improve the quality of what's going on, then that would seem the right thing to do.

Which raises the question of whether it's Nadia's determination to lead a team improving the school that will make as much difference as becoming an academy.

Some of the secondary schools supported by City Challenge programmes subsequently became sponsored academies, but they did not improve significantly more than other schools supported by the scheme, the researchers found.

And I'm absolutely convinced that if this Academy and the successors who become members of this Academy are there at the center and the heart of our public debate, that we'll be able to continue to use the innovation that powers our economy and improves our health, protects our environment and security, that makes us the envy of the world.

Home visiting has been promoted by the American Academy of Pediatrics as an important complement to office - based practice.1 It has been advocated as a way to improve the outcomes of pregnancy, 2 to reduce the rates of child abuse and neglect, 3 and to help low - income families become economically self - sufficient.4 The background of visitors, however, seems to affect program success.5 — 8 When examined in randomized trials, paraprofessional home visitors (those with no formal training in the helping professions) have produced small effects that rarely are statistically significant.5 — 8 Is the absence of their effect attributable to lack of professional training or underdevelopment of the program models they delivered?

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), in its policy statement «The Role of Preschool Home Visiting Programs in Improving Health and Developmental Outcomes» (February 2009), recommends that pediatricians should become aware of and participate in the development of home - visiting programs in their communities.