Sentences with phrase «best standards of education»

This provides a financial incentive for teachers to continue delivering the best standards of education in the classroom, because this will provide great teachers with incentives to remain as teachers rather than taking management responsibilities which come with larger salaries.

But inspectors say the chain's schools are still not good enough and «more than half are not providing a good standard of education», including five rated as «inadequate».

But he also said that this particular case should not be used as a «stick to beat the whole free school movement» as these were delivering a better standard of education than most state schools.

As a minimum, parents, heads and governors could reasonably ask that every school receives, over the life of this parliament, a core level of funding per pupil, sufficient to deliver a good standard of education.

He wrote in the FOI response: «Overall, deferrals will have occurred because the DfE did not believe that the free school trust was ready to open a school offering a good or better standard of education.»

Ideally we are seeking candidates who have a good standard of education at A Level or above, with graduates also considered.

Not exact matches

With the right education, entrepreneurs can keep running their businesses instead of getting trapped in a debt cycle until better standards for unregulated lenders are in place.

Demographic trends and the shift of global economic gravity toward emerging markets pose serious challenges to North American competitiveness; our future standard of living will depend in part on continuous education as well as our ability to recruit and retain talent.

We might as well expect public schools for the indigent to weaken the standard of private education among the wealthy; or asylums for the deaf and blind, to make Possessors of perfect eyes and ears careless of their safety and indifferent to their preservation; or humanity towards the aged and the suffering to promote idleness and improvidence among the young and healthy... as to imagine that asylums for inebriates will promote and increase drunkenness.

Its emphasis on genuinely understanding the person is all to the good, as is its insistence on high standards of education for ministry.

Much of today's emphasis is on the instrumental value of education, a means to a better job and higher standard of living.

Quotations from the American Standard Version of the Revised Bible, copyrighted 1929, and the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted 1946 and 1952, are used by permission of the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. References to these versions are indicated in the footnotes by the initials A. S. V. and R. S. V. I have used these and also the King James Version, selecting in each instance the diction which seemed to me best to fit the point under discussion.

Development is also often used in a normative sense as a multi-valued social goal covering such diverse spheres as better material well - being, living standards, education, health care, wider opportunities for work and leisure, and in essence the whole gamut of desirable social and material welfare.

We have also not only new materials, new methods, and new machines, but new levels of education, new standards of living, and new ways of thinking as well.

To be initiated into a craft, an apprentice must learn from the teacher, and then from continuing self - education, how to identify mistakes in applying the standards recognized to be the best available in the practice of that craft.

There are no minimum standards, but plenty of education and best practice toolkits for self - improvement.

Potawatomi Bingo Casino (Milwaukee, Wis.) An internal education and standards program for cook chill systems, the effectiveness of which has not only improved costs, safety and efficiency — but also led to on - site workshops for local, state and federal inspectors that support better food safety for the greater community.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

I couldn't help but see in him a personification of education these days — our focus on test - scores, assessment, standards, ranking and comparison, as well as a correlating misunderstanding of the importance of play (at one point in the film, a boy confronts this adult: «But they are toys!

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

In fact the authors point out that there are no studies of meditationamong children in a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schools.

Character Education: ICLS 105/5 27 - 12 (2005) requires teachers to teach students «respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, trustworthiness, and citizenship, in order to raise pupils» honesty, kindness, justice, discipline, respect for others, and moral courage» to lessen crimes and raise the standard of good character.

Obama administration goals for the legislation include: (1) improving nutrition standards for school meals; (2) increasing participation in school meal programs; (3) increasing parent and student education about healthy eating; (4) establishing nutrition standards for the so called «a la carte» foods (see my School Lunch FAQs for more information on these); (5) promoting increased consumption of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and low - and fat - free dairy products; (6) strengthening school wellness policies and promoting physical activity in schools; (7) training people who provide school meals and providing them with better equipment; and (8) enhancing food safety.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

It is time that schools took responsibility for providing good quality, evidence - based education about abortion themselves and stopped their reliance on a range of outside agencies whose educational provision does not meet the basic standards which would be required in delivery of any other subject.»

Referenda work relatively well in Switzerland because it is very small and the population have a high standard of education.

According to Ezekwesili, the state of education in the country needed holistic reform to meet the international standard reminiscent of the old good days.

On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.»

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In place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school places.

Meanwhile, the agreement to delay all effects of the tests until the 2019 - 2020 school year gives the education department a chance to rethink the Common Core standards and devise a better curriculum.

President John Mahama has brushed aside latest swipes from his critics over falling standards of education in Ghana, saying it is one of the best in the world.

Commissioning one of his flagship Community Day Schools in Frafraha in the Greater Accra Region Friday, the president said education standards are getting better year by year.

«I believe that an increase in pupil segregation on the basis of academic selection would be at best a distraction from crucial reforms to raise standards and narrow the attainment gap and at worse risk actively undermining six years of progressive education reform.»

This recommendation sets forth the rights and responsibilities of teachers as well as international standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, employment, teaching and learning conditions.

But her stance on Common Core could factor into Rosa's relationship with state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, who has supported the move toward higher standards, as well as the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

He promised to uplift the standard of education of the state, give better life to traditional rulers in the state.

The Institute supports efforts to improve the current system, especially through the expansion of QUALITYstarsNYC, as a tool to help parents understand what good quality early childhood education should look like, from best practices and teacher education standards to enriching classrooms and play spaces.

Their standard - bearers for secretary of state and superintendent of education, Terry Goddard and David Garcia, respectively, have better - than - even odds to win.

I have promised to bring term limits to state government, as I did as county executive, and replace Common Core with better education standards created at the local level with the input of parents and teachers.

«To ensure the best and brightest are teaching our children, the State Education Department will increase the standards for teacher certification to require passage of a «bar exam,» in addition to longer, more intensive and high - quality student - teaching experience in a school setting,» Mr. Cuomo said.

Germany has lower rates of family break - up and a better education system, less immigration and a more durable record on skills, higher living standards and less housing volatility.

Science Learning Goals and Curriculum.Through its two - volume Atlas of Science Literacy as well as Benchmarks for Science Literacy and Science for All Americans, Project 2061 provides a coherent set of K - 12 learning goals that serve as a foundation for state and national science education frameworks and standards, including the Next Generation Science Standards.

In August 1999, the Board of Education voted 6 - 4 to eliminate evolution — as well as anything hinting at the great age of Earth, and even some cosmological theories — from statewide standards for science teaching (Science, 20 August 1999, p. 1186).

Hill said she sees the need for better education at the local level as well as development of national standards that might trickle down.

For the study, 322 expectant American Indian teens were randomly assigned to receive optimized standard care — transportation to prenatal and well - baby clinic visits, pamphlets about childcare and other resources and referrals to local services — or optimized standard care plus a program of 63 in - home education sessions, known as Family Spirit.

The commission, which is in the process of formulation, has already done good work to prepare its action plan for attainment of international standards in the quality of education, research, and development.

The Institute will spur significant advances in software infrastructure, education, standards, and best - practices that are needed to enable the molecular science community to open new windows on the next generation of scientific Grand Challenges, ranging from the simulation of intrinsically disordered proteins associated with a range of diseases to the design of new catalysts vital to the global chemical industry and climate change.

The Next Generation Science Standards do a better job overall of covering genetics than most previous state standards, but are missing some key content, according to a new study by science education specialists at the American Society of Human Genetics.

In addition to this, Tohoku University has nurtured a tradition of «Practice Oriented Research and Education,» in which the results of cutting edge research are being put to use for the good of society and the improvement of living standards.