Sentences with phrase «between high quality schools»

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A new approach for our schools by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «The CBI report has recognised the important link between high - quality education systems and economic competitiveness.

Quiz Ref IDFemale physicians now account for approximately one - third of the US physician workforce17 and comprise half of all US medical school graduates.18 Despite evidence suggesting that female physicians may provide higher - quality care,1 - 4, 7,8,10,12 - 16 some have argued that career interruptions for childrearing, higher rates of part - time employment, and greater tradeoffs between home and work responsibilities19 may compromise the quality of care provided by female physicians and justify higher salaries among male physicians.20 - 22 Therefore, empirical evidence on whether patient outcomes differ between male and female physicians is warranted.

I've been a die - hard SATC fan since high school, and have always wanted my own «Carrie» necklace, but never found the perfect balance between price and quality.

Just go with Banner's Hulkus Interruptus condition that frustrates him mightily as the effects wizards achieve a half - and - half manifestation to externalize the problem, or the serio - comic quality of the ersatz father - son relationship, the one that makes them both awkward, between Iron Man and high - schooler Peter Parker (Tom Holland), who gets a spiffy and shiny new Spiderman suit from Stark just in time to join him in outer space.

One of the challenges facing school leaders right now is striking the right balance between pragmatism to make sure that every class has a teacher, and ensuring the bar continues to be set as a high as it should be in terms of teaching quality.»

In my school we have decided to alternate the mornings between literacy and numeracy to ensure that the independent activities we set up are of high quality and time manageable.

The major effect of vouchers would be to reduce discrepancies between the quality of schooling that the children in the inner city are getting and the quality of schooling of the most high - income person.

Another problem is the sheer lack of high - quality public school alternatives within reasonable driving distance of many a failing urban school; given the choice between the low - performing school in their own neighborhood and the mediocre school ten miles away, parents may stick to the path of least resistance.

Her dissertation extended beyond the early childhood period and into early elementary school in an effort to understand whether continuous high - quality learning experiences between pre-kindergarten and third grade can help sustain the positive effects of early childhood education on social, behavioral, and academic skills.

To sum up: 1) low - stakes tests appear to measure something meaningful that shows up in long - run outcomes; 2) we don't know nearly as much about high - stakes exams and long - run outcomes; and 3) there doesn't seem to be a strong correlation between test - score gain and other measures of quality at either the teacher or school level.

• Blurring the boundaries between secondary and postsecondary education has its pluses — such as acceleration opportunities for smart students — but some of what passes for «dual credit» in high school lacks any real collegiate quality control and some of what passes for corequisite courses on campus really is high school stuff and doesn't deserve college credit.

Her dissertation extends beyond the early childhood period and into early elementary school in an effort to understand whether continuous high - quality learning experiences between pre-kindergarten and third grade can help sustain the positive effects of early childhood education on social, behavioral, and academic skills.

What they want and deserve is real decisionmaking that goes beyond simply choosing between mediocre and high - quality schools.

Loeb said she found a correlation between greater student attendance and higher individual teacher quality based on evaluations within the school district.

School choice attempts to level the playing field between students of different backgrounds by making it possible for all families to have access to a city's high - quality public schools — whether students live near these schools or not.

Does the school employ a variety of collegial and sustained professional development activities (e.g., mentoring relationships between new teachers and experienced teachers, high - quality teacher induction programs, professional development drawing on school - level expertise, professional learning communities, collaboration among teachers, and relationships between teacher teams and social service support providers that serve students and families)?

But does the AYP yardstick actually distinguish between higher - and lower - quality schools?

Indeed, a close look at MCAS results shows there is surprisingly little difference between the quality of teaching in so - called «good» schools (wealthy, suburban schools with high MCAS scores) and «bad» schools (inner - city schools with low scores) when the results are averaged across all teachers in the district and disaggregated by student demographics, specifically race and poverty.

Yet blaming charter schools for financial woes in the school district is unfair, and it drives a poisonous wedge between administrators, educators and the broader community, who should be working together to provide kids with access to high - quality education.

Teacher Policy Research (TPR) is a research partnership between the University of Virginia, Stanford University and the University at Albany that examines the behavior of teachers and administrators with the goal of developing policies that will attract and retain high - quality teachers and leaders, especially in low - performing schools.

More than 23 cities have signed District - Charter Collaboration Compacts — formal agreements between school districts and charter schools that aim to share resources and responsibility and build trust and collegiality to ensure equal access to high - quality schools for all students.

STEM Institute requires a two - year partnership between a school and Golden Apple Foundation, which results in fully engaged teachers receiving 100 hours of high quality professional development over the course of those two years.

This study examines the relationship between participation in high - or low - quality school music programs and standardized test scores.

In a national survey of public schools, the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality and Public Agenda (2007) found that if given a choice between two otherwise identical schools, 76 percent of secondary teachers and 81 percent of elementary teachers early in their careers would rather be at a school in which administrators strongly supported teachers than at a school that paid significantly higher salaries.

It is worth noting then, that the connection between being able to recruit and retain great teachers and deliver strong results for kids is not accidental; rather, it is embedded into the fabric of high quality schools.

NUT Cymru secretary David Evans added that there were «significant barriers» to promoting better collaboration between schools or better access to professional development «from a lack of high quality training provision, a lack of financial resources to release teachers or workload pressures making non-classroom activity almost impossible».

... Few ardent supporters of public education really understand what it takes to provide high - quality learning opportunities for children in a public school classroom, and for that reason few are aware of the vast chasm between public school systems that are well provisioned to do so and those that aren't.

«It's hard to find consistent, long - term, high - quality service learning,» says Sarah Pearson of the American Youth Policy Forum in Washington, D.C. Pearson's recent report, Finding Common Ground: Service Learning and Education Reform (2002), establishes the compatibility between the goals of comprehensive school reform models and those of service learning.

Features that stood out across these successful programs included tightly knit partnerships between the after - school programs and students» schools and communities and a focus on high - quality arts, enrichment, and recreation rather than academic subjects.

High - quality out - of - school time programs are important for supplementing the normal school day and for closing the opportunity gap between high - and low - income studeHigh - quality out - of - school time programs are important for supplementing the normal school day and for closing the opportunity gap between high - and low - income studehigh - and low - income students.

Finally, the high level of collaboration between PK - 12 schools and postsecondary participants to improve the quality of teacher education preparation through the GOALS model validates the potential of this teacher preparation approach.

* Assure a stronger focus on equity by (a) asking states not just about the amount of funding in education, but also about the fairness of its distribution to high - and low - poverty and high - and low - minority districts and schools, and (b) asking states to document their efforts (required under federal law) to address gaps in teacher quality between high - and low - poverty and high - and low - minority schools.

The program will help ease the transition for schools between application approval and the start - up phase; help ready schools for their first renewal process; help ease the anxiety some new charter school employees experience, even at established charter schools; as well as provide support for charter school authorizers and help them identify various high - quality authorizing best practices.

More surprising, the researchers found that the quality gap between a teacher's regular lessons and her test - prep lessons was largest in a school district where the teaching quality was the highest.

Council examiners cited no areas for improvement and praised the college's commitment to its students, its rigorous academic programs and the meaningful engagement between the college and its public school partners to create high - quality clinical experiences.

Based on a belief that high - quality programming can build youth social - emotional resiliency and contribute to school and life success, Dr. Gil G. Noam founded the institute in 1999 as a collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Medical School before relocating to McLean Hosschool and life success, Dr. Gil G. Noam founded the institute in 1999 as a collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Medical School before relocating to McLean HosSchool of Education and Harvard Medical School before relocating to McLean HosSchool before relocating to McLean Hospital.

CAS President Dr. Rosie Vojtek chats with the new executive director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS) about the state's budget impasse; CAPSS» ambitious plan for transforming CT's education system; the importance of high quality early learning programs; how technology has revolutionized education; and, the ideal relationship between the superintendent and the building principal.

Local journalists should cover the relationships between segregation and unequal educational outcomes and realities, in addition to providing coverage of high quality, diverse schools.

In drawing the fault lines between white parents and Asian parents in the district, the Times completely overlooks the local elections that were held this past November, where the candidate (a graduating high school student, actually) who was demanding higher standards and higher quality lost to the candidate urging a more holistic approach (exactly what the superintendent is now enacting).

To help support the growth of schools, grants will fund the identification and development of new charter school facilities, efforts to recruit and prepare public school teachers and provide support and coaching to public school leaders, and efforts to deepen conversations between educators and families to create more collaboration and public participation in creating more high - quality public schools.

Van Schoales, head of A + Denver, questions the wide disparity between Denver high schools when it comes to students attending quality colleges.

Effective PreK - 3rd provides: High - quality and unified learning in well - staffed classrooms; well - prepared teachers and aides to educate children in the 3 - 8 age range; supportive school district policies; strong principal leadership that includes supporting professional development time for teachers to plan for effective coordination across and between grades; and includes families and communities that share accountability with PreK - 3rd schools for children's educational success.

Instead of shifting student demographics between schools, Thernstrom says that the education system would benefit far more from policies that help recruit higher quality instructors in high - poverty schools, creating a learning - focused environment that builds life skills as well as academic ones and providing separate educational facilities for students who aren't committed to learning.

The grants will range between $ 5,000 and $ 30,000 and will be given to high - quality public schools to recruit teachers to positions for math, science, SPED, and other hard - to - staff positions.

Aligning a high - quality PreK experience with its overall education reform goals has helped MCPS achieve significant results: almost 90 percent of Kindergarteners enter first grade with essential early literacy skills; nearly 88 percent of third graders read proficiently; achievement gaps between different racial and ethnic groups across all grade levels have declined by double digits; 90 percent of seniors graduate from high school and about 77 percent of them enroll in college.

By Keith Curry Lance and Debra E. Kachel Since 1992, a growing body of research known as the school library impact studies has consistently shown positive correlations between high - quality library programs and student -LSB-...]

In her review, Frankenberg found that the report presented a false choice between school integration and the creation of high - quality, urban charter schools.

«There is a big disconnect between perceptions of high school quality and the reality of college preparation, and that stems even to those who come from middle - class and affluent backgrounds.»

In order to tackle the school readiness gaps between DLL and non-DLL children, both what is universal to all children and what is specific to the needs of DLL children should be taken into account when defining a high - quality classroom.

In those moments Quigley also articulated what he sees as an evolving divide on this board — a rift between those who want to uphold a high bar when it comes to the quality of a charter school applicant's pitch versus those who are more willing to take a gamble in the hope that things will simply «work out.»