Yet
judging by its school system — perhaps the most important indicator of a country's future economic performance — this Swedish model's looks appear to be fading fast.
There's no more time for being passive, or being
intimidated by school systems, legislators, corporate education reformers and weapons manufacturers.
To be able to get the job, a person must have a high school diploma which can be
supplemented by any school system along with additional training the driver might need.
So, you have a higher than normal number of referrals to youth court for offenses that are not criminal offenses and that can be properly
addressed by the school systems.
Visible Learningplus is
used by school systems around the world to examine their impact on student achievement and create innovation in the learning environment.
Three million Americans have willingly chosen to pursue teaching at the pay rates
offered by school systems, indicating that the pay, benefits, work conditions, and job satisfaction offered in the teaching profession are at least as attractive as what these individuals might receive in other jobs.
The commissioners are scheduled to make their final budget decision on June 19, but until then there is a $ 29 million gap in new local funding
requested by the school system.
Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis demanded that the NYC Department of Investigation look into tens of millions in spending
by the school system on leadership training.
The union is fighting
plans by school systems to shutter schools in struggling Chicago, Philadelphia and D.C. neighborhoods.
Educators insist, according to E. Dale David, that «a list of civic values consciously
chosen by a school system to realize the goal of developing effective citizens is the necessary first step in the teaching of civic values.»
The case typifies those described in the book: an able mind is foiled by a single weak link, and the child is
failed by the school system's inability to identify and address the problem.
In practice it is unlikely that an assessment system will have access to data on student backgrounds beyond what is routinely
collected by school systems: the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, the percentage eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, and the ethnic and racial composition of the student population.
It is possible that principals» ability to identify the best - performing teachers would be
enhanced by a school system where the principals had more responsibility for monitoring teachers» effectiveness.
«I went into this role with a lot of passion and a strong sense of urgency that I wanted to improve the education of all children, and in particular children who've historically been not well
served by our school system,» she says in an interview recorded for the Harvard EdCast.
This year the program has started networking earlier in the process and beefed up efforts to make sure that, when the time comes, New Leaders fellows are not just ready to take leadership positions, but are also
welcomed by the school system.
Four of them were schools
nominated by school system leaders as schools that had had autonomy for several years, had dramatically improved learning outcomes for students, and that the system leaders felt that the schools would have available some evidence that would enable us to explore the possible links between school autonomy and outcomes for students.
Block Grant Fallout: A widely praised voluntary school desegregation program in Montclair, N.J., will be all but wiped out next year because the federal money that supported it must be shared
by school systems throughout the state.
Announced by School Systems Minister Lord Agnew, the announcement will support the families of the estimated 45,500 children that are educated at home, providing parents and local councils with strengthened guidance so both understand their rights and responsibilities.
The use of Standards for Professional
Learning by school systems and educators indicates commitment to effective professional learning.
The emergency plans
developed by school systems that have had to face the possibility — however remote — that they might be enveloped in a communitywide nuclear crisis, vary from locality to locality depending principally upon the site of the reactor and the geography of the community.
However, often times the social pressure is so great that parents feel as if they must «act in ways
validated by the school system, or their participation is not recognized or may be resented» [xi].
But the study released Thursday by researchers at Stanford University and the University of Virginia found that teachers in the district did improve, at least based on the criteria
devised by the school system to evaluate their performance.
Each QAB member is assigned two to three schools and assists them in complying with the preparedness and reporting
required by the school system.
A study
commissioned by the school system, which will be released in February or March, will spell out the needs of individual schools, including those which should be closed, he said.
The sheer number of variables is evidence that any
response by school systems must be multidimensional, targeted at multiple levels of the system, and sustained over time.
Charter schools are independently operated and free from some restrictions that govern traditional schools, including the need to
abide by a school system's union contracts.
Proteus Industries says Nutrilean is used in a variety of product lines in
use by school systems, healthcare facilities and military installations throughout the United States.
Second, we think the approach will appeal to practitioners who have long been disillusioned with the professional development
offered by their school systems.
The number of non-teaching staff in the United States (those
employed by school systems but not serving as classroom teachers) has grown by 130 percent since 1970.