Sentences with phrase «challenge for school systems»

Computer Science education is an important challenge for school systems nationwide.

Ensuring consistently high standards across schools is a formidable challenge for any school system.

Not exact matches

Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.

The challenges are there for all to see - an acute housing shortage, a lack of school places, a transport system barely managing to cope.

«We definitely need a much fairer tax code in New York state because right now the major challenge in New York state is how we're going to pay for our schools, our water systems, our infrastructure and just basic services the state is providing,» said Karen Scharff, the executive director of Citizen Action and a state co-chair of the Working Families Party.

«If we do not have a school system that is adapting to and preparing for these challenges — a school system that is not only adapting to the amazing revolution of iTunes, whereby Harvard and Oxbridge publish their most valuable content free, but is also able to adapt to the unknown revolutions ahead - then we will face even worse crises in the years ahead.

The Computerized School Selection Placement System (CSSPS) encountered some challenges, with error notices greeting some BECE graduates who have been trying, since September 1, to access the website for self - placement.

«Now that Ms. Black and Mr. Polakow - Suransky have been approved by State Education Commissioner Steiner, I hope we can move forward on the many challenges the system faces, including creating a curriculum that will give students a well - rounded education, new and better interventions for struggling students, and early action to turn around failing schools,» he said in a statement.

Humanists UK will be doubling down on its efforts for a fully inclusive education system, challenging new faith schools applications as they arise.

The community college system represents a potential source of student diversity for medical schools and physicians who will serve poor communities; however, there are significant challenges to enhancing the pipeline from community colleges to four - year universities to medical schools.

In response to repeated calls for an integrated and coordinated emergency and trauma care system in the U.S., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists and UPMC physicians rose to the challenge and divided the nation into hundreds of referral regions that describe how patients access advanced care, in a way that respects geopolitical borders.

As part of last year's 2016 Breakthrough Junior Challenge, Hillary Diane Andales was the Popular Vote winner and her high school was awarded a new science lab for the Eastern Vismayas Campus of the Philippine Science High School System (school was awarded a new science lab for the Eastern Vismayas Campus of the Philippine Science High School System (School System (PSHS).

It discounts real improvements in the city's school system, ignores the tremendous challenges facing some of the city's secondary schools, and distracts from the hard work required to graduate students truly qualified for what comes next.

But the key challenge for Newark when it regains local control — and the key challenge for all cities, regardless of the makeup of their school system — will be improving school quality across its diverse system of schools.

Stand for Children exists to challenge the conventional power arrangements of the K - 12 public education system, organizing parents at the grassroots level to advance a school reform agenda.

Regrettably, through all the NCLB trashing, Winerip never described these issues so that lay readers, almost certainly unfamiliar with this context, could at least understand the current environment let alone learn about the complexity of the law and the challenges of designing policy for our decentralized system of schooling.

EW: How have the challenges for learning disabled children in the education system changed since you began school in the 1950s?

The results present a stagnating set of figures and continue to highlight ongoing challenges for schools, school systems and governments, says Australian Primary Principals Association (APPA) President Dennis Yarrington.

A perfect storm of greater demand for teachers, fewer people entering the profession (particularly in key subjects), severe pressures on schools funding and a restrictive migration system, means that schools are having to think outside of the normal channels of recruitment to more flexible staffing models to cope with these challenges.

Speaking at the National Association of Head Teachers» annual conference, schools minister David Laws has said that Ofsted's inspection system make it easier for schools to gain a «Good» or «Outstanding» rating than schools that are in «challenging circumstances».

Hear how this primary and secondary school have faced the removal of levels challenge and their victories so far, including the incorporation of the key elements of a good assessment system and translating these into the classroom, setting appropriate targets, tracking and effectively measuring pupil progress post levels, and demonstrating progress for Ofsted governors.

To promote student learning and achievement, research indicates that teacher advancement systems should compensate teachers for their expert contributions, particularly in economically disadvantaged schools where teaching challenges tend to be greater (Accomplished California Teachers, 2012).

For a long time, Iowa was one of the few states where lawsuits challenging the school finance systems had never been filed.

U.S. Schoolchildren Tumble in International Reading Exam Rankings, Worrying Educators (The Washington Post) Marty West discusses the impact the Great Recession may have had on school systems and what that means for improving educational outcomes for the most challenged students.

Plaintiffs lost a challenge to Florida's school finance system in 1996 in Coalition for Adequacy and Fairness in School Funding v. Cschool finance system in 1996 in Coalition for Adequacy and Fairness in School Funding v. CSchool Funding v. Chiles.

While there's still plenty about the accountability systems of many states to criticize — and implementation challenges lie ahead for all of them — the school ratings at least represent more of an improvement on NCLB - era systems than a repudiation of them.

For some reason, even though we've known for decades that different schools face different challenges, only a few states have embraced this insight by creating systems that judge schools based on things they contrFor some reason, even though we've known for decades that different schools face different challenges, only a few states have embraced this insight by creating systems that judge schools based on things they contrfor decades that different schools face different challenges, only a few states have embraced this insight by creating systems that judge schools based on things they control.

The challenge is that most school systems are not doing it well for a variety of reasons,» says Scott McLeod, an educational technology expert and associate professor at Iowa State University.

Each of these school choice systems can be complex and confusing for low - income families, especially when they are contending with challenges ranging from unstable employment and housing to limited transportation.

In 1990, the school created the Urban Superintendents Program, the only comprehensive doctoral program preparing school leaders for the challenges of urban school system administration.

The resulting report outlines the challenges to creating a school leadership pipeline and offers a road map for system leaders to establish new standards, practices, and management structures to meet the challenges.

Professor Richard Murnane, the student - selected faculty speaker, reflected on five decades of education and the five challenges currently facing all educators around the world: make equality a reality for all children; use money so it affects students» daily experience; create schools that prepare children for the future; make school choice work for the most disadvantaged; and create school accountability systems that improve education for all our children.

A big challenge on this score is that there just isn't much material or training out there on how to make schools and systems work for teachers.

Despite these gains, to fully meet our nation's challenging goals for excellence and equity in our public school systems, clearly more needs to be done.

REC Education identified the need for more teachers in 2012 as the school system struggles to cope with present levels of demand and faces up to even greater challenges in the coming years.

To us, this initiative means NBU and its active - learning programs no longer exist solely as an external force challenging the educational system: There is a demand for reform within the school system, and we believe it will grow.

The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recognizes appropriate and inappropriate duties, which can be a challenge for those in school systems that use their school counselors as data entry clerks, testing coordinators, substitutes for classroom teachers, record keepers, or in disciplinary School Counselor Association (ASCA) recognizes appropriate and inappropriate duties, which can be a challenge for those in school systems that use their school counselors as data entry clerks, testing coordinators, substitutes for classroom teachers, record keepers, or in disciplinary school systems that use their school counselors as data entry clerks, testing coordinators, substitutes for classroom teachers, record keepers, or in disciplinary school counselors as data entry clerks, testing coordinators, substitutes for classroom teachers, record keepers, or in disciplinary roles.

Headsets and gloves can cost hundreds of dollars, making it challenging for most school systems to provide universal access.

Bernard Lacour, a longtime school reformer who works with local school councils and consults with New Leaders on placement issues, believes that the obstacles thrown up by council dynamics and the predisposition for experience may be exacerbated by system politics, the advantages of incumbency, and fear among local councils that their candidates will be challenged by the board of education and their authority taken away from them.

The report concluded that support for pupils whose «behaviour challenges school systems is important» and that «timely intervention may prevent exclusion from school, as well as future psychopathology».

The finance system was challenged in 1993 in Idaho Schools for Equal Educational Opportunity v. Evans.

Morgan says the changes will «unclog» the admissions system for individual schools by limiting challenges to local parents and local authorities and exclude lobbyists and pressure groups.

By Schools for Schools has a very clear underlying strategy for school improvement, which is that all of the challenges that arise in the system already have solutions that exist within the system somewhere.

Granted, the achievement - level design of the NCLB accountability system creates some challenges for new schools like charters.

They don't present evidence regarding effects of these initial efforts on student achievement but do explain how RAND diagnosed the weaknesses in the Qatari system, devised the Education for a New Era reform model, and the challenges of implementing standards, independent schools, and the Qatar Student Assessment Ssystem, devised the Education for a New Era reform model, and the challenges of implementing standards, independent schools, and the Qatar Student Assessment SystemSystem.

One of the challenges that face educators is to prepare pre-service teachers with the skills and abilities that are essential for success in the school system.

The challenge for St Peter's Girls» School was to provide a stable platform that enables Mac OS and Windows environments to co-exist, providing teachers the option to switch between operating systems seamlessly as needed.

SEN schools share particular challenges, in that the amount of sensitive data they hold is greater than for mainstream schools, but this system is also ideal for schools with pupils across the SEN spectrum.

The documentary questions the virtues of the education system in place for decades and brings the «groundbreaking» vision of teachers, educators and pediatricians who believe in challenging postures models like the Montessori, home schooling, free schools, education for projects, active schools or Waldorf pedagogy.

Trauma, schooling instability, poverty: Any one of those challenges can make it harder for gifted children to be found and to show their strengths, and students in the foster - care system often have all of those disadvantages and then some.