Sentences with phrase «claim education success»

Some Floridians claim education success because the Florida fourth grade reading scores, according the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test, have shown significant improvement: increasing from 205.7 in 1998 to 225.7 in 2009.

Not exact matches

With apparently some significant success, evangelical and Catholic supporters of Senator Obama attempted to hijack the language of the culture of life, claiming that they are the authentic pro-life proponents because, by reducing poverty and expanding comprehensive sex education, Obama will decrease the number of abortions.

But, Tough adds, the contributions of character traits to students» success goes a long way toward refuting conservative «cognitive determinists» like Charles Murray, who claim that success is mainly a function of IQ and that education is largely about sorting people and giving the brightest the chance to take full advantage of their potential.

The Greens are currently claiming on ITV that the collapse in Lib Dem support and switch to them reflects the toxicity of their association with the Conservative Party: #BESFactCheck suggests that it is more likely reflect the fact that voters do not credit the Liberal Democrats with any of the major successes or the failures of the coalition government: fewer than one in five voters believe that the Lib Dems in government have been responsible for the upturn in the economy, changes in the NHS, changes in levels of crime, changes in levels of immigration and changes in the standards of education.

Success also filed a lawsuit against the city earlier this year, claiming that the Department of Education was denying the schools space for pre-K.

Gove also claimed the biggest barrier to the success of free schools was not profit - making ability, but planning laws which restrict the growth of the education sector.

The city Department of Education claims it can't give Success Academy the middle - school space it needs because it's just too hard to say if half - empty public schools will stay that way.

The city Department of Education claims it can't give Success Academy the middle - school space it needs because it's just too hard to say if half - empty public schools will stay that...

He doesn't claim to have solved education problems for our time, and he doesn't trumpet every policy success as his own.

But if we're doing experiments and nobody's evaluating, and everybody's claiming success, and every state thinks they have a good system, then of course, we're never going to get anywhere with education in United States.»

The president's success in reasserting a serious Republican claim to education means that for all of his party's problems, lack of concern for schooling isn't among them today.

And as he geared up to run for a second term, he was claiming success: the city's schools had been fundamentally reformed, and dramatic education change was under way.

'» 55 In the 1990's, education researcher David Labaree claimed that financial success has become the driving force of American education above happiness, humanistic goals or public rationales.56

In her latest column in the Stamford Advocate, fellow education advocate Wendy Lecker takes on the ignorant claims of those who support using the SAT as a definitive measure of educational success.

And to top it all off, all the money going toward systems that fail: The Education Reform advocates claim success after success, but the most basic research reveals that their claims are nothing more than lies.

Since poverty, language barriers and the need for special education services are the demographics that have the greatest impact on standardized test scores, perhaps these charts and the CTMirror article will remind the media and public officials that next time Jumoke claims that schools like theirs are such a success, and schools like Milner are such failures, they will look deeper into the different populations schools serve.

With education in selling skills, customer service, cruising, geography, and more, the CLIA courses are all designed to give new - to - travel Avoya Network members the knowledge and foundation needed to achieve early success with their independent agencies, begin claiming more Avoya Live Leads (new customers sent directly to Independent Agencies) sooner, and booking more exceptional vacations.