Sentences with phrase «coherent system for»

Thus, there was a push for a uniform set of standards and the development of aligned assessments to build a more coherent system for educational improvement.

«The DfE needs to take a long hard look at this picture once the number of academies stabilises and design a more coherent system for the future which ensures proper accountability for schools.»

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It is no wonder, then, that After Virtue found such a wide hearing, for it seemed to offer the key with which we could reassemble our shards and fragments into a coherent moral system.

Yet for all the book's strengths, it is one thing to demonstrate that a system of thought or group of practices are coherent; it is quite another to demonstrate that they are good.

What's more, those stories were handed down for hundreds of years * before * the developed a coherent writing system!

Metaphysical realism, understood in a processive way, requires this triple sense of objectivity: novel human doings in need of guidance, long - enduring systems of belief that provide the schemata of interpretation by which that guiding can be done, and opportunistic skill in sculpting act and theory, fact and canon, into a coherent, fruitful basis for intelligent action.

Not possessing a religious basis for morality, atheists are fundamentally incapable of having a coherent system of morality.

The definition of material world, for instance, is «a set of relations and of entities which occur as forming the field of these relations (MCMW 13)-- a most curious definition when we consider Whitehead's later view that the world (ourselves included) is understandable as a coherent logical system of polyadic relations of actual occasions.

It's wrong to imagine this body of doctrine to be a complete system like Thomism, but it did provide a stable, coherent basis for thinking about the social question.

When we acknowledge that our pictures do not represent reality, then we can also give up the quest for a coherent system of thought to describe the world.

For Whitehead, «Speculative Philosophy is the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted.»

Thus, in a series of works published in 1919 and the early 1920s, in opposition to relativity theory, Whitehead argued not only that the geometry of the world was uniform, but that «the properties of time and space express the basis of the uniformity in nature which is essential for our knowledge of nature as a coherent system» (R 8, 29).1 Furthermore, he held that this uniformity was actually discerned there (H 14).

Only the Natural Law — asserting that human life has value — gives a basis for a coherent value system.

In the case of a «speculative system» which fuses historically obsolete cosmologies, Whitehead's repeated and in fact passionate emphasis that the «elucidation of immediate experience is the sole justification for any thought» (PR 4/6) seems not at all able to be brought into some coherent association, Whitehead's reflection that we could ask ourselves «whether the type of thought involved [in his cosmology] be not a transformation of some main doctrines of Absolute Idealism onto a realistic basis» (PR xiii / viii) may hit not only upon the widespread skepticism with regard to the «main doctrines of Absolute Idealism» in general, but also, in particular, upon doubts concerning their ability to be transformed «onto a realistic basis.»

At the same time, accumulated experience from many producers does, in our view, make a powerful case of the need for a simplified and coherent regulatory framework that enables the emerging local and fair food system to flourish.

AFSA has long campaigned for the creation of an inter-departmental Ministerial Food Forum to ensure strategic and coherent policy development and integration of planning in and across departments managing local food and food systems, population health, transport, land use, education, environmental sustainability, natural resources, infrastructure and economic development.

As it reels from one decision to the next, the NFL and its teams are finding out just how hard it is to come up with a consistent and coherent policy of punishment for players beyond the justice system

The fragmentation and privatisation of our education system is a disaster for any coherent planning in our schools and for achieving a good local school for every child.

It's that coherent quantum state, Bernien said, that allows the system to work as a simulator, and also makes the machine a potentially valuable tool for gaining new insight into complex quantum phenomena and eventually performing useful calculations.

Already, Lukin said, the researchers have seen evidence of such states — in one of the first experiments conducted with the new system, the team discovered a new coherent non-equilibrium state that remained stable for a surprisingly long time.

The report also recommends reorganising student funding to form a more coherent system across further and higher education, increasing loan entitlements to students living away from home from # 3635 to # 4100, and redistributing funding to increase access opportunities for the least well off, whilst requiring the wealthiest parents to fully support their children.

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Teacher Jocelyn Watkins and Jonathan Westrup of specialist provider Drake Music presented on their efforts to bring together coherent means of assessment and clear progression routes for SEND students in music education — after Jocelyn had found the existing systems inappropriate and too inflexible to work for her students.

«The longer we lack coherent education policies, the longer we miss out on the benefits that an integrated education and training system can deliver for young people, communities and our economy» she said.

Programs for teachers, teacher - leaders, and school leaders support collaborative teamwork towards the integration of research - based strategies that engage students, enhance their performance, and develop school systems as coherent learning organizations.

At the most, national standards will help our system be more coherent, efficient, and rational, and will help set expectations for our students higher.

Where Marc gets into trouble (with me, anyway) is how he tries to convert some of these lessons for domestic use — especially the part about «consider [ing] the education system as one coherent whole.»

Some are both familiar and basically applicable, such as «set clear goals,» have checkpoints along the way to gauge (and control) student progress, worry a lot about teacher quality (principals, too), finance schools equitably, strike the right balance between autonomy and accountability, strive for a coherent «system,» etc..

I observed that the frenzied, pin - wheeling search for the next exciting recipe can make it that much harder for schools or systems to build coherent cultures.

More important, however, is the larger implication I take from Mr. Bedrick's thesis: that private school choice advocates in America, Mr. Bedrick among them, have failed to establish a coherent, prevailing belief system about the role of private schools in providing an education of measured quality, at scale, for the nation's most disadvantaged youth.

Turning a vision into action requires the process of design — a plan for a system that works in a coherent way.

This work is grounded in a coherent rationale and designates a series of indicators that demonstrate system - level, setting - level and individual - level practices to promote smooth transitions to early grades and growth across youth development outcomes for all children.

This is a recipe for what we have, a confusing smatter of programs and spending streams that don't form a coherent system that can be managed, evaluated, and improved over time.

States interested in using ESSA to increase reading ability while also creating more coherent educational systems could follow this idea to its logical conclusion: creating state - wide sequences — and sequence - based reading comprehension assessments — for grades 3 — 8.

Two of the unsettled issues the board will delve into this week are the criteria for choosing the lowest - performing 5 percent of schools needing assistance and a framework for a coherent system of oversight and assistance in a state with nearly 1,000 school districts and more than 10,000 schools.

Such continuity is integral to the development and implementation of a coherent and effective support system for improving and sustaining the quality of student and school performance.

Dr. Robert Marzano worked closely with consultants at Learning Sciences Marzano Center to develop the model, which is designed to integrate and build upon the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model for a coherent and aligned system.

Finally, «Next Generation» accountability systems should adhere to the following five essentials: «(a) state, district, and school leaders must create a system - wide culture grounded in «learning to improve;» (b) learning to improve using [the aforementioned informational systems also] necessitates the [overall] development of [students»] strong pedagogical data - literacy skills; (c) resources in addition to funding — including time, access to expertise, and collaborative opportunities — should be prioritized for sustaining these ongoing improvement efforts; (d) there must be a coherent structure of state - level support for learning to improve, including the development of a strong Longitudinal Data System (LDS) infrastructure; and (e) educator labor market policy in some states may need adjustment to support the above elements» (system - wide culture grounded in «learning to improve;» (b) learning to improve using [the aforementioned informational systems also] necessitates the [overall] development of [students»] strong pedagogical data - literacy skills; (c) resources in addition to funding — including time, access to expertise, and collaborative opportunities — should be prioritized for sustaining these ongoing improvement efforts; (d) there must be a coherent structure of state - level support for learning to improve, including the development of a strong Longitudinal Data System (LDS) infrastructure; and (e) educator labor market policy in some states may need adjustment to support the above elements» (System (LDS) infrastructure; and (e) educator labor market policy in some states may need adjustment to support the above elements» (p. x).

For some people, the term strategic planning brings to mind a disciplined and thoughtful process that links the values, mission, and goals of a school system with a set of coherent strategies and tasks designed to achieve those goals.

We recommend the use of a coordinated, coherent, evidence based instructional system linked to educational outcomes needed for student success at next education / training level (integrated standards, curriculum, instructional materials, assessments etc.).

Recommendations for creating coherent teaching and learning systems where teaching practice is studied through multiple lenses can be achieved through a continuous quality improvement approach.

The current licensing system in Utah includes over a dozen pathways or actual license types that are not organized into a coherent system, making obtaining a license sometimes difficult to navigate for prospective and current educators.

ASR is working on topics such as: exploring models for coherent federal, state, and local accountability systems, developing guidance to assist states in producing efficient and precise processes for system implementation, and creating strategies for improving the clarity and utility of accountability outcomes to promote student achievement.

Other industrialized countries don't have a teacher performance pay system, but they do have adequate compensation for their teachers, with 12 - month salaries, benefits, as well as authority in the class, respect in the society, rigorous curriculum, and the right to deliver coherent instruction as opposed to teaching to multiple - choice tests.

The main theme of this paper has to do with the finding that every nation that tops the list of global education performers has an agency of government at either the state or national level where the education buck stops — an agency that has the responsibility for the health of the education system and the authority and legitimacy needed to provide the effective leadership that results in a coherent, powerful education program.

To help eliminate confusion among stakeholders and to improve credibility of the Utah public school system, the Utah State Board of Education approved a resolution calling for a single, coherent student achievement accountability system for Utah.

The National Union of Teachers welcomed the requirement for all teachers to have teaching qualifications and the support for national pay bargaining, but warned that allowing parents to open schools would not create a «coherent» system.

State departments of education play an important role in defining expectations for students; how those expectations are measured; and how information is used to identify, intervene, and support schools and districts as part of a coherent and «reciprocal» system of accountability.

Top - performing systems typically have well - developed, highly coherent and very demanding instructional systems for all students.

The purpose of the School Turnaround Academy is to elevate a state education agency's (SEA) understanding of research and practice on school turnaround and how a state's turnaround policies and strategies fit within a coherent system of support and intervention for districts and schools in need of improvement.