Sentences with phrase «competition among»

Competition among the online businesses is fierce.

But if the charter world continues to expand, the conditions ripen for competition among charters, districts, and state virtual schools that can be truly transformative.

The trio demonstrated astounding effort and commitment to creating interest in the competition among the student body.

The task force has identified just four functions that are essential to its role in education: creating and disseminating information on school performance in each classroom and program effectiveness, including information on individual student performance; enforcing civil rights laws; providing financial support to high - need students; and enhancing competition among providers.

Fiscal federalism argues that government services are most efficiently delivered if provided closest to the taxpayers or consumers receiving them, and that competition among local governments for residents and taxpayers will improve those services.

Exploratorium: Iron Science Teacher A competition among science teachers for the coolest demonstrations.

«Seeing their names up in lights can be a powerful way to foster healthy competition among pupils — making them go the extra mile to achieve.

That body of work has established the theoretical and actual benefits of competition among states and cities in the delivery of certain public services.

If performance is to be rewarded, the unions insist that the rewards go to whole schools rather than individual teachers - which dilutes the impact on teacher incentives, but induces less competition among union members.

If there is competition among many public school districts and private schools in a given geographic area, the schools will offer better services at a lower cost.

But even in the absence of opportunity scholarships and charter schools, we had some exit options in the past because of competitive federalism, meaning horizontal competition among jurisdictions.

An additional 60 % said they would be motivated by leaderboards and increased competition among students.

While everyone in educatorland obsesses over the $ 4 billion competition among the states for Race to the Top (RTT) funding, the Education Department (ED) is readying a separate competition for less than one - tenth as much money that may nonetheless prove far more consequential for American education over the long term.

I have come to see that the main benefit from school choice is not simply increased competition among schools.

[School choice] would bring a healthy increase in the variety of educational institutions available and in competition among them.

At least in theory, the greater, nationwide competition among developers should drive down costs and drive up quality.

According to recently published research by David Card, Martin Dooley, and Abigail Payne, competition among these options is a significant contributor to academic achievement in Canada.

The exorbitant costs of broadband would make subsidizing broadband unsustainable (Marwell thinks that reaching lower price points would actually require increasing competition among telecom providers and a broader set of federal E-Rate policy reforms).

Nevertheless, there is still a story to be told, and the essential part of it is that the program that education reformers have tried to promote now for decades — introduce more choices of schools for students, enable competition among schools, open up paths for preparing teachers and administrators outside schools of education, improve measures of student achievement and teacher competence, enable administrators to act on the basis of such measures, and limit the power of teachers unions — has been advanced under the Obama administration, in the judgment of authors Maranto and McShane.

The lack of choice and competition among high schools is at the heart of the problem.

06/26/10 New York Times Behind the Headline Competition Makes a Comeback Summer 2010 Education Next Many high schools are naming multiple students — sometimes dozens — as valedictorians to reduce pressure and competition among students.

If other states also allow students to blend together a curriculum that combines on - site with online learning, and encourages competition among providers while checking to make sure that only quality courses are provided, secondary schools will move as quickly toward online learning as does the higher education sector.

The first decade of the 21st century has also had a dominant strategy: incentive - based reforms, such as increasing competition among charter and district schools, merit - pay plans to improve teacher quality, and school - level accountability based on testing.

The gift campaign also involves a friendly competition among programs.

All of this leads us to measured skepticism about the merit of merit pay, unless it is coupled with school choice innovations hefty enough to instigate sustained competition among schools and school sectors.

Intense competition among private schools in New York State for a limited supply of students and teachers has some institutions using below - the - belt tactics to meet their admissions and hiring goals, according to the schools» state association.

Still, we find clear, consistent barriers to charter school growth: a lack of access to affordable school buildings, increased competition among charter schools for students and resources, and a political backlash to the growing presence of charter schools.

And even more dangerous is that in the absence of choice and competition among scientific models, authorities will allow their own interests or preferences to distort what they claim science has to say.

I'd favor staging a competition among prospective curriculum suppliers, maybe have a jury evaluate and grade their products.

Applying these principles has been shown to increase collaboration, foster greater learner independence, increase learner engagement, and promote healthy competition among employees.

Best of all, this regimen would encourage differentiation and competition among curriculum providers.

The Penny Challenge is set up as a competition among homerooms.

Does the model promote or limit competition among providers?

Moreover, earning badges and achievements creates a healthy competition among peers to improve performance and boost engagement.

In Denver, for example, school board members Jeanne Kaplan and Andrea Merida provided evidence of their awareness of competition among education providers in a 2011 guest commentary in the Denver Post.

First, we need to eliminate the competition among ourselves.

• Unions tend to oppose anything that induces competition among schools.

Band of Misfits (PG for action, mild epithets and crude humor) Animated kiddie adventure about a competition among three buccaneer swashbucklers (Hugh Grant, Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek) to capture the coveted Pirate of the Year Award by wreaking the most havoc on the high seas.

The ladies debate whether to turn him over to Confederate authorities, but they are more intrigued than alarmed, and anti-Yankee sentiment quickly gives way to subtle competition among the women for his attention.

A key reason for this growth is the competition among schools for status and prestige, says Kevin Carey, education policy director at the New America Foundation.

Competition among squads is harsh, but Ender's crew includes pretty Petra (Hailee Steinfeld) in addition to Ender's empathetic sister (Abigail Breslin).

Nursery University (Unrated) Head start documentary explores the cutthroat competition among anxious parents trying to place their Ivy League - bound toddlers in one of Manhattan's most exclusive preschools, where tuition is as much as $ 40,000 a year.

Given the chance to get together with the younger generation of Bellas, led by Emily (Hailee Steinfeld), they concoct a contrived excuse to hop on board a USO tour through Europe, leading to an even more contrived competition among the tour's music acts to land a spot as the opener for DJ Khaled.

Competition among dating sites gets hot and heavy — the dating site collects pages of data from users to help them find appropriate mates, with a large engineering team to refine its site and algorithms.

It is because of the competition among dating sites that some very good dating sites are offering the option of dating for free.

Now you know it's a race, a given competition among all the sugar babies at this party.

It means that there is always fierce competition among sugar babies.

There is a lot of competition among online dating sites, but most people flock to the few they know, like Match.com.

Competition among youth - oriented sites like Superlol is fierce.

On college campuses, dating became a competition among the girls to determine who was most popular.