Sentences with phrase «defines academic quality»

A long - term approach that defines academic quality and funds nonpublic schools that verifiably meet the definition is both feasible and warranted.

Not exact matches

To have a chance of landing an academic position you would need to demonstrate an adequate number of publications of adequate quality, adequacy being defined by the level of the position you are applying for.

This led him to speculate that if academic careers were less linear, defined less by narrow metrics such as citation counts and grants and more by wider societal benefits such as outreach activities and teaching quality, «there would be more diversity and thus innovation in the system.»

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

Regularly in our country, access to high - quality schools has been defined by place of residence, ability to afford tuition, disability status, and previous academic achievement.

Although standardized tests can provide parents with useful information about their child's academic performance, using them to impose uniform standards that so narrowly define «quality» creates perverse incentives that narrow the curriculum, stifle innovation, and can drive away quality schools from participating in the choice program.

In the IDRA Quality Schools Action Framework, we define community involvement as the «creation of a partnership based on respect and the shared goals of academic success and integration of the community into decision - elements:

In this framework, accountability is defined as: the assurance that all education stakeholders accept responsibility and hold themselves and each other responsible for every learner having full access to quality education, qualified teachers, challenging curriculum, full opportunity to learn, and appropriate, sufficient support for learning so they can achieve at excellent levels in academic and other student outcomes.

The Legislature defines quality education in establishing high academic standards but it hasn't provided enough funding so that all students can meet those standards, Mayer said.

It is about the quality of work that defines academic success.

For example, while several studies have examined the impact of the quality of the home environment on children's academic achievement, rarely did two studies define home environment in the same way.