Sentences with phrase «devised by the school system»

But the study released Thursday by researchers at Stanford University and the University of Virginia found that teachers in the district did improve, at least based on the criteria devised by the school system to evaluate their performance.

Not exact matches

If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.

The Sunshine State had instituted school voucher programs, increased the number of charter schools, and devised a sophisticated accountability system that evaluates schools on the basis of their progress as measured by the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).

So, in effect, schools were left with three options on the table: stick with levels for as long as possible, prepare to purchase an «off the shelf» system that was being built by a third party, or devise an entirely new system from scratch.

Even the most flexible of those models — «transformation,» the one chosen by nearly three - quarters of participating schools — requires districts to devise teacher - evaluation systems that take student performance into account.

Having recently devised a student evaluation system, completely dynamic in nature, I was awarded Teacher of the Year Award by the management of the American Promise School.