Sentences with phrase «education consumers»

Firstly, it shifts their expectations - students are now education consumers and have the right to demand value for money.

Financial debt solutions can help consumers to reach total debt freedom, but without education consumers are likely to accumulate debt again in the future.

Effective teachers such as those identified in Sanders and Rivers» classic study and the high performing schools selected for Education Consumers Foundation's Value - Added Achievement Awards show that accelerated learning environments are available.

And our hopes of systemic change — our progress — will be lost, and we will be a nation at even greater risk, if we do not refocus our collective energies and message to connect with the broad universe of education consumers and citizens everywhere.

Yet even with studies clearly pointing toward the impact that high student debt has on graduates» lives, students rarely consider costs in deciding where to go to school.Just 7.5 percent of students based their decision on what college to attend on costs, according to a Strada - Gallup Education Consumer Survey.The primary decision in selecting a college was location, with 28 percent of students in the survey saying this was their...

Strategically implemented an education customer service Training, Tips, and FAQ section on the company Website, resulting in a more education consumer.

Just 7.5 percent selected a school because it was affordable, according to the Strada - Gallup Education Consumer Survey.

As we continue to focus our efforts on building brand awareness, education consumers about our source and the attributes of our water is crucial,» Olafsson said.

States that want to help parents become more savvy education consumers should consider contracting with third - party validators who can provide parents better information about their children's schools, and also about other resources that are available to families through organizations like Communities in Schools, which works to develop partnerships between schools and other student service providers in the local area.

Students are accomplished education consumers.

Whether a school adopts a model that offers a comprehensive package of practices or decides to build its own from individual research - proven components, education consumers need reliable information to help them answer critical questions:

An informed education consumer, to paraphrase the old saw, is the best advocate on behalf of their kids.

However, Obama wants to replace the federal adequate yearly progress system with state - developed accountability models, while Romney wants to arm parents with data and choices so that they, as education consumers, can hold schools accountable.

Use a website like Great Schools or Education Consumers Foundation to educate yourself on the quality of area schools.

Justice Schweitzer wrote that students considering going to law school are «a sophisticated subset of education consumers, capable of sifting through data and weighing alternatives before making a decision regarding their postcollege options.»

Among the leaders and innovators in the emerging science of vibrational and percussive personal massage devices, MyoBuddy Massagers provides the product and the education consumers and health professionals can rely upon and trust.

The state, in turn, should publish a database with accounts allowing schools, districts, education consumers, and (in a privacy - ensured format) researchers to access at will.

Education consumers (students and, to some extent, their parents) should be willing, unquestioning, and appreciative recipients of the material schools provide, no matter how it is delivered, the traditional view has held.

J. E. Stone is president of the Education Consumers Foundation.

But after all, isn't this what the education consumer wanted?

The power of the education consumer was one important reason the administrative progressives won, Labaree argues.

«Like any other consumer, the education consumer has a strong incentive to get the maximum benefit from a commodity while investing the minimum amount of time, effort, and money to obtain it.

Five years ago, the Education Consumers Foundation launched a campaign designed to highlight its importance.

The Education Consumers Foundation has spent years trying to alert policymakers to the difference.

They're education consumers now.»

«The iPad has enabled greater access for both the education consumer and the creator.»

According to the Education Consumers Foundation, these results were entirely expected based on reforms that took place in the state in 2010.

Public and policymaker awareness of the differences in school performance made evident by TVAAS came to public attention as schools were ranked and the top performers honored by the Education Consumers Foundation beginning in 2005.

In April and May 2015, the Education Consumers Foundation is holding a series of events to recognize the winners of this year's Value - Added Achievement Awards program.

As the availability of value - added data increases, the Education Consumers Foundation will expand its efforts to increase the public visibility of demonstrably effective schools.

The Education Consumers Foundation has highlighted the following items on its home page: Is Teaching to the Test a Problem?

The Education Consumers Foundation (ECF) recognized Beaver and 17 other elementary and middle school principals across the state as the most effective leaders in Tennessee.

KAN was a 2015 SCORE Prize Finalist, has been named a Tennessee Reward School for top 5 % student growth in the state, and has been recognized by the Education Consumers Foundation for top K - 8 student growth in Middle Tennessee.