Sentences with phrase «education increases academic»

«Emphasizing hands - on, real - world learning experiences, this approach to education increases academic achievement, helps students develop stronger ties to their community, enhances students» appreciation for the natural world, and creates a heightened commitment to serving as active, contributing citizens,» said David Sobel.

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Other positive results include reduced absenteeism rates, increased representation in the academic stream, and higher graduation and postsecondary education rates.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Hence the expansion in universities, the elision of the university / polytechnic distinction, the increased hegemony of the business world (the importation of people like BP's Chris Motishead into places like KCL, the creation of the BIS Dept) over that of education, and the introduction of weaselly concepts like «research impact» into how HEFCE funds our academics.

«I believe that an increase in pupil segregation on the basis of academic selection would be at best a distraction from crucial reforms to raise standards and narrow the attainment gap and at worse risk actively undermining six years of progressive education reform.»

The Mahama administration scrapped the payment of the allowances in the 2013/2014 academic year and replaced it with loans from the SLTF, arguing that it would increase enrolment in the various colleges of education and reduce the financial burden on the government.

Professor Afful - Broni said management was determined to increase the intake of students from the 2018/19 academic year as part of the desire to ensure that as many qualified young men and women as possible, received high quality university education.

The latest round of state standardized academic test scores showed gains both across New York State and locally.But rather than celebrate the largest bump since New York adopted new tests tied to the Common Core Learning Standards, education officials reported the increases with caution.

Italian academics lrallied outside Italy's higher education ministry in Rome to show their disapproval of the government's plans to eliminate tenure and increase teaching loads.

However, Mendick proposes that to challenge the ever - increasing pace and expectation of the Higher Education sector, academics could treat their work more as a job and less as a vocation.

The rationale behind the proposal, according to Queen's Principal, William Leggett, is that with greater autonomy, the university would be better able to maintain and even significantly enhance the quality of academic education and at the same time maintain full accessibility with increases to student assistance.

To help ease the problem, the Education Ministry has promised to increase the number of university teaching assistant posts for doctoral students from 2000 to 2700 in the next academic year.

BONN — Germany's research and higher education budget is headed for a real increase for the first time in several years, with special emphasis on bolstering academic research.

Jamie Merisotis, president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, said top - tier institutions (with their large endowments) are able to increase need - based scholarships but are traditionally reluctant to lower their academic standards.9 Terry Hartle, the American Council on Education's senior vice president, justified this policy, saying colleges should hesitate to admit «academically underprepared» students.

Fund 2 types of projects: (1) Institutional Transformation — for innovative & systemic organizational approaches to transform institutions of higher education to increase participation & advancement of women in STEM academic careers.

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We will have an education system that differentiates between students and finds every child where he or she is in the early years, then gives her the understanding, guidance, increasing academic challenge, and support necessary to traverse each level of our education system successfully, ultimately emerging — after some years of post secondary education — ready for success in a job and in our economy, as a citizen, the head of a family, and a lifelong learner.

This series — launched in September 2004 — examines the new approaches to leadership in education at a time of increasing academic expectations on schools.

Research on the link between handwriting in early education and increased academic performance as children grow up is increasing.

A human investment strategy for education would have an explicit strategic focus: to increase access of all students, particularly low - income, minority students, to high - level academic work, and to invest in the human capital infrastructure for schools that will promote this access.

Increasing student achievement through academic and organizational innovation is the mission of Georgia's charter schools, according to a new strategic plan approved by the state board of education.

Education has atomized knowledge by dividing it into disciplines, sub disciplines, and sub-sub disciplines — breaking it up into smaller and smaller unconnected fragments of academic specialization, according to the exponential increases in information brought about by technological advances.

For the most part, he says, the past decade of research on the accountability movement in education has focused on two things: whether or not the tests increased academic achievement, and how high - stakes testing has led to certain behaviors such as teaching to the test or manipulating the data.

A new study from Harvard Graduate School of Education's Project Zero found demonstrable links between experiences with music and drama and increases in certain cognitive skills, but also showed no connection in many areas between arts education and students» academic achEducation's Project Zero found demonstrable links between experiences with music and drama and increases in certain cognitive skills, but also showed no connection in many areas between arts education and students» academic acheducation and students» academic achievement.

Lawmakers in Washington state made education the major subject of their 2007 legislative session, increasing school funding and modifying the requirement that all high school students pass portions of the state's academic test in order to graduate.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had filed a suit against the state department of education and the district in late August to prevent the dispersal to several other schools of students from the James Lick Middle School, which was one of 18 schools targeted for increased funding and special academic...

Program Links Hispanic Families to Education Resources The goal of the ENLACE Initiative, a project funded by the philanthropic W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is to support Hispanic students» academic efforts and increase the number of Hispanic students who complete high school and college.

This is a good example of how expansion of government regulation increases the number and influence of academic administrators — an institutional shift of great significance for higher education.

The goal is literally to double or triple education results — to increase from 30 percent the number of students who perform proficiently on tests of academic achievement to 60 and then 90 percent.

They claim that much of Australia's increased expenditure on education in the last 20 to 30 years has been «wasted» on efforts to reduce class sizes, arguing that this extra funding does not lead to better academic results.

In effect, the nation's urban high schools, which served increasing numbers of young people from poor and immigrant families, were arguably providing the best academic and, for a smaller number of students, vocational education available in the United States at that time.

Independent Thinking founder Ian Gilbert's increasing frustration with educational policies that favour «no excuses» and «compliance», and that ignore the broader issues of poverty and inequality, is shared by many others across the sphere of education — and this widespread disaffection has led to the assembly of a diverse cast of teachers, school leaders, academics and poets who unite in this book to challenge the status quo.

The academic says that although the total number of Indigenous teachers identified by the National Teacher Workforce Dataset (NTWD) was larger than anticipated, a three-fold increase by 2018 would be required to meet the Close the Gap employment target (in the education sector), as agreed by all Australian governments.

Contrary to the fears of some parents, research undertaken suggests that devoting substantially increased school time to physical education and sport does not have a detrimental effect on pupils» academic performance — while also conferring physical and mental health benefits.

Sellars» passion about increasing the academic regard of pop genres in education caught the attention of his cohort, and Senior Lecturer Pamela Mason, faculty director of L&L.

In higher proportions than the rest of the nation, Californians support the Common Core academic standards and they back pay increases for teachers — unless they are told how much the average teacher earns; then they don't, an Education Next senior editor reported Thursday.

Our experienced consultants have helped schools and districts, including First Nation schools, create culturally relevant, engaging, standards - based curricula that motivates learning, boosts academic achievement, and increases student efficacy, creating a foundation for a high - quality education for all students.

A former U.S. Secretary of Education (1993 - 2001), he helped launch initiatives to raise academic standards; improve instruction for the poor and disadvantaged; increase family and business involvement in education; promote afterschool acEducation (1993 - 2001), he helped launch initiatives to raise academic standards; improve instruction for the poor and disadvantaged; increase family and business involvement in education; promote afterschool aceducation; promote afterschool academic...

Character education has changed the climate in our building, increased our academic scores, and is helping shape the future of our students.

Uriburu said the district needs to improve the cultural competency and diversity of its staff, increase academic support for those who struggle, and expand career and technology education.

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, New Jersey, and Boston, pre-kindergarten programs demonstrate impressive outcomes that include positive effects on math scores, grade retention, and chronic absenteeism at the end of grade 8; increased achievement on language arts, literacy, math, and science, as well as decreased grade retention and special education placement at the end of grade 5; and stronger than typical impacts on academic readiness (effect sizes in the 0.4 — 0.6 range) at school entry.

The new Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants (Title IV, Part A) program provides funds for programs and activities to improve students» academic achievement by increasing the capacity of local school divisions to provide all students with a well - rounded education; improve school conditions for learning; and improve the use of technology in order to improve the academic achievement and digital literacy of all sAcademic Enrichment Grants (Title IV, Part A) program provides funds for programs and activities to improve students» academic achievement by increasing the capacity of local school divisions to provide all students with a well - rounded education; improve school conditions for learning; and improve the use of technology in order to improve the academic achievement and digital literacy of all sacademic achievement by increasing the capacity of local school divisions to provide all students with a well - rounded education; improve school conditions for learning; and improve the use of technology in order to improve the academic achievement and digital literacy of all sacademic achievement and digital literacy of all students.

By implementing a student - centered and inquiry - based approach, students are empowered to take on a more active role in their education which fosters increased engagement and academic success.

Franklin has being invited to present a workshop entitled «Helping All Students Graduate: Strategies and Tools to Increase Academic Success in Alternative Schools» at the National Alternative Education Conference on Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 9:30 - 10:45 a.m..

2) High - stakes testing doesn't raise academic achievement and harms children and their education — why increase such testing?

Demands for reform over the last decade have led to an increased emphasis on the core academic areas of mathematics and reading, which are seen as essential to raising the overall quality of education.

Individuals With Disabilities Act (IDEA) Encourages districts to increase academic achievement of special education students as measured by state assessments linked to state content standards.

What to know: The Mississippi Department of Education's (MDE) plan stands out for aligning its teacher recruitment and retention efforts with its ambitious goals for increasing student academic achievement by 2025 and clearly stating its role in supporting districts to address equity concerns.10 The MDE recognizes that in order to reach its stated goals — which include a proposed graduation rate of 90 percent for all students by 2025 — they must also support districts in recruiting and retaining teachers of color who are prepared to improve student outcomes.

Education reform in the trenches: Increased academic course taking in high schools with lower achieving students in states with higher graduation requirements.

Discovery Education partners with districts, states and like - minded organizations to captivate students, empower teachers, and transform classrooms with customized solutions that increase academic achievement.