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Get an education about what's possible with sustainable packaging when nature is the ultimate measuring stick at SPC Impact in San Francisco, April 24 - 26.

When there is no proof that academies improve children's education, certainly no more than any other school with extra funding, and with several academies in special measures, it is particularly irresponsible to push more schools down this route.»

The First Amendment Foundation is weighing in on a wide - sweeping education bill, asking Gov. Rick Scott to veto the measure when it gets to his desk.

[31] The third attempt to repeal the measure met again with failure when the Senate Education Committee voted 3 - 2 to defer the bill on May 1, 2013.

Through lobbying, advocacy, coalition building, citizen education and policy development, EPL / Environmental Advocates has been New York's environmental conscience - ensuring that environmental laws are enforced; that new measures are enacted when necessary; and that the public is informed of, and participates in, important environmental policy debates.

The authors suggest that the differences in reasoning about risks could be important factors to consider when designing online training and education for both preventative and protective measures.

When development — measured by income, education, and life span — improves past a certain point, they find, fertility picks up again.

The fact that schools engaging with the Naace Self Review Framework (SRF) have performed significantly better when measured by Ofsted, compared with other schools, puts Naace in a strong position to influence the UK government to ensure that education technology is at the heart of the nation's education system and enables Naace to reach out internationally to build partnerships with likeminded organisations who share Naace's principles.

In the last decade, at least 15 state legislatures and boards of education have adopted policies incentivizing their public schools to prioritize measures other than grades when assessing students» skills and competencies.

Arne Duncan, the new U.S. secretary of education, got this right in Chicago when he made «student connection» one of four outcomes that need to be measured in his school improvement plan efforts alongside student outcomes, academic progress, and school characteristics.

Measuring schools on GCSE attainment does not take into account the fact that children are at different points when they start their secondary education.

When judges have been called in to reform education, they have quickly grown weary of policy minutiae and have let quantifiable metrics drive out that which is more difficult to measure.

WASHINGTON — Despite the Bush Administration's backing of omnibus education legislation, the measure died when the Congress adjourned Oct. 27 at the hands of several conservative Republican senators who were successful in blocking its passage.

Assessment is, of course, a vital part of education, but the stakes attached to these tests are way out of balance when such a limited and imperfect measure of achievement counts for more than all the assessments of all the students» teachers,» says Orfield.

«It is always risky to pin a life decision on one measure, and this is particularly true when it comes to the fate of a child,» Gardner told Education World.

Noted in the paper, ministers say they will update school and college performance measures in order to make sure that when the new T - level qualifications come into force in 2022, students can make an informed choice between an academic or technical education.

Most of the Kitengesa library's users are secondary school students, and they are eloquent about how it has helped their education and given them a measure of independence: «When teachers don't cover the whole syllabus, you can find a book and read it,» one student told me.

In 2016, the LTT NAEP could have provided another authoritative measure of national achievement, at a time when Common Core and other education reforms are changing U.S. schooling.

We also confirm that we obtain similar results when we control for student characteristics measured at or before the PSAT / NMSQT, including sex, parental education, family income level, whether a student took the PSAT / NMSQT in 10th grade and his or her previous score, indicators for ethnic background (for example, Mexican, Cuban), and controls for the type of high school attended, including affiliation (public or private), urbanicity (that is, city, suburban, rural), size, and concentration of Hispanic students.

When the US Department of Education (USED) instituted reporting of chronic absenteeism in the 2013 - 2014 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), however, the requested measure was the proportion of students who were absent 15 or more days of the school year.

Washington — Members of the House and Senate faced a myriad of education - related measures when they returned to work last week following a five - week recess.

Although the other approaches to measuring student growth may have benefits in other contexts, when one considers the key policy objectives of evaluation systems in education, the «leveled playing field» property of the two - step approach is highly desirable.

«I am already extremely proud of our record on inclusion but these new measures go even further to ensure that children in Scotland have the most rights in Europe when it comes to accessing the support they need within the education system.

Gardner revolutionized the fields of psychology and education more than 30 years ago when he published his 1983 book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences,» which detailed a new model of human intelligence that went beyond the traditional view that there was a single kind that could be measured by standardized tests...

When the Florida legislature, on April 8th, passed a bill that sought to replace teacher tenure with merit pay, the Florida Education Association (FEA) sprang into action, organizing members and community activists to lobby Governor Charlie Crist to veto the measure.

As well, CT showed larger effects on the mathematics achievement of special need students than that of general education students, the positive effect of CT was greater when combined with a constructivist approach to teaching than with a traditional approach to teaching, and studies that used non-standardized tests as measures of mathematics achievement reported larger effects of CT than studies that used standardized tests.

Unfortunately, even when we expand the set of publicly - funded education providers to include charter and private schools we still very often require that students attending those schools take the state test, designed to measure the teaching of state standards and curriculum.

Pressure to improve teacher evaluations deepened Thursday, when two separate Los Angeles education groups endorsed the use of student test scores as one measure to review instructors — a controversial element that many unions have fought.

Analysis of these rich curriculum data, along with our more curriculum - sensitive measures of student achievement, revealed that the mathematics content teachers covered in their classrooms was significantly related to their students» performance even when researchers adjusted this relationship for student background factors (ethnicity, parent education level, socioeconomic status, and so on).

When President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan continued and expanded NCLB's absurd ranking and punishing of public schools based on socio - economic and other inappropriate measures, teachers, parents and public school advocates spoke out.

When asked about the problems associated with standardized testing — cheating, overtesting, blunt measures of student achievement — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan often points to a duo of «next - generation assessments» funded by federal money.

This campaign, it says, is really «a proxy for a broader assault on public education itself» and is coming at a time when public schools have been weakened by funding cuts, «vitriolic political attacks on teachers and their unions, and state programs to privatize schools through vouchers, charter schools and other «school choice» measures.»

The same principle applies to education: When a system values (and measures) many aspects of schooling, such as the amount of art and music, the time devoted to recess, student attendance, teacher attendance, teacher turnover, and academic achievement, the school and its students, teachers and staff are likely to be «balanced.»

Education Week's Daarel Burnette II writes that ESSA was meant to «unleash a flood of innovation» when it came to, among other things, measuring school quality and student success beyond test scores.»

Example projects: Ms. Hassel co-authored, among others, numerous practical tools to redesign schools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal for Every School: Transforming Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Works When?

However shocking the threat of a more than $ 2 billion cut to Title II is to most education leaders, it is important to remember that the President proposed cutting in half Title II spending in the short - term spending measure, but when all was said and done in the Congress, a far more modest 8.9 percent reduction was the eventual outcome.

Only when a charter school meets one of the four measures of success or successfully receives a positive determination of academic eligibility from the State Board of Education may an authorizer consider renewing the charter school.

According to the account, the Republicans believe «the [Dept. of Education] is trying to reassert federal control by exceeding its authority with a rule that would require state and local spending in low - income schools receiving Title I funds to be equal or greater than non-Title I schools... and force schools to include teacher salaries when measuring spending between Title I and non-Title I schools...» At the same time, the story notes that «King is facing pressure from civil rights groups who want to ensure the new education law does not deprive low - income students of equal fundinEducation] is trying to reassert federal control by exceeding its authority with a rule that would require state and local spending in low - income schools receiving Title I funds to be equal or greater than non-Title I schools... and force schools to include teacher salaries when measuring spending between Title I and non-Title I schools...» At the same time, the story notes that «King is facing pressure from civil rights groups who want to ensure the new education law does not deprive low - income students of equal fundineducation law does not deprive low - income students of equal funding.»

Yet when it comes to the education reformers themselves there is little or no accountability and there are plenty of excuses — even to measures they have set for themselves.

Real reform in education can be realized only when this fact is acknowledged by teachers who stand up and demand to be fairly evaluated by multiple measures, with one of those measures being test score data.

This became clear last month when the NAACP and its legal defense fund came out on the pages of Education Week in favor of the strong accountability measures that No Child represents (even as it considered the law's sanctions to be «deeply flawed»).

This ballot measure is a great example of what can be accomplished when our state's political and education leaders come together to address a crisis.

«Beginning with first - time ninth grade students in 2018 - 2019, graduation requirements shall include a requirement that students either (i) complete an Advanced Placement, honors, or International Baccalaureate course or (ii) earn a career and technical education credential that has been approved by the Board, except when a career and technical education credential in a particular subject area is not readily available or appropriate or does not adequately measure student competency, in which case the student shall receive satisfactory competency - based instruction in the subject area to earn credit.

When I put that to someone close to Education Secretary Michael Gove, they paused a while and said «that's a good question» before stressing that the pupil premium will come with new accountability measures for schools that will show how the poorest pupils are benefiting from the extra money.

The Education Research Alliance of Tulane University released «Extreme Measures: When and How School Closures and Charter Takeovers Benefit Students» earlier this month.

When asked what should determine teacher pay, 86 percent said a teacher's education and training should be either the most important or an important factor, followed by 77 percent who said their students» achievement and progress on a range of measures including standardized tests, classroom observations and parent feedback; 77 percent said whether the teacher is at a low - performing school where students need the most help; 64 percent who said students» achievement and progress on standardized tests; and 57 percent who said seniority in the number of years of classroom teaching experience.

«We expected a legal challenge when we drafted the measure,» said Lisa Macfarlane, state director for Democrats for Education Reform and one of the architects of the November 2012 charter initiative.

«Yet some legislators disagreed that the bill was the measure that was needed when the legislature is being fined $ 100,000 a day by the state Supreme Court for failing to fully fund education.

That could change in November, when voters will weigh in on the Multilingual Education Act, a measure that would repeal most of Prop. 227 and make it easier for districts to open a school like Sherman.

I'm also quite sure of how difficult a task it is to push the standards rock up the status quo hill, particularly in a day and age when we are wary of testing in general and many are waiting to see what will become of the accountability standards in NCLB as wishes move to reauthorization, multiple measures, and a new look on federal education policy.