Sentences with phrase «education system risk»

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But now support for her has plunged to around 30 percent, a record low, and analysts say an ambitious agenda including a proposed constitutional reform and overhaul of the university education system are at risk.

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ECPC provides parenting education groups and counseling to the residents and training for staff at homeless and domestic violence shelters to counteract serious risk factors including homelessness, poverty, youth or emancipation from the child welfare system.

Most home visiting programs are voluntary, and states and communities encourage participation by families with risk for maltreatment (for example, families where parents have low levels of education, live in poverty, single - parent households, and parents who themselves were involved in the child welfare system).

Still, health care providers should not treat all families as if they are at high risk for insufficient breastmilk supply, according to Elizabeth Smith, a «baby - friendly» coordinator in charge of breastfeeding education policy for the University of Utah Health Care hospital system.

Alan Milburn, the Government's social mobility zsar, says that this risks «recreating an us and them» in the education system.

The Governor signed a law last year requiring all school districts to implement an evaluation system based on the statewide system approved by the State Education Department or risk losing their increase in education aidresulting in 99 percent compliance (687 out of 691 school districts implemented aEducation Department or risk losing their increase in education aidresulting in 99 percent compliance (687 out of 691 school districts implemented aeducation aidresulting in 99 percent compliance (687 out of 691 school districts implemented a system).

«However, the latest Annual Report also confirms that without a clear focus on the need to support the capacity of the system to sustain these improvements, standards of education are being put at risk.

«Your proposals, and the concomitant encroachment on the independent status of Academies, seriously impact upon the ability of sponsors, governors and principals to lead and manage their institutions effectively and efficiently, placing at risk the transformational change in the education system the programme was designed to facilitate.»

«We know that high - fat diets are tied to increased risk for metabolic syndrome and obesity, which in turn are associated with decreased brain function,» said TOS spokesperson Kelly Allison, PhD, Director of Education, Center for Weight and Eating Disorders and Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

Science - fisheries, natural resource management, fish behavior, fish biology, conservation; education - science, grades 6 - 12, biology, citizen science, public participation in research, model and systems thinking, evidence - based reasoning; social science - communication, anthropology, human dimensions, risk perception / communication.

A Nation at Risk «s most fatal flaw was its faith in the American education system's ability to act on its recommendations.

Cloud based services are fantastic in the commercial world, but could run the risk of schools offshoring 90 per cent of its systems up into the cloud when 90 per cent of the education delivery happens on campus.

First, in its rehearsal of the responses, outcomes, and derivatives of Risk, the one advance since 1983 that gets short shrift from Koret (so short that it is virtually unmentioned) is the recent reform focus not just on teachers as linchpins of the education system but on teaching as the very core of what happens in schools and thus of school reform.

Indeed, it is required of academies, by the Education Funding Agency, that they have in place a sound system of internal control and risk management processes.

With the support of funding secured from the 2016 ICAP Charity Day, Shakespeare's Globe will work with partners in Southwark and inner London to reach marginalised groups, young people who may not be in education, employment or training (NEETs), those who have - or are at risk of - offending, and those in the care system, to be a skills catalyst that will help redress the lack of diversity within the cultural sector.

Julian Stanley, chief executive of counselling service the Education Support Partnership, says the system is at risk of driving away some of its most dedicated teachers.

Washington — The new education block grants are a «political football» that state departments of education and local school systems risk fumbling to state legislators and governors around the country unless they act quickly.

«The faltering economy is putting at risk the advancements that many states are making to improve the quality of their educational systems,» said U.S. Rep. George Miller of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce...

Like most established organizations in other sectors, the education system's inclination when it sees a potentially disruptive technology is to cram it into its existing model to sustain what it is already doing, but not fundamentally transform that model into a student - centric one (the importance of making this transformation should be clearer in light of the ACT's announcement today that 60 percent of 2012 high school graduates are at risk of not succeeding in college and career).

The U.S. and the U.K. were both awakening to being «nations at risk,» due in no small part to the parlous state of their public education systems, and reformers in both countries were pushing for big changes — changes that their respective «education establishments» didn't want to make.

The touchstone A Nation at Risk report expressed fear of a deteriorating education system leading to an erosion in our global standing.

The Reagan administration briefly rolled back many ESEA provisions, but following the release of the 1983 A Nation at Risk report, which pointed out persistent inequalities in the education system and made unfavorable comparisons between U.S. students and those in other nations, old requirements were restored and new ones added.

Most of the schools in this latest survey did assure the quality of the provision reasonably well, but there are risks involved in this situation, particularly as many of the pupils who attend alternative provision are the most vulnerable and disenfranchised in our education system.»

Many corporations have «copped - on'to the risk of confidential information going astray or being stolen, however the education sector has been slower to recognise the huge financial and reputational risks involved and the need to put appropriate safeguards in place — i.e. secure data management and destruction systems.

With our testing and assessing models so much embedded in our education system's culture, what is a good way to start teaching teachers about more creative thinking and teaching students to be more risk averse?

State legislatures must commit to improving their higher education systems, or risk «unnecessary federal intrusion,» concludes a report by a bipartisan panel of state lawmakers.

explanations include the lack of a feudal heritage, widespread citizen involvement in machine - style political parties (forestalling socialism), a federal system of government, a fast - growing economy, an expanding frontier, an enviable education system, risk - taking immigrants, and a belief in hard work, entrepreneurialism and opportunity.

Abuse of the system is an increasing concern at the highest levels of the state Education Department, even as officials defend it as a useful tool for helping at - risk students.

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Risk awakened millions of Americans to a crisis in the nation's system of primary and secondary education.

• Risk underestimated the resistance to change from the organized interests of the K - 12 public education system, at the center of which were the two big teacher unions as well as school administrators, colleges of education, state bureaucracies, school boards, and many others.

Obama has proposed a «Success in the Middle Act,» which would provide federal support to improve the education of middle school students in low - performing schools by requiring states to develop detailed plans to improve student achievement, develop and utilize early identification data systems to identify those students most at - risk of dropping out, and invest in proven strategies that reduce the number of drop outs.

... The United States can not risk passing through another decade with its elementary and secondary education system in disrepair.

Some of the major factors that lead to credit - deficiency and create risk are: poverty, pregnancy and parenting, questioning sexuality, full time work requirements, family issues leading to homelessness, foster care, inclusion in the criminal justice system, disengagement with traditional education systems, and other similar circumstances.

The system for creating new school places in England is fragmented and confusing, risking harm to children's education, head teachers have warned.

His lifetime of commitment to at - risk youth and public education makes him the only choice to lead the state's school system.

It's a highly centralised, unaccountable, bureaucratic and ultimately ineffective programme that is putting existing schools at risk, creating uncertainty for pupils and further fragmenting our education system.

So while some MATs are developing strong boards, many others find it difficult to recruit and retain people of the necessary calibre — a reality that presents a major risk to an education system with well over 1,000 MATs, in which so much power, responsibility and oversight now sits at trust board level.

The publication of A Nation at Risk in 1983 alarmed citizens with its claim that the American public education system was failing.

3: Help State Education Agencies (SEAs) and Local Education Agencies (LEAs) develop and improve data systems to track students at risk of dropping out.

«Richmond is at risk of creating a two - tiered education system, with only some students receiving crucial financial help for college, while others with the same needs are ignored,» says Brian Buttacolvi, who teaches 10th grade English at Making Waves Academy, a charter school.

Earlier this month, in an open letter to college presidents and education school deans, Duncan said, «The system we have for training teachers lacks rigor, is out of step with the times, and is given to extreme grade inflation that leaves teachers unprepared and their future students at risk.»

For example, a part of the resolution informs us that charter schools «have contributed to the increased segregation rather than diverse integration of our public school system» and that weak oversight of charters «puts students and communities at risk of harm, public funds at risk of being wasted, and further erodes local control of public education.»

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA / ESSA) requires districts and schools to develop multi-tiered systems of services, supports, strategies, and interventions for students who are academically at - risk, underachieving, unresponsive, and / or unsuccessful.

In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education, created by the Reagan administration, issued the report, «A Nation at Risk,» which contained alarming conclusions about the inadequacies of the American educatioEducation, created by the Reagan administration, issued the report, «A Nation at Risk,» which contained alarming conclusions about the inadequacies of the American educationeducation system.

(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).

(Calif.) Lawmakers appear resolute in their efforts to strengthen school district accountability under the state's new education finance system, proposing two bills that would more closely monitor spending on programs for disadvantaged youth and require proof that those students are, in fact, making academic gains or risk having funds withheld.

In a letter sent to the Education Department today, these groups express deep concerns about waiver implementation, from how graduation rates are factored into state accountability systems to how subgroups of at - risk students are being helped.

But Labour warned that he risked creating a «two - tier education system» where the requirements of academic pupils are put ahead of those wanting to pursue more vocational courses.