Sentences with phrase «educational decisions on»

Without legal custody or guardianship, you may not make medical or educational decisions on behalf of the child.

Such systems should use multiple indicators that inform fair and just educational decisions on behalf of students.

It is the looked after child's social worker (in close consultation with the VSH in the authority that looks after the child) that will ultimately make any educational decision on the child's behalf.

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Scores Equifax sold to consumers were based on Equifax's proprietary model, the Equifax Credit Score, which is an «educational» credit score that also is typically not used by lenders to make credit decisions.

Although consultations are one on one, guidance provided by Fidelity is educational in nature, is not individualized, and is not intended to serve as the primary or sole basis for your investment or tax - planning decisions.

The Fixed Income Analysis tool is designed for educational purposes only and you should not rely on it as the primary basis for your investment, financial or tax planning decisions.

To help entrepreneurs in their decision making, TMX.com provides free online toolkits that include a number of educational and information resources on going public, including listing requirements for specific industries.

A free product trial, on the other hand, may not be as educational in nature, but it's still a very valuable offer for existing leads you're trying to nurture and who are closer to making a purchasing decision.

Second, a decision that Christian educational institutions will not surrender themselves to a pure imparting of technical skills or promotion of technical rationality which concentrates on technological tools only but will in all situations be concerned also with developing critical rationality enabling the students to examine the exploitive ends and purposes hidden in all technical situations.

An enduring and progressive democracy rests on common loyalty to a law of truth and right which is found and given, not constructed by human decision; and for the propagation and health of such democracy an educational system centered around this religious principle is required.

The educational sessions, with a focus on consumer trends, will inspire and help you make important decisions about your business.

Parents should be the primary decision makers on what is best for their children's educational futures and not penalized by state and federal bureaucrats,» said Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher.

The online RefuseCommonCore.com website offers New Yorkers the ability to write a message directly to the Governor to respect the rights of parents to make important decisions on the educational future of their children and enable parents to have their children refuse to take the high stakes Common Core - based standardized tests.

The Teen Traffic Safety Education Program, which includes community and educational partners in conjunction with the STOP DWI Baseball Classic provides an opportunity to educate Teens and their families on the dangers of making destructive decisions, at a critical time of year.»

The heaviest will be her decision to send her son James to a private, fee - paying school, a position she herself described as «indefensible» and «intellectually incoherent», given her position on the left and her criticism of Tony Blair and Harriet Harman for making the same educational choices.

«Students are basing their educational decisions in large part on their perceptions of a field,» Cheryan said.

After viewing educational materials and participating in the shared decision - making process with the practitioner, follow - up surveys showed patients had a better grasp on the nuances of screening.

The actions we are taking include (1) the development of new sustainable chemical technologies to reduce the magnitude and the impact of society's chemical and energy activities, (2) the development of a new multidisciplinary effort, The Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry (http://bcgc.berkeley.edu/) to organize and enhance sustainability activities on our campus and to reach out nationally and internationally for coordination and best practices transfer, and (3) the reconfiguration of the delivery and content of our educational curriculum and activities at all levels to emphasize sustainable green chemical practice, concepts and awareness so that all members of our profession advance the sustainability of our society through their work and decisions.

According to Gross, the decision «affirmed on constitutional grounds the regulated educational marketplaces of American states.»

In his second major release, Visible Learning for teachers: Maximizing impact on learning, Hattie presents eight «mind frames» or ways of thinking that must underpin every action and decision made in schools and educational systems if they are striving to improve the quality of education.

As Bailey writes, «[A] n entrepreneurial education landscape... is one in which [government and foundations] help remove barriers to entry for quality providers and think deeply about the impact their policy or philanthropic decisions will have on the broader educational marketplace and potential investors or entrepreneurs in the field.»

But tests are a valuable tool for getting a read on the educational landscape, checking our lazy assumptions and biases, and informing classroom instruction and schoolwide decisions.

Whether the online humanitarian training is giving an aid worker a greater understanding of a crisis or teaching them to make decisions with lives on the line, the advances in educational technology has, perhaps, helped to save more lives across the world than in any other field.

Congress has shied away from making politically difficult educational decisions — but continuing on this course threatens long term damage to our economy and our nation.

Depending on the wording of the opinion, the decision could add a moral dimension to the pleas of poor parents who want educational choices similar to those enjoyed by the middle class.

Based on a long line of court decisions and guidance handed down by the federal Office for Civil Rights, which administers both nondiscrimination statutes — the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 — a court would most likely defer to educational experts, uphold standards supported by evidence of the SAT's validity, reliability, and technical underpinnings, and find flagging not to be unlawful discrimination.

Drawing on participant observation among, interviews with, and resurveys of the same people surveyed in 1999, she is now examining how the parenting, gender socialization, educational experiences, academic achievement, and academic interests they had as adolescents shape their decisions about work, transnational migration, childbearing, parenting, health habits, and elder care now that they are young adults.

Here, we focus on educational data analytics technologies for supporting data - driven decision making in schools.

It is quite clear that policymakers, as well as educators, place considerable value on economic evaluation in their decisions about educational decision making (Greenstone, Harris, Li, Looney, & Patashnik, 2012).

Spurred by dot - coms, school furniture is becoming comfy (The Boston Globe) Professor Daniel Wilson comments on the impact of design in students» education experiences and that design decisions do need to serve an educational purpose in schools, not just be flashy or comfy

Student satisfaction Having key stakeholders on board is crucial to implementing any decision, and perhaps the most straightforward function of research within the educational sector is to ascertain what is likely to be well ‑ received.

That's because its decision to condition ESEA flexibility on state adoption of teacher evaluation systems has not only raised the stakes of reading and math tests (making them less popular and potentially more damaging to the educational enterprise).

At a time when millions of babyboomer teachers are nearing retirement, their decisions on when to leave the classroom are guided more by the early - retirement incentives built into state pension plans than by educational considerations, according to new research by a pair of economists.

Careers: Finding Out, Making Plans Research confirms that having some idea about a chosen career can have a positive impact on your educational achievement, but making a decision about a possible career can be daunting.

Further country - level data on institutional features of the education system — mainly concerning the distribution of decision - making powers and the size of the private - schooling market — come from the OECD educational indicators.

Diversity Challenged, edited by noted researcher Gary Orfield, forecasts that affirmative action's legal and political future may turn on a single question — whether or not the educational value of diversity is sufficiently compelling to justify consideration of race as a factor in admissions decisions at colleges and universities.

This situation demands a new ethic based on respect for different, and involves decision, political will, mobilize and organization of all educational stakeholders to enhance dynamic and critical thinking, which generate new ideas that promote economic and social development, aimed at creating a better world in the future.

It has a massive effect on educational outcomes, retention rates and on the school's bottom line and should not be a decision taken lightly.

From teacher evaluation systems to value - added modeling to the recent Vergara decision in California, reformers have increasingly focused on selecting, measuring, developing, evaluating, and firing teachers as the key to educational improvement.

A desire that requires the integration of a new ethic based on respect for differences, involves decision, political will, mobilization and organization of all educational agents to foster a dynamic and critical thinking that generate new ideas which promote economic and social development.

Bronwyn Johnstone, principal of Capalaba State College, discusses her new platform, which enables educational leaders to understand the reasons behind their decision - making and develop on their own shortcomings.

The individual has the right to object to an automated decision where that decision has a legal or significant effect on the individual (an example would be where educational qualifications are required for a teaching position).

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court altered the course of American history by proclaiming in the unanimous Brown decision that «in the field of public education the doctrine of «separate but equal» has no place,» and furthermore that «separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.»

The survey focused on how these educational leaders use research to inform their decision making, identifying three types of research use defined in earlier studies: instrumental use of research to guide or inform a specific decision; conceptual use of research to inform the way a person views a problem or possible solutions; and symbolic use of research to persuade others or legitimate a decision already made.

For the next 25 years, Dockterman tested and created dozens of educational programs, among them the award - winning Science Court, an animated television show that aired on ABC Kids that taught the fundamental concepts of elementary and middle school science; the Great Ocean Rescue, a computer application where students face four challenging rescue missions that take them deep into the world's oceans; and Decisions, Decisions, a game that teaches students the complexities of topics like immigration, the constitution, environment, or building a nation through role - playing and informed discussion.

Accreditors base their decisions not on educational results, but on institutional inputs, whether schools do things «the right way» — «enough» books in the library, faculty members with «proper» credentials, «adequate» financial support, and so on.

in the case of an unaccompanied youth, ensure that the local educational agency liaison assists in placement or enrollment decisions under this paragraph, including coordination with the committee on special education for students with disabilities pursuant to section 200.4 of this Title, considers the views of such unaccompanied youth, and provides notice to such youth of the right to appeal pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 11432 (g)(3)(E)(ii)(Public Law 107 - 110, title X, section 1032, 115 STAT.

In Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetables.

The Board provides ongoing information on the uses and outcomes of educational testing for decision making purposes, paying special attention to groups historically underserved by the educational system.

Each year, the IB gathers educational leaders, decision makers and practitioners from schools, universities and governments, as well as students, to discuss and develop ideas on international education.