Sentences with phrase «educational quality»

The network provides a platform to share information, support and strategy, empowering local voices to enter the policy conversation and take action to improve educational quality for all children.

Making a difference in educational quality through teacher education.

These major areas of work are integrated into all our projects to create new knowledge and advance theories with long - term impact on educational quality.

These programs help ensure that continuing education offerings meet professional expectations for educational quality and breadth.

That said, I do know that we need to talk about educational quality in more robust ways and ways more connected to the real world.

The consolidation approach in an effort to reduce cost is not clearly supported by research and is likely to suffer lower educational quality as trade - off.

First, we have to really, really understand that if we want educational quality good teachers matter.

What's so sad about this state of affairs is that few people — even educators — actually understand how today's off - target educational tests contribute to diminished educational quality.

In order to maintain educational quality, the online courses use similar assignments and grading standards as their in - person counterparts.

In 1962 (years before the first charter law), he described how competitive market forces would strengthen educational quality, efficiency and productivity.

Parents supported reasonable measurement and accountability but were pushing back against a system that they believed compromised educational quality and failed to accurately evaluate teachers.

I thought about the obvious educational qualities of puzzles such as teaching about shape, colour, size, structure, and included two more — flavour and nutritional value.

The court also claimed that it was not qualified to address difficult empirical questions such as whether money influenced educational quality.

The speech follows a year of widespread teacher layoffs and education cuts that sparked concerns about sacrificing educational quality for short - term financial stability.

Consequently, pursuing educational quality and ending inequality in the way schools receive funding demands that we go beyond market approaches to school placement.

Such a response ignores problems inherent in these systems and would not provide decision makers with the information they need to assess educational quality and improvement.

Addressing faculty and administration conflicts directly improves educational quality inside and outside the classroom.

Now, however, the need to address issues of educational quality and performance may call for new rules and new institutions.

Other objectives include improving educational quality and working out such details as how to mutually recognize course credits.

Moreover, it offers strong evidence for this alternative direction to the policy debate on public school reform by analyzing the role of union - management relations in educational quality.

If, however, private schools are located in areas where citizens care a lot about educational quality, the relationship will appear stronger than it truly is.

They attend a very well regarded school district and a school that just won a blue ribbon award, so this has nothing to do with educational quality or parent SES.

This tendency has been exacerbated by law school ranking methodologies that uncritically confuse higher cost per student with higher educational quality.

Additional private schooling within a nation - state may increase citizens» political and economic freedom through increased educational quality, balanced power relationships, and increased civic engagement.

«In the 2016 testing season, we expect (to find) many more families have refused to take part in unnecessary testing, which undermines educational quality and equity.»

The Bureau is responsible for ensuring that the overall educational quality of the programs offered will provide students with the necessary skills to secure meaningful employment and for protecting students» financial interests while attending proprietary schools.

Within a decade, the impact is felt throughout the entire legal industry: educational quality goes up, total net costs go down, and the legal profession and legal education receive credit for solving a very difficult problem that affects broader society.

If enough educators — and noneducators — realize that there are serious flaws in the way we evaluate our schools, and that those flaws erode educational quality, there's a chance we can stop this absurdity.

«Reflecting on much of my past research and policy advisory work to support the expansion of educational opportunity,» said Reimers, «I realize that I had tried to support the improvement of educational quality without really asking what the purpose of education should be.

Don't let online learning supporters who do not understand educational quality deceive our K - 12 schools into thinking that class sizes can be larger in a distance learning environment and quality won't be affected.

Standardized «achievement» tests alone can never do justice to the complexity of judging educational quality or in monitoring equal opportunities.

Somewhat more surprising is the opposition from many parents who often seem to value proximity over educational quality.

Theoretically, increased access to private school choice could improve educational quality through competitive pressures and an improved match between educator and student.

«School districts worked hard under very trying circumstances to make sure the budgets they presented to voters balanced educational quality with the very real concerns of local taxpayers,» said NYSSBA Executive Director Timothy G. Kremer.

Coming up over the next few weeks we'll be posting views from the heads of German Universities; learning more about educational quality control and benchmarking; and hearing about exciting projects put together by young scientists to build their ideal university.

There is little perceptible decline in satisfaction among parents in K — 8 schools as their children age, a consistency we would not expect if educational quality simply can not withstand the onslaught of puberty.

The fact that he is focused on the support of literacy instruction, a topic that is crucial to promoting the improvement of educational quality worldwide is also very important.»

Ms. Boast leads Public Impact's work evaluating educational quality metrics at the school, district and state levels and developing accountability systems to monitor school performance.

They favor a pedagogical focus on theory and process, not measured results; their long - held but largely unsubstantiated view is that accountability which prioritizes achievement gains puts educational quality at risk.

Moreover, the fact that relative achievement continues to decline after students» initial entry into middle schools suggests that average educational quality in Florida is lower in stand - alone middle schools than in schools serving grades K — 8.

A small number of states have used levers intended to create modest system change.265 For example, Indiana adopted a 5 point educational quality indicator system in 2001, and merged its independent Teacher Professional Standards Board into the Department of Education in 2005.

The overarching mission of the Consortium is to enhance educational quality for all concerned, namely, the preparation and professional development of prospective and current education professionals for work in diverse school environments.

Tomas Tobé, head of the parliament's education committee said, «I think we have had too much blind faith in that more private schools would guarantee greater educational quality,» The Swedish Green Party last year said about the privatization mistake, «Forgive us, our policy led our schools astray».

E.A. Young Academy has met the criteria for educational quality established by the AdvancedED ® Accreditation Commission and is accredited by the NCA Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement, the Northwest Accreditation Commission and the SACS Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement.