Sentences with phrase «effecting educational change»

The purpose of Campus is to provide teachers with the information, ideas and inspiration they need to invigorate their own teaching practices — effecting educational change from the ground up, giving teachers ideas on how to innovate their own classes and schools.

Lortie - Forgues, Tian and Siegler (2015) repeated the question with students of the same age in 2014 — 27 per cent got it right, leading the researchers to comment: «Thus, after more than three decades, numerous rounds of education reforms, hundreds if not thousands of research studies on mathematics teaching and learning, and billions of dollars spent to effect educational change, little improvement was evident in students» understanding of fraction arithmetic.»

Not exact matches

The research suggests, therefore, that while the overall trend is for the viewing of religious programs to decrease as educational and income level increases, changes in the composition of the audience can be effected through the particular format and content adopted.

Editors also believed in educational programs, church activities, and the law's power to effect change.

(Interestingly, the same study also found that physicians - presumably the female ones - who had themselves breastfed were «more informed and confident in their [breastfeeding] management abilities» and suggested that «educational programs also be targeted to professionals to effect changes in their personal behavior.»

Top 3 reforms launching in Ukraine this year Education Changes in Ukraine's educational system will come into effect...

Parent Satisfaction Another key measure of school reform initiatives is the perception among parents, who see firsthand the effects of changes in their child's educational environment.

What happens to children of unmarried mothers,» eminent scholars Sara McLanahan of Princeton University and Christopher Jencks of Harvard University look at changes in family structure for both blacks and whites over the past 50 years, and note its effect on the educational attainment and other life outcomes of the children raised in single parent families.

Could «former President» Obama use his platform to effect the change so many of our minority students need by embracing educational opportunity, and access to quality public, private and charter schools, over the politics - as - usual of the education establishment?

Today, questions about the effects of changes in housing patterns and recent Supreme Court decisions that weaken desegregation efforts remain central to discussions of educational opportunity and racial achievement gaps.

This raises the possibility that the measured effects of attending a charter high school on educational attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.

The researchers point out that this raises the possibility that the positive effects of attending a charter high school on educational attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.

For example, some of the best research has focused on «family income» as a predictor of education success, but Susan Mayer, a University of Chicago sociologist, has shown that unexpected changes in family income by themselves have little effect on a child's educational performance.

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This information on the educational effects of tests will give feedback to policy makers as to what is working well and what needs to be changed, making it possible to improve instruction through the improved use of test information.

A six - district study of educational change: Direct and mediated effects of the Child Development Project.

But Michael Turner, director general for the Joint Council for Qualifications, said: «At a national level there is very little change in this year's results but we do see educational policies continuing to have an effect on entry patterns and results at a subject level.

Politics intensifies the educational challenges in education.The influences political views have on ESSA, vouchers, privatization of schools, the school to prison pipeline and educational rights of parents has life changing effects on many citizens.

«The court cites no legal authority for any of its breathtakingly sweeping orders requiring the State to, in effect, change numerous key educational policies so that they will be, in the trial court's judgment, «rationally, substantially, and verifiably» connected with educational need,» it says.

Dr. Tinajero's rich knowledge and experience in relation to effective educational reform, cultural and linguistic diversity, and school achievement have been key vehicles for effecting positive change at UTEP and in the local community.

These changes in the public - sector workforce can have a real effect on the broader public, as research on the impact of teachers on educational outcomes shows.

The book is intended for both kids and adults (we definitely think it would be a great supplement for science classes everywhere) and offers over 20 activities that are educational and based on real, scientific observations on the effects of climate change.

In short, although the effects of an unstimulating home background, of unhappy relations between child and parents, or both, are likely to lead to emotional difficulties, stunted intellectual development and poor educational achievements, change can be brought about.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.

Music therapy is the prescribed use of music to effect positive changes in the psychological, physical, cognitive, or social functioning of individuals with health or educational problems (see www.musictherapy.org).