Sentences with phrase «ensure academic standards»

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Admission to the program is based on criteria that ensure high standards of academic quality and student achievement, as well as diversity.

The senior management team of the Rotman School consists of leaders who are accountable for ensuring high standards of excellence across academic, program, operations and advancement functions.

«Setting rigorous academic standards to ensure that all students are college and career ready should always be an important goal to attain,» he said.

Academic Integrity Task Force: After new allegations of issues with academic integrity at certain schools, NYC DOE Chancellor Carmen Fariña is establishing a permanent task force that provides oversight and training to ensure all schools comply with «rigorous policies and standardsAcademic Integrity Task Force: After new allegations of issues with academic integrity at certain schools, NYC DOE Chancellor Carmen Fariña is establishing a permanent task force that provides oversight and training to ensure all schools comply with «rigorous policies and standardsacademic integrity at certain schools, NYC DOE Chancellor Carmen Fariña is establishing a permanent task force that provides oversight and training to ensure all schools comply with «rigorous policies and standards.»

Perhaps most remarkably, «[f] ollowing the successful conclusion of a BRIDGE Fellowship and ensuring the academic achievements are attained at the required standards, Fellows will be appointed to a permanent academic post at the University of Birmingham, normally at Lecturer grade,» states the program's website.

Greg works with the academic team to ensure that the high standards of the Distance Education Accreditation Council and the Louisiana Board of Regents are upheld in addition to best practices for online learning.On the personal side his passion is open water swimming where he has competed for over 40 years.

Accreditation ensures that our students will be well - qualified at the post-secondary level after completing our educational programs, and that the quality and standards of our course instruction and methods are maintained at the highest, post-secondary academic level: «in keeping with our Natural Health and Holistic Nutrition Hygienic philosophy.»

Finally, alpha authorizers must ensure the charter contracts they issue are arm's - length, conflict - free performance agreements that contain clear, meaningful, and measurable academic, financial, and operational standards.

• Ensure that competency - based education efforts are aligned to the state's challenging academic state standards and their education goals for all students and subgroups.

The success of the Massachusetts approach has important implications, especially as states roll out the new Common Core standards academic goals for what students should be able to do in reading and math at each grade level to ensure high school students graduate ready for the demands of higher education and the 21st century workforce.

Sadly, fearful educators understandably feel driven to teach to the test instead of working to ensure that students meet genuine academic standards (and letting the test results follow naturally).

Few high - school principals have taken steps to ensure that their students are aware of the new academic standards for freshmen college athletes passed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association last year, according to a survey by four faculty members at Clemson University.

In September 2005, approximately 18 months after the School Funding Task Force report was released, the Association of Metropolitan School Districts, the Minnesota Rural Education Association, and Schools for Equity in Education contracted the services of APA to «examine the Task Force results and, using widely accepted methodologies, determine the costs necessary to ensure that each public school student is educated to meet the state's academic standards.»

Adherence to standard textbook - based teaching means that nothing is being done to challenge this perception when it's all too clear that unlocking curiosity and wonderment across all academic disciplines is not only essential to the mastery of tests, but also key to ensuring that more students are inspired enough to pursue further study and even pursue teaching as a career later in life.

Third, and most controversial, is the cost of ensuring that schools have enough resources to provide the high - quality educational opportunities that students need to meet the academic standards required by NCLB.

Their mission: to develop common academic standards in English and mathematics that would help ensure that «all students, regardless of where they live, are graduating high school prepared for college, career, and life.»

Ohio needs to resolve its long - term funding crisis, develop a more coherent system of preschool through higher education, adopt stronger academic standards and graduation requirements, create a better pool of teachers and principals, and ensure that all schools are held to the same accountability standards, the group says.

Schools Minister Nick Gibb looked to defend the plans, saying that the reason for the consultation was to «find a solution'to the criticisms and ensure that grammar schools helped to raise academic standards in non-selective schools around them.

Teachers at Pearl - Cohn work together in small groups called flocks, an approach devised by a group of teachers as a way to ensure that academic expectations and standards of behavior were applied consistently across the school.

Students who are identified as English language learners (ELLs) can participate in language assistance programs to help ensure that they attain English proficiency and meet the same academic content and achievement standards that all students are expected to meet.

Moreover, the Pell Grant also includes a satisfactory academic progress standard that ensures that students who are failing to make decent grades in college do not keep the award.

The purpose of Title III is to help ensure that students with limited English proficiency master English and meet the same challenging state academic achievement standards that all children are expected to meet.

Our experienced consultants can help ensure that your students are engaged in real - world problems and tasks, while still meeting the demands of rigorous academic standards.

«Academic standards and state assessments are an important component of the state's effort to ensure that our students are prepared to pursue post-secondary degrees or careers after graduation.»

In this book the two models converge, providing readers fresh perspectives on two of the greatest contemporary challenges for educators: crafting powerful curriculum in a standards - dominated era and ensuring academic success for the full spectrum of learners.

According to professional standards, high - quality pre-k programs are based on early learning standards that address multiple domains of development — academic, social - emotional, and physical — to ensure children are growing in all the ways that enable them to be healthy and ready for school.National Education Goals Panel, Reconsidering Children's Early Development and Learning: Toward Common Views and Vocabulary (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1955).

The underlying assumption of Middle Region District is that local accountability and standards are critical to ensure academic gains among students, meeting or exceeding state standards.

Its conclusion: «There may be room to lower reclassification standards in districts using more rigorous thresholds and still ensure» that reclassified students do well enough that they would not need further academic supports.

Louisiana is raising academic standards to ensure each and every student graduates from high school, on time, with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and professional careers.

Some standards include setting up a governing board for each school system to oversee operations and ensure the charters live up to their service commitment and to track student data to improve programs to boost academic success.

Title I provides financial assistance through SEAs to LEAs and public schools with high numbers or percentages of poor children to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards.

Education systems should be accountable for ensuring all students learn those essential things society agrees all should learn (i.e., academic standards) and for enabling all students to pursue areas of individual interest and talent.

What they are: The Common Core State Standards are a set of academic standards in language arts and math that have been adopted in more than 40 states and intended to be the guideposts for children from kindergarten through 12th grade to ensure that they are ready for college and employment.

After Congress passed the historic law, educating all of America's children well gained momentum as a moral imperative... The reformers insisted upon raising academic standards for all students and ensuring that students of all backgrounds meet them.

Finally, the Committee supports high school graduation requirements that ensure all students graduate with exposure to the full range of Kentucky's higher academic standards and with experiences that put them on a strong path toward success in college and careers.

Once implemented, these standards will help ensure that America's prospective teachers will be drawn from the academic top half of our graduating high school classes.

The reformers insisted upon raising academic standards for all students and ensuring that students of all backgrounds meet them.

High academic standards are critical for the success of our students and to ensure we prepare them to compete in a global marketplace.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, one of the main goals of ESSA is to ensure «that all students in America be taught to high academic standards that will prepare them to succeed in college and careers.»

Just as with academics, SEL standards ensure accountability and help educators plan, implement, and assess student learning.

ASCD asks Congress and the administration to embrace standards that include proficiency not limited to only reading and math, but encompassing all core academic subjects such as science, civics, and the arts to ensure our students can compete globally.

One major vendor of value - added measures (i.e., SAS as in SAS - EVAAS) long has held that the tests need only to have 1) sufficient «stretch» in the scales «to ensure that progress could be measured for low - and high achieving students», 2) that «the test is highly related to the academic standards,» and 3) «the scales are sufficiently reliable from one year to the next» (see, for example, here).

Schools must ensure that all students are on track to graduate, prepared for college.Public schools can do what they choose to educate their students within certain limits and parameters, but they are accountable for educating all learners to high academic standards and outcomes regardless of differing characteristics of those learners.

To ensure college success, the academic standards at Phoenix schools are high: students must earn a C - or better to earn class credit, and students are required to receive a college acceptance letter prior to graduation.

Ensure that migratory children who move among the states are not penalized in any manner by disparities among academic content and student academic achievement standards;

The primary purpose of Title III is to «help ensure that children who are limited English proficient, including immigrant children and youth, attain English proficiency, develop high levels of academic attainment in English, and meet the same challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards as all children are expected to meet» (Title III, Part A, Sec. 3102).

However, it addresses so many of NSBA's objectives, such as requiring the U.S. Department of Education to collaborate with local school leaders and not simply impose its will on them, eliminating the existing one - size - fits - all approach to school accountability, providing more state and local opportunity to shape workable school improvement plans, and ensuring state control over academic standards, while excluding «portability» (i.e., vouchers).

But change is coming: the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers have designed academic standards for math and English to ensure that students who have mastered them are ready to enter college or career - training programs.

Ensure that migratory children receive full and appropriate opportunities to meet the same challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards that all children are expected to meet;

NCSECS advocated and helped influence the law including a provision raising the bar a bit higher to ensure high standards for special education students by limiting their participation in tests based on alternate (lower) academic achievement standards to 1 % of students tested (and not just limiting the reporting of their scores on such tests, as was done under NCLB).