Sentences with phrase «equity based systems»

Debt - based systems are inherently inflexible; equity based systems deal with volatility better, and force managers to seek out organic growth opportunities, as opposed to financial engineering.

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• ICP Construction, a portfolio company of Audax Private Equity, acquired Pli - Dek Systems, a Murrieta, Calif. - based maker of speciality coatings for the building industry.

Two centuries ago, French followers of Count Henry St. Simon outlined an industrial system that was to be based mainly on equity financing (stocks) rather than debt (bonds and bank loans).

Examining CIF's Shift To A Competitive Equity - Based Playoff System • Story by CLAY KALLAM Illustration by...

Several performance reporting systems now report publicly on aspects of quality such as surgical outcomes, 8 adherence to evidence - based quality measures, 9,10 and patients» assessments of care, 11 but few public reports about the quality of health care organizations have also assessed the equity of care provided by those organizations.

While we would not feel comfortable claiming, based on the analysis here, that student - based budgeting has been the cause of greater equity in Houston's school funding system, our findings do show that despite an initial increase in the coefficient of variation, Houston schools have over the longer term made modest improvements in equity since the strategy was put into place.

Candidate An Assets - and Equity - Based Approach to Multilingualism, Multiliteracy, and Multiculturalism: Harnessing the Development of a District - Wide Strategy to Foster Learning, Shift Mindsets, and Seed System - Level Change Monday, April 10, 8:00 - 9:00 a.m., Gutman Conference Center, Area 1

«Right from the offset, we want to make sure that we have a system based on the values of equity and excellence and a commitment to inclusive, public service education.

Leveling the Playing Field: Creating Funding Equity Through Student - Based Budgeting When Cincinnati Public Schools devised a reform strategy for improving student performance, it became clear that the district's traditional budgeting system was inadequate.

Unlike the former Academic Performance Index (API), which was based solely on testing results, this new accountability system uses multiple measures to determine performance and progress and emphasizes equity by focusing on student group performance.

ESSA provides an exciting opportunity for California to have a single, comprehensive accountability system based on performance, equity, and improvement that would meet both state and federal requirements.

Though nominally just a commission report, A Nation at Risk (1983) told Americans that we faced a crisis of educational achievement and began to nudge the country through a 90 - degree change of course from the «equity» agenda of the previous quarter - century to the «excellence» obsession of recent decades, complete with academic standards, tests, and results - based accountability systems.

Based on its global data, the OECD recently drew precisely this conclusion: «The highest - performing education systems across the OECD countries are those that combine quality with equity.»

June's professional interests lie in the design of equity - based instructional systems and building expertise in educators» practice to ensure that all students, particularly our most vulnerable children, exit our systems able to thrive in our dynamic, interconnected, global community.

While a student - centered, self - paced, mastery - based system should create opportunities to advance equity by putting all students on the path to postsecondary success, including at - risk youth, CBE done poorly and without the appropriate resources and supports could exacerbate already existing achievement gaps and inequities.

iNACOL: Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency - Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed This report offers equity strategies for personalized, competency - based education to ensure a more equitable K - 12 education sEquity: Leveraging Competency - Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed This report offers equity strategies for personalized, competency - based education to ensure a more equitable K - 12 education syBased Education to Ensure All Students Succeed This report offers equity strategies for personalized, competency - based education to ensure a more equitable K - 12 education sequity strategies for personalized, competency - based education to ensure a more equitable K - 12 education sybased education to ensure a more equitable K - 12 education system.

We work with SEAs, local education agencies (LEAs), and Regional Comprehensive Centers to identify, adopt, and sustain research - based practices and emerging promising practices that ensure equity and drive system change to rapidly improve the lowest - performing schools.

KM: Elena Aguilar wrote in Education Week, «Coaching with an equity lens means that we pay attention to the social and historic forces which create and maintain systems in which children are treated differently based on who they are.»

(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).

The Regional Equity Assistance Centers — Fifty Years and Counting: Forging Civil - Rights - Based Technical Assistance to Serve All Students by Building Equity - Centered Capacity in Public Schools, Bradley Scott, Essential Approaches for Excellence & Sustainable School System Transformation, April 2016

True funding equity will not be achieved until we have a clear, actualized funding formula that accounts for all students based on their learning needs in the school system that educates them, rather than the kind of school they attend or district they live in.

Judge Moukawsher called for the removal of persistent barriers to student success and equity, such as arcane teacher and leader staffing systems based only on years on the job and degrees earned while leaving out the most important factor: impact on student growth.

In a recent blog post, Reason's Tyler Koteskey explains why switching to a student - based budgeting model would be a step forward for equity and transparency in Mississippi's education system.»

«Nevertheless, true funding equity will not be achieved until all students are accounted for based on their learning needs, rather than the kind of school they attend, in the state's school funding system.

In many circumstances, a student - based budgeting system can be a powerful tool for promoting equity and excellence.

The UF Lastinger Center Equity Coaching program provides school - based administrators, instructional coaches, and / or teacher leaders with a yearlong, job - embedded, practice - centered, professional development experience specifically designed to assist schools and school systems to implement policies and practices that advance the learning and life prospects for students of color.

Through the Local Control Funding Formula, which Brown shepherded through the Legislature in 2013, the state shifted control over budget decisions from the state to school districts and created an equity - based financing system that directs more money to low - income students, English learners and foster youth.

The California Collaborative on District Reform joins researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and funders in ongoing, evidence - based dialogue and collective action to improve outcomes for all students in California's urban school systems, with particular attention to equity and access for traditionally under - served students in the state.

Student - and school - based accountability systems can set a baseline for what students should know, but they are also an equity tool, creating the same expectations for all students regardless of where they were born or what school they attended.

The system involves trained teams of practicing educators from neighboring districts visiting schools throughout a district, observing to what extent the schools are meeting eight indicators of school quality — from using performance - based assessments to providing equity in student learning.

In an educational context, equity means developing environments and systems in ways that provide students with what they need based on careful and systematic attention to the particulars of their situation.

Some of the topics discussed included the economic and equity imperitatives of the college - and career - ready agenda, Common Core State Standards implementation, defining career readiness, K - 12 and postsecondary alignment, competency - based education systems, college - and career - ready reporting and accountability, and transition to college - and career - ready assessments.

We must not abandon our nation's historic quest for equity in our education system and move toward a system in which funding is allocated on the basis of winners and losers.

Advance equity by establishing a single adequacy - based funding system and adjust the comprehensive funding formula for equity.

Innovative strategies, such as Leaders for Today and Tomorrow (which develops and supports school, district, and community - based leaders with an emphasis on equity, social justice, and authentic family engagement) and the Youth Service Professionals Initiative (a comprehensive initiative to build staff skills and system capacity) demonstrate continued commitment to cross-boundary leadership.

In response to his comments, over 50 California - based civil rights, social justice, and education organizations signed the letter below urging the Governor to continue the state's commitment to equity by not just narrowing, but closing the achievement and opportunity gaps, continuing the work of the Local Control Funding Formula, and supporting a strong accountability system.

Choosing collaboration, equity and trust - based responsibility as the main drivers in education reforms enhance immunity of our school systems to stop GERM and have good school for all children.

It provides data on 14 key transportation and health indicators that measure transportation system performance based on safety, active transportation, air quality, connectivity, and equity to destinations at the State, metropolitan statistical area, and urbanized area geographies, providing users with information on how their community or state compares to their peers.

Debt - based systems are inherently less flexible than equity - based systems.

Debt - based systems are fragile relative to equity - based systems.

The Novus Platform is the only system that can offer true aggregation across equity, hedge fund, private equity, venture capital and real asset allocations at a multi-asset class, multi-level basis on both exposures and performance.

While your trading system makes market based decisions, the equity curve algorithm trades your trading system.

Things may be weak for a while as we head back to an equity - based system.

The money management algorithms «watch» your original system (also know as «base», «parent», or «master» system») run in order to generate the base equity curve and trades while the money management algorithm then makes its decisions based on the results of the master system to trade the «algorithm» or «child».

You will insert the indicator we provide into your base strategy window and then use the Money Management Algorithm Trading System (that we also provide) that will read the Marketposition and Open Equity of the base system to take trades using rules from any of our Algorithms including the Equity Curve Management Rules, Pinpoint Entry Algorithm, Consecutive Losing Series Algorithm, andSystem (that we also provide) that will read the Marketposition and Open Equity of the base system to take trades using rules from any of our Algorithms including the Equity Curve Management Rules, Pinpoint Entry Algorithm, Consecutive Losing Series Algorithm, andsystem to take trades using rules from any of our Algorithms including the Equity Curve Management Rules, Pinpoint Entry Algorithm, Consecutive Losing Series Algorithm, and more.

This rule requires that the moving average of the short period (L1) of the closed equity curve must be greater than the moving average of the longer period (L2) closed equity curve.This is similar to a moving average crossover strategy based on price data in the market except that we use the moving average of the equity curve and require that it is «up» in order to take trades in the system.

An Internet web - based system for investment dealers to report completed trades in unlisted and unquoted equity securities in Ontario.

By showing the simulated growth of a given account based on pure mathematics, an equity chart can demonstrate the effectiveness of this system.

Among other things, for instance, the parties to the UNFCCC agreed that: (a) They would adopt policies and measures to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, (b) Developed countries should take the first steps to do this, and (c) Nations have common but differentiated responsibilities to prevent climate change, (d) Nations may not use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for not taking action, and (e) Nations should reduce their GHG emissions based upon «equity.»

Almost all nations have agreed that they should reduce their emissions at levels to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate change system based upon equity under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.