Sentences with phrase «evaluate school data»

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None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement an interim final or final rule regarding nutrition programs under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.) that --(1) requires crediting of tomato paste and puree based on volume; (2) implements a sodium reduction target beyond Target I, the 2 - year target, specified in Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, «Nutrition Standards in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs» (FNS — 2007 — 0038, RIN 0584 — AD59) until the Secretary certifies that the Department has reviewed and evaluated relevant scientific studies and data relevant to the relationship of sodium reductions to human health; and (3) establishes any whole grain requirement without defining «whole grain.»

Given milk sales data and school enrollment, behavioral changes can be evaluated between the two school years.

NHERI executes, evaluates, and disseminates studies and information (e.g., statistics, facts, data) on homeschooling (i.e., home schooling, home - based education, home education, home school, home - schooling, unschooling, deschooling, a form of alternative education), publishes reports and the peer - reviewed scholarly journal Home School Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislatschool, home - schooling, unschooling, deschooling, a form of alternative education), publishes reports and the peer - reviewed scholarly journal Home School Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislatSchool Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislatures).

But Spatafora also said the modules and tests can be tweaked and the exams provide the school district with data it needs to evaluate how it is doing compared to other similar school districts.

Republicans argued that means most schools won't even attempt to use the test data when evaluating teachers.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

Frankenberg evaluated data from the National Center for Education Statistics» Common Core of Data from 2006 to 2013, which provides annual school - level information about student's race and ethnicity, as well as free - and reduced - lunch ddata from the National Center for Education Statistics» Common Core of Data from 2006 to 2013, which provides annual school - level information about student's race and ethnicity, as well as free - and reduced - lunch dData from 2006 to 2013, which provides annual school - level information about student's race and ethnicity, as well as free - and reduced - lunch datadata.

The investigators evaluated data from 1,000 patients treated at nine medical centers across the country, including Washington University School of Medicine, that were a part of the Rule Out Myocardial Ischemia / Infarction by Computer Assisted Tomography (ROMICAT - II) clinical trial.

«This study allowed us to evaluate the protective efficacy of several prime - boost vaccine combinations, and these data will help guide the advancement of the most promising candidates into clinical trials,» noted lead author Dr. Dan Barouch of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard.

Carry out a school survey, collect data and evaluate it to see if there is a potential site for a wind turbine.

Evaluating data from the 40 - year follow - up to the High / Scope Perry Preschool Program Study, Belfield and his colleagues show how preschool participation by low income children relates to significant economic benefits both to the children by the time they are in their 40s and to society more generally (Belfield et al. 2006).1 Summarizing over 160 studies conducted from 1960 through 2000, Camilli et al. found that preschool had a range of shorter and longer term positive relationships to cognitive gains, progression through school, and social - emotional development (Camilli et al. 2010).

Ofsted data from 84 schools inspected about online safety in 2015 and self - review data from 7,000 schools using 360 Degree Safe has found that while schools are on the whole very strong when it comes to e-safety policies and filtering, they are weaker on staff and governor training, pupil involvement and evaluating impact of e-safety policies and practice.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

In 2015, Brazil's school assessment exams, the National Education Evaluation System (SAEB in Portuguese), will provide the first data on how schools in Amazonas have fared since receiving the IDB loan, and while this will be a useful tool for evaluating the performance of rural students compared to their urban counterparts, Perez says the exam may not be an entirely accurate measurement of the success of PADEAM and the Media Center.

If the apparent negative effects of attending a «no excuses» charter school on conscientiousness, self - control, and grit do in fact reflect reference bias, then what our data show is that these schools influence the standards to which students hold themselves when evaluating their own non-cognitive skills.

In this paper, we use an extensive student - level data set to evaluate the impact of charter schools in North Carolina on the math and reading performance of students in grades 4 through 8.

First, it should be conceded that Duncan has a great idea, rewarding states willing to undertake reforms such as launching high - quality charter schools (while closing bad ones) and using data to evaluate teacher effectiveness.

It was pretty radical, by New York standards, ordering school districts to evaluate teachers using student performance data as one of the key measures of teacher competence.

Schools use data to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions.

And school and system leaders use data to evaluate the impact of school - wide and system - wide programs and initiatives to raise achievement levels and close equity gaps.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

· Members of the team analyse each other's individual class data and discuss and critique different writing strategies used by teachers in the team and evaluate them against good practice literature and school data.

- KS3 Statistics Labels, Creating and evaluating questionnaires and data collection sheets - How to get from a Level 6 to a Level 7This great resource will help you, your students, school managers, and classroom visitors determine where each student is in this part of the Maths curriculum and what needs to be done to get to the next level.

But, in 1972, after evaluating the data, she published a critical paper, Economy, Efficiency, Equality: The Myths of Rural School Consolidation (later expanded into a book cowritten with colleagues).

By instructional leadership, we mean the principal's capacity to: 1) offer a vision for instruction that will inspire the faculty; 2) analyze student performance data and make sound judgments as to which areas of the curriculum need attention; 3) make good judgments about the quality of the teaching in a classroom based on analysis of student work; 4) recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization and practice; 5) provide strong coaching to teachers on all of the foregoing; 6) evaluate whether instructional systems in the school are properly aligned; and 7) determine the quality and fitness of instructional materials.

Using data from the Texas Education Agency, I evaluated how the APIP affected education outcomes in participating schools in the years following implementation.

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

• A lack of evidence that the school will start with a sound financial foundation • No description of how the school will use data to evaluate educators or inform instruction • No discussion of how the school will create and sustain a culture of high expectations • No plans to hire a management organization to run the school

In addressing the point of contention, the Productivity Commission is of the opinion that «there is little evidence or systematic processes in place to evaluate policies, program and teaching practices to identify what works best in schools and early learning centres», despite the amount of data that is collected to monitor and report on student and school outcomes.

Ofsted data from 84 schools inspected about online safety in 2015 and self - review data from 7,000 schools using 360 Degree Safe has found that while schools are on the whole very strong when it comes to online safety policies and filtering, they are weaker on staff and governor training, pupil involvement and evaluating impact of online safety policies and practice.

Jackson said, «We want parents, teachers and others working together to improve schools — and that's harder if they're not using the same data and language to evaluate and compare schools.»

(i) Conduct a self - assessment that evaluates the program's progress towards meeting goals established under paragraph (a) of this section, using aggregated child assessment data where applicable, compliance with program performance standards throughout the program year, and the effectiveness of the professional development and family engagement systems in promoting school readiness, using classroom, professional development, and parent and family engagement data, as appropriate;

Monitor and evaluate the implementation of teaching strategies within the school to improve students» achievement in literacy and numeracy using research - based knowledge and student data.

Very interesting way to evaluate school - wide and student - based data.

A passion for communicating one's subject matter to the next generation isn't among the 74 items on Alexandria's Curriculum Implementation Walk - Through Data Collection list, which Sherman, who left Alexandria schools last month, used to evaluate faculty.

Grant also works on projects in Washington State using school district data and statewide longitudinal education data to evaluate K - 12 and postsecondary programs.

She also has expertise in evaluating school turnaround, teacher supports, and data - driven decision making strategies in education.

In a letter sent on behalf of some families Wednesday to L.A. Unified Superintendent John Deasy and the school board — and just before the district begins negotiations with the American Federation of Teachers» City of Angels unit over a new contract — Barnes & Thornburg's Kyle Kirwan demanded that the district «implement a comprehensive system» of evaluating teachers that ties «pupil progress» data to teacher evaluations.

They found that when users of the new data system evaluated unfamiliar schools, they expressed not only more confidence in their own knowledge, but also in the quality of the schools.

Losing it would carry us back to the pre-Coleman era when schools were judged not by their results but by their inputs, promises, and services, and teachers were evaluated by brief classroom visits from supervisors who arrived with no data, no rubrics — and no ability to do anything about problematic instructors.

This is a different, more rigorous analytical method than what Berends - Waddington were afforded by the data for evaluating Indiana's school voucher program.

It encouraged states to lift caps on charter schooling and remove data «firewalls» that prohibited states from using student performance to evaluate teachers.

In Maine, Democratic Gov. John Baldacci is proposing a new set of measures, including allowing student - achievement data to be used in evaluating educators, and letting districts create «innovative» schools that would have substantial autonomy.

Easily track and evaluate student performance with detailed, up to date reports that indicate where students need to improve, allowing for early remediation and data - driven instruction at the classroom, school and district levels.

Third, CAP partnered with EdBuild, a national nonprofit and policy studies organization, and analyzed data from more than 1,700 school districts to evaluate economic segregation within each district.

Irby Elementary only goes through grade 2, so the district used data from the grade 3 - 5 students in another school down the road (Alachua Elementary) to evaluate teachers in Irby Elementary.

As someone who spent a lot of time evaluating the first wave of community school models here in Chicago, I am excited to see the progress in conceptualizing the workings and impacts of community schools in ways that articulate to the broader conversation about data - informed school improvement.

The agreement proposes to evaluate a teacher's effect on students» learning in part with an unusual mix of individual and school - wide data from such sources as state standardized tests, high school exit exams and district assessments, along with rates of high school graduation, attendance and suspensions.

Last month Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger convened the Legislature to pass a package of reforms, including requiring school districts to consider student test data when evaluating teachers.

Beginning in 2015 — 2016 schools must evaluate their educators, with half of their score coming from professional practice scores and the other half from student growth data.