Sentences with phrase «evaluation program from»

And equally important, those same people and groups should be de-couple the teacher evaluation program from the Common Core tests and demand that the Connecticut State Department of Education develop a fair, appropriate and effective teacher evaluation programs.

A proposed bill in Connecticut would delay the start of a new statewide teacher evaluation program from 2013 to 2014 due to educator concerns about funding and implementation.

Q: Will you commit to decoupling teacher evaluation programs from standardized test scores and replacing the present plan with one that actually ties teacher evaluation to factors that successfully measure teacher performance?

Not exact matches

We will demonstrate the importance of following an orderly and logical process, from assessing your strategic goals to the evaluation and measurement of your new program.

Still in draft form, the Code of Conduct commits signatories to faithful compliance with Charitable Choice; to straightforward and consistent communication about their religious identity among their volunteers, service beneficiaries, donors and government partners; to refraining from using government funding for «confessional activities»; to winsome and gentle witness; to love of neighbor; to freedom from religious coercion; to nondiscrimination toward program participants; to faithfulness to their mission; to credible and objective evaluation procedures; to avoidance of «turf wars» with other FBOs and nonprofits; and to rigorous financial accountability.

It will be important to ensure that the maximum value from existing monitoring and evaluation programs is maintained, and the historical results of these programs are used effectively.

Monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement are critical components of natural resource management programs, particularly in highly variable natural systems where the outcomes from actions can be uncertain.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Just days released from four years in The Process, he's anxious get Oregon caught up to the three - year advance cycle of evaluations programs like Alabama already have.

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You can use the information from the evaluations to improve your youth sports program by addressing any coach concerns, developing a coaching improvement plan or giving coaches with high scores a pat on the back for their hard work.

A student who transfers from the Florida Virtual School full - time program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year pursuant to paragraph (a).

A student who transfers from a charter school program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year, pursuant to subparagraph 2.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

Results published in the American Journal of Public Health were based on evaluation data from Legacy for ChildrenTM, a public health intervention program designed to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young children.

Though some school districts responded positively, King announced this week that all funding would be withheld from the School Improvement Grant program until new evaluations can be hammered out.

Earlier this week, GOP Staten Island Councilman Joe Borelli wrote a letter to Democratic Manhattan Councilman Ben Kallos, chairman of the Council's Government Operations Committee, requesting that the potential of voter fraud stemming from abuse of the IDNYC program receive attention during a committee hearing as well as an evaluation of the program's merits and effectiveness.

Cuomo's plan reportedly would seek about $ 200 million from budget education funds, place them among other state taxpayer funds in the budget and then use them to implement his teacher evaluation program.

The county also partners with local law enforcement in the Rapid Evaluation for Appropriate Placement (REAP) program, which allows an addict to walk into participating police stations from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday - Friday to receive help.

In terms of the mayor's statement about «serious negotiations» surrounding teacher evaluations, he is the one who walked away from $ 70 million in federal money by refusing to negotiate a 33 - school pilot program of the new evaluation system.

He says this comes from increasing pressure from policy - makers and administrators, budget cuts to already underfunded programs, unreliable teacher evaluations, mandated testing, and a myriad of other burdens.

Gathered from the evaluation forms from past years of the program, one faculty member wrote, «In fact, I feel that I have learned as much from [my mentee] as she may have learned from me.»

'» It is not hard to picture other problematic scenarios: An autonomous drone strikes a school; a loan - evaluation program disproportionally denies applications from minorities; a system like Deep Patient makes a specious diagnosis.

According to the new law, a junior professor has to teach 4 to 8 hours a week; he or she has to raise money from funding programs or industrial sponsors (this is also taken into consideration for his further evaluation!)

Seeds from new or newfound varieties can be sent to the Turfgrass Federation for inclusion in the National Turfgrass Evaluation Program, which distributes hundreds of cultivars a year to land - grant universities in the United States and Canada.

From its own before - and - after program evaluations, Mercy Corps believed that MacPhail's program worked.

The journal «Health Promotion International» has published the article «Bicycling to university: evaluation of a bicycle - sharing program in Spain», by researchers from the University of Valencia Javier Molina - García, Isabel Castillo and Ana Queralt, and by James F. Sallis, from the University of California, San Diego.

Evaluation results from the pilot phase will be used to refine program materials prior to making them available to schools throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada.

I helped expand the awards program from a regional to a national competition in 2013, wherein I was chiefly responsible for the communications plan, recruitment of senior judges and the Science Advisory Council, and development of application and evaluation materials.

Individuals seeking longer - term individualized care in a discreet, serene setting or who require medication evaluation and management will also benefit from the programs.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Hear from the HydroGEN consortium at the DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting, June 5 — 9, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Huyen Dinh will present «HydroGEN: A Consortium on Advanced Water Splitting Materials,» on Thursday, June 8, at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

The goal of the Phase I Program is to perform initial clinical evaluation of promising new anti-cancer compounds emerging from the laboratory.

A summary of the applicant's clinical and research performance evaluations from his or her current fellowship program

I can provide you with a comprehensive evaluation and establish a plan that takes all of these aspects into account through my Healing from Within Program.

Students who attend five charter schools in the San Francisco Bay area that are run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or kipp, score consistently higher on standardized tests than their peers from comparable public schools, an independent evaluation of the schools concludes.

Both program supporters and opponents cite evidence from an ongoing congressionally mandated Institute of Education Sciences (IES) evaluation of the program, for which I am principal investigator, to buttress their positions, rendering the evaluation a Rorschach test for one's ideological position on this fiercely debated issue.

On the merits, an excellent congressionally mandated evaluation convincingly showed that the voucher program dramatically increased the likelihood that kids will graduate from high school.

The data indicate that members of the treatment group who were attending private schools in the third year of the evaluation gained an average of 7.1 scale score points in reading from the program.

Earlier experimental evaluations of voucher programs were somewhat more likely to report achievement gains from the programs in math than in reading — the opposite of what was observed for the OSP.

A Summary of External Program Evaluation Findings for the eMINTS (enhancing Missouri's Instructional Networked Teaching Strategies) Program from 1999 — 2009 (PDF).

Conclusions School voucher initiatives such as the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program will remain politically controversial in spite of rigorous evaluations such as this one, showing that parents and students benefited in some ways from the pProgram will remain politically controversial in spite of rigorous evaluations such as this one, showing that parents and students benefited in some ways from the programprogram.

: Evaluation Findings from Programs in 14 States (PDF).

An evaluation of three useful teaching resources for early years: a maths games CD, cross-curriculum programs from 2simple and a recordable picture album.

From the earliest evaluations of Head Start, it was clear that the program did not last long enough, and the most recent research confirms the same finding.

School districts can enhance their vocational - education programs by placing caring and competent staff members in key positions, building in evaluations from the outset, and insuring that the curriculum covers four essential components — applied academics, vocational - technical education, job - search skills, and life - coping skills, according to a report released last month.

«Our contributors inspire different roles for families in the quest for educational equity: from «parenting for high achievement» to participating in program evaluations; from interacting with children in informal and formal learning spaces to sustained advocacy in social and educational policy.»

And if a program does fail, a good evaluation can help planners and designers understand and learn from the failure [3].

The report from which this paper is drawn is part of the comprehensive evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program being conducted by the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas.

The absence of an evaluation component from most desegregation programs has complicated efforts to measure program effects.