Sentences with phrase «fairness to students»

This current system is incredibly weak on fairness to students.

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«From a fairness perspective, it makes sense to make this no longer an option for future private student loans,» said Betsy Mayotte, founder and president of The Institute of Student Loan Adstudent loans,» said Betsy Mayotte, founder and president of The Institute of Student Loan AdStudent Loan Advisors.

I argued that the fundamental concern wasn't about sexuality but about fairness: Once a student was admitted to CTS, we had an obligation to treat that student like any other student.

Character Education: ICLS 105/5 27 - 12 (2005) requires teachers to teach students «respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, trustworthiness, and citizenship, in order to raise pupils» honesty, kindness, justice, discipline, respect for others, and moral courage» to lessen crimes and raise the standard of good character.

Character Education: The Policy on Quality Character Education (2004) recommends that schools adopt secular character education programs to teach fairness, trustworthiness, citizenship, and self - restraint in order to help students learn and foster the well being of democratic society.

He returned the favor to Easton, praising him for having the «leadership and the courage... to stand up for fairness and equity in education funding, standing up for fairness and equity in our tax structure because I'm fairly certain that it was not students who made those terrible gambles that caused this economic hardship.»

«I believe that the reforms we are setting out today will improve the fairness of the system for all students and help to create the best possible match between students and higher education places.»

Debates continue to rage over the fairness of English students being liable for fees while at Scottish universities and vice versa.

Large increases in fees will lead to even greater debt, working against fairness because the poorest students will tend to have the greatest debts.

Encouraging the social - emotional development of students while teaching traditional academic subjects builds a positive school climate focused on fairness and caring about others — and helps to foster healthy, confident adults.

Now the questions arises over whether Dash's gifts should be curtailed out of fairness to the other students, or encouraged because that's what parents are supposed to do.

This is partly about fairness: It's wrong for any child to miss out on academic challenges at school, and we should do everything we can to develop the full potential of all our students, including high achievers.

Pull sticks from your fairness cup (see # 6) to choose pairs of students to present their thoughts to the class.

To ensure fairness in the open, diverse community, a complex bureaucratic structure becomes essential, but students come to resent the requirements that are imposed, which they see as inflexible and onerouTo ensure fairness in the open, diverse community, a complex bureaucratic structure becomes essential, but students come to resent the requirements that are imposed, which they see as inflexible and onerouto resent the requirements that are imposed, which they see as inflexible and onerous.

Regarding dispositions, NCATE expects institutions to ensure that candidates «demonstrate dispositions that value fairness and learning by all students.»

Those working with test design must stop patronizing our students in the name of an erroneous conception of fairness and construct rigorous exams that will send clear signals to educators about what they should teach.

Payback could bring several benefits: it not only represents fairness to the rest of the class, but also communicates to the student that she is as responsible as anyone else in the class to work hard and that she has talents to draw on.

I am looking for any articles and videos which will help our students to understand what is happening and how it relates to them, to religious principles of fairness, justice, care for all, compassion and charity etc..

If the new assessments are to fulfill the promise of the Common Core, test designers (and indeed all of us) will have to embrace a different, stronger version of fairness, one that requires us to tell the fuller truth about where our students stand, and test the rigorous content that will impart the knowledge and skills to succeed.

Adherents of the Fourteenth Amendment believe that the federal government has a duty to ensure fairness by directing funds to underresourced communities and holding states accountable for the performance of all students.

If we design tests that are blandly «fair» to all students taking them today, we surrender an opportunity to drive real fairness for all students tomorrow.

Students are invited to assess the fairness of both the tax system and the benefits system.

They urge OCR to revise its guidelines in order to ensure «fairness for all students under Title IX.»

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

Instruct students who generate the school paper to seek journalistic integrity — attention to detail, fairness, accuracy, and balance — in what they report.

We highlight here the extent to which both students and educators have developed an expansive definition of legal rights of students, the relationship between this sense of legal entitlement and school disciplinary practices, and perceptions of the fairness and legitimacy of various school disciplinary practices.

The lesson investigates the fairness of the Olympic Medals table and encourages students to use maths to look at alternative ways to rank teams in the medal table.

, students are encouraged to think about «fairness» in their own lives by looking at how farmers experience injustices in the market place.

Now I have come back full circle to the idea and value of having a forum where students can get a sense of fairness and a safe place to share out.

This is essential to maintain fairness between cohorts, particularly at such a pivotal point in students» academic careers.

A more attainable definition of fairness, and the one adopted by the RSD, is that a system is fair if it sets rules governing enrollment and assignment in advance and then applies those rules consistently to all students.

* Fordham Industries makes no claims as to political feasibility, impact on educational freedom, immediate assistance to children in failing schools, parental rights, religious educational options, pedagogical diversity, educational innovation, public value conflicts, size of the tax burden, fairness to private school families, student achievement, or civic values.

supporting student advisory sessions with resources to explore identity, group membership (and inclusion / exclusion), issues of justice and fairness, and ways of «choosing to participate»

The present report incorporates seven of those 13 dimensions that are outward facing for students and families and most likely, conceptually, to play a role in their exercise of school choice: Alternatives to traditional schools, e.g., number of seats in charter schools; Assignment Process, i.e., the extent of school choice and its» fairness; Common Application for traditional and charter schools; Accessibility of information on the choice process; Understandability of the information provided to parents on which to compare schools; Transportation to schools of choice; and School Quality in the district.

When this happens, teachers must strive to structure their students» learning environment by providing a place that maximizes fairness, and allows all students to equally participate and feel welcomed in their classroom community.

Back to Bad Schools in the Bayou March 18, 2016 If Democrats are so committed to equality and fairness, why do the party's politicians protect teachers unions over minority students looking for a good education?

Charter students also took time to deliver more than 700 hand - written postcards to legislators, asking for fairness and equity during these last few weeks of legislative session.

New Haven, CT — Parents, students, educators and school leaders from Booker T. Washington Academy (BTWA), a public charter school in New Haven, will come together on Tuesday, March 28 to demand fairness from Governor Dannel Malloy, as well as the heads of the Appropriations Committee, as the proposed budget would prevent the school from growing past the 3rd grade.

When we measure school climate, we assess important ethical and civic dispositions, such as the fairness of school norms and the extent to which students and adults feel supported.

Require that public charter schools be free and open to all students just as traditional public schools are, and that students be selected by lottery to ensure fairness if more students apply than a school can accommodate;

Basic fairness dictates that public funds should follow the students to the schools that are best able to provide a quality education, whether they are traditional public schools or public charter schools.

The study of 600 teachers, conducted by Abacus Associates for the Connecticut Education Association, underscores mounting concerns by legislators, educators, parents, and others about the test's validity, fairness, and negative impact on students — particularly those in high - poverty districts and those with limited access to computers.

In spite of mounting concerns about the validity and fairness of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test — which is administered to students in grades 3 - 8 — a divided state committee in charge of reviewing the test voted to retain SBAC and ignore concerns raised by teachers and administrators.

Indeed, as per a statement made by Ron Adler, president of the Ohio Coalition for Quality Education, not only is it «disappointing that ODE spends so much time denying that poverty and mobility of students impedes their ability to generate academic performance... they [continue to] remain absolutely silent about the state's broken report card and continually defend their value - added model that offers no transparency and creates wild swings for schools across Ohio» (i.e., the EVAAS system, although in all fairness all VAMs and the SGP yield the «wild swings» noted).

In fairness, he does have an education platform in which he promises to «reward and replicate success» and «rescue students trapped in failing schools.»

For Hilary, using digital media was an effective way to get her students thinking about responsibility, fairness, respect, and caring, among other things.

In circumstances where a student is facing suspension, expulsion, or some other deprivation of liberty or property, schools must continue to provide the student with appropriate due process prior to taking action against the student and must handle such matters with fundamental fairness.

In addition, analyses of existing state school finance policies and the positions AEF promotes to obtain greater fairness for taxpayers and students, alike, can be found here.

Daniel Pink, best - selling author of Drive, says Wolk writes «with an idealist's heart and a pragmatist's spine, [and] he shows how to build an education system centered on students and true to the ideals of freedom, rigor, and fairness.»

It is therefore critical, in order to ensure fairness to teachers, that any plans to reward or punish them for gains their students have or have not made control for differences among students in their family situations and other factors that are beyond the teachers» control.