Sentences with phrase «focuses on student achievement on»

One dominant model is the streamlined letter - grade system first adopted by Florida, which focuses on student achievement on annual statewide tests.

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They bring to the table diverse theories from many aspects of horsemanship with a deep focus on each student's personal achievement, effectiveness, and advancement, thus far surpassing simple equitation instruction.

In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeed.

The Obama agenda has focused almost exclusively on systemic school reform to address the achievement deficits of disadvantaged students: standards, testing, teacher evaluations, and a continued, if different, focus on accountability.

While those topics might focus on a student's academic achievement, homework might have other benefits, too.

Students cite trying to «get ahead» and getting into the «right» college along with a school culture that is «overly focused on achievement» as justifications for cheating.

The Partnership is also performing an intermediary function to resolve conflicts over education policy and resource allocation in an effort to keep the focus on student achievement.

The Governor is insisting that we focus on student achievement rather than funding the education bureaucracy as a measure of success.

Bill Gates» philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is making an about - face on its education priorities to focus on networks of traditional public schools aimed at improving student achievement.

The study focused on achievement in math, which is not only important for education and economic productivity but is also known to prompt strong emotional reactions in students.

Although most reformers say that they want to raise student achievement, many projects focus on interim targets, like attracting more students into STEM fields, training more and better math and science teachers or improving the skills of those already in the classroom, and strengthening curricula.

But some perennial topics have acquired a different focus; for example, the question about the internet has shifted from ensuring access to cybersecurity and privacy, and the question dealing with education now focuses on attracting more women and minorities into the scientific workforce rather than on boosting overall student achievement.

Harrington, an assistant professor of public affairs, said NCLB has been in effect for more than 10 years, and prior research on the program mostly has focused on student achievement.

A bonus, in reviewers» eyes, is a focus on workforce diversity: «Particularly encouraged are projects that develop and implement research - based instructional materials that ameliorate achievement gaps between student populations and lead to improved understanding of, and participation in, STEM disciplines by members of underrepresented groups.»

For instance, the opportunity gap would force us to look more at how all students should have access to early education versus the achievement gap which has focused more on developing standards, accountability, and evaluation.

The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a teacher's contribution to his or her students» growth in math and English achievement, as measured by state tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy on what really matters: classroom learning.

Much of the discussion concerning American education policy focuses on the achievement gap between high - and low - performing students.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

While the word «accountability» never appears in Risk, its call for higher academic standards and its focus on student achievement as the main barometer of quality laid the intellectual groundwork for the rigorous curricula and tests envisioned by the promoters of standards - based -LSB-...]

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all too common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high quality instruction.

Successful blended learning educators and schools are focusing on engagement as they work towards student achievement.

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Most of the contributors to the volume have found evidence that policies that focus on high - stakes testing corrupt educational reform and undermine achievement, especially for at - risk students.

It's exactly what one would want from a publication named Quality Counts: a nice, clear focus on academic results, namely student achievement, measured on the best yardstick available.

The power of culture - and its effect on student achievement - is evident in adolescents» lesser concentration on academic endeavors as they focus more on television, video games, and excessive employment during the school year.

The Palisades Cyber Academy launched this year, driven by a demand for e-learning options, an increased focus on global connections, fiscal responsibility, and a desire to enact change that will impact student achievement.

Murphy imagines a hypothetical model program called Administrative Leaders for Learning — ALL for short — that would be organized to spotlight and connect three overlapping domains of knowledge: instructional practice and learning theory, with a particular focus on high achievement for all students; the education sector, with a particular focus on schooling in context; and matters of leadership and management.

«Reassessing the Achievement Gap: Fully Measuring What Students Should Be Taught in School» argues that NAEP results offer a «distorted» picture of student achievement because of their exclusive focus on academic skills and take attention away from nontested areas that often fall under the purview Achievement Gap: Fully Measuring What Students Should Be Taught in School» argues that NAEP results offer a «distorted» picture of student achievement because of their exclusive focus on academic skills and take attention away from nontested areas that often fall under the purview achievement because of their exclusive focus on academic skills and take attention away from nontested areas that often fall under the purview of schools.

In these days of high standards, accountability, and a focus on student achievement, Potter says, Paideia is an approach that warrants consideration.

And it put a special focus on ensuring that states and schools boost the performance of certain groups of students, such as English - language learners, students in special education, and poor and minority children, whose achievement, on average, trails their peers.

Quality Counts focuses on what states can do to raise the achievement of all students.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has released broad principles for renewing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that seek to address perennial complaints that the law's current version — the No Child Left Behind Act — is inflexible and focuses too narrowly on student test scores to get a picture of a school's achievement.

Join your fellow district leaders this fall at the Education Week Leadership Forum Ed Tech 2013: Powering Up Success — an interactive day focused on how to use digital tools to raise student achievement.

Studies have not focused on young adolescents, the time when students are particularly sensitive to gender differences and when gender gaps in achievement are pronounced.

Although there is some indication that the implementation of MCAS testing has improved curriculum and helped push students and teachers to focus more aggressively on academic achievement, the potential consequences of depriving thousands of students a high - school diploma is simply unacceptable to most teachers.

Education Sector's 2011 survey, for example, found that more than 40 percent of teachers want their unions to focus more on teacher performance and student achievement and less than half consider unions to be absolutely essential.

And board members that can disregard bad advice, know the facts, and focus on what counts for student achievement can get the job done.

Classroom applications of this theory focus on systems that reward students for various behaviors or incremental achievements.

Conservatives, for instance, are less likely than liberals to say that funding is a barrier to academic achievement, and liberals are more likely to put less focus on improving student learning.

As the experiences of these three schools make clear, the use of data can help teachers and leaders stay focused on student achievement.

Our challenge is to focus on improving student achievement with fewer resources.

The federal role in education has been a growth industry since at least the Johnson administration, when the Elementary and Secondary School Act (ESEA, now the Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA) was passed as a part of the War on Poverty, with a focus on closing the achievement gap and equalizing funding between the rich and the poor.

Given NCLB's focus on proficiency, one would expect the law to disproportionately influence achievement among previously low - achieving students.

Survey items focusing on test preparation activities were much more weakly related to student achievement gains than items focusing on instructional quality.

«Our focus right now is on asking the question, What is our impact on student achievement, on educator practice, and on policy?»

For nearly a decade, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has focused the attention of policymakers and researchers squarely on the achievement of low - performing students, with some apparent success.

This year the case study focused on the Aldine Independent School District located in Houston, where student achievement was declining.

Not surprisingly, perhaps, board members who are or were educators (27 percent of the total surveyed) believe that funding is a barrier and that the focus on student achievement is misplaced; these beliefs were held «regardless of the actual level of funding in the district,» «regardless of the actual teacher salaries» in the district, and «even after controlling for the type of student population that the district serves and the actual rigor of academic standards» in the district.

The report by the Reston, Va. - based association — developed in collaboration with the Education Alliance at Brown University and a commission of middle school experts — is a follow - up to a 2004 NASSP report, «Breaking Ranks II,» which focused on student achievement in high school.

These national ERAOs and their counterparts at the state level are focused on enacting sweeping education policy changes to increase accountability for student achievement, improve teacher quality, turn around failing schools, and expand school choice.