Sentences with phrase «focusing on attainment»

It was a positive move, minister said, away from simply focusing on attainment, and would provide a very real context for later test results.

As I noted above, I have mixed feelings on performance accountability as it is, and an increased focus on attainment might be very healthy for the charter community.

The booming private tuition market is a symptom of the problem with an education system that is becoming too heavily focused on attainment in exams and tests and in a narrow range of so - called «core» subjects.

Outwood Academy Portland's principal, Dr Phillip Smith, says that while a renewed focus on attainment in core subjects since the school became an academy has been crucial, the school's success was only possible thanks to the numerous extra-curricular activities now provided because they turned the school into a place where children wanted to be.

Analyses of the Cognitive Abilities Test (a different outcome measure not explicitly focused on attainment) found a smaller positive impact.

Not exact matches

In this brief, we focus on the relationship between educational attainment and earnings in the state of Kentucky.

On the other hand, if one can bracket the cosmogonical question, the reference beyond the God - world system, and focus upon the journey within the system toward «the maximum attainment of intensity compatible with harmony that is possible under the circumstances of the actual situation» (PS 18:116), then perhaps one will find that the biblical images and the process - relational concepts are richly mutually illuminating after all.

Pure Land Buddhists, to Christian eyes, seem to focus too exclusively on the attainment of Shinjin.

Rather, it's how Arsenal will win titles this season more especially the Premier League and the Champions League titles are the main priority on the table before the Arsenal board along with Le Prof they are seriously focusing on for attainment.

By focusing on youth, addressing critical education and health outcomes, organizing collaborative actions and initiatives that support students, and strongly engaging community resources, the WSCC approach offers important opportunities that may improve healthy development and educational attainment for students.

«I am pleased the report has picked up on a substantial focus on closing the attainment gap in Wales thanks to the Pupil Deprivation Grant.

The 2003 primary strategy emphasised «enjoyment and a child's individual needs», today's research states, before noting that many consider this approach «contradictory» with traditional focus on excellence, attainment and standards.

The alliance of WASH Advocacy, a coalition of non-governmental organisations and network focused on improved water delivery and sanitation, has petitioned the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources to address open defecation and review its approach towards the attainment of the millennium development goals.

«It is increasingly important to look at long - run outcomes of educational policies, including impacts on educational attainment and labor market outcomes, rather than just focus on test scores.

· ARPA - E will issue an initial solicitation that will focus on applicants with a well - formed R&D plan for a transformational concept or new technology that can make a significant contribution towards attainment of the President's Energy Plan.

According to Dr. Charles Hillman, professor of kinesiology and community health at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign and lead author on this issue of Monographs, «these results point to the important potential of approaches focusing on physical activity for strengthening children's brain health and educational attainment.

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.

The Campaign seeks to address the county's above average gap in attainment between disadvantaged and other pupils, with a focus on students in Years 7 and 8.

We address this limitation by focusing on the effect of school spending on such long - run outcomes as educational attainment and earnings rather than on test scores.

Each school focused on the challenges relevant to its particular context such as GCSE attainment, Key Stage 2 literacy, family support, transition, cultural diversity and community cohesion.

Focusing only on charters making the biggest achievement score gains would miss those charters with more modest achievement results but truly impressive attainment outcomes.

To support pupils with high attainment in academies, the Sutton Trust is calling for the government to create a fund to support successful initiatives for high attainers from disadvantaged backgrounds, and to focus on supporting disadvantaged pupils of all attainment levels through the pupil premium.

There are too many to mention here, but examples include free twilight CPD programmes to all staff within an alliance; placement schemes for senior leaders to gain experience of working in other schools and contexts; a mentoring programme for newly - employed heads; developing innovative programmes for School Direct trainees; SLEs offering one - day diagnostics as well as longer deployments focused on increasing attainment and progress in specific subjects; and the establishment of cross-alliance research groups meeting regularly to develop action research.

The seven recommendations are currently informing a # 5 million campaign focused on primary schools in West and South Yorkshire, regions where the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils is large and there are a significant number of schools with a high percentage of disadvantaged pupils.

Later this week, I will publish the new national improvement framework for education, which focuses firmly on our objective of closing the attainment gap in education.

It's the deliberate focus on incremental challenges that lead to growth and goal attainment (just like in video games and in many of the fitness apps on the market today).

Conclusions This article has focused narrowly on how school trips and LOtC raise educational standards and attainment in schools and is by no means a comprehensive explanation of all supporting evidence.

The CBI has responded to the OECD's PISA 2015 England results, which focus on 15 - year - old attainment in science, reading and mathematics in 72 countries and economies.

The pupil premium is a key lever for raising the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and it's vital that it continues to be focused on their education.»

«The SSTA wishes to acknowledge and welcome the Deputy First Minister's determination to declutter the work of teachers and allow them to focus on teaching and learning in our battle of «closing the attainment gap».

Ensuring a clear focus on progress and attainment and not becoming too busy with all the processes of running your academy is essential if standards are to continue to rise.

Because the focus is on attainment upon completing school, there has been little focus on using assessments to monitor learning progress across the senior years.

The State of the Nation report advises that, despite a «welcome focus on improving attainment in schools», the link between social demography and educational destiny has «not been broken».

If we focus only on the true school choice programs — private school choice, open enrollment, charter schools, STEM schools, and small schools of choice — and we look at the direction of the impacts (positive or negative) regardless of their statistical significance, we find a high degree of alignment between achievement and attainment outcomes.

Most notably, schools with higher levels of per - pupil GCSE arts entries got above average results in the EBacc, Progress 8 and Attainment 8, suggesting that the best state secondary schools in England are those that combine high expectations in a core of academic subjects with a strong focus on the arts.

EEF and Nominet Trust announce new partnership to co-fund projects focusing on the use of digital technology in raising the attainment of disadvantaged...

Evidence points to the improvement - focused messaging having a stronger impact on both credit attainment and student attendance, though the size of the study limits our ability to call the difference in outcomes between positive and improvement messaging statistically significant.

Instead, we are treated to empathetic descriptions of «legions of genuinely good teachers both touching lives and successfully teaching skills and content in hundreds of middle schools» and hear the complaint that «most of the mandated assessments being used to determine students» attainment of the standards focus heavily on recall of facts, one of the lowest forms of thinking.»

There needs to be a greater focus on skills — not just educational attainment — or we are likely to experience adverse consequences that could undermine the fabric of our democracy and community.

«By introducing a progress measure, we will ensure schools are fairly judged on the performance of all their pupils rather than focusing entirely on attainment, which created a perverse incentive for schools to focus on some children at the expense of others.»

The pupil attainment measure, it says, can encourage schools to «focus more narrowly on pupils near the expected standard», meaning pupils far below the expected standard risk being left behind and those far above may not be adequately stretched.

According to a committee spokesperson, the meeting will likely focus on what the government is doing to «promote social justice and narrow the attainment gap».

Our focus is on securing high standards of attainment for all pupils from all ethnic backgrounds and of different socio - economic statuses, ensuring that pupils are treated with respect and supported to reach their full potential.

Recipients of this award have launched and / or championed bold proposals that focus on increasing Michigan's postsecondary attainment rate.

Sturgeon said she was taking the right steps, including releasing # 11m for the Scottish government's attainment challenge fund, which was focusing on improving standards and education at 300 primary schools with the poorest outcomes.

Our model is a work in progress, but has been built to focus on both student growth and attainment, and has four major components:

Prior to his role at Bellwether Education Partners, he was the director of college partnerships at the KIPP Foundation where he leads a team keenly focused on supporting KIPP Alumni in their pursuit of postsecondary attainment.

As a Headteacher I can confirm the difficulties we face recruiting and retaining staff particularly with the high demands, long days, poor media coverage, pay freezes, ongoing pressure and an Ofsted system that focuses purely on attainment and not progress.

Some of the hallmarks of the plan include a focus on ensuring Ready Graduates by supporting more early college coursework and industry certification attainment, a renewed accountability and support focus on improving achievement and growth for all students, and elevating a continuum of interventions for the state's lowest performing schools.

MPs were this morning told that investment should focus on the early years and warned that schools often «struggle to close the gap» in attainment when such gaps open up before children reach the age of five.