Raising the expected performance standard in each year of school and holding all teachers and students accountable
for achieving these higher standards may not be the most effective way to improve levels of performance in Australian schools.
Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg said greater rigour in vocational qualifications was essential
for achieving high standards and that Labour supported this.
Not exact matches
In order to address this problem,
high academic
standards will need to be
achieved in every school, and communities will have to provide the necessary resources
for those students facing additional challenges.
All laboratories have to follow scientific protocol
for food testing and maintain
high standards of accuracy, reliability and credibility in the operation of the laboratory and
achieving and maintaining the required levels of accreditation and reliability together with
high professional
standards and discipline.
«We're well on our way to become the first Canadian brewer to
achieve certification under the Global Food Safety Initiative, and our performance at brewing industry competitions quantifies
for us the
high standard of product quality,» added Croft.
The PIRSA grants are dollar
for dollar voluntary contribution grants, and their purpose is to offer «support in assisting food and beverage businesses and industry associations to help attain industry
standard third - party certifications that will support achievement of either or both of the following aims: (a) accessing new or
higher value markets
for product, or (b) contributing to premium positioning and
achieving superior prices
for products.»
Instead of (perhaps) fewer producers
achieving high standards, it appears the bar is being lowered to make it easier
for more producers to become certified.
The
high quality of the Australian Certified Organic
Standard has earned equivalence with a number of international organic standards, including the European Union, for livestock and wine export, whereas Australia's national organic standard hasn't been able to achie
Standard has earned equivalence with a number of international organic
standards, including the European Union,
for livestock and wine export, whereas Australia's national organic
standard hasn't been able to achie
standard hasn't been able to
achieve this.
I am all
for pushing as many producers toward the goal of sustainable growing methods — but the strategy should be helping producers
achieve high standards, not lowering the bar to make it easier to
achieve certification.
San Francisco, CA — March 24th, 2016 — Harmless Harvest — the world's first Fair -
for - Life - certified Organic coconut water — is announcing a proprietary new multi-step micro-filtration process that
achieves the
highest levels of product safety and quality, while preserving optimal flavor, fragrance and nutrients of its critically acclaimed coconut water, which complies with FDA
standards and requirements.
We are the
standard in this respect, and successful breastfeeding is a
high priority
for achieving optimal outcomes
for mom and baby, not only
for their health, but also their relationship.
The National Alliance
for Youth Sports (NAYS) has created the NAYS Coach Accountability and Enforcement Policies to help local NAYS Member Organizations
achieve the
highest standards for its NAYS Coaches.
On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and
for this reason, we must insist on
achieving very
high academic and performance
standards at all levels in the country.»
«One option
for achieving our objectives could be regulatory equivalence on agri - food measures, where the UK and EU agree to
achieve the same outcome and
high standards,» it says.
Aled Roberts AM has called
for increased investment in the Pupil Deprivation Grant after theDeputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, announced today the biggest ever rise in the Pupil Premium
for primary schools in England to help ensure that more pupils are able to
achieve higher standards.
Parents worry about funding and
standards for their public school students and remain least concerned about the amount of testing in classrooms, a survey released by
High Achievement New York and
Achieve found.
Clive Benfield, Chairman of ACT - UK said, «The new centre provides a unique capability in the UK
for training our future industry managers and helping our current industry mangers to
achieve even
higher standards, in an unrivaled and radical learning environment.»
It's businesses that drive innovation and choice, and help families
achieve a
higher standard of living
for a lower cost,» he will say.
Critical factors to
achieve a
higher level of information sharing include: a) the development and adoption of global data interchange
standards that are harmonized between health care and clinical trials; b) the use of technology that is more acceptable to users; c) clarification of and adherence to regulatory requirements
for health care and clinical trials; d) implementation of new technologies that are being employed by other industries to facilitate data interchange, specifically the use of the eXtensible Markup Language or XML.
Based on complementary metal - oxide - semiconductor (COMS) technology — a
standard low - cost,
high - volume chip manufacturing technique used
for most processors and chips today — a group of researchers from IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland, together with a consortium working under the EU - funded project «ADDAPT,» have demonstrated a novel optical receiver (RX) that can
achieve an aggregate bandwidth of 160 Gb / s through four optical fibers.
The designation recognises that centres have
achieved a
high standard of integration of medical oncology and palliative care and is valid
for three years.
San Francisco, CA — March 24th, 2016 — Harmless Harvest — the world's first Fair -
for - Life - certified Organic coconut water — is announcing a proprietary new multi-step micro-filtration process that
achieves the
highest levels of product safety and quality, while preserving optimal flavor, fragrance and nutrients of its critically acclaimed coconut water, which complies with FDA
standards and requirements.
Perfectionist people who set impossibly
high standards for themselves and then fail to
achieve them.
When our brains do not work at
high capacity, we can not
achieve the
standards of excellence we set
for ourselves.
Even back in 2011, Metro
achieved 24th annual achievement award
for best performance in retails due to its
high standards of quality.
Chariots of Fire will thrill you and delight you and very possibly reduce — or exalt — you to tears... Chariots of Fire is
for everyone; it's exactly what a popular film ought to be: superb work by first - rate people out to
achieve the
highest standards of excellence.
Horne, a classically trained pianist and founder of the Phoenix Baroque Ensemble, hasn't yet
achieved his objective, but he has made progress: He pushed through
higher standards for arts education, appointed an arts specialist in the state Department of Education, and steered $ 4 million in federal funds under NCLB to support arts integration in schools throughout the state.
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For high achieving students who are already approaching this standard, schools would be held accountable for making sure they grow at least a year's worth of learning every yea
For high achieving students who are already approaching this
standard, schools would be held accountable
for making sure they grow at least a year's worth of learning every yea
for making sure they grow at least a year's worth of learning every year.)
It says that testing and accountability, by themselves, can not lift the United States to the level of accomplishment reached by the world's
highest -
achieving countries, an extraordinary
standard for evaluating a policy innovation.
«PIRLS 2016 shows that 81 per cent of Australian Year 4 students are
achieving at or above the Intermediate benchmark — the proficient
standard for Australia — compared to 76 per cent in 2011, with more students
achieving at the
High or Advanced benchmark,» Dr Thomson said.
Achieving high educational
standards for all.
The implication
for schools is that almost all students can be considered capable of
achieving high standards given sufficient time and personalised (well targeted) ongoing support.
A commonly proposed strategy
for raising achievement levels in schools is to specify
high expectations or «
standards» of student performance and to hold students, teachers and schools accountable
for achieving those
standards.
Politicians and business leaders gathered behind these powerful words to insist,
for the first time, on
high standards for all children — a goal schools had never before embraced, and one they did not immediately know how to
achieve.
Importantly, we should recognize that the Common Core
Standards in language arts and math are outcomes, not subject areas, and that there should be multiple paths to
achieving the
higher and deeper
standards through,
for instance, project - based learning, experiences in nature, integration of the arts, and the fast - moving world of games and simulations.
We look
for evidence that a student will
achieve a
high standard in the near future.
(Btw, some argue that students with relatively mild disabilities are
achieving well in charters, but I'd love to see more hard data proving that in charters kids at risk
for special ed are not being labeled, and / or they're being exited from sped at
higher rates after meeting grade level
standards.)
The launch of the apprenticeship academy is an exciting opportunity
for talented individuals to learn all aspects of the production line and will
achieve a
high standard of craftmanship.
As we work with states in developing these systems, one of the key components is making sure the information is translatable
for parents, that they can understand what percentage of students in that school who are mastering
standards and
achieving grade - level expectations and whether or not those students are going to be ready to graduate from
high school and be successful in college.
Last year, at their national summit, 16 governors agreed to work with
Achieve, Inc., a national nonprofit organization, on setting lofty
standards for high - school graduation, increasing the rigor of
high - school curricula and tests, and aligning
standards and tests with the demands of work and college.
The heavily weighted criteria (
for example, implementing
standards, improving teacher and principal effectiveness, turning around the lowest -
achieving schools, supporting
high - performing charters) formed a coherent and comprehensive core.
She calls it a «tragedy
for our children and our nation» that American attempts at math reform «bear no resemblance to the programs and
standards of the
highest -
achieving nations.»
Most of the nation's governors have gotten the message: if you aren't pushing hard to set
high standards and making considerable progress toward
achieving them, your state will not be «the place»
for business to locate and jobs to be created.
It is extremely important to have a chief executive running our city who is clearly committed to helping all children
achieve in school and reach
for a
higher standard of living.
The latest Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) results, released today by the Australian Council
for Educational Research (ACER), show 81 per cent of Australian Year 4 students are
achieving at or above the Intermediate benchmark (the proficient
standard for Australia), compared to 76 per cent in 2011, with more students
achieving at the
High or Advanced benchmark.
In Australia, as in many other countries, part of the policy response to underachievement has been to set
higher standards and to hold students, teachers and schools accountable
for achieving those
standards.
Achieve serves as a significant national voice
for quality in
standards - based reform and regularly convenes governors, CEOs and other influential leaders at National Education Summits and other gatherings to sustain support
for higher standards and achievement
for all of America's schoolchildren.
Commission Executive Director Hosanna Jones tells us that the commission will continue to enforce
high academic
standards for the three charters to
achieve.
The bill replaces AYP
standards with a requirement
for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2)
for high schools, graduation rates; (3)
for schools that are not
high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in
achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows
for meaningful differentiation in school performance.
In fact, according to a scholarly 2011 content analysis published in Education Researcher by Andrew Porter and colleagues, the Common Core math
standards bear little resemblance to the national curriculum
standards in countries with
high -
achieving math students: «Top -
achieving countries
for which we had content
standards,» these scholars note, «put a greater emphasis on [the category] «perform procedures» than do the U.S. Common Core
standards.»