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With more and more universities incorporating the advantages of digital textbooks and browser - based learning platforms, today's K12 students are tomorrow's digital university students, and therefore must strike a balance between the ease, convenience, and affordability of ebooks, while still optimizing
for educational performance.
They set the vision, ethos and strategic direction of their organisation; hold head teachers, executive leaders and senior management teams to account
for educational performance; and make sure that finances are managed effectively.
Closely monitored and equally accountable
for educational performance and financial and legal operations, charter schools are not pockets of educational chaos draining public funds from traditional schools.
And if the CEO of a MAT doesn't come from a teaching background they would be performing an executive management role and should have an Education Director or the like who would have responsibility
for the educational performance of the schools within the MAT.
The No Child Left Behind law changed the unit of analysis
for educational performance and accountability from schools to students.
The aim of racial integration of our schools should be recognized as distinct from the aim of providing equal opportunity
for educational performance.
However, a key reform of NCLB, Rotherham writes, was that it «changed the unit of analysis
for educational performance and accountability from schools to students.»
Joining de Blasio on a press call this afternoon, Duncan insisted that the mayoral control system has both led to improvements to local schools and created a rare kind of electoral accountability
for educational performance.
Not exact matches
Analytics aren't just
for measuring
performance; they can also help shape efficient
educational institution infrastructures.
Although the
performance results and share sizes displayed on this page are from the actual entry and exit prices listed in our trading newsletter, all
performance data on this page, and throughout our web site, is hypothetical and
for educational purposes only.
In England, the leading center has been in Cambridge, where Jeremy Begbie's project on theology through the arts in the Centre
for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies has sponsored a range of publications,
performances and
educational initiatives, and is due to culminate in September 2000 with an arts festival embracing new film, drama, sculpture, music, painting and poetry.
The Great Room is a gathering place
for events,
performances,
educational offerings, and more.
Examines the school's role in assessing children, practical guidelines and suggestions
for improving
educational performance.
The College of Education and Human Services develops the knowledge, skills, competencies and moral and ethical values necessary
for outstanding
performance in teaching,
educational leadership, professional psychology and family therapy.
For children, research shows a link between food insecurity and lower health status, low birth weight, anemia, more frequent colds and stomachaches, asthma, developmental risk, mental health problems, and poor
educational performance — all of which have health and economic consequences in the short and long terms.
Requirements
for a private school student to participate, including, but not limited to, meeting the same standards of eligibility, acceptance, behavior,
educational progress, and
performance which apply to other students participating in interscholastic or intrascholastic sports at a public school or FHSAA member private school.
Commissioner King noted the urgent need
for the state's
educational system to improve
performance and the recently implemented Common Core standards to ensure success.
The index is a composite indicator of health status,
educational attainment (social development) coupled with per capita income (economic
performance) and remains one of the most credible measures
for human development across countries and regions worldwide.
A state appellate court ruled unanimously on Thursday that New York City must keep open 19 schools it wanted to close
for poor
performance, blocking one of the Bloomberg administration's signature efforts to improve the
educational system.
Watching David Cameron's assured
performance yesterday in the first Prime Minister's Questions of this parliamentary term, many Conservatives will have been greatly encouraged to hear him speak up in support of the «pupil premium» - a measure designed to boost
educational opportunities
for children living in deprived areas.
Fink designs Wondergy
performances for maximum
educational value, focusing on only a few themes in each
performance.
The researchers from the University's Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and the Swedish Institute
for Social Research, Stockholm, studied the test scores measuring cognitive ability of children aged between 10 and 13, and found they had a strong effect on a child's subsequent
educational performance.
«Many educators believe engagement leads to better school
performance and is necessary
for developing student motivation and interest,» said Ze Wang, associate professor of
educational, school and counseling psychology in the College of Education at MU.
Kyle is also the education content manager and senior master trainer
for TriggerPoint
Performance, where he collaborates with leading universities and industry professionals conducting researching creating evidence - based support
for educational material.
Outstanding Progress The Outstanding Progress Award, presented individually
for Independent, Primary and Secondary schools, is presented to the school that has made outstanding progress in
educational performance.
Policymakers must weigh these costs against the substantial
educational and economic benefits such systems can create
for successive cohorts of students, both through avoiding the career - long retention of the lowest - performing teachers and through broad increases in
performance in the overall teaching workforce.
However, as the gap between the incomes of wealthy and poor families has increased over the past three decades, so too has the
educational performance of their children, bringing into question the nation's reputation
for equal opportunity
for all.
Currently, the model funding agreement and articles of association
for academy chains focus almost exclusively on governance and financial propriety, but the results of Reform's survey suggest that a chain's finances and
educational performance are «intrinsically linked».
Based on this observation, The Centre
for Economic
Performance suggest that low - achieving students are more likely to be distracted by mobile phones, and so banning them could be a low cost way
for schools to reduce
educational inequality.
Even where changes have occurred over time (
for example, in the relative
performances of males and females, or in Indigenous participation rates), it is not clear that group - based
educational solutions rather than broader societal changes have been the cause.
Of course, whether
educational preferences based on demographics or dissatisfaction with existing school
performance manifest themselves in support
for charter schools depends on other circumstances as well: notably, the political power of opponents to charter schools, the most prominent opponents being teachers unions; and the degree of school choice already available to parents.
As a not -
for - profit dance organization, KPD commissions and produces the work of dance artists with and without disabilities — presenting excellence in dance through our quality - based programs, community
performances and
educational workshops.
I'm speaking now particularly to certain charter networks, such as Yes Prep and KIPP, which have apparently found formulas
for doing what previously seemed impossible, successfully moving the poorest urban kids from the bottom to the top of the national quartile of
educational performance.
Yet that is no reason to throw up our hands, glibly excusing our lackluster
educational performance by claiming that «forces beyond our control» are making it practically impossible
for schools to function at all or
for children to learn much in them.
A group of high - powered policymakers and educators gathered here last week to build support
for a new vision of
educational assessment that is less a snapshot of students» one - time
performance and more like good instruction itself.
It is valuable
for both students and tutors and shows in practice how
educational technology is progressing so that it can show not only the past
performance but also forecast the future of a student's learning outcomes.
We — eLearning developers,
educational technologists, and Instructional Designers — are assigned to make things easier
for the company and help them to increase learners»
performance.
I would, therefore, ask Hanushek and Lindseth to stop tilting at windmills and to join with me in instituting a dialogue in major areas in which we do agree, like the fact that courts can and should hold states and school districts accountable
for better
performance, and that «school funding policies must recognize the underlying heterogeneity of students and their
educational challenges and ensure that all schools have the means to succeed» (Hanushek and Lindseth, Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses, page 218).
Teacher shortages There are many possible answers to the question of why Britain's
educational performance is, in the words of former Secretary of State
for Education Michael Gove, «at best stagnant, at worst declining.»
For example, some of the best research has focused on «family income» as a predictor of education success, but Susan Mayer, a University of Chicago sociologist, has shown that unexpected changes in family income by themselves have little effect on a child's
educational performance.
But many factors can influence a state's
educational performance, from changes in state policies to changes in their demographic makeup, making it extraordinarily difficult
for researchers to isolate any one cause
for an increase in achievement.
The Award
for Outstanding Progress
for a Primary School, sponsored by Elliotts Cleaning, is presented to the UK Primary that can show an increase in the
educational performance of the school.
Low academic achievement is particularly important to control
for because children only receive special education services if their disabilities are adversely affecting their
educational performance.
by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work
for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability,
performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre
for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and
educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones
for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre
for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities
for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning
for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre
for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.
Independent sector In the independent sector, the Award
for Outstanding Progress, sponsored by Espresso Education and Channel 4 Learning, will be presented to the UK Independent school that has made outstanding progress in the management of its facilities, finances and human resources and can demonstrate an increase in the
educational performance of the school.
If presidents come to learn that they are also being held accountable
for the nation's
educational performance, they will think more carefully about the consequences of their actions
for students, not job holders.
Reflective learning is a way of allowing participants to step back from their learning experience to help them develop critical thinking skills and improve on future
performance by analysing their experience, so building in time
for reflection will also help you derive the maximum benefit from your
educational visit.
Centralized exams also alter the incentive structure
for students by making their
performance more transparent to employers and advanced
educational institutions.
Above all, the law's requirement that students be tested annually in reading and math in grades 3 - 8 and once in high school has provided parents, teachers, and other citizens with detailed information about students»
performance in these foundational subjects — and therefore the extent to which they have mastered skills that are prerequisites
for other
educational goals.