Sentences with phrase «give schools credit»

But at least the elementary and middle school ratings give schools some credit for bringing up the scores of low performers: 40 % of their rating is based on the percent of students scoring proficient, and the other 40 % is based on growth in student scores.

Current progress measures are based on data from the end of Key Stage 1, which means they do not give schools credit for the crucial work they do with pupils in reception, year 1 and year 2.

Progress scores can give schools credit for the work they do with children who have very low starting points.

Expand the use of «accountability indexes» to include measures beyond test scores and to give schools credit for students well above and below the proficient level.

Growth models track the progress of youngsters over time and could give schools credit for moving students toward proficiency.

Dozens of other NCLB critics have reached similar conclusions, and scads of proposals for that law's rewrite offer remedies, such as including more subjects in the accountability system and giving schools credit for student growth across the achievement spectrum.

Growth models track individual student achievement from one year to the next, giving schools credit for student improvement over time.

Failing that, I recommended a performance index that gives schools credit for performance all along the achievement distribution.

It won't be able to report how much she learned that year, nor give her parents and teachers feedback on how she's really doing, nor give her school credit for moving her ahead.

«CCSA has led the way for increased accountability by raising standards that value academic rigor, while also giving schools credit for academic growth, and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged students,» said Elizabeth Robitaille, senior vice president of Achievement and Performance Management, CCSA.

This framework is a three - dimensional model that values academic rigor while also giving schools credit for growth and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged students well.

Indianapolis Public Schools officials have criticized the old system for not giving their schools credit for improving graduation rates.

The CCSA Accountability Framework guides CCSA's efforts to raise accountability standards in a way that values academic rigor while also giving schools credit for growth and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged students well.

This framework is a multi-dimensional model that values academic rigor while also giving schools credit for growth and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged students well.

Not exact matches

That was the eye - opening opening of a keynote address given yesterday by the brilliant John Quackenbush, a professor of biostatistics and computational biology at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute who has a dual professorship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and ample other academic credits after his name.

According to Brandeis International Business School professor and my fellow Inc.com columnist Andy Molinsky, most of us have a whole lot more grit than we give ourselves credit for.

In honor of the upcoming return to school for millions of students, it seems an appropriate time to give credit to the masterful skills of teachers.

«The drop in the participation rate has been centered on younger workers,» said Mr. Shapiro, «many of whom have given up hope of finding a decent job and are instead continuing in school and racking up enormous amounts of student debt, which has contributed to the recent surge in consumer credit outstanding.»

Meadows floated one idea to give tax credits to volunteers, like retired police officers, who want to offer armed security outside schools.

Paying off a school loan, a credit card, or getting a raise may give you extra income you can use to invest in something that will pay out financial returns in the future.

Without such a means of assessing Catholic practice the Vaughan school has been left with a less than perfect system of giving extra credits to families based on the participation in the life of the parish.

Instruments such as vouchers or tuition tax credits can strengthen the financially strapped parochial schools, and give poor parents the educational choices now enjoyed by those who are financially better off.

Brinig and Garnett argue that, given their demonstrably positive impact across society, these schools should be given a fighting chance through mechanisms like tuition tax credits or vouchers, with public funds going to the child to enable students to attend an inner - city Catholic school.

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A monument to the importance of that achievement for the history of the Slavs is the very alphabet in which most Slavs write, which is called Cyrillic, in honor of Saint Cyril, the ninth - century «apostle to the Slavs,» who, with his brother Methodius, is traditionally given credit for having invented it... Not only among the Slavs in the ninth century, but also among the other so - called heathen in the 19th century, the two fundamental elements of missionary culture for more than a millennium have therefore been the translation of the Bible, especially of the New Testament, and education in the missionary schools.

The 13 - year - old program provides dollar - for - dollar income tax credits for money given to «school tuition organizations,» or STOs.

I got this recipe from my mom, she did it at school (she works in a school) and I have to give the credit to Bénédicte for the recipe that I have adapted.

I added your recipes again to my kids school cookbook and gave you credit and also added your website.

I want to give credit to two fellow handwork artists, Patricia Livingston, handwork teacher at the Rudolf Steiner Waldorf School and Cindy Hansen of White Mountain Waldorf School, from whom this article was inspired, along with my teachers and colleagues at the Waldorf Applied Arts training in Spring Valley; and the book, «Will - Developed Intelligence» by David Mitchell and Patricia Livingston.

Some colleges like to see that students have taken AP courses when these classes are offered at their high schools; some give extra points to student GPA's when they take AP courses; some give credit for passing scores on the AP exams, while others do not.

[Ed Note: This post initially credited Dana Woldow for the abolishment of a la carte foods in San Francisco schools and has been corrected to give credit to student nutriton director Ed Wilkins.

Schneiderman — whose district runs from the Upper West Side to portions of The Bronx — supports «giving all schools access to the credit market to improve facilities,» a spokesman said.

One is an education tax credit that would give donors a tax break for funding scholarships to allow poor children to attend private schools, and also for money given to extra curricular programs at public schools.

«I give them tremendous credit, because of the incredible faith that they had that public schools would do well by their children,» said the new Schools Chanschools would do well by their children,» said the new Schools ChanSchools Chancellor.

Tim Kremer with the New York State School Boards Association said while he gives the governor credit for trying to remedy the situation, there could be all sorts of unforeseen consequences in both options.

Oddo credits students from the school for giving him the idea for the location.

From the University of Edinburgh website, stating their policies for Humanities and Social Sciences, among a variety of other criteria: «08 Additional credit is given to students who:... * Apply from schools in the local area (defined as City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian, Scottish Borders, Fife, Falkirk and district, Clackmannanshire) and applicants from schools in the wider locality (defined as the rest of Scotland, Cumbria, Northumberland, Durham, Teeside, Tyne and Wear).

New Yorkers For Independent Action, the PAC paying for the mailers, is advocating for the education tax credit that would see the state give tax rebates to individuals and companies who donate to private, religious, and charter schools.

And though they stopped the passage of the Cuomo - backed Education Investment Tax Credit, which would have subsidized private education, they had to accept $ 64.6 million being given to parochial schools and yeshivas.

But Kolb says he knows talks are going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an education tax credit for donors who give up to a million dollars to fund scholarships for poor children in private schools and fund afterschool activities at public schools.

The bill includes tax credits for donors who give money for scholarships for children at private and parochial schools.

Cuomo's bill would allow donors to private school scholarship funds and public after school programs to give up to one million dollars, and in exchange receive a credit of $ 750,000 on their taxes.

The small bit that gives you NMW [national minimum wage], tax credits, new schools & hospitals, devolution, HRA, maternity rights,» he tweeted.

«They wanted to make sure they were going to get a donation when they give to public schools and private schools of their choice and they would get a 90 percent tax credit at the taxpayers» expense,» said Jasmine Gripper, Alliance for Quality Education.

There is some precedent for it, though: She noted that some states give tax credits in return for private - school scholarships and that the IRS allows deductions of those contributions.

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«We must reward donations to support public schools, give tax credits to teachers who pay for classroom supplies out of pocket, and ease the financial burden on families who exercise choice in sending their children to a nonpublic school.

Entirely justifiably, teachers and school leaders remain concerned that inspection outcomes do not always give credit for the full extent of schools» achievements, especially those that are not readily captured by pupil performance data.

But the candidates also found areas of agreement: their opposition to the Common Core education standards, giving school property tax credits to veterans and establishing term limits for state lawmakers.

He continues to call for an education tax credit that would help large donors give money to private and some public schools.