Sentences with phrase «good quality of education for our students»

«There's a $ 191 million budget which should be educating the students and if it's currently spent then we should get a good quality of education for our students,» White said.

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The program might allow certain students opportunities for higher - level work, yet it also can siphon off the best students and teachers and may reduce the quality of education for non-AP students, and in some cases, cause undue stress for students enrolled in the program.

«To ensure the best and brightest are teaching our children, the State Education Department will increase the standards for teacher certification to require passage of a «bar exam,» in addition to longer, more intensive and high - quality student - teaching experience in a school setting,» Mr. Cuomo said.

The UK's higher education (HE) system is one of the best known in the world for high quality education, student experience and world class research.

The measures used in the NEPC report — whether schools make AYP, state accountability system ratings, the percentage of students that score proficient on state tests, and high - school graduation rates — are at best rough proxies for the quality of education provided by any school.

The list includes some good news for education reformers, including an examination of how one state is already seeing positive results from its decision to put a high - quality curriculum at the heart of its reform efforts; a look at how the hottest show on Broadway is inspiring a generation of students to explore American history; and a deep dive into the world of higher education with an array of new experiments that are making college degrees more accessible, especially for at - risk students.

More time for teachers to collaborate, to share ideas, to support one another, to program cooperatively and develop more effective teaching and learning approaches is good for students and will overall enhance the quality of public education.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

In an attempt to curtail criticism of college - based teacher - training programs and improve the quality of their graduates, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is calling for a national evaluation system for prospective educators, as well as the development of a database that links their alma maters to pre-K-12 student performance.

It is important to do what is right for your school and by converting into a business you still need to deliver quality education and see students perform to the best of their abilities.

And special education vouchers even improve the quality of services for the disabled students who remain in public schools because those schools risk losing students to the voucher program if they do not serve the students well.

Even though a small percentage of America's students have access to high quality public education, the NEA wants to ensure that every child is afforded this opportunity so that they might be better equipped for the changing world and changing economy.

Throughout her career, Jones maintained a professional and personal commitment to diversifying the field of education with high - quality leaders and to ensuring the best education for all students.

Rather than wait for the regulators to have their say — and, as former deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Education Jim Shelton has observed, when regulators weigh in, they almost always do so in a way that overreacts and far overshoots their mandate — those bootcamps that were concerned about maintaining high quality and not conning students, got together to ensure that bootcamps would keep a good name and a positive image by, in essence, self - regulating.

This book — short, dense, and likely to be particularly prized by those who love tables full of statistics, though the prose is very clear — is an important contribution to the growing collection of high - quality studies finding that greater accountability, autonomy, and choice do, indeed, make for a better education system and greater student learning.

«Alyssa Chan exemplifies well the qualities that distinguish students and graduates of the International Education Policy Program: a strong commitment to expanding educational opportunity for the most disadvantaged children around the world, an extraordinary ethic of hard work and rigorous pursuit of academic excellence, and an understanding of leadership as service to others,» says Professor Fernando Reimers, director of IEP.

The Commission will examine factors contributing to teacher recruitment and performance including: incentives to hire and retain high - quality teachers; improvements in the teacher evaluation system to ensure New York is implementing one of the strongest evaluation systems in the country; the use of teacher evaluations for decisions regarding promotion, hiring and termination as required in the teacher evaluation law; and teacher preparation, certification and education programs to ensure that teachers are properly trained to best educate our students.

«The state of Connecticut has done a number of things and committed hundreds of millions of dollars to improving the quality of schools and education as well as providing more choices for Hartford students and their families,» Murphy said.

Yesterday, Education Week's Madeline Will reported on findings from a new study that pairing new teachers with high - quality, well - trained mentors results in the equivalent of up to five months of additional learning for their students.

ESSA presents an opportunity to reclaim the promise of a high - quality, well - rounded education for every student by reducing the focus on testing, while ensuring critical protections for all students.

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

Design a school that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now What?

He went on to serve in the New York City Department of Education, where he helped open new, high - quality district and charter schools, support the turnaround of struggling schools, and advocate for admission and enrollment changes that led to thousands more New York City students being better prepared for college and careers.

If headed by effective principals, schools stand a better chance of providing each and every student with the high - quality education essential for success in the 21st century.

Under the NCLB Extended approach, embraced by many on the education reform / civil rights Left, achievement would continue to be measured by proficiency rates alone (with rising annual goals for what is good enough); growth data would be used sparingly and / or focused on «growth to proficiency»; «other indicators of student success or school quality» would be minimized; and evidence of achievement gaps would sink schools» ratings significantly.

Understanding how unrestricted students are to free quality education, I now appreciate the variation of learning opportunities that charter schools have afforded families who want better opportunities for their children.

* UPDATED A massive undertaking to increase access to high - quality education for tens of thousands of low - income students in Los Angeles was revealed today in a long - awaited plan by Great Public Schools Now, a well - funded nonprofit organization formed last year.

They also want the schools to assess the quality of our K - 12 education by how well our students are prepared for what happens to them after high school graduation.

NET is very confident that enabling and supporting the current and revitalised leadership at the school will lead to the desired improvements in the quality of education for all students, such that Ofsted will judge a good school within two years.

I secured funds to reduce overcrowding and improve the quality of education by upgrading outdated classrooms and science labs, repairing deteriorating schools to improve student safety, and creating new, smaller neighborhood schools so students are better prepared for college and to get the job skills they need to work in a 21st Century economy.

The International Scholars Program is an opportunity for high - achieving students who wish to experience an authentic American way of life in a safe and welcoming community, as well as receive a high - quality education.

Considered a seasoned collaborator and evidence - based strategist, Dr. McGlawn served as the Senior Associate for Linked Learning at The Education Trust - West, where she led assessments of Linked Learning implementation, with a strong focus on the quality of curriculum and instruction delivered through Linked Learning pathways, as well as equitable systemic access and improved outcomes for students.

Dolan, a Washington - based attorney, hopes the project will eventually be a solution for rural schools nationwide that want the best of both the online and brick - and - mortar education worlds: high - quality expert teachers, student support, resources, small class sizes and human interaction.

They also reaffimed that the educational model of CLCs offers the best hope for achieving equitable and high quality education for ALL students.

In a recent opinion piece for Education Week, Arthur Wise of the Center for Teaching Quality writes that current mainstream ideas on how to improve American public schools will result in «at best, a marginal improvement for small numbers of students.»

«Data has the potential to transform education from a model of mass production to a personalized experience that meets the needs of individuals and ensures that no student is lost along the way,» said Aimee Rogstad Guidera, president and CEO of the Data Quality Campaign, a data advocacy group in D.C. that's been working to help provide best practices for states.

When teachers have the necessary time to engage in high quality professional learning — coupled with the supports to use that time well — such professional learning can result in marked improvements in student academic growth.40 This is why the National Education Association's Foundation for the Improvement of Education includes «adequate time for inquiry, reflection, and mentoring» as one of the components of high - quality professional development.41 When teachers have time to plan, practice, collaborate, and learn, both teachers and students benefit.

When our leaders say teachers are not good, we need to point out to them how well some of our students are doing, and that a recent Mathematica report for the U.S. Department of Education states that the quality of teachers working in low - income schools is about the same as the quality of teachers working in high income schools.

Since its founding in 2000 as an education nonprofit, Reasoning Mind has established itself as one of the highest - quality blended learning organizations for mathematics in the United States, and now serves well over 100,000 students and 2,500 teachers across several states.

«We applaud Senator Hagan for her dedication to the whole child approach of providing a high - quality and well - balanced education for every student,» said North Carolina ASCD (NCASCD) Executive Director Frances Jones, whose ASCD affiliate was instrumental in gaining support from Senator Hagan.

«For too long,» he said, «the leadership of LAUSD has failed to acknowledge the collateral damage to the majority of our students when systematic, external agendas are being developed and well financed to weaken, and eventually destroy, LAUSD's ability to provide a quality education for students who rely on our neighborhood schools and a wide range of district innovative programs and critical services.&raqFor too long,» he said, «the leadership of LAUSD has failed to acknowledge the collateral damage to the majority of our students when systematic, external agendas are being developed and well financed to weaken, and eventually destroy, LAUSD's ability to provide a quality education for students who rely on our neighborhood schools and a wide range of district innovative programs and critical services.&raqfor students who rely on our neighborhood schools and a wide range of district innovative programs and critical services.»

Instead of shifting student demographics between schools, Thernstrom says that the education system would benefit far more from policies that help recruit higher quality instructors in high - poverty schools, creating a learning - focused environment that builds life skills as well as academic ones and providing separate educational facilities for students who aren't committed to learning.

In this report, we pulled out some of the outliers: schools that showed excellent achievement and growth as well as schools that have a lot of room for improvement if they want to offer APS students the high quality education they deserve.

The idea was that the key policies and practices that affect the success of school leaders — the standards that define high - quality leadership and provide a basis for holding leaders accountable; the training that prepares leaders for their role as catalysts for learning; and the range of conditions and incentives that help or hinder those leaders — are most likely to be successful and sustained if they are both well - coordinated and aligned to the goal of improved student learning at all levels of public education: state, district and school.

According to a report from the Data Quality Campaign (DQC), only 24 percent of parents have used a state education agency website to locate information on how well a local high school prepares students for college or the workforce.

According to a press release issued at the time, «The reorganization addresses Governor Dannel P. Malloy's six principles on education reform, including: (1) Enhancing families» access to high - quality early childhood; (2) Turning around Connecticut's lowest - performing schools and districts; (3) Expanding the availability of high - quality school models; (4) Removing red tape and other barriers to success; (5) Ensuring that our schools are home to the very best teachers and principals; and (6) Delivering more resources, targeted to districts with the greatest need - provided that they embrace key reforms that position our students for success.»

The resolution cited the fact that charter boards accept public money but lack democratic accountability, that charter schools are contributing to increased segregation, that punitive disciplinary policies are disproportionately used in charter schools as well as other practices that violate students» rights, that there is a pattern of fraud of mismanagement in the sector in general, and it then called for opposition to privatization of education, opposed diversion of funding from public schools, called for full funding for quality public education, called for legislation granting parents access to charter school boards and to strengthen oversight, called for charter schools to follow USDOJ and USDOE guidelines on student discipline and to help parents file complaints when those guidelines are violated, opposed efforts to weaken oversight, and called for a moratorium on charter school growth.

While good in theory, SES had many implementation problems, 12 including low participation rates and lack of quality control.13 In some districts, there were scandals involving providers overcharging districts, hiring tutors with criminal records, or violating federal regulations.14 In all districts, SES siphoned off Title I funds, leaving less for other important Title I programs.15 The tutoring program was eventually phased out as the Department of Education began implementing «ESEA Flexibility,» 16 also known as waivers, and it was scrapped all together under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).17

He spotlights three organizations he claims are leading a movement to reform teachers unions and make them partners in an attempt to improve the quality of public education — NewTLA, a dissident faction in the United Teachers of Los Angeles, Educators for Excellence, a reform group in New York started by two young Teach For America graduates, and Teach Plus, an organization that has gained traction in several states, whose goal is to «engage early career teachers in rebuilding their profession to better meet the needs of students and the incoming generation of teachers.&raqfor Excellence, a reform group in New York started by two young Teach For America graduates, and Teach Plus, an organization that has gained traction in several states, whose goal is to «engage early career teachers in rebuilding their profession to better meet the needs of students and the incoming generation of teachers.&raqFor America graduates, and Teach Plus, an organization that has gained traction in several states, whose goal is to «engage early career teachers in rebuilding their profession to better meet the needs of students and the incoming generation of teachers.»

So we really have to do a good job of letting communities know the value of a public education and the quality that's available for their student.»