Sentences with phrase «grade changing efforts»
Many hiring partners say they read Above the Law, a legal blog, that gleefully reports (and mocks) grade changing efforts — from leaked student memos — even when schools themselves don't announce the changes.
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Wang, a former Fulbright Fellow and now a second - year doctoral student at HGSE, saw firsthand as an 11th - grade English teacher that the needs of rural, low - income communities often aren't represented in state policy, but are overlooked in favor of efforts that target urban areas because there's little awareness of the rural problems and few advocates are calling for change.
Requiring that college students have higher grade point averages in order to become teachers, eliminating teacher tenure and linking a teacher's evaluation and their job status to statistical changes in Connecticut's standardized tests is not Education Reform — nor are the expanding efforts to «privatize» our Constitutionally mandated public education system.
In No Small Change: Targeting Money Toward Student Performance, researchers analyze more than 100 variables before they grade states from A to F on four major categories: the rigor and clarity of the state's standards in core subjects; its efforts to improve teacher quality; its school climate as measured by absenteeism, school safety, parental involvement, character education, and other variables; and the extent to which it provides resources equitably.
UCLA has formed a partnership with the school, now called Horace Mann UCLA Community School, that includes an effort to change the school's image, and plans to expand so that the campus eventually will serve grades 6 to 12, and potentially elementary grades as well.
Changes to the application of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), impacting every student in grades three through eight, is as part of a broader effort to help districts spend less time testing students and more time teaching.
Given her past efforts to improve her career potential (i.e. repeating grade 12 to improve her marks, taking a college culinary course which she paid for through a student loan, changing jobs to obtain a better paid position, pursing a plan to move into health care work), I find that there is a real and substantial possibility that she would have taken some form of additional training to obtain a better position in health care, had the MVA not occurred.