Sentences with phrase «graduation policies changed»

Most importantly, the apparent «increases» only began when testing and graduation policies changed to artificially inflate this data.

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President Obama delivered the graduation speech at West Point Wednesday, and with it, a foreign policy change of direction.

If the policy, which is part of a package of changes to the state's graduation requirements, is approved, Maryland would be the first state to require service as a condition for graduation.

In Fordham's fifth annual Wonkathon, policy experts submitted twenty - three entries — a Wonkathon record — addressing whether our high school graduation requirements need to change, in light of diploma scandals in D.C., Maryland, and elsewhere:

As Reckhow and others have noted, the focus in grant making has been on pushing new approaches and broader policy changes that might indirectly foster improvement in high schools — through higher standards, stronger graduation requirements, and better teacher training.

[34] It is conceivable that changes to TPP admissions or graduation policies could affect the diversity of students who enter or graduate from TPPs, ultimately affecting the diversity of the teacher workforce.

The temporary policy change adopted two additional pathways to graduation.

This year, the Fordham Foundation hosted a Wonkathon, asking assorted education policy experts whether America's graduation requirements need to change.

Graduation requirements: Perhaps the most significant policy change under HB 487 is a modification to the state's graduation requirements allowing multiple pathways to graduation, including one that recognized students who earn industry - recognized crGraduation requirements: Perhaps the most significant policy change under HB 487 is a modification to the state's graduation requirements allowing multiple pathways to graduation, including one that recognized students who earn industry - recognized crgraduation requirements allowing multiple pathways to graduation, including one that recognized students who earn industry - recognized crgraduation, including one that recognized students who earn industry - recognized credentials.

Further, while we applaud the Brookline School Committee's position and extensive work toward eliminating MCAS as a graduation requirement and resisting changes to curriculum solely to address MCAS, the BEA calls upon the Brookline School Committee to support the legislation filed by the MTA or like - minded proposals and to develop and distribute policies to ensure that:

Clarification: New York's designation on the map of stakes for student graduation has been changed to reflect nuances in its testing policy.

A Learning Policy Institute study on the impact of the LCFF indicates that changes to California's funding system have led to improved academic achievement and graduation rates and narrowed achievement gaps for low - income students.

Between 2006 and 2011, several policies changed that inflated graduation rates.

The 2016 report provides a new national and state - by - state analysis of low - graduation - rate high schools; the number of additional students it will take for the country and each state to reach 90 percent; a look at the validity of graduation rates; and policy recommendations for change.

Participating states (Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont) committed to policy and implementation changes around graduation requirements, assessments, and accountability.