Sentences with phrase «high quality education for students»

Teaching schools in South Carolina provide high quality education for students interested in teaching in the state's many school districts, and the completion of an approved, accredited teacher preparation program is a necessary step for those interested in a South Carolina teaching license.

My family helped lead the civil rights movement in Tennessee from the 1950s through the «70s and demanding access to equitable, high quality education for all students was central to the movement.

Demands: Adoption of a resolution commemorating the 35th anniversary of the Year of the Child and demanding 1) a commitment to the expansion and improvement of Community Learning Centers and 2) equitable and high quality education for all students.

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

A shortage of special education teachers is threatening states» abilities to provide high quality education for students with disabilities.

«By connecting with and engaging each member of the learning community, Hickory Public Schools will ensure a high quality education for all students preparing them to become responsible, productive citizens in the 21st century.

David is committed to working collaboratively with the schools authorized by ACNW, MDE, and other authorizers to ensure high quality education for all students in Minnesota.

I am voting YES on Question 2 to support the advancement of the long delayed civil right of access to high quality education for all students.

A professional community is guided by a very strong set of professional values and the heart of those values is «what can we do together to ensure that we offer a high quality education for our students?».

They go to schools with families to advocate for high quality education for students.

A four - tier formula would use state and local funds to provide the foundation for a high quality education for every student, state funds to help districts with students whose educational needs are truly greater than the norm, and local funds to provide additional programs and services communities want for their schools.

Not exact matches

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.

Hawkins will speak on the need to fully fund and desegregate public schools, while ending high - stakes testing, to provide a quality education for all students in New York.

That's especially true for bills that impede our obligation to provide all of our students with a high - quality public education.»

«We propose a budget that prioritizes an affordable and high quality education for Westchester Community College's students and families,» said Dr. Belinda S. Miles, president of Westchester Community College.

These 15 schools are leaders in Dual Language education and, through collaborative practices, we can ensure a supportive, high - quality multilingual experience for even more students.»

On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all public school students have access to high - quality teachers.

«A quality education with high expectations for all students is clearly a major priority for New Yorkers, and that's exactly why two years of work has gone into revising the standards,» said Steve Sigmund, the group's executive director.

In a statement, D.O.E. spokeswoman Devora Kaye said: «After engaging stakeholders around these proposals, the panel decided to postpone the vote to allow for additional feedback and to ensure that every student in the building — district or charter — receives the high quality education they deserve.

«The Chancellor's first priority is doing what's best for kids and we will ensure our next steps support students and families in receiving a high quality education,» Devora Kaye, a DOE spokeswoman, said in a statement.

With nearly 11,000 students in 10 schools, the City School District of New Rochelle, through an active partnership amongst community, parents, staff and students, provides a high - quality and challenging education for every child, in a safe, nurturing environment that embraces rich diversity and drives success.

He was slated to advocate fully funding and desegregating public schools, ending high - stakes testing, and providing a quality education for all students, according to his campaign.

«His proposed policies on public education will weaken, not strengthen our public education system, and they would represent a step away from the principle of high quality public education for all students.

«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 CUNY Board of Trustees has approved an operating budget request for FY2017 - 18 that seeks increased state and city investment in faculty hiring, new research, expanding college access and other initiatives necessary to provide our students with an affordable, high - quality education,» Arena said in an emailed statement.

With support from the National Science Foundation, Project 2061 has developed an online bank of high - quality test items and related assessment resources for use in middle and early high school science (http / / assessment.aaas.org), and a grant from the U.S. Department of Education is funding the development of assessment instruments for evaluating students» understanding of energy concepts from elementary through high school.

Further, the authors found that many high school students hold the same misconceptions as students in middle school, making the need for high - quality, diagnostic assessments a top priority for energy education.

Rather than dwelling on shortcomings, she encourages students to take advantage of the Bologna Process to bring about changes at their institutions and in their national governments: «If you want to fight for more quality in higher education, you can use Bologna.

A. B. Sekuler, B. Crow, R. B. Annan, «Beyond labs and libraries: Career pathways for doctoral students» (Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, Toronto, 2013).

«Through Pre-K for All, tens of thousands of students are in free, full - day, high quality programs across the city,» says Department of Education Deputy Chancellor Josh Wallack.

The current eight EHEA consultative members are: Council of Europe (CoE), UNESCO, European University Association (EUA), European Association of Institutions of Higher Education (EURASHE), European Students» Union (ESU), European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA), Education International (EI) and BUSINESS EUROPE.

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.

HGSE doctoral student Amy Crosson was recently named a 2008 Adolescent Literacy Predoctoral Fellow for The National Academy of Education (NAEd), an organization dedicated to the highest quality education research and its use in policy formulation and Education (NAEd), an organization dedicated to the highest quality education research and its use in policy formulation and education research and its use in policy formulation and practice.

ABC Director of Television David Anderson said: «ABC Education not only delivers on the broadcaster's responsibility to inform, educate and entertain but more importantly is an intuitive destination for teachers, students and parents who want high - quality, trusted education content in one place, regardless of whether it is online, on television or on radiEducation not only delivers on the broadcaster's responsibility to inform, educate and entertain but more importantly is an intuitive destination for teachers, students and parents who want high - quality, trusted education content in one place, regardless of whether it is online, on television or on radieducation content in one place, regardless of whether it is online, on television or on radio.»

For example, the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act allocates additional funding to school districts with a high percentage of low - income students, who are more likely to have poor educational outcomes for reasons unrelated to school qualiFor example, the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act allocates additional funding to school districts with a high percentage of low - income students, who are more likely to have poor educational outcomes for reasons unrelated to school qualifor reasons unrelated to school quality.

At the very least, they can help to instill a sense of hope and optimism in their students — by getting them ready for college and / or a satisfying career, by embracing high - quality technical education, and by developing in them character traits like drive and prudence, both via classroom instruction and through extracurricular activities.

The AIM Center provides technical assistance to state educational agencies, local education agencies, and other stakeholders to develop effective systems for the timely delivery of high - quality accessible instructional materials to all students with disabilities who need them.

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.

President Barack Obama has often noted in speeches the enthusiasm of Korean parents for their children's education, the high quality of Korean teachers, the number of learning hours that Korean students spend, and the outstanding educational achievements these have produced; for example, top rankings in international academic - achievement tests, and low rates of school dropouts and juvenile delinquency.

John Larmer, Editor in Chief at the Buck Institute for Education, looks at how to get high - quality work from students engaged in project - based learning.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

Contact: Adam Rabinowitz: 202-266-4724, [email protected] Jackie Kerstetter: 814-440-2299, [email protected], Education Next D.C.'s high - stakes teacher evaluations raise teacher quality, student achievement 90 % of the turnover of low - performing teachers occurs in high - poverty schools July 27, 2017 — Though the Every Student Succeeds Act excludes any requirements for states about teacher evaluation policies, the results from a once - controversial high - stakes system -Lstudent achievement 90 % of the turnover of low - performing teachers occurs in high - poverty schools July 27, 2017 — Though the Every Student Succeeds Act excludes any requirements for states about teacher evaluation policies, the results from a once - controversial high - stakes system -LStudent Succeeds Act excludes any requirements for states about teacher evaluation policies, the results from a once - controversial high - stakes system -LSB-...]

The major substantive chapters of the book place Swedish expenditure and achievement in comparative perspective (in both, Sweden rates high); show that the decline in education inputs during the 1990s worsened the teacher - student ratio and teacher quality; review the international research on the effects of school choice; and test for the effects of school choice in Sweden on achievement.

Aware that engaging, high - quality early childhood education has ongoing positive benefits for students, Sarah wanted to make sure her classroom strategies were as effective as they could be.

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.

Gilford's classes participate in the Student Watershed Research Project, a Portland State University program that supports environmental education and aggregates high - quality student - collected data for use outside the claStudent Watershed Research Project, a Portland State University program that supports environmental education and aggregates high - quality student - collected data for use outside the clastudent - collected data for use outside the classroom.

To the contrary, the Loveless study cited above offers some support for the proposition that high performers suffer systematically from the focus on closing the achievement gap, while there is limited data that grouping all students together improves the quality of education for struggling students.

We will continue to fight for the students in our neighborhood and their right to a high - quality public education.

If a school is not providing students with a high - quality education, these avenues for recourse should activate in ascending order.

Acknowledging these studies, it is notable that the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice — a body affiliated with the National Education Association — has observed: «Voucher studies, generally of high quality, indicate a slightly positive impact, particularly for African American students.»