Transparency is crucial to maintaining
a high quality of education for all students.
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.
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.
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.
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.
«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.
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 radi
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 radi
education 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 quali
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 quali
for 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.
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 -L
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 -L
Student 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.
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.
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.
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.»
Includes terms related to getting a job (references, qualifications, etc.), retail stores (SKU, customer satisfaction), employee
qualities (professionalism, punctuality), and job positions (employee, volunteer, executive, etc.) I used these
for a
high school special
education student with autism, and taught them in sets
of 3 using flashcards presented in discrete trials.
We stand
for quality in terms
of initial teacher
education and we believe it's vitally important that
students have access to
high -
quality teaching courses and that those courses provide them with the particular expertise they need to be classroom ready at the end
of that study.
While the Committee
of Ten did suggest different programs
of study
for high schools (
for example, programs specializing in classical languages, science and mathematics, or modern languages) and introduced the concept
of electives to American
high schools, its guiding principle was that all
students should receive the same
high -
quality liberal arts
education.
• Blurring the boundaries between secondary and postsecondary
education has its pluses — such as acceleration opportunities
for smart
students — but some
of what passes
for «dual credit» in
high school lacks any real collegiate
quality control and some
of what passes
for corequisite courses on campus really is
high school stuff and doesn't deserve college credit.
«This recognition also brings
for me a heightened level
of responsibility and renewed energy to continue to work hard towards
high quality education for all children alongside a unique group
of individuals —
students, scholars, staff, and faculty — whom I'm honored to call my colleagues and friends.»
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.
It discusses an important trend in
education litigation: the increasing reliance on theories
of adequacy to achieve
high -
quality education for all
students.
Indeed, in many large cities during the 1960s and 1970s, the problems facing minority
high - school
students actually worsened, as their schools became battlegrounds
for such issues as busing and identity politics, issues that overwhelmed more routine efforts to improve the
quality of education.
The state Department
of Education may consider investing in
high quality formative assessment and data analysis programs as a tool
for low performing schools to use in focusing instruction and preparing
students for the MCAS.
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.
However, the Supreme Court's Brown mandate was to ensure access to a
high quality public
education to all
students, and those ultimately responsible
for developing and supporting a foundation
for such opportunities — elected officials, policymakers, and the post-Brown courts — have fallen far short
of the target.
If our major policy focus is to improve
student achievement by improving teacher effectiveness — accounting
for 30 per cent
of the variance in
student achievement — we must attract
higher -
quality applicants to the teaching profession, improve our teacher
education institutions and courses, esteem and grow those teachers who demonstrate expert potential, and mandate teacher development programs
for less effective teachers.
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.
Maria Izolda Cela Coelho, the secretary
of education of Ceará State in Brazil, says the seminar was an excellent opportunity
for her to reflect on relevant issues
of public
education improvement, such as the promotion
of high -
quality learning among
students, performance gap reduction between different social groups, and the implementation
of curricula focused on the development
of 21st - century skills.
For example, IES provides the foundations of factual information and research with the collection of clear, consistent, high - quality data through the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).1 It is through the efforts of IES, which conducts its work free from political influence, that we are able to understand trends in our student populations, schools and universities, and an array of inputs and outcomes that span early childhood to adult educati
For example, IES provides the foundations
of factual information and research with the collection
of clear, consistent,
high -
quality data through the National Center
for Education Statistics (NCES).1 It is through the efforts of IES, which conducts its work free from political influence, that we are able to understand trends in our student populations, schools and universities, and an array of inputs and outcomes that span early childhood to adult educati
for Education Statistics (NCES).1 It is through the efforts of IES, which conducts its work free from political influence, that we are able to understand trends in our student populations, schools and universities, and an array of inputs and outcomes that span early childhood to adult e
Education Statistics (NCES).1 It is through the efforts
of IES, which conducts its work free from political influence, that we are able to understand trends in our
student populations, schools and universities, and an array
of inputs and outcomes that span early childhood to adult
educationeducation.
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 launch
of edweek.org in 1996 ushered EPE into the Digital Age and created a platform
for the evolution
of its
Education Week flagship publication into an integrated print - digital news organization that provides distinctive staff - written original reporting, a forum for a lively but civil exchange of opinion on education issues, an unequaled online archive of 30 - plus years of education coverage, high - quality content from news and information partners, interactive databases, and a host of video, multimedia, and other features that clarify complex points of policy and bring the stories of American schools, educators, students, and parents
Education Week flagship publication into an integrated print - digital news organization that provides distinctive staff - written original reporting, a forum
for a lively but civil exchange
of opinion on
education issues, an unequaled online archive of 30 - plus years of education coverage, high - quality content from news and information partners, interactive databases, and a host of video, multimedia, and other features that clarify complex points of policy and bring the stories of American schools, educators, students, and parents
education issues, an unequaled online archive
of 30 - plus years
of education coverage, high - quality content from news and information partners, interactive databases, and a host of video, multimedia, and other features that clarify complex points of policy and bring the stories of American schools, educators, students, and parents
education coverage,
high -
quality content from news and information partners, interactive databases, and a host
of video, multimedia, and other features that clarify complex points
of policy and bring the stories
of American schools, educators,
students, and parents to life.
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?».
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.
Career technical
education (CTE) has become a focus
of many state plans to increase
students» college and career readiness and workforce training, but there is a critical need
for high quality research to guide policy decisions.