Sentences with phrase «important school data»

The report fails to demonstrate how these schools are equal and excludes important school data such as enrollment numbers.

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This is great news — and also very important data to have on hand as we head into the Child Nutrition Reauthorization this fall, when federal lawmakers will debate whether to roll back some of these same healthier school meal standards.

«It is heartening to see that the most recent data shows a narrowing in the gap between learners eligible for free school meals and those who aren't, and this data supports the findings of the survey we undertook in the summer which showed how students from poorer backgrounds are benefiting from this important Welsh Liberal Democrat policy.

Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education of School Workforce statistical data on headteachers» salaries, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «Headteachers and other school leaders have an important and critical job to do in leading and managing teaching and learning in scSchool Workforce statistical data on headteachers» salaries, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «Headteachers and other school leaders have an important and critical job to do in leading and managing teaching and learning in scschool leaders have an important and critical job to do in leading and managing teaching and learning in schools.

«Although the potential for any data privacy concerns from purely microbial DNA is very low, it's important for researchers to know that such issues are theoretically possible,» said senior author Curtis Huttenhower, associate professor of computational biology and bioinformatics at Harvard Chan School.

«Our study group has spent decades studying the health effects of diet quality and composition, and now this new data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to lower risk of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

These findings suggest that lowering the NAAQS for fine particulate matter will produce important public health benefits, especially among self - identified racial minorities and people with low incomes,» said Francesca Dominici, principal investigator of this study and professor of biostatistics at Harvard Chan School and co-director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative.

«I think they're important data... that should be used to assess the need for extended or mass vaccination,» says Gerald Pier of Harvard Medical School in Boston.

While the report doesn't contain any new scientific findings, lead author Frank Sacks, MD, professor of cardiovascular disease prevention at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, says it was important for the American Heart Association to take a close look at the available data.

This system combines important qualitative practice scores, quantitative growth and achievement data, school and network factors, as well as a community and parent engagement factor.

As school leaders, we have to do the difficult work of weighing student data, staff input, and external pressures, and selecting what is most important to help us reach our mission.

Recognising the Risks Schools and universities store a wealth of important information on their networks, anything from personal information to medical records or financial data.

It would be important for schools to think about how the six legal bases and additional provisions for special category data (including that related to health and biometrics) will relate to their purposes, but they must be very clear on purpose — why and how you're collecting and using the data.

Measures of school performance based on carefully constructed comparisons of student achievement growth, and other important outcomes, such as high - school graduation and college enrollment rates, require student - level data that are not publicly available.

Baseline data of this kind are especially important for children who enter school with learning and developmental delays.

However this is an important opportunity for schools to really think about what data they are processing, how they are doing so, whether they need to and how they can do it safely.

It's important to keep in mind that there are three central uses of data in school education.

In one important respect, it is likely that the BLS data underestimate the cost of retirement benefits for public school teachers.

«You have to see data as helping you be accountable for something that's really important to you,» says John Chubb, chief academic officer of Edison Schools.

A Better Way to Compare State Performance on NAEP By Matthew M. Chingos and Kristin Blagg Demographically - adjusted data provide important insights into differences in state - level school performance.

«It's incredibly important to use data to drive education reform efforts,» said Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools.

Our data is continuously being tracked, sold and purchased, and it is important for students and schools to know and understand the importance of privacy.

«The measurement of achievement is important data to understanding how students can improve their work and how schools can improve their instruction,» writes Francisco Hernandez in his exclusive interview with blended learning expert Michael Horn.

New empirical work, using better data (e.g., that enable researchers to estimate the relative impact of factors affecting student achievement growth from year to year) and more - sophisticated statistical techniques has, in broad terms, reinforced the Coleman Report conclusion that teacher quality is the most important schooling variable.

The RttT money was important enough to New York's legislature that just a few days shy of the June 1 deadline, they voted to remake the teacher evaluation process, to allow for more charter schools, and to appropriate $ 20.4 million for a new longitudinal data system.

Just as we would help students break down their tasks it's also really important to break down our tasks when we're actually investigating... keeping data... and then working on reflecting on that, whether it's just you solo or working with somebody else, whether it's a school or whole cluster of schools.»

Thus an analysis of elite schools, we believe, gives us important data from which we can draw some, albeit tentative, conclusions.

First, compelling new data confirmed that teacher quality was the most important in - school factor affecting growth in student achievement.

School personnel and parents / families need to be involved in the tracking of attendance data and informed about how important it is to get accurate data.

It's also important that a school reviews all of its policies to ensure they are all in accordance with the Health and Safety, Data Protection, Risk Management and Freedom of Information Acts.

My Evergreen Education colleague John Watson, who led the research, has done a good job distilling several of the lessons behind these schools» successes in a series of blog posts that chronicle the importance of leadership in blended learning; the critical role in - person teachers and mentors — not just monitors — play; the persistence district schools must have as they navigate the inevitable bumps on the road to implementing successfully blended learning; and the important role data plays.

Every school will need to appoint a DPO and it is important to start thinking about who you are going to hire or assign in your team as your Data Protection Officer - and it's a good idea to appoint this person early!

The data collated by Impero Education Pro and interpreted by Impero Insight covers a range of important school issues, requirements and concerns.

Dan Abramson, head teacher of the state - funded King's Maths School, believes that mathematics is becoming «increasingly important» in the modern world with the increasing significance of data to businesses meaning quantitate skills are vital.

For the educators themselves, it's important to gather relevant data that can inform on the size of each local cohort and when they're expected to arrive in schools.

Despite some drawbacks, demographically - adjusted data provide important insights into differences in state - level school performance, and show that there are substantial differences across states, even after adjusting for demographics.

Administrators added, though, that while data is important, it must be considered along with the «human» factors in a school.

When I took on my new role in the school, which involved using and analysing data and assisting other staff members to do the same, I knew that it would be important to ensure I upgraded my skills and develop a good understanding of the current research to be able to put it into practice.»

These programs address an urgent challenge or priority — from narrowing achievement gaps and postsecondary success to modeling courageous conversations and leading inclusive schools — and provide educators with important context and data, as well as concrete solutions for expanding opportunity and achieving excellence with equity.

Because, oftentimes when I talk to teachers and I say «data are really important to school improvement», they're thinking standardised test data; data that might come from the government or might be administered outside of their own classroom.

«GDPR is vast but there are some very key elements that schools should be doing, such as demonstrating that they are taking data protection seriously — up - to - date policies, record keeping and staff training are all important elements of this.

What is important is that the person is independent (free from any conflict of interest with the school) and also close enough to the school to know what is going on there from a data protection point of view.»

The data collection and analysis are the foundation of an important conversation at schools that are seeking to maximize the time they have and to make decisions about increasing, or expanding learning time for students and planning time for teachers.

School leaders play an important role in modeling the use of data and in developing school practices where teachers are expected to use data to guide their instruSchool leaders play an important role in modeling the use of data and in developing school practices where teachers are expected to use data to guide their instruschool practices where teachers are expected to use data to guide their instruction.

The report uses empirical data analysis to correct the record on the effects of unions on the teaching workforce and, in turn, on an important measure of student education attainment: high school dropout rates.

Our new GreatSchools Summary Rating offers expanded information about important aspects of school quality — including student access to advanced courses, student progress information, and equity data to help parents see whether or not all students are being served similarly — that parents across the country can use to support their children's education and take action to improve their local schools.

States have an important role to play in ensuring that data systems exist that can measure and identify highly productive schools and districts.

However, there is much more work that can be done, and many states have the necessary data to answer important research questions about CTE (including questions about equity and access, effect of participation on high school graduation rates, college enrollment and attainment, and civic and employment outcomes).

We're incorporating this rich data to ensure that our school ratings reflect factors that we know are important to parents and that research shows are connected to students» success in college and life.

It's incredibly important to understand which of these is driving participation rates, preferably by data not relying on school self reports.