Sentences with phrase «improve as achievement»

The disadvantage of this approach is that grades won't improve as achievement improves.

Not exact matches

EDMONTON, November 3, 2010 — Canadian Western Bank (CWB) is pleased to announce the achievement of its fifth consecutive year as one of the top 50 Best Employers in Canada, improving its ranking to 27th, up from 35th in 2010.

back to top four is an achievement lol, we play football to win titles or to improve for arsenal success is seen differently as fans are milked for the Stan

Any manager worth his salt will want to improve and win the league, but Wenger is happy to finish bloody 4th for 10 years and ram it down our throats as if it is an achievement.

Liverpool have had a brilliant season, improving as the weeks have gone by and winning the Champions League would be an amazing achievement for the team and the club itself.

Programs that promote breastfeeding and ensure access to nutritious foods, such as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, the school meals and summer feeding programs, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and child care food assistance, improve health outcomes, school achievement, and workforce competitiveness.

Indeed, a rich body of research suggests homework might benefit older students, and, even then, that there is no strong evidence that homework improves academic achievement (as discussed in this article from the Center for Public Education).

As more schools adopt the Breakfast in the Classroom approach, the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom anticipate participation in the federally - funded School Breakfast Program will increase, helping reduce hunger and improve educational achievement nationwide.

Fathers» involvement in parenting is associated with positive cognitive, developmental, and socio - behavioural child outcomes such as improved weight gain in preterm infants, improved breastfeeding rates, higher receptive language skills, and higher academic achievement [33].

Asked what she regarded as the government's major achievement, she said it was to improve security in the north - east where militant Islamist group Boko Haram has waged an insurgency since 2009.

Whereas, New York State is a leading voice for women's equality and has raised that voice in action through such significant achievements as passage of the historic «Women's Equality Agenda» in 2015 - eight laws that advance women's equality in New York State by helping to achieve pay equity, strengthen human trafficking laws and protections for domestic violence victims, and ending pregnancy discrimination in all workplaces; other measures further safeguard and promote women's interests and help improve their status in settings where they live and work; and

As a sixth form college principal I witnessed how the educational maintenance allowance (EMA) significantly improved attendance, retention and achievement and was helping to tackle some of the most deep seated issues by raising aspirations.

Nowhere in the report were references made to either the improved capacity or achievements recorded by the Nigeria Police Force across the country in the recent time, the Force therefore implores all Nigerians and international community to disregard the report as unfounded and misleading.»

Here in the Ctiy of Buffalo this year a report from the Council on Great City Schools on Improving the Academic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language iAchievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language iachievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instruction.

The Mayor's statement also cites improved community - police relations and a modernized police force as Derenda's achievements.

Other achievements, according to the Organized Labour include, «payment of 13th Month salary as Christmas bonus to the state workers; elaborate infrastructural developments of both urban and rural areas of the state through unique fiscal management of the state's meager resources; transformation of the education, agriculture and health sectors, other areas of governance which have improved the quality of lives of the people of Enugu State; approval of payment of arrears of salaries of 731 former staff of some state parastatals and also, the regularization of 42 casual staff of the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Parklane Enugu, as permanent staff of the institution», among others.

«Maintaining and improving school integration is important, as previous research has shown that students of all races who attend diverse schools demonstrate higher academic achievement in reading, language, mathematics and science,» reported Frankenberg.

The physics Nobelist who recently stepped down as point person for the Obama Administration's efforts to improve U.S. science education told Congress yesterday that many federally funded programs don't draw upon current research about how people learn and, therefore, haven't managed to boost student achievement.

«Children who received music lessons showed improved language - based reasoning and the ability to plan, organize and complete tasks, as well as improved academic achievement,» says Dr Jaschke.

They hope that these achievements might also serve as a model for improving the management of other disease stages and settings.

«Although Anzman - Frasca and colleagues did not replicate previous findings that breakfast improved academic achievement, this should not be interpreted as a lack of benefit for breakfast programs.

However, there is no doubt that when teachers identified as low - performers exit, both teacher quality and student achievement substantially improve.»

According to Professor Chris Beyrer, Director of Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health & Human Rights, USA, who coordinated the Series, «Efforts to improve HIV prevention and treatment by and for people who sell sex can no longer be seen as peripheral to the achievement of universal access to HIV services and to eventual control of the pandemic.

Instead of allowing them to be a tool to improve our lives, we implement them as a constricting, judgment - filled achievement.

When you work with Brain Balance Achievement Centers, you'll learn which foods are ideal for improving focus and how to avoid foods that will make your child more distracted, such as processed foods with added sugars and dyes.

As a result of the PBIS approach, office referrals have been cut in half, which has bought back learning time that has helped improve our student achievement scores,» she added.

When the nation's governors and top business leaders convene in Palisades, N.Y., later this month for an education summit, they plan to champion academic standards as the key to improving student achievement.

I met Branch at D.C.'s family - funded Flamboyan Foundation, which trains — and pays — teachers to visit their students» homes as part of a strategy to use better relations between schools and families as a means to improving academic achievement.

One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.

In the absence of race - based constraints, some reform efforts that aim to improve school quality, such as charter schools, open enrollment, magnet schools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010).

Service learning can have positive effects on students» performance on subject - matter examinations and assessments and creates opportunities known to improve academic achievement, such as giving students the chance to act autonomously, develop good relationships with adults and peers, and increase personal self - esteem and feelings of self - efficacy.

She claims «the people who wrote the Common Core standards sold them as a way to improve achievement and reduce the gaps between rich and poor, and black and white.

Our version of PBL did work to improve achievement as compared to business - as - usual instruction in high - poverty, low - performing school districts.

Indeed, as Dr. Comer takes us through his interesting and varied experiences in trying to improve schooling and education for children who are generally at the bottom in school achievement, we discover that, in contrast to some other models, his does not aim at or expect any rapid improvement in achievement.

As they do so, it is critical they choose interventions with solid evidence of improving student achievement.

As a result of the legislative activity of the past 20 years, school systems have grown in size and power, under the mistaken assumption that more funding and more authority would give educators the clout and resources they needed to improve achievement.

Ms Rodgers, who most recently served as Deputy Secretary, Early Learning and Student Achievement at the New Zealand Ministry of Education, has experience in improving system effectiveness with school leaders across education and the wider social sector.

Since the 1970s, policymakers have relied on test - based accountability (TBA) as a primary tool for improving student achievement and for reducing racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps.

Nonetheless, our analysis finds that improved teaching was common and that student achievement increased as a result.

Not only has the district received a great deal of positive press about this partnership (for example, one blogger recently wrote that he «left ABC rejoicing in what they have been able to accomplish» in this arena), it also served as the basis for research by Rutgers University's Saul Rubinstein and John McCarthy on how working together improves student achievement.

This is a great achievement in terms of protecting vulnerable populations, in terms of human rights education and action, as well as the development of the ever improving human rights legal instruments and implementations procedures.

Research evidence shows that a quality music education can improve self ‑ confidence, behaviour and social skills as well as improve academic achievement in areas such as numeracy, literacy and language.

Specifically, they agreed to develop academic standards and assessments in every state and to expand the use of information technology as a way to improve student performance and aid in the measurement of student achievement.

As such, he argues that, if our results are correct and school spending really does improve student outcomes (with larger effects for low - income children), outcomes should have improved over time and achievement gaps by income should have been eliminated over this time period.

In her first year on the job, Jewell - Sherman launched Excellence for All, a comprehensive plan aimed at improving teaching and learning to enable students to reach high academic standards, and promoting involvement with the community as a way of addressing nonacademic barriers to student achievement.

As his one - year term as chairman nears its end, Garcia talked with Education World about his desire to help urban districts pinpoint ways to improve student performance and continue to shrink the achievement gaAs his one - year term as chairman nears its end, Garcia talked with Education World about his desire to help urban districts pinpoint ways to improve student performance and continue to shrink the achievement gaas chairman nears its end, Garcia talked with Education World about his desire to help urban districts pinpoint ways to improve student performance and continue to shrink the achievement gap.

The hope and the expectation for deploying SAMs are that once principals get back to using their expertise as instructional leaders, teacher confidence and satisfaction will rise and student achievement will improve.

The purpose of this project is to perform the evaluation portion of a randomized control trial designed to assess the impact of The Match School Foundation, Inc.'s teacher training program for novice teachers on outcomes such as achievement growth of teachers» students, principal ratings, and retention with the ultimate goal of improving K - 12 education.

For example, this year's first - year students are helping the Education Achievement Authority of Michigan implement a student - centered instructional model as a means of improving achievement in some of Detroit's lowest - performiAchievement Authority of Michigan implement a student - centered instructional model as a means of improving achievement in some of Detroit's lowest - performiachievement in some of Detroit's lowest - performing schools.

In his eight years as Minnesota's governor, Tim Pawlenty's «push against the teachers union grew stronger,» Sherry writes, and he called for tying teacher pay to performance, bringing up the state's standards, and urging state lawmakers to authorize the use of a transparent growth model to see how well schools are really doing to improve student achievement.