Sentences with phrase «improve schools at every level»

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Hardly an election at any level is free of calls for improving our schools, and presidential candidates avoid the topic at their peril.

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Advanced sports clinics are offered to experienced middle school girls who are looking to improve their skills and prepare themselves to compete at the high school level in their sport of interest.

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.

Here's an article worth reading about how closed - campus policies do much to improve school meal participation — and overall student nutrition — at the high school level.

Let's find out the financial impact of really diversifying and improving our menus in a meaningful way — particularly at the high school and middle school levels.

This chapter outlines a range of actions that families, communities, businesses, and governments at all levels can take to improve school foods and the school nutrition environment so they support and foster healthier food choices and help reduce childhood obesity.

As part of its commitment to improve athlete health and safety at all levels of sport, the NFL Foundation has launched a pilot grant program to increase the number of high school football players with access to an athletic trainer.

Directors of School Standards will be appointed at a local level to monitor performance and intervene in under - performing schools to support them to improve.

The Ga West MCE also noted that standard in education at the basic level has improved drastically following the provision of eleven 30 - unit Millenium City Schools and several other school blocks built.

«After enduring the threat of funding cuts during the impasse, cities and school districts will receive funding at similar levels to the last budget and will benefit from improved oversight mechanisms for fiscally distressed municipalities,» the report states.

Mulgrew said that the talks have focused not only on wages but also on improving working conditions and giving teachers a greater professional voice at the school level.

This Commission provided guidance and direction to AAAS educational activities, particularly improving science education at the elementary and junior high school levels.

Generation - E project» being funded by Human Resource Development Canada should help improve awareness at the high school level.

«If we can find a drug that makes beta cells grow, it could improve blood sugar levels in people with diabetes,» said Maike Sander, MD, professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

«These new studies support previous findings that reducing sodium from very high intake levels to moderate levels improves health,» said committee chair Brian Strom, George S. Pepper Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

The Asensia ® formula has been shown at a Stanford University School of Medicine study, to improve progesterone levels in women in child bearing age.

Collins: While we acknowledge the need for improved science instruction at all grade levels, as our resources are limited, KSTF has made the conscious decision to focus on high - school teaching.

The highest level of satisfaction with regard to improvements was among teachers at city technology colleges, with 67 % saying works had been carried out and their environment had improved, while on average a third of schools had not seen any works carried out in the past year.

Thanks to The JJ Charitable Trust and Oxfordshire County Council we will work with secondary schools to embed literacy as the driver for improving attainment at GCSE level.»

One parent of a high achiever, who was offered a place in one of the science colleges at the time, decided to keep her daughter at our school because she said that «She enjoys the classes so much and is always given the chance to improve and work to her level here anyway.»

The Bright Vale story shows feedback being used to improve teaching within a school, but the same logic holds true at higher levels of the education system, as illustrated above right.

Districts can support teachers and improve retention by, first and foremost, ensuring effective leadership at the school level.

Networks, dioceses or regions of schools within each state should use feedback to improve the support they offer schools; states should learn what works best at a network level; and so on.

For primary school children, setting up drop off zones some distance from each school so that children could walk independently under supervision at least some of the distance to school would rapidly improve children's physical activity levels,» she said.

There is no evidence that high school students who enroll in college - level courses such as Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate classes improve their academic performance in college unless they take the tests offered at the end of each course, says a study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

There is reason to believe that this might be the case: for instance, in prior research at the K - 12 level, Hart and I found that offering school vouchers to economically disadvantaged families improved the productivity of traditional public schools.

Over the last five years, RIMA has marshaled local and national philanthropy; recruited school operators and educators into Rhode Island; provided staff support for facilities identification, finance, and development; formed and advocated for improved education policies at both the state and local levels; and served as a «help center» for questions about state laws, regulations, practices, and culture.

These national ERAOs and their counterparts at the state level are focused on enacting sweeping education policy changes to increase accountability for student achievement, improve teacher quality, turn around failing schools, and expand school choice.

The existence of an orderly learning environment throughout the school — established through positive rather than negative means, whereby there are high levels of teacher consistency about how it is «enforced» and structures in place to ensure that all students are known well by at least one adult in the school — is a fundamental precondition for improved teaching and learning to occur on which the subsequent improvement in student learning outcomes can be based.

In 2000 the foundation committed $ 150 million over five years to improving leadership at the school and district level and is now underwriting in 24 states a wide variety of programs: leadership academies, university - school district partnerships, research, changes in what it takes to become certified as a principal, and superintendent training.

«Tom is unique in that he understands the theoretical, research, and policy perspectives on urban education, yet is masterful in designing and executing practices that result in improved teaching and learning in the classroom, at the school and at the district level.

Peer assessment may improve performance for students who receive evaluations and for students as they give evaluations of writing assignments (Karegianes, Pascarella, & Pflaum, 1980) at the elementary school and secondary school levels (Topping, 2009).

Ormiston Forge Academy in Cradley Heath capped a remarkable year with 84 per cent of the A level cohort achieving three or more passes at grades A * - E. Just 18 months after the Academy was judged as Good by Ofsted and in the same year it was designated as a National Support School, every indicator at Key Stage 5 has improved yet again.

Students who say, «I want to improve education, either at the building level, state level, or national level, but I have to understand how schools work.»

The national Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools aims to improve the mental health of the next generation by supporting schools in making positive changes at all levels of the UK's education Schools aims to improve the mental health of the next generation by supporting schools in making positive changes at all levels of the UK's education schools in making positive changes at all levels of the UK's education system.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

As chairman of the Education Commission of the States (ECS) at that time, I pushed other governors and corporate CEOs to address the problem with a high - level «Task Force on Education for Economic Growth,» thus establishing the vital link between education and economic growth that has fueled so many of the ensuing efforts to improve schools at the state level.

In fact, I believe it is high time that we commit the full resources required to reform and improve every school in America so that every child is learning, so that every child is at grade level or above.

As a result of this initiative, achievement levels at the school have improved.

At the school level, many local organizing groups have collaborated with neighborhood schools to improve safety, increase parental engagement, open community schools, and develop more culturally relevant curricula, among other things.

The program is a hybrid: it gives formula grants to states, but to receive their share of funds (fixed amounts calculated by a formula tied to the states» levels of need) states had to submit applications specifying in detail how they would set up competitive grant programs for their districts aimed at helping low - performing, high - poverty schools improve reading instruction in grades K — 3.

Research carried out by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), shows that commitment to improving teaching and learning in schools in Wales is «visible at all levels of the education system».

The Commission will examine factors in raising student achievement from prekindergarten through high school including: state accountability and curriculum requirements; model programs to improve student achievement beginning in early learning programs and continuing throughout high school; strategies for every student to achieve at grade level such as intervention and support systems; and policies to improve student attendance and retention.

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.

Embedding writing instruction, as well as opportunities to write, into all content areas is key to improving student achievement at the middle and high school levels.

At the time the survey was launched, in June 2014, John Steele, chief executive of the Youth Sport Trust, said: «It is crucial that we play a key role in improving physical activity rates amongst young people and there couldn't be a more important time for us to investigate the current levels of PE and sport in schools.»

Grade - level teams have also helped improve student achievement at Franklin School in Rahway, New Jersey, according to principal Margaret Morales.

We intend to build our own Outdoor Centre, run Bushcraft Clubs in all of our schools, equip our Sixth Formers with the skills to run their own private fieldwork expeditions when they are at university, expand the teaching of subjects that happens in specialist outdoor areas on ‑ site, and continue our university ‑ level research to understand how we can best improve learning through the outdoors and on major expeditions.

Identification of, and comprehensive, evidence - based intervention in, the lowest - performing five percent of title I schools, all public high schools with a graduation rate below 67 percent, and public schools in which one or more subgroups of students are performing at a level similar to the performance of the lowest - performing five percent of title I schools and have not improved after receiving targeted interventions for a State - determined number of years; and