Can decision - makers and everyone who is responsible for implementing school
improvement efforts come together to build a better, more sustainable approach to local improvement?
Not exact matches
«It's good news but a very large but a very large proportion of this
improvement came from people who left the labor force - labor force participation has declined significantly and therefore the
effort to draw them back into the labor force is a structural issue.»
Instead of viewing regulations like those mandated by OSHA as a nuisance (NAM and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for years fought against implementation of the original OSHA legislation and continue to lobby against
efforts to expand the legislation), Keller
came to see them as a blueprint for
improvement.
He says this success has
come about due to the hard work and dedication of the company's staff over the years, as well as the commitment to continuous
improvement and innovation in its production and marketing
efforts.
If Sanchez leaves
improvement would have to
come for the new formation and team
effort.
There was little
improvement on Wednesday evening at the Emirates but again Arsene Wenger's side
came away with a 2 - 2 draw against Paris Saint - Germain despite only having one
effort on target all game.
Likosky and colleagues note that in Michigan and northern New England, cardiac care providers and hospitals have
come together across their regions to pool data and feed reports back to each hospital and provider to drive
improvement efforts.
However, registration of cardiac arrests was prospective and uniform, following the standardized Utstein style for reporting out - of - hospital cardiac arrest and revised for data quality assurance by the RACE - CARS team.18 Our results support
efforts of other communities seeking to improve bystander and first - responder intervention, since they
come from a quality -
improvement database of a substantial portion of the state of North Carolina, with stable reporting over a 4 - year period during a broad implementation program that used a standardized protocol, as recommended by the American Heart Association.13, 20,40
Perhaps the best two pieces I've
come across are from the Newark Star - Ledger's Tom Moran including an opinion piece on where things stand that notes district progress along with charter school
improvements and reformers» misguided focus on the parts of the story Russakoff leaves out (Newark students are better off, despite the political noise) and also a Q & A with Russakoff in which the author rebuts a deeply flawed NYT review, proposes a forensic audit of Newark's $ 23,000 - per student spending, but calls the Zuckerberg - funded reform
efforts a «wash» over all (Author Dale Russakoff discusses new book).
However, school closings
come with other costs, and recent intensive
efforts at improving low - performing schools, such as the School
Improvement Grant program, have shown promise.
With the development of the Next Generation Science Standards and the roll out of the two consortia's CCSS assessments,
coming reforms in education will again highlight the role of non-legislative state actors and the need to apply methods like ours for understanding states»
efforts towards school
improvement.
Great schools are grown from the ground up and the top down: when teachers and leaders
come together in a joint
effort for whole - school
improvement, everybody wins.
As the front - line leaders of school
improvement efforts, the nation's principals have been among the loudest voices agitating for a long - overdue ESEA reauthorization, but the expediency of the reauthorization can not
come at the expense of equity.
To be successful in their school
improvement efforts, school leaders need the connections, support, and expertise that
come from interacting with a host of people, organizations, and institutions in the surrounding community.
The authors (from four nonprofit education research groups that compile the report annually) detail several successful
efforts that have increased graduation rates, but stress that
improvement has
come from targeted local interventions, not overarching national initiatives.
Although it's not possible given the data to
come up with a causal explanation for the
improvements, the paper hypothesizes that the state's
efforts to eliminate emergency certification and establish alternative - certification programs that tend to attract mid-career changers might have been factors.
Eva has worked on
improvement efforts in several roles prior to
coming to Carnegie.
With strong competition in a cut - throat market
comes a need to remain relevant even if it means taking the
effort to make excessively minor
improvements.
The information gained from these
efforts will help us guide our activities in the
coming year, make
improvements to the Show and other programs, and sharpen our focus on the future.
In almost any process, the results are not linear as one increases
effort, but there
comes diminishing returns because
improvement is not costless.
The greatest overall impact — and
improvement in cats» lives —
comes when an entire community shares the responsibility for and commitment to the TNR
effort.
Aaron Street: Yeah, and I think the thing to take away from this little conversation is if you're having client acquisition challenges in your firm, if there isn't enough
coming in it could be because your marketing
efforts are insufficient and you're not getting enough people to contact your firm but it's just as likely that there are opportunities for you to improve by working on your intake and sales conversion functions of getting the people who call or email your firm to convert into consultations and then clients at higher rates using a variety of client experience experiments and intake
improvement experiments.
In the
coming years, the HUAWEI Consumer BG will continue to focus on intelligence and interaction, and devote
efforts to developing the intelligent devices of the future, in order to bring about tremendous
improvements to the user experience.
It is said that
improvements to the Continuum feature in Windows Mobile, which are
coming in Redstone 3 in September, could be related to the firm's CSHELL
efforts.