Sentences with phrase «in holding schools»

When it comes to the role of the federal government in public schools, a majority of respondents said Washington should play no role in holding schools accountable, paying for schools or deciding the amount of testing.

«By using this new measure, states will be more honest in holding schools accountable and ensuring that students succeed,» said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

We believe in holding schools, school systems, leaders, and ourselves accountable for the progress of all students.

And, the entity that we should all expect to lead the way in holding all schools accountable for students» achievement levels is the state government.

Nick Gibb, the schools minister, recently insisted that testing was «very important» in holding schools to account and claimed assessments had «no real consequences» for the young people who took them.

«Unfortunately, an independent peer review of state education accountability plans (published at Check State Plans) reveals that Texas» plan is weak in holding schools accountable for the success of all English learners.»

But urban leaders — whose schools are most likely to struggle to reach the law's current goals and most apt to face such sanctions — are urging Congress to be more aggressive in holding their schools accountable in the future.

Unless you still believe in holding schools accountable for things they can't control — and in those bold timelines politicians and bureaucrats are so fond of concocting — a school rating system like Colorado's should suit you.

The No Child Left Behind law — the 2002 update of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — effectively scaled up the federal role in holding schools accountable for student outcomes.

Not exact matches

Jim holds a BA in molecular biology from Princeton University and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business.

She holds a BS in business administration from Bucknell University and an MBA from The Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

On top of having one of the best cohorts of teachers in the world (even primary school teachers are required to hold master's degrees), Finland has made hands - on subjects a priority.

DeAngelis graduated Cum Laude from Cornell University with a B.A. in Asian studies and history and also holds a Juris Doctorate from Rutgers School of Law.

She holds a master's degree in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Many parents of kids who struggle in school have wished that they could somehow tinker with their kid's brain to fix whatever was holding them back and making them feel so miserable.

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She held fast to that dream throughout high school, toiling over her art portfolio and racking up painting awards, all the while maintaining top grades, earning her grade 10 Royal Conservatory of Music certification for piano, and playing saxophone in seven different bands.

A certified financial planner, Yeske is managing director at wealth management firm Yeske Buie and holds an appointment as Distinguished Adjunct Professor in Golden Gate University's Ageno School of Business.

For the moment Narodick, who holds a master's degree in teaching but never taught school, is transforming her boardroom into a classroom.

Our «sleep machismo,» says Charles Czeisler, director of sleep medicine at Harvard Medical School, «glorifies sleeplessness in the way we once glorified people who could hold their liquor.»

The OECD has estimated that 44 percent of American workers holding less than a high school degree work in jobs made up of «highly - automatable» tasks, while just 1 percent of Americans holding a bachelor's degree or higher hold such jobs.

He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University where he earned a B.S. in Mathematical Science, and he holds an M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Aiello holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and bachelor's degrees from the University of Michigan in Dance and Political Science.

Gardner holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Williams College, a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in finance from Wharton School.

The prestigious University of Toronto business school has always been held in high regard on Bay Street, where many of its faculty established their careers.

Amy Cuddy, a faculty member at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, has conducted an experiment with her graduate students demonstrating that holding an assertive body posture for as little as two minutes increases the amount of testosterone in the body, in men and women.

Held annually at top - tier graduate schools across the U.S., the workshops aim to help players who are interested in owning, operating or building their own businesses.

A penchant for holding onto everything that might come in handy in the future, plus a generally nomadic existence (home to the midwest for the summers, back to New York for school semesters), meant that I lived in a semi-permanent state of bare - boned survival and clutter.

The jobs require applicants to be born and raised in Saudi Arabia, between the ages of 25 and 35, and hold a high school diploma or valid equivalent.

She holds a BA from Columbia University, a Master's Degree in journalism from New York University, and is a graduate of Harvard Business School's Program for Leadership Development.

Those four questions are at the core of a fascinating (and slim) new book, Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business, by John Quelch and Emily Boudreau — which grew out of a conference of the same name held in April at Harvard Business School and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

For example, the US Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund, which offered $ 4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms, spurred innovations that hold promise for school systems across the country.

Mike Isaac, The New York Times, and Scott Galloway, NYU Stern School of Business, discuss the latest in the ongoing content wars following the news that Disney held talks to acquire most of 21st Century Fox.

Cook is also absent from the U.S. News top 100 business schools list, while Harvard holds the No. 1 spot, Darden sits at No. 11, and UNC - Chapel Hill comes in at No. 19.

Led by Steve Coll, the dean of the Columbia Journalism School, the review examined the editorial process behind the explosive story, which failed to hold up under a barrage of questions raised by other media after its publication in November.

The finance sector's allure has held strong at the University of Virginia's McIntire School, where 47.8 % of students accepted jobs in the field in 2014, nearly the same number as last year, said Tom Fitch, McIntire's associate dean for career services and employer relations.

The school lost ground in U.S. News and World Report's 2013 rankings from No. 24 in 2012 to No. 25 in 2013 — the same spot the school held in 2011.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts and a master's degree in Economics from Laval University, as well as an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Actually, I was held after school, my parents were brought in, and I was reprimanded for not caring enough about microbiology.

Whitehead, meanwhile, holds a chair in physics and astronomy at the University of British Columbia as well as working in the school's Education Innovation department.

That's hard to say right now, but we do know that this is a drastic change, one that schools are going to have to account for before the law takes hold in 2019.

After earning degrees at Columbia University and Harvard Business School, Len Blavatnik — a Ukraine - born American — founded Access Industries, a privately held industrial company, in 1986.

The Berkeley - Columbia EMBA Program is taught equally by Berkeley - Haas and Columbia Business School faculty in classes held on both the Berkeley and Columbia campuses.

Mr. Fairbank holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor's degree in economics from Stanford University.

My name is Mike Moffatt and I hold the rank of Assistant Professor in the Business, Economics and Public Policy group at the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Rankings Analysis: The Kellogg School managed to hold onto its rank of third place among the world's best EMBA programs in the latest PoetsandQuants survey for 2014.

Buffett admitted that in high school and college he held a deep - seated fear of public speaking.

He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and holds an MBA in finance from the Schulich School of Business.

A school bus was used to transport the arrested to an athletic centre into Ucluelet, where the single holding cell was in no way appropriate for all those arrested.

From January 2014 to February 2015, Mr. Bell served as a director and chairman of the Audit Committee of Hennessy I, which merged with School Bus Holdings Inc. in February 2015 and is now known as Blue Bird Corporation (NASDAQ: BLBD).