Sentences with phrase «institutional quality of schools»
«There's a lot about the institutional quality of schools that feels misaligned with our basic humanity,» said Matt Kramer, CEO of the Wildflower Foundation, which supports a network of micro-schools.
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Whatever one thinks of standardized tests, it is hard to argue that fragmenting or complicating academic measurement will aid parents whose children attend less elite schools that don't have top - notch college lists to validate institutional quality.
Accrediting schools in California, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, Palau, Micronesia, Northern Marianas, Marshall Islands and other Australasian locations, the ASC WASC encourages and supports institutional development and improvement through self - evaluation as well as mid-cycle, follow - up and special reports, and periodic peer evaluation of institutional quality.
In 2006, Arthur Levine, the former president of Teachers College, Columbia University, published a lengthy report on the state of teacher education, calling it a «troubled field» and criticizing schools of education for having low admission and graduation standards, and «wide disparities in institutional quality.»
Fordham's institutional commitment to quality authorizing is reflected in the success of its schools, seen in trustees» decisions to approve expansions and replications of existing, high - performing school models.
Ten working groups are investigating the role of efficacy research as it relates to (a) K - 12 district and school decision making, (b) higher education decision making, (c) research spending, (d) evidence and quality of efficacy in research approaches, (e) institutional competence, (f) investors and entrepreneurs, (g) the role of federal goals and funding, (h) educational philanthropies, (i) end users, and (j) crowdsourcing.
A new report by The Century Foundation's Yan Cao examines how on three measures of higher education quality — graduate employment outcomes, student financial distress, and institutional investment in education — for - profit colleges in New York are under - performing when compared to the state's public and nonprofit schools.
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Department of Education (ED) has upheld the ED staff and the National Advisory Council on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) recommendations that the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) should no longer be recognized as an agency that can provide schools with an accreditaSchools (ACICS) should no longer be recognized as an agency that can provide schools with an accreditaschools with an accreditation...