Sentences with phrase «into weak schools»

He made sure that the push to hold educators accountable for results stopped short of challenging protection of dismal teachers and stymied efforts to send strong teachers into weak schools.

The OECD folks offer some explanations, terming Shanghai a «leader in reform» and citing in particular its near - universal education system, its competitiveness (including admission both to universities and to the best secondary schools), a very high level of student engagement, a modernized assessment system, an ambitious new curriculum, and a program of intervention into weak schools.

Not exact matches

My application was too weak to get me into the schools where I wanted to be, and I had no desire to attend the schools that would have accepted me.

In Gov. Andrew Cuomo's angry ultimatum on education, he inserted $ 8 million into his executive budget to fix the state's lowest - performing schools using «receivership,» a strategy with two decades worth of weak results.

The lab, at times, feels like a seething primordial soup of Darwinian selection, where only the strongest survive (i.e., publish papers in Science, Cell, or Nature), and the weak fade into oblivion (i.e., become anorexic, turn into technical sales reps, or go to law school).

In taking accountability away from school systems and placing it on individual schools and their employees, reform calls into question the current system of governance — and leaves no room for «excuses» such as weak family structures, poverty, discrimination, lack of aptitude, peer pressure, diet, television, etc..

«Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes?

Most significantly, they have transformed teaching in Washington from a low - status occupation marked by weak standards and factory - like work rules into a performance - based profession that provides recognition, responsibility, support, and significant compensation, with some starting salaries now as high as $ 75,000 and top pay climbing from $ 87,000 to $ 134,000 (and higher in the city's year - round schools).

For males who entered the labor market directly after high school graduation in 1972, the difference between mastery of basic mathematical skills (fractions, decimals, and line graphs) and weak understanding of these concepts translated into an hourly wage differential at age 24 of $ 0.48 per hour (or $ 960 per year for year - round, full - time workers).

The report's authors, the Consortium on Productivity in the Schools — a three - year effort to find weak points in how school systems are organized — sidestepped one of the group's original goals: identifying points where school - reform policy is not translated into classroom practice.

Parochial schools are less likely to fall into the public - school habit of «structuring inequities»: public schools offer students the chance to take weaker academic courses while Catholic school courses are «largely determined by the school.»

The year prior to Dr. Cruz «s appointment, the district entered into a multi-year contract with a commercial mathematics program developer, but it terminated the contract for materials and professional development after several years, at the point of renewal, because of the cost, concerns among the elementary schools regarding the program «s effectiveness, and the program «s weak program fit with a state mathematics textbook adoption.

Even if we hadn't introduced a greater number of weaker students into the mix, the scores of our high school students would still be stagnant.

The SQII scores provide metrics that allow schools and districts to dive deep into a school's programming to find out where and why a school's performance is weak and where it is strong.

Critics who have argued that the government's flagship free school policy has suffered from weak oversight have been given further ammunition as an investigation into a pioneering free school in Bradford, West Yorkshire, found an alleged trail of misused funds, unexplained invoices and improper payments.

Both younger and older cohorts of blacks and Hispanics have made relative progress in the attainment of certificates and AAs but still lag behind whites in the entry into and completion of BA programs; completion rates in BA programs also lag substantially for those from low - income families or with weak academic achievement in high school.

Expanding learning - time programs that focus with all good intentions on remediation and tutoring, but that extend traditional school structures into afterschool time, may experience weak attendance and missed opportunities because these efforts are too often disconnected from the rich learning lives of today's youth.

In opposition, Mr Gove had spoken of the need for reform, saying: «The situation that we have at the moment is flawed and it's a situation which leads students, particularly in weaker schools and particularly from poorer backgrounds, to be led into making choices which are not good for them.»

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Successfully placed 52 children with ASDs into regular school streams by effectively coaching them in their weak areas • Created and implemented an ASD - focused curriculum for children with special needs, resulting in increased registrations • Introduced non-invasive behavioral support intervention procedures, with a 100 % success rate • Conducted 14 educational seminars of ASDs, focusing on parent / guardian education, each session attended by over 250 people

• Assisted Spanish teacher in implementing lesson plans for language learning • Lent a hand in integrating appropriate technology into classroom instructions • Supported students in weak areas and grade assignments as required • Handled student behavior in order to comply with the school's policies • Kept accurate record of students and their progress reports