Sentences with phrase «issued school performance»

In 2004, 60 % of New Orleans students — some 40,000 kids — went to a school that performed in the bottom tenth of all Louisiana public schools, according state - issued School Performance Scores (SPS).

«Teachers have a clear picture of what they're supposed to be doing in the classroom,» says Beber, who is in his third year running the school, which has gone from a D to a C on state - issued school performance reports, despite the disruption wrought by the storm.

Not exact matches

In each case, the issue was compulsory performance of a flag salute by children in public schools, a sign of patriotic loyalty to the nation that implied obligations to defend it.

Many community activists and school administrators talk about race as a big factor in educational performance, and others mention economic issues — and those are factors.

Some tasks include: Review, clean out, and notify me of important emails on a regular basis; Draft responses to important emails upon discussion and review with me Review daughters school blogs and notify me of all important dates, projects, performances; Assist in responding to emails and drafting emails to teachers on issues related to daughters Track daughters school grades and academic performance on a regular basis via a website.

I want to thank the reporter, Claudia Feldman, for taking time to speak with me about issues I — and most of you — care so much about: trying hard to feed our kids well in a less - than - healthy food environment; improving school food; and yes, my pet peeve of food in the classroom for birthday treats or performance rewards.

While counselors might have to spend a lot of time focusing on individual education plans, testing, and other educational issues, school personnel should also be available to talk with children about emotional issues that affect their performance and demeanor at school.

The issue of breastfeeding ought to be more of a priority in our country.It covers several major problems all in one.Healthcare, economy, environment, jobs (alot more would be created from an increase in nursing than from formula production) our children's performance in school and the rate of college attendance, obesity, and less unwanted pregnancies (sounds harsh but most of our world problems are connected to an exploding overpopulation and a lack of adequate resources).

Senate Republicans plan to cover a range of issues with mayoral control, includnig student performance, graduation rates, and «the effectiveness of having a single person accountable for the public school system as compared to the previous community board system.»

Senate Republicans plan to cover a range of issues with mayoral control, including student performance, graduation rates, and «the effectiveness of having a single person accountable for the public school system as compared to the previous community board system.»

As if anticipating that attack, Cuomo released a 250 - page book listing his positions on issues of the day, including a strong defense of charter schools and the use of student - performance data in assessing teachers.

While Cuomo received almost 62 percent of the vote, Teachout's strong showing demonstrated voter unhappiness with the governor's performance on issues like school funding and hydrofracking, and disappointment in his Moreland Commission scandal.

De Blasio's prospects of getting the Legislature to renew his control of New York City's schools were thrown into doubt yesterday, when the leader of the State Senate, John Flanagan, issued a statement harshly criticizing the mayor's performance at a hearing on the issue.

The lieutenant governor also told the protestors that many of the issues the state faces stem from federal policies that link funding to school performance.

Beginning at 9:00 pm host Gary Axelbank will talk with Peter Murphy, the Policy Director of the New York Charter School Association, and Dr. Jessica Shiller of the Department of Middle and High School Education at Lehman College about student performance, a cap on the number of charter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, and more.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's prospects of getting the Legislature to renew his control of New York City's schools were thrown into doubt on Thursday, when the leader of the State Senate issued a statement harshly criticizing Mr. de Blasio's performance at a hearing on the issue.

He says his vision will help alleviate the city's long - standing issues with poverty, public safety, vacant properties, and poor school performance.

Given the claims by the District, it seems reasonable that someone would have studied the issue of performance of students from the various schools within New Rochelle.

It's definitely not a huge issue for Will Gerard (Nicolas Cage, in a now - uncharacteristically subdued — one could argue bored — performance), a high school English teacher and an avowed pacifist whose wife Laura (January Jones) is physically and sexually assaulted one night on her way home from music rehearsal.

Possibly the last of their kind, moving from town to town and still working out some serious parent - child issues (not the least of which is their approach to handling their prey) Gemma Arterton literally vamps it up, putting on a prostitute pose to seduce lowlives and cops, while her daughter, plays more school girl, a more subtle and melancholic performance by Saoirse Ronan.

There isn't a rote performance or flat character in the whole movie — even supporting players like Peter's decathlon teammates feel like real teenagers at a real high school, struggling with their own teenager issues.

After the proposition passed, state union representatives immediately lobbied the state attorney general to issue a «clarification» explaining that performance pay actually meant an across - the - board bonus for every teacher in a school or district, regardless of performance, and that funding classrooms directly actually meant passing the funding through the district first so the district, rather than the school, can make the major funding decisions.

In the maiden issue of the Journal of Character Education, a team of researchers reports on a study of the relative academic performance of schools in California that described themselves as having substantial character education components.

«We want every young person to grow up feeling confident about themselves and their future - but too often mental health issues can have a lifelong impact and affect their performance at school, careers and ultimately their life opportunities.

At the dynamic Education Fast Forward 12 Debate on January 19, I spoke with Stefan Dercon (Chief Economist Department for International Development in London) and Andreas Schleicher (Special Advisor on Education Policy OECD in Paris) about their opinions on the issues raised in the «Turning School Performance to Economic Success» discussion.

The research units conduct and coordinate original research in areas such as student performance standards, assessment, curriculum, commercialism in schools, and language policy issues.

As Thomas Kane and Douglas Staiger point out (see «Randomly Accountable,» in this issue), test scores bounce up and down from year - to - year for a variety of reasons that are unrelated to actual school performance.

So, in response to this we pulled together a debate between an eclectic panel of education experts including: chair of the Education Select Committee Neil Carmichael MP; a head teacher who turned her own school's performance and ability to recruit and retain its staff around 180 degrees; an ex-tutor from an FE institution who left teaching due to work load issues; and an academic completing a PhD on the topic of work strain in the sector.

«Accountability for student performance is one of the two or three - if not the most - prominent issues in policy at the state and local levels right now,» says Richard F. Elmore, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education (Quality Counts, 1999)

In a wide - ranging discussion, Murphy talks about the problem with interpreting the performance data of EAL children too simplistically, issues with «immersion» programmes and the lack of support for schools in helping EAL children in the classroom.

Throughout her 25 - year career as a network leader, instructional coach, teacher and consultant, Hillary has drawn on her social and emotional skills to help organizations, schools, and teachers improve performance by framing issues, building teams, leading difficult conversations, and facilitating problem solving.

School closure, in other words, has become an answer to falling enrollments, poor performance, and safety issues — or a combination thereof.

In the past 20 years, the issue with the waves of school reform have been basic skills, graduation stands, performance and the accountability movement.

Among the more salient conclusions are: 1) that what children bring to school is vastly more important than what happens thereafter, as the Coleman Report found; 2) in examining all of the variables that impinge on student academic performance (teacher effectiveness, socio - economic advantage, appropriate evaluation criteria, etc.), none is demonstrably more significant than time spent learning «one - on - one»; and 3) that only an individualized computer program can address all these issues effectively and simultaneously.

There seems a growing recognition that value - added gains are a fair and important indicator of school performance and they address an issue that has crippled education reform for decades: Poor alignment between teacher training, teaching practices, and public policy.

For example, dissatisfaction with performance in a charter middle school that is not captured by test scores (such as discipline issues or a poor fit between the student's interests or ability and the curriculum being offered) could lead parents to choose to send their child to a traditional public high school.

The article continued, «Rigorous testing that decides whether students graduate, teachers win bonuses, and schools are shuttered... does little to improve achievement and may actually worsen academic performance and dropout rates, according to the largest study ever on the issue.»

In the Fall 2011 issue of Education Next, June Kronholz wrote about Performance Learning Centers (PLCs), high schools use blended learning to help at - risk kids recover credits and make their way to graduation.

The dismissal of the «professional judgment» approach eliminates a rational way of thinking about a hypothetical situation when research and statistics have not addressed the issue with any definitive conclusions.The authors are more supportive of the «successful schools» approach because it is based on some evidence of relative performance.

Price: The Annenberg Institute for School Reform issued a study a year or so ago that documented that constructive community organizing can contribute to improved student performance, strengthened support for better qualified teachers, and heightened school - community School Reform issued a study a year or so ago that documented that constructive community organizing can contribute to improved student performance, strengthened support for better qualified teachers, and heightened school - community school - community trust.

I promise that if you make teacher walkthroughs a priority, you will see significant changes in school climate, teacher diligence, student performance, and many of the «issues» that pull you back to the office will disappear of their own accord.

Further, little is being done to ensure that the tests being devised for the new Common Core State Standards do not introduce a break in the continuous stream of accountability information essential for the evaluation of school and teacher performance (see this issue's forum, «Examining High - Stakes Testing»).

As part of the Programs in Professional Education (PPE) institute, Improving Quality in Education Systems: Building Quality Schools, participants spent two weeks tackling tough issues like how to build sustainable schools, design effective systems for monitoring and evaluating student and school performance, and define quality sSchools, participants spent two weeks tackling tough issues like how to build sustainable schools, design effective systems for monitoring and evaluating student and school performance, and define quality sschools, design effective systems for monitoring and evaluating student and school performance, and define quality schoolsschools.

Two years into the presidency of Ronald Reagan the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued a report, «A Nation at Risk,» to highlight the low, declining performance of U.S. schools.

The Spring 2014 issue of Education Next includes a study looking at the impact of the Kalamazoo Promise program on the performance of high school students in the district.

As instructional leader ~ the principal must keep a pulse on all aspects of the school including: academic performance ~ finance ~ safety ~ personnel issues ~ etc..

A decade later, restarts are providing charter school boards with an opportunity to effectively and proactively address poor academic performance well before charter renewal and closure become issues.

Charlie Makela, from Arlington Public Schools, in Arlington, Virginia, says, «The copyright issue was an easy one because, usually, the performance rights that accompany most music and plays do have stipulations concerning recording the performance.

«We're trying to look at the outside issues [that affect school performance],» said Buckney.

A typical eleventh grade student with a 2.7 GPA that suddenly begins failing three classes has some outside of school issue impacting his or her performance.