Sentences with phrase «large number of schools»

These cases confirmed that at least some districts «matter» in powerfully positive ways for student learning in large numbers of schools and for students of all backgrounds.

Choice works best when there's a relatively dense population, with a relatively large number of schools, relatively close to each other.

The crowd sourcing model means the project can reach large numbers of schools and students - around 450 000 unique visitors each month.

But large numbers of schools share two challenges that demand responses by all or many educational leaders if they are to be successful in improving teaching and learning.

This analysis examines developmental evaluation as an approach to analyzing school improvement networks as «learning systems» able to produce, use, and refine practical knowledge in large numbers of schools.

The Research Schools Network aims to lead the way in the use of evidence - based teaching, building affiliations with large numbers of schools in their region, and supporting the use of evidence at scale.

Finally, phase three envisioned a two - year scaling - up process in which the remaining designs would be put into practice in a «large number of schools across the country.»

Given the potential for large numbers of schools to fall short of adequate yearly progress goals in many states, several officials questioned the viability of the school choice provisions of NCLB.

One of the most helpful things for the Negro people was the establishment of large numbers of schools and colleges in their behalf.

Nobody also provided the only opposition to a much larger number of school - board candidates running unopposed.

The new research schools - which will each receive # 200,000 in funding over three years — will become focal points of evidence - based practice in their region and build networks between large numbers of schools.

In designing and implementing the conversion process, the Department has focused on supporting large numbers of schools to convert, rather than allowing only the strongest applications to proceed.

The UNHCR notes that education within the camps faces major challenges, «large number of school drop - out due to shortage of teaching and learning materials, school uniform, stationary and decimated number of qualified teacher.»

State leaders have been asking for some wiggle room so they do not have to totally revamp existing accountability systems or identify large numbers of schools...

A tremendous amount of money and energy has been spent to create the impression that there is accountability, and there are large numbers of schools throughout the United States that are in some phase of sanctions.

The more obvious case for intervention is in local authority areas with large numbers of schools Ofsted says are less than good.

Oakland is challenged with managing an extraordinarily large number of schools — 128 and counting.

Several reports over the past few years have purported to show that large numbers of schools serving low - income students have succeeded in overcoming the effects of poverty.

Then, to achieve excellent learning at scale, state policymakers must change state policy to enable and incentivize a better blend in large numbers of schools, through:

Chris Belfield, one of the report's authors, said the reform was always going to create «winners and losers» at a time of «severe pressure on school budgets», but said there was «significant uncertainty» about the future funding position for large numbers of schools

The DfE doesn't have the capacity to oversee the financial arrangements of large numbers of schools, and the few Regional Commissioners that exist are hopelessly overstretched now that Gove and his successors have emasculated the middle tier of accountability.

As we wrote not long after ESSA passed, a much larger number of schools could potentially qualify for the second category under the new law.

The schools will be expected to build networks between large numbers of schools and develop a programme of support, including events to encourage more teachers to use research evidence to improve what they do in the classroom.

In Europe, cities such as Ghent, Helsinki and Gothenburg provide meat - free days through their public catering and a large number of schools in Asia support Meat Free Monday including in Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea.

In response to this, a large number of school - based preventative interventions have sought to improve children's and adolescents» eating habits (2, 3).

But according to a new report from the Empire Center, it's not the large number of school districts in the state nor top - heavy administrative structures driving those costs — it's teacher salaries and benefits.

Educators opened a large number of schools, and collectively parents took the lead in deciding which would grow and which would close.

A large number of schools across the UK are moving to the cloud, but many still fear this option or see it as a costly conversion.

«We are thrilled to continue this process, complementing what HCNY has provided to extend the benefits to a larger number of schools and stretch this into the future.»

Although the law is not slated for reauthorization until 2007, they are hoping for amendments as early as next year, in part to address the large number of schools and districts that may not meet its performance targets.

An obvious implication of this analysis is that federal policymakers seeking to expand families» access to a larger number of schools (and school types) might seek to accomplish this goal in part by helping families access schools which they are eligible to attend under existing choice policies.

A large number of schools currently outsource their catering or cleaning services, because these tasks aren't an integral part of the skillset of the school staff team.

While over the past few years statistics indicating that large numbers of schools were eliminating recess generated a lot of public concern, some digging showed that those figures did not accurately reflect the recess landscape, according to the center.

But in the environment of public education, where successful programs are rarely studied and replicated, any company that manages to disseminate effective school designs and curricula to a large number of schools should be considered very innovative.

So, a portfolio manager, harbor master, or other type of regulator should use test scores to identify who is and is not a quality school operator and eliminate from the set of options a large number of schools that appear to be sub-par.

According to the EEF, the difference in results between the trials could be because the training model was altered so the programme could be run in a large number of schools nationally.

But an intention - to - treat approach has the significant disadvantage of understating the effect of actually being treated, particularly for the large number of school groups whose field trip was cancelled for weather.

K — 12 schooling already employs a large number of school - based personnel who are not teachers; support staff (including aides, librarians, guidance counselors, and so forth) account for about 30 percent of school employees.

A large number of schools currently outsource their catering or cleaning services, because these tasks aren't an integral part of the skillset of the school staff team; they call in specialists to take away the hassle of these tasks, and let them worry about the processes, laws and risks.

Speaking about the re launch of this new brand, Robert Carpenter, Managing Director of i2o Limited said: «We are proud to work with a large number of schools and nurseries across the country.

Effectiveness trials aim to test the intervention under realistic conditions in a large number of schools.

By serving as a sort of mega-district for a large number of schools, and thus putting scale to good use, a for - profit firm could free up more education dollars for use at the school and classroom level.

Hoxby also finds that urban areas with a large number of school districts, and therefore many options for families choosing where to reside, tend to have higher test scores than cities like Miami, where one school district covers anyone living close enough to work in the city.

Having a service offered to a large numbers of schools by the local authority is a much more efficient model.

Should SEAs target those districts with schools that are struggling and barely succeeding, or should they target districts with the largest number of schools in need of corrective action?