Sentences with phrase «lower quality principals»

First, the lower quality principals tend to hire lower quality teachers, [14] thus reducing the overall quality of the teaching corps in such schools.

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By loaning money to a company with lower credit quality, investors face a higher risk of not receiving all of the promised interest and principal payments.

A research group led by Junichi Isoya, professor emeritus, University of Tsukuba and Tokuyuki Teraji, principal researcher, Optical and Electronic Materials Unit, NIMS, has successfully fabricated for the first time in the world single - photon sources of SiV (silicon vacancy) centers — one of the color centers in diamond during the growth of thin film diamond, which have high purity and crystalline quality — by introducing them at extremely low concentrations.

«The findings of both studies support a growing body of research that suggests lifestyle interventions lower biomarkers associated with breast cancer recurrence and mortality, and improve quality of life,» said Melinda Irwin, PhD, co-program leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both studies.

The imaging software — developed and currently in use only at Cincinnati Children's — mathematically determines the lowest possible radiation dose for the patient before a scan is performed, according to the study led by David Larson, MD, radiology quality and safety director at the medical center and principal architect of the technology.

But Komdeur found that this space was in low - quality areas — defined as having a meagre supply of insects, the birds» principal food.

«Our main finding was that diet quality influenced sleep quality,» said principal investigator Marie - Pierre St - Onge, PhD, assistant professor in the department of medicine and Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, N.Y. «It was most surprising that a single day of greater fat intake and lower fiber could influence sleep parameters.»

According to Duncan, «Over 40 states are developing next - generation accountability and support systems,» guided by the CSSOs, and «many states are moving forward with reforms in teacher and principal evaluation and support, turning around low - performing schools, and expanding access to high - quality schools.»

The results of this analysis confirm that the relationship between higher teacher turnover and lower average valueadded in a given grade is stronger as principal quality rises.

For example, if higher - quality principals and teachers are concentrated in higher - achieving, lower - poverty schools, it should not be surprising that a program that relies on high - quality principals and teachers has larger effects in these schools.

All students at South Side take advanced English, but principal Carol Burris fears more students in New York will be put in lower - quality remedial classes because of poor test scores on the new Common Core tests.

«Current accreditation systems are set up to be honest brokers about school quality and set a low bar for what that looks like,» said Chad Aldeman, a principal at Bellwether Education Partners.

Such buy - in does make up a sizable chunk of points, but 48 percent of points are attached to the quality of a state's plan in four key areas: standards and assessments, data systems, teacher and principal effectiveness, and turning around the lowest - achieving schools.

Each of the applications will be subject to peer review in the context of five priority areas: supporting effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics education; supporting the implementation of high academic content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.

A part of that low - quality education problem lies with the low expectations among teachers and principals, many of whom share Gardner's outdated (and historically, racialist - driven) thinking.

Not surprisingly, then, principal quality influences teacher attrition even more in schools with large proportions of low - income and minority students.

Both competitions will fund projects across five priority areas: supporting effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education; helping implement rigorous academic content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.

It is vital that we develop policies to ensure students, especially those from low - income and minority families, attend schools where high - quality teachers and principals work together to create strong learning environments.

The candidates also disagree on key issues, including how to improve low - achieving campuses, how to measure teacher quality, and whether to reward good teachers and principals with bonuses.

More recent high - quality studies have provided evidence that schools improve their performance when they face sanctions (Ahn and Vigdor 2014), that principals and teachers focus time and effort in different ways that improve performance when their school receives low ratings (Rouse, et al 2013), and that teachers threatened with dismissal for an ineffective rating improved their performance (Dee and Wykoff 2014).

The state needs to build upon this successful program, with priority given to school districts with a significant number of low - performing schools that have a problem attracting and retaining quality principals.

Students, teachers and principals are held accountable, but the low quality of the tests themselves is never accounted for.

According to a press release issued at the time, «The reorganization addresses Governor Dannel P. Malloy's six principles on education reform, including: (1) Enhancing families» access to high - quality early childhood; (2) Turning around Connecticut's lowest - performing schools and districts; (3) Expanding the availability of high - quality school models; (4) Removing red tape and other barriers to success; (5) Ensuring that our schools are home to the very best teachers and principals; and (6) Delivering more resources, targeted to districts with the greatest need - provided that they embrace key reforms that position our students for success.»

Research shows that highly effective principals raise the achievement of a typical student in their schools by between two and seven months of learning in a single school year and that ineffective principals lower achievement by the same amount.3 And principal quality affects teacher turnover and specifically turnover among effective teachers.

To win a grant, states must propose high - quality reform plans in four areas: standards and assessments, teacher and principal effectiveness, data systems, and turning around low - performing schools.

These reforms are improving teacher and principal evaluation and support, as well as turning around low - performing schools and expanding access to high - quality schools.

Regardless of the quality and tenure of the principal, low - achieving schools and schools with high proportions of poor and minority students face increased barriers to attracting, hiring, and retaining quality leaders.

First, investors who emphasizes high - quality bonds with a low likelihood of default are able to minimize or even eliminate the principal losses that can occur with bond funds.

In addition to implementing policies and procedures designed to improve animal health at ASC, Dr. Reeves was tasked with creating a new high - volume, high - quality surgical sterilization program, as well as several outreach programs, including: Free Animal Rabies Vaccination Clinics, Low - Cost Animal Microchip Identification Clinics, and a veterinary student externship program, designed to expose third and fourth year veterinary students to shelter medicine principals.

The mission of Dogs Deserve Better comprises the following six principals: advocate and become a voice for dogs living chained or penned outside; educate society to evolve to higher ethical and moral standards for the treatment of dogs living under these conditions; meet with caretakers of dogs chained outside to advocate on behalf of the dogs and discuss other options available to them; fence yards to improve the quality of life for these dogs; provide low - cost or no - cost housetraining for dogs whose caretakers wish to bring them into the home; temporarily foster and find new homes for dogs whose caretakers wish them to have a better life, but are unwilling or unable to provide that for them.

According to many international school principals, if you're only posting jobs or paying recruiters to find your teachers, you are either spending too much money or getting lots of low - quality applicants.

Earlier, Spiker was the principal investigator of the evaluation of the Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Pilot Program for the Minnesota Early Learning Foundation, an innovative market - based early childhood model to increase the access to and quality of preschool and child care programs for children living in low - income neighborhoods.