Sentences with phrase «more coherent system»

Thus, there was a push for a uniform set of standards and the development of aligned assessments to build a more coherent system for educational improvement.
Ohio needs to resolve its long - term funding crisis, develop a more coherent system of preschool through higher education, adopt stronger academic standards and graduation requirements, create a better pool of teachers and principals, and ensure that all schools are held to the same accountability standards, the group says.
«The DfE needs to take a long hard look at this picture once the number of academies stabilises and design a more coherent system for the future which ensures proper accountability for schools.»
The report also recommends reorganising student funding to form a more coherent system across further and higher education, increasing loan entitlements to students living away from home from # 3635 to # 4100, and redistributing funding to increase access opportunities for the least well off, whilst requiring the wealthiest parents to fully support their children.

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What's more, those stories were handed down for hundreds of years * before * the developed a coherent writing system!
Its unity is much more the unity of a socio - historical movement than of a coherent system of teachings.
Nothing could be less coherent (or more confused) than a bunch of Trump Republicans sitting around talking about what a post-Obamacare health care system should look like.
But the fact that the general line of analogy is valid and fruitful seems to me to be definitely proved by the very remarkable fact that these three systems, taken in conjunction, not only form a complementary and coherent whole, consistent within itself, but, which is even more easy of demonstration, that this whole is capable of breaking into motion and of working — that it functions, in a word.
Cudworth, more clearly than any of his contemporaries, realized that if nature was in some sense a coherent and intelligible system, then it could not be explained in terms either of the random movements of matter in space such as Hobbes supposed or of arbitrary and incalculable acts of God and other supernatural and demonic agents.
They believe that earlier, Protestant - dominated small - town America was run by people who had access to a more coherent Puritan - Republican symbol system.
Even some critics of the recommendations agree the current system could be more coherent.
Ensuring more compatible, more comparable and coherent systems of higher education in Europe is one of the reasons behind its creation.
At the most, national standards will help our system be more coherent, efficient, and rational, and will help set expectations for our students higher.
More important, however, is the larger implication I take from Mr. Bedrick's thesis: that private school choice advocates in America, Mr. Bedrick among them, have failed to establish a coherent, prevailing belief system about the role of private schools in providing an education of measured quality, at scale, for the nation's most disadvantaged youth.
In order to answer the needs of the Jamaican labor market, they are defined in collaboration with industries of the country and over the past ten years, the organization has worked to be even more accessible and to have a more coherent and relevant training system.
States interested in using ESSA to increase reading ability while also creating more coherent educational systems could follow this idea to its logical conclusion: creating state - wide sequences — and sequence - based reading comprehension assessments — for grades 3 — 8.
The presence of conflicting elements, all protected by our political and legal system, in our schools leads many parents to select private schools that they find more coherent, better capable of instilling and transmitting a common culture than the public schools can.
Two of the unsettled issues the board will delve into this week are the criteria for choosing the lowest - performing 5 percent of schools needing assistance and a framework for a coherent system of oversight and assistance in a state with nearly 1,000 school districts and more than 10,000 schools.
To get there, a more coherent national system of teacher education is one major step.
«As national education policy continues to devolve more powers to individual schools and academies, it is vital that the authority plays a leading role in ensuring there is a coherent and high quality educational system across the county.»
A successful school turnaround requires a systems approach with coherent guidance and support from the state and district to complement the actions of the school; and A successful school turnaround is more than the initial jolt of bold changes in structure, authority, and personnel; it includes phases in which effective practices and processes are routinized and sustained.
When student supports are developed and coherent in a Linked Learning pathway, data has shown that students graduate at higher rates and are more likely to enroll in college compared to their counterparts in pathways that haven't established a strong system of student supports.
Feiman - Nemser (2001) suggested that universities in partnership with school systems could become more involved in the induction process, arguing that this partnership could extend and enrich the ideas encountered in preservice education, providing a more coherent form of professional growth (p. 1038).
NCLB transformed a weak, state - driven system of standards - based accountability into a centralized, more coherent, federally driven version.
The desire to measure schools more holistically is butting up against another priority: creating a system that is clear and coherent to parents.
It's no featherweight at 1660 kg (DIN), but it's far more coherent than just being a life - support system for a 4.0 - litre twin - turbo V8.
While many fans embraced the new direction that the series took by moving into 3D, others still felt that the classic single - plane 2D system was more coherent and made tactics such as combo execution less involved.
, the game ends up displaying a far less coherent or decisive leftism than its contemporaries like Final Fantasy VII or Metal Gear Solid 2 that were, through an insistent application of text, managing to tackle much more complex systems of oppression than Dragon Quarter's systems and minimalist narrative could ever hope to achieve, which leaves the game feeling tonally coherent much more so than it is thematically coherent.
The system is faster, more coherent and more accessible than ever, and the increased emphasis on the gamepad through the new quick start menu, screenshot sharing feature and enhanced video playback options ensures a genuinely unique console user experience unlike anything else on the market.
While changes like a more coherent refund system, user reviews, and the addition of Steam Curators improved the Greenlight program, the influx of low - quality games continued to present a problem.
If so, we should be paying a lot more attention to the post-Paris period — to the kinds of structures and systems that will be needed to stitch together the different plurilateral agreements and efforts into something more coherent.
The strategy will be to couple the biogeochemical - physical climate system to representations of key aspects of the human system, and then to develop more coherent scenarios of human actions in the context of feedbacks from the biogeochemical - physical climate system.
And I started to see signs — new coalitions and fresh arguments — hinting at how, if these various connections were more widely understood, the urgency of the climate crisis could form the basis of a powerful mass movement, one that would weave all these seemingly disparate issues into a coherent narrative about how to protect humanity from the ravages of both a savagely unjust economic system and a destabilized climate system.
The human body is an excellent example of a hugely complex and at the micro level chaotic system with more feedbacks than there are stars in the Milky Way which nevertheless functions and malfunctions as a coherent whole.
In the absence of a clear and coherent government policy for incorporating plug - ins (and biofuel) into America's transportation system, there could be more frequent oil price gyrations as traders face the new uncertainty of trying to predict how much gasoline Americans are going to consume in their cars and trucks versus how much electricity and how much cellulose and grains.
Attacks on the judiciary by politicians unhappy with a decision have the capacity to undermine the system of justice, and the distribution of legal powers, particularly when the attack is of a personal nature, but the more substantive issue is undermining the structure of justice, and an attack on the substance and principles of justice and the structures essential to its coherent function.
Restatements are written by committees led by a distinguished law professor in the particular field called a «reporter» and unlike the West Digest System sacrifice being fully and accurately descriptive, in favor of articulating a single coherent theory of an area of law that theoretically represents a majority position of the states on that body of the common law, something that is more art than science.
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