Sentences with phrase «much of this academic success»

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Even though your child is young, it is advisable to read to them so as to give them a much better chance of having good behaviors as well as academic success.

Some of the ideas he has brought to light — that preschool is a great government investment given the payoff later in life, that building character matters as much for success as academics — are so deeply ingrained in my own thinking that it's hard to remember I had to learn them somewhere.

«We all need to continue to support these efforts, so that students in these schools experience much higher rates of academic success.»

04, doesn't see special education students as incapable, but rather very much capable of academic success.

While some earlier studies questioned the role of grade configuration in school success and student achievement, including the 2008 National Forum «Policy Statement on Grade Configuration» and a 2010 study by EdSource, «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better» in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger in the past two years,» West says.

The State of Education survey also revealed that more than three - quarters (78 per cent) of secondary school leaders believe too much focus is placed on academic testing as a measure of pupils» success.

It has been an extraordinary experience to learn from staff members who take as much time as needed to support my academic success and health as if I were a child of their own.

Establishes a system of meaningfully differentiating all public schools on an annual basis that is based on all indicators in the State's accountability system and that, with respect to achievement, growth or the other academic indicator for elementary and middle schools, graduation rate, and progress in achieving English language proficiency, affords: Substantial weight to each such indicator; and, in the aggregate, much greater weight than is afforded to the indicator or indicators of school quality or student success.

Finally, an individual student's academic success depends not so much on whether he or she attends a private or public school but rather on a complex interaction of abilities, attitudes, and strengths or problems brought to school; the skills and knowledge of teachers; and the quality of the learning environment.

«Additionally, schools may want to review the types of advanced courses they offer and how much success in those courses depends on mastery of academic English.»

This is much preferable to the EBacc performance measure in which only a core of five academic subjects, with no recognition of success in more creative or practical subjects, was targeted.

Summary: Non-cognitive skills and character competencies have as much of an effect on success as academic skill, researchers from the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution conclude in a study released today.

We're grateful for Jonah's successes — actually, most of the time we're just grateful for Jonah — and as graduation rolls around, we're especially aware of how much school choice has enhanced Jonah's academic and social growth.

The program is designed to catch these students early on in their academic careers to support their success in college coursework (all while still attending high school) with the hopes of them earning as much as an associate degree — debt free.

In a matter of days, he has gone from talking about «Opportunity Schools» in Baltimore to claiming that «there are organizations in other parts of the country that are operating schools that are succeeding in leading children from low - income families — especially children of color — to reach much higher levels of academic success than the norm for their communities.»

SBHCs meet a critical need for students, and are considered to be a preventive approach to addressing the disproportionate barriers to academic success our students face; the byproduct of much larger societal issues rooted in racial inequity.

While noncompliance is certainly a critical concern and risk factor, the overall costs of a poorly planned and executed parent communication strategy result in much more impactful consequences: lost dollars that could be spent furthering success in the classroom and a failure to actively engage all students and parents in a way that serves as a foundation for achieving sustained and long term academic achievement.

«Substantial weight» is required to be given the academic indicators (first four described above) and these four indicators must in the aggregate be given «much greater weight» in the differentiation process than any measures of school quality or student success (described in last bullet above).

Even families who typically do not have much time or opportunity to engage in education can find ways to be involved in their children's academics with the help of school resources and initiatives.9 Then it becomes paramount for policymakers, educators, and school leaders to know how their institutions can best design their practices and services at the secondary level to maximize postsecondary student success, especially for underrepresented groups.

But, as we're reminded by the 2012 Wallace study, The School Principal As Leader: Guiding Schools to Better Teaching and Learning, these adjectives don't amount to much more than slogans without a clear understanding that any effective leadership model relies on the officially accountable individual — the principal — to shape a clear schoolwide vision of academic success and to manage the people, data, and processes that foster school improvement.

Some things consider when thinking about reform: the unique impact of student loan crisis on people with «hidden» disabilities like ADHD; existing loan commitments not factoring into FAFSA calculations; and if a student with the academic resume that my daughter has can't get any aid because the government says her mom makes too much money, then what exactly does it take for student success and merit to really matter?

Mutual fund managers, of course, have a vested interest in trying to muddy the waters by making investors believe that the success of indexing is predicated on just how accurate a much - debated academic theory is.

Much of his success derives from his involvement with the Vienna - based Institute for Human Sciences which employs 40 academics with funds from the Austrian and German governments.

That is a road that a few academics on the Left may have tried to embark on with their «post-modernist» critiques of science, but I don't think they ever did it with very much success.

Most of the training you need will be delivered on the job, so don't worry too much about how much academic success you've had.