Sentences with phrase «n't measure school»

Standardized high - stakes tests also don't measure school improvement perfectly, and they shouldn't be the only accountability device we use.

Furthermore, norm - referenced tests do not measure school quality because they include questions unrelated to school learning and curriculum, such as things students might have learned from a visit to a museum or from extracurricular reading.

Based on titles and abstracts, 55 articles were excluded at the first screening because they were qualitative studies, reviews or commentaries, or studies that did not measure school bullying.

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Medberry was recruited in 2008 to teach in a New Orleans charter school, when she realized standards that measured student achievement hadn't been updated in generations.

The budget does not consider other cost - saving measures and does not include daycare or private school costs.

They were an indicator of «I went to business school but don't really know what to tell you to measure so I'll have you do these.»

These managers range from those whose time horizon is measured in minutes to those who hold positions for years; from those who knew they wanted to invest when they were back in grade school to those who still aren't sure investing is their calling; and from those with impeccable academic credentials to those without any degrees.

That package also included the STOP School Violence Act of 2018, doesn't include any specific gun control measures, but increases grants for school safety measures, such as security training and metal deteSchool Violence Act of 2018, doesn't include any specific gun control measures, but increases grants for school safety measures, such as security training and metal deteschool safety measures, such as security training and metal detectors.

When, as ample evidence demonstrates, «most of our high - school and college students... consistently score poorly in virtually every measure of civic knowledge,» this can not occur — our citizens have to know what the truths are before they can consider whether they should hold to them.

He did not measure himself by the cultural standards of his day, as did some others, who scoffed at the fact that he was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), nor by the greatness of the order of the intellect (his education was that which could be gained at the local synagogue school) Some of the creatures made by the Word of God are greater in these respects than the one who is the Word of God incarnate, and that one is not ashamed of his inferiority.

Don't think my school teacher ever measured the speed of light.

The NCBCPS has not listed the schools using the curriculum so its geographic impact is difficult to measure.

Those earlier rulings also recognized that a measure extending governmental assistance to sectarian schools in the performance of secular functions does not constitute a «law respecting an establishment of religion» merely because the secular program may incidentally benefit a church in fulfilling its religious mission.

For years people were crying out for midfielders with «steel» like Vieira and old school types and then our new signing cops a few reds in games we scraped through and haven't dropped points and you're calling for drastic measures?

On homecoming eve the freshmen climb up the mountain to party and whitewash the big rocks that measure more than 100 feet long and form a «W» and, though that is about the extent of any traditional activities, the school is not so new that a few guys could not come down from Idaho last month and pelt the statue of Weber's founder with some well - chosen eggs.

Because of the money this could net, don't be surprised if a middle ground ends up being the solution and the schools that want to adopt the measures get their way while abstainers get to keep their games dry in non-premium areas.

For much of his 29 - year tenure at Kenyon, Steen has had to make do with facilities that don't even measure up to some of the pools his swimmers competed in at the high school and club level.

While I am not prone to writing in the somewhat snarky and definitly sarcastic tone Wise employed in his Tuesday column, and although he seemed to mostly align himself with the group at Aspen - led by Dr. Bob Cantu - that views football as too dangerous to be played before the age of 14 (a position with which I respectfully disagree), I did find myself agreeing with what seemed to be his main point: that whatever measures are instituted to protect player safety will get us nowhere if the culture on NFL fields (and by extension, the high school, middle school, and youth gridiron) doesn't change.

This hasn't stopped advocates from trying to develop those measures — and even to hold teachers and schools accountable for students» performance on them.

It is not enough to measure the number of fruits and vegetables or the quantity of sodium in each dish; you also have to prepare the food well, in the school and not at some outside kitchen as so often happens when our school kitchens are no more than «warming centers.»

TOUGH: Well, I think part of it has to do with education policy, that we've been so focused on standardized tests as the measure of whether a school is doing well that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skills.

Additional comparison measures were generated from 10 elementary schools from 10 states in the Midwestern and Eastern United States (not including New York State).

It's called the Healthy, Hunger - free Kids Act of 2010, and it provides funding and other provisions for a variety of essential nutrition programs — not the least of which is a series of measures directed at the National School Lunch Program.

So even if consumption of the food itself is not resulting in a shift in obesity measures, the food is still sending kids a daily message about what constitutes sound eating (though schools often bungle that message, as when HISD serves pepperoni pizza and mashed potatoes at the same lunch).

On the other hand, as I also noted in my JO post, I do tend to overlook some of Oliver's shtick — and questionable tactics — when I consider how much valuable attention he's drawn to critically important issues like childhood obesity and diabetes, our nation's over-processed diet and the abysmal state of school food in many places in the U.S. I'm just not sure he would have achieved the same high ratings with a measured, PBS - style documentary on the topic.

At a Waldorf school, education is not measured by competition and test scores, but is viewed as a life - long journey.

Madeline Levine, author of «Teach Your Children Well» and «The Price of Privilege,» has been working with her colleagues at the nonprofit organization Challenge Success («Success is measured, not at the end of a semester, but over the course of a lifetime») to create strategies for schools and parents working to send our children a different message.

We don't have nearly enough experience with student performance measures to put as much weight on them as we are doing in the District and several other school districts.

The majority of home visiting services and research have focused on the period prenatally through 2 to 3 years and thus have not measured long - term impacts on school readiness and school achievement.

Critics of the school lunch block grant idea warn that the measure does not provide enough funding to keep up with growing needs, does not guarantee a free lunch to needy students, and would prompt many schools to offer fewer complete meals or to drop their lunch programs altogether.

In the Assembly, Democratic Speaker Carl Heastie has said he would oppose bringing armed personnel into schools, but did not rule out additional safety measures.

A regulatory change that allows schools to use federal lunch money to buy hormone - free milk, and one achieved without arousing the ire of farm - state congressmembers who might be inclined to block a measure not as agribusiness - friendly as much of U.S. ag policy has become.

The proposals for the National Curriculum and the present school accountability measures, which do not recognise vocational subjects, will continue to ensure that they are not given the status or space in the curriculum they deserve.

Any such measures would overwhelmingly help good state grammar, faith and other schools in rich areas and not those pupils from genuinely worse social backgrounds.

In the letter, the charter school organization's Kyle Rosenkrans writes to New York State United Teachers Union President Karen Magee and United Federation of Teachers President Micahel Mulgrew that they should focus their attention on struggling schools, not opposition to Cuomo's measures.

Republicans on Tuesday emerged from a closed - door conference to not rule out new gun control measures as well as backing funding for school security upgrades, such as metal detectors and armed resource officers.

Florida's Republican state leaders announced that they are moving ahead with a «sweeping» bill responding to last week's school shooting — but the measure will likely not include any restrictions on assault rifles.

Nolan said the measure does not preclude individual school districts from using the test score results as part of their teacher evaluations, if everyone at the school agrees.

Nolan's bill (A. 6777) enables children to be exempted from the tests but it does not require schools notify parents of their right of refusal without penalty as Tedisco's measure does.

Supporters of gun rights have argued the remedies proposed by gun control advocates won't prevent another shooting, leaving them to push for school safety measures.

The bill backed by the Assembly does not include any legislation strengthening charter schools, which Senate Republicans are seeking in the trio of measures introduced on Sunday for mayoral control.

President Mulgrew said: «By objective measures like the racial achievement gap or the college readiness rate, and by public disenchantment with the governance of the schools, it is clear that mayoral control in its current form has not worked.

Newsday's calculations focus on operating funds, because those are widely considered a more meaningful measure of what a district receives than aid for school construction and renovation, which may or may not go to a district in a given year, depending on whether the work is completed then.

GOP lawmakers, meanwhile, pushed to include several school security measures that weren't supported by Democrats.

The final budget deal, as expected, did not include a range of non-fiscal matters, including extending the statute of limitations in child abuse cases, school safety measures, gun control, relaxing certain criminal bail requirements and any bolstering of ethics and campaign finance laws in reaction to what has become an annual parade of Albany corruption cases, including two major trials this year of people with close ties to Cuomo.

But the measure remains opposed by the teachers union, who see it as a way of creating a back - door voucher program and not funding public schooling at appropriate levels.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has said he would not back an extension of the program that includes measures aimed at bolstering charter schools.

For now, the bill does not have a matching measure in the Democratic - led Assembly, where state lawmakers have been hesitant to raise the cap on charter schools.

School districts were previously exempt under the cap from capital expenses, but BOCES costs were not at the time included when the measure was first approved.

Why is it you would use the governor's extensive budgeting powers to force an indefensible, costly, laughable, and quickly repudiated teacher evaluation system onto local school districts but you will not utilize the same budgeting power to force anti-corruption measures onto Flanagan and Heastie?