Sentences with phrase «national achievement»

There was a positive improvement in academic performance on state and national achievement tests.

Information about progress is required to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching strategies, but is equally crucial for evaluating initiatives to raise national achievement levels and close achievement gaps.

Things like our vital public services, our schools, our police, housing, and our great national achievement, our NHS.

With its showing on the gold standard of national achievement tests, the Duval County School District is now reaping the considerable benefits of former School Superintendent Nikolai Vitti's bold and aggressive style of leadership.

ARGONNE, Ill. — Argonne Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division Director Emilio Bunel recently was selected as a Luminary Honoree by the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation, or HENAAC.

The top national achievements for 2010 are:

• Awarded by American Culinary Federation for National Achievement in Excellence for 2011.

Argonne Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division Director Emilio Bunel recently was selected as a Luminary Honoree by the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation, or HENAAC.

Student scores on national achievement tests are flat, and we are one of very few states with a growing achievement gap.

Advancing values affirmation as a scalable strategy for mitigating identity threats and narrowing national achievement gaps

In other settings that flag may represent our best and highest national achievements and aspirations.

The release of 2015 NAEP scores showed national achievement stalling out or falling in reading and mathematics.

A coalition of 50 education and civil - rights groups calls on the President and the Congress to oppose plans to create national achievement tests.

Supporters also point to high test scores, but the editorial claims «there is no way to accurately compare voucher [sic] students with Florida public school students» because the latter are required to take the state achievement test while the former are required to take one of several national achievement tests, such as the Stanford Achievement Test or PSAT.

While some say President Clintons proposal for voluntary national achievement tests is too ambitious, he said last week he would like to take it further.

Most national achievement tests use norm - referenced scoring, including the California Achievement Test (CAT); the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS); the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) and Tests of Academic Proficiency (TAP); Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT); and Stanford Achievement Test.

In a theoretical analysis published in the American Economic Review, Robert Costrell of the University of Massachusetts concluded that more centralized standard setting (state or national achievement exams) results in higher standards, higher achievement, and higher social welfare than decentralized standard setting (in other words, teachers» grades or local schools» graduation requirements).

The role of reading engagement in improving national achievement: An analysis of Chile's 2000 — 2009 PISA results

In January, opponents of the ballot question, who claim Common Core is necessary to reduce national achievement gaps and give students the skills they need to compete globally, sued to stop the issue from reaching Massachusetts voters.

Tectonic social changes — including demographic shifts that have placed most women with school - age children in the labor force, research breakthroughs in the learning sciences and in socio - emotional and brain development, and daunting national achievement worries — have all converged to place a major new emphasis on the quality of a child's learning experiences throughout the typical school day, after school, weekends, and across the year, including summers.

Students who are significantly behind local and national achievement norms in reading benefit from SRL's intensive, focused attention on strategic reading instruction with developmentally appropriate materials and activities.

Solo exhibitions include Ceremonial Achievements at KraupaTuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2013), A Space for National Achievement at Sultan Gallery, Kuwait (2013) Achievements in Swiss Summit at Project Native Informant, London (2013), and GCC: Achievements in Retrospective at MoMA PS1 (New York, 2014) and at the Sharjah Art Foundation (Sharjah, 2014).

Board of Commissioners Hearing Examiner Adjunct Law Professor National Association of Counties National Achievement Award «Best in Category» Criminal Justice and Public Safety 2008 Adjunct Law Professor Licensed Real Estate Broker Over 25 years experience Successful track record

University of La Verne College of Law -1991 - Juris Doctor University of Redlands -1986 - B.S.B.A. National Achievement Award 2008 Best in Category County of Los Angeles Criminal Justice and Public Safety American Jurisprudence Award in Real Property and Criminal Law.

As a group, Hispanics perform well below average on national achievement tests, and their high school dropout rate is nearly four times that of their non-Hispanic white peers.

This expansion is occurring even though high stakes standardized testing has never been shown to improve student achievement or teacher performance, and even though the testing mandated by the federal No Child Left Behind legislation is widely considered to have undercut, rather than raised, national achievement levels.

Ultimately, the strides that the UAE has made in its educational reforms rely on a number of focuses, but it is fair to say that the success of the changes being made to the education systems in UAE countries reply on teachers; their skills, happiness and wellbeing all contribute to pupil, state and national achievement in an undeniable way.

When those corrections and adjustments are made, Peterson shows that students under Rhee made much larger strides toward closing the district - national achievement gap than they did under her predecessors.

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In 2016, the LTT NAEP could have provided another authoritative measure of national achievement, at a time when Common Core and other education reforms are changing U.S. schooling.

It might be a turn toward a morbid preoccupation with victimology and a turn away from a healthy sense of national achievement and purpose.

A new group, Educate America Inc., announces plans to develop a national achievement test for all high - school seniors, and to ask the Congress to fund it and make it mandatory.

The big story is that NAEP scores have been flat for six years, an unprecedented stagnation in national achievement that states have experienced regardless of their stance on CCSS.

The results of the SLS are more interesting in some respects than those of the National Achievement Survey (NAS) of NCERT or Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) administered by Pratham, an NGO.

«Teacher Quality, Opportunity Gap, and National Achievement in 46 Countries.»

During the Reagan Administration, the official American report on education for UNESCO was called «Progress Education in the United States,» while the major tool for measuring our national achievement bears the optimistic name of National Assessment of Educational Progress.

The comparisons of Florida on the National Achievement of Education Progress (NAEP) average scores are reported below along with the achievement gains in scores from 2003 - 2015.

(He is a prominent journalist and novelist, and cleverly represented decarbonization as a national achievement on the scale of the 1948 abolition of the army).