Sentences with phrase «national goals for schools»

The proposal, presented to board members late last week, is aimed at complementing the effort by President Bush and the nation's governors to set national goals for schools, officials said.

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All schools participating in the National School Lunch Program are required to have a wellness policy (see Getting Junk Food Out of School: How Your School District Wellness Policy Can Help) that includes goals for classroom food, nutrition education and more.

The ways pediatricians can protect, promote, and support breastfeeding in their individual practices, hospitals, medical schools, and communities are delineated, and the central role of the pediatrician in coordinating breastfeeding management and providing a medical home for the child is emphasized.3 These recommendations are consistent with the goals and objectives of Healthy People 2010,4 the Department of Health and Human Services» HHS Blueprint for Action on Breastfeeding, 5 and the United States Breastfeeding Committee's Breastfeeding in the United States: A National Agenda.6

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, who is running against Eliot Spitzer for Comptroller, last week released a report indicating that 75 percent of New York City public school have Internet speeds 100 times slower than the national goal set by President Obama for 2020.

As national president, my goals include providing training opportunities and materials to help parents be effective advocates not only for their own children, but also for all children; and to provide leadership as a national organization in assisting parents and school leaders to establish comprehensive parent involvement programs in every school.

The goal of National School Choice Week (NSCW) is to raise public awareness of all types of education options for children.

Talk of national standards, schools of choice, setting mastery goals for children, magnet schools, new assessment methods — all these things sounded wonderful.

This dire sequence started, he says, with A Nation at Risk, the 1983 Reagan administration report that launched America on «experiments» such as «open classrooms, national goals, merit pay, vouchers, charter schools, smaller classes, alternative certification for teachers, student portfolios, and online learning, to name just a handful.»

COPELLS was designed with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) with the goal of improving science literacy for middle school students, especially ELLs.

«The national budget was in surplus and in a position to afford a massive, long - term increase in funding for education — more schools, more classrooms, more teachers, more likelihood that NCLB might be a realistic goal.

However, to make sure that the academies programme realises its goal of improving outcomes for disadvantaged children, the report is urging the government, and the national and regional schools commissioners, to do more to create mechanisms that spread good practice from the best academy chains to the rest.

As charter schools come to the fore in the national education debate, 69 charter school educators attended the Ed School's Programs in Professional Education institute, Charter Schools: Practices for High Performance, in July with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student ouschools come to the fore in the national education debate, 69 charter school educators attended the Ed School's Programs in Professional Education institute, Charter Schools: Practices for High Performance, in July with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student outschool educators attended the Ed School's Programs in Professional Education institute, Charter Schools: Practices for High Performance, in July with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student outSchool's Programs in Professional Education institute, Charter Schools: Practices for High Performance, in July with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student ouSchools: Practices for High Performance, in July with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student outcomes.

Gonski's recommendation for fairer funding of schools clarifies how to accomplish this important national goal.

The President singled out proposed cuts in the Safe and Drug - Free Schools and Communities program, the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, the School - to - Work Opportunities Act, and the Corporation for National and Community Service — all of which were proposed or significantly shaped...

Owens and members of a research team from the Peabody Center for Education Policy at Vanderbilt prepared the report, March Toward Excellence: School Success and Minority Student Achievement in Department of Defense Schools in 2001 for the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP).

NEA Leader Stresses Goal of Great Public Schools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community involSchools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community involschools, and increasing parent and community involvement.

While the national discourse focuses on the merits of school choice initiatives in their own right and for their own sakes, as leaders of state and local education systems, as educators of diverse regional, political, and professional backgrounds, we believe that these policies are better thought of as means to critical ends, and that the goal of these and other education policies should be, above all else, the enhancement of skills for America's youngest generation and expanded opportunity for children to thrive as adults.

In an actual slide presented at a conference in Orlando, Florida, in 2011, the Counsel of Chief State School Officers, which was heavily involved, along with the National Governors Association and Achieve Inc., in pushing Common Core, discussed their recommendations for how to improve their statewide databases with the goal of having national daNational Governors Association and Achieve Inc., in pushing Common Core, discussed their recommendations for how to improve their statewide databases with the goal of having national danational databases.

As the national organization representing public school superintendents, we have long focused on the importance of equity as a driver of and goal for educational opportunity and achievement.

[I] t's possible to set national goals and standards — even establish a national assessment program — and still leave a tremendous amount of flexibility for states and local school districts.»

One of the overarching goals of the national push to redesign high schools is increasing the number of students who graduate ready for college.

Goal 2: Promote the quality of school health services in Indiana Strategy 2.1 Monitor local, state, national, and international issues that relate to school nursing in Indiana 2.2 Encourage each area to submit an applicant for School Nurse of the Year and School Nurse Administer of theschool health services in Indiana Strategy 2.1 Monitor local, state, national, and international issues that relate to school nursing in Indiana 2.2 Encourage each area to submit an applicant for School Nurse of the Year and School Nurse Administer of theschool nursing in Indiana 2.2 Encourage each area to submit an applicant for School Nurse of the Year and School Nurse Administer of theSchool Nurse of the Year and School Nurse Administer of theSchool Nurse Administer of the Year.

The overarching goal of the Framework for K - 12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas (National Research Council, 2012, Summary, para. 2) is to «ensure that by the end of 12th grade all students have some appreciation of the beauty and wonder of science; possess sufficient knowledge of science and engineering to engage in public discussions on related issues; are careful consumers of scientific and technological information related to their everyday lives; are able to continue to learn about science outside school; and have the skills to enter careers of their choice, including (but not limited to) careers in science, engineering, and technology (p. 1).»

Using test score data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, we also find that reforms cause gradual increases in the relative achievement of students in low - income school districts, consistent with the goal of improving educational opportunity for these students.

In current national dialogues about school improvement, SEAs have increasingly been asked to provide oversight and support for districts in their efforts to meet ambitious goals for increasing student achievement.268 SEAs also clarify education policy for districts.

- Arne Duncan, U.S. Department of Education In 2013, the national high school graduation rate hit a record high of 81.4 percent, and for the third year in a row, the nation remained on pace to meet the 90 percent goal by the Class of 2020.

Opening the event Terry said, «our goal here is to help Idaho be a national model — and this is happening... There are now more opportunities for Idaho schools to do great things.»

New research reveals that for the first time in our nations history we are on track to reach the national goal of 90 % high school graduation rates by the class of 2020.

The goal of the National Math Foundation Summer Institute is to provide common core and module - aligned training and materials for teachers / schools in movement - based learning strategies in order to boost student achievement, increase physical activity, reduce obesity, and increase the overall health of students.

The identification and selection of qualified school leaders is one of the primary goals for K - 12 school systems dictated by national mandates like «No Child Left Behind» and «Race to the Top.»

UTLA President Alex Caputo - Pearl mentioned the day of action as part of his state of the union speech in July and said the event will be in coordination with the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, a national group of parent, youth and community organizations and labor groups whose stated goal is «fighting for educational justice and equity in access to school resources and opportunities.»

HOT Schools shares the same broad goals identified in the Common Core State Standards readiness anchor standards for reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language, and HOT practices affect work habits (imagination, investigation, construction and reflection) identified by National Core Arts Standards.

Anticipating the needs of a growing metropolitan area was among the service learning goals that gained Meridian its designation as a Service Learning Leader School by the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency that promotes and funds volunteer efforts.

HOT Schools shares the same broad goals identified in the Common Core State Standards readiness anchor standards for reading, writing, speaking and listening, and HOT practices affect work habits (imagination, investigation, construction and reflection) identified by the National Core Arts Standards.

The National Center for Community School's description of community schools work including: definition, goals, components, examples and results.

The goal of the CCSS, the poll notes, is to «establish national standards for learning so that all students, regardless of where they live, leave high school with the skills necessary to enter college or the labor force.»

The Building a Grad Nation Report: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic, released annually, by the Alliance for Excellent Education, America's Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, shows detailed progress toward the GradNation goal of a national average on - time high school graduation rate of 90 percent bySchool Dropout Epidemic, released annually, by the Alliance for Excellent Education, America's Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, shows detailed progress toward the GradNation goal of a national average on - time high school graduation rate of 90 percent byschool graduation rate of 90 percent by 2020.

Ember Reichgott Junge, «1991 and 2005: Goals Then and Now,» remarks, August 8, 2005, in Chartering 2.0 Leadership Summit: Proceedings Document (Mackinac Island, MI: National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2005), 9.

TNTP: TNTP is a national non-profit working at every level of the public school system to help ensure all students have access to excellent instruction and help our partners meet their goals for students, with a focus in three areas: rigorous academics, talented people, and supportive environments.

The National Center for Literacy Education (NCLE) recently conducted an online survey of teachers, with the goal of understanding the commonalities in schools that experienced success in implementing new literacy standards.

The National Educational Goals Panel (www.negp.gov), states, as part of Goal 3: Student Achievement and Citizenship, that ``... every school in America will ensure that all students will learn to use their minds well, so that they may be prepared for responsible citizenship, further learning, and productive employment in our Nation's modern economy.»

Vermont's State Board of Education followed with a resolution carefully reviewing the evidence on testing; calling on the federal government to reduce testing mandates and to stop using tests to evaluate teachers; and calling on state and national organizations to broaden educational goals and ensure adequate resources for schools.

The report further remarked that national education policies, including the expansion of charter schools, ignore race and poverty and have «consistently failed» to meet the goal of improving education for our neediest children.

The Billion Mile Race online platform provides free tools and resources to help your school get started, and when you share miles toward the national goal your school will earn eligibility for awesome grants and prizes.

The National Hispanic Council of School Board Members (NHC) promotes the goals and vision of NSBA and provides leadership and a foundation to school board members for student educational opportunities through collaboration with key stakeholders to foster excellence and equity in public educSchool Board Members (NHC) promotes the goals and vision of NSBA and provides leadership and a foundation to school board members for student educational opportunities through collaboration with key stakeholders to foster excellence and equity in public educschool board members for student educational opportunities through collaboration with key stakeholders to foster excellence and equity in public education.

He knows it's a sign that these members are engaged or are looking to be engaged, and community involvement and commitment is what the District needs to realize its goals for transforming SAISD into a national model urban school district.

The mission of the National Hispanic Council of School Board Members is to promote the goals and vision of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) and to provide leadership and a foundation to school board members for student educational opportunities through collaboration with key stakeholders to foster excellence and equity in public educSchool Board Members is to promote the goals and vision of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) and to provide leadership and a foundation to school board members for student educational opportunities through collaboration with key stakeholders to foster excellence and equity in public educSchool Boards Association (NSBA) and to provide leadership and a foundation to school board members for student educational opportunities through collaboration with key stakeholders to foster excellence and equity in public educschool board members for student educational opportunities through collaboration with key stakeholders to foster excellence and equity in public education.

In the wake of a standards reform movement that galvanized among state and school system leaders in the 1980s and 1990s, the passage of the Improving America's Schools Act and the Goals 2000 Educate America Act (both enacted in 1994) embedded a meaningful and new national focus on high standards expectations for all students.

For the purposes of this article, we'll use the definition set forth by the National School Climate Council, co-led by the Education Commission of the States: «the quality and character of school life,» with an elaboration: «School climate is based on patterns of students», parents», and school personnel's experience of school life and reflects norms, goals, values, interpersonal relationships, teaching and learning practices, and organizational structures.&School Climate Council, co-led by the Education Commission of the States: «the quality and character of school life,» with an elaboration: «School climate is based on patterns of students», parents», and school personnel's experience of school life and reflects norms, goals, values, interpersonal relationships, teaching and learning practices, and organizational structures.&school life,» with an elaboration: «School climate is based on patterns of students», parents», and school personnel's experience of school life and reflects norms, goals, values, interpersonal relationships, teaching and learning practices, and organizational structures.&School climate is based on patterns of students», parents», and school personnel's experience of school life and reflects norms, goals, values, interpersonal relationships, teaching and learning practices, and organizational structures.&school personnel's experience of school life and reflects norms, goals, values, interpersonal relationships, teaching and learning practices, and organizational structures.&school life and reflects norms, goals, values, interpersonal relationships, teaching and learning practices, and organizational structures.»

«The Creative Self - Expression Foundation's goal is to provide high school artists with an opportunity to showcase their talent and express themselves through various mediums,» says Rebecca Hunsel, Marketing Manager for Franchise Concepts, Inc., the national franchiser for The Great Frame Up retail stores.