Sentences with phrase «national improvement»

Later this week, I will publish the new national improvement framework for education, which focuses firmly on our objective of closing the attainment gap in education.
Develop national improvements to build your nation, develop your own foreign policy and trade agreements, and rule your people according to your choosing and see how your nation progresses among other nations.
He points out three obstacles to reform that characterize our public schools: Schools have conflicting purposes, looking to both social and individual ends; leaders hoist huge responsibilities on schools for a variety of national improvements; and the model of schooling we've embraced — the age - graded school — is poorly suited to student diversity.
These conflicting purposes and the historic placing of responsibility for national improvement on schools have been channeled into a once - innovative organizational structure imported from Europe in the early 19th century.
The latest figures show the number of pupils now attending good or better schools in Manchester is the same as that nationally - with a rate of improvement on this measure over the last four years that far outstrips national improvement
Challenged about the speed and quality of this process, Finn responded that he was unwilling to sacrifice the «sense of urgency for national improvement,» according one account (Vinovskis, 1998, p. 46).
The national improvements in maternity care supportive of breastfeeding from 2007 to 2013 are substantial; however, more work is needed to ensure that all women have access to evidence - based maternity care policies and practices supportive of breastfeeding.
Responding to the report, Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister, said: «We broadly accept the report's 12 recommendations as complementary to the work we are already doing through the National Improvement Framework and the Scottish Attainment Challenge.
Sturgeon also confirmed that he National Improvement Framework would be published this week, which contains proposals for standardised national tests in Scotland.
Education Secretary Angela Constance hailed the reforms as a «significant milestone for education», which includes the introduction of a National Improvement Framework, aimed at improving attainment through a more structured national testing system.
More recently he took up the post of Director of Education (Primary) with Astrea Academy Trust overseeing the expansion of the Trust in South Yorkshire and Cambridge and a national improvement in KS2 results of 13 %.
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