«Family reunion is increasingly politicised, with policies changed based on electoral promises,
not robust evaluations.
Not exact matches
«Support for the new teacher
evaluation system is
robust and resilient, which sends a clear message that New Yorkers want to see a deal and won't accept excuses for inaction,» said Glen Weiner, deputy executive director for StudentsFirstNY.
In a months - long tussle between IES and Congress over the
evaluation of Upward Bound, IES insisted that a
robust test of whether the program made a difference to students required a control group — students eligible for but
not served by it.
If the state is successful in its current court appeal and the ESA program moves forward, I would love to see the kind of
robust Yelp - like parent
evaluations Ladner envisions — so long as they're paired with strong oversight representing the public interest of all the taxpayers whose kids aren't attending ESA - financed schools.
Because they have spent little on developing
robust data systems that can monitor student achievement and teacher performance means (and thanks to state laws that had banned the use of student test score data in teacher
evaluations), districts haven't been able to help those aspiring teachers by pairing them with good - to - great instructors who can show them the ropes.
Nevertheless, creating more
robust teacher and principal
evaluation systems will
not, in isolation, lead to significant improvements in educator quality.
He hopes the ruling doesn't stifle efforts underway in some cities exploring creative approaches to tenure and teacher
evaluation, including adding more
robust peer and student reviews.
«Here we argue for the adoption of measures to optimize key elements of the scientific process: methods, reporting and dissemination, reproducibility,
evaluation and incentives... one analysis estimates that 85 % of biomedical research efforts are wasted, while 90 % of respondents to a recent survey in Nature agreed that there is a «reproducibility crisis»»...» The key to fostering a
robust metascience that evaluates and improves practices is that the stakeholders of science must
not embrace the status quo, but instead pursue self - examination continuously for improvement and self - correction of the scientific process itself.
Andrew Langdon QC, Chair of the Bar, said: «Whilst plans for flexible courts have
not been dropped, it is encouraging to see HMCTS
not only take on board the Bar Council's concerns about the plans, which include the impact they will have on barristers with child and other care responsibilities, but they also commit to ensuring
robust evaluation measures are in place before proceeding with the pilot.