Sentences with phrase «noted education academics»

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Prof. Naana Opoku Agyemang commenting further noted the beneficiary students in the free SHS program exclude day students in the 2015/16 academic year that are benefiting from other forms of scholarships such as the Ghana Cocoa Board Scholarships, Northern Scholarships, Secondary Education Improvement Project Scholarships, and those on scholarships provided by NGOs, corporate bodies and individuals.

The report does note that «postdoctoral salaries are relatively low» and that «graduate students are sometimes discouraged by a perceived mismatch between education and employment prospects in the academic sector.»

President Barack Obama has often noted in speeches the enthusiasm of Korean parents for their children's education, the high quality of Korean teachers, the number of learning hours that Korean students spend, and the outstanding educational achievements these have produced; for example, top rankings in international academic - achievement tests, and low rates of school dropouts and juvenile delinquency.

A recent research project undertaken by the Indigenous Education Team at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) noted that culturally responsive teaching practices can improve academic outcomes for Indigenous students.

Prominent speakers have included U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, noted academic Noam Chomsky, Children's Defense Fund Founder Marian Wright Edelman, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Khan Academy Founder and Director Sal Khan.

«These are fully certified people, and some of them are very good teachers,» noted Nancy C. Mincemoyer, science specialist for the Michigan department of education, «but in terms of coursework and academic background, they really aren't qualified.

Noted in the paper, ministers say they will update school and college performance measures in order to make sure that when the new T - level qualifications come into force in 2022, students can make an informed choice between an academic or technical education.

[Professor] Bridget Terry Long, the Harvard Graduate School of Education academic dean and the chairwoman of the National Board for Education Sciences, IES» advisory board, noted that IES under Director John Q. Easton has required more partnerships between researchers and practitioners, and is launching a new center devoted to evaluating how well research is being translated into usable knowledge.»

«While educators and policy makers can provide insight into the academic and political landscape of education, only parents have the ability to link the impact of home and school life with the learning success of their children,» the researchers note.

As noted by education professor Vicki Jacobs in her eBook, Vocabulary: The Foundation of Literacy, researchers Bromley (2007) and Graves (2008) found that vocabulary knowledge accounts for much of a student's verbal aptitude, and that a student's verbal prowess is a strong predictor of K — 12 academic achievement.

A concept paper inviting community - based organizations to partner with the New York City Department of Education (DOE) noted the approach «is based on a growing body of evidence» showing that «an integrated focus» on academics, health and social services, and other community supports are «critical to improving student success.»

Education scholars like Kahlenberg, one of the nation's leading advocates for economic integration, note droves of research papers that cite the positive impacts of diversity in K - 12 schooling, including enhanced critical thinking, higher academic achievement, greater civic responsibility, higher college - going rates and more lucrative jobs.

I was encouraged this week to learn that ESSA — the new American education law — that replaced NCLB includes language that opens the door beyond academic testing to include «multiple measures of student learning and progress, along with other indicators of student success...» Education Week notes that sprinkled throughout the law are references to an instructional strategy that has enormous potential for reaching learners with divereducation law — that replaced NCLB includes language that opens the door beyond academic testing to include «multiple measures of student learning and progress, along with other indicators of student success...» Education Week notes that sprinkled throughout the law are references to an instructional strategy that has enormous potential for reaching learners with diverEducation Week notes that sprinkled throughout the law are references to an instructional strategy that has enormous potential for reaching learners with diverse needs.

Note: Eligibility and academic requirements are established by the Nevada Department of Education and are therefore non-negotiable and subject to change.

Indeed, as per a statement made by Ron Adler, president of the Ohio Coalition for Quality Education, not only is it «disappointing that ODE spends so much time denying that poverty and mobility of students impedes their ability to generate academic performance... they [continue to] remain absolutely silent about the state's broken report card and continually defend their value - added model that offers no transparency and creates wild swings for schools across Ohio» (i.e., the EVAAS system, although in all fairness all VAMs and the SGP yield the «wild swings» noted).

Although Gaetz's bill does not include fiscal expenditures, as noted in the main text (§ IV, supra), in reviewing the start time / academic achievement studies undertaken by fellow economists, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics Jonah Rockoff and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, concluded that delaying middle and high school start times «from roughly 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. -LSB-,]» will increase academic achievement by 0.175 standard deviations on average, with effects for disadvantaged students roughly twice as large as advantaged students, at little or no cost to schools; i.e., a 9 to 1 benefits to costs ratio when utilizing single - tier busing, the most expensive transportation method available.

The most noted of which was Massachusetts with its historic 1993 education reform law, nation - leading state academic standards and assessments, and the unprecedented gains on national and international testing.

Superintendents and union leaders looking for an alternative to a high - stakes, data - driven movement in education have showered the community schools model with praise, noting that it has expanded access to health care and social services, tackling problems thought to be causes of academic failure.

In his RSCO School Choice Fair field notes, HH expresses concern that ``... the lack of conversations about test scores, despite some critics» view that test scores are not a reliable indicator of a school's quality of education, is concerning as low - income parents might not be aware of the academic outcome produced by the schools that they are choosing for their kids» (HH).

While the authors note a lack of substantial evidence of positive effectives of Linked Learning on college enrollment or completion, they also describe several studies that have found positive results on high school student achievement and argue that blending academic work with career technical education (CTE) could make college an option for more students.

It is interesting to note that California's Department of Education, in conjunction with the state board, has been working to develop its own new accountability system having discarded the Academic Performance Index in the wake of new funding and assessment systems.

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As noted, the state's ultimate goal is to implement systemic changes that boost the academic achievement of its 690,000 special education students, still the lowest - performing subgroup in California.

Your educational attainment and achievements (note: those with higher level education and / or distinctions are usually preferred by most academic establishments)