Sentences with phrase «of education indicators»

The preschool enrollment figure is one of the education indicators, along with percentage of fourth graders not proficient in reading, percentage of eighth graders not proficient in math, and percentage of high school students not graduating...

From a statistical standpoint, «there is no decline on any measure that we have for the United States,» says Andreas Schleicher, the head of education indicators and analysis for the OECD, the Paris - based group that administers PISA.

Not exact matches

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

For instance, in terms of «tertiary efficiency,» a measure that combines several individual indicators related to post-secondary education, Canada crashes in at number 45, just a few spots ahead of South Africa and Morocco.

He believes that better indicators of creditworthiness are «reliability, discipline, education, employment.»

Jeesh... another indicator of the need for education in the traditional sense — on how to think rationally.

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If we needed an indicator of your intelligence and / or education level «You better wake up and recognize» surely gives you away...

Either way, using anybody's accent as an indicator of their level of education is ridiculous.

In the Youth Indicators, 2005 report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), we can see that athletic teams is the favored school - related extracurricular activity for boys in 1990 and 2001 at 43.2 % and 45.3 % respectively, out of a choice of music / performing arts, athletic teams, academic clubs, student council / government, and other school clubs / activities.

Two days ago, New York Times national education correspondent Sam Dillon had a front page story on the sharp increase in the number of formerly middle class households now taking advantage of free or reduced price school lunches for their children, a stark indicator of the nation's current economic woes.

«Based on the relatively high competence of Waldorf pupils in natural science, combined with exceptionally high indicators of motivation and reflective cognition in these subjects as well as the different pedagogical principles, it is reasonable to conclude that public education can learn from the Steiner Waldorf schools, in particular with regard to being able to concretely apply knowledge in natural science.»

Research shows that a parent's interest in a child's education is the biggest indicator of their future success.

With Michael Gove's ears still burning from being made to stand at the front of the class with his hands behind his back following his humiliating EBacc u-turn, the Annual Ofsted Report, due to be given by Sir Michael Wilshaw and John Goldup next Wednesday morning, will be quite an important performance indicator for the education policy talking heads.

The first two columns are the indicators which best cover a state's ability to deliver on bread and butter economic issues; the Poverty and Economic Performance category includes variables such as unemployment, GDP growth, inflation, and government debt, while the Provision of Public Services category includes infrastructure, energy reliability, education, and policing.

In a speech to members of the party which catalogued some achievements of President Mahama's government in the education sector, the minister emphasised that Ghana is making noticeable progress in all the important indicators of performance.

«From Nigeria, I have watched closely your achievements, ranging from your ingenious approach to creating jobs for the teeming youths through various initiatives, including the repositioning of agriculture for modern farming, «Farming for Jobs and Food», Senior High School (SHS) free education, One - District - One - Factory, and One - Village - One - Dam as well as the improvement being recorded in the Republic's macroeconomic indicators.

While the State Education Department will be charged with determining how performance indicators translate to «ineffective,» «developing,» «effective» or «highly effective» ratings, the budget will include certain rules that «trump» the outcome of the department's calculation.

A significant share of the gaps in income, education, crime, and other socio - economic indicators between Southern states and non-Southern states in the U.S. is associated statistically with having larger African - American populations, although Southern whites are still lower in income, less likely to receive educations, and more likely to commit crimes, etc. than whites in metropolitan areas outside the South.

In a statement, President Dick Iannuzzi makes an oblique reference to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's criticism of the education system for costing too much money, but offering little in the way of success when it comes to test scores and other indicators.

They noted that several education experts found the ALST to be structurally awkward and an unreliable indicator of language skills and teaching ability.

The statement added that the feat recorded by Miss Abiola is one of the several indicators that the Aregbesola government in Osun has created a landmark in the area of education that can not be overlooked.

It takes into account life expectancy and education, two key indicators of overall well - being, as well as GDP per capita.

Last year's National Autism Indicators Report found that a third of young adults never got work or continued education between high school and their early 20s.

America's precollege science and math education is mediocre enough to threaten the nation's continued scientific supremacy in today's «changed world» of globalized science, warns Science and Engineering Indicators 2006, NSB's latest biennial report on the state of the nation's research enterprise, which was released in February.

For instance, the texts were analyzed with regard to how many different words are being used, the average number of words per sentence, grammatical structures, how often the genitive — an indicator for high education in German — is used, or the number of connectors, meaning words that signal semantic relations such as «however» or «instead.»

The tool features 59 state indicators of state performance in education, the scientific workforce, research and development (R&D) investments and activities, and high - tech business.

Researchers can also conduct their own analyses of the data by, for example, studying possible interrelationships among different indicators, such as education, R&D, and economic activity.

Science and Engineering Indicators is the most comprehensive source of high - quality federal data on a wide range of topics that include trends in global R&D investments and knowledge - intensive production, K - 12 and postsecondary STEM education, workforce trends and composition, state level comparisons, and public attitudes and understanding of science and related issues.

This free resource supplements the state data in the 2014 Science and Engineering Indicators report, the premier source of information and analysis of the nation's position in science and engineering education and research.

Older age, lower education, psychotic illness, being a visible minority and having a native language other than English or French were associated with poorer cognitive performance; however these indicators could explain only part of the neurocognitive difficulties observed in this study.

«China is achieving a dramatic amount of synergy by increasing its investment in science and engineering education, in research, and in infrastructure, which is attracting scientists from all over the world,» NSF Director Arden Bement said this morning at a rollout of the 2010 Indicators.

In order for a respondent to qualify as having multi-dimensional deprivation, he or she had to have more than one indicator of deprivation, such as lack of education and severe housing burden.

The IMD is based on 37 separate indicators including income and are grouped into seven domains, each of which reflects a different aspect of deprivation across the lifespan including education, health and crime.

The report also includes a topical chapter on higher education in Tennessee, reviewing the landscape on college - going in the past, looking at early indicators of success for Tennessee Promise and highlighting challenges and opportunities for the years ahead.

We report the effects of the Child - Parent Center Education Program on indicators of well - being up to 25 years later for more than 1400 participants.

It is also an indicator of higher education.»

You can filter people based on a wide - range of indicators including age, height, education, religion, drinking preference and location.

(a further indicator of how limited her acting education is).

Dr Nick Smith explains: «In general, it's a good indicator of how highly each country prioritises education.

Recommendations are also being formulated concerning: the indicators and benchmarks for the post-2015 education agenda and monitoring mechanisms; governance, coordination and partnerships, and financing of education.

Not all universities make the leap from classroom behavior to ideology: The «Teacher Education Professional Dispositions and Skills Criteria» at Winthrop University in South Carolina are only basic indicators of professional commitment, communication skills, interpersonal skills (among them, «Shows sensitivity to all students and is committed to teaching all students»), emotional maturity, and academic integrity; acknowledging social inequities is not mentioned.

Districts that are higher performing by this indicator actually spend, on average, no more than the lower performing districts (after adjustment for differences in family income, special - education placements, and the percentage of students who are of limited English proficiency).

Every January, the Education Week Research Center grades the nation and states on educational performance, based on a range of key indicators.

While health indicators have been improving almost surprisingly fast, combining resources, systems, innovation and technology even in the poorest developing countries, the quality of education has suffered relative to the quantity in terms of enrollment at all levels.

In reaching a conclusion, it's important to focus on devising Key Quality Indicators (KQIs) that will drive improvement; and initiate quality assurance tools that will help you to make better judgements about the standard of education and training you provide.

The 10th annual report by Education Week examines the progress that states have made on a core set of policy indicators related to standards - based education over the pasEducation Week examines the progress that states have made on a core set of policy indicators related to standards - based education over the paseducation over the past decade.

The 16th edition of Quality Counts continues the report's tradition of tracking key education indicators and grading the states on their policy efforts and outcomes.

Quality badges such as the Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC) Quality Badge and the Association of Heads of Outdoor Education Centres (AHOEC) Gold Standard are both indicators of high quality provision.

The EPE Research Center's database of more than 1,000 state - level K - 12 education indicators spanning more than a decade.