Sentences with phrase «of graduation policies»

Former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson deserves more than a little scorn for the violations of graduation policies (and the underlying causes of them) that took place under her watch.

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There are several other factors that need to be considered in evaluating the incubation programs, including their policy on graduation and exit, level of psychological support, ability to keep trade secrets and openness to double - loop learning and exchange of knowledge.

CNN: Health secretary addresses health care, religious freedom in protested graduation speech In an anticipated and controversial address Friday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius delivered a speech that blended inspirational messages to graduates with a discussion of public policy's tough decisions, including health care and honoring religious freedom.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

But the folks at GW's Graduation School of Political Management are planning an event this week that proves that they aren't afraid to take on an apparent oxymoron: A generation ago, rare was the public policy issue that brought...

Lavine, focusing on education policy, said improved school districts and graduation rates would help prevent crime and reduce the city's high rate of poverty.

His higher education policies have included calling for laws to limit the amount of time a student can receive state tuition assistance while in a public university, which he said would increase the rate of graduation in four years.

President Obama delivered the graduation speech at West Point Wednesday, and with it, a foreign policy change of direction.

Although recent graduates tend to take over his type of job, he would advise young scientists to get a few years of research experience after graduation before embarking on a career in science policy.

Sarah joined our team after graduation and was an immediate asset to Linda in helping to shape our policies to ensure we have the highest rates of students participating in their education as they agree to.

If the policy, which is part of a package of changes to the state's graduation requirements, is approved, Maryland would be the first state to require service as a condition for graduation.

In Fordham's fifth annual Wonkathon, policy experts submitted twenty - three entries — a Wonkathon record — addressing whether our high school graduation requirements need to change, in light of diploma scandals in D.C., Maryland, and elsewhere:

At the beginning of the last decade, before concerns about the nation's graduation rate ascended to prominence on the policy agenda, only about two - thirds of U.S. public school students were finishing high school with a regular diploma.

High stakes testing policies requiring students to pass standardized tests for promotion and graduation deepen educational inequity between whites and minorities and widen the educational gap between affluent and impoverished students, according to two studies of education reform in Texas.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new study of the Chicago Public Schools» (CPS) double - dose algebra policy for struggling 9th grade students — the first such study to examine long - term impacts of this intervention — has found substantial improved outcomes for intensive math instruction on college entrance exam scores, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates.

The reality is that these kinds of national results are so far removed from the regulatory minutiae of federal education policy, and the meaning of these test results can be so opaque, that everyone would be well - served if they spent less time claiming this or that test result or graduation rate proved that a grand federal agenda was the right one.

A study by Matthew M. Chingos and Paul E. Peterson on the long - term impact of school vouchers on college enrollment and graduation won the 2016 Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Prize awarded for Best Academic Paper on School Choice and Reform.

And that's without resolving the policy paradox of whether achievement scores and graduation rates can realistically be raised at the same time, along with the level of student engagement, or whether those worthy goals tend to cancel one another.

«For master's students, it's an advantage to walk down the graduation aisle with a plan in pocket that you can immediately implement or do so in five years,» Merseth says, calling the course a true intersection of policy, practice, and research.

After graduation and a decade - long stint in management consulting, Drayton was appointed the assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, where he led an initiative to institute an emissions trading policy, also known as «cap - and - trade.»

A 2004 study coauthored byJames J. Kemple, director of K - 12 policy forMDRC, a research organization, found thatyoung men who attended career academiesearned 18 percent more than their counterpartsfour years after high school graduation.

After graduation, Chan says she hopes to gain international experience in policy around equity and education with the aim of bringing that experience home.

His own ambition to learn drove Purley to enroll in HGSE's Education Policy and Management (EPM) Program, where he sought a deeper understanding of the government's influence on K — 12 funding, and how inequities in funding relate to disparities in graduation rates and access.

In February of 2011, CUNY's Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, headed by University Dean David Crook, released critical data (obtained by Director of Policy Analysis Colin Chellman using linear probability models and logistic regression) demonstrating that, all else being equal (i.e., taking into account all measurable demographic and performance characteristics), CUNY's transfer students were at a disadvantage in terms of graduation compared to native students.

This policy brief extends the analysis by a year, adding information on high school graduation rates for the 2006 cohort and providing a fifth year of follow - up for the 2005 cohort.

Graduation rates have become a prominent feature in the landscape of high school reform and within the larger world of educational policy.

An assumption implicit in existing state education policies is that the quality of schooling will improve sufficiently to enable high school graduation rates to rise even as graduation requirements are stiffened.

Higher education reformers are keen to find fixes for remedial education, some of them aggressive state policies, because students who are assigned to the courses are unlikely to make it to graduation.

State policy in Ohio requires school districts with a three - year average graduation rate of 75 % or less (in addition to academic watch and academic emergency districts) to administer practice versions of the Ohio Graduation Tests (OGT) to 9th - gradegraduation rate of 75 % or less (in addition to academic watch and academic emergency districts) to administer practice versions of the Ohio Graduation Tests (OGT) to 9th - gradeGraduation Tests (OGT) to 9th - grade students.

To ensure continuity between the curriculum, graduation requirements, and school policies at the various BASIS campuses, members of the School Boards represent School Site Managers, Community Members, BASIS parents, BASIS Schools, Inc., and BASIS.ed.

Public school commencement season this spring could be marked by renewed legal uncertainty because of the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to review a Florida school district's policy allowing student messages at graduation.

Our study extends this work to examine the impact of CPS's double - dose algebra policy on such longer - run outcomes as advanced math course work and performance, ACT scores, high - school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates.

We find positive and substantial longer - run impacts of double - dose algebra on college entrance exam scores, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates, suggesting that the policy had significant benefits that were not easily observable in the first couple of years of its existence.

This Advance CTE brief explores common approaches to offering or requiring CTE courses and assessments within a statewide set of graduation requirements, offers illustrative examples of state - level policies and elevates implementation issues for consideration.

Peter Smyth, a retired educator and administrator, and also a co-founder of Community Voice, says, «After a career in education and research into educational reform, I have come to these conclusions: while South Carolina Superintendent Zais has applied for a waiver to No Child Left Behind, his proposals reflect those of Secretary Duncan and the current and previous administrations, policies which have not achieved their goals and have made raising test scores and graduation rates, rather than meaningful learning, the default goals of American education.

Idaho's State Board of Education President Don Soltman shared some data on graduation rates that triggered angst among educators and policy leaders.

In other REL Northwest projects, the Alaska State Policy Research Alliance works with Native organizations to define postsecondary success for all Alaskan students and the Bureau of Indian Education High School Alliance seeks to increase graduation rates for Native students in Washington and Oregon's BIE schools.

A Discussion with School Boards: Raising the Graduation Rate, High School Improvement and Policy Decisions is a series of five PowerPoint presentations developed by VDOE and the University of Virginia available for superintendents to present to their school boards to address the topic of graduation and to prompt discussion of policy issues that may affect graduatGraduation Rate, High School Improvement and Policy Decisions is a series of five PowerPoint presentations developed by VDOE and the University of Virginia available for superintendents to present to their school boards to address the topic of graduation and to prompt discussion of policy issues that may affect graduation Policy Decisions is a series of five PowerPoint presentations developed by VDOE and the University of Virginia available for superintendents to present to their school boards to address the topic of graduation and to prompt discussion of policy issues that may affect graduatgraduation and to prompt discussion of policy issues that may affect graduation policy issues that may affect graduationgraduation rates.

A recent report from the Learning Policy Institute, a research and policy organization in Palo Alto, cites studies that found «that teachers of color boost the academic performance of students of color,» on measures such as improved reading and math scores, graduation rates and greater aspirations to attend coPolicy Institute, a research and policy organization in Palo Alto, cites studies that found «that teachers of color boost the academic performance of students of color,» on measures such as improved reading and math scores, graduation rates and greater aspirations to attend copolicy organization in Palo Alto, cites studies that found «that teachers of color boost the academic performance of students of color,» on measures such as improved reading and math scores, graduation rates and greater aspirations to attend college.

At one campus, Anacostia High in Southeast Washington, nearly 70 percent of the 106 graduates received 2017 diplomas despite violating some aspect of city graduation policy.

To be clear, our findings do not indicate that every performance - based funding policy fails, but that the average performance - based funding policy has no impact on the number of students making it to graduation.

Given the shameful differences in the academic outcomes and graduation rates of students of color compared to many Asian and white students, one would expect policies and practices related to students» race and ethnicity to be high on the reform agenda.

[34] It is conceivable that changes to TPP admissions or graduation policies could affect the diversity of students who enter or graduate from TPPs, ultimately affecting the diversity of the teacher workforce.

But earlier this year, researchers at UC Berkeley and the Learning Policy Institute released a study attributing higher graduation rates and higher math scores to the distribution of additional revenue under the formula.

This report shows how the design of high school graduation policies can have important consequences for teaching, learning, and student attainment.

The Blueprint Task Force develops recommendations that include scope, proposed actions related to each of the four focus areas it established at the onset of the task force (Policies and Procedures, Graduation Rate, Gender - Specific Needs, and Parent / Family Support), budgetary implications, a prioritized implementation plan, and a proposed timeline to address the needs of our African American and African students.

«There is no state in the U.S. that has made the high school graduation requirement the same as a college - readiness requirement,» said David Steiner, executive director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy.

With the new policy, students who have completed all requirements and do not pass one or two of the end - of - course exams may still graduate if approved by an individual graduation committee (IGC).

Under the policy, Vermont students can build their personalized learning plans using a menu of alternative graduation pathways, including work - based learning, CTE, dual enrollment, early college programs and more.

This implies that the negative impacts of high school exit exam policies on graduation rates found in other studies are more likely a result of reduced graduation rates of very low - achieving students than of discouragement of marginally low - achieving students.