Sentences with phrase «of holding schools»

Instead of holding schools responsible for students» reading and math proficiency, schools will be accountable for students» level of «college and career readiness,» narrowly defined as the skills students need to enter college without remedial coursework in English and math.

«We congratulate the Liberal Democrats for seeing sense on the toxic nature of our current system of holding schools to account and announcing an ambitious vision for the future.

«It's important to have that third party verification of the students» achievement and career readiness,» said Hoffman, «and also that career - ready is weighted at a much higher value as an indicator over simply course completion, or even half the weight of completion in terms of holding schools accountable for the opportunities they're successful in providing students.»

For the past several decades, American education reformers have focused on reading and math test scores as the primary means of holding schools and teachers accountable for improving student performance.

Those policy makers have been pursuing a «Test - and - Punish» policy primarily relying on tests as a way of holding schools and teachers accountable and using threats to pressure schools.

The new law put the burden of holding schools accountable on their authorizers, the organizations providing their charters, and the burden of overseeing the authorizers on the state.

Charter authorizers need to do a better job of holding schools accountable — and the charter schools need to support them — loudly and sincerely.

Last month E-Act announced plans to scrap local governing bodies, including parent governors, in all of its schools, ending their role of holding schools to account.

After all, if the standards are a necessary part of holding schools that accept taxpayer money accountable for using that money to teach kids things we all agree they should learn, that would be no less true for private schools that accept taxpayer money than it would be for public schools that do.

Getting local districts to quit piling on poorly designed assessments for this false sense of holding schools accountable...

We can do a better job of holding the schools accountable for the academic performance of English learners.

«Conversely, the attainment measure, which has been the traditional way of holding schools to account, risks driving school behaviours that are at odds with the government's goals.»

While standardized tests provide an effective means of holding schools more accountable for achievement levels, the report says, they «usually do not provide information useful for improving individual or school performance.»

A religious charter - school system would serve the same educational and spiritual needs in America's inner cities — and it would have the added benefit of holding the schools accountable for their results.

That's because for the past decade Californians have lived with two conflicting ways of holding schools accountable for the performance of their students — a state and a federal one.

Standardized testing is still considered the most effective way of holding schools and systems accountable.

As Texas's Criss Cloudt put it, «I'm hoping [federal officials] will find some ways to give... states greater flexibility, particularly those that have a demonstrated track record of holding schools accountable.»

And our practice of holding schools (and now teachers) accountable for year - to - year gains on reading tests only encourages them to focus on things that might get a short term bump (skills and strategies) and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledge).

North Carolina is perhaps best known for having a strong system of holding schools accountable for results.

Failing to account for natural fluctuations in test scores could undermine the very idea of holding schools accountable for their efforts — or lack thereof

Thus, the process of holding schools and school districts accountable for results is more equitable and useful.

The new federal education law encourages the use of new ways of holding schools accountable.

Elia talked about the importance of holding schools and teachers accountable for their performance in the weeks before the election.

City Hall has also said they expect a renewed Board of Education to cost the city $ 125 million to $ 160 million annually, to account for the cost of creating new positions under the new governance structure and the expense of holding school board elections.

This forms the backdrop to the past half - century of what we now know as «standards - based reform,» which includes the crucial charter school concept of holding a school accountable for its results (measured, for better and worse, primarily by test scores).

She noted the problem of holding school - wide events and how the split campuses hurt low - income families.

Not exact matches

His father Fred never graduated from high school and held a series of blue - collar jobs including truck driver, factory worker and cab driver.

Jim holds a BA in molecular biology from Princeton University and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business.

Kevin Reilly: Each year, many of the schools hold special ceremonies honoring the donors.

She holds a BS in business administration from Bucknell University and an MBA from The Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

On top of having one of the best cohorts of teachers in the world (even primary school teachers are required to hold master's degrees), Finland has made hands - on subjects a priority.

DeAngelis graduated Cum Laude from Cornell University with a B.A. in Asian studies and history and also holds a Juris Doctorate from Rutgers School of Law.

Yanev holds degrees from Yale University (B.A.), Harvard Law School (J.D.), and Oxford Said School of Business (M.B.A, Christ Church).

She holds a master's degree in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Former UWA Business School Dean Tracey Horton and former Mitsubishi Motors Australia chief executive Robert McEniry have been appointed to the board of Automotive Holdings Group as non-executive direc

Many parents of kids who struggle in school have wished that they could somehow tinker with their kid's brain to fix whatever was holding them back and making them feel so miserable.

Last year, Diversity Lab held a Women In Law Hackathon in collaboration with Stanford Law School and Bloomberg Law, in search of new, scalable inclusion ideas.

A recent study from Singapore Management University (SMU) School of Accountancy found that firms with poor governance generally prefer to hold more cash.

She held fast to that dream throughout high school, toiling over her art portfolio and racking up painting awards, all the while maintaining top grades, earning her grade 10 Royal Conservatory of Music certification for piano, and playing saxophone in seven different bands.

A certified financial planner, Yeske is managing director at wealth management firm Yeske Buie and holds an appointment as Distinguished Adjunct Professor in Golden Gate University's Ageno School of Business.

Our «sleep machismo,» says Charles Czeisler, director of sleep medicine at Harvard Medical School, «glorifies sleeplessness in the way we once glorified people who could hold their liquor.»

The OECD has estimated that 44 percent of American workers holding less than a high school degree work in jobs made up of «highly - automatable» tasks, while just 1 percent of Americans holding a bachelor's degree or higher hold such jobs.

He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University where he earned a B.S. in Mathematical Science, and he holds an M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Aiello holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and bachelor's degrees from the University of Michigan in Dance and Political Science.

Gardner holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Williams College, a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in finance from Wharton School.

The prestigious University of Toronto business school has always been held in high regard on Bay Street, where many of its faculty established their careers.

Amy Cuddy, a faculty member at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, has conducted an experiment with her graduate students demonstrating that holding an assertive body posture for as little as two minutes increases the amount of testosterone in the body, in men and women.

It's not unusual for business school students to hold views that are on the left end of the political spectrum.

A penchant for holding onto everything that might come in handy in the future, plus a generally nomadic existence (home to the midwest for the summers, back to New York for school semesters), meant that I lived in a semi-permanent state of bare - boned survival and clutter.

The jobs require applicants to be born and raised in Saudi Arabia, between the ages of 25 and 35, and hold a high school diploma or valid equivalent.