Not exact matches
, and by working to lower the occurrence
of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in
schools, funding for birth control
measures and education about using that birth control, promoting research into methods
of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual
choices.
The industry has taken significant
measures to provide consumers with more options and information to allow informed dietary
choices through developing reformulated products to offer low and no - sugar varieties, voluntarily displaying kilojoule information on the front
of labels and restricting sales
of regular kilojoule soft drinks in
schools.
Former NYC Mayor Mike Michael Bloomberg is among the nation's top financial backers
of the
school -
choice movement, topping the list
of New York's political contributors by donating $ 1.8 million to ballot
measures and political action committees focused primarily on
school choice.
The prediction comes from both proponents and opponents
of the tuition - voucher
measure, which, by providing parents with $ 900 for each student enrolled in a private or out -
of - district public
school, would be the most extensive
choice program yet adopted by any state.
This vacuum stems not only from the difficulty
of the endeavor but also from a persistent national clash between an obsession to train students solely for high scores on multiple -
choice tests and an angry disenchantment with
measuring progress
of public
schools, educators, or education
schools.
Chronic absenteeism; a mix
of attendance indicators;
choice to re-enroll in same
school; standardized observations that take into account factors including classroom organization, emotional support, and instructional support; college - readiness
measured by ACT, AP, and IB participation and scores
There are clear implications for
schools of the
choice of high - vs. low - abstraction
measuring tools for soft skills.
Our
measure of the current level
of choice in the public
school system has no statistically significant relationship with charter support within
school districts.
The strategies
of that era — including high academic standards for all students,
measuring academic progress, improving teaching, and introducing
school choice to a monopoly system — found reinforcement in federal law with the passage
of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001.
All
of this leads us to
measured skepticism about the merit
of merit pay, unless it is coupled with
school choice innovations hefty enough to instigate sustained competition among
schools and
school sectors.
Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception
of inequity (that the public
schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the
schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller
schools, belief in what I call the «public
school ideology» (which
measures a normative attachment to public
schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that
choice and competition are likely to make
schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public
schools.
As the cohorts have aged, it is now possible to
measure the effects
of small
schools on college enrollment and
choice, outcomes that have never been examined before.
Nevertheless, there is still a story to be told, and the essential part
of it is that the program that education reformers have tried to promote now for decades — introduce more
choices of schools for students, enable competition among
schools, open up paths for preparing teachers and administrators outside
schools of education, improve
measures of student achievement and teacher competence, enable administrators to act on the basis
of such
measures, and limit the power
of teachers unions — has been advanced under the Obama administration, in the judgment
of authors Maranto and McShane.
In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets
of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct);
Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended
school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (
school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective
measures are coupled with a focus on character development).
When they insist that ideas like
school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added
measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position
of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve
schooling.
U.S. Students Know What, But Not Why Science Insider, June 19, 2012 «The computer simulations offer NAEP a much better way to
measure skills used by real scientists than do multiple -
choice questions, says Chris Dede, a professor at Harvard Graduate
School of Education.
The debate over
school integration now requires discussion
of school accountability, parental
choice, and
measures designed to enhance the quality
of the teacher workforce.
The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings will host a live webcast
of an event in conjunction with the release
of its report, «
Measuring the Influence
of Education Advocacy: The Case
of Louisiana's
School Choice Legislation,» on Tues., Dec. 10 at 10 am.
While the
choice sector as a whole looks pretty good on test scores and other
measures, the averages mask poor performance from a significant minority
of choice and charter
schools.
With automated gates now an increasingly popular
choice for
school and educational buildings, it is absolutely crucial that the strictest safety
measures are upheld to protect our children, whilst in the care
of others.
And the benefits
of school choice for these students extend beyond what tests can
measure.
On the left, some
of the opposition to Common Core and its assessments is related to broader resistance to high - stakes testing, the linking
of student scores to teacher evaluations, and other reform
measures such as
school choice, which some see as «corporate
school reform.»
«Using
School Choice Lotteries to Test
Measures of School Effectiveness.»
More important, however, is the larger implication I take from Mr. Bedrick's thesis: that private
school choice advocates in America, Mr. Bedrick among them, have failed to establish a coherent, prevailing belief system about the role
of private
schools in providing an education
of measured quality, at scale, for the nation's most disadvantaged youth.
To the extent that better information improves the match between families and
schools or leads to pressure on
schools to increase
measured achievement, this effect can augment the impacts
of school -
choice policies.
Finally, we also gather data on the number
of charter
schools in each search unit as an additional
measure of school choice.
, Standards for Our
Schools: How to Set Them,
Measure Them and Reach Them; Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth
of Nations; The Principal Challenge; and Tough
Choices or Tough Times.
This
measure is well established for studying the integration impacts
of school -
choice programs.
Recent work has included several studies related to value - added
measures of teacher performance, teacher effectiveness in the early grades,
school choice, teacher mobility and special needs identification.
At some point, however, that wide range
of choice sabotages attempts to
measure the effectis
of schooling.
«All
schools, but
schools of choice particularly, are well - served by implementing tests that accurately
measure the quality
of that
school's curriculum and program,» said Peter Bezanson, CEO
of BASIS, a charter
school network that started in Arizona.
To
measure the effects
of private
school choice, we compare the long - term outcomes
of more than 10,000 low - income students who first used FTC vouchers between 2004 and 2010 with outcomes
of students with similar characteristics who never participated.
Perhaps 2011 was an unusual year for
school reform only because
of the number
of school -
choice programs enacted, which was significant by any
measure, but not because students swarmed to the new programs (Indiana is a notable exception).
Whether the
measure is graduation rates, improved instructional quality, last year's improvement in the lowest - performing
schools targeted for special intervention, a nation - leading new collective - bargaining agreement, the addition
of many new high - quality public
schools, increased parental
choice, or a material increase in the proportion
of effective teachers, the arrow is pointed decidedly up in Newark.
These are much better
choices than «growth - to - proficiency» models, which do not estimate the impact
of schools and again mostly
measure who is enrolled.
The
measure was based on the share
of students attending
schools of choice, the strength
of charter laws in each state (including,
of course, the strength
of the authorizing and quality control system), and a gauge
of parent influence on policy.
The
measure would have allowed residents
of districts to vote to make them «renewed
school districts» in which «nonprofit organizations may operate publicly funded independent public
schools with parental
choice and revised state regulation.»
While popular with conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation that endorse
school choice, Democrats argue the
measure would sap funding for a majority
of military families who attend public
school.
The
schools in the Imagine family share a common culture based on Shared Values (Integrity, Justice and Fun) and Six
Measures of Excellence — Academic Growth, Parent
Choice, Shared Values, Character Development,
School Development, and Economic Sustainability.
And so, sans meaningful accountability — or, put another way, whether the district takes responsibility for and responds to unacceptably low student achievement, as well as other
measures of school performance and culture — parents will make other
choices.
Most states adopted only modest
measures to improve charter
schools as a result
of the «Race to the Top» competition and no new substantive charter
school laws were passed, said Jeanne Allen, president and founder
of the Center for Education Reform, a
school choice advocate based in Washington, D.C.
Republican senators Tim Scott (S.C.) and Ben Sasse (Neb.) have announced companion legislation to a House
measure that would expand
school choice for military families in an attempt to ease the strain
of frequent relocations.
While we are disappointed that certain bills that would have provided parents with more options in the education
of their child did not advance or were weakened, there are still a number
of important
school choice and education reform
measures that will be discussed over the next two months.
Despite the overwhelming evidence that
school choice works, opponents
of parental
choice have increasingly stepped up their efforts to defeat these common - sense educational reform
measures.
Using these
measures, a near - consensus
of the «gold standard» studies — those that employ random assignment to determine the causal impact
of a policy — have found that students in a
school choice program benefit academically from the new setting.
The Urban Institute study is the latest research
measuring school choice and the travel necessary for
choice programs through the lens
of race and class.
Most recently he co-authored two CRPE reports on the challenges
of public oversight in cities with large charter
school sectors — «Making School Choice Work: It Still Takes a City» and «How Parents Experience Public School Choice» — and «Measuring Up,» a look at educational improvement and opportunity in 50 c
school sectors — «Making
School Choice Work: It Still Takes a City» and «How Parents Experience Public School Choice» — and «Measuring Up,» a look at educational improvement and opportunity in 50 c
School Choice Work: It Still Takes a City» and «How Parents Experience Public
School Choice» — and «Measuring Up,» a look at educational improvement and opportunity in 50 c
School Choice» — and «
Measuring Up,» a look at educational improvement and opportunity in 50 cities.
The report asserts that while «
choice»
measures and the rise
of charter
schools were meant to better integrate the state's
schools, the opposite occurred, and in a 12 - year span, Minneapolis
schools jumped from 34 percent nonwhite to 59 percent nonwhite.
This annual survey — developed and reported by EdChoice and interviews conducted by our partner, Braun Research, Inc. —
measures public opinion and awareness on a range
of K — 12 education topics, including parents»
schooling preferences, educational
choice policies, the federal government's role in education and more.
Imagine Andrews is part
of the national Imagine
Schools network, 70 charter schools serving 38,000 students in 12 states and the District of Columbia, which use five Measures of Excellence to evaluate the effectiveness of each school, including academic growth, character development, economic sustainability, parent choice, and shared
Schools network, 70 charter
schools serving 38,000 students in 12 states and the District of Columbia, which use five Measures of Excellence to evaluate the effectiveness of each school, including academic growth, character development, economic sustainability, parent choice, and shared
schools serving 38,000 students in 12 states and the District
of Columbia, which use five
Measures of Excellence to evaluate the effectiveness
of each
school, including academic growth, character development, economic sustainability, parent
choice, and shared values.