Sentences with phrase «of voluntary»

Since the new evaluation system went into place two years ago, he's witnessed an unprecedented number of voluntary resignations and early retirements.

She currently leads a five - district, longitudinal study of voluntary summer learning programs for low - income elementary youth that includes extensive primary data collection including classroom observations, interviews, surveys, and student testing.

Our study assumes that a prospective universal preschool would take the form of a voluntary, high - quality, publicly funded prekindergarten program that is modeled on the Chicago Child - Parent Center program, described in detail earlier in our report.

His dissertation offers a history of Chicago's magnet schools, tracing the role of voluntary school desegregation in shaping urban multiculturalism in the post-civil rights era.

The Highly Gifted Magnet (HGM) was established in 1989 as part of the voluntary integration program of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

As Assistant Secretary, she led the federal effort to promote the creation of voluntary state and national academic standards.

Subsequent reports will assess the impact of two consecutive years of voluntary summer programming for urban students and the cost of such programs.

This bill is designed to increase data collection of voluntary afterschool and summer programs in school districts across the state.

There's a disconnect between what the administration is promising — a set of voluntary national content standards — and what we the people will receive — a standardization of the public school system.

Community engagement is also a particular focus for the school, which is a product of countless hours of voluntary work by members of the local Emmanuel Christian Centre.

And most opponents of the voluntary recognition said that goes against the basic tenets of democracy because not all teachers were heard from.

In July 2013, the OST Program Quality Standards Work Group launched a process to establish a set of voluntary statewide standards of out of school time program quality for Texas by December 2014.

The resolution is a response to a new gun safety law Governor Rick Scott approved earlier this month that contains the «arming teachers» language as part of a voluntary «guardian program.»

During her 18 - month tenure, she pushed for the development of voluntary national standards for all students.

This report provides county - by - county data on the availability of voluntary home visiting programs in California, as well as several estimates of the need for these programs.

The executive director of the National Secular Society Keith Porteous Wood said: «A mass conversion of voluntary controlled schools into entirely self - governing academies freed from the moderating influence of local authorities will be the churches» dream and most parents» nightmare.

However, the results of this study showed that the quality of voluntary online discussions is not necessarily watered down as long as appropriate facilitation or scaffolding is provided.

As assistant secretary of education and counselor to U.S. Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander from 1991 - 1993, Ravitch led the federal effort to promote the creation of voluntary state and national academic standards.

National Board Certification, that complements, but does not replace, a state's teacher license, is achieved upon successful completion of a voluntary assessment program designed to recognize effective and accomplished teachers who meet high and rigorous standards established by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS).

The report that recommended the creation of the voluntary Michigan Higher Education Partnership council can be found here.

This study comes at a time of intense efforts to improve education in New Jersey, which is rolling out new teacher evaluations, new online state tests and a new set of voluntary national standards called the Common Core, which spells out what children should master in each grade.

The first year this framework was in effect was also the first year of the voluntary, trial program to administer NAEP in a way that allowed for state - by - state comparisons, and the year in which the NAEP special study on oral reading fluency was conducted (Pinnell, Pikulski, Wixson, Campbell, Gough, & Beatty, 1995).

In the six months following its launch, users completed 8,683 pieces of voluntary training content.

Critics of the voluntary national tests also claim that public education is the responsibility of the states, not the federal government,...

These are the effects of a voluntary Regents examination system with moderate stakes, not the compulsory high - stakes exam system that New York is now phasing in.

Nearly 20 years ago, after the Clinton administration proposed a program of voluntary national student testing, Chester Finn, then a senior fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute, warned that if it failed it would be because «liberals hate the word «testing» and conservatives hate the word «national.

That's a big change from last year, when two - thirds of Americans hadn't heard of the voluntary standards.

I think you suggest that you think that selection bias is a good thing because you think some sort of voluntary choice needs to be a part of the analysis.

A randomized trial involving 19 elementary schools (K — 5) was conducted to replicate and extend two previous experimental studies of the effects of a voluntary summer reading program that provided (a) books matched to students» reading levels and interests and (b) teacher scaffolding in the form of end - of - year comprehension lessons.

District schools also could be chosen when families participate in open enrollment or inter-district choice programs, which allow students in one school district to attend schools in another, often as part of a voluntary desegregation strategy.

Secondly, they could use the services of one of the voluntary bodies established to promote school journeys, such as The School Journey Association of London (SJA).

Consultation with stakeholders as to whether the school should convert is an important part of a voluntary conversion.

But members of the goals panel, noting that both chambers had passed versions of the legislation, said that the death of the bill does not represent a setback in the effort to establish a set of voluntary national standards...

After congratulating the nation for working to amass current successes — including financial aid options that have «finally opened the doors of college to all Americans,» state - developed academic standards, the creation of a voluntary national test, technology in the schools, and an emphasis on class - size reduction — Clinton outlined his proposal to drive public education into the 21st century.

The embattled developers of the voluntary national standards for history agreed late last week to revise their documents outlining what K - 12 students should know and be able to do in that subject.

Learning Objective (s): Explore the function and structure of voluntary muscles.

State Pensions A scheme is to be introduced to allow current pensioners, and those who reach State Pension age before the introduction of the new single tier pension in April 2016, an option to top up their Additional State Pension record through a new class of voluntary National Insurance contributions, to be known as Class 3A.

N.H.T.S.A. officials last month were notified of the voluntary recalls of 46,000 school buses made by the American Transportation Corporation of Conway, Ark., and 9,000...

They are not satisfied with certain features of the public school system, especially inequities, the absence of voluntary prayer, the level of parental involvement (they'd like more), and school size (they'd like smaller).

The court rejected the school district's argument that the prayer meetings were an extension of the voluntary, «open forum» prayer meetings upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court last December in a higher - education case, Widmar v. Vincent.

The concept of voluntary national certification for skilled teachers — which is being explored by the...

At a time when some say the steam has gone out of the push for national K - 12 standards, a Philadelphia foundation has announced plans to inject $ 14 million into several projects that emphasize the development of voluntary national standards.

The topics are: 1) La famille en voie de changement The changing nature of family 2) La «cyber-société» The «cyber-society» 3) Le rôle du bénévolat The place of voluntary work 4) Une culture fière de son patrimoine A culture proud of its heritage 5) La musique francophone contemporaine Contemporary francophone music 6) Cinéma: le septième art Cinema: the 7th art form 7) Essay writing skills at AS Level 8) A booklet of «Expressions utiles» for Writing and speaking.

Her research investigates neural mechanisms of voluntary decision - making.

In addition to the formal Rio +20 outcome, a significant number of voluntary commitments were made by governments, businesses and other civil society partners in the lead - up to Rio and at Rio itself.

Senators voted to retain a provision, attached to a Justice Department appropriation bill, that would prohibit the use of federal funds to «obstruct the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer.»

The report also indicates that controlled choice — a type of voluntary desegregation that allows parents some choice about which schools their children will attend — and other desegregation efforts benefit minority students.

5.1) This report has attempted to capture different aspects of voluntary migration from and within Bangladesh on the basis of available secondary information.

And in another case that has gained widespread attention, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit last week refused to delay implementation of a voluntary student - desegregation plan involving public schools in St. Louis and its suburbs.

Value seeking in the process of voluntary exchange has driven human material progress, but until now it has been all but absent in public education.