Sentences with phrase «on education indicators»

The structure for a responsive and responsible accountability mechanism was recommended in 1991 by the Special Study Panel on Education Indicators and presented to the Acting Commissioner of Education Statistics, Emerson J. Elliott, then Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander, and Assistant Secretary of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement Diane Ravitch.

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.»

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

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) is... rethinking Science and Engineering Indicators — the agency's massive biennial statistical bible covering everything from spending on research and education to regional development, trade, and public attitudes toward science,» Jeffrey Mervis reported late Wednesday.

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.

Critics say that these charts — such as the Shanghai ranking and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings — rely on inadequate indicators and meaningless aggregated scores.

With so many indicators showing a negative relationship, perhaps we need to reconsider how we interpret success — or failure — on international education scores.

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.

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

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).

On a few education indicators, Native Americans are performing better than some other minority groups tracked by the federal government, a report concludes.

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

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.

«What I have found is that one of the most important indicators to tying technology - skill instruction to the curriculum, particularly at the K - 12 level, is a firm grounding in technology standards on the part of administrators,» Nicholas Langlie told Education World.

Five indicators have a clear bearing on education outcomes: preschool enrollment, kindergarten enrollment, 4th - grade reading, 8th - grade mathematics, and high school graduation.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will embark this fall on an ambitious research effort to analyze — and provide some initial answers to — a perennially vexing question in education: What are the best indicators of excellent teaching?

Once the Colorado State Board of Education decides on the relative weights between indicators, CDE will update the state plan with this information.

At present, however, the world gathers only around half of the data needed to monitor progress based on SDG 4 global education indicators.

Meiers and Ingvarson in 2005 focused precisely on this critical indicator, investigating the outcomes of 10 professional development programs in 42 primary schools and 28 secondary schools from all education sectors across Australia.

The analysis also incorporates data from the National Center for Education Statistics on the racial / ethnic composition of each school, the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (an indicator of family poverty), the average number of students in each grade (a measure of school size), and the school's pupil - teacher ratio (an measure of class size) in the 2007 - 08 school year.

The start of the lesson looks at the different ways in ehich social development can be regarded and classified, focusing on education and health and then looking at HDI and comparing the indicators (there are support sheets to go with this).

For the Technology Leaders section of Technology Counts 2006, the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center collected data on 14 indicators covering three major areas of state technology policy and practice: access, use, and capacity.

Further country - level data on institutional features of the education system — mainly concerning the distribution of decision - making powers and the size of the private - schooling market — come from the OECD educational indicators.

According to the new OECD report, «Starting Strong 2017: Key OECD indicators on early childhood education and care,» some countries are managing this process well and as a result see a «very modest impact of the social and immigrant background of children on their learning and social outcomes.»

The 14th edition of Education Week's Quality Counts continues the report's tradition of tracking key education indicators and grading the states on their policy efforts and Education Week's Quality Counts continues the report's tradition of tracking key education indicators and grading the states on their policy efforts and education indicators and grading the states on their policy efforts and outcomes.

The finding are based on 23 key indicators, such as children's economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.

The report also continues the EPE Research Center's annual practice of ranking and grading the states as well as the nation as a whole on key education indicators.

Drawing heavily on data from the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center's annual state policy survey, the report once again offers a comprehensive state - by - state analysis of key indicators of student success.

Michelle also supports the development and implementation of equitable education policies by conducting original research on indicator systems, parent and family engagement, and education organizing.

As Education Week's Quality Counts turns 20, the nation has posted a solid C — the same as last year — on the report's 2016 summative - grading indicator.

Strategies for improvements across these indicators include promoting community and family engagement, demystifying higher education access and procedures, building mentoring and navigation supports throughout the higher education experience, and focusing on accountability for institutions in providing appropriate experiences and supports for young men of color.

Prior to joining Education Northwest in 2011, he spent three years with the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, where he managed their nationally focused policy and capacity - building initiatives and worked closely with policymakers, district leaders and researchers developing and using early warning and college readiness indicators.

Reporting performance on multiple indicators reflects a holistic understanding of what contributes to a quality education for all students and student groups.

The indicators represent a consensus of professional judgment on the most significant national measures of the condition and progress of education for which accurate data are available.»

This new resource from AEP includes not only policy language excerpted directly from each state's education policies but also information on state - level surveys of arts education and a set of descriptive education indicators.

The report presents 50 indicators on the status and condition of education, in addition to a closer look at postsecondary education by institutional level and control.

How interesting it would be to have measures on some or all of these, as well as the more conventional education statistics and indicators!

School districts and colleges in Florida this year will have greater access to students» scores on the two national college - entrance examinations, leading state education officials to predict speedier admissions to universities and more complete performance indicators from local schools.

Based on this indicator, 69 percent of 4th graders in public schools had parents with a college education, compared to 85 percent of those in the private school sector.

Under the NCLB Extended approach, embraced by many on the education reform / civil rights Left, achievement would continue to be measured by proficiency rates alone (with rising annual goals for what is good enough); growth data would be used sparingly and / or focused on «growth to proficiency»; «other indicators of student success or school quality» would be minimized; and evidence of achievement gaps would sink schools» ratings significantly.

The survey provides data on wages and occupations going 10 years past high school as well as clear indicators of whether students participated in ESL or bilingual education programs.

Department of Education staff found 90 schools that ranked red on all indicators or all red except for one orange indicator.