Sentences with phrase «on school effectiveness»

This has had a negative impact on school effectiveness and is an issue that schools will find it difficult to overcome.

The last rewrite of Colorado's school finance law was more than 20 years ago when there was no such thing as public charters, online schools, or a growing stream of data on school effectiveness.

The Coleman Report catalyzed almost 50 years of subsequent research on school effectiveness.

Not exact matches

Kevin coaches on leadership effectiveness at the Harvard Business School and is an adjunct faculty member at Babson College.

Since the professional effectiveness of teachers, ministers, social workers, counseling psychologists, nurses, and psychiatrists depend so much on their skills in relating and communicating, graduate schools training them should make extensive use of growth groups.

On the contrary, this is primarily an interactive model where the teen knows how to share the Gospel themselves, knows how to develop purposeful friendships with school friends, and knows how to work with a team of other friends who bring different skills to the evangelism team to maximise its effectiveness.

Media Statement 20 May, 2015 Australian Beverages Council responds to Labor's calls for restrictions on sugar - sweetened beverages Responding to the latest calls from the Labor Government to phase out sugary drinks from Tasmania's schools, Australian Beverages Council CEO Geoff Parker said: «One has to question the effectiveness of choosing to phase out or effectively ban -LSB-...]

Its effectiveness comes in the juxtaposition of poignant scenes with downright hilarious ones; Kindergartener Ruby Bridges tells Jabari how to be brave, mere moments before stepping out the door and starting her first day at an all - white school (where she's most definitely not welcomed), which is followed by Jabari messing around with his future idol, pre-President Obama, on the night of Dr. King's famed speech.

It was also because of the effectiveness of one - on - one tutoring, just like when we are home schooling our children.

(b) Regularly monitor and assess effectiveness of policies and programmes on food security and nutrition of children, including school meal programmes and food banks, as well as programmes addressing infants and young children;

In this chapter, we focus on the effectiveness of home visiting programs in promoting developmental, cognitive, and school readiness outcomes in children.

-LSB-...] If You Don't Sell It, Fewer Will Eat It: The Effectiveness of California's Curbs on In - School Ju... — Bettina Elias Seigel, The Lunch Tray Does not allowing schools to sell junk food mean students will compensate for lost calories at home, or will they just eat less junk food?

In many cities, rating the effectiveness of public schools is as easy as texting on a Blackberry.

Malloy, Wentzell and others at the discussion emphasized the importance and effectiveness of young people like Marotta and Jasmine Lall, a Bulkeley High School junior also on the panel, speaking up after the massacre last month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate teacher and principal effectiveness, and to hold schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.

Lafayette, who served for 32 years in the Assembly before retiring, said he endorsed Dromm after years of working personally with him and also because of Dromm's «commitment and effectiveness on the issues that matter most to me, — better schools, more access to doctors and health care, and improved quality of life».

This Monday night on BronxTalk two education experts will debate the effectiveness of charter schools.

A new report has questioned the effectiveness of random drug testing in schools, calling for further evidence on their probable impact.

The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher Effectiveness The New Teacher Project (TNTP), 2009 Extensive research of teacher evaluation systems in 12 schools districts highlights our pervasive and longstanding failure to recognize and respond to variations in the effectiveness of Effectiveness The New Teacher Project (TNTP), 2009 Extensive research of teacher evaluation systems in 12 schools districts highlights our pervasive and longstanding failure to recognize and respond to variations in the effectiveness of effectiveness of our teachers.

Fresh off the Legislature's second on - time budget in a row, Sen. Saland talks about the need to balance capital and administrative spending, explains the state budget's hold harmless rules and gives his opinion on the effectiveness of charter schools in New York and around the country.

«In participating schools, ADAP is delivered as part of the standard health education curriculum, which facilitates its sustainability,» says Holly Wilcox, Ph.D., M.A., associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the researcher who oversaw the study on the effectiveness of the ADAP curriculum.

«Little research is available that demonstrates the effectiveness of STEM - focused schools in comparison with other schools or that contrasts the relative effectiveness of their different approaches on a variety of student outcomes,» the report notes.

It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.

In a review of existing literature, Marteau did find descriptions of nudging being used to improve health behaviors — one study reports a 70 % increase in the amount of fruit bought by school children at lunchtime after fruit was placed by the cash register — but these interventions have not been evaluated on a large scale or assessed for cost - effectiveness.

«PittVax will continue collecting, analyzing and reporting on flu cases and flu vaccine effectiveness in the Pittsburgh region, helping guide flu immunization recommendations,» said senior author Richard K. Zimmerman, M.D., M.P.H., professor in Pitt School of Medicine's Department of Family Medicine and Pitt Graduate School of Public Health's Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences.

An international team led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center uncovered the influence of genetic variation on vaccine effectiveness after applying cutting - edge DNA sequencing technology to almost 5,000 patient blood samples.

In a 1956 review of the research on «School Personnel and Mental Health,» J. T. Hunt, a professor at the University of North Carolina, noted that «efforts to identify personality differences between superior and inferior school personnel, to isolate a «teacher personality,» or to predict either competence or effectiveness of student teachers by means of psychometric or projective instruments, led to limited results.&School Personnel and Mental Health,» J. T. Hunt, a professor at the University of North Carolina, noted that «efforts to identify personality differences between superior and inferior school personnel, to isolate a «teacher personality,» or to predict either competence or effectiveness of student teachers by means of psychometric or projective instruments, led to limited results.&school personnel, to isolate a «teacher personality,» or to predict either competence or effectiveness of student teachers by means of psychometric or projective instruments, led to limited results.»

Five - year evaluation study on the effectiveness of A + arts - integrated school reform strategies in Oklahoma schools, based on a survey of students, teachers, and professional - development faculty.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadschools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Sadly, though, our current public - school practices fall far short on equity, efficiency, and overall effectiveness.

While the evidence for the effectiveness of charter schools nationwide is mixed, research has found that the charter schools in these cities are on average more effective than district schools in raising student test scores.

A $ 272 million program to help states and school districts use technology for education would be axed under President Bush's fiscal 2007 budget, partly because the White House says it lacks rigorous data on its effectiveness.

The study reported here thus differs from virtually all other published research on charter schools in its reliance on experimental methods to determine the schools» effectiveness.

A multilevel study on the gendered effects of school resources and school practices Margriet van Hek, Gerbert Kraaykamp & Ben Pelzer School Effectiveness and School Improvemenschool resources and school practices Margriet van Hek, Gerbert Kraaykamp & Ben Pelzer School Effectiveness and School Improvemenschool practices Margriet van Hek, Gerbert Kraaykamp & Ben Pelzer School Effectiveness and School ImprovemenSchool Effectiveness and School ImprovemenSchool Improvement Vol.

Published in the journal School Effectiveness and School Improvement, the study, by Dr Margriet van Hek, focused solely on boys» reading performance.

It turns out that the effectiveness of school - wide bonus programs may, in fact, depend on the number of teachers with tested students in a school (see Figure 1).

Muralidharan evaluated four different facets of the program including the impact of performance pay on learning, whether it led to any negative consequences on the teachers, the difference between group incentives and individual, and the relative effectiveness of teacher performance pay versus spending the same money on additional school inputs.

The (c)(3) organized and trained community members, educating them, policymakers, and the general public on school reform and teacher effectiveness issues.

These lessons focus primarily on the transparency of the systems, but this is just one of several principles that states should attend to (which I have offered previously): Accountability systems should actually measure school effectiveness, not just test scores.

This is according to new research commissioned by the All - Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Financial Education for Young People and funded by Martin Lewis OBE (founder of MoneySavingExpert.com), which conducted a survey of secondary school teachers to investigate the reach and effectiveness of financial education in schools.

As part of its «Benchmark Best Practices» series, COACHE surveyed faculty at its member institutions — more than 200 colleges and universities across the United States — about the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of mentoring both on and off campus, while also gauging the adequacy of existing support at individual schools.

The early experience with the New York City School - Wide Performance Bonus Program suggests, however, that a heavy reliance on school - wide rewards may hamper the effectiveness of merit pay programs in schools with large teaching staffs that are not highly collaborSchool - Wide Performance Bonus Program suggests, however, that a heavy reliance on school - wide rewards may hamper the effectiveness of merit pay programs in schools with large teaching staffs that are not highly collaborschool - wide rewards may hamper the effectiveness of merit pay programs in schools with large teaching staffs that are not highly collaborative.

On the second day, Thursday 19, workshops will include: «Managing honest conversations with employees», delivered by Schools» Choice; «Making school meals count» by the Children's Food Trust; and «Operational Effectiveness», by Chris Hallmark of OEE Consulting.

Researchers for the Dallas Independent School District, for example, studied the correlation between teacher effectiveness and student performance on formal assessments.

Manno focuses on three of these nonprofit organizations that have had helped to lift charter school caps, implement «parent trigger» policies, and reform teacher effectiveness provisions.

There's a tendency among education reformers and economists who study data on teacher effectiveness to say, «See, teacher effectiveness varies dramatically from one teacher to another, even in the same school.

The reports concludes with: «The small body of research focused on the effectiveness of K12 virtual schooling programs supports findings of similar studies on online courses offered in higher education.

To date, there has been relatively little research on the effectiveness of blended learning in U.S. schools, and what research does exist can not necessarily be generalized.

Students who scored in the top quarter of the sixth - grade math exam averaged anywhere from 19 to 26 on the high school ACT math test; the variations correlated with the effectiveness scores of their high school math teachers.

Among the more salient conclusions are: 1) that what children bring to school is vastly more important than what happens thereafter, as the Coleman Report found; 2) in examining all of the variables that impinge on student academic performance (teacher effectiveness, socio - economic advantage, appropriate evaluation criteria, etc.), none is demonstrably more significant than time spent learning «one - on - one»; and 3) that only an individualized computer program can address all these issues effectively and simultaneously.