Sentences with phrase «on the educational performance of»

These reviews are based on a methodology where an OECD team including outside experts undertakes background work on the educational performance of the country in question (including but not restricted to PISA data), along with collection of information on the country's economic performance, educational policy history, and patterns of poverty and inequality.

Officials from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction will present an alarming report on the educational performance of students with disabilities at today's State Board of Education meeting that calls into question the quality of education the state's most vulnerable children receive.

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In England, the leading center has been in Cambridge, where Jeremy Begbie's project on theology through the arts in the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies has sponsored a range of publications, performances and educational initiatives, and is due to culminate in September 2000 with an arts festival embracing new film, drama, sculpture, music, painting and poetry.

While counselors might have to spend a lot of time focusing on individual education plans, testing, and other educational issues, school personnel should also be available to talk with children about emotional issues that affect their performance and demeanor at school.

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«The Government needs to scrap the damaging school performance tables and focus instead on a more balanced method of assessing educational achievement based on externally marked sample tests.»

A state appellate court ruled unanimously on Thursday that New York City must keep open 19 schools it wanted to close for poor performance, blocking one of the Bloomberg administration's signature efforts to improve the educational system.

Speaking on the significant impact of Opon Imo since its introduction, Governor Aregbesola said since the advent of the electronic gadgets which serve as crucial educational intervention, the performance of students across the state have tremendously improved in terms of results and academic prizes.

Joining de Blasio on a press call this afternoon, Duncan insisted that the mayoral control system has both led to improvements to local schools and created a rare kind of electoral accountability for educational performance.

«A high level of the attention - distractibility trait is likely to have an impact on a person's educational and job performance, as well on their ability to focus on daily activities and tasks, such as reading.»

Raising America's average scores on international comparisons is, therefore, not a matter of repairing a broken educational system that performs poorly overall, as many critiques suggest, but rather of improving the performance of the children at the bottom, overwhelmingly from low - income families and racial and ethnic minorities.

The researchers from the University's Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm, studied the test scores measuring cognitive ability of children aged between 10 and 13, and found they had a strong effect on a child's subsequent educational performance.

This is especially relevant to the UK, where the education secretary Michael Gove has justified some of his controversial reforms by referring to the country's performance on the international educational stage.

Drawing on the Bardic tradition, his performances are both entertaining and educational, speaking directly to the heart, and never without a good splash of humour.

William J. Ryan, Ph.D. consults on topics related to the implementation and application of performance learning in the training and development field serving corporate, industrial and educational organizations.

Two conclusions from recent PISA studies are that increased national performance is associated with greater equity in the distribution of educational resources and that equity can be undermined when school choice segregates students into schools based on socioeconomic background.

With a strong emphasis on spelling and grammar, timetables and long division, the new National Curriculum has been heralded as a return to high standards and rigour as we strive to catch up with the world's best performing nations in terms of educational performance.

If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war....

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

Ongoing improvements in educational performance in Australian schools depend on continual improvements in the quality of classroom teaching.

A Plus Learning prides itself on providing teachers and counsellors with quality educational materials and resources that are designed to enhance the engagement and performance of students allowing them to achieve excellent results.

Currently, the model funding agreement and articles of association for academy chains focus almost exclusively on governance and financial propriety, but the results of Reform's survey suggest that a chain's finances and educational performance are «intrinsically linked».

Of course, whether educational preferences based on demographics or dissatisfaction with existing school performance manifest themselves in support for charter schools depends on other circumstances as well: notably, the political power of opponents to charter schools, the most prominent opponents being teachers unions; and the degree of school choice already available to parentOf course, whether educational preferences based on demographics or dissatisfaction with existing school performance manifest themselves in support for charter schools depends on other circumstances as well: notably, the political power of opponents to charter schools, the most prominent opponents being teachers unions; and the degree of school choice already available to parentof opponents to charter schools, the most prominent opponents being teachers unions; and the degree of school choice already available to parentof school choice already available to parents.

Most educational standard setting, performance assessment, and judgments about appropriate levels of achievement today are based on history and custom with a little bit of «professional dreaming.»

I infer the priorities of administrators and teachers from educational outcomes, as measured by student performance on the state's math test.

Not only can the provision of high - quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) facilitate women's participation in the labor force, it can also have a positive effect on their children's educational performance.

It demonstrates that effects of socio - economic status on educational outcomes can be mitigated, and this can be done on a whole - school and system - wide basis by the very people and the same schools where low performance was once the norm.

Although the study showed that parents» involvement in school events still had a positive effect on adolescents» achievement, it did not rank as highly as parents conveying the importance of academic performance, relating educational goals to occupational aspirations, and discussing learning strategies.

For example, some of the best research has focused on «family income» as a predictor of education success, but Susan Mayer, a University of Chicago sociologist, has shown that unexpected changes in family income by themselves have little effect on a child's educational performance.

«Effects of socio - economic status on educational outcomes can be mitigated, and this can be done on a whole - school and system - wide basis by the very people and the same schools where low performance was once the norm.

At Bett Academies this month, I will start off by looking at what evidence there is to support the belief that the academies programme has so far made an impact on educational standards in England, looking initially at the performance of the Labour sponsor academies that were set up by Tony Blair and his Government.

Given Hattie's research1, that greatest influence on student performance and educational outcomes is the teacher, it is vital that we support our primary teachers in the teaching of science.

Reflective learning is a way of allowing participants to step back from their learning experience to help them develop critical thinking skills and improve on future performance by analysing their experience, so building in time for reflection will also help you derive the maximum benefit from your educational visit.

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

There is no consensus on the lack of a strong positive relationship between educational resources and performance, however.

Both the House and Senate versions of the bill would require new educational performance standards to be developed, based on recommendations from a National Academy of Sciences panel.

Mobile and collaborative technologies support students» autonomy and reinforce the notion of collaborative work, which is exactly what this method» sideology is based on - providing a better educational experience with digital tools is positively influencing the student's performance and motivation in the classroom.

Because of the positive impact that parent and family involvement in education has on the performance of children ~ schools often try to encourage parents and family members to increase their participation in the educational process.

Concerns over our educational system, fueled by our students» poor performance in international comparisons of achievement, have reinvigorated the call for early academic instruction as a remedy for inadequate teaching later on.

While we continue to develop daring new live experiences for young audiences, we are working with artists to capture and offer «virtual performances» so students and teachers outside of NYC can watch BAM performances at their local cinema, on their computers or devices, participate in virtual workshops with BAM teaching artists, and access BAM's extensive archive and library of educational resources.

This suggests that while broad evaluations of state rankings and performance can be useful, a deeper reading of the results presented in this State Highlights Report will provide a more nuanced perspective on the educational condition of the nation and the states.

Reporting performance on indicators separately underscores the broader understanding of what contributes to a positive educational experience for students by focusing on a variety of outcomes and ensuring that disparities among student groups within individual measures are not overlooked.

On March 15, 2017, the State Board of Education (SBE) and the California Department of Education (CDE) launched a new accountability system to replace the Academic Performance Index (API) to better measure our State's educational goals.

A student whose speech impairment adversely affects the student's educational performance shall be referred to the committee on special education for further evaluation and review of the need for special services and programs, pursuant to article 89 of the Education Law.

Universal school choice that provides access to quality educational options, as Paul Hill of the University of Washington observes, will «depend on the supply - side, that is, on the success of arrangements that promote the creation of a wide variety of school options, expose all schools to performance pressures through competition, and permit constant replacement of weak schools by promising new ones.»

More than a decade of research, at Harvard and elsewhere, on accountability, school improvement, and school organization has become «increasingly specific,» he said, «about the conditions that promote high - level learning and performance in educational institutions,» within classrooms and in systems as a whole.

The case for charter schools, vouchers, and other forms of «marketized» education rests not only on educational performance but also on the claims of freedom of conscience.

OMI intends to perform among the best schools on quantitative measures of educational performance.

Third, today's focus on results - based education, combined with plenty more data on school performance in an era of educational accountability, means that reform - minded education leaders are getting bolder about closing bad schools — and sometimes (but not always) opening new ones in the same building.

DeVos ignores research that parents choose schools for a variety of reasons, most often not on the basis of educational performance.