Sentences with phrase «overall education performance»

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Government has often played a role in promoting performance - enhancing work practices to enhance overall economy - wide outcomes from higher productivity and innovation, such as the long history of agricultural extension services (since 1887) to spread information on best practices in farming, and employer education on safety practices conducted by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Gibbs - he is bound average, i reiterate once again (good / average defensive technique but poor attacking abilities) evaluating his overall performance in Arsenal, he's best a squad player, very injury prone which distort his football education.

The statement added that the lack of free sanitary towels for schoolgirls «can impact negatively on the Free SHS programme,» explaining that: «As poor menstrual hygiene management can result in absenteeism, poor performance, hamper gender parity in education and the overall achievement of the Free Senior High School programme.»

This year, we are for the first time asking how we can successfully address and fix a broken education bureaucracy that has relegated tens of thousands of New York's children to failing schools every year and how to improve the overall performance of our education system.»

Educational improvement efforts, Eye concludes, should focus not on correcting a nonexistent overall deficit but on improving the academic performance of the students «in the lower portion of the performance distribution,» many of whom face social and familial challenges that interfere with their education.

NPR, 4/25/16» «When you look at Massachusetts» overall performance nationally, we have gone from the middle of the pack to the top of the pack,» says Paul Reville, a former state education secretary who now teaches at Harvard's Graduate School of Educatioeducation secretary who now teaches at Harvard's Graduate School of EducationEducation.»

Towards an adaptive education system in Australia says that, despite individual bright spots, overall student performance is declining in international tests, and an unacceptably high number of students are not ready for life after school.

Reducing the number of low - performing students is not only a goal in its own right but also an effective way to improve an education system's overall performance — and equity, since low performers are disproportionately from socio - economically disadvantaged families.

New York Times, 4/12/13 «But while there have been pockets of improvement, particularly among children in elementary school, America's overall performance in K - 12 education remains stubbornly mediocre,» writes Assistant Professor Jal Mehta.

Although students in the Southeastern region of the United States appear to have made some of the greatest academic strides over the long term, the overall picture of student performance in the nation is one of some early gains followed by a recent stabilization, a new U.S. Department of Education study reports.

No one can conclude that the overall performance of public education in this country is adequate for the century ahead.

If teacher quality is a key input in education, this interpretation can explain why class - size effects exist in some countries but not in others and at the same time why the countries in our sample where we did find sizable class - size effects also exhibit poor overall performance.

But while there have been pockets of improvement, particularly among children in elementary school, America's overall performance in K - 12 education remains stubbornly mediocre.

Education Week's annual state - by - state assessment of public education paints a portrait of middling performanceEducation Week's annual state - by - state assessment of public education paints a portrait of middling performanceeducation paints a portrait of middling performance overall.

A 10 - member review board of national education experts, including former U. S. Secretary of Education John King, reviewed publicly available student performance and college - readiness data for 39 of the countrys largest public CMOs and found that DSST, Harmony and Success had the best overall academic performance, college readiness and progress closing achievemeducation experts, including former U. S. Secretary of Education John King, reviewed publicly available student performance and college - readiness data for 39 of the countrys largest public CMOs and found that DSST, Harmony and Success had the best overall academic performance, college readiness and progress closing achievemEducation John King, reviewed publicly available student performance and college - readiness data for 39 of the countrys largest public CMOs and found that DSST, Harmony and Success had the best overall academic performance, college readiness and progress closing achievement gaps.

So while nobody should be satisfied with America's overall performance in science education, it's also important to keep in mind that, when one sets out to overhaul that system, it's possible to make it even worse — particularly if, in our effort to raise standards for all students, we wind up lowering them for our best and brightest.

Its overall performance (gauged by the National Assessment of Education Progress) resembles treadmill - running.

High school students assessed in the Performance Assessment model, who demographically include far more low - income, English - language learner and special education students than the state overall, have shown better high school graduation rates and college enrollment and graduation rates than stdents across the state.

Annual Performance — This module provides information on the overall process for completing the 21st Century Community Learning Century Centers Annual Performance Report collected by the United States Department of Education.

Countries in which schools frequently hold back or kick out students with low academic performance tend to have weaker, more expensive, and more socially inequitable education systems overall according to an analysis by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

(The Academic Performance Index has been eliminated and the state Board of Education is still determining a new accountability system, which may include an overall rating.)

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who described overall performance as modest, credited those particularly large gains in some states to the introduction of the new, more rigorous «Common Core» standards and other initiatives the Obama administration has promoted, including new teacher evaluations.

«However, by including former English learners, overall scores for the subgroup will rise and may mask the performance of current English learners,» Delia Pompa, senior fellow for education policy at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., wrote in a commentary for EdSource.

Andy Smarick of the Fordham Institute, a conservative nonprofit education policy think tank, this week noted that, despite the gains made by Houston and the Broad finalists in raising achievement, students» overall performance in all those districts remained lower than many would hope.

While we know that we can not simply transplant aspects of successful education nations into less successful ones, we should set not accept anything less than both high performance and high equity as our overall aim for education in England.

Some countries also show that excellence can become a consistent and predictable education outcome: In Finland, the country with the strongest overall results in PISA, the performance variation among schools amounts to only 5 percent of students» overall performance variation.

State officials have suspended a third year of grant funding for four Pueblo middle schools — Freed, Pitts, Risley and Roncalli — and one Denver school, Gilpin Elementary, after the schools posted declines in overall results on this year's state School Performance Framework, according to Patrick Chapman, who oversees federal grants for the Colorado Department of Education.

The newly released public school performance report from the Louisiana Department of Education shows overall gains.

Good Morning The newly released public school performance report from the Louisiana Department of Education shows overall gains.

Rankings and honors are compiled from data on overall student performance, with a focus on effectiveness at education students from black, Hispanic and low - income students, and students» college readiness based on results from Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate exams.

But perhaps the recommendation that offers the largest shift in the education space, and more broadly, public programs overall, is a call for greater accountability and governance models that focus attention on performance and reward meaningful action over political rhetoric.

Maverik Education LLC conducts a comprehensive needs assessment that measures student achievement, teacher effectiveness, stakeholder relations, and overall school performance.

Our performance based education model assesses content standards in two different ways bodies of evidence and secured assessments which provide checks and balances for each other, thus offering an overall validity to the assessment process.

He is the owner of MAVERIK EDUCATION LLC, providing professional development and consultation on increasing student achievement, teacher effectiveness, program compliance, and overall school performance.

The new studies do not show that vouchers led to significantly stronger math and reading performance overall, even as President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos promise to pour billions into expanding vouchers nationwide.

The modern - day history of the community education concept explains the outstanding results our country saw in narrowing the achievement gap while improving the overall performance of our schools.

Following test scores from year to year in the same grade, the study finds that statewide improvements in standard Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT) scores reported by the Connecticut State Department of Education (SDE) between 2008 and 2009 — the period of the largest reported gains — were largely the result of the exclusion of students with disabilities from these standard test results, rather than overall improvements in performance.

A 10 - member review board of national education experts, including former U.S. Secretary of Education John King, reviewed publicly available student performance and college - readiness data for 39 of the country's largest public CMOs and found that DSST, Harmony and Success had the best overall academic performance, college readiness and progress closing achievemeducation experts, including former U.S. Secretary of Education John King, reviewed publicly available student performance and college - readiness data for 39 of the country's largest public CMOs and found that DSST, Harmony and Success had the best overall academic performance, college readiness and progress closing achievemEducation John King, reviewed publicly available student performance and college - readiness data for 39 of the country's largest public CMOs and found that DSST, Harmony and Success had the best overall academic performance, college readiness and progress closing achievement gaps.

When the Ohio Department of Education moved to close two imagine charters for «overall poor performance,» Imagine Schools responded like someone trying to get out of a speeding ticket: it's suing the state for failing to close schools that perform even worse.

Equitas Academy's 2012 - 2013 API score: 894 The Academic Performance Index (API) is a single number assigned to each school by the California Department of Education to measure overall school performance and improvement over time on statewiPerformance Index (API) is a single number assigned to each school by the California Department of Education to measure overall school performance and improvement over time on statewiperformance and improvement over time on statewide testing.

It's record stinks, and things have gotten even worse: «The overall data on the performance of American K - 12 students give no reason to think that federal involvement, which took the form of the Department of Education after 1979, has been an engine of improvement.»

A 14 - member review board of prominent education researchers, policy leaders, practitioners and executives from around the country evaluated publicly available student achievement data on 20 large established urban charter school systems and found that YES Prep Public Schools had the best overall student academic performance between 2007 and 2011.

The Springfield Public Schools and the Springfield Education Association are committed to raising overall student performance and closing the achievement gap.

«A comprehensive education provides students the opportunity to discover what they excel at and inspires a boost in overall student performance and confidence across all subjects.»

CAP used the 2012 - 13 school - level proficiency rates from the U.S. Department of Education to compare the proficiency rates of student subgroups with the overall performance of their school.

«Overall, the message here is that Arizonans are dissatisfied with where the state is when it comes to K - 12 education and they are willing to support the Governor and the legislature if it sparks the right changes that include increased funding, better performance and parental choice,» added Chavous.

Letter grades based on Tennessee Department of Education grade scales and representing overall school performance in math and reading.

The scholarships were awarded to students in five school districts that were finalists for the 2010 Broad (pronounced like «road») Prize, the largest education prize in the country given each year to urban school districts that demonstrate the greatest overall performance and improvement in student achievement while reducing achievement gaps among income and ethnic groups.

A nine - member review board of prominent education researchers, policy leaders, practitioners and executives from around the country evaluated publicly available student achievement data on 27 large established urban charter school systems and found that Achievement First, KIPP Foundation and Uncommon Schools had the best overall student academic performance in recent years.

The review board will examine publicly available student achievement data since the 2007/2008 school year collected by MPR Associates, an education research and consulting firm, and will select the charter management organization that, in its judgment, showed the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement in recent years while reducing achievement gaps for poor and minority students.