Sentences with phrase «performance in a given school»

Chronic absence is feasible for inclusion in California's accountability measurement system using the state's approach for rating school achievement based on outcome and improvement, or alternatively through an approach that simply looks at performance in a given school year.

Not exact matches

Testing provides, sort of a snapshot, of a child's skill set and abilities at a given time, and allows a parent and a school to develop more appropriate expectations of the students; whether it's performance in school or ability to learn.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

Similarly, in prior TLT posts you can read all about how my daughter, now in middle school, was last year regularly handed 12 oz cans of Coke and full - sized packages of gummi bears for good performance in a language class, and how my son was given a jumbo sized Hershey bar for winning a school lottery.

Outside of school, catch me in the research lab, cooking vegan pad thai, getting weird in improv comedy performances, and giving sick Kesem face tats.

According to the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), giving breakfast to schoolchildren has significantbenefits for kids and for their performance in school.

Despite its impressive performance in terms of some key socioeconomic indicators such as school enrolment and gender parity in enrolment — the exact causes of which are unclear given Bangladesh's debilitating politics and rampant corruption — the combined force of the structural problems is likely to prove insurmountable.

While it is hard to prove a causal relationship between low school funding and academic performance, parents are of course interested in giving their children the best possible environment to grow up in, which results in some trying everything they can to get their children into a better funded school district.

2/11/2008 UC San Diego Team Shows Correcting Poor Vision Can Help a Preschooler's Performance Preschoolers with poor vision have lower scores in developmental testing indicative of success in school performance, but those scores improve significantly within six weeks when the children are given prescription glasses, according to a newPerformance Preschoolers with poor vision have lower scores in developmental testing indicative of success in school performance, but those scores improve significantly within six weeks when the children are given prescription glasses, according to a newperformance, but those scores improve significantly within six weeks when the children are given prescription glasses, according to a new study b...

A group of USC football players recently came out saying yoga improves both their mental and physical performance, and one high school in Stephenville, Texas, gave its athletes the option of taking a weekly vinyasa flow class this summer — and 130 of them signed up.

Robert Donat gives a strong performance as a legendary school teacher in this sentimental tribute, which introduced to American audiences British actress Greer Garson.

In one of the year's biggest hits, Haddish gives the kind of fearlessly committed performance that should be studied in acting school — if, of course, anyone could copy the timbre of her comedic timinIn one of the year's biggest hits, Haddish gives the kind of fearlessly committed performance that should be studied in acting school — if, of course, anyone could copy the timbre of her comedic timinin acting school — if, of course, anyone could copy the timbre of her comedic timing.

There's a little bit of biographical information (she gives a a nice tour of the music school she spent 15 years growing up at, we see her packing her luggage) but mostly it's only interesting for her performances: Most of a Korngold Violin Concerto, a rehearsal of a Mozart Sonata for Piano and Violin, a really cool performance at a bar that's experimenting with classical music concerts in a club setting.

Leba Hertz: In this film about three illegal high school immigrants, the stories are timely, and Julianne Nicholson and Dennis O'Hare give riveting performances and are the driving forces behind the story.

Wilson landed the title role in the BBC miniseries version of «Jane Eyre» shortly after leaving drama school, giving a stunning performance, and she hasn't looked back since.

Saorise gives a Golden Globe - worthy performance as she portrays a high - school senior struggling to assert her independence in front of her friends, peers and her deeply opinionated and strong - willed mom.

They give a higher evaluation to private schools than to public ones in their local community, but opposition to market - oriented school - reform proposals such as performance pay for teachers and school vouchers seems to be on the rise.

We used student reports of which shows they had seen over the years on field trips as well as WAC records of which performances they should have seen given the school they attended in each grade and year.

Last year, at the National Education Summit, governors and business leaders concluded that «efforts to set clear, common... academic standards for students in a given school district or state are necessary to improve student performance.».

The Every Student Succeeds Act pushes states to move beyond test scores in gauging school performance and gives them all sorts of new flexibility when it comes to funding, turning around low - performing schools, and more.

They begin the school year on track to achieve low grades and, given that the best predictor of performance in the later years of school is performance in the earlier years, many of these students receive low grades year after year.

School governors have given a damning verdict on the government's performance, with eight in 10 governors having a «negative» view of government policies, according to a survey conducted by the National Governors» Association (NGA) and TES.

Regardless of the school board's origin, superintendents should be in harmony with the board's vision for change, should be clear about the district's goals for student performance, and should be given a reasonable period of time in which to attain those goals.

The database includes information about each student's classroom teacher in a given year, which allows us to estimate how much the student learned in that year and to connect that information to such professional characteristics as teacher certification, acquisition of a master's degree, teacher experience, teacher test performance, and the specific school of education the teacher had attended within Florida, if the teacher had attended one of the eleven schools for which adequate numbers of teacher observations were available.

A few thousand well - selected subjects might give us an accurate picture of 4th graders in a state, but these types of tests can not be used to measure the performance of a student or school.

Today, Head Start serves almost 1 million preschool - age children; research has shown that it lives up to its name, giving low - income children a much - needed boost that leads to improved academic performance in their school years.

The public is also famously and enduringly off the mark regarding the academic performance of their local schools, still sipping the warm waters of Lake Wobegon and giving honors grades to «the public schools in your community,» even while conferring far lower marks on «the public schools in the nation as a whole.»

It was not clear to us whether parents are most concerned with the absolute level of student performance or with performance relative to what they expect given resources in the school, household, and community.

Given that similar factors are at work in Florida's accountability system, I suspect that most, if not all, of the improvements in school performance in that state's failing schools are attributable to the state's administered accountability system, not to the voucher component of that program.

Your class will get to reflect on the entire school year that you just gave them and pick out all of the most memorable moments and turn them in a spectacular performance that will live long in their memories.

The papers, slated to be made public early next month, define charter districts as systems of autonomous schools that are given regulatory freedom in exchange for meeting performance standards specified either in contracts or charters.

It will give one of the grants, a $ 1.45 million gift, to the Education Development Center in Newton, Mass., to help eight school districts determine whether a standards - based approach can produce «significant improvement» in students» academic performance.

In addition to the curriculum - reform recommendations, the Elementary Grades Task Force suggested more aggressive efforts to consider ethnic background in hiring teachers, expanded social services within schools, and performance - based assessments that, in the case of limited - English - proficient students, would be given in their native languagIn addition to the curriculum - reform recommendations, the Elementary Grades Task Force suggested more aggressive efforts to consider ethnic background in hiring teachers, expanded social services within schools, and performance - based assessments that, in the case of limited - English - proficient students, would be given in their native languagin hiring teachers, expanded social services within schools, and performance - based assessments that, in the case of limited - English - proficient students, would be given in their native languagin the case of limited - English - proficient students, would be given in their native languagin their native language.

The second pay - for - performance element, school - based performance awards, gives salary bonuses to all teachers in a school when student achievement school - wide.

A truly musical school will have an inclusive approach, while offering youngsters the chance to be part of something in which they give of their best, and experience at first hand the enjoyment and pride which come from delivering a good standard of performance.

Considering the current state of our democracy (with partisan politics resulting in policy gridlock), it is concerning that the civic mission of public schools is so neglected, particularly given the lack of civic knowledge of our youth (evidenced by their poor performance on the 2010 NAEP in Civics)-- and low civic engagement (for example, just 41.2 percent of youth — voters age 18 - 24 — turned out for the 2012 presidential election).

In addition to this, key performance indicators were found to be «unrealistic and unachievable in the planned timescale, given the current outcomes in many of the schools»In addition to this, key performance indicators were found to be «unrealistic and unachievable in the planned timescale, given the current outcomes in many of the schools»in the planned timescale, given the current outcomes in many of the schools»in many of the schools».

It was felt very strongly that, given the absolutely pivotal role of leadership in schools, and particularly in the school - led and self - improving school system, we needed a standard of leadership excellence, not a minimum acceptable level of performance.

These subgroup ratings weigh heavily in the overall performance rating for a school or district because the rating given by the state is based on the lowest performance on any single criterion (TAAS, dropout rate, attendance rate) for any subpopulation.

Various fundamental reform proposals put forward since the publication in 1989 of Politics, Markets, and America's Schools by John Chubb and Terry Moe would replace regulatory compliance with student - performance standards, make schools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sSchools by John Chubb and Terry Moe would replace regulatory compliance with student - performance standards, make schools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sschools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sschools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual schoolsschools.

The heads of private schools have clear monetary incentives to use resources in ways that maximize student performance — thereby giving more parents reasons to choose their schools.

Finally — and many would say most importantly — Her Majesty's inspectors (based in a free - standing agency) constantly visit schools, appraising their performance on multiple indicators (not just test scores), giving them detailed feedback on what they need to do differently, and making all of that public.

Done well, as in Massachusetts, standards - based testing encourages strong teaching in the classroom and gives parents and taxpayers reliable information about school performance.

It's apparent from Figure 5 that school districts vary considerably in their test performance gaps between high - SES and low - SES students; this is unsurprising given the large cross-district variation in racial / ethnic gaps found in the work by Reardon and colleagues mentioned in the introduction.

It has also participated in the development of the Common Core Standards initiative; created alternative - certification routes that allow organizations other than education schools to give teachers credentials; improved its teacher pipeline through strong partnerships with the New Teacher Project and Teacher for America; and experimented with performance - based compensation in 41 school districts.

Most important, these prospective school administrators are rarely given a plausible answer to the $ 64,000 question: How do I lead my school to an unprecedented improvement in student performance?

The graph shows that students in these three ICSEA - based groupings of schools have different average reading levels and gives some indication of the influence of socioeconomic factors on between - school differences in student performance.

This is particularly ironic given the fact that overall growth in performance was slightly higher for more - integrated schools between 1999 and 2000.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

The NSIT was built on research into the practices of highly effective schools, defined as schools that make rapid improvements in student performance over time or that perform unusually well given the socioeconomic backgrounds of their student intakes.