Sentences with phrase «performing against school»

Understand how students are performing against school, district, and state performance standards.

Not exact matches

The school has performed well in inter-school competition against Turkana County teams.

The event benefits area non-profits, including the Eliot School, St. John School, North End Against Drugs, North End Athletic Association, and North End Music and Performing Arts Center.

On Tuesday, during a meeting with the editorial board of The Daily News, she delivered some harsh criticism against the Bloomberg administration's effort to close poor - performing schools, saying it had led the city to «warehouse» struggling students in schools where they «don't have a shot» at succeeding.

FINANCIAL DISTRICT — A battle over new classroom space at 26 Broadway is pitting a high - performing lower Manhattan high school against a school from the Upper East Side.

An exasperated band teacher (a hilariously perturbed Tom Noonan) stops a high school marching band from performing a crime against harmony in their disastrous rehearsal of Peter Gabriel's «Sledgehammer.»

She would act in local theatre shows, but decided against going to one of LA's prestigious performing arts high schools, opting instead for a normal teenage experience with her friends.

Many of these countries benchmark their school curricula against curricula in the developed world, sometimes adopting or adapting the curricula of high - performing countries directly.

They rail against state standards and accountability systems, but offer few practical alternatives for ensuring that all public schools perform at a high level.

Across the portfolio, CMO schools perform somewhat better in math than in reading, when benchmarked against their local peers on state assessments.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

Bringing in a G&T program starting in the 3rd grade by using a screening method proven to discriminate against minority applicants is an obvious attempt to attract an affluent demographic to the traditionally low - performing school.

School reports often rely on numbers and grades to convey how much of the year - level curriculum a student has mastered or how well they have performed against other students.

When research was lacking, such as in elementary mathematics, we looked to the practices of high - performing nations, just as Abraham Flexner did in 1910 when he evaluated medical schools against the European model.

School reports typically show how students have performed against year - level expectations and / or the performances of other students.

Up north in underprivileged Newark, the Education Law Center is marshalling resources to launch an assault against the approval of a 7,500 - seat expansion of seven high - performing charter schools.

In particular, both the forced academisation of schools in areas considered to be «unviable», and the removal of the council role in school improvement, went against evidence that council - maintained schools perform more highly than academies and free schools in Ofsted inspections, and that conversion to academies did not in itself lead to better results.

The script tells the story of a shy schoolgirl who is desperate to perform in the school play, but who has to battle against a prejudiced, old - fashioned headteacher, her own nerves and the machinations of some jealous friends.

If MA is a good sport, they would fight left handed - what chance does a majority - minority school system with half the spending per pupil have against the highest performing state education system in the nation many years running?

Because of the improvement in CST scores, Locke met its API targets in 2009, against long odds for low performing schools in Los Angeles County....

While the slow improvement of all groups is «still a success story,» Mr. Petrilli said, the achievement gap, which shows how different groups perform relative to one another, still means that most black and Hispanic students will be at a sharp disadvantage when they have to compete against white and Asian peers as they move through schools and into the workplace.

On the other hand, the least advanced students start the school year two or three years behind and so are already on track to perform poorly against year - level expectations.

We can tell how students are performing against a standard, and compare them to students in other schools, districts, and states.

Many state leaders are anxious about how their schools will perform against the new, higher Common Core standards.

A recent pilot program, run by the OECD and administered by CTB - McGraw Hill, promises local schools the possibility of comparing themselves against top performing educational systems like Finland and Singapore.

This is the fifth time in as many months that state oversight officials have taken some kind of disciplinary action against virtual schools — which some research has shown perform markedly worse academically than traditional district schools.

Not surprisingly, district administrators are highly sensitized to how well their schools are performing against state proficiency standards and Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) targets.

For example, the underrepresented students or certain subgroups which would normally cause a school to miss AYP will not count against the school in the same fashion because the school as a whole would appear to perform better than a school with a larger subgroup population not making AYP.

For example, in the teacher quality lawsuits, we're helping families fight against unjust laws that keep poorly - performing teachers in the classroom and make it harder for schools to keep their best teachers.

Benchmarking of principals and their teams» self - assessment data against competencies for effective school leadership identified from studies of more than 300 high - performing principals;

Voucher schools discriminate against students with special needs and have a track record of «counseling out» under - performing students and sending them back to public schools.

The cross-party Local Government Association has spoken out strongly against the plans, saying that it «defies reason» to claim that local authority schools are performing less well than academies.

The nation's second - largest school system is once again inviting bidders to take over poorly performing and new campuses, in a school - control process that is, once again, pitting teachers and their union against independently operated charter schools, most of which are nonunion.

«And the growth they've seen on achievement tests is consistent with some of the highest - performing charter school networks out there, and that's who we're competing against,» he added.

Teachers and Rutherford County administrators have also seen some low - performing children sent away from the charter and back to the traditional public school system just before end - of - grade tests, an important measure of how schools stack up against each other, said Dr. John Mark Bennett, the chair of the county school board and a local family physician.

Holden's bill, he said, would «strengthen one of our best tools against truancy — the School Attendance Review Board» by increasing their accountability for reporting additional information, such as the number of students referred to them, how the student's issues were addressed and follow - up on how the student is performing after the intervention.

The charter school my son attended ranked highly in standardized test scores against the most competitive towns in this state and ranked nationally as the the third top performing middle school in the United States for minority and socio - economically disadvantaged students.

However, wherever there is diversity, there's an opportunity to push back against the systems that create underfunded, low - performing schools.

«In particular, both the forced academisation of schools in areas considered to be «unviable», and the removal of the council role in school improvement, went against evidence that council - maintained schools perform more highly than academies and free schools in Ofsted inspections, and that conversion to academies did not in itself lead to better results,» said Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board.

But some experts worry that this shift will discriminate against students from low - performing high schools in poor areas, pushing more students away from universities and into already - overburdened community colleges.

Against this backdrop, principals understandably devoted substantial resources, including the time of their instructional coaches, to collating student test data, designing intervention systems for low - performing students, and asking those whose content knowledge they trusted most (school - hired coaches) to teach or tutor students.

NACSA has been a leader in taking action against irresponsible authorizing by running a «One Million Lives» campaign to get authorizers to close chronically low - performing schools, but NACSA has little more than the power of moral persuasion.

Schnellenberger says its not fair to cherry - pick top performing charters and compare them against the lowest - performing public schools.

And, of course, given that these are comparative measures, even a charter sector that isn't doing a great job can look good against the background of a low - performing traditional school system.

Still, Cropper acknowledged that the union is dead set against the provision that would require the city schools to share levy money with high performing charters in the city.

The problems in our educational system are indissociable from broader malignant trends in our society and they can't be solved by lots of testing and by punitive actions against schools that are not performing well.

While schools will be judged on the basis of the data, Morgan told the BBC that parents should see «see the results as what they are — a reflection of how well children this year have performed against a new curriculum».

I don't know if this new case against Navient is going to be the tipping point but at some point will we ever be able to hold Navient accountable at all for passing out loans that were clearly going to be unaffordable, poor performing, or to schools that were not accredited?

Born 1950; lawyer (1974 - 80); law degree from the University of Athens (1973); diploma of advanced studies (DEA) in labour law from the University of Paris II, Panthéon - Sorbonne (1977); national expert with the Legal Service of the Commission of the European Communities (1988 - 1990), then Principal Administrator in Directorate General V (Employment, Industrial Relations, Social Affairs)(1990 - 1994); Junior Officer, Junior Member and, since 1999, Member of the Greek Council of State; Associate Member of the Superior Special Court of Greece; Member of the Central Legislative Drafting Committee of Greece (1996 - 98); Director of the Legal Service in the General Secretariat of the Greek Government (1996 - 1998); Judge at the General Court of the European Union (1998 to 2010, President of Chamber from 2004 to 2010); Member of the Supreme Council for Administrative Justice (2011 - 2012); Member of the Special Court for Disputes relating to the Remuneration of Judges and of the Special Court for Actions against Judges (2013 - 2014); Member of the Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights (2014 - 2015); Member of the Committee responsible for giving an Opinion on Candidates» Suitability to perform the Duties of Judge at the European Union Civil Service Tribunal (2012 - 2015); Lecturer in European Law at the National School for the Judiciary (1995 - 1996 and 2012 - 2015); Judge at the Court of Justice since 7 October 2015.

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