Sentences with phrase «performing nations reported»

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Outback Western Australia is the worst - performing property market in the nation, according to a new report by ratings agency Moody's, which also found housing prices in Perth have fallen by 8 per cent since peaking in December 2014.

The Joint Monitoring Programme report, «Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water: 2015 Update and MDG Assessment,» a collaborative effort between the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund, says that the challenge to access improved sanitation is starker in Ghana, «which has slipped even further amongst the worst performing countries, now ranked 7th worst globally.»

While the Italian government has legalized abortion, almost 70 percent of physicians there have refused to perform the procedure, according to a United Nations report.

U.S. News & World Report Names Suburban Hospital Among Nation's High Performing Hospitals in Orthopaedics Suburban Hospital was rated among the best hospitals nationally in orthopaedics in U.S. News & World Report's annual Best Hospitals list for 2016 - 2017.

How are students performing on NAEP, the nation's report card?

The math proficiency of 8th graders from the nation's top - ranked states — Iowa, North Dakota, and Minnesota — is comparable to that of students from the best - performing nations, such as Taiwan and South Korea, reports a federal study to be released this week at the national education summit.

While the short - term economic outlook for the United States is relatively good, the report says, worsening, long - term social problems such as poor - performing schools continue to trouble the nation.

Achievement gaps between students of different genders and racial, economic, and linguistic groups are large and persistent for the nation's top - performing students, even as they seem to be narrowing for K - 12 students as a whole, according to a new report.

The government's Social mobility in Great Britain: fifth state of the nation report, shows that worst performing areas for social mobility are no longer inner city areas, but remote rural and coastal areas, and former industrial areas, especially in the Midlands.

While NAEP, the Nation's Report Card, scores are the gold standard for measuring student achievement and serve as a yardstick for state comparisons, NAEP results are generally not known by students and their families, who rely on their state test results to know how they are performing.

The most recent annual Gallup poll on attitudes toward schooling reported that just 20 % of respondents said «improving the nation's lowest - performing schools» was the most important of the nation's education challenges.

Education Week, the Education Writers Association and The Hechinger Report partnered with 18 news outlets in 16 states to investigate how $ 3 billion in federal School Improvement Grants are being used to revitalize some of the nation's lowest - performing schools.

The release of a new report on the effects of School Improvement Grants (SIG), part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act aimed at improving the nation's lowest performing schools, called into question the viability of improving low - performing schools at scale.

In fact, if Arizona's public charter students were separated and measured as their own state, it would rank among a handful of the top - performing states in the entire country on the Nation's Report Card.

Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the Nation's Report Card, show that Los Angeles charter public schools are performing better than non-charter schools locally and nationally.

A Stanford CREDO study reports that Newark's charter sector is the second - highest - performing group in the nation and is yielding seven months of additional learning per year in both reading and math.

While NAEP continues to be regarded as the «Nations Report Card,» it is not a good judge of how states are performing in preparing children to be college and career ready, and in my opinion, we should not be using it to compare ourselves to other states.

That report, Mid - and Late Career Teachers Struggle With Paltry Incomes, from the Center for American Progress, points out that a major difference between the U.S. education system and those in other nations with higher - performing students is lower pay for educators here.

In the words of the Nation's Report Card, Mississippi has performed «significantly lower» than the national public average in math and reading in the past decade.

After mentioning NCTQ's plans for a nation - wide review of teacher preparation programs, McKee suggested that in order to improve teacher effectiveness the federal government should provide funding for high - performing teacher preparation programs, issue state teacher preparation report cards, and research best practices, while states should strengthen their oversight practices, and require rigorous licensing tests that do not act as a rubber stamp for all teacher candidates.

After steady progress since the 1990s, the percentage of students performing at the advanced level declined or had no growth for the first time according to the Nation's Report Card.

According to the Nation's Report Card, Detroit is the lowest - performing city school system in the U.S. Research evidence demonstrates private school scholarships can help to improve student test scores, but this is only one reason — and perhaps not the most compelling reason — to give parents and students more educational opportunities.

By 2004, the Council of the Great City Schools, a national nonprofit, published its own report, noting that D.C. remained one of the lowest - performing urban school districts in the nation.

Second, despite reform efforts, the NOLA Recovery School District has many of the lowest performing schools in Louisiana, which is one of the lowest performing states on the National Assessment of Education Progress (aka, the Nation's Report Card).

American middle and high school teachers report spending more time at the front of the classroom than teachers in nearly every other country in the developed world.9 While U.S. teachers deliver instruction for about 80 percent of their workday, the international average is around 60 percent — and teachers in high - performing nations like Japan, Korea, and Singapore spend only about one - third of their time providing instruction directly to students.10 We know that it does not have to be this way for U.S. teachers.

Gallup has reported that only about one in five respondents think «improving the nation's lowest - performing schools» is the most important of the nation's education challenges — yet it seems that five out of five education reformers think just that.

Texas, like the nation, has stagnated in elementary and middle school academic achievement and continues to fail to get black and Hispanic students performing as well as white students, according to a national «report card» out this week.

Their 2012 study also found that on average, states with standards more like the Common Core performed better on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, better known as the nation's report card.

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