Sentences with phrase «performing states and nations»

In the book, Tucker concludes, «high - performing states and nations are focused on building coherent systems of teaching and learning, focused on meaningful goals and supported with universally available, strategic resources.»

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Even in the worst of times, Georgia performs relatively well in our rankings due to advantages that were in place well before the governor took office: a top - notch infrastructure with the world's busiest airport and one of the nation's most important ports, as well as a large workforce in a right - to - work state.

«In Utah, we take very seriously our goal to lead the nation as the best performing economy and our reputation as the most business - friendly state.

In redefining marriage and the family, the state not only embarks on an unprecedented expansion of its powers into realms heretofore considered prior to or outside its reach, and not only does it usurp functions and prerogatives once performed by intermediary associations within civil society, it also exercises these powers by tacitly redefining what the human being is and committing the nation to a decidedly post-Christian (and ultimately post-human) anthropology and philosophy of nature.

«Tom DiNapoli has spent the last three years providing solutions to our state's tough fiscal problems, conducting a top - to - bottom overhaul of the Office of the State Comptroller, and managing one of the nation's best performing pension fstate's tough fiscal problems, conducting a top - to - bottom overhaul of the Office of the State Comptroller, and managing one of the nation's best performing pension fState Comptroller, and managing one of the nation's best performing pension funds.

«This is the system that has brought New York to the brink, and it is why we are the highest «spending and taxing» state in the nation with programs that fail to perform for the people.»

«This is the system that has brought New York to the brink, and it is why we are the highest «spending - and - taxing» state in the nation with programs that fail to perform for the people,» Cuomo writes.

According to research performed by Ballotpedia in February and March 2015, there were 221 state - level minor political parties across the nation, 39 of which had ballot access.

Officials in the United States, Japan and South Korea stated the launch was a veiled ballistic missile test, which North Korea is forbidden to perform under United Nations Security Council resolutions.

Research has revealed striking similarities among the math and science standards in top - performing nations, along with stark differences between those world class expectations and the standards adopted by most U.S. states.

Rhode Island's Latino 8th graders, the state's largest and most rapidly growing minority population, were the lowest - performing in the nation, and the achievement gap between Latino and white students in the state was among the nation's largest.

The study, published Nov. 14 by the American Institutes for Research, compares the performance of 8th graders in individual American states not against each other, but against students in top - performing foreign nations, such as Japan and South Korea, as well as against children in recent lower - scoring ones, such as Bulgaria, Jordan, and Romania.

«The good news is that we (in the US) can learn from what some states and most high - performing nations are doing.»

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.

But it also unrepentantly underscores the state's big challenges: Massachusetts lags far behind the world's highest - performing nations, many of which are pulling farther ahead; other nations and other U.S. states have shown stronger recent gains; too few Massachusetts high school graduates are prepared for college - level work; and other U.S. states have done a better job of closing the achievement gap.

Meanwhile, two - thirds of CPS schools failed to meet state proficiency standards under Illinois's accountability system, and Chicago remained among the nation's lowest - performing urban districts on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Likewise, the math proficiency of 8th graders in Louisiana, Mississippi, and the District of Columbia — the lowest - ranked states — is comparable to that of students in the worst - performing nations, such as Jordan, the National Science Foundation study says.

Our standards for the first edition of the Teacher Prep Review are based on research; internal and external expert panels; the best practices of other nations and the states with the highest performing students; and, most importantly, what superintendents and principals around the country tell us they look for in the new teachers they hire.

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.

Many studies have focused on how states or the entire nation performs, and have found that areas with higher poverty rarely fare well.

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.

While Massachusetts is widely acknowledged to have the best - performing students in the nation, at least as measured by national and international test scores, there are increasing signs that educational progress in the state has stalled.

We find that across the nation and in every state, rates of chronic absenteeism meaningfully differentiate between schools, meaning that rates of chronic absenteeism are widely distributed across schools and the lowest performing schools are clearly identifiable.

Out of 12 gubernatorial races across the nation, at least five candidate maintaining A, B, and C ratings in the Center for Education Reform's education innovation and opportunity ranking system will be joining the other 31 states also let by high performing governors.

Herein lies the conundrum for educators in low - performing schools across the nation: If a student arrives in fifth grade reading like a first grader and makes three years» worth of growth, he still will not pass a grade - level state test despite major progress and clearly effective teaching.

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.

Meanwhile, Massachusetts, generally the top performing state in the nation, showed a significant decline in math and reading scores among high school seniors, falling 2 and 3 points respectively.

The state of California has implemented a number measures to close one of the largest and most persistent achievement gaps in the nation, Recently released scores for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a nationwide test for fourth - and eighth - graders in math and reading given every two years, show that California's students are still performing below the... Continue reading California: Moving the Needle on the Achievement Gap

One recent study found that a major difference between the education system in the United States and those in other nations with high - performing students is that the United States offers much lower pay to educators.

Calling North Carolina's school turnaround work «among the most ambitious in the nation,» Vanderbilt University researcher Gary Henry told members of the State Board of Education on Thursday that he's found significant positive effects resulting from the state's federally - funded efforts to boost the performance of some of its lowest performing schools between the 2011 and State Board of Education on Thursday that he's found significant positive effects resulting from the state's federally - funded efforts to boost the performance of some of its lowest performing schools between the 2011 and state's federally - funded efforts to boost the performance of some of its lowest performing schools between the 2011 and 2015.

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.

The push to raise standards and increase student outcomes has placed state education agencies (SEAs) at the center of efforts to improve the performance of the nation's lowest - performing schools, but few are well positioned to deliver on that imperative.

We'll talk with two key state legislators to find out their thoughts and plans on school funding and education policy, including steps Wisconsin can take to improve student achievement to better compete with schools in the highest performing nations.

In a state where per - pupil spending ranked 48th in the nation in 2013, many have questioned why the letter grades don't serve as an indicator for where increased funding and resources should be allocated to bring up low - performing schools.

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.

The rigorous Common Core learning standards that have been adopted by 45 states represent a once - in - a-generation opportunity for the United States to improve public schools nationally, bringing math, science and literacy education up to levels achieved by high - performing nations astates represent a once - in - a-generation opportunity for the United States to improve public schools nationally, bringing math, science and literacy education up to levels achieved by high - performing nations aStates to improve public schools nationally, bringing math, science and literacy education up to levels achieved by high - performing nations abroad.

Elected officials and advocates routinely cite the United States» mediocre standing, and what they know of the educational practices of high - performing nations, to gird their arguments for their favored changes to American education — from encouraging greater parental involvement to revamping school curricula and standards to paying teachers more.

Fast - forward three years, and the nation is split between higher - performing states chafing at the prospect of less rigorous standards leading to declining student performance, and their lower - performing counterparts that are unwilling or unable to fund the transition to Common Core tests.

Gov. Bryant and others who are skeptical of the Common Core need to understand that different is not such a bad word when it comes to education in Mississippi, consistently the nations's lowest - performing state.

But analysts and researchers caution that American elected officials and educators need to take a nuanced approach to interpreting test scores and lessons from abroad, one that considers the full basket of educational, societal, and cultural factors that shape school practices in top - performing nations, and in the United States.

Two years ago, still floundering, Oak Hill became one of the lowest - performing schools in the nation, with only 24 percent of students scoring proficient on state reading exams and 39 percent testing proficient in math.

High - performing nations are not spending more per pupil than the United States, 11 and their academic achievement is higher than ours, 12 all with teachers working directly with students for fewer hours each week.

The mission of the Call Me MISTER ® initiative, a partnership of colleges and universities in S.C. and across the nation, is to increase the pool of available teachers from a broader and more diverse background, particularly among the state's lowest performing elementary schools.

The state's fourth grade math standards wouldn't have met the standards set by Singapore and the six other top - performing nations in that subject, according to the American Institutes for Research's own analysis of American curricula standards.

«Successful school districts in the United States and in the top - performing nations understand that teacher evaluation systems should be based on continuous improvement and support, not on simply sorting, and it's a missed opportunity not to follow their lead.»

They might not know all the options available or be able to provide transportation, and there are not enough seats at the district's «highest - performing» schools, even in the choice - rich environment of Indianapolis, the capital of a state once dubbed the «reformiest» in the nation.

Oklahoma students consistently perform below nearly every other state in the nation, and I imagine that this year's test scores will be lower due to unreasonable state legislators who have seemingly sworn their loyalty to oil and gas corporations.

With fundamental issues of trust such as those illustrated above still far from being resolved, and political will on financing performing a fine balancing act in Europe and the United States (with the former dealing with a snowballing resurgence of the financial crisis, and the latter with an incoming legislature planning to dissolve the House of Representatives panel on climate change), the time has truly come for wealthy nations of the world to fundamentally shift their modes of thinking.

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