Sentences with phrase «pioneering school systems»

Chartock shared, «In more than seven years, we have grown from a small pilot program with aspirations to positively impact the education of every New Orleans» student to a critical partner to pioneering school systems in twelve regions and influencing so many more.

A number of pioneering school systems use OER as a central part of their approaches to personalized learning.

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The squeeze system Sharei then designed to temporarily disrupt cell membranes — for which he's been granted most of his 10 patents — is the basis for SQZ Biotech, the company he co-founded in 2013 with the pioneering MIT professors he worked for: Klavs Jensen, the school's head of chemical engineering, and Robert Langer, a renowned bioengineer and serial entrepreneur.

Until now only the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board has pioneered in providing their church schools with materials via a leased satellite which feeds local cable systems throughout the country, and, in some cases, is picked up directly by local churches.

She said Scotland should not be «too proud» to adopt alternative education systems including the free school system pioneered by Michael Gove.

It was launched by Dr Miguel Chillón and Dr Assumpció Bosch, together with the entrepreneur Menachem Abraham and Dr Carmela Abraham, professor of Biochemistry and Pharmacology at the Boston University School of Medicine, a pioneering centre in the study of Klotho in the central nervous system for more than a decade.

Thomson Screening has pioneered the use of computer - based vision, hearing and BMI screening systems and its software is already used by many NHS Trusts for school entry screening.

Still, many wondered with James Stergios of the Pioneer Institute in Boston whether one can set standards capable of driving high performance nationwide in a country that has great regional disparities in student achievement and a decentralized governmental system (where schools are «radically local,» as one panelist put it).

Mr. Stanley had already done pioneering work in the design of educational research when he was introduced in 1969 to a 13 - year - old boy who had run out of mathematics options available to him through his public school system.

William Sanders, formerly of the University of Tennessee and now at the SAS Institute, has done pioneering work to develop a system of value - added assessment, using the results of annual tests administered to all elementary and middle - school students in Tennessee.

The «man with credentials,» Shael Polakow - Suransky, turns out to be a South African native raised in Michigan, who taught mathematics in New York City public schools before moving up the career ladder, to assistant principal, principal, and, in the Klein regime, to an executive position overseeing the district's pioneering system to track student performance.

As charter pioneer Ted Kolderie wrote, this horse trade would ``... introduce the dynamics of choice, competition, and innovation into American's public school system, while at the same time ensuring that new schools serve broad public purposes.»

Notable recently were the Gates Foundation's call for a two - year moratorium on tying results from assessments aligned to the Common Core to consequences for teachers or students; Florida's legislation to eliminate consequences for schools that receive low grades on the state's pioneering A-F school grading system; the teetering of the multi-state Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessment consortium (down from 24 to 15 members, and with its contract with Pearson to deliver the assessments in limbo because of a lawsuit that alleges bid - rigging); and the groundswell of opposition from parents, teachers, and political groups to the content of the Common Core.

Lest we forget, the pioneers of our movement worked in traditional school systems.

As Candidate Bush explained in 2000, Texas pioneered a strong system of standards, testing to make sure students meet them, and holding schools accountable for the results.

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Denver's SchoolChoice System shows consistent improvement in participation and outcomes, but critical obstacles remain for some families A + Denver and University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) release third - year findings of Denver's unique school choice system Denver's pioneering school choice system is working remarkably well for families, but gaps remain in the availabilSystem shows consistent improvement in participation and outcomes, but critical obstacles remain for some families A + Denver and University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) release third - year findings of Denver's unique school choice system Denver's pioneering school choice system is working remarkably well for families, but gaps remain in the availabilsystem Denver's pioneering school choice system is working remarkably well for families, but gaps remain in the availabilsystem is working remarkably well for families, but gaps remain in the availability...

While at UCLA, he worked at the Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST), helping to pioneer school and district information management systems and data - driven technologies.

Kenzo Shibata taught high - school English in Chicago's public - school system for nearly a decade and pioneered digital labor organizing as part of the 2012 Chicago Teachers Union strike.

Ever since the compulsory state government education system was created more than 150 years ago there have been important educational pioneers who have disagreed with the traditional authoritarian approach of most schools.

There already exist model catch - up programs and policies that systems and institutions can learn from: California State University at Long Beach has pioneered a partnership to deliver bridge courses to close student - readiness gaps; Illinois has passed legislation requiring the development of transitional math courses across the state; and Tennessee has increased the scale of its Seamless Alignment and Integrated Learning Support, or Sails, program from a single district in 2012 to over 17,000 students statewide in the 2016 - 17 school year.

This list doesn't even include the education entrepreneurs that are working to educate girls (Drawdown Solution # 6), like Lekki Peninsula Affordable Schools, a low - cost private school chain in Nigeria with an all - inclusive fee structure and flexible payment system, or Sudiksha, which has pioneered a train - the - trainer model for training new preschool teachers in India.

Working with Law School clinics, Keepers, and environmental justice organizations, Daniel pioneered enforcement of the NPDES permits for industrial stormwater, municipal stormwater, and municipal sewage systems.

DTA's system is cutting - edge; the company is credited with pioneering the use of video in their traffic - school programs, and other such technological innovations are incorporated too.

Peer mediation School - based peer mediation programmes, pioneered in the USA and now systematised in primary and high schools in many parts of the world, are an example of the kind of system the Youth Project advocates.