Sentences with phrase «quality academic opportunities»

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Under Title IX, to achieve gender parity between men's and women's sports, universities and colleges have to meet one of three different requirements: 1) equity in participation opportunities for both men and women; 2) scholarships offered proportionally based on the number of male and female athletes; and 3) comparable overall treatment of women's and men's sports (including but not limited to quality and maintenance of locker rooms and facilities, equipment and supplies, access to practice fields, publicity of teams and events, the quality of coaching, academic tutoring, traveling budgets, etc.).

The fair provides expert counseling on a one - on - one basis with representatives from various organizations to help participants identify a pathway to immeasurable opportunities for personal, academic, and professional advancement to improve their quality of life,» said Cumbo, who is the council's majority leader.

«My advice is that if you really enjoy research in an academic environment and are good at it, then persevere, there will always be quality research opportunities available for well - trained researchers,» says Seifert.

Olive finds it less amusing, but Olive is of a completely different temperament Elizabeth and possesses qualities that the academic wouldn't want, if given the opportunity.

Not only are there huge opportunities for environmental and financial benefits of energy efficient buildings, but recent studies, including the James Review on the procurement of education buildings, have demonstrated the direct link between the quality of school buildings and academic attainment.

Third, and most controversial, is the cost of ensuring that schools have enough resources to provide the high - quality educational opportunities that students need to meet the academic standards required by NCLB.

Because when students lack access to high - quality summer learning and enrichment opportunities, they risk falling prey to «summer learning loss» — a loss in academic skills and knowledge during summer vacation.

«Alyssa Chan exemplifies well the qualities that distinguish students and graduates of the International Education Policy Program: a strong commitment to expanding educational opportunity for the most disadvantaged children around the world, an extraordinary ethic of hard work and rigorous pursuit of academic excellence, and an understanding of leadership as service to others,» says Professor Fernando Reimers, director of IEP.

Research has shown that safety and academic opportunities are key issues for parents; quality and fun are key issues for kids.

Career Colleges provide young people with the opportunity to combine academic studies with high quality practical learning, within a specific industry.

«Given that only two in 10 children have access to a high - quality early education setting in the U.S., CEEL, through interactive and case - based materials grounded in scientific insights, is designed to equip early education leaders with the core knowledge and tools to navigate the decisions, challenges, and opportunities associated with quality improvement,» said Nonie Lesaux, academic dean and Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and co-director of the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative.

Academic proficiency must go hand in hand with high quality learning opportunities so students can test drive careers.

The bill also eliminates goals and performance targets for academic achievement, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting disadvantaged students, does not address poor quality tests, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.

States must develop and make available to all students an array of high - quality career pathways that combine rigorous academics and work - based learning opportunities, supported by career planning and guidance.

Academic Gains, Double the # of Schools: Opportunity Culture 2017 — 18 — March 8, 2018 Opportunity Culture Spring 2018 Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — March 1, 2018 Brookings - AIR Study Finds Large Academic Gains in Opportunity Culture — January 11, 2018 Days in the Life: The Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom Leader — November 30, 2017 Opportunity Culture Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — November 16, 2017 Opportunity Culture Tools for Back to School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?

The six booklets — on the arts, English, foreign language, mathematics, science, and social studies — are part of the board's ongoing «Educational EQuality Project,» a 10 - year program begun in 1981 with the aim of both strengthening the academic quality of secondary education and ensuring that all high - school students have «equality of opportunity» for higher education, College Board officials say.

«We believe that HGSE, as one of the world's leading academic institutions, has the responsibility to change the conversation in order to improve student opportunity, achievement, and success in rural communities,» she says, stressing that rural education needs to be part of the dialogue around providing quality education to all.

Supporters of choice claim that parents look mainly for the best academic opportunity for their children; critics charge that parents will just as often search for a school on the basis of ethnic, religious, or ideological preferences, the quality of the sports program, or how blue the student body's blood is.

Support school nurses by providing quality educational opportunities which foster student growth, development and academic achievement; and promote the delivery of quality health care in schools.

In our efforts to support school nurses by providing quality educational opportunities which foster student growth, development, and academic achievement, and to promote the delivery of quality health care in schools, AASN offers contact hours via the following continuing education opportunities:

We know that providing targeted parental resources, higher quality training, opportunities to collaborate for USP teachers and more differentiated curricular resources are vital to ensuring a high bar of academic service for all students.

Every state should insist on K - 12 academic standards that adequately prepare students for college and careers so that every young person has the opportunity to pursue postsecondary education, or quality training and careers, after high school.

In a true personalized learning school, equity in opportunity and access is paramount to attaining equity in learning; every student is provided high quality instruction, curriculum, and academic support.

In addition to daily core academic and arts classes, we offer a two - way bilingual program and the opportunity to participate in our high - quality school performances.

The school will employ innovative scheduling, high - quality technology integrated instruction, and collaborative service learning projects to provide students opportunities to achieve personalized academic goals.

The purpose of the Migrant Education Program is to design and support high - quality and comprehensive educational programs that provide migratory children with the same opportunity to meet the challenging state academic content and student achievement standards that are expected of all children.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, the purpose of Title 1 funding, «is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high quality education and reach, at minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and state academic assessments.»

«They are an outstanding example of the impact that school leaders can and must have in providing access to quality educational opportunities that yield continuous and sustainable results in academic achievement for urban schoolchildren.»

«It is crucial to the future of our nation that these students, and all students, have equal access to a high - quality education and the opportunity to achieve their full academic potential,» administration officials wrote in an open letter to the nation's state and local education officials.

The current law hinders states» actions as they work hard to fulfill the main goal of No Child Left Behind: ensuring that all students have the opportunity to obtain a high - quality education and reach proficiency on challenging academic standards.

«is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high - quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging State academic achievement standards and state academic assessments.»

To ensure that African - Americans are not limited by persistent opportunity gaps, investments in high - quality early learning such as the national push for universal pre-K is essential to building a foundation for development, learning, academic success, and productive citizenry.

The school aims to provide academic excellence combined with a wide range of extracurricular opportunities and stong pastoral support in a high quality setting.

If constituents are willing to accept less - than - perfectly - integrated schools in the interest of better serving different constituencies and drawing on teacher strengths, it will be crucial to monitor those schools for resource equity and academic quality and to provide students with frequent opportunities to interact meaningfully with students from the other learning communities.

This problem requires that rural - based postsecondary institutions look toward educational technology alternatives that provide the same collaborative opportunities as a means to achieve connectivity with academic partners and development of quality coursework while maintaining integrity of programs (Albion & Gibson, 2000; Dunn, Gibson, Bohaty, Merritt, & Witherspoon, 1999; Gibson & Gibson, 1995; Gibson & King, 1997).

«In my new role, I'll have an opportunity to help develop high quality charter schools that are committed to academic excellence for the students that need it most.»

We like UCM for its wide range of high quality academic offerings, affordable tuition rates, and robust online learning opportunities.

The underlying assumption, note economists Jacob Vigdor and Jens Ludwig, is that segregation «affects both the motivation of the students and their perception of the larger opportunity structure they face in society and their exposure to high - quality school resources or even the academic climate in the school.»

He has developed, implemented and supported key legislation, policies and programs related to various issues such as educational opportunity and academic outcome improvements; mentoring, leadership and literacy support for targeted Milwaukee youth; poverty; neighborhood revitalization; job creation, opportunity, quality and security for Milwaukee residents; and the development, success and achievement of young men of color in Milwaukee.

Local Evaluation Each grantee must conduct an annual independent local program evaluation to assess its progress toward achieving its goal of providing high - quality opportunities for academic enrichment, and positive student learning outcomes.

The bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA) ushered in a new way to improve K - 12 schools.1 ESSA promised states the opportunity to create more holistic school classification systems using new measures of school quality or student success — without losing sight of academic achievement.

The assurance that all education stakeholders accept responsibility and hold themselves and each other responsible for every learner having full access to quality education, qualified teachers, challenging curriculum, full opportunity to learn, and appropriate, sufficient support for learning so they can achieve at excellent levels in academic and other student outcomes.

The purpose of Title I is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high - quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on the challenging Common Core State Standards and state academic assessments.

In this framework, accountability is defined as: the assurance that all education stakeholders accept responsibility and hold themselves and each other responsible for every learner having full access to quality education, qualified teachers, challenging curriculum, full opportunity to learn, and appropriate, sufficient support for learning so they can achieve at excellent levels in academic and other student outcomes.

After - school programs may be the only opportunity for at - risk students to have quality academic support, recreation, or cultural enrichment activities such as music and dance.

This professional learning community gives teachers the opportunity to learn research - based family engagement best practices around (1) relationship building, including home visits; (2) academic partnering such as high quality parent - teacher conferences and -LSB-...]

It recognizes that public schools (often neighborhood hubs), have a unique opportunity to provide access to effective and integrated service delivery that support conditions for high quality teaching and learning by partnering with organizations representing youth development, academic enrichment, mental and physical health, human services, foster care, early education, adult education, and family engagement.

It may be contentious to state that many American children, whether they come from poor, middle - income, or wealthy families, do not have adequate access to high - quality educational opportunities and, as a result, fall short of achieving their academic potential while in school.

In their coursework and clinical experience, residents are given opportunities to learn, rehearse, enact and reflect on practices like designing high quality lessons and student assessments, eliciting and interpreting student thinking, and supporting students across their social, emotional and academic needs.

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