Sentences with phrase «quality education alternative»

Over the years, one of the mysteries of my school choice advocacy has been the reluctance among many, including a large number of supposedly market sensitive business leaders, to understand and accept the dynamics of competition and how, in a choice environment, these dynamics will produce a supply of quality education alternatives to meet the demand while driving improvement in the public schools.

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Johnson suggests the school would provide an alternative for parents and improve the quality of education in the city.

Tina is a founding member of the Consortium for the Assessment of College Equivalency (CACE) and the Collaborative for Quality in Alternative Learning (CQAL), a grant - funded project exploring quality assurance for innovative providers in higher eduQuality in Alternative Learning (CQAL), a grant - funded project exploring quality assurance for innovative providers in higher eduquality assurance for innovative providers in higher education.

At a minimum, education policymakers should consider experiments that provide actuarially fair alternatives to traditional DB plans for new teaching recruits, and evaluate their utility for recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers.

In 2017, the New Mexico Public Education Department responded to a legislative proposal to implement a charter school moratorium by noting, «The families of New Mexico continue to seek alternative, quality choices for the education of their Education Department responded to a legislative proposal to implement a charter school moratorium by noting, «The families of New Mexico continue to seek alternative, quality choices for the education of their education of their children.

Unlike other careers where sales quotas, bonuses, and title enhancements can remind employees of the quality of the work, teachers, especially those working in more demanding areas like special education or alternative education, often feel frustrated and unappreciated.

Instead Symonds stressed the importance of building a high - quality American education system that values alternatives to earning a bachelor's degree, such as earning an associate's degree or attending a certificate program after high school.

Most of the schools in this latest survey did assure the quality of the provision reasonably well, but there are risks involved in this situation, particularly as many of the pupils who attend alternative provision are the most vulnerable and disenfranchised in our education system.»

In the piece, headlined «Alternative» Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduaAlternative» Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduaalternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduation rates.

According to longtime education writer Maureen Kelleher, now at the Education Post, the ProPublica story is misleading and ahistorical in focusing on charter schools and claiming that No Child Left Behind is the culprit behind the growth in low - quality alternative school education writer Maureen Kelleher, now at the Education Post, the ProPublica story is misleading and ahistorical in focusing on charter schools and claiming that No Child Left Behind is the culprit behind the growth in low - quality alternative school Education Post, the ProPublica story is misleading and ahistorical in focusing on charter schools and claiming that No Child Left Behind is the culprit behind the growth in low - quality alternative school programs.

A shift to a focus on measuring outcomes will open the licensure process to high - quality alternative pathways into teaching and encourage innovation among higher education providers who wish to compete on cost and quality rather than on traditional curriculum and seat - time requirements.

While the debate still remains open about the level of quality that the sector is capable of delivering, it is offering a valid alternative for working adults or marginalized students who would otherwise receive little or no education.

Design a school that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now What?

It's time to start building a high - quality education system by cultivating high - quality educators — whether from excellent teacher colleges or even alternative routes — with ample clinical experience, focused induction, and ongoing professional support throughout a teacher's career, in an environment that fosters respect.

Advocates of such alternatives have learned, to our sorrow, that while putting a «charter» sign on a schoolhouse door certainly indicates potential, it is no guarantee of quality — or even of a genuinely different approach to education.

Yet not to confront the challenges of structure and governance in public education in our time is to accept the glum fact that the most earnest of our other «reform» efforts can not gain enough traction to make a big dent in America's educational deficit, to produce a decent supply of quality alternatives to the traditional monopoly, or to defeat the adult interests that typically rule and benefit from that monopoly.

Many states around the country have yet to determine how to best measure the quality of alternative school education.

The profound lack of knowledge about public education, as reflected in comments about public schools being «flush with cash» and badly underserving the nation's children, coupled with policy proposals based on these «alternative facts», pose a threat to a high - quality education for more than 50 million students.

For most of the past decade, NCATE, the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education and the ed schools they represent have spent more time criticizing school reformers, decrying the presence of alternative outfits such as Teach For America, and defending their shoddy offerings, than on improving the quality of their teacher training.

Education savings accounts help these families afford quality private educational alternatives for their children and they can use the accounts to pay for educational tutors to help them catch up to their peers.

The education committee is asking for written submissions on the routes into alternative provision, the quality of teaching in PRUs and other institutions, educational outcomes and destinations of pupils.

Many conservatives are deeply committed to high - quality public education in their local communities and don't believe that voucher programs are a viable or desirable alternative.

As a secondary educator with experience in a public school, I believe that alternative forms of education can be beneficial; however, not at the expense of quality educators.

Both the exemplary practices and the indicators are considered essential to quality alternative education programming.

2.2 The Superintendent provides adequate financial support and other needed resources for implementation of quality alternative education services (i.e., teaching and non-teaching staff, equipment, technology, supplies, curriculum, etc.).

That means your student will get a higher quality education through a local public charter school than they would at any of the alternatives.

Under the bill, an independent oversight board would be created inside the state Department of Education to review new charters and monitor existing ones in a move to address growing questions about the quality and access of the alternative schools.

STAND UP AND SPEAK OUT FOR HIGH QUALITY: * Pre - Kindergarten — College Graduation Systems * Real Parent Power through School Governance Councils * School Choice Options * Early Child Education & Afterschool Programs * English Language Learners (ELL) Supports * Children w. Special Needs & School Based Health Care Services * Effective Teacher / Principal Preparation & Evaluation Systems * High School Drop Out Prevention Supports * Children in Foster / Adoptive Care & Alternative Education Services

In our continuous efforts to provide top quality education to all our nation's students, we must also consider related efforts to improve our teacher pipeline, such as strengthening pathways into teaching (traditional and alternative); providing meaningful professional development, and focusing on measuring and improving educator effectiveness.

Although many states now staff their schools with teachers prepared through alternative certification routes, there is a growing concern about the quality and relevance of the programs to produce excellent teachers, especially teachers to serve the teaching fields with the most needs — math, science, special education and English as a second language and bilingual education.

Since the Mississippi Charter Schools Act passed in 2013, charter operators have been able to apply to the Mississippi Charter Authorizer Board to run public schools billed as an alternative for parents seeking higher - quality education for their kids.

For information about alternative compensation for teachers, see the following: Teaching Commission and USC California Policy Institute, «Understanding Alternative Teacher Compensation,» USC California Policy Institute, 2005; J. Azordegan, P. Byrnett, K. Campbell, J. Greenman, and T. Coulter, «Diversifying Teacher Compensation», The Teaching Commission and Education Commission of the States,» ECS, December 2005; Minnesota Department of Education, «Q Comp: Quality Compensation for Teachers», Febalternative compensation for teachers, see the following: Teaching Commission and USC California Policy Institute, «Understanding Alternative Teacher Compensation,» USC California Policy Institute, 2005; J. Azordegan, P. Byrnett, K. Campbell, J. Greenman, and T. Coulter, «Diversifying Teacher Compensation», The Teaching Commission and Education Commission of the States,» ECS, December 2005; Minnesota Department of Education, «Q Comp: Quality Compensation for Teachers», FebAlternative Teacher Compensation,» USC California Policy Institute, 2005; J. Azordegan, P. Byrnett, K. Campbell, J. Greenman, and T. Coulter, «Diversifying Teacher Compensation», The Teaching Commission and Education Commission of the States,» ECS, December 2005; Minnesota Department of Education, «Q Comp: Quality Compensation for Teachers», February 2009.

In earlier testimony to the Education Committee, Dr. Bill Jones, Principal of Manatee School for the Arts in Bradenton, Fla., said, «The main reason why we're asking for alternative and additional authorizers really goes to the question of quality of education, both for the students and the quality of the charter school systemEducation Committee, Dr. Bill Jones, Principal of Manatee School for the Arts in Bradenton, Fla., said, «The main reason why we're asking for alternative and additional authorizers really goes to the question of quality of education, both for the students and the quality of the charter school systemeducation, both for the students and the quality of the charter school system, itself.

2) Encourage Choice and Charters: In a second term, we urge the President and his Administration to do whatever they can to encourage more education choices, so that children in failing schools have quality alternatives.

They also talk about a «school quality review» conducted by «expert educators» to determine whether schools are actually providing high - quality education for all children, something similar to the school inspection process that Education Sector (now part of the American Institutes for Research) was touting as an alternative to AYP a few yeducation for all children, something similar to the school inspection process that Education Sector (now part of the American Institutes for Research) was touting as an alternative to AYP a few yEducation Sector (now part of the American Institutes for Research) was touting as an alternative to AYP a few years ago.

The move came to light during a hearing of the parliamentary education select committee, which is holding an inquiry into the quality of alternative provision across the country.

«We need to expand the alternative teaching licensure program, and make sure that those folks who want to come into education have a clear and quality path in order to change careers and come into the classroom and be educators,» he said.

The implied assumptions of the aforementioned linear formula are overly simplistic given the nonrandomness of the teacher candidate population... If teacher candidates who enroll in a traditional teacher education program are arguably different from teacher candidates who enroll in an alternative program, and both groups are compared once they become teachers, one group might have a distinct and unfair advantage over the other... What can not be overlooked, controlled for, or dismissed from these comparative investigations are teachers» enduring qualities that go beyond their preparation (Boyd et al., 2006; Boyd, Grossman, Lankford, Loeb, & Wyckoff, 2007; Harris & Sass, 2007; Shulman, 1988; Wenglinsky, 2002).

A third quality that distinguishes alternatives from traditional education is their diversity.

The FuelEd Homebound Education Program is a cost - effective alternative that enables students to continue to receive the highest quality education, engage with other students, and progress at a rate that keeps them on pace for an easy transition back into their regular cEducation Program is a cost - effective alternative that enables students to continue to receive the highest quality education, engage with other students, and progress at a rate that keeps them on pace for an easy transition back into their regular ceducation, engage with other students, and progress at a rate that keeps them on pace for an easy transition back into their regular classroom.

DeVos hearing: In her confirmation hearing to become U.S. education secretary, Betsy DeVos says she will be «a strong advocate for great public schools,» but «if a school is troubled, or unsafe, or not a good fit for a child — perhaps they have a special need that is going unmet — we should support a parent's right to enroll their child in a high - quality alternative.»

NCLB's ultimate restructuring alternatives: Do they improve the quality of education?

The infusion will allow the state to double the number of these alternative schools serving primarily urban students and improve the quality of all charter schools, priorities of Education Commissioner Deborah A. Gist.

Meanwhile the state allowed districts such as Fairfax County to evade their responsibilities toward preparing all children for success in higher education and life through its Virginia Grade Level Alternative assessment regime, which allowed districts to offer low - quality curricula to kids they didn't want to work hard to education.

To close the Latinx teacher - student gap, policymakers need to prioritize access to higher education and high - quality alternative pathways into the teaching profession.

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Discussions centered around the four components to be considered in the creation of robust systems for high - quality alternative education.

While the crux of Rocketship's published mission — creating alternative, high - quality education choices for vulnerable students — is credited to Father Mateo Sheedy, pastor of San Jose's Sacred Heart Parish, who in 1999 began questioning the low performance rates of students in his parish, Rocketship began in earnest in 2006, when Father Sheedy's congregation set off to pursue his mission of improving outcomes for students in San Jose alongside John Danner and Preston Smith.

Civil rights leaders «say families of color yearn for something deeper [than charters]: A plan to improve the quality of education... so they don't need alternatives.»

[And now we're a step away from MOOCs being unleashed on the rest of the world as an alternative low cost / high quality education.