Sentences with phrase «quality of a given program»

Not exact matches

To make sure we give the broadest possible view of program quality, then, we've stacked our rankings up against those published by other major organizations and broken down which factors go into each.

Given this system, advertisers are acting quite rationally when they buy the cheapest programs which reach the largest number of viewers with their message, regardless of quality.

This distortion of fact is particularly unfortunate given the ground - breaking work by California wineries and vineyards to tackle the issue of GHG emissions by working to improve air quality and energy efficiency, along with other sustainable winegrowing practices from ground to bottle, through the California Sustainable Winegrowing Program (https://www.sustainablewinegrowing.org/).

The high quality of our equipment, combined with user friendly operations, clear and detailed maintenance programs, hygienic design and the highest safety level gives you the best TCO result.

The Heineken Star Serve program emphasizes the importance of giving consumers the perfect draught beer through the Heineken Star Serve Ritual — a five - step process at the heart of a quality Heineken drinking experience.

This will give you a rapid understanding of many aspects of the school food program beyond the quality of the food.

«It's easier to give one - on - one attention and be responsive when there are fewer kids in a room,» says Stephanie Glowacki, director of accreditation programs at the National Association for the Education of Young Children, a benchmark of quality.

The Illinois Department of Conservation already has given a $ 924,000 grant to fund engineering for the trail under its Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality program.

HETV works within the existing health framework of developing countries to establish and promote health educational programs that will provide rapid and long - term capacity - building to improve health and quality of life, and will give mothers and communities more control over their health status.

After four years and half a billion dollars on a failed school turnaround program, NYC students need a leader who will work with urgency to give them the quality of schools they deserve,» said StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

Val has helped to craft a smaller, smarter county government that runs more efficiently; and her insight and expertise have helped produce balanced budgets that continue to give residents the highest quality of services, while providing relief under New York State's property tax freeze program.

Given its size, the expansion went smoothly — though there have been some areas where children have not been able to get seats close to home — and observers say the quality of the program is generally good.

COMPETES authorizes ongoing support for ARPA - E, the novel energy - research program modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency which promises to give rise to «leapfrog» technologies that will reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources and stimulate a green economy while producing steady, high - quality jobs of the future.

Giving serious consideration to physician views might help policymakers design programs to have as positive an effect as possible on the quality of health care.»

Many of them observe a small number of participants, they give them capsules with questionable quality and a sample training program and in the end aren't very diligent in fully managing either the supplements or the participants.

After attending my first Bodibreak program, I was given the knowledge to correct nutrition, the importance of core muscles, quality fitness techniques, and strategies to incorporate exercise into daily living.

Julianne's date coaching program for women gives them all of the tools and skills necessary to identify a quality partner and form a lasting connection.

«Choosing a handful of outstanding programs or personalities to nominate in any category is a daunting task given the sheer volume of high quality options today on broadcast and cable television and streaming services,» said BTJA President Ed Martin.

«Given the particularly large impacts for Latinos, a group that tends to be underenrolled in preschool programs, efforts to increase the enrollment of Latino children in high - quality prekindergarten programs such as the one studied here may be beneficial,» Weiland added.

The Harvard Teacher Fellows program will be an innovative and important contribution to strengthening K — 12 education by giving new teachers the tools to succeed in the classroom and offering children throughout the country the transformative benefits of high - quality instruction.»

By giving teens something constructive to do when their parents are likely to be at work, quality afterschool programs hold the promise of preventing high - risk behavior, building resiliency, and improving students» prospects following high school.

• Boost the employment prospects of disadvantaged youth via high - quality career and technical education programs • Help their students develop «performance character» — particularly drive and prudence • Offer a full suite of well - organized extracurricular activities (to help build those all - important non-cognitive skills and to keep kids off the streets) • Most importantly, give their students a sense of hope and purpose

I suspect they know that binders of ready - made packaged programs and curriculum are worthless without a high quality teacher who's given the opportunity, respect, and support to design learning for his or her students.

Members of the congressional New Democratic Coalition expressed dismay last week at the Department of Education's recent decision to give teachers» colleges an extra year before they have to start reporting on the quality of their programs.

So where a program falls in a given year's rankings, and whether it moves up or down from one year to the next, is typically more a matter of luck than of quality.

We also propose revisions throughout this subpart to better support the ability of programs to serve children from diverse economic backgrounds, given research that suggests children's early learning is positively influenced by interactions with diverse peers [1112] We also require programs to prioritize serving younger children in communities where there is publicly funded high quality pre-kindergarten for four year olds.

Providing a nonarbitrary comparison of schools on even one criterion will be nearly impossible, given the extent to which OCR requires assessment of the «quality» of educational programs.

BTW, forgot to mention one of the first strategies our district had to give up in the state's budget crunch was a quality full day kindergarten program.

She has been instrumental in expanding school choice programs nationwide, which has given students with disabilities and those from low - income families the opportunity to attend the quality school of their parents» choice.

«The American Academy of Pediatrics advises that children under 18 months be given NO SCREEN time at all, apart from video - chatting with family, and that 18 — 24 month olds be limited to «high - quality programming.»

After four years and half a billion dollars on a failed school turnaround program, NYC students need a leader who will work with urgency to give them the quality of schools they deserve,» said StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

Proponents of the program say the voucher program is a way to give students better choices when it comes to their education; critics say it siphons badly needed funds away from public education and funnels them into unaccountable, religious private schools that are not obligated to hold themselves to high quality teaching standards.

Given that it's become a truism that teacher quality impacts student learning more than any other variable within the four walls of a school, the results of a new study of teachers» professional development programs are particularly troubling.

The Department of Contracted Schools will create a collaborative culture where high quality charter and partnership schools are given autonomy to effectively implement their educational programs while being held accountable for results which ultimately have a positive impact on the entire school district.

As evidence mounts that teacher quality is one of the biggest determinants of student achievement, critics have complained that teacher - training programs have lax admission standards, scattered curriculum, and fail to give aspiring teachers real - life classroom training.

These goals serve as the primary tenants for advancing the high school renewal work to: 1) establish system coherence by aligning central office and site programs, and accelerating student learning by leveraging and expanding knowledge and skills among staff, parents, and community members; 2) improve the quality of instructional leadership by providing ongoing professional development for school leaders; 3) improve the quality of teaching throughout the district through embedded professional development; 4) increase student engagement in the learning process by personalizing learning environments to build on student interests; 5) increase community involvement in schools by giving principals ownership of the change process, expanding student voice, and bringing parents and students into the school renewal process.

«The scholarship program gives parents access to quality education options that work best for their individual needs,» said Ann Duplessis, president of the Louisiana Federation for Children.

«The Louisiana Scholarship Program gives parents access to a high - quality education in a safe and secure learning environment,» said Ann Duplessis, president of the Louisiana Federation for Children.

[ii] Given the rigorous literacy demands of quality IB Middle Years and Diploma Program, it is essential to invest additional human capital to ensure each child is develops the capacity to understand and interrogate every text she reads.

Washington — Although more students with disabilities than ever are included in state testing programs, the task of giving these students high - quality assessments in the future that measure how adept they are at mastering the Common Core State Standards seems to have an endless number of hurdles to overcome before students face these new assessments in the 2014 - 15 school year.

The Broad Residency will enable me to gain the skills and leadership qualities to clear the way for all members of the school community to provide varied and evolving educational programs that give all young people the tools they need to succeed.

But few researchers, and even fewer promoters of programs, do the high - quality research that would reveal noneffects, or negative effects for some children, when a given program is in the hands of some teachers and in certain schools.

The other large basket of waivers the board approved last year were given to districts enrolled in the Quality Education Investment Act - a program that came out of a court settlement and offered struggling schools extra state support on the condition of meeting several performance and administrative goals.

If your organization hasn't started using learning analytics to improve the quality as well as the ROI of online training programs, it's time you give learning analytics implementation through the LMS a serious thought.

«The results released today provide clear evidence that the Louisiana Scholarship Program is working, giving Louisiana families access to a high - quality education in a safe and secure learning environment,» said Ann Duplessis, President of the Louisiana Federation for Children.

The state needs to build upon this successful program, with priority given to school districts with a significant number of low - performing schools that have a problem attracting and retaining quality principals.

But it would be more helpful if more attention were given to places where school system leaders and teachers unions have built trust and negotiated sensible ways to ensure teacher quality, such as teacher peer assistance and review programs (which Goldstein discusses and I experienced as superintendent of MCPS).

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 full day of planning, doing, making, and learning that will give you tools and resources empowering you to deliver the highest quality program possible.

Given the promising results of this initial study, it is likely that the Foundation will deepen their learning this coming summer by using a control group to examine growth in matched peers as well as dig in more deeply to document the specific practices that high quality programs are using to support positive outcomes.