Sentences with phrase «quality of an education system»

We know now enough about how further segregation of children is not only jeopardising principles of equity and equality, but is also harmful to the overall quality of education systems.

«Scotland's continued success depends on the quality of its education system, which in turn depends upon securing decent pay and conditions of service for all teachers in Scotland.»

Stefan: The first challenge is not resources but to improve the quality of the education systems.

a move to skills, rather than scores: broader measures of success to monitor students» capabilities... and the quality of our education system;

This presents an obvious problem - and a serious one - for a nation that wants to improve the quality of its education system.

In other words, we need to look for ways other than mere increases in expenditure or reductions in class size if we are going to enhance the quality of our education system.

This points to another important lesson: one can not evaluate the quality of the education system by simply measuring changes in one set of inputs, such as the quality of teachers.

The only reliable way to assess the quality of the education system is to measure the quality of the workers who have graduated from it.

But the results from Florida do suggest that concerted efforts to improve the quality of an education system can pay dividends for students.

One of the lessons learned is that the quality of an education system can not exceed the quality of its teachers (Barber & Mourshed, 2007).

The second fallacy is that the quality of an education system can not exceed the quality of its teachers.

Although these documents often take a broader view of enhancing the status of teachers through better pay and careful recruitment, this statement implies that the quality of an education system is defined by the quality of its teachers.

California needs to use that high - tech advantage to improve the quality of its education system and start producing more workers ready for the demands of the 21st - Century economy.

Finland has received a great deal of attention for the quality of their education system.

Business leaders realize that the strength of our democracy and the strength of our economy depends on the quality of our education system as a whole.

Michael Barber's much - vaunted message that «the quality of an education system can not exceed the quality of its teachers» is a powerful one that has led many school leaders and policymakers to throw more initiatives and training at teachers in order to make them better.

First administered to assess the quality of education systems worldwide, PISA, or the Program for International Student Assessment, covers math and science, and recently started testing collaboration, critical thinking, and global competency skills.

Carver: I talked to a ton of people — teachers, parents, thousands of people who are passionate about education, people who work in ZOOM Schools, people who have their kids in public or private schools, and school funding was a major issue, but I think a lot of people are just concerned about the quality of our education system...