Sentences with phrase «quality of education systems»

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.

The best starting point to get the right skills and innovation for tomorrow is to exploit the huge scope for improvements in the quality of education systems now.

Beauty contests via international rankings play a useful role to combat complacency by political leaders, although rankings can never be the aim of education alone, but more the start of a conversation on the quality of education systems.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Much has been said recently about the quality of Canada's education system.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

What thinking and feeling person would want to share the name of those who seem to fight tooth and nail for the sanctity of life by protecting the unborn but refuse to help better our education system or quality of life for those not as well off.

The result of this relentless self - education process was a world - class growing facility with advanced growing systems and methods that are helping us achieve our dream of producing high - quality herbs, lettuces and micro greens using sustainable agricultural practices.

Cabazon's AWS Gold certification is reflective of the facility's meeting of advanced - level criteria, including the site's positive contribution to the local groundwater system, best practice of the site's water balance, best practice of the site's water quality, and implementation of a water education program, among others.

The district pursues excellence in education for every child at every level by focusing on quality instruction, managing systems efficiently, and sustaining a culture of excellence.

Home visiting has been demonstrated to be an effective method of supporting families, particularly as part of a comprehensive and coordinated system of high - quality, affordable early care and education, health and mental health, and family support services for families of children from the prenatal through the pre-kindergarten stages.

We offer hope to educators by providing critical professional development and work toward the creation of a system of quality early care and education for our youngest citizens.

(2) to supplement and complement the efforts of States, the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the States, the private sector, public and private educational institutions, public and private nonprofit educational research institutions, community - based organizations, parents, and students to im - prove the quality of education;

«It is deeply debilitating and demoralising for teachers that any attempt to have a public debate about developing the teaching profession and the quality of teaching inevitably is hijacked by commentators and presented as a system to «root out incompetent teachers» and present our public education system as failing.

A new approach for our schools by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «The CBI report has recognised the important link between high - quality education systems and economic competitiveness.

«I believe in the New York City school system and the thousands of dedicated, hardworking administrators, educators and support staff that commit themselves to providing our city's youth with a quality education,» said Treyger.

With sharper accountability, a more ambitious curriculum and world class qualifications, I believe we can create an education system which can compete with the best in the world — a system which gives every young person, regardless of background, the high quality education, high aspirations and high achievement they need and deserve.

It is a much deserved recognition of its immense contribution to the fight for free and fair trade unions and to securing quality education for children and young people in Bahrain «This award will help to maintain the pressure on the Bahraini authorities to end their completely unjustified detention of Mahdi, who has spent the last four years in prison on false charges for simply exercising his right to freedom of assembly and demanding reforms to Bahrain's educational system.»

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Our public education system is a promise we make to the nation's children and young people that they will have opportunity, high quality, good outcomes and an expectation of success for all.

Let's not throw away years of building the state educational system that provides quality education to students who receive that education through teachers that are dedicated to providing the best they can.

«The City University of New York system is a world - class higher education institution that provides quality and affordable education to students in the five boroughs,» Cuomo said in a press release.

On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all public school students have access to high - quality teachers.

The Institute supports efforts to improve the current system, especially through the expansion of QUALITYstarsNYC, as a tool to help parents understand what good quality early childhood education should look like, from best practices and teacher education standards to enriching classrooms and play spaces.

«It is clear that if the quality of governance is to improve across the education system, basic minimum standards of governance should apply across all publicly funded schools, not just to those in the maintained sector.»

Living and doing business in the county is enhanced by a dynamic quality of life, skilled workers, an excellent education system, and a full range of sports, cultural and tourist attractions for all ages.

Set to testify before Governor Cuomo's Education Reform Commission, NYC Public School Principal Anna Hall will deliver a crystal - clear message that any true reform of the state's education system needs to start with quality Education Reform Commission, NYC Public School Principal Anna Hall will deliver a crystal - clear message that any true reform of the state's education system needs to start with quality education system needs to start with quality teachers.

Unlike Governor Cuomo, who supports privatization in the form of charter schools, the Green Party ticket of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones advocates a comprehensive «Quality Education for All» platform grounded in fully funding and strengthening our public school system.

Norman Seabrook, the president of the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association and a nationally recognized labor official, civic leader and reformer, said to Feerick: «As a community district leader for many years, you have demonstrated a strong commitment to fighting for affordable housing, to creating a better education system, quality health care, and achieving economic stability.

«As the third - largest university system in the United States, CUNY offers a high - quality and remarkably affordable and competitive higher education that enables the pursuit of the American Dream,» said Borough President KATZ.

«His proposed policies on public education will weaken, not strengthen our public education system, and they would represent a step away from the principle of high quality public education for all students.

In a news conference just before the board meeting in Performing Arts School, an alliance of Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education says the new system still suspends minority students out of their proportion in the schools.

... The report was commissioned by the Alliance for Quality Education, an education research and advocacy group that is calling the current public school system «a tale of two systems,» echoing Bill de Blasio's «tale of two cities» campaigEducation, an education research and advocacy group that is calling the current public school system «a tale of two systems,» echoing Bill de Blasio's «tale of two cities» campaigeducation research and advocacy group that is calling the current public school system «a tale of two systems,» echoing Bill de Blasio's «tale of two cities» campaign slogan.

Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district public schools to make decisions based on teacher quality, does violence to the cause of improving the quality of education for the overwhelming majority of students who don't attend charter schools.

«The «LMD»» — Licence, Master's, Doctorate — «will change a lot the French system: the quality of a university education will increase,» says Emanuel Dupoux.

The quality of the country's senior managers is ranked 19th, as is the education system.

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NNJTBIS is one of 16 federally funded model systems that form a national comprehensive system of care, research, education and dissemination aimed at improving quality of life for people with TBI.

All of the entities within the health system possess their own distinct environment, but all share the same philosophy: a dedication to high - quality patient care and service, and advancing medicine through research and education.

NNJTBIS is one of 16 federally - funded model systems that form a national comprehensive system of care, research, education, and dissemination aimed at improving the quality of life for people with TBI.