Sentences with phrase «quality of school buildings»

Researchers used composite achievement results from the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, as the performance metric, and weighed those scores against 63 «inputs,» or factors that could influence educational outcomes, such as teaching materials and technology, the quality of school buildings, and teacher training.

Dr Bousted did go on to comment, however, that it is «good news» that the government is providing # 216 million to improve the quality of school buildings.

The poor design and quality of school buildings is damaging pupils» health and learning, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has warned.

The quality of school buildings and other assets has a direct impact on the quality of education of our children.

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.

Schools have improved in the last 13 years in many ways - in raw standards, in the number and percentage of pupils who now gain the magic five A * - C (or equivalent) GCSEs, in the quality of teaching and learning in our schools, in the quality of our school buildings, in the creativity and flexibility of the curriculum, and in the range and quality of specialist equipment in schools.

As noted above, this initial estimate of the variability in principal effectiveness may partly reflect differences in school characteristics that are not under the principal's control, such as the quality of the school building, or decisions made by district administrators as well as unmeasured parental influences.

«We know that the quality of school building can make a real difference to the quality of learning.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

I have known Jamie for many years and have been impressed with his dynamism as he has ramped up his restaurant business and built his worldwide brand through his various TV shows, all the while pouring his efforts into teaching people to eat better, drawing public attention to the poor quality of school lunches, and developing Fifteen, his restaurant and social enterprise that trains unemployed young people to become professional chefs.

Building better communities Better communities come when governments work together to fund infrastructures such as roads, water, schools and transit that are the framework for a community's Quality of Life.

This means that farmers can compete with factory farms, cultivate the quality of their crops, send their kids to school and build thriving communities.

Fair Trade means that farmers can send their kids to school, keep their land, develop the quality of their harvest and build thriving communities.

The results of the assessment must be used in the development of long - range maintenance plans that include specific indoor air quality components for each school building.

The standards offer all those involved in the delivery of school food an exciting opportunity to build on the excellent progress made in school food so far and make sure all our children have what they deserve, that is, the best possible food of the highest quality and nutritional value.»

Promotes sustainable, high - quality out - of - school youth development programs through advocacy and capacity building to enhance the welfare of Pennsylvania's children, youth, and families.

As Kevin Concannon, the USDA's Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services recently told me, «A quality and nutritious school meal program can insure that all of the investments we're making in the buildings, in the materials, and in the teachers will pay off because there's lots of evidence showing that kids who eat healthier will learn better.»

And these elementary - school skills, in turn, stand atop an infrastructure of qualities built in the first years of life, like secure attachment, the ability to manage stress, and self - regulation.

The Campaign has had remarkable successes over the years, building the reach, quality, and effectiveness of programs across the board — School Breakfast, School Lunch, Summer Food, Afterschool Meals and Snacks, WIC, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, and SNAP / Food Stamps.

Our goal was simple: to make the healthy choice the easy one, and to help schools build a sense of self - determination, where they could control the quality of the food their students eat.»

Our goal was simple: to make the healthy choice the easy choice, and to help schools build a sense of self - determination, where they could control the quality of the food their students eat.»

SADA have taken steps to help improve the quality of education in the northern part of Ghana, increase age appropriate primary school enrolment, build capacity, improve gender parity in schools, etc..

For his part, the Mayor of Worcester, Mr Joseph Petty in a goodwill message commended the association for working hard to provide a school building to enable the children in Ghana have access to quality education.

«We need him to build on his phenomenal success in improving our schools, to continue his national leadership in reducing crime and getting illegal guns off our streets and to keep improving our quality of life as no other has in my 27 years in government.»

Over recent days we've also heard my shadow cabinet colleagues, Emma Reynolds and Tristram Hunt, talk about how a Labour government will ensure we get the house building we need to strengthen our economy and improve people's quality of life, and about how we raise standards in our schools to ensure our children are equipped to succeed.

He said the South Korean government was committed to improving health care for newborns and quality education through capacity building of teachers, circuit supervisors and school management committees.

Promising to build more SHS schools than NDC's 200 without addressing the related issues of what else you will do to ensure that more teachers are not only trained, but employed to produce quality education to our children, will not do.

But there is persistent concern about the quality of some of the construction and this is because, local officials sometimes take bribes and allow construction companies to build things below standard and so we have a situation in the Sichuan province where the earthquake occurred, where schools were collapsing and collapsed at a much greater rate than other government buildings and the suspicion is of course that local officials have taken bribes and allowed the schools to be built this way.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

A set of concrete criteria for innovation for building relationships between science centres and schools to enhance the quality of formal and informal learning of science.

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But the bulk of the city's school reforms over the past decade have focused elsewhere, on building a pre-kindergarten system, creating new curriculum materials and instructional strategies and, above all, improving teacher quality — work that's largely unrelated to high school attendance.

Parents are still relatively more satisfied with their children's school than with the nation's schools, but gradually social concern has been building about the quality of education for all.

Instead, in the future, Newman says Atrium School will seek the certification status of LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance, which is determined by the actual performance of a building in terms of criteria such as energy use, water use, indoor quality, and storm - water management.

On December 12, 2014, The Leading Edge of Early Childhood Education brought together leading scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to engage with the latest thinking, research, and practice in building and sustaining high - quality pre-K systems, schools, and classrooms.

Encourage networking The Independent Academies Association (IAA) and the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) have joined forces to work with IAAS (Independent Academies Assured Services) to develop a Quality Mark for services and to encourage networking of schools and academies to share and build good and effective practice.

Hobby said: «Schools rightly have autonomy over HR practices, but we should be able to expect the government to supply the basics for them to work within — funding, buildings and, of course, enough high quality people.

The school board in Montgomery County, an affluent suburb of Washington noted for the quality of its schools and its voluntary efforts at integration, «violated its own regulations and procedures» on racial balance and building use in the cases of four schools, said Mitchell J. Cooper, a Washington lawyer acting as adviser to the state board.

Smithsonian, 4/19/13 «And just last weekend, in the New York Times, Jal Mehta, an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, wrote that compared to many other fields where quality is maintained by building a body of knowledge and training people in that knowledge.»

To continue as a Course Access provider in Florida as part of the School District Virtual Course Offerings statute, FLVS and its competitors will need to build flexible, high - level quality content, leveraging adaptive technologies, and expanding access to content.

In other words, chartering is a continuous improvement process for a system of schools: When you build a strategy around closing bad schools, enabling great ones to grow and enabling promising new schools to start, you shift the quality distribution to the right year after year.

They spoke of raising standards, reducing class sizes, encouraging choices, building new schools, improving teacher quality, toughening accountability, and strengthening local control.

Which is why the movement needs a new political strategy — one that builds a broader constituency, whose success doesn't turn key supporters against it, and one that continues to encourage innovation in an increasing number of high - quality charter schools.

These public displays of high - quality work enhance academic engagement and pride, among both students and teachers — and they increase the community's pride in the school building itself.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Professor Nonie Lesaux and Associate Professor Stephanie Jones, faculty chairs of the institute, examine the latest thinking, research, and practice in building and sustaining high - quality pre-K systems, schools, and classrooms.

The report therefore says that if the government is to develop safe and well ‑ designed schools, it should recognise the role of good design and quality in school buildings to support the best outcomes for pupils and teachers.

California and Michigan could have spent millions of dollars for quality teachers, instructional computers, or building safe and modern schools.

Hillary Salmons manages the oversight of the Providence After School Alliance (PASA) and its three strategies — quality improvement, development of its after - school AfterZones, and building the capacity of the city's recreation ceSchool Alliance (PASA) and its three strategies — quality improvement, development of its after - school AfterZones, and building the capacity of the city's recreation ceschool AfterZones, and building the capacity of the city's recreation centers.

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.

The difference is that these students» teachers have helped them develop the skills and mindsets necessary to produce work of exceptional quality, and have built classroom and school cultures in which exceptional work is the norm.