Sentences with phrase «quality traditional curriculum»

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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.
The study's authors speculate on four potential explanations for the large negative effects that their program evaluation found: misalignment of private school curriculum to the Louisiana State Standards; differences between serving scholarship students with achievement gaps and traditional private school students; success of other education developments, especially in New Orleans; and the overall quality of private schools willing to participate in the program.
And traditional districts would essentially be let off the hook for failing to provide high - quality teaching and curricula to poor and minority students.
Either we will have low - standards tests driving curriculum and instruction (as in Texas) or we can attempt other means to ensure high - quality curriculum and instruction than through traditional standardized tests (including most of the current ones with open - ended questions)[see also Neill, «States Flunk»].
Putting an end to traditional enrollment counts — and only providing districts with dollars based on whether the student is actually attending school — will force districts to look at the underlying reasons why chronic truancy is a problem in the first place, as well as address the issues by providing children with high - quality teaching and strong, college - preparatory curricula.
Our curriculum ensures that students receive a high - quality academic and traditional education.
Make quality curriculum and instruction accessible to students who have different abilities and needs, and to those who can not attend a traditional campus due to medical or disciplinary reasons.
Thanks to AYP, traditional districts — especially those in suburbia — have been exposed for failing to provide high - quality teaching, curricula, and school cultures to poor and minority children (as well as those condemned to the nation's special ed ghettos).
As with black and Latino families from the middle class, poor families of all backgrounds move into suburbia thinking that traditional district schools in those communities will do better in providing their kids with high - quality teaching and curricula than the big city districts they fled.
If they did, they would know that Alexander's plan would all but solidify the Obama Administration's move over the past few years to eviscerate No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, which have exposed the failure of traditional districts to provide high - quality teaching, curricula, and school cultures to poor and minority children (as well as those condemned to the nation's special ed ghettos).
At Liberty, we believe a quality legal education can only be achieved when traditional courses are integrated with a comprehensive practical skills curriculum that's built on the solid foundation of a Christian worldview and a stable understanding of the Western legal tradition.
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