Sentences with phrase «raise educational performance»
It overwhelmingly shows that, at given spending levels, an increase in resources does not generally raise educational performance.
http://educationnext.org/ Not exact matches
Joyce Bawa Mogtari, secretary to Mr. John Dramani Mahama, writes commending the poor performance of Professor Naana Jane Opoku - Agyemang, «Agymang's diligent works and strong educational reforms have raised Ghana's image in education to enviable heights!»
Raising America's average scores on international comparisons is, therefore, not a matter of repairing a broken educational system that performs poorly overall, as many critiques suggest, but rather of improving the performance of the children at the bottom, overwhelmingly from low - income families and racial and ethnic minorities.
Beginning in the late 1980s, Shanker pushed hard for state and federal legislation to raise academic standards, and he kept the pressure on for educational testing and consequences for poor performance.
Learn more Learn leading strategies for educational innovation to improve practice, raise student performance, and reduce achievement gaps.
Learn more Learn how to apply principles and practices of improvement science to improve educational practice, raise student performance...
How do Carnoy and Rothstein manage to raise U. S. educational performance to international standards simply by adjusting for the social - class background of its students?
In the current program, Mr. Smith tracks America's search for schools and school districts that have been effectively raising student performance in high poverty areas and closing the achievement gap between minority and low - income students and the educational mainstream.
«Our results show that the policy reform in Wales reduced average performance and raised educational inequality.»
The second strand in explaining educational romanticism is the periodic discovery of magic bullets for raising classroom performance.
Mr Andrews said: «I have made a clear commitment to raising standards and performance in schools in Wales, improving levels of literacy and numeracy and reducing the impact of poverty on educational attainment.
Even though these tests measure only a limited portion of what we care about in schooling, there is a high level of agreement that reducing achievement gaps between students of different races and economic backgrounds would be a major educational improvement (provided that it was accomplished by raising the performance of the less advantaged).
They are raising educational standards and expectations for student performance.
«I have made a clear commitment to raising standards and performance in schools in Wales, improving levels of literacy and numeracy and reducing the impact of poverty on educational attainment,» he said.