Sentences with phrase «raise standards of performance»

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Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.»

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A commonly proposed strategy for raising achievement levels in schools is to specify high expectations or «standards» of student performance and to hold students, teachers and schools accountable for achieving those standards.

Julian said: «Having worked at the centre of government, I know that the architects of England's school accountability system are motivated by the best of intentions: to expose serious under - performance and raise standards.

Heissel and Norris estimate that making these scheduling switches would raise average math performance by six percent of a standard deviation and average reading performance by four percent of a standard deviation.

That's why I've asked some of America's top educators, advocates, political and business leaders here today, to mobilize our schools to raise standards, demand accountability, and specifically, to strengthen math and science education and performance all across America.

Rewarding the best teachers can help them set the standard — or even raise the bar — of staff performance.

Although education was the focus of the 60 - day legislative session that ended May 2 — lawmakers boosted spending for public schools by $ 650 million and raised performance standards for students and teachers — it did not produce a solution to the classroom crunch.

Raising the expected performance standard in each year of school and holding all teachers and students accountable for achieving these higher standards may not be the most effective way to improve levels of performance in Australian schools.

Raising the expected performance standard in any year of school will be appropriate for some students, but is likely to be inappropriate for students who are already struggling.

And is it raising the standards and performance of the teaching profession and the achievement of students?

«These proficiency scores do not reflect a drop in performance, but rather a raising of standards to reflect college and career readiness in the 21st century,» he said.

Further, the Educrats assert that the new policy of lower standards actually raises performance expectations for minority children because they will have to progress at a faster rate over the same span of time.

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?

The Welsh Assembly has recently reintroduced the publication of performance information, after abolishing it in 2001, in an attempt to raise standards.

«CCSA has led the way for increased accountability by raising standards that value academic rigor, while also giving schools credit for academic growth, and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged students,» said Elizabeth Robitaille, senior vice president of Achievement and Performance Management, CCSA.

The push to raise standards and increase student outcomes has placed state education agencies (SEAs) at the center of efforts to improve the performance of the nation's lowest - performing schools, but few are well positioned to deliver on that imperative.

Common Core will establish one national standard for curriculum and testing in an effort to raise the performance of American public school students.

«It also exhibits a lack of faith in the abilities of education professionals at the New Hampshire Department of Education, leaders of the state Board of Education, and board members from local school districts to make sound decisions regarding education standards designed to raise student 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.

Following disappointing Pisa tests in 2009 the Welsh government embarked on a series of changes to raise standards and performance.

In Transforming Teaching, the National Education Association called for a career continuum based on national professional teaching standards that guide preparation and teacher performance assessments completed before licensure.8 In Raising the Bar, the American Federation of Teachers called for a «bar exam» for teaching that offers a nationally available performance assessment for licensure, along with evidence of competence in the subject area and strong clinical training.9

The conclusion of 13 out of 14 randomized controlled trials — the gold standard for social science research — is that school choice programs raise participating students» academic performance, and increase their likelihood of graduating high school and enrolling in and graduating from college.

With this in mind, have we spent the past 20 years fretting over raising standards, creating related assessments, and designing accountability systems to improve student performance, but neglecting to help students understand why any of this should be meaningful to them?

«Because the new content standards set higher expectations for students and the new tests are designed to assess student performance against those higher standards, the bar has been raised,» Joe Willhoft, executive director of Smarter Balanced, said in a statement.

«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.

Like the S 500 Cabrio, the S 63 AMG Cabrio uses the Airmatic suspension with adaptive damping system ADS Plus.In case of S 63 AMG Cabrio, the suspension can be raised with 30 mm on poor surfaces an the chassis is lowered again automatically in Sport mode and from a speed of 120 km / h in Controlled Efficiency mode.The S 63 AMG cabrio is equipped with 19 inch forged AMG light - alloy wheels as standard while the high - performance composite brakes, with 20 % lighter than the conventional system is in option.

Top speed, like that of all of Audi's RS models, remains limited to 155 mph in standard trim, but its quattro division is planning a performance option that raises the figure to 174 mph.

It also upgrades the stock car's mechanically locking differential with an electronically controlled unit, active damping on the AMG sport suspension layout and a performance exhaust plus it raises the size of the standard front brake discs from 360 to 390 mm.

We strive to breed the best possible show, family and performance dogs, and continue to raise the bar in our own standards to improve in quality, genetics, anatomy, conformation, disposition and health of our American Pit Bull Terrier, American Bully puppies.

Established 19 years ago, World Travel Awards is committed to raising the standards of customer service and overall business performance throughout the international tourism industry.

Established 17 years ago, World Travel Awards is committed to raising the standards of customer service and overall business performance throughout the international industry.

Bhula added that the Board of Bokpoort CSP have placed significant pressure on the management team to raise the bar regarding overall performance expectations and clearly, the team is up to the challenge by consistently setting new standards not only in production but also through their positive socioeconomic impact and responsible environmental management.

The «National Green Schools» initiative is aimed at raising general awareness of the benefits of green schools and the critical need for building and modernizing all schools with healthy, high performance green classrooms.Sign a petition for green schools Global Green is calling upon the public to sign a letter urging President Obama to push Congress to make green schools a high priority in the 2009 legislative and to urge local school districts and city councils, mayors, governors, and state legislators to utilize green standards for school construction.

It's very simple, raise the barrier to entry in a huge and meaningful way, and raise the barrier to keeping your license with minimum performance standards — a good start would be to require every registrant to submit 24 trade record sheets when renewing their license every two years, to prove they are actually involved in the business of selling real estate.