Sentences with phrase «raises educational outcomes»

In the letter to the permanent secretary, Mr Morse said: «I recognise that supporting innovative approaches to raising educational outcomes may require a higher than standard level of risk.

UVA - PLE's mission is to raise educational outcomes significantly by strengthening district and school leadership.

Not exact matches

Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage, explains how positive brains reap a unique advantage raising nearly every educational and business outcome — but only if we get the formula right.

«By passing legislation to raise the charter cap, reform charter schools, improve teacher evaluation, and invest in tracking educational outcomes, the Senate Democratic Majority helped give New York the competitive advantage it needed to become a finalist in the Race to the Top,» Sampson crowed.

However, questions have been raised about the effectiveness of learning outcomes in online charter schools, as well as how they compete for limited educational resources.

What happens to children of unmarried mothers,» eminent scholars Sara McLanahan of Princeton University and Christopher Jencks of Harvard University look at changes in family structure for both blacks and whites over the past 50 years, and note its effect on the educational attainment and other life outcomes of the children raised in single parent families.

Distinct from his school department (which, like more than 90 percent of Rhode Island's school districts, is governed by an elected school committee), OCYL's mission was to extend learning time for as many Cumberland children and youth as possible while raising the community's expectations regarding educational outcomes.

But the only way to live up to such a lofty name is to ensure that states actually identify schools that aren't raising achievement and boosting the educational outcomes of all students.

Yet its own experience in Memphis raises questions about whether the commitment to whole - school reform is the best strategy for improving educational outcomes in troubled urban schools.

In addition to raising local economies out of poverty, a $ 15 minimum wage and the right to join a union would also raise neighborhood schools out of poverty, dramatically improving educational outcomes.

These studies showing the direct positive effects of raising household income — even by small amounts — on student achievement make it plain that reducing poverty through stable, living wage jobs for all working families would also help improve educational outcomes.

Improving educational outcomes and raising student achievement for students with disabilities is crucial.»

Collett, a former Kentucky state special education director and high school special education teacher, will lead OSERS in its mission to improve early childhood, educational, and employment outcomes and raise expectations for all people with disabilities, their families, their communities, and the nation.

In a recent study, we calculated the consequences for economic growth, lifetime earnings, and tax revenue of improving educational outcomes and narrowing educational achievement gaps in the United States.1 Among other results, we found that if the United States were able to raise the math and science PISA test scores of the bottom three quarters of U.S. students so that they matched the test scores of the top quarter of U.S. kids (and thereby raised the overall U.S. academic ranking to third best among the OECD countries), U.S. GDP would be 10 percent larger in 35 years.

The outcome of this project will be the creation of an educational tool that will raise awareness of the plight of African elephants and other species threatened by poaching and illegal trade and help motivate people to take action to help save endangered wildlife around the world.

These children do well across a range of physical, psychological and educational outcomes and, interestingly, children raised by same - sex parents actually fared better on measures of general behaviour, general health and family cohesion.

This is worrisome because decades of research show that children raised in single - parent homes fare worse on a wide range of outcomes (e.g. poverty, educational attainment, nonmarital and teen childbearing) than children raised by two biological parents.

Delays in diagnosis, the inevitable changes in family life, the educational needs, and the often limited community support means that raising a child with an ASD increases the risk for negative family outcomes across childhood and adult life [3, 4, 5, 6].