School Wastage Study - National Absenteeism in Armenia «The term, school wastage, can be broadly defined as lack of demonstrated school success or
realized educational gain (or value), measured as output of student achievement, outcome of social and economic returns, from provided educational services, finance, and other schooling related consumption of resources.
Not exact matches
In fact, students at liberal arts colleges
realized virtually the same
educational gains, no matter their major, according to the UI report released earlier this month.
Gladwell's call to innovation and experimentation in our schools got me thinking about the idea of
educational entrepreneurship and how supporting a spirit of adventure and risk within the boundaries of our public school system may allow us to
realize more of the
gains that we were hoping for rather than more of the same like the past two decades of tight control and, as Gladwell suggests, regimentation.
Our experiences and surmises are remarkably similar: you think Dr. Bengtsson did what he did upon
realizing he'd endangered his reputation and with it exposed himself to increased opposition from those who would now
realize what he stands for; that he understood better how his free choice would impact his ability to
gain the respectability of being published by respectable publishers; that he figured out the grant opportunities
gained by open alliance with the tax - free «
educational charity» that has a surprising amount of money for media campaigns and spectacle would not balance the grants he'd lose from people who consider association with a transparent tax fraud scheme a bad thing; and, ultimately that he had betrayed the trust of his valued colleagues by exposing them to such scandal.
No
gains or narrowing of the achievement gap have been
realized as a result of using digital technology for over thirty years, suggesting that technology alone is not really as powerful of an
educational tool as we would like to believe.