Sentences with phrase «rigorous education for the students»

For example, the 1,200 school network «High Schools that Work,» founded and led by Gene Bottoms, aims for a rigorous education for all students.

We need more schools that will provide this rigorous education for the students of this state.

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Accordingly, what will make education «theological» is that it engages students» rational powers in such a fashion as to capacitate them for rigorous, disciplined, systematic theorizing about God's truth and justice.

Also, although Chinese students get a rigorous undergraduate education and most have a Master's degree before starting a Ph.D., Cao feels that the three - year Ph.D. program is too brief for sufficient training.

In addition to making higher education more affordable, he notes, the new bill's provisions will allow more students to attend college full - time, a plus for students in rigorous programs such as science or engineering.

Our aim is to ensure students have an intellectually rigorous, inspiring and excellent computer science education that equips them for progression into further education and a professional career.

The Common Core is designed to foster critical thinking and creativity in classrooms by establishing rigorous education standards consistent for all students.

Some supporters argue a common set of rigorous national standards will transform American education, prepare students for college and careers, and allow our nation to maintain international competitiveness.

The $ 6 billion funding for the federal Reading First program has helped more students «crack the code» to identify letters and words, but it has not had an impact on reading comprehension among 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders in participating schools, according to one of the largest and most rigorous studies ever undertaken by the U.S. Department of Education.

Inspired in part by the Massachusetts experience, the Common Core standards were developed by governors and state education chiefs, and today more than forty states, including Massachusetts, have adopted these deeply rigorous academic expectations for students.

I believe that students working in the arts are given a rigorous education for developing a wide range of leadership skills.

The individualized - education - plan teams at each school in the 95,000 - student district are supposed to create programs that ensure rigorous instruction in the least restrictive environment for special education students.

A Department of Education audit of the Center for State Scholars, an Austin, Texas - based program designed to encourage high school students to take rigorous classes, shows that program administrators did not properly account for $ 1.09 million in federal funds and may not have the capability to handle the program in the future.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

Yes, Margaret Spellings allowed for a «growth model pilot» when she was secretary of education — but schools still had to get all students to proficiency within three years, an unrealistic standard in states with a meaningful (and rigorous) definition of proficiency.

Commenting on the figures, Rudolf Eliott Lockhart, chief executive of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales, said: «While it is fantastic to see increasing numbers of students opting to take the full course GCSE in Religious Studies, a reflection of the attraction of an academically rigorous subject that helps prepare students to understand an increasingly diverse modern world, we should not ignore the troubling news that declining entries for the short course mean that more than 100,000 fewer young people have studied the subject at GCSE level this year than in 2010.

While her primary focus — and the focus of many media reports about her — has been on vouchers, tax credits, and education savings accounts, organizations she has led or helped found have also advanced other reform initiatives, such as accountability for student learning and more - rigorous academic standards.

Fifty education analysts had a unique opportunity recently to bridge the gap between rigorous data analysis and key policy challenges faced by education agencies.As part of the Strategic Data Project's (SDP) first Institute for Leadership Analytics, participants spent four days examining student...

This «course choice» paper by the Foundation for Excellence in Education and Education Counsel shows how charters are playing a lead role in making varied, rigorous courses available to more students.

From Eliot's perspective, high schools fulfilled the promise of equal opportunity for education by insisting that all students take the same types of rigorous academic courses.

Needless to say, they include a vastly more rigorous curriculum, higher expectations for all students, a knowledge - based rather than a methods - based emphasis in teacher education, and a more thoughtful system of assessment rather than the relatively mindless fill - in - the - blank approach of so many conventional standardized tests.

Career academies and career pathways are reinventing vocational education by merging it with a rigorous academic curriculum to prepare all students for both college and careers.

The result of that vision was the International Education Policy Program, a rigorous master's program that is built around a core curriculum, seminars, and ample opportunities for students to develop a personal vision of how they will lead in expanding educational opportunity globally.

Wall - to - wall career academies and a transition program for ninth graders have helped create an environment at this Texas high school in which rigorous, relevant education — inside and outside of the classroom — is the norm for all students.

This will assist universities and schools to identify and prepare highly skilled teachers to supervise practical experience, and to undertake rigorous, continuous and consistent assessment of teacher education students for classroom readiness.»

«Alyssa Chan exemplifies well the qualities that distinguish students and graduates of the International Education Policy Program: a strong commitment to expanding educational opportunity for the most disadvantaged children around the world, an extraordinary ethic of hard work and rigorous pursuit of academic excellence, and an understanding of leadership as service to others,» says Professor Fernando Reimers, director of IEP.

The Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) is working with the College Board to measure students» access to «rigorous work worth doing.»

Going back to the famous 1983 Reagan administration report «A Nation at Risk,» education experts have noted how students in the United States are falling behind those in other countries and have called for a new focus on «content» and «more rigorous and measurable standards.»

Not only did vocational education rapidly lose market share in the economy of high schools, but all too often, vocational programs became «dumping grounds» — places to send students deemed unfit for rigorous academic work.

The U.S. Department of Education has invited each State education agency (SEA) to request flexibility regarding specific requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in exchange for rigorous and comprehensive State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of insEducation has invited each State education agency (SEA) to request flexibility regarding specific requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in exchange for rigorous and comprehensive State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of inseducation agency (SEA) to request flexibility regarding specific requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in exchange for rigorous and comprehensive State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of insEducation Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in exchange for rigorous and comprehensive State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction.

- ON THIS DVD --- Learning on Purpose — At this Texas high school, rigorous, relevant education - inside and outside of the classroom - is the norm for all students.

With any new program, it takes a while to get used to it and get the kinks out, so parents and students should not be upset by a lower score, but happy for more rigorous education.

The mission of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is to establish «high and rigorous standards for what teachers should know and be able to do, to certify teachers who meet those standards, and to advance other education reforms for the purpose of improving student learning in American schools.»

More Chinese students are coming to the U.S. for middle and high school lately, in part to flee the rigid Chinese education system and the country's rigorous college entrance exam, which students begin preparing for in 9th grade.

American Enterprise Institute scholar Mark Schneider, formerly the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, has concluded that decades of efforts to boost the number of students taking rigorous math classes has caused a substantial dilution of those courses.

«We are at a time in education when teachers, administrators and students are grappling with the changes brought about by many states» move to new, more rigorous standards that will prepare our students for college and work,» said George Bohrnstedt, an AIR Institute Fellow and chairman of NVS's expert panel.

The «entity,» as it has been called since the idea emerged in March at the national education summit, would provide funding for technical assistance and be a source for states and school districts trying to set rigorous academic standards and conduct related assessments of student achievement.

But, good career / tech education also prepares students for college by incorporating rigorous academic content, by offering students dual enrollment in post-secondary institutions, and by granting college credit for secondary coursework.

Under this plan, state education agencies would be granted flexibility in meeting certain NCLB requirements in exchange for «rigorous State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction» (Department of Education, Octobeducation agencies would be granted flexibility in meeting certain NCLB requirements in exchange for «rigorous State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction» (Department of Education, OctobEducation, October 2011).

To illustrate: pause for a moment, and think of something that rigorous research has identified as producing positive student outcomes in education.

While nearly all students improved nationwide, one group seems to have benefited the most from more rigorous standards and tests — third - graders, who have been taught to rigorous standards for most of their education.

Brass City Charter School depends on the generosity of foundations, corporations, public agencies, and individuals to realize its mission of providing our students a rigorous, well - rounded and emotionally supportive education that will eliminate the achievement gap characteristic of urban underserved students and enable them to lead meaningful and productive lives both for themselves and for their community.

This is still critical, of course, but today's rigorous college and career readiness standards also emphasize the development of students» conative skills to prepare them for higher education and the global workplace.

Founded in 2006 by East San Jose native and National Board Certified Teacher Frances Teso, Voices is a public charter school network with a mission to prepare all students for the challenges of higher education through the context of an academically rigorous dual - language program.

We developed a common lesson plan template using criteria from the Virginia Department of Education that provided guidance to teachers as they created lessons that fostered rigorous instruction aligned to the SOL frameworks and active engagement for all students.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

She leads her team to ensure New Mexico's students have access to rigorous, culturally and linguistically responsive instruction through effective bilingual multicultural education that increases achievement and outcomes for all students.

Education experts say many students are not prepared for the more rigorous course work in college, and many schools do not offer enough guidance for young people trying to navigate the first steps of their adult lives.

Policymakers must ensure that each student has access to effective educators by making the necessary investments along the career continuum, including incentives for recruiting and retaining candidates; personalized and ongoing professional development; flexible routes to licensure based on rigorous professional standards; leadership opportunities and development; and collaboration among higher education institutions and local districts.

Some teachers conclude that the struggling students should transfer to a less rigorous course or should be considered for special education.