Sentences with phrase «school competitions base»

Most high school competitions base questions on what's being learned in school.

Not exact matches

The CYSSA has three separate divisions for competition at the varsity and JV level based on school enrollment.

He proposed a new program for distributing education funds modeled on President Barack Obama's state competitions that will grant awards based on school performance and administrative efficiencies.

On June 24, his first meeting after a hearing of the House Agriculture Committee was with Hannah Sell, a 17 - year - old from Otsego County who was schooled at home and won the congressional art competition with an acrylic painting of troop - laden vehicle returning to base.

Thanks to a personal connection, one of the most successful biotechnology companies in the United States is apparently the new title sponsor of the Science Talent Search (STS), the prestigious high school science competitions run by the Society for Science and the Public (SSP) in Washington, D.C. New York - based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. will invest $ 100 million over the next 10 years to become the third such sponsor in STS's nearly 75 - year - long history, according to several media outlets.

The competition is aimed at reinforcing the government's amended ICT syllabus for schools, and is based on the Raspberry Pi, a small, fully functional Linux - based PC that was developed specifically for use in promoting computer science education.

The scheme was developed by the Rochester Bridge Trust in partnership with Rotary Great Britain and Ireland, and is based on success of the Rotary's existing Senior Technology Tournaments, where secondary school students take part in innovative engineering challenges as part of a national competition.

The Putney - based school launched the topical programme with a fun competition.

The role of local authorities is changing dramatically, increasing pressure on school based teams, and the free school programme (an off shoot of the academies programme) has introduced competition between schools which focuses attention not just on academic performance but on the image a school wants to project.

Superintendent Michael Bennet (2005 - 2008) spearheaded Denver Public Schools» improvement by embracing charter school expansion, giving principals more decision - making power, and using student - based funding, in which dollars followed children to their schools of choice, to spur compeSchools» improvement by embracing charter school expansion, giving principals more decision - making power, and using student - based funding, in which dollars followed children to their schools of choice, to spur compeschools of choice, to spur competition.

In City Journal, Charles Sahm urges New York City major Bill de Blasio not to roll back the accountability - based, competition - driven school reforms put in place by his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg.

However, simple tests we conducted, based on changes in the average previous - year test scores of students in schools affected and unaffected by charter - school competition, suggest that, if anything, the opposite phenomenon occurred: students switching from traditional public to charter schools appear to have been above - average performers compared with the other students in their school.

The first decade of the 21st century has also had a dominant strategy: incentive - based reforms, such as increasing competition among charter and district schools, merit - pay plans to improve teacher quality, and school - level accountability based on testing.

However, simple tests we conducted, based on changes in the average previous - year test scores of students in schools affected and unaffected by charter - school competition, suggest that, if anything, the

Nevertheless, there is still a story to be told, and the essential part of it is that the program that education reformers have tried to promote now for decades — introduce more choices of schools for students, enable competition among schools, open up paths for preparing teachers and administrators outside schools of education, improve measures of student achievement and teacher competence, enable administrators to act on the basis of such measures, and limit the power of teachers unions — has been advanced under the Obama administration, in the judgment of authors Maranto and McShane.

Finally, we perform separate comparisons using each of our distance - based indicators of charter - school competition.

The leaderboard was based on the average number of minutes read per child to ensure the competition was fair for schools of all sizes.

A Power Point with instructions for a poster competition based on science and our community / nation Could be used as a whole school activity or just for your class Encourages cross curricular links and creativity A fun way to end the term or to accompany your science week plans

It's a team - based competition where up to four students from the same school are given five days to work on a modelling task (located in a real - world setting), write a report and submit it for evaluation.

International evidence suggests that adoption of market - based education policies that rely on school choice and competition between schools over enrollment often leads to segregation of children into different schools according to their socio - economic background, race or parents» awareness of educational opportunities.

Some schools run the competition as an extracurricular activity but Curtain - Magee says it was a great fit with the project - based learning being used in class.

They are based only on comparisons of schools with different levels of competition.

Can one believe that the practices of those millions can be changed for the better by the competition of charter schools (1.5 million children versus 50 million in district schools), by promotion and compensation and dismissal based on test scores of their classes, by the elimination of «last in, first out» layoff rules?

Indeed, in ongoing work we have also considered measures of competition based on the number of available slots in nearby private schools and on the number of nearby churches, and again find very similar results.

The fact that we obtain quite similar results regardless of the specific measure used makes us confident that the findings are not driven by other factors that might distinguish public schools facing more or less competition based on a given measure.

In the meantime, it plans to expand the AMC - based competition to 1,000 schools next fall.

We thus separated schools into five categories based on their grades and the degree of actual or potential competition they faced from vouchers.

Thompson said: «The sort of problems the universities have experienced, with everybody in competition, are going to be exactly the same for the school - based sector as it comes towards the national limit.»

The IET deliver free STEM - based competitions in schools for students aged 12 - 13 years.

Diversity dance stars Jordan and Perri judged the competition, with the winning schools chosen based on the creativity of their routines and the amount of energy they produced.

Exploring the critical role of school choice in the future of education reform, the Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI) is an interactive web application that scores large school districts based on thirteen categories of policy and practice.

Rules that grant greater discretion over admission and expulsion decisions to schools may lead to competition based on the composition of enrollments rather than the quality of academic programs.

The ECT will acknowledge that School Voucher programs are not 100 % perfect — however we continue to believe (as demonstrated in other States today) that putting Parents in charge with School Vouchers and market based competition between neighboring Schools will be a big improvement over what Colorado has today.

School choice proponents believe this market - based approach spurs competition, causing all schools to improve.

That concern began to ebb, however, as theoretical notions about school choice and market - based competition were replaced by information about real schools in real places.

Most states adopted only modest measures to improve charter schools as a result of the «Race to the Top» competition and no new substantive charter school laws were passed, said Jeanne Allen, president and founder of the Center for Education Reform, a school choice advocate based in Washington, D.C.

The Hewett Academy has welcomed pupils from nearby primary schools for a day of water - based competition and fun in its feeder school swimming gala.

States can get up to 500 points in the competition by proposing specific plans such as expanding charter schools, giving raises to top teachers or basing a significant part of teacher evaluations on their students» performance.

Applicants eligible to submit a proposal for this competition are school divisions, nonprofit agencies, city or county government agencies, faith - based organizations, institutions of higher education, and for - profit corporations.

From the initiation of federal aid to local school districts in 1965, Democratic administrations had insisted on formula grants, which distributed federal money to schools and districts based on the proportion of students who were poor, not on a competition among states.

Walker's support for expanding choice and charter options is based on the view that competition creates a better product and that an education marketplace will improve all public schools, according to Walker policy director Ryan Murray.

In 2013, in partnership with Next Generation Learning Challenges, CityBridge launched Breakthrough Schools: D.C., a Washington, D.C. - based grant competition for educators and school leaders to completely redesign and launch schools for the next geneSchools: D.C., a Washington, D.C. - based grant competition for educators and school leaders to completely redesign and launch schools for the next geneschools for the next generation.

«As competition for university places increases, there is a real risk that schools will feel forced to select certain exam boards, based on their links with higher education institutions.»

is a Washington, D.C. - based grant competition that supports educators and school leaders who are ready to design and launch new, whole - school learning models to better personalize learning for students.

During the conference over 65 middle school and high school technology - based student competitions will be held, based on principles and concepts learned through projects during the school year in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects.

«We should be looking at the model of Finland's schools, a system based on cooperation rather than competition, trusting and respecting teachers rather than scapegoating them, de-emphasizing standardized testing and providing small classes,» Haimson said.

Further, if all schools were allowed to become Site - Based Budgeting Schools, this would only put them into competition with one another — and for limited funds aschools were allowed to become Site - Based Budgeting Schools, this would only put them into competition with one another — and for limited funds aSchools, this would only put them into competition with one another — and for limited funds at that.

(Disclosure: I am the former codirector of the organization, which is part of PDK International) School - based Educators Rising chapters offer students taking teacher academy courses leadership opportunities, competitions, and the chance to network with a larger movement of like - minded peers beyond their school School - based Educators Rising chapters offer students taking teacher academy courses leadership opportunities, competitions, and the chance to network with a larger movement of like - minded peers beyond their school school walls.

Cities will be chosen to participate in the competitions based on their ability to demonstrate supportive leadership, a high - capacity local organization to direct the work, a supportive policy environment, and innovative educators ready to participate in new or reconfigured schools.

However, where choice and competition are accompanied by other policies such as test - based accountability, the ability of schools to stand out from the pack may be lessened.