Sentences with phrase «school system performance»

Not exact matches

Yet judging by its school system — perhaps the most important indicator of a country's future economic performance — this Swedish model's looks appear to be fading fast.

The Role of Provincial and Reserve School Systems in Explaining Aboriginal Student Performance,» author John Richards finds that innovative approaches in BC help account for much better high - school completion rates for Aboriginal students, compared to other provinces with large Aboriginal populaSchool Systems in Explaining Aboriginal Student Performance,» author John Richards finds that innovative approaches in BC help account for much better high - school completion rates for Aboriginal students, compared to other provinces with large Aboriginal populaschool completion rates for Aboriginal students, compared to other provinces with large Aboriginal populations.

It nonetheless raised some disturbing ideas about our «we - are - a-Christian-community» slogans (since we were to apportion salary solely according to performance rather than also, say, on need) and about our endorsement of responsible family and church involvement (since the new system would tempt people financially to neglect these other responsibilities in order to work harder at school)

Ron Patera, who oversees food services as the school system's finance director, said in a statement, «Ms. Heaps and I are both in support of providing nutritious and safe meals to Elizabeth's students so they have every opportunity to enhance their academic performance.

So if kids» school performance depends on full bellies, why aren't universal meals built into our public school system?

It is referenced by both The Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) and the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Building Rating System.

Numerical scores in this analysis place the average performance of Waldorf students above that of students in OECD countries, and above 2 of the 3 high school systems in Austria.

They may have recently broken up with a girlfriend or boyfriend; failed an exam or had a decline in school performance; shown signs of an eating disorder; or have become involved somehow with the justice system.

Senate Republicans plan to cover a range of issues with mayoral control, includnig student performance, graduation rates, and «the effectiveness of having a single person accountable for the public school system as compared to the previous community board system.»

Senate Republicans plan to cover a range of issues with mayoral control, including student performance, graduation rates, and «the effectiveness of having a single person accountable for the public school system as compared to the previous community board system.»

«If the Education Secretary genuinely wishes England to do as well as countries such as Finland, to which he frequently refers in the White Paper, he should follow its example by replacing the inspection system with school self evaluation, refrain from the publication of results by school League Tables and the setting of narrow performance targets and allow teachers to choose their own method of teaching reading.

«The key education reforms are dealing with the epidemic of failing schools, improvement to the teacher evaluation system, tenure reform, teacher performance bonuses and scholarships to attract new teachers.

This year, we are for the first time asking how we can successfully address and fix a broken education bureaucracy that has relegated tens of thousands of New York's children to failing schools every year and how to improve the overall performance of our education system.»

Earlier this year, and as part of Race to the Top requirements, the state did direct New York school districts develop their own teacher evaluation systems, known as annual professional performance reviews plan (APPR), lest the districts risk losing additional available state aid.

Other schools and school systems use NAPLAN to hold teachers and school leaders accountable for improvement, including making test results part of performance reviews.

He added: «If you look overall, not just in Britain but around the world, at those school systems we admire that have got high performance and high standards, from Shanghai to Finland, by and large they don't put their effort into trying to pick which kids they educate; they put their effort into raising standards for all the kids.»

The Hempstead School Board unanimously accepted the recommendations of a state - appointed consultant who had blamed entrenched divisions among district leaders for falling academic performance and increasing safety concerns in the 8,000 - student system.

A state appellate court ruled unanimously on Thursday that New York City must keep open 19 schools it wanted to close for poor performance, blocking one of the Bloomberg administration's signature efforts to improve the educational system.

The policy group highlighted North Carolina's state community college system as having established a new mechanism to place students in courses based in part on high school performance, rather than just through testing.

Earlier this year, the state did mandate that New York school districts develop their own teacher evaluation systems, known as annual professional performance reviews plan (APPR), or risk losing additional state aid.

Battle of the Books is part of the overall Summer Reading initiative run by the 37 - site Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System where school age children are encouraged to read during the summer months in an effort to advance their academic performance.

«The NASUWT remains clear that a fit for purpose accountability system should consider the performance of schools in the round and not solely on the basis of narrowly focused test and examination results.»

Commenting on the primary school performance tables released today by the DfE, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The NASUWT has consistently highlighted to Government the serious problems with the reforms to primary assessment, particularly the impossibility of comparing data for last year with previous years due to changes introduced to the testing system.

The negotiations, which both sides agreed to in writing, were aimed at creating a system for fairly evaluating teachers, using both student performance and observation, in the 33 schools receiving federal school improvement grants.

The mayor has long criticized using standardized testing as a metric for school performance, even as he has cited rising results in his appeals to Albany for a continuation of mayoral control of the system.

«This one is different, where the money will go out the door,» said Heastie, who says schools will need to finish the new teacher performance systems by November.

Implementing such a selective system would add to what already seems to be an exorbitant waste of resources in schools, as administrators spend more and more time observing and documenting teacher performance.

Also Tuesday night, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his own bill creating a performance and seniority evaluation system for next school year.

Transforming failing schools, reforming tenure, expediting removal of underperforming teachers, providing performance bonuses, adding wraparound services to create Community Schools and reducing testing, are all reforms that have the potential to dramatically improve our schools, reforming tenure, expediting removal of underperforming teachers, providing performance bonuses, adding wraparound services to create Community Schools and reducing testing, are all reforms that have the potential to dramatically improve our Schools and reducing testing, are all reforms that have the potential to dramatically improve our system.

The new evaluation system will provide clear standards and significant guidance to local school districts for implementation of teacher evaluations based on multiple measures of performance including student achievement and rigorous classroom observations.

Joining de Blasio on a press call this afternoon, Duncan insisted that the mayoral control system has both led to improvements to local schools and created a rare kind of electoral accountability for educational performance.

Therefore, starting an exercise program, regardless of one's age, can not only contribute to the more obvious physical health factors, but may also contribute to memory performance and brain function,» explained corresponding author Scott Hayes, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and the Associate Director of the Neuroimaging Research for Veterans Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System.

However, results from a new study show that teacher turnover under IMPACT, the teacher - evaluation system used in the District of Columbia Public Schools, improved student performance on average.

IMPACT is a multi-measure comprehensive teacher assessment system that evaluates the performance of all D.C. public school teachers.

Working with the school's department of systems design, engineers are using detailed computer modeling to study the dynamics and performance of hockey sticks.

The ability to predict the need for referrals stems from an unprecedented and ever - increasing availability of diverse data sources and has the potential to improve health services delivery and health system performance, said Paul K. Halverson, founding dean of the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI and one of the project's researchers.

While many different schools of health and performance have unique philosophies about how to reestablish harmony and ideal function in the human system, most modern practitioners of the health sciences are shifting some of their focus to ancient views — namely, that a healthy gut is the foundation of longevity and vitality.

Tony Kaye's film about America's failing school system isn't subtle, but it has a fierce emotional punch and he draws knockout performances from his eclectic cast.

None of the studies, though, attempted to measure fully the impact of the policy on students who might have been motivated to work harder to avoid being held back, or on teachers and schools; nor did they parse the effect of student retention on overall system performance.

While serving as chancellor of D.C. Public Schools, Michelle Rhee developed an innovative system of teacher evaluation to incentivize high performance and teacher improvement.

His role also involves strategic planning with district and school leaders, implementation of the ISSN model and the Graduation Performance System (GPS).

The suburban Denver schools in which we work are among the first large, comprehensive public high schools in the nation to convert to a performance - based system.

The provisional school results will include performance measures such as the percentage of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs or equivalents at A * to C, the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), and the Attainment 8 scores, showing average achievement across eight subjects, including English and maths, for those schools that have opted into the new accountability system a year early.

The theory undergirding this system is that schools in danger of failing will improve their academic performance to avoid the political embarrassment and potential loss in revenues from having their students depart with tuition vouchers.

Luckily we are able to enjoy her performances because, even though the school has a very old theater, it invested in a good sound system with wireless mikes for the main performers.

Hinds announced a consultation to replace the «confusing» system that measures school performance, with a single measure to trigger support for schools.

The second company, EDUmetrika, is working with a school to develop a new kind of school information system that emphasizes the use of data — metrics and key performance indicators — to help with decision - making.

That doesn't mean pluralistic systems are indifferent to school performance.

New York Performance Standards Consortium Schools» Alternative Assessment Systems: An Evaluation Report.

Naturally, parents are most interested in finding the best schools for their own children; they have less incentive to care about the overall performance of an entire system of schools.