Sentences with phrase «schooling decisions based on information»

While scholars and advocates can and do pore over less - definitive types of evidence, hundreds of thousands of parents make practical schooling decisions based on information they gather through word of mouth, campus visits, and the rankings available on online platforms such as GreatSchools.

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In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

The BHA has put the data in a spreadsheet for convenience - attached to this email and online at http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/List-of-proposed-Free-Schools.xlsx Read the previous BHA press release, «Landmark Freedom of Information victory for BHA vs Department for Education», 15 January 2013: http://humanism.org.uk/2013/01/15/landmark-freedom-of-information-victory-for-bha-vs-department-for-education/ Read the Information Tribunal's decision: http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/20130115-Decision-EA20120136-0166-0167.pdf Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/faith-schools The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

Parents need to have information on which to base decisions about what school is best for their child.

Schools need to work to ensure as much information and choice as possible is available for parents so that they are making informed decisions, not emotional decisions based on their child's friends or the trendiest device on the shelf.

Without valid information on the performance of students at each school relative to that of their peers across the country, the entire education enterprise flies blind, leaving parents, teachers, school managers, and policymakers with nothing more than intuition and consensus as the basis for making decisions.

Columbia University professor Amy Stuart Wells, for example, concluded that the decisions of St. Louis parents participating in a voluntary desegregation program were based «on a perception that county is better than city and white is better than black, not on factual information about the schools.»

In this new column for Educational Leadership, experienced researchers at the American Institutes for Research will discuss research - based practices, providing educators on the front lines of school improvement efforts with the information they need to make the best instructional decisions.

Authorizers in Florida are just now completing their review of new charter proposals using a much more robust process, and we are hearing that authorizers are making better decisions about which schools to open based on better information.

NSBA looks forward to joining the president and Congress in a conversation about «protecting our children's information» while safeguarding school districts» efforts to promote student achievement and make informed governance decisions based on student data.

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Under the Texas Education Code (TEC), section 42.006, originally passed in 1995, the Texas Legislature requires TEA to collect a range of student data via the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) program that is used as the basis for education policy decisions, for accountability and determining school funding, and — on a strictly FERPA - compliant basis — for education research.

Our school staff understands and makes curricular, instructional, and school improvement decisions based on child and adolescent development and student performance information.

Based on two key events during the 2008 - 2009 school year, a group of families, educators, and community members began building GO Public Schools Oakland to ensure that our community had information and opportunities to shape decisions about our public schools and hold leaders accouSchools Oakland to ensure that our community had information and opportunities to shape decisions about our public schools and hold leaders accouschools and hold leaders accountable.

The better approach is to ensure that prospective law school students make decisions based on comprehensive and accurate information.

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Our school staff understands and makes curricular, instructional, and school improvement decisions based on child and adolescent development and student performance information.

Information yielded from these studies will assist ESE and MDE in making decisions on how to further develop and support the 21st CCLC grantees to maximize the achievement of a variety of desired youth outcomes associated with youth development and school success while expanding the evidence base for the merit of continued investment in the 21st CCLC program and OST more broadly.