Sentences with phrase «schools if progress»

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Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

And yet, as I progressed through high school and college, got a job in full - time student ministry, and even traveled through Europe for a few weeks, checking each of these dreams off my list (sans Aussie heartthrob), I found myself at age twenty - four absorbed in feelings that I didn't expect to come for at least another fifteen years, if ever.

Among them: determining what constitutes acceptable state tests; establishing criteria by which to approve a state's school accountability plan; defining «qualified» teachers; and deciding how broadly to interpret a clause that lets schools avoid sanctions if their students make lesser gains than those required under the bill's «adequate yearly progress» provision.

The school will be on probation for the next 12 months, and if the board doesn't think UNC has progressed toward cleaning things up, it could lose its status as a degree - granting institution.

If the school allows smartphones, consider using one of the many homework apps available, which have the added benefit of allowing you to track their progress and check in now and then.

Imagine how much progress we'd make if all those researchers went and volunteered in school gardens and cafeterias instead of trying to find ridiculous (and tenuous) correlations.

If that is so, why do we keep hearing that America's high schools haven't made any progress preparing students for college?

If the student does not demonstrate educational progress at a level commensurate with her or his ability, the district school superintendent shall notify the parent, in writing, that such progress has not been achieved.

During these exciting and intense five days, which followed the contours of a regular school day, children who could previously speak in few, if any, social situations outside of the home made remarkable progress.

If your family is seeking to jumpstart progress during the summer or maintain gains made during the school year, this program is designed to help meet those goals while also providing a fun summer camp experience tailored to your child's particular needs.

Even if the recovery had been progressing as well as ministers might have hoped, we would still have seen the clashes over public sector pensions, tuition fees and cuts to public services - police, schools, the NHS - currently driving the government's popularity downwards.

If the Republicans champion sensible solutions on schools, taxes and electoral reform, they'll be well on their way to becoming a real alternative to the liberal group - think that often stops progressive New York from actually making progress.

If the persistently struggling schools meet their progress goals, they remain in superintendent receivership.

«If the proposal for License to Practise signals a commitment by a future Labour Government to restore qualified teacher status (QTS) as a requirement for all teachers in state funded schools, to introduce, within a national framework of pay and conditions of service, a contractual entitlement for all teachers to continuing professional development and to re-establish a proper system of professional regulation which ensures that all headteachers have QTS and NPQH and are accredited to lead and manage schools, then this is a basis on which progress could be made.

If there is no «demonstrable progress,» the school will go into receivership.

With less than a month before the first day of school, the state's 10 remaining «persistently struggling» schools still don't know if they've made enough progress to avoid being taken over by an independent receiver.

Buffalo students may soon be able to attend school near the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and learn skills that they could use working in the hospitality industry, if the developer proves it is making progress on the project.The Buffalo School Board on Wednesday signed off on a plan to designate Krog Corp. as developer for a second Emerson School of Hospitality in the school near the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and learn skills that they could use working in the hospitality industry, if the developer proves it is making progress on the project.The Buffalo School Board on Wednesday signed off on a plan to designate Krog Corp. as developer for a second Emerson School of Hospitality in the School Board on Wednesday signed off on a plan to designate Krog Corp. as developer for a second Emerson School of Hospitality in the School of Hospitality in the for...

So Assemblyman James Skoufis created Zachary's Law, a bill that requires schools to develop policies that lets disabled students take part in commencement activities, as long as they meet their certificate requirements: «If a student with disabilities has made progress, that they be able to participate in this life moment with their classmates that they grew up with,» Skoufis said.

Labour said that if progress was to continue at this rate - 63 schools since the programme's launch 41 months ago; then more than half of those schools promised rebuilds would still be awaiting work to start by the deadline of the end of 2017.

Samuel Arbesman of Harvard Medical School in Boston wants to see if scientometrics — the statistical study of science itself — can similarly be used to not only study past progress but also to make predictions.

A team of Chinese and American researchers led by Dr. Ji - jing Pang of the Eye Hospital, School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, PR China, and including Jackson Laboratory scientist Bo Chang, M.D., used gene therapy to restore cone function in the retinas of the B6 (A)- Rpe65rd12 / J (005379) mouse, a model of Leber congenital amaurosis — even if the disease has progressed for three months (Li et al. 2011; Pang et al. 2005).

As per the Bill, schools will be classed as coasting if pupils fail to make sufficient progress, or fail to achieve government imposed standards, consistently over a three year period.

If Future Schools Trust is unable to show progress before 13 February then the education secretary will have the power to appoint new governors to the school.

«However as children progress through school, these important measures are not tracked at a national level, and are measured in inconsistent ways, if at all, in the states and territories.»

Morgan stressed that school's will be judged on the progress of pupils, and even school's rated as «good» by Ofsted could face intervention if they fail to demonstrate adequate progress under new guidelines.

The idea is that if school leaders institute explicit educational expectations for young people, they can periodically measure student progress, diagnose where shortcomings lie, and prescribe appropriate practices.

While it's true that some schools now classified as failing would be classified as making «adequate yearly progress,» I would argue that they are making adequate yearly progress if their students are well on track to proficiency.

Schools that fail to make adequate yearly progress (meet achievement targets) for three consecutive years, even if it's just for a particular subgroup of students, must offer free tutoring to all students.

It is important to know what role schools play in this lack of progress, and if their influence extends to adult outcomes such as crime.

That is because most students are not in the group that is failing to make progress, and if they like their school, they don't want to be separated from their friends.

It means that traditional public schools are really capable of making significant progress if only they become more open to learning from successful charter schools.

No Child Left Behind gives parents the option of sending their child to another school if the current one doesn't make adequate progress.

Any well - designed measuring stick should provide that kind of basic information, especially if it purports to identify schools that are or are not making Adequate Yearly Progress.

If private schools in those states don't make enough progress with voucher participants, they get kicked out of the program.

Schools can not do that unless they adhere to state - of - the - art methods for classifying students; it's not about measuring their progress in school but about deciding whether they have a disability and, if so, what the educational consequences of that determination are.

And if you believe in bottom - up accountability, it will point parents toward those schools where kids are making the most progress.

The PRP system was introduced in September 2013 and advises that teachers» pay should only progress if targets set by schools are met.

«If the schools don't make progress, it's our principals» necks that are on the chopping block.

If I could go back to 1987 and start over again as principal with current knowledge about school improvement, progress would be made much more rapidly.

If the school adopted that dubious approach under a results - based accountability regime, the student's current ability level would need to be assessed and the school would be required to demonstrate that the child was making adequate yearly progress as determined by an annual assessment using the same testing accommodations.

If schools failed to make adequate progress, officials had to explain themselves to reporters, parents, and the public at large.

These pupils were due to progress to the new CfE Higher courses this session but last year, under pressure from unions and others, the Scottish Education Secretary (Mike Russell) has allowed schools to continue with the existing Higher courses if they felt it to be in the best interests of their pupils.

If they do start school later, the children will be able to remain with the same age group as they progress, including into secondary school.

Their goal was to learn if the school was making progress on its goal of increasing the amount of writing students did across the curriculum.

Schools where 11 - year - old children don't meet the scores expected in reading, writing and maths, can still be deemed «above the floor» — and so exempt from interventions including forced academisation — if those children have made sufficient progress.

If states will allow schools in the choice sector to use other valid, respected assessments — the kind that make clear to policymakers, parents, and taxpayers whether a school and its pupils are making academic progress from year to year — we won't complain.

Atlanta Journal: So, might a school that is not making adequately yearly progress in Georgia, be making adequately yearly progress if you transplanted it, say, to Mississippi?

A few weeks ago, I bemoaned an Education Trust report positing that schools shouldn't get A grades if they have significant achievement gaps, even if their students are making lots of progress.

School leaders knew that mentors would be vital to help students make progress toward rigorous but attainable goals and that students would benefit from that social relationship if the mentors were good.

If students feel that others care about their progress and feel encouraged to work hard to achieve academic roles, are motivated to do their best to learn to read, to calculate, to develop other skills and talents and to remain in school.