Sentences with phrase «schools knew their results»

Had competition between private schools been maximising the quality of education each provided to its voucher students, we would not have observed such a large gain in test scores once schools knew their results would be made public.

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BUT I do believe in separation of «church» and state (another founding principal of our country)... so NO religious holiday should result in a day off from school not even CHRISTMAS or PASSOVER etc. if you celebrate the holiday don't send your kid to school and they can catch up later.

The revelations in Connecticut are not the result of probing by scrupulous politicians but of the questions and charges raised by three men: Harvey Ziskis, a bettor who was barred under clouded circumstances from the Hartford fronton; Theodore A. Driscoll, investigative reporter for The Hartford Courant; and Professor Lester Snyder of the University of Connecticut School of Law, who served on the State Commission on Special Revenue, popularly known as the gaming commission, from October of 1976 until last March.

No, Marshall has never seen anyone like Moss, and the result is an odd lack of connection between player and school.

We spend a lot of time with high school students, and there is one thing we know for sure: they don't want the college application to take over their lives and result in non-stop strife in their families, but they just don't know how to avoid it, and, frequently, neither do their parents.

While bullying is often associated with school, the sad fact is that whenever a diverse group of kids who don't know each other are thrown together, especially if they spend lots of time together, power imbalances occur, cliques are formed and bullying may result.

Your well - known «pink slime» petition resulted in the USDA making a change to its school food policy.

The DC school district's position directly pits Chartwell's business interests against the rights of DC parents to know if (a) their school district is being unlawfully denied funds to which it is entitled and (b) if huge food manufacturers are wielding undue influence over the FSMC, resulting in that much more processed, sugary foods on school lunch trays.

But I think the idea that teenagers can have bipolar disorder, that children can evidence some of these same kind of behaviors is progress for the field, because a generation before me was taught that children couldn't have depression, and we know that there are kids in junior high school that are trying to kill themselves as a result of untreated depression.

As a result, they know how to interact properly with their teachers, the staff and their fellow students, turning their school and their classrooms into a better place.

Don't know how I am going to be able to afford the resulting changes to my kids school lunch menu with no income at the moment.

Mayim Bialik, best know for her roles as «Blossom» and «Amy» in the Big Bang Theory, who holds a PH.D if Neuroscience and is the recent author of «Beyond the Sling», mentioned that while in graduate school studying the hormones of human attachment as part of her thesis, she started seeing the results of these kinds of parenting choices.

It was not immediately known what the result of the assessment was, or even if the school board conducted it, as board spokeswoman Tracy Clarke said she couldn't comment due to student privacy.

If you were a local school board member would you like to enter into a teacher removal legal proceeding knowing (1) Pearson's tests are flawed, (2) NYSED's use of test results is inappropriate, and (3) major professional groups like the American Statistical Association have stated that value added measures can do great harm?

He told the cheering crowd that his pledges are not made in vain pointing out that they could see the results for themselves adding the location of this particular school is the best situated especially when he knows the terrain too well since the people are his in - laws.

As a result of a 2006 lawsuit known as the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, the Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, ruled the state education department was not adequately funding its schools, thus violating students» constitutional right to a sound, basic education.

But sources close to the charter school advocacy sector said the group was no longer getting policy results from the costly rallies, all of which have sought to boost charter schools and critique de Blasio.

«We don't know enough yet to translate test results into routine patient care,» says medical school dean Bernadine Healy of The Ohio State University, former director of the National Institutes of Health.

Over the past two years, investigators from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have reported results from a human trial in GBM using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, through which patients» own T cells were engineered to track down and kill cancer cells that express a tumor - specific protein known as EGFRvIII.

The remaining two people, who had no known exposure or symptoms, had positive results, but follow - up testing using different methods was negative, making Ebola virus infection very unlikely.The research team, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and funded by the Wellcome Trust, enrolled 300 UK and Ireland healthcare and other frontline workers ¹ for the study and sent them oral fluid collection devices.

Vitamin C is known to keep some kinds of cell replication in check, so Benjamin Neel at the New York University School of Medicine probed its effects in mice engineered to have low TET2 activity and a high resulting cancer risk.

The result is a little like knowing the number of students and distribution of grades in a particular school, but having no idea if the student who sits in the third row actually likes math.

Children need to know that they are accepted, loved and valued independent of any performance outcome, — regardless of any results of their school performance.

And when the rigorous evidence is available from randomized controlled trials, often the results are at odds with the findings of the observational studies,» explains Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and principal investigator of a large randomized trial known as VITAL (Vitamin D and Omega - 3 Trial).

John Paul has given rape victims a well - known, well - loved, face, and as a result people are talking about the issue at school and in the office.

The greater information you can include towards the search, the greater accurate the outcomes is going to be, if you know your where your date lives, or where she or he visited school, you are able to narrow lower looking results just a little further.

But testing in the context of today's school reform is not about finding out what kids know; it's about who gets the test results.

Even when these challenges are met, one can not be entirely sure of the results, as exit exams may influence student and school performance even before they come into effect, if teachers and students know that they will soon be introduced, which is usually the case.

Going beyond Risk, the task force calls for «an accountability system with consequences,» such as rewards and sanctions whose result, it is hoped, will be that taxpayers will no longer have to continue paying for ineffective schools.

It argued, «Renewed resistance to accountability is now a middle - class project to «reclaim» schools for a select slice of the American population who no longer want teachers and schools to be on the hook for results or equity.»

«We know that the six programmes we've announced new funding for today can all improve results for primary school pupils.

As a result, the School Board adopted the FCPS Portrait of a Graduate (PDF) in the fall of 2014, which outlines what the Fairfax community believes is important for graduates to know and be able to do when they leave FCPS.

«Results are shared with parents,» says school principal Sue Roche, «so if we know a child is especially bodily - kinesthetic, we give parents and kids tips on ways to learn and study for tests.»

«We know from Queensland NAPLAN results that children in the early years are better prepared for school than ever.»

He brought a business - like culture to the school which survives today, customer ‑ focused with a clear eye on the bottom line: it is the most professional, results - driven and student - centred school I have known.

The survey results also confirm what might be considered already well known; schools with a high free school meal (FSM) ratio fared less well in accessing the benefits of regular school trips.

As a result of these decisions, school districts are no longer responsible for school segregation that arises as a result of housing markets within their boundaries.

What they want to know is how to make their state's charter sector work as well as possible — how to write a law in such a way that many high - quality schools will result.

We began to review the findings of our district analysis by first checking that the results from our statistical procedures were consistent with well - known patterns of enrollment in charter schools.

Transparency can be painful, but it's necessary in an era of results - based accountability for schools, an era when we look to see how well a school's pupils are learning and no longer settle for judging schools by their inputs, intentions, or reputation.

You wouldn't know it from the discourse over public schools, but according to the most recent results, public education has some of the lowest rates of job turnover in our economy.

Yet the most striking result from these questions was the fact that the values current in the well - to - do suburban school... were no more oriented to scholastic success than those in the small - town school or the working - class school.

Parents see how charter schools benefit their children, they like the results, and they need to make that known — loudly and consistently.

Without establishing the validity of state testing results, it is impossible to know whether the gains made by failing schools in other states were as large as those realized by failing schools that faced the prospect of vouchers in Florida.

Howard Gardner, Harvard Graduate School of Education professor, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critic of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be assessed by standard psychometric instruments, advises caution when educators emphasize the results of one test.

Consider the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 — a brilliant piece of bipartisan politics and sweeping policy, which resulted in better student data and more accountable school systems (even if improvements in student outcomes were modest).

Fourth, the No Child Left Behind Act, which provides sanctions for schools that fail to educate disabled children, creates strong incentives to take advantage of the many waivers now present in the IDEA to excuse disabled students from testing or to modify their testing accommodations in ways that are likely to generate artificially positive results.

Parents might not know a lot about the schools their children attend, but maybe the mechanism of school choice produces good results anyway.

We all know that motivated students and engaged students are likely to achieve highly, and the results at Noosa Pengari Steiner School appear to support this.

Through this initiative, students from six local public middle schools monitor the waters around Mount Desert Island by regularly testing phytoplankton for toxic species, particularly the most prevalent one, Alexandrium, which is known to trigger red tide events — toxic discoloration of ocean waters — that can result in poisoning shellfish.