Sentences with phrase «schools of higher academic quality»

[1] School choice literature has documented a similar dynamic, whereby parents often express a preference for schools of higher academic quality but often are unable to prioritize that consideration when selecting schools.

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If research shows that after two hours there's not a lot of value in homework, high schools can afford to cut back without sacrificing anything in academic quality.

On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.»

President Barack Obama has often noted in speeches the enthusiasm of Korean parents for their children's education, the high quality of Korean teachers, the number of learning hours that Korean students spend, and the outstanding educational achievements these have produced; for example, top rankings in international academic - achievement tests, and low rates of school dropouts and juvenile delinquency.

All schools will use chronic absenteeism as an indicator of school quality; high schools will also be judged on two other indicators involving 9th grade academic progress and high school completion

Research on early childhood education shows that high - quality child care experiences support the development of social and academic skills that facilitate children's later success in school.

Schools will leverage online learning for academics, which means they will be able to act as community centers in essence and focus far more on providing well - kept facilities that students want to attend with great face - to - face supports, high - quality meals, and a range of athletic, musical, and artistic programs — things that receive short shrift all too often today.

I am told that a major effort is now being launched in Denver to use these technologies to lift the quality of academic instruction — while reducing costs — at Catholic high schools.

Each school will be given grades in six areas: (i) pupil academic progress (gain scores); (ii) pupil attainment (of particular academic goals); (iii) the narrowing of gaps of high and low pupils in particular categories (low SES, minority, gender); (iv) parent opinions of the school's quality; (v) teacher and staff opinions of the school quality; and (vi) pupil opinions of the school quality.

These public displays of high - quality work enhance academic engagement and pride, among both students and teachers — and they increase the community's pride in the school building itself.

Her dissertation extended beyond the early childhood period and into early elementary school in an effort to understand whether continuous high - quality learning experiences between pre-kindergarten and third grade can help sustain the positive effects of early childhood education on social, behavioral, and academic skills.

Washington — Two hundred high schools across the country will receive grants of about $ 3,000 each to improve their academic quality, the president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching announced last week.

Rockoff and Lockwood also examined survey data on New York City parents whose children attended both types of schools and found that parents whose children attend K - 8 public schools rated their schools higher on education quality, academic rigor and school safety compared to parents whose children attend stand - alone middle schools.

Kevin Hall: At a minimum, a high - quality charter school produces a vast majority of students who meet or exceed academic standards regardless of their ethnic or socioeconomic background and who are well prepared for postsecondary success.

Third, and most controversial, is the cost of ensuring that schools have enough resources to provide the high - quality educational opportunities that students need to meet the academic standards required by NCLB.

Her dissertation extends beyond the early childhood period and into early elementary school in an effort to understand whether continuous high - quality learning experiences between pre-kindergarten and third grade can help sustain the positive effects of early childhood education on social, behavioral, and academic skills.

Parents use test scores to gauge their children's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the quality of their teachers and administrators, and state and federal lawmakers use these scores to hold public schools accountable for providing the high - quality education every child deserves.

But the state's urgent task is to provide new, high - quality seats for the 57,000 students languishing in its worst schools, those occupying the bottom 10 percent of academic performance for at least three years.

More than one - third of all U.S. children under the age of five are cared for outside of their homes by individuals not related to them.1 Research on early childhood education shows that high - quality child care experiences support the development of social and academic skills that facilitate children's later success in school.

The aims are to build a strong evidence base that will support four key Learning Away propositions, ie to demonstrate that high - quality residential learning: has a strong, positive impact on academic achievement and a wide range of pupil - level outcomes, including emotional well - being, learner engagement, behaviour and personal, social, employability and life skills; can transform the learning experience of pupils; can help to transform schools; does not need to be expensive.

PDK found that whether a school helps students learn interpersonal skills rates as the most important factor in school quality for the highest proportion of respondents (36 percent), with the next two being access to technology and engineering courses (25 percent) and access to advanced academic courses (14 percent).

Recent and ongoing projects include a researcher - practitioner partnership focused on familial and school - based relationships that support adolescents» emerging sense of purpose, academic engagement, achievement and post-secondary school transitions; Project Alliance / Projecto Alianzo, a multiethnic study of parental involvement in education during adolescence; and collaboration with a local school district focused on school choice policies to examine equity and access to high quality schools, along with demographic variations in parental priorities and experiences with these policies.

«Given that only two in 10 children have access to a high - quality early education setting in the U.S., CEEL, through interactive and case - based materials grounded in scientific insights, is designed to equip early education leaders with the core knowledge and tools to navigate the decisions, challenges, and opportunities associated with quality improvement,» said Nonie Lesaux, academic dean and Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and co-director of the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative.

Regularly in our country, access to high - quality schools has been defined by place of residence, ability to afford tuition, disability status, and previous academic achievement.

Annually measures, for all students and separately for each subgroup of students, the following indicators: Academic achievement (which, for high schools, may include a measure of student growth, at the State's discretion); for elementary and middle schools, a measure of student growth, if determined appropriate by the State, or another valid and reliable statewide academic indicator; for high schools, the four - year adjusted cohort graduation rate and, at the State's discretion, the extended - year adjusted cohort graduation rate; progress in achieving English language proficiency for English learners; and at least one valid, reliable, comparable, statewide indicator of school quality or student succAcademic achievement (which, for high schools, may include a measure of student growth, at the State's discretion); for elementary and middle schools, a measure of student growth, if determined appropriate by the State, or another valid and reliable statewide academic indicator; for high schools, the four - year adjusted cohort graduation rate and, at the State's discretion, the extended - year adjusted cohort graduation rate; progress in achieving English language proficiency for English learners; and at least one valid, reliable, comparable, statewide indicator of school quality or student succacademic indicator; for high schools, the four - year adjusted cohort graduation rate and, at the State's discretion, the extended - year adjusted cohort graduation rate; progress in achieving English language proficiency for English learners; and at least one valid, reliable, comparable, statewide indicator of school quality or student success; and

The quantitative component is addressed through a dashboard of five critical areas: 1) academic proficiency; 2) personalization; 3) safe, healthy schools; 4) High quality staffing; and 5) financial efficiencies.

The bill also eliminates goals and performance targets for academic achievement, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting disadvantaged students, does not address poor quality tests, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.

Texas Schools Project supports and conducts independent, high - quality academic research through the use of individual level administrative data from Texas state education agencies as well as other sources of Texas education data.

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As with parental education, family income may have a direct impact on a child's academic outcomes, or variations in achievement could simply be a function of the school the child attends: parents with greater financial resources can identify communities with higher - quality schools and choose more - expensive neighborhoods — the very places where good schools are likely to be.

They also measure high on innovation meaning they have a diverse array of school models, and on quality meaning their charter schools are showing strong academic gains.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

The six booklets — on the arts, English, foreign language, mathematics, science, and social studies — are part of the board's ongoing «Educational EQuality Project,» a 10 - year program begun in 1981 with the aim of both strengthening the academic quality of secondary education and ensuring that all high - school students have «equality of opportunity» for higher education, College Board officials say.

The report outlines that students who fully participate in high - quality ASES or 21st CCLC after school program gain the equivalent of up to an extra 90 days of school, and experience positive impacts on academic achievement, attendance and positive behaviors, health and nutrition, STEM learning, and Social Emotional Learning (SEL).

There is no national standard for a «high quality» charter school, but U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan wants one because recent studies have raised concerns that dozens of charter schools fall short of academic standards and are financially troubled.

The latter part, called the quality - adjusted AP participation rate, is the number of 12th - grade students in the 2014 - 2015 academic year who took and passed — received an AP score of 3 or higher — at least one AP test before or during their senior year, divided by the number of 12th - graders at that school.

Representatives at the NJCSA claim, as do other proponents of charter school expansion, that charters offer superior academic benefits to children: «Across the country and in New Jersey, high - quality charter schools are making a difference.

In addition, the main thrust of the report's criticism, that the state's ESSA plan is not sufficiently similar to what it would have been had No Child Left Behind remained in effect, assumes the test - based accountability strategy that these reviewers have made their careers pursuing had been effective, which it has not; and therefore, when coupled with the false claim that California has high - quality academic standards and assessments, which it doesn't (California's standards being based on the Common Core, which leaves American students 2 - 3 years behind their peers in East Asia and northern Europe), California's families remain well advised to opt out of state schooling wherever and whenever possible, until the overreach from both the federal and state capitals is brought to an end and local schools that want to pursue genuinely world - class excellence can thrive.

tarting at the new elementary school campus, at which 80 % of the students are English Language Learners, and moving through a full - service middle school and high school, Match's academic program will offer both quality and continuity for Boston families.

In California, Linked Learning is also seeking a state - wide impact through a network of high schools offering high quality integrated academic and career / technical education.

Each of the applications will be subject to peer review in the context of five priority areas: supporting effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics education; supporting the implementation of high academic content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.

As Chairman of the Senate Education Committee and later as Senate Speaker Pro Tempore, Jamie was a key leader in efforts to identify and support effective teaching, overhaul Tennessee's K - 12 education funding formula, raise academic standards for Tennessee students, turn around low - performing schools, and expand high - quality public charter schools in Tennessee.

Magnet Schools are founded on the five pillars of diversity, innovative curriculum and professional development, academic excellence, high quality instructional systems and family and community partnerships.

The national certification process is based on the Magnet School Standards of Excellence and the five pillars of magnet schools (diversity; innovative curriculum and professional development; academic excellence; high quality instructional systems; and, family and community partnerships).

2003 — CEI - PEA launched Project BOOST to provide academic, social and cultural enrichment to under - achieving fourth through eighth - grade students with the ultimate goal of helping them gain admission to quality high schools.

Migrant education funds support high quality education programs that meet the special needs of migratory children to help them succeed academically in a regular school program, meet the same academic and content standards that all children are expected to meet, and graduate from high school.

We are also deeply troubled by the prospect that if virtually unregulated teacher certification academies with little academic quality control are allowed to proliferate, the employers of their graduates will be either charter schools, many operating in high - poverty communities, or traditional public schools that lack the resources to be selective and competitive in hiring the best - qualified teachers.

New York City district officials have also concluded that the definition of «high - quality leadership» should be in close sync with the definition of a high - quality school, says Anthony Conelli, deputy chief academic officer for leadership in the city's department of education.

The plan, which is part of the district's Eight Big Ideas, aims to provide every student in the district with a high - quality arts education, both in and out of the classroom, improve school climate and culture, increase student and parent engagement, and improve academic achievement.