Sentences with phrase «several years of progress»

We have heard the call from communities to better align our high school and elementary curricula; to strengthen our traditional neighborhood schools through programs such as International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes and STEM; and create opportunities for more students to attend Selective Enrollment schools, Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs, and service leadership schools These investments respond to those calls and build on several years of progress in which CPS has provided over $ 33 million for CTE, IB, and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math programs.

Not exact matches

But that said, in one area in particular, the progress made over the past several years has been nothing short of spectacular.

If the progress we have seen over the last several years is sustained, the incidence of financial crises in emerging markets will be lower, and the dynamics significantly different.

Fining employers which fail to make progress over several years would align the interests of women and investors.

These fans don't base their opinion on one game or one result but on the last several years of no meaningful progress.

A # 5m fee was agreed with Ajax some time ago and after several weeks of posturing over personal terms, progress has been made and Rangers are looking to tie up a deal for the 24 - year - old Iceland forward.

Relegation last season after several years of upwardly mobile progress was a blow — but fans and employees alike were always conscious of the realities of being one of the smaller clubs in League 1.

The 23 - year - old has had his critics since arriving from Bayer Leverkusen in the summer of 2014, but he has made immense progress under the tutelage of Jurgen Klopp, just like several other players including Adam Lallana.

While the quilt was started several years ago, it has sat in progress for most of that time.

I read a book where a mother had a-one of her babies was born with several developmental disabilities - and she actually started, maybe when he was two - when she realized that he was plateau - ing in his progress with traditional medicine, she already had another baby and she started giving the two year old breast milk again and that was the only change she made; and started noticing huge milestones in his improvement.

The initiative will fund early learning and vocabulary programs — including the Thirty Million Words Initiative started by Too Small to Fail advisory council member Dr. Dana Suskind — and will track the progress of the participating families for several years.

David Robinson, Chair of the GTG NI and Countryside Alliance Ireland Board Member said; «While there was an impasse for several years we are delighted with the progress that has been made.

There have been improvements in the economy of upstate New York over the last several years, but that progress has been uneven.

Recently the Rockland County Times reported that: Residents of New Hempstead, Pomona, Hillcrest, Spring Valley and New City have been protesting the plans for a slaughterhouse in New Square for several years, but apparently to little avail, as opponents say the plans are progressing to the point where actual construction may soon begin.

But progress over the past several years has enabled the construction of the world's first prototype systems that can finally test out ideas, algorithms and other techniques that until now were strictly theoretical.

The CEOSE report, Broadening Participation in America's Science and Engineering Workforce, documents the progress the NSF has made in this area over the last 25 years and provides an overview of several NSF programs that help minorities enter science and related fields.

Over the past few years, Congress has grown increasingly unhappy about the spiralling costs of the space station programme and its lack of progress, and there have been several attempts to kill it off.

Woodward is the director of USArray, a mostly mobile set of seismographs operated by the National Science Foundation that are moved in regions from west to east over a period of several years, collecting data on Earth's motion as it progresses.

Brightfocus has generously funded our laboratory research over the last several years, allowing us to make significant progress towards the goal of developing a novel type of glaucoma therapy.

«The five years of this report from BAMS has shown that we've made enormous progress in attributing meteorological events,» Friederike Otto, an author on several of the studies in the report, said during the AGU press conference.

For the people who develop geographic atrophy, that usually progresses as the area of atrophy enlarges, although slowly over the course of several years.

The US market is still underdeveloped with its SMS technology, but after several years of slow progress, the last 12 months have seen phenomenal growth.

Instead of having any progressing plot, so to speak, the film splits into several storylines, following certain teens at California's Ridgemont High during a year of their lives.

I had a realization several years ago that my goal is not a good essay from Student A, but rather for Student A to know that she's in charge of her progress as a writer and feel confident to keep writing for the rest of her life.

In too many cases that I see, after several years, the child has made little or no progress in the acquisition of basic skills since entering the special education program.

Over the past several years Florida has attempted substantial reforms of its struggling public school system, the fourth - largest in the country and one that consistently ranks close to the bottom on academic indicators, including high - school graduation rates and scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

The algorithm employed by the software considers each child's entering skill level and progress made during the school year to recommend several dimensions of instruction, including assignment to small, homogenous ability groups, the amount of time spent on code - versus meaning - focused literacy, and teacher / child versus child - managed delivery.

National tests in several core subjects could be eliminated or scaled back over the next five years without more federal funding, the officials who set policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress say.

For several years now, Brookings Institution scholar Tom Loveless has examined National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores and argued patiently that Common Core will have little to no effect on student achievement.

The department softened a proposal to use results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress to measure states» progress over the past several years in boosting achievement scores and closing achievement gaps between suProgress to measure states» progress over the past several years in boosting achievement scores and closing achievement gaps between suprogress over the past several years in boosting achievement scores and closing achievement gaps between subgroups.

For several consecutive years NULC has been the biggest provider of students to higher education in Staffordshire, with 860 students progressing to 91 different universities last year.

Having students complete several brief reading and writing assessments over the course of the year, rather than conducting only one test at the end of the year, to give educators real - time updates on students» progress; and

There's been progress on several fronts — notably a big reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger — but none of these goals will have been achieved in full by next year, any more than the «goals 2000» project for American K — 12 education met its targets (e.g., «first in the world in math and science») by the stated end point.

To compare achievement in states with each other and with other countries, we use newly available data for student mathematics and reading performance in U.S. states from the 2011 TIMSS and 2012 PISA, as well as several years of data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).4 In particular, we use information on mathematics and reading performance of 15 - year - olds from the PISA data, information on mathematics performance in 8th grade from the TIMSS data, and information on mathematics and reading performance of students in 4th and 8th grade from the NAEP data.

The categories included program characteristics (explicitly articulated objectives and role expectations, provision for continuous student progress, flexibility in matching materials and instruction to student needs, and stability of programs over several years), leadership behaviors (establishing reading improvement as a school priority, being knowledgeable about reading instruction, actively facilitating instructional decisions, establishing and maintaining monitoring of student progress, and evaluating teachers), and psychological conditions (high expectations for students, calm and businesslike school climate, staff commitment to the reading program, staff cooperation, parental involvement, and attribution of reading failure to program defects).

Several data collection methods are used throughout the year to provide indicators of progress toward adhering to the Measures of Excellence.

For several years, MPS has studied the use of a report card for elementary students that reports progress to the standards.

Such a narrow focus on test scores would be a step backwards for a system that has made significant progress over the last several years and would fall short of providing the professional feedback and support educators want and deserve.

To calculate how states stack up under the new criteria, the department is using a complex matrix that weighs several factors, including how well students with disabilities perform on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, a test the federal government gives to a sampling of students in every state every two years.

Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Minnesota will be using a new multi-stage system to identify schools for several different categories of support going into the 2018 - 19 school year, and this presentation will provide specific details about one of the newest and most complicated measurements in that system: progress toward English language proficiency.

Department of Education researchers have been publishing studies for several years that use data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- often called «The Nation's Report Card» — to compare state standards and to analyze the impact of NCLB on student achievement.

Connecting the Dots NAESP is dedicated to meeting the needs of its membership as we progress throughout the next several years and beyond.

I explained that our adequate yearly progress (AYP) targets would be tied to the state's new high school proficiency assessment and that if we missed those targets for several years in a row we could face sanctions, including the implementation of student transfers and supplemental tutorial plans.

Oddly enough, the DOE pretty much admits that we did not need PARCC to demonstrate this to us because New Jersey participates in the National Assessment of Educational Progress testing every several years, and, wouldn't you know it, NAEP and PARCC results are not perfectly aligned, but they come pretty darned close (as do SAT and ACT scores):

Resegregation Although substantial progress was made in the desegregation of schools in the years following the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education (1954), North Carolina has several districts that have since resegregated, and others that never fully desegregated after Brown.8 Ayscue, J. B., Siegal - Hawley, G., B. W., & Kucsera, J. (2014, May 14).

As a result, some argue that they can not set ELP progress targets for schools until they have at least several years of data on how ELs perform on these new assessments.

Orlando was highlighted in the report as one of the top 10 cities to have made the most progress in closing the gap over the past several years.

I have a draft of a memoir that has been in progress for several years.

(Plus many of my works - in - progress are several years in progress, which also adds to the build - up.

Over the years I've seen several fellow authors tell their tale of woe in losing chapters of their works in progress.