Unlike with Hillary Clinton (to say nothing of a cipher like John Edwards), it isn't difficult to create a list of Palin's
significant policy achievements.
When the central public - facing aspect of your most
significant policy achievement has problems, your presidency has problems — which is why Obama should send Ted Cruz a thank - you note.
Not exact matches
On tax reform, the most
significant legislative
achievement of Trump's first year, it's probably not fair to point just at Trump for a
policy that tends to pose more harm to Democratic constituencies than Republican.
Highlights were
policies still claimed by Labour today as among its most
significant achievements — the creation of the minimum wage, Scottish and Welsh devolution, and bills to reduce class sizes — as well as one key Brownite
policy whose wisdom has now become disputed: independence for the Bank of England, which also involved removing its role as City regulator.
He has compiled a record of
significant legislative
achievements reforming drug
policy, police conduct, criminal justice and corrections and school funding.
«SDP offers districts and states a terrific opportunity to catalyze their analytical talent,» said Glover, «We look forward to working closely with SDP partners to develop and expand methods of identifying, collecting, and analyzing data to help education leaders make
policy decisions that are likely to have
significant impact on raising student
achievement.»
Now, a new study from researchers at Harvard University's Center for Education
Policy Research suggests that effort led to positive growth in student
achievement in English, with no
significant changes in math.
This inclusion parallels the recommendations of the Equity and Excellence Commission's report, signaling that children's experiences with poverty have taken their place alongside other
significant variables impacting student
achievement in the federal education
policy framework.
Stephen Sigmund, the executive director of High
Achievement New York, a coalition that advocates higher standards, said in a statement, «The Regents shouldn't make
significant policy changes with an 11th hour and 59th minute addition to the agenda.»
The paper, published in Education Finance and
Policy, details the
achievement impacts of 41 KIPP charter middle schools nationwide and reports consistently positive and statistically
significant test - score effects in reading, math, science, and social studies.
Bold and courageous
policies, including existing approaches with evidence of
significant impact on student
achievement in the state.
The study included a caveat: «Given the expense of grade retention and the emotional toil retention exacts on students, a finding of «no
significant difference» for retention on
achievement calls into question the educational benefits of grade retention
policies.»
Mathematica
Policy Research findings indicate that in the 2011 — 12 through 2014 — 15 school years, the Kauffman School had positive, statistically
significant, and educationally meaningful impacts on student
achievement growth in mathematics, ELA, and science beyond the growth achieved by students in other Kansas City public schools.
A clear example that poses a
significant threat to the opportunity to learn for children who are suffering most from the
achievement gap is the President's call to launch» a national competition to improve our schools» as the lead
policy frame for the coming year's education reform - modeled on the Race to the Top and the Innovation Fund initiatives.
According to the National Council of Teachers of English, «Well over a decade into federal education
policy that endows
significant consequences to single tests of student
achievement too late in the academic year to lead to any action, teachers might be pleased that the term «formative -LSB-...]
Related, and on this point we agree, «teacher pay incentives is one area that we know a good deal about, based on analysis of actual
policy variation, and the results are not terribly promising... experiments generally show performance bonuses, a particular form of pay for performance, have no
significant student
achievement effects, whether the bonus is rewarded at the individual teacher level» (p. 89).
In light of recent research by Sean Reardon and associates at Stanford's Center for Education
Policy Analysis that
achievement / opportunity gaps are due primarily to differences that occur before third grade, it is
significant that school effectiveness can move the needle at the third - grade level.
Because of hard - edged accountability
policies, low - income and minority students saw
significant achievement gains in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
A national study conducted by Mathematica
Policy Research found that students attending KIPP middle schools made gains in reading, math, science, and social studies equal to 11 to 14 months of additional learning when compared to similar non-KIPP students.60 Similarly, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania found that students selected by lottery to attend Harlem Success Academy made
significant gains in reading and math equal to 13 to 19 percent higher test
achievement, compared to demographically similar students not selected via lottery.61
As school districts around the country consider investments in technology as a way to improve student outcomes, this report from the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Stanford Center for Opportunity
Policy in Education (SCOPE) finds that technology — when implemented properly — can produce
significant gains in student
achievement and boost engagement, particularly among students most at risk.
In their efforts to improve student
achievement, school - and district - level leaders should, as a matter of
policy and practice, extend
significant decisional influence to others in the school community.
To ensure our activities are having an impact towards our overall 2020 mission goals we track the following key measures: # researchers funded, breakthrough
achievements of funded research,
policies changed and / or
significant progress made on healthy public
policies, # Canadians reached to learn about and establish healthy lifestyle choices and, # survivors and care partners reached to receive needed information and supports.
KEY
ACHIEVEMENTS • Concurrently approved 16 budgets for offshore offices within record time of two weeks • Created 20 consolidated budget versions in 1 year, all instantly approved by BOD • Responsible for
significant positive changes in the business environment following extensive work on updating budgeting models • Created the budgeting
policies and procedures manual from scratch, still being followed by the company as the «budgeting bible»