Sentences with phrase «single standard in a school»

This will mean we don't «cover» every single standard in a school year.

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Concurrently, we have seen a huge increase in illegitimate births, single - motherhood, sexually - transmitted disease, crime, serious misconduct in schools and rapidly decreasing educational standards.

A 2014 study (1), however, found that, despite the 2010 endorsement of 6 national medical societies of a single PPE form as part of an effort to standardize the screening process, and nearly unanimous public support for PPE screening by a qualified health care professional before participation in a consistent manner across the country, the medical community is still largely unaware of national sports preparticipation physical evaluation guidelines and only 11 % of athletes at US high schools are guaranteed to receive a PPE fully consistent with the national standard.

But when we're talking about rolling back a requirement that kids take fruit / veg with their meal, and instead go back to the «beige old days,» or when we're talking about reinstating the ability of schools to easily sell a la carte items like pizza every single day (instead of tying such sales to the menu on the reimbursable line), that is a per se «weakening» of nutrition standards — regardless of how pure SNA's motives may be in asking for those changes.

Single - sex schools have long been popular with some educationalists (and parents) because both sexes seem to achieve higher academic standards in a monastic environment.

An increase of one standard deviation in the level of maternal schooling increases the likelihood of graduating from college by 14 percentage points, nearly three times as much as the corresponding effect for single - parent family structure (5 percentage points).

Figure 2a shows that, holding constant all demographic measures other than income, an increase of one standard deviation in the single - parent measure is associated with a drop in children's completed schooling of one - quarter of a year.

Similar churning is evident in the responses to questions concerning single - sex public schools, charter schools, and national standards.

On average across all schools, the impact of having a principal 1 standard deviation more effective than the average principal is as much as seven additional months of learning in a single academic year.

These include a relatively standard set of student and family demographics: an indicator for whether anyone in the family received free or reduced - price meals at school in the past year, the family's income as a percentage of the federal poverty line, whether the child was born in the United States, whether the child lives with a single mother, and the highest level of education either parent has attained.

Reville said that an example of tight control in Massachusetts was that there aren't multiple authorizes of charter schools, just a single authorizer with «very clear standards and procedures.»

There continues to be a wide margin between financial concerns and other issues, with all other answers in the single digits, led by items such as educational quality and standards, teacher quality, school violence, and drug use.

The left, meanwhile, will need to see that the dream of a single best public - school system, with the teaching profession largely held apart from the usual standards and practices of professional life, simply will not work in 21st - century America.

In fact, teachers» grading standards often vary as much within a single school as within the school district as a whole.

Supporters of digital learning, many of whom were among the strongest supporters of national standards, have organized in opposition to the imposition of a single test on the nation's schools.

Although Gaetz's bill does not include fiscal expenditures, as noted in the main text (§ IV, supra), in reviewing the start time / academic achievement studies undertaken by fellow economists, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics Jonah Rockoff and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, concluded that delaying middle and high school start times «from roughly 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. -LSB-,]» will increase academic achievement by 0.175 standard deviations on average, with effects for disadvantaged students roughly twice as large as advantaged students, at little or no cost to schools; i.e., a 9 to 1 benefits to costs ratio when utilizing single - tier busing, the most expensive transportation method available.

Some background: Before 1990 most states, including California, did not have a single set of grade by grade K - 12 academic content standards in ELA and Mathematics that every district was required to adopt and every school was required to teach.

That policy, the signature education reform of the Bush administration, required schools to meet annual federal testing standards, with minimum standards increasing incrementally until schools would ultimately be required (by 2014) to have every single student test as proficient in basic subjects.

Every single person in the school had access to this document and could go in and flesh out criteria for different standards.

The lack of organic services becomes especially alarming as reports begin to show that cyber charter schools have failed academically, such as in Pennsylvania where not a single cyber charter school met Annual Yearly Progress standards in 2011 — 2012.

«We are playing catch up and can not afford to waste a single moment in raising standards for all pupils and schools,» he said.

Citing research that a «high - quality teacher is the single most important in - school factor to increase student achievement,» state education officials say raising the standard also follows a trend in other states.

Data visualized for the recently completed Santa Clara County Academic Olympics demonstrate that the best SCC districts can do in preparing 11th grade English Learners for success in college English is about one quarter meeting or exceeding ELA standards in 2017, with most school districts in the single digits.

One would be able to explore the intersection of state policies to mandate professional development aligned to the standards, to require that high school graduation requirements reflect CCR coursework, and to base personnel decisions on performance ratings in a single year or across many years, to name one type of analysis that a practitioner or researcher could conduct.

It compared year - to - year changes in test scores and singled out grades within schools for which gains were 3 standard deviations or more from the average statewide gain on that test.

In 2015 the Texas legislature passed a law that would allow the Texas Education Agency (TEA) close schools or replace an entire school board if a district has even a single school that has failed to meet the state's education standards for five consecutive years.

Uses all or almost all multiple - choice testing; Tests all students in one or more grades with a norm - referenced test; Has a single exam as a high school exit or grade - promotion requirement; or Exhibits generally poor performance on the other standards.

While not required by the law, many school districts were reluctant to hinge the possibility of a third grader moving on to the fourth grade on his or her performance on a single test, especially considering that North Carolina just adopted more rigorous standards and more difficult assessments based on those standards — meaning that even more students are likely to fail End of Grade tests than in years past.

Although these tests are a single isolated event in each child's schooling experience, the classroom opportunities a student has each day to develop the new skills and understandings — articulated in the standards to which these tests have been aligned — are the schooling experience.

Key examples include Cawelti and Protheroe's (2001) study of change in six school districts in four states; Snipes, Dolittle and Herlihy's (2002) case studies of improvement in four urban school systems and states; Massell and Goertz's (2002) investigation of standards - based reform in 23 school districts across eight states; McLaughlin and Talbert's (2002) analysis of three urban or metropolitan area California districts; Togneri and Anderson's (2003) investigation of five high poverty districts (four urban, one rural) from five states; and several single - site case studies of district success (e.g., Hightower, 2002; Snyder, 2002).

Developed in Germany, more than 10,000 buildings in Europe — from single and multifamily residences, to schools, factories and office buildings — have been designed and built or remodeled to the Passive House standard.

Many law schools have developed programs for study abroad — not just the summer - abroad programs that have been standard fare for decades (that may or may not include instruction in foreign or international law), but also semester - abroad programs, exchange programs with law faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culture.20

The result of participation in the scheme was that there was then a single, but varied, contract for the provision of educational services by the school, on the standard terms and conditions as modified by the provisions of the scheme.

In order to comply with a single state's privacy law, tech companies would similarly have to adopt nationwide standards, says Ari Waldman, director of the New York Law School's Innovation Center for Law and Technology.

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