Sentences with phrase «standard of education resulting»

Parents struggle to provide clothing, books and teaching materials as well as an acceptable standard of education resulting in many children ending their schooling at a very young age.

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Continual investment in process improvements, education and equipment has resulted in products of a quality far in excess of the industry's standard specifications.

The differences are only in the interpretations, as mentioned above, and these differences result primarily from the differences in standards of education.

This is a result of the history through which the model provided by the University of Berlin came to dominate American standards of higher education generally.

As a result, the poor are forced to send their children to public schools, many of which are failing, by any standard, to provide a useful education.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo took another shot at the State Board of Regents Thursday, blaming the education policy makers for «massive chaos» that he said has resulted from their implementation of the Common Core standards in New York.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 % of students statewide opting out of the tests.

While he has protected and promoted the growth of charter schools, other aspects of his education policy have not gone as planned - these include the rollout of the common core learning standards and tougher teacher evaluations by tying them more closely to the results of student standardized test scores.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 percent of students statewide opting out of the tests.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 percent of students statewide opting out of the tests.

«As this year's results demonstrate, sustained increases in investment in education over the last decade are paying off in terms of increasingly high standards of learning and achievement.

The five pledges are: secure the recovery; raise family living standards; build a hi - tech economy; protect frontline investment in policing, schools, childcare and the NHS — with a new guarantee of cancer test results within a week; and strengthen fairness in communities through controlled immigration, guarantees of education, apprenticeships and jobs for young people and a crackdown on antisocial behaviour.

States have begun adopting new national standards for science education as a result of recommendations by the U.S. Next Generation Science Standards.

«These results come from a randomized experiment of the sort that generates gold - standard evidence in medicine, but remains far too rare in the area of social policy,» noted Roseanna Ander, Executive Director of the UChicago Urban Education Lab.

In addition to this, Tohoku University has nurtured a tradition of «Practice Oriented Research and Education,» in which the results of cutting edge research are being put to use for the good of society and the improvement of living standards.

As a result, in 1997 a new State Board of Education called a halt to the movement and approved a set of more rigorous state standards, standards that could not be satisfied by the progressivist textbooks that had won the education establishment's endEducation called a halt to the movement and approved a set of more rigorous state standards, standards that could not be satisfied by the progressivist textbooks that had won the education establishment's endeducation establishment's endorsement.

Education Business analyses Reform's Academy chains unlocked report, which presents results from the first survey of academy chain chief executives, and recommends reform to the funding and oversight of chains to raise standards across the country.

Reform's Academy chains unlocked report brings together results from the first survey of academy chain chief executives and recommends reforms to the funding and oversight of academy chains to raise standards and achieve the original goal of improving education for all children.

The Department for Education (DfE) has decided to abolish A-level general studies, as a result of concerns that it does not meet the «high» standards being introduced under its exam reform programme.

Even leaving this concern aside and accepting the 0.08 of standard deviation achievement boost, Hanushek finds that «we are hard pressed to come up with any other education program working at (national scale) that has produced such results.»

The result of these state and local efforts was not always a rigorous education, but they clearly show a trend toward higher standards and quality in response to consumer demand.

Since NCLB was enacted into law, Education Next has used this information to identify the rigor of state proficiency standards each time the results from state and NAEP tests have become available.

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.

It could be «seat time,» Carnegie - style, but that's not a very good metric in a time of standards - based results - fixated education, and isn't very practical outside the traditional brick - and - mortar school - year system.

We hope the results of the EDUCATE programme will set a new global standard for an evidence - based approach to Education Technology.»

Here's what some of the exhibitors who will be at The Education Show next week are anticipating: «Bigger classes, fewer teachers and teaching staff, and less money — all potentially resulting in a fall in standards,» says Nina Simon of School Library Services.

To realize that goal, the commission urged the Department of Education to reduce its focus on monitoring a large number of postdiagnosis procedural requirements and instead concentrate on «a much smaller number of substantive measures guided by broad federal standards that focus on performance and results.»

When the ESEA reauthorization was finally signed into law in 1988, near the end of the Reagan administration, its NAEP amendments did much to pave the way for standards - based, results - driven education reform.

Finally, under the heading of unintended consequences, I am very fearful that placing sole responsibility for standard setting with the federal government could result in the worst of all possible worlds: national standards and assessments that embrace the conventional wisdom and social agendas of the education «experts» who staff our schools of education, teachers unions, and national associations.

Education Next has evaluated the rigor of state proficiency standards each time results from both state and NAEP tests have been available for the same year.

Some education reformers and media outlets are already using the results of the new, tougher tests to brand schools as «failing» if most of their students don't meet the higher standards.

However, in the same way that thousands of other schools and education facilities are regularly inspected, Bill Quay faces Ofsted to ensure its achieving a high standard of teaching provision with the results published on the inspectors» website.

In September 2005, approximately 18 months after the School Funding Task Force report was released, the Association of Metropolitan School Districts, the Minnesota Rural Education Association, and Schools for Equity in Education contracted the services of APA to «examine the Task Force results and, using widely accepted methodologies, determine the costs necessary to ensure that each public school student is educated to meet the state's academic standards.»

As a result, it has been difficult for observers to determine which factor or group of factors was most responsible for these gains: a revised and strengthened licensing system; revised or new licensure tests; the use of first - rate standards in most classrooms, in annual state student tests, and in the professional development programs all teachers took for license renewal; and / or the major changes in K - 12 governance and finance introduced by the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993.

School Standards Minister Nick Gibb said: «Today's results put the success of our increased emphasis on phonics and continued focus on raising education standards on a global scale.

From a quite different place on the political spectrum, the New York affiliate of the National Education Association has withdrawn its support for the Common Core as implemented in that state, and the American Federation of Teachers is calling for a moratorium on all consequences attached to student test results while the standards are being implemented, a policy that has been affirmed in California.

Mobilizing employers and business leaders to insist that states align high school standards, assessments and graduation requirements with the demands of postsecondary education and work and show graduates that achievement matters by using high school transcripts and exit test results in making hiring decisions.

But all of them evade a simple explanation for why education standards with regular assessments of student progress, transparency for results, consequences for school failure, and choices for families have always been under fire.

All else being equal, endorsing voting as a mark of good citizenship boosted anticipated engagement by about one - eighth of a standard deviation - a slightly larger impact than resulted from an increase in parents» education of one standard deviation.

By accountability, we mean that every school or education provider - at least every one that accepts public dollars - should subscribe to a coherent set of rigorous, statewide academic standards, statewide assessments of student and school performance, and a statewide system of incentives and interventions tied to results.

Yesterday, the editorial board of the Baltimore Sun urged the state board of education «to be patient and not be panicked into rushing to lower standards because of one year's disappointing test results.»

This brief summarizes the substantial body of research on programs demonstrating positive results, as well as the professional standards for early education, identifying important elements of quality.

Huffman also took criticism for his failure to communicate about new teacher evaluations and for his lack of communication regarding implementation of the Common Core, which resulted in Haslam holding an education summit and «re-setting» the conversation around standards.

The results suggest that the standards that NJ bureaucrats had in place prior to adopting the Common Core provided more of the Level 3 and 4 higher - order skills cited in education reform literature as necessary capabilities for competing in a global economy.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 % of students statewide opting out of the tests.

Results released Monday say more than 70 percent of responses to the state Education Department survey were supportive of the standards that are meant to increase college - readiness.

The result of this long slide in teacher quality can be captured in multiple snapshots: the declining U.S. ranking on international education comparisons (down to middle of the pack), the embarrassing number of military applicants who get rejected (more than one in five does not meet the minimum standards for Army enlistment) and the astonishing rates of those needing remedial classes in college (as high as 40 percent).

In pursuit of world - class education that results in high achievement for all Iowa students, effective school boards commit to these standards and competencies:

The issue of computer technology integration in teacher education has reached the national level, resulting in standards for schools, colleges, and departments of education (SCDEs) that address the integration of computer technology as a tool to enhance student learning.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41