Sentences with phrase «strengthening academic quality»

Private and independent schools tailor educational experiences and processes to address a wide range of student and family needs while serving and strengthening academic quality.

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.

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States that win this money should use it to create changes other schools and states can replicate — especially if those changes relate to using more advanced data, improving bad schools, and strengthening teacher quality and academics.

An academically stronger licensing system for teachers would raise the academic quality of our teaching force, strengthen the school curriculum, and, in turn, increase student achievement.

Supporters say the laws protect teachers from arbitrary dismissals, strengthen academic freedom, and attract high - quality candidates for high - stress, relatively low - paid work that is vital to the community.

Engaging Schools works with school and program leaders and educators to support students in developing and strengthening social - emotional learning competencies and qualities of character that increase interpersonal effectiveness, reduce aggressive and antisocial behavior and intolerance, and enhance academic achievement.

In 2010, former charter - school leader David Hill was named director of academic operations for the so - called Jubilee Schools, and he instituted changes across the network — extending the school day, strengthening school culture, putting more emphasis on attracting and retaining high - quality teachers and principals.

Take, for example, the following declaration: «a large and growing body of state and local implementation studies, academic research, teacher surveys, and interviews with dozens of policymakers, experts, and educators all reveal a much more promising picture: The reforms have strengthened many school districts» focus on instructional quality, created a foundation for making teaching a more attractive profession, and improved the prospects for student achievement» (p. 1).

The NYC Leadership Academy is committed to improving academic success for students by strengthening school leadership quality and practice nationwide.

In Washington, communities are already making deep investments in summer learning to improve academic outcomes, and even more summer programs will work to strengthen their quality in the future.

Robert, my thinking is that expanding their lists of quality practitioner texts was a way for the university presses to strengthen their bottom line and enable them to publish more strictly academic works than would otherwise be possible.