Sentences with phrase «technical quality of education»

The Accountability Systems and Reporting (ASR) collaborative works to identify, develop, and share strategies that improve the effectiveness and technical quality of education accountability systems.

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Through technical assistance and community education programs, we hope to increase awareness and adoption of cost - effective and practical ways to use native plants and natural landscaping to improve water quality and climate resilience.

David Prah also has lots of expertise in Technical and Vocational Education and Training with sound knowledge in Competency Based Training (CBT) Quality Assurance and worked with COTVET as the Quality Assurance Officer.

The Department for Education (DfE) has launched new technical and vocational qualifications and stripped out thousands of poor - quality courses across a wide range of subjects, including construction, planning and the built environment.

A policy and research Think Tank, VIAM Africa Centre for Education and Social Policy, says government's hasty decision to convert the country's polytechnics into technical universities, could have dire concerns on the quality expected to come about as a result of the conversion.

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On technical education routes, Neil said: «The CBI has long underlined the need to raise the profile of technical pathways that match academic options in terms of the quality and progression they offer, and it is good to see Ofsted highlight this in their latest report.

Happily, this sort of common sense is starting to re-enter the conversation (thanks, in part, to the persistence of the folks at Harvard's Pathways to Prosperity initiative, who called in 2011 for a broader approach to education reform, one that includes high - quality career technical education).

«As a nation, we can either intervene to inject the system with the vision, skills and energy it needs, or we can be content with the status quo and the consequences of our failure to improve the quality and status of technical education over many years.»

Martin Doel, Association of Colleges chief executive, said: «The country needs strong, resilient and locally responsive colleges to provide high quality technical and professional education.

At the very least, they can help to instill a sense of hope and optimism in their students — by getting them ready for college and / or a satisfying career, by embracing high - quality technical education, and by developing in them character traits like drive and prudence, both via classroom instruction and through extracurricular activities.

The AIM Center provides technical assistance to state educational agencies, local education agencies, and other stakeholders to develop effective systems for the timely delivery of high - quality accessible instructional materials to all students with disabilities who need them.

• Overall quality and adequacy of courses ranging from advanced placement to career and technical education to special education; • Extra-curricular programs, including «the expertise of teachers, coaches and advisors;» and «availability of necessary materials.»

«This # 5 million we are awarding the Education and Training Foundation will help to ensure high - quality technical routes, support area reviews and prepare the sector and its leaders for the exciting and important changes coming out of the skills plan.»

In Illinois, the project has been working with the Illinois Business Roundtable and state education leaders on developing and scaling up high - quality forms of career and technical education.

Standards of Quality and Effectiveness for Career / Technical Education - «Teachers: A Handbook for Educator Preparation Programs» (download)

• Boost the employment prospects of disadvantaged youth via high - quality career and technical education programs • Help their students develop «performance character» — particularly drive and prudence • Offer a full suite of well - organized extracurricular activities (to help build those all - important non-cognitive skills and to keep kids off the streets) • Most importantly, give their students a sense of hope and purpose

«High - quality technical and further education is not only vital in opening up doors to young people in some of the hardest to reach areas of the country, it also helps local businesses get the skilled workforce they need to drive up the productivity and economic growth that our economy needs.

Career technical education (CTE) has become a focus of many state plans to increase students» college and career readiness and workforce training, but there is a critical need for high quality research to guide policy decisions.

Twenty - three chief executives said their states needed to expand workforce development programs; 16 touched on the importance of career technical education; and 11 governors emphasized high - quality early learning efforts.

The Accountability Systems and Reporting (ASR) Collaborative works to identify and share strategies across states that improve the effectiveness and technical quality of state education accountability models.

In California, Linked Learning is also seeking a state - wide impact through a network of high schools offering high quality integrated academic and career / technical education.

The NRCCTE at SREB is working with Manhattan Strategy Group and other partners to increase access to high - quality career pathways for youth and adults through a project funded by the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education at the U.S. Department of Education.

Most noteworthy, as the lead technical partner and key policy advisor for New Hampshire's innovative assessment and accountability pilot, Performance Assessment of Competency Education (PACE), the Center is ensuring the quality and rigor of PACE performance assessments and designing methods for evaluating the comparability of student results across districts.

ASCD calls on policymakers to provide the funding necessary to meet all of the mandates they impose and to increase the resources in order to meet the needs of every student, especially those programs that support socioeconomically disadvantaged students, students with disabilities, career technical education, a well - rounded education, personalized learning, and high - quality teachers and principals.

Drawing on the literature reviewed, we developed a model (below) to assist the development of understanding of the characteristics of technical and vocational education and the characteristics of quality teaching and learning.

National Career Clusters Framework In cooperation with the National Career Technical Education Foundation (NCTEF), the National Association of State Directors of Career and Technical Education Consortium (NASDCTEc) provides leadership and support for the National Career Clusters Framework to deliver high - quality CTE programs through improved curriculum design and instruction.

As such, WBL should be a core component of a high - quality Career Technical Education (CTE) program.

Here in Utah and across the nation, Career and Technical Education gives students experience in practical, meaningful applications of academic, technical and employability skills, thus improving the quality of their education and increasing student enTechnical Education gives students experience in practical, meaningful applications of academic, technical and employability skills, thus improving the quality of their education and increasing student enEducation gives students experience in practical, meaningful applications of academic, technical and employability skills, thus improving the quality of their education and increasing student entechnical and employability skills, thus improving the quality of their education and increasing student eneducation and increasing student engagement.

The Promise of High - Quality Career and Technical Education: Improving Outcomes for Students, Firms, and the Economy The College Board, Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy, and The Business Roundtable This paper describes the benefits of high - quality Career and Technical Education (CTE), elements that are essential for such benefits to occur and suggests federal and state policies that would support the expansion of high - qualiQuality Career and Technical Education: Improving Outcomes for Students, Firms, and the Economy The College Board, Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy, and The Business Roundtable This paper describes the benefits of high - quality Career and Technical Education (CTE), elements that are essential for such benefits to occur and suggests federal and state policies that would support the expansion of high - qualiquality Career and Technical Education (CTE), elements that are essential for such benefits to occur and suggests federal and state policies that would support the expansion of high - qualityquality CTE.

We would have welcomed a major expansion of high - quality early childhood education, and greater support for career and technical education and community schools.

But for us to deliver on that promise requires fidelity to the «four pillars» of high quality pathways — challenging academics, demanding career and technical education, work - based learning, and personalized student supports.

We encourage you to share the vision with your colleagues in education, policy and the workforce and educate them about the importance of providing high quality Career Technical Education to every learner ineducation, policy and the workforce and educate them about the importance of providing high quality Career Technical Education to every learner inEducation to every learner in America.

Work - based learning, an educational strategy that allows learners to develop technical and employability skills through authentic work experiences, has become a core component of a high - quality Career Technical Education (CTE)technical and employability skills through authentic work experiences, has become a core component of a high - quality Career Technical Education (CTE)Technical Education (CTE) program.

Career academies are a proven way of delivering high - quality Career Technical Education (CTE).

Manager, Special Education 213-349-1486 [email protected] Vivian is a part of the Special Education Statewide Advocacy Team and supports work that includes technical assistance to schools, special education advocacy at the local and state levels, special education data collection, and engagement with SELPAs and charter school authorizers in ensuring quality options for charterEducation 213-349-1486 [email protected] Vivian is a part of the Special Education Statewide Advocacy Team and supports work that includes technical assistance to schools, special education advocacy at the local and state levels, special education data collection, and engagement with SELPAs and charter school authorizers in ensuring quality options for charterEducation Statewide Advocacy Team and supports work that includes technical assistance to schools, special education advocacy at the local and state levels, special education data collection, and engagement with SELPAs and charter school authorizers in ensuring quality options for chartereducation advocacy at the local and state levels, special education data collection, and engagement with SELPAs and charter school authorizers in ensuring quality options for chartereducation data collection, and engagement with SELPAs and charter school authorizers in ensuring quality options for charter schools.

Dr. Brownell has secured multiple grants (totaling over 42 million dollars) from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs and Institute of Education Sciences to support research and technical assistance aimed at improving teaching quality for students with disabilities.

The event brought together alliance members with policymakers and other stakeholders to discuss the value of the centers» technical assistance in building state capacity for providing a quality education for all.

NCWD / Youth provides resources, information, and technical assistance designed to enhance the capacity of education professionals and policymakers to provide all students, including students with disabilities, with quality learning opportunities in integrated settings.

Other programs that would suffer include Teacher Quality State Grants -LRB-- $ 207 million); TRIO and GEAR UP -LRB-- $ 96 million combined); career, technical, and adult education -LRB-- $ 146 million); and college student aid programs that support 2 million students, which would see funding cuts of approximately $ 150 million.

However, Steinberg's bill was an extremely technical piece of legislation, which proposed a complex new accountability system that adds graduation rates and other measures to the API to establish a new index to be called the Education Quality Index.

Much has changed since the heyday of vocational education; today, the national discourse on high school reform has shifted to embrace the role of high - quality career - technical education in preparing all students for both college and career.

• Work to increase access for learners of all ages to high - quality career and technical education and encourage teacher leadership in this regard.

The largest program provides $ 200 million to establish the Strong Workforce Program at the community colleges, which seeks to increase the availability of regionally relevant, high - quality career and technical education (CTE) courses and pathways.

CHOICE is the second school opened by Technical Academies of Minnesota (ISD 4217), a charter school district authorized by the Minnesota Department of Education and Innovative Quality Schools.

Martin Doel, chief executive of the Association of Colleges (AoC), said: «To make informed choices for the future, young people need high quality, impartial careers information about all post-16 education and training options, including apprenticeships and technical and professional education.

In February 2013, the Minnesota Department of Education approved Innovative Quality Schools» affidavit to Technical Academies of Minnesota allowing them to open four charter schools in Minnesota over the next five years.

She is deeply involved with the New Hampshire Performance Assessment for Competency Education (PACE) project, where she leads much of the design and analysis to support the technical quality of the innovative assessment system — including the validity and comparability of the annual determinations for federal accountability.

The recommendations made by the Governor regarding the Direct Aid to Public Education budget include technical adjustments to the Standards of Quality (SOQ), incentive, categorical, and school facilities accounts, as well as increased funding for existing programs.

The quality of careers education and guidance (CEG) has plummeted since the days of the Technical and Vocational Educational Initiative (TVEI), which did much to improve the status of vocational education in its widest sense: generic work - related skills.