Sentences with phrase «turn weak schools»

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The lab, at times, feels like a seething primordial soup of Darwinian selection, where only the strongest survive (i.e., publish papers in Science, Cell, or Nature), and the weak fade into oblivion (i.e., become anorexic, turn into technical sales reps, or go to law school).

Given this weak statistical evidence of positive relationships between student achievement and district or school data use (as reflected in the principal and teacher survey items), we turned to our qualitative data, which provided the following insights:

Under the proposal, schools that receive an F for three consecutive years, or a combination of Ds and Fs with weak growth scores for five consecutive years, would be closed or turned over to a private charter management organization.

How can we be judging schools, intervening in schools, turning around schools, based on this weak, partial, ineffective tests?

He was the principal of Elm City, an AF school in New Haven, and also helped turn around AF Bridgeport middle after it went through a rough two or three years — they had a lot of staff turnover and some weak leadership before he arrived, and he was able to right the ship.

Faced with evidence that performance pay does not directly improve instruction, promoters of the system have turned to a different claim — that performance pay will help school systems attract and retain strong teachers, while discouraging weaker ones.