Sentences with phrase «where quality of education»

«That's when it gets discriminatory because we have a system in this country where quality of education is very correlated to class and race.»

The failure of Harrisburg to act appropriately to ensure that all Pennsylvania students receive an adequately funded education has created a system where the quality of education that a student receives is dependent upon her zip code.

Over half of black children in public primary and secondary schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.

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But it falls seriously short in two categories that often benefit from more state support: Education, where it finishes No. 33, and Quality of Life, where it finishes No. 28.

By studying the most recent research on early childhood education, the Orfalea Fund was able to invest where it mattered most: in the relationships among directors, teachers, and parents, in the quality of environments, and in the establishment and documentation of best practices.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT: «Access to high - quality education should be the entitlement of all children and young people, irrespective of where they are educated».

The promise of America, and of New York, is that no matter where you come from, you will have access to a quality education.

The rise of new global competitors in university education is resulting in the best and brightest students and academics, leaving Nigeria on an hourly and daily basis, to other African and Euro - American universities where quality university practices are surging.

Chad comes to us from the Alliance for Quality Education where he served as Statewide Campaign Coordinator, working with small cities and poor rural areas to ensure adequate school funding regardless of zip code.

Billy Easton, Executive Director of the Alliance for Quality Education, points out that test scores dropped much more dramatically in schools with high rates of poverty where school funding is significantly lower.

We can't leave the destiny of our children's quality education to just a voluntary fund where we don't really know the projections.

«How dare you deny students their right to a quality education because of where they live, because of their ZIP code?»

The study grew out of work the authors undertook in the Pacific, where scientists met with community members and local, regional, and national government experts to examine issues such as food security, access to fresh water, quality education, sustainable tourism, and protection of marine and terrestrial resources.

The «one - size - fits - none», «fire - and - forget» approach of almost all of today's corporate eLearning — be it traditional, video - based, microlearning or some combination — needs to be relegated to some forgotten decade where outcomes don't matter, and the quality of education is measured by how many people are registered in the LMS and how much animation you can pack into your course.

In this country where critics and the public often cite the low quality of education, especially for the poor, localized funding for public schools and a proliferation of expensive private schools creates a vast divide between poorer and richer students» schools.

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In an economy where the future looks bright, students will apply themselves to their studies, parents will monitor the quality of education, and teachers will face pressure to really teach.

e-Portfolios have been used widely in the vocational qualification market for the last 15 years and e-marking has been used in the last 10 years for education exams with all the unitary awarding bodies having adopted e-marking; a process where scripts are scanned in and then human - graded using simple work - flow or complex tools to manage the marking and quality checking of exam scripts.

Smithsonian, 4/19/13 «And just last weekend, in the New York Times, Jal Mehta, an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, wrote that compared to many other fields where quality is maintained by building a body of knowledge and training people in that knowledge.»

Unlike other careers where sales quotas, bonuses, and title enhancements can remind employees of the quality of the work, teachers, especially those working in more demanding areas like special education or alternative education, often feel frustrated and unappreciated.

Regardless of where a child is born, who his parents are, the color of her skin, whether he can see or hear, or whether she sleeps in a mansion or a shelter: that child deserves a high - quality education.

The need of the hour is to provide these communities an environment where they do not feel alienated and exploited and where their children will get a quality education with other facilities for their holistic development.

By focusing on the needs of students and the quality of education they receive rather than pointing fingers over where they are served, we will do more to ensure that our most vulnerable children have access to the education they need and deserve.

High quality education can do this for all children regardless of their social circumstances, where they live, what their parents earn or their race, ability or gender.

It was thought early on that public charter schools would serve as «laboratories of education,» where independence, flexibility, and innovation would produce high - quality learning environments that could be replicated across the country.

For this younger age group, we are now closer than we have ever been to an education system where your family background or where you live does not necessarily determine the quality of teaching you receive or the outcomes you achieve.»

It found some schools and regions were providing high quality education for pupils, irrespective of background and praised instances where this was the case.

Another aspect where online education can benefit from blockchain tokens is to fix the lack of quality educators in certain fields, especially when it comes to self - paced learning.

In response to the policy pamphlet, the Church of England's chief education officer Reverend Nigel Genders said: «The Church of England continues to be committed to the provision of high quality RE in schools, which is vital for a balanced understanding of the world today where more than 80 per cent of the population are people of faith.

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Before joining Education Northwest, Fleischman was a vice president at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), where he created and led a number of U.S. Department of Education - funded school improvement projects such as the Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center, the Supplemental Educational Services Quality Center, and the Scientific Evidence in Education Forums.

Specifically, this project has two key elements: (1) a one - day convening (12/12/14) that forges relationships among stakeholders in Hampden County's early education field with influential leaders and experts from across the nation, where they engage in mutual learning and dialogue around the goal of strengthening individual and organization capacities to advance early learning for all; and (2) a multi-pronged communication strategy, rooted in the convening and designed to provide guidance around the field's most pressing needs, with a particular focus on strengthening the quality of Pre-K for at - risk children, like many of those growing up Hampden County.

EduTECH is the perfect example of quality PD, where you can join your peers and some of the greatest education scholars and researchers of our time to swap ideas and learn from each other.

Until now, the single biggest factor influencing the quality of education was where you live.

Simultaneously, we are examining the nature and quality of the settings where children receive their early education and care.

He went on to serve in the New York City Department of Education, where he helped open new, high - quality district and charter schools, support the turnaround of struggling schools, and advocate for admission and enrollment changes that led to thousands more New York City students being better prepared for college and careers.

As with parental education, family income may have a direct impact on a child's academic outcomes, or variations in achievement could simply be a function of the school the child attends: parents with greater financial resources can identify communities with higher - quality schools and choose more - expensive neighborhoods — the very places where good schools are likely to be.

Where there is nascent accountability for the quality of courses, it's often a byproduct of the push for accountability in traditional education.

There are also some ways where we can truly see the improvement in the quality of education once it started implementing the technology.

• Good principals are likely to make more personnel changes in grade levels where students are under - performing, supporting the belief that «improvement in teacher effectiveness provides an important channel through which principals can raise the quality of education.»

Especially in education, where I fear there is remarkably little front - end quality control, it is entirely appropriate that any system of evaluation should be routinely identifying teachers as low - performing and remediating or terminating them.

Marla Ucelli - Kashyap is Assistant to the President for Educational Issues at the 1.6 million member American Federation of Teachers, where she leads a team of professionals working on key areas of policy, practice and professional development aimed at helping teachers and their unions improve education quality and their profession.

Among its philanthropic interests are K - 12 education reform, freshwater and marine conservation, and quality of life issues in the state of Arkansas (where Walmart was founded).

It should not come as surprise that even after the extraordinarily ambitious school finance reform legislation is fully implemented, in some — and perhaps even in many — districts the quality of a student's education will still be dependent on where a child is born, and on the wealth of his or her parents.

And then there are charter schools that are a welcome breath of fresh air to parents who, perhaps like me not too long ago, can only afford to live in neighborhoods where the traditional schools in that community are not of the highest quality, but desire a high level of education, nonetheless, for their child (ren).

Whenever life as a single mother happened and we had to move due to financial lack, my first and biggest question was the quality of the education provided within any potential community where we might live.

It plays a visible role in the education policies of nations where there is a wide range of teacher qualifications and therefore uneven teacher quality.

And in a public education world where the unions have typically been able to protect even the lowest - performing teachers, that kind of quality upgrade seemed doable only because the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had offered the city a grant that required the union to cooperate in return for a huge injection of funds into the school system.

Where we have a fair system of funding while insisting on a quality education for every child, in every school.

Before joining Education Northwest in 2009, Fleischman was a vice president at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), where he created and led a number of U.S. Department of Education — funded school improvement projects such as the Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center, Supplemental Educational Services Quality Center, and the Scientific Evidence in Education Forums.