Sentences with phrase «while rewarding schools»

Brown could have just as easily been talking about the CORE system, as for the first time it is an accountability system that takes into consideration the extra challenges high - needs students face while rewarding schools that are able to overcome these challenges.

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Student loans will relieve you from the burden of finances while you're in school, and taking responsibility now to account for your loan balances will reward you in the long - run.

Using the Chase Ultimate Rewards mall can also be a great way to earn points while doing your back - to - school shopping or Christmas shopping.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

Nordic countries» teaching methods reaping rewards Unesco statistics of tertiary education enrollment by country show that while 21.5 per cent of Maltese students successfully enrol into university each year, 70 per cent of the students in Nordic countries continuing their education after secondary school.

Rules child will follow while at school (e.g., food sharing rules, whether he can accept party treats or food rewards, whether he can eat a school lunch)

If you're looking for ammo, give your school principal a copy of The Use of Food as Reward in Classrooms: The Disadvantages and the Alternatives (while geared toward the state of Kentucky, a national version of this excellent white paper is in the works — so stay tuned!).

Cuomo's policies will punish teachers, students, and schools in communities disadvantaged by poverty, segregation, and under - funding, while they will reward the hedge fund managers who invested more than $ 10 million in last year's election and stand to profit from their charter school investments,» Hawkins said.

Veteran board members and those who regularly advise school boards agree that while being a school board member can be a rewarding job, it is also one of the most difficult and daunting elected positions that exists for anyone who wants to do the job well.

While that film took a slightly more «Dawson's Creek» - style approach to the story, however, «Friday Night Lights» offers a more serious, and ultimately more rewarding, look at the inner workings of a Texas high school football team.

Sonic games have often struggled with providing the speed and excitement implied by the series» namesake hedgehog while also accommodating meaningful and rewarding exploration, but Sonic Boom: Fire and Ice admirably accomplishes both goals in old - school 2D - platformer fashion.

The committee touts the possibility of alternative incentives to exit exams: «Several experiments with providing incentives for graduation in the form of rewards, while keeping graduation standards constant, suggest that such incentives might be used to increase high school completion.»

Michael Podgursky, professor of economics at the University of Missouri, looked at data from the 1999 — 2000 Schools and Staffing Survey and found that when school administrators were asked whether they used salaries to reward «excellence,» only 6 percent of traditional public school administrators answered yes, while «the rates for charter (36 percent) and private schools (22 percent) were much higher.Schools and Staffing Survey and found that when school administrators were asked whether they used salaries to reward «excellence,» only 6 percent of traditional public school administrators answered yes, while «the rates for charter (36 percent) and private schools (22 percent) were much higher.schools (22 percent) were much higher.»

Even on a trial basis in grades four through eight, such a program could help states shave school spending by two or three percent — tallying hundreds of millions in some cases while rewarding excellent educators.

First, it should be conceded that Duncan has a great idea, rewarding states willing to undertake reforms such as launching high - quality charter schools (while closing bad ones) and using data to evaluate teacher effectiveness.

While some are concerned that students might be exiting the system before they are ready, others say by rewarding proficiency over seat time, students will leave high school college - and career - ready.

While student achievement results have not been linked to rewards or sanctions for schools until recently, the results of the exams have been distributed to parents annually for at least the past decade, years before implementation of the No Child Left Behind law.

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

The Jacob - Lefgren study also shows that school principals are good at identifying the very best teachers as well as the weakest ones, exactly the capability needed to reward the topflyers while weeding out those who belong in another profession.

They should avoid prescription and both reward and produce rigorous evidence, thus increasing the share of education dollars spent on evidence - based programs while at the same time fulfilling the federal government's unique responsibility for producing and disseminating high - quality evidence on the best ways to improve American schools.

They will do high quality research while helping schools to improve children's lives — not a bad combination for a rewarding career,» said Thomas Kane, Center for Education Policy Research Faculty Director and Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics.

Accountability policies are intended to promote effective instruction and student learning by rewarding effective educators and schools while punishing low performing ones.

Urban schools reinforce the student perception that teachers bear final responsibility for what they learn.By allowing passive witnesses, the schools support these student perceptions that all relationships are (indeed rewarding) students for being essentially authoritarian rather than mutual.As youth see the world, they are compelled to go to school while teachers are paid to be there.Therefore, it is the job of the teacher to make them learn.Every school policy and instructional decision which is made without involving students — and this is almost all of them — spreads the virus that principals and teachers rather than students must be the constituency held accountable for learning.In a very real sense students are being logical.In an authoritarian, top - down system with no voice for those at the bottom, why should those «being done to» be held accountable?

It bemoans the fact, for example, that «while schools that earn Celebration Eligible or Reward status under Minnesota's accountability system demonstrate higher on - track rates for both white and African American students than schools identified for intervention, the difference in on - track rates for white and African American students among these recognized schools are still vast.»

Programs like Race to the Top have penalized underperforming schools, while rewarding high - performers.

have penalized underperforming schools, while rewarding high - performers.

Designed in a partnership between the Denver Classroom Teachers Association and Denver Public Schools, ProComp has received national attention because it rewards teachers for their professional accomplishments while linking pay to student achievement.

Reliance upon supplemental funding through bonds and overrides disadvantages schools; while wealthy districts may be able to generate additional resources, they don't always have community support and underprivileged communities — serving Latino students in particular — often don't take the risk due to the little reward.

They also must have accountability systems that recognize and reward high - performing schools and those that are making significant gains, while targeting rigorous and comprehensive interventions for the lowest - performing schools.

While some of these proposals offer higher compensation or other financial incentives for educators to work in the neediest schools, others reward high - level performance focused on improved student achievement and other identified criteria.

It would be designed by next spring by a coalition of legislators, education associations, teachers, parents, and business and academic leaders, and would offer support to failing schools while rewarding high - achieving schools.

Unlike public school teachers, we don't have the luxury to be rewarded for past glories while we coast in more recent years.

In some variations, schools can pay all teachers more, while further rewarding the best.

Schools have different ways to provide this intervention time during school — teachers might share students to present the relevant material to small groups while students who have proven proficiency are rewarded and given a time to celebrate their success.

«What we are trying to do is change the culture of teaching by giving all educators the feedback they need to get better while rewarding and incentivizing the best to teach in high - need schools, hard to staff subjects.

Now is the time for bold and innovative reforms that reward teachers and schools that show significant progress while holding failures accountable.

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While Families for Excellent Schools and the entire charter school industry continue to expand their lobbying efforts, Neil Vigdor, of the Hearst Media Group, reports that Families for Excellent Schools and other so - called education reformers have set up another Political Action Committee that they will be using to reward and punish candidates who support or oppose their agenda.

One main concern is reference bias, or the effect of survey respondents» reference points on their answers.37 Students, for example, attending competitive schools often rate themselves as having less self - control or as less hardworking because of their schools» rigorous expectations.38 Accordingly, some experts caution that using SEL to classify schools could ultimately punish high - performing schools while rewarding low - performing schools.39 Additionally, teachers may misinterpret behavior, erroneously rely on first impressions, or incorrectly equate their opinion of a student with the student's social - emotional skills.40

$ 91,000 in campaign donations flowed to Connecticut Democrats from a single wealthy businessman and charter school advocate, Jonathan Sackler, and three members of his family; those donations and others from Wall Street were rewarded with proposals for over $ 21 million in new charter school funding while public school spending remains flat.

While «family involvement» often is a series of activities or events, our parents are invited to join us as partners in planning, organizing and creating rich, rewarding experiences that lead to a school culture of positive character and academic growth.

In fact, Johnson (2005) recently described a new law in Texas that rewards students who have shown proficiency on the state test with 2 weeks off from school (during the school year) while teachers concentrate on preparing the other students for the test.

How much damage will we let him wreak on the public schools while he rewards crooks like Steve Perry, Adamwowski, The Foxwood Principal from Bridgeport, the No Doctor, Doctor from New London.

While many state policymakers are continually drawn to accountability measures that rely on sanctions and rewards, effective school and district leaders know that true accountability can only be attained when teachers have the necessary knowledge and skills to improve student learning.

Effective vocational schools can propel a student into a rewarding career path, while ineffective ones can severely limit a student's post-secondary career / educational options.

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His love and compassion for animals grew even stronger while in vet school where he realized it was tremendously rewarding to help make a difference in the lives of animals and their owners.

Using the Chase Ultimate Rewards mall can also be a great way to earn points while doing your back - to - school shopping or Christmas shopping.

While the arcade style permadeath won't be for everyone, it will no doubt be immensely popular for those players that pushed through similar challenges back in the old school console days and the incredibly punishing, yet rewarding games found at the local town arcade.

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