Sentences with phrase «with academic choices»

These programs offer enhanced learning opportunities in addition to the District's core curriculum, providing families with academic choices and unique opportunities.

Not exact matches

«It is our intention that this endowment provide more students with access to higher education and support the goal of enhancing facilities to make Saint Mary's a compelling choice for both students and members of the academic community,» said Paul Sobey, then - Empire CEO.

«Our research shows that this generation of business leaders wants greater control over educational choices, continued exposure to peers with deep, global experience and more opportunity in their academic experience to self - analyze and self - reflect.»

The thing was with the college was more of the academic rigour and making an argument for an approach being consistent with the Christian faith more than whatever choice was made about that.

She based her choices on academic standing, reputation, size, location, cost and certain campus intangibles that had little if anything to do with religion.

Students 10 - 14 years old, and entering grades 5 - 8, are invited to attend our exciting week long, full - day camp (9:00 AM to 2:30 PM) filled with choices from Academics, Arts, and Athletics, and a Teaching Kitchen lunch.

Voters in the 19th Congressional district are being offered a choice between longtime resident John Faso with a proven track record of cutting budgets, lowering taxes, and working with lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and a radical New York City academic, with no roots in the district, who supports higher taxes, the Iran Nuclear Deal, and ever larger government in Washington.

Agree the basic principles of a workable system based on academic excellence and social justice, possibly with pupil choice at 14, and at least both parties could demonstrate that Irish and British people who call this region home can agree on important issues.

The research looks simultaneously at the importance of a number of college characteristics including cost, reputation, academic facilities and recreational facilities, and bases findings not just on students» stated preferences but compares them with the actual choices they make.

With 15,000 students, 160 academic programs, and an energized campus community, Western offers the focus on students and the faculty access of a smaller college and the academic choice, resources, multicultural diversity, and room to grow of a large university.

Those choices, both at home and in school, are quite familiar; she tackles academic challenges, romantic relationships, a longtime friendship, and ups and downs with her mother and her father.

They suggest that areas with more choice and competition experience better academic outcomes than areas with less choice and competition.

Similarly, when reflecting on a student's academic work or behavior, I might say: «You made a choice to work together with the group, and you ended up with this really great project!»

I was especially interested in the influence of a teacher's gender on students» perceptions, because engagement with an academic subject may be an important precursor to subsequent achievement levels, course selection in high school and college, and also occupational choice.

On the contrary, the evidence seems to suggest that the families that are most in need of school choice — minorities, low - income households, and students with lower prior academic achievement — are more likely to apply.

Many other states, meanwhile, are lagging behind schedule in complying with the provision, which requires that students in consistently low - performing schools have access to a choice of tutoring services or other extra academic help.

The third contrasts parental choice with other «possibilities» — like rigorous academic standards and competent teachers — again giving the impression that they are alternatives to vouchers rather than (as is in fact the case) entirely complementary.

The strategies of that era — including high academic standards for all students, measuring academic progress, improving teaching, and introducing school choice to a monopoly system — found reinforcement in federal law with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001.

«With more than 50 years of experience in assessment..., we felt ourselves to be the logical choice to spearhead a campaign against academic dishonesty — cheating that goes beyond standardized tests,» said Kevin Gonzales of ETS told Education World.

To make this type of funding work, course choice policy should pay course providers not by the number of students they enroll, but by the number of students who complete the course with satisfactory levels of academic achievement.

The top reasons for implementing blended learning were also strong and in line with our observations across the country: create / facilitate personalized learning (73 percent), provide more course choices (58 percent), and improve student academic outcomes (53 percent).

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

The state's landmark 1993 Education Reform Act introduced not only high academic standards, accountability, and enhanced school choice, but curriculum frameworks with a subject - by - subject outline of the material intended to form the basis of local curricula statewide.

Comparing districts with and without systems of choice, Schneider, Teske, and Marschall find little evidence of increasing inequities where choice is available; the academic performance of all schools appears to increase with even limited choice in a district; and parents become more engaged when allowed to choose their schools - thus enhancing the community's social capital.

The research also found that by age 15 or 16 the aspiration to go to university made a large difference to A-level choices, with three quarters of those who felt they were not at all likely to go to university choosing to not continue onto an academic route.

Like all of the other Symonds» students, he began his days with a morning meeting, worked with teacher support in large and small groups, experienced academic choice, lived by rules and consequences, attended art, music, physical education, and media classes, and became a part of the Symonds community.

Mike leads great learning with teachers and schools across the United States and the world on topics such as choice - based differentiated learning, blending social - emotional learning into daily academic work, supporting students with effective and respectful discipline practices, and teacher wellness and balance.

Choice parents were also far more likely to report being «very satisfied» with virtually all aspects of their children's school: its safety, teacher quality, class size, clarity of school goals, teaching moral values, academic quality, teachers» respect for students, and so on (see Figure 2).

Jessica is the author of the Washington Times article, «Rethinking Education with Charter Schools: Choice Leads to Academic Success,» as well as «We Can Prevent Bullying Before it Starts,» (The Washington Blade) and «Educating for Success in Tomorrow's Economy» (The Current).

Connecting with students Edge Hill University recognise that, whilst university reputation and quality / availability of academic degree course will undoubtedly be at the forefront of student choice at the application stage, converting «conditional offers» into actual places taken up can rely significantly upon the whole product offer.

Recent and ongoing projects include a researcher - practitioner partnership focused on familial and school - based relationships that support adolescents» emerging sense of purpose, academic engagement, achievement and post-secondary school transitions; Project Alliance / Projecto Alianzo, a multiethnic study of parental involvement in education during adolescence; and collaboration with a local school district focused on school choice policies to examine equity and access to high quality schools, along with demographic variations in parental priorities and experiences with these policies.

As we consider the merits of private - school choice and what it would take to make it succeed, this initiative deserves particular attention: it is the nation's largest voucher program, accounting for nearly 20 percent of all voucher students nationwide, with 34,299 students receiving vouchers and 313 private schools participating during the 2016 — 17 academic year.

MDRC has previously released two reports on these «small schools of choice,» or SSCs (so called because they are small, are academically nonselective, and were created to provide a realistic choice for students with widely varying academic backgrounds).

Although standardized tests can provide parents with useful information about their child's academic performance, using them to impose uniform standards that so narrowly define «quality» creates perverse incentives that narrow the curriculum, stifle innovation, and can drive away quality schools from participating in the choice program.

Accelerate Progress on Education Boston Globe, June 10, 2013 «By every indication, including early indications of academic performance, we've made a strong start with these policies on choice and innovation.

The policies that were criticized were those that increased attention to academic outcomes at the expense of children's exploration, discovery, and play; methods that focused on large group activities and completion of one - dimensional worksheets and workbooks in place of actual engagement with concrete objects and naturally occurring experiences of the world; and directives that emphasized the use of group - administered, computer - scored, multiple - choice achievement tests in order to determine a child's starting place in school rather than assessments that rely on active child engagement, teacher judgment, and clinical opinion.

«Our goal is to give our community a choice in education, with the knowledge that healthier choices translate into higher academic achievement and college - readiness.»

A Level 1 rating signifies «high performance, a good school choice with many positive qualities,» recognizing academic growth and attainment from UChicago Charter's diverse student body, as well as the various campuses» strong attendance and high quality student data record keeping.

They brought with them pro-school choice literature that — while paid for by a little - known, at least in North Carolina, nonprofit called Public School Options — almost exclusively plugs the controversial N.C. Virtual Academy, an online school run by for - profit operator K12 Inc. that's been troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.

Except, here's the rub: Just like with the illusion of school choice at the lower academic levels (which trickles up), there aren't a lot of other options.

And this argument has recently seen a major boost with the release of a research report by academics from the University of Arkansas that clearly shows the success of school choice....

It is important that these policies, when implemented, encourage career preparation as a dual strategy with academic preparation, rather than an «either - or» choice.

This may be for example sports facilities for schools who are undergoing building work or lack outdoor space, academic support for staff in departments with new colleagues or where resource development is needed, or gaining support from students or teachers in a key area of the schools choice such as maths tutoring, language lessons or developing a school orchestra.

Advocates for school choice in the US (especially for vouchers) also argue that private schools are more adept at providing education to parents with a variety of different academic, vocational or religious preferences for their children.

And this argument has recently seen a major boost with the release of a research report by academics from the University of Arkansas that clearly shows the success of school choice programs worldwide.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

PA Cyber's online learning environments, personalized instructional methods, and choices of curricula connect Pennsylvania students and their families with state - certified and highly - qualified teachers, and rich academic content that is aligned to state standards.

These activities focus on academic, personal / social, and career development with the purpose of preparing the students for postsecondary / college and career choices.

Happily, he thrived for a long portion of his academic career with public school choices.

School choice programs are associated with a positive impact on public school students» academic performance.