Colleges allocate resources to areas that improve student outcomes rather than improve merely institutional prestige.
It said they come at a time when educators are under unprecedented pressure to improve student performance.
Under the No Child Left Behind law, that means that they have to take steps to improve student test scores.
It debunked the common notion that it takes a long time to tell whether a new school can improve student learning.
And in any case, education researchers have been unable to produce any consistent evidence that low pupil- teacher ratios actually do improve student performance.
What we should be doing is rewarding and replicating the success of schools that have figured out a way to raise their standards and improve student performance.
With the launch of SmartBook and the rest of the LearnSmart Advantage suite, we continue to lead higher education in using adaptive technology to help improve student performance.
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He argues that the succes of KIPP shows that if public schools would spend spend more money and do so with smart investments like KIPP, then they could improve student outcomes.
With more than 1 million unique student users "Since the launch of LearnSmart in 2009, we've developed a deep understanding of how personalized learning through adaptive technology helps improve student performance, " said Brian Kibby, president of McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
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The answer they came up with was to make peace with the teachers unions that had been demonized by the previous administration and with the teachers that had been so badly 44 demoralized and they invited them to join them in thinking through a reform program that would improve student performance.
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This year, Points of Light will launch two programs that have AmeriCorps at the center, a 75 member corps that is focused on equipping returning veterans for the workforce as well as engaging these same veterans as leaders of volunteer activity in their communities and a 72 member VISTA program focused on education in under resourced schools by developing programs that improve student attendance.
Consistent payments and reducing debt will improve a student's credit report and credit score, he said.
"Schools improve and student achievement rises when parents are actively involved in their children's education, " said Schools Chancellor, Joel Klein.
Paul Wellings, chair of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities, called for the review to abide by two principles - to ensure that the cost does not stop people from attending university and the need to improve the student experience.
The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, housed within the Department of Education, will work with the Executive Office of the President and Cabinet agencies to identify evidence-based best practices to improve African American student achievement in school and college, and to develop a national network of individuals, organizations, and communities that will share and implement these practices.
The results matter: In many districts, teachers will be judged on how student scores improve from last year.
To all 50 states, we said, if you show us the most innovative plans to improve teacher quality and student achievement, we'll show you the money.
We launched Race to the Top -- the most meaningful reform for our public schools in a generation -- to invest in innovative State plans that support and improve teacher effectiveness and student achievement.
To help make college more affordable, the first thing Congress can do is to pass a comprehensive reauthorization of the Higher Education Act that includes key reforms to address rising costs, protect student borrowers and improve critical programs.
Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance and enrich and individualize student learning.
To improve job placement, it will arrange student visits to companies interested in hiring international students, and pair them with U.S. student "buddies" to ease the cultural adjustment.
MCC's mission is to provide high quality, accessible and affordable educational opportunities that promote student success, individual development and improve the overall quality of life in a multicultural community.
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But, says Antonio Carlos Ronca, the rector of Sao Paulo's Catholic University, the provao has forced slacker institutions to improve standards, or risk a tide of student defections to higher-scoring universities.
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In one study, student eye surgeons were trained to significantly improve their surgical skills by regulating their own brainwave activity.
It plans to dramatically overhaul 32 Federal agencies to improve performance in key services, such as expediting student loan processing and speeding aid to disaster victims.
The trust said its measures included suspending the governing body, undertaking a full review of the leadership structure, carrying out a staff and student survey and establishing a programme to improve the quality of teaching and marking.
When determining what projects to include in the house, the student group considers questions such as: Does this project improve environmental or social conditions?
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The paper calls for a series of measures to improve the financial position of the colleges, including better funding per student, a VAT exemption and an insurance rebate.
He is also a gifted engineer who as a university student sent a thesis paper to BMW on how to improve the rear design of its racing bikes.
The bottom line to the report is that policy discussions right now focus more on how to test students, what they should learn, how to make their schools better, and how to evaluate and improve teachers, instead of on the single biggest determiner of academic success: student motivation.
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