Library networks such as Beyond Access stress the importance of capacity building and sustained learning to accompany technological initiatives in development.
Government needs to examine how ingrained in the civil service psyche is a closed, reactive, defensive response to complaints; and how that can be changed into an open, proactive response that encourages real and sustained learning".
The committee, an all-party body, said: "We received substantial evidence that teaching to the test, to an extent which narrows the curriculum and puts sustained learning at risk, is widespread".
A: My friends couldn't sustain learning a language because they didn't have a need.
Findings revealed that all seven girls demonstrated an ability to learn and to sustain learning over time.
Results showed significant immediate and sustained learning gains following the intervention, particularly for children identified as low-achievers.
A stimulating environment ensures that learning is reinforced in a safe environment with trusted adults, which, in turn leads to sustained learning.
There is merit in: broadening access to the intervention, so that more nurses in other contexts can learn a strengths model of care and apply it to their practice; and extending the research to measure sustained learning outcomes and improvements to practice.
Great teaching matters, but there is no evidence that on a systemic level improved instruction can break the causal link between poverty and students' ability to engage in and sustain learning.
One reason for this, according to our own Schools and Staffing Surveys, is that, during the NCLB era, more sustained learning opportunities reverted back to the one-shot, top-down, "drive-by" workshops that are least useful for improving practice.
