"You would expect that systems with greater choice would come out better because you expect competition to raise performance of the high performers and lower performers, and put out of the market schools and systems that do not succeed.
For the athlete determined to munch on the go, there are shelves worth of prepackaged "energy gels" and bars, even jelly beans, promising to raise performance.
In recent months, however, Mr. Klein and Michele Cahill, his senior counsel for educational policy, have talked about the need to use many different models, including charter schools, to raise performance and accountability and to provide city students and their parents with more choices.
"I think there are some people making state policy who think that teachers have known all along how to raise performance, they've just been lazy, that all you have to do is raise the bar and they will do it," said Mr. Tucker.
In this paper, we present iPEEH, a general technique to raise performance of pitch estimators by enhancing harmonics.
It will also be necessary to revise management-compensation plans substantially and to raise performance criteria for CEOs and board members alike so that only active, engaged directors remain.
But faced with overcrowded classrooms and increased pressure to raise performance, educators need better tools to give students the personalized instruction they need — especially if their classrooms include a broad range of intellectual and developmental needs.
She works to raise performance but not anxiety.
These leaders expressed a desire to understand the data and were then driven primarily by intrinsic professional motivations to seek strategies to raise performance levels.
There were mixed feelings about the involvement of an external organisation to coordinate the survey, possibly on a national basis; staff described a preference for using surveys as part of their own internal quality improvement process, and were resistant to the idea of surveys being used as an "external stick" (Hospital B) to raise performance, or being linked to financial incentives.
