Focusing only on charters making the biggest achievement score gains would miss those charters with more modest achievement results but truly impressive attainment outcomes. (educationnext.org)
And our standards - driven reading instruction in grades K — 3 has been rewarded by modest achievement gains in grades three and four, when reading tests with relatively simple passages still largely reward mastery of decoding. (educationnext.org)
However, restarts will always be few, and the need for change will always be great, so turnarounds — and what I like to call «foolarounds», or schools with modest achievement that just hang out until somebody notices they aren't going anywhere — will always be the order of the day. (voices.washingtonpost.com)