Sentences with phrase «'s best for student achievement»

Igo: I'm not sure what statistics you are quoting, but whether parents join PTA or another parent involvement organization, the result is good for student achievement and success!

Four experts faced off in a live debate Wednesday night on a range of issues that swirl around charter schools — whether for - profit schools work, what's best for student achievement, and if charters lead to innovation.

Not exact matches

Achievement First has been assembling its own version of Geoffrey Canada's «conveyor belt»; this year, for the first time, one of the group's charter elementary schools began feeding students into one of their middle schools with four years of Achievement First education under their belts — arriving ahead of grade level instead of well behind it.

«We had good, ambitious goals to eliminate achievement gaps for poor students and we just failed.

This drive for academic achievement leads to high attainment in international academic assessments but has contributed to the curtailment of nocturnal sleep on school nights to well below the recommended eight to ten hours of sleep, putting students at risk of cognitive and psychological problems.

Appearing today before the Senate commerce committee as the nominee for associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Wieman was asked if NASA should play a bigger role in the federal effort to raise student achievement and produce a better - trained workforce.

This concept of race matching — where, for instance, Black students prefer or perform better with Black teachers — has been shown to boost student achievement.

He earned his MBBS, (the equivalent of the MD degree) in 1967, at the age of 22, from Punjab University Medical College, in Amritsar, where he was named «Best Medical Graduate» for that year, winning the Pfizer Award and the Gold Medal for highest achievement as a medical student.

Overall, Canada performs well in student science achievement relative to other countries as measured through the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)(OECD,student science achievement relative to other countries as measured through the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)(OECD,Student Assessment (PISA)(OECD, 2016).

In order to assess student preparation and readiness for the naturopathic medical program, applicants will be required to document evidence of academic achievement, submit a personal statement and three letters of reference, as well as attend an in - person interview.

By contrast, just four states base a majority of schools» summative ratings on «growth for all students,» though this is the best way to evaluate a school's effect on student achievement.

Even for these more - advantaged groups, achievement in math is well below what many other countries are doing for all of their students, regardless of ethnicity or parental education.

Using an online platform to provide a «one stop shop» for updates, academic achievement as well as a reward scheme is a great way to strengthen communication between the school, student and parents.

The weight of social science evidence demonstrates that racially diverse schools are associated with achievement in math and reading, better critical thinking, and increased intellectual engagement for students from all racial groups.

«Good News for New Orleans: Early evidence shows reforms lifting student achievement,» by Douglas N. Harris

Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) Chariman, Professor Barry McGaw, welcomed the announcement, saying its research confirmed that online delivery of NAPLAN tests, tailored by the computer to students» level of achievement, works well and is more engaging for students.

Students made short - term gains in math and reading achievement, were better prepared for high school, and took fewer remedial courses once there.

Rather than attempting to develop and implement solutions for defined student groups, a more effective strategy for closing achievement gaps may be to work to ensure that evidence - based best practice is implemented as widely as possible in every school and every classroom.

In a 2001 report [download PDF (212 KB)-RSB- prepared for the Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy, authors Suzanne M. Wilson, Linda Darling - Hammond, and Barnett Berry credit the Education Enhancement Act for Connecticut's «large, steady gains in student achievement and plentiful supply of well - qualified teachers.»

The Best Teachers in the World: Why We Don't Have Them and How We Could observes, as is now customary, that nothing is more important for student achievement than teacher quality.

In 1999, Michigan increased the reward for good academic performance by offering the Michigan Merit Award, a one - year $ 2,500 scholarship for any student who scores at Level I or Level 2 on the Michigan Educational Achievement Program (MEAP) tests in reading, mathematics, science, and writing.

• There was a widespread, well - justified concern that prior accountability measures based primarily on achievement levels (proficiency rates) unfairly penalized schools serving more disadvantaged students and failed to reward schools for strong test score growth.

By adjusting for the effort students are putting into their studies, I do my best to separate the social consequences of achievement from those of effort to achieve.

I am more persuaded that Common Core influenced the recent shift towards nonfiction than I am that Common Core has significantly affected student achievement — for either good or ill.

The 2006 Child Well - Being Index, released in March by the Foundation for Child Development in cooperation with Duke University and the Brookings Institution, suggests a general lack of progress for K - 12 students, evidenced by flat scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, persistent achievement gaps, and falling high school graduation rates.

In his eight years as Minnesota's governor, Tim Pawlenty's «push against the teachers union grew stronger,» Sherry writes, and he called for tying teacher pay to performance, bringing up the state's standards, and urging state lawmakers to authorize the use of a transparent growth model to see how well schools are really doing to improve student achievement.

[v] Indeed, Matthew Chingos has shown that schools would do well to increase class sizes modestly in order to cover the costs of a longer year; the time - related benefits for student achievement would far outweigh any losses due to larger classes.

They jump on board in a heartbeat for the good of achievement, students, and the future.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

Specific strategies for middle school administrators to use to improve academic achievement and better prepare students for high school are outlined in a report released last week by the National Association of Secondary School Principals.

Newly available data on «reduction - in - force» (RIF) notices received by teachers in Washington State shed light on the consequences of existing layoff policies for student achievement as well as the consequences of adopting alternatives.

If you run a small school in a poor city, and you're trying to boost outcomes for your students by awarding scholarships to encourage attendance and achievement, do you give the scholarships to the best students, or to the neediest?

The K - 20 EDW includes detailed enrollment, demographic, and program participation information for each student, as well as reading and math achievement test scores.

On February 6, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited the Ed School for the Askwith Forum, «Fighting the Wrong Education Battles,» at which he discussed either - or orthodoxies about school reform, including competing claims about the importance of in - school and out - of - school influences on student achievement, and the struggle to advance both a well - rounded curriculum and school accountability.

Fellows are chosen based on their track record for improving student achievement, and are given opportunities to advise local, state, and national policymakers at convenings, as well as informally.

The flat salary schedule for teachers is a good reason for those in Madison to welcome the stipends of $ 6,250 that the district offers to its «master» teachers, who take a leadership role among the faculty, and the bonuses averaging $ 3,400 to teachers who exhibit outstanding classroom performance and student achievement.

If high - income parents are more likely to make a request, and such requests are for better teachers on average, then the availability of requests could exacerbate the achievement gap between students from low - and high - income families, even if all families equally value academic achievement.

These indicate how well a teacher's students did relative to other teachers» students, controlling for prior student achievement and for student and family background characteristics (for example, age, race and ethnicity, disability, free or reduced - price lunch status, and parental education level).

Even after accounting for a host of other factors that influence student achievement, students who eventually attend middle schools go from scoring better than their counterparts in K — 8 schools in the year prior to transitioning to middle school to scoring below where we would expect if they were not attending a middle school.

Give handwritten notes to students to recognize achievements or to thank them for something special they did to make your school a better place.

Celebrate your own success by taking time to see the difference you made for your students» achievement, behavior, and attitudes, and be mindful of how you feel when things go well.

This poverty argument (it's not Tough's) is also oversimplified, since, as the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) reports show, some parts of the world diminish the poverty - achievement correlation far more than the U.S., through better schooling.

It is essential that we develop a system in which the achievements of all students can be recognised and in which students» individual strengths and interests can be used as catalysts for supporting good progress and positive life chances.

Likewise, if a teacher is performing well on the classroom observations and student surveys but had lower - than - expected student - achievement gains, a school leader might give the teacher the benefit of the doubt for another year and hope that student achievement gains will rise.

The institute includes a blend of theory and practice - based techniques for addressing student learning by strengthening instruction and better engaging communities, closing the achievement gap and establishing a positive, safe and goal - oriented school culture.

These narrow goals will also give for - profit schools a powerful incentive to admit and encourage those students whom they expect to do well on achievement tests or who are likely to show the greatest value - added — that is, the greatest improvement in test scores.

Once family background and the nature of the peer group at school were taken into account, student achievement was unaffected by per - pupil expenditure, school size, the science lab facilities, the number of books in the library, the use of tracking by ability levels to assign students to classrooms, or other factors previously assumed to be indicators of what makes for a good school.

With a rising immigrant population, a well - documented achievement gap between white students and students of color, and broadening gaps in wealth of Americans, Deb Delisle, the assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education for the U.S. Department of Education, said that the odds that are against these children were are really related to a gap in «educational opportunity.»

Students performed variously well or poorly and earned (or were awarded) grades according to achievement — A for superior performance, B for better - than - average performance, C for average performance, D for below - average performance, and F for insufficient performance.

Providing a checklist to help schools redefine their meeting styles, the authors argue that meetings can be important venues for organizational learning in schools and an important step to bettering student achievement.