Sentences with phrase «although school achievement»

Although school achievement affects self - esteem and vice versa, the focus on improving student self - esteem should not be connected solely to improving academic achievement.

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Fact: Although there are many similarities between adoptive and biological parenting — for instance, comforting your child after a fall or taking pride in your child's achievements at school — there are many differences.

Most evaluations of early education programs show that such programs improve children's school readiness, specifically their pre-academic skills, although the distribution of impact estimates is extremely wide, and gains on achievement tests typically fade over time.

Although there were some small - scale random - assignment experiments of the effects of desegregation on test scores, most of what we know today concerns the relationship between a school outcome such as achievement on the one hand, and racial composition on the other.

Washington — Although the federal Chapter 1 program bypasses some schools with high poverty rates and some students with low achievement levels, it generally reaches the disadvantaged children it was meant to benefit, a new Education Department study concludes.

For instance, although he cites one successful example of an effort to move poor kids into schools in better neighborhoods, the Moving to Opportunity program — a randomized, controlled trial of this approach — has not had much success in boosting school achievement among poor kids.

Although the results varied considerably between schools, the overall achievement of students across the 28 schools represents an average effect size of 0.6, which can be seen the shift in the relative proportions in each zone of the LAF from August to November shown in Figure 1.

Although there is some indication that the implementation of MCAS testing has improved curriculum and helped push students and teachers to focus more aggressively on academic achievement, the potential consequences of depriving thousands of students a high - school diploma is simply unacceptable to most teachers.

Although income and achievement are correlated, the Broader, Bolder Approach to school reform errs in ignoring other, more important factors

Although ERI had a substantial impact on the experience level of teachers in Illinois schools with many teachers eligible for early retirement, those changes do not appear to have had a negative impact on student achievement.

Although his book contains a chapter of suggested reforms that might help close the achievement gap, reforms within schools are noticeably absent.

Although we found substantial drops in achievement during middle school for both groups of students, the first - year drop and cumulative deficit were, respectively, 50 percent and more than 200 percent greater for students who start at the lower end of the achievement distribution.

The gains in schools that received «high - dosage tutoring in math were dramatic,» and the study found that although the tenets of the program worked together to produce strong overall results, tutoring was, on its own, «highly effective in increasing achievement.»

Although a number of recent studies analyze the relationship between charter school attendance and student achievement, this is the first analysis of the impacts of charter school attendance on educational attainment.

Although the study showed that parents» involvement in school events still had a positive effect on adolescents» achievement, it did not rank as highly as parents conveying the importance of academic performance, relating educational goals to occupational aspirations, and discussing learning strategies.

Although comparable measures of the rate of student learning are not available for Chile, researchers studying the Chilean school system typically consider a difference in student achievement of 10 percent of one standard deviation to be a small to moderate effect.

New Jersey's is a complex and troubled public school system: although the state ranks in the top 5 on most nationally normed tests (NAEP, SAT, ACT), it has one of the worst achievement gaps in the country — 50th out of 51 in 8th - grade reading, for example.

Although SMSC is being promoted within schools across the UK, it is not yet able to be factored into existing curricular, and so ThoughtBox programmes have been designed without a set agenda of achievement; simply as a tool to engage students» minds and encourage them to think, feel and unlearn for themselves.

Although P.S. 154 only has had Experience Corps volunteers since November 2003, Raymond DeJesus, the assistant principal for the K - 5 school's lower grades, said he already sees an improvement in student achievement.

Ironically, although Catholics historically placed less emphasis on education than did adherents of many other religions, their resistance to state - run schooling in many countries helped create institutional configurations that continue to spur student achievement.

Performance metrics tied directly to student test - score growth are appealing because although schools and teachers differ dramatically in their effects on student achievement, researchers have had great difficulty linking these performance differences to characteristics that are easily observed and measured.

Although school culture tends to prize individual effort and achievement, many cultures (and increasingly 21st - century STEM careers) value cooperation and collaboration.

Although a variety of factors affect student achievement, the greatest factor was the reduction of anonymity — going to a school where someone knows you and your name.

ACARA's Chief Executive Officer Robert Randall said although the results show steady student achievement, there are some great examples of sustained effort and improvement in school level results, which will be evident when the My School website is updated in Marchschool level results, which will be evident when the My School website is updated in MarchSchool website is updated in March 2015.

Although, as the authors note, «most non-urban students do reasonably well in any case,» the causal effect of a year of non-urban charter attendance is a substantial reduction in achievement in all levels and subjects, on the order of 0.16 standard deviations in middle school with almost a quarter of a standard deviation decline in high school math.

The DuFours say that although it's hard to quantify the impact of the PLC at Work model because their books, articles and presentations offer many avenues into the program, more than 200 U.S. schools have been recognized as models of the process as a result of significantly improved student achievement.

Although a new federal law will require elementary and middle schools to try to raise student achievement, researchers meeting here last week said the federal government should play a role in improving high schools as well.

Although it didn't get much attention at the time, the Coleman Report actually identified a possible answer: «the quality of teachers shows a stronger relationship [than school facilities and curricula] to pupil achievement.

Although the math achievement of students who entered middle school in 7th grade improves by 0.05 standard deviations in 9th grade relative to students who attended K — 8 schools, the same pattern is not evident in reading or in either subject for the much larger group of students who entered middle school in 6th grade (see Figure 2).

Although every school system has its own set of unique challenges, several challenges are universal and, therefore, would be good candidates for competitive programs: developing new models of teacher preparation; developing new forms of in - service training for teachers which actually improve student outcomes; spreading effective charter school practices; and closing the achievement gap.

«Although it is too early to draw sweeping conclusions, the initial indications are that the average student attending a charter school has higher achievement than he or she otherwise would,» Miss Hoxby said.

This was a highly contentious issue, although, based off of the data, it should not have been; academic, student retention rates, parent satisfaction surveys, student and staff surveys would indicate that our school community has been committed to our values of Student Achievement, We Serve, and Continuous Improvement for 10 years now.

Although it produced some success in boosting achievement levels, there's bipartisan agreement that it's too inflexible and that states need more authority to design school improvement standards.

Although Gaetz's bill does not include fiscal expenditures, as noted in the main text (§ IV, supra), in reviewing the start time / academic achievement studies undertaken by fellow economists, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics Jonah Rockoff and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, concluded that delaying middle and high school start times «from roughly 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. -LSB-,]» will increase academic achievement by 0.175 standard deviations on average, with effects for disadvantaged students roughly twice as large as advantaged students, at little or no cost to schools; i.e., a 9 to 1 benefits to costs ratio when utilizing single - tier busing, the most expensive transportation method available.

Maryland's public school students made greater gains on a national standardized test than their peers in nearly every other state, although the achievement gap between white and minority students persists.

Although Student Achievement, School Growth, and Closing the Gaps are certainly not the only measures of student success, they are an excellent starting place for the board to begin the dialogue.

Bryan authored a much - discussed draft of legislation last year that would have funneled five of the state's lowest - performing elementary schools into the state - controlled achievement districts as a pilot program, although the notion did not gain any significant traction during the General Assembly's long budget debates last summer.

And a new study from the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University — although not studying the important question of whether teachers who receive high scores on TAP evaluations tend to produce greater gains in their students» test scores — found that a small sample of secondary schools using TAP produced no higher levels of student achievement than schools that hadn't implemented the TAP program.

Although the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education (SAGE) program is well accepted and attempts to meet some of these student needs, it has not reached some high poverty schools.

Although phonemic awareness does not involve decoding or reading any words, phonemic awareness has been found to be a strong predictor of reading achievement during a child's first years in school.

Although the district has made equity and closing wealth - and race - based achievement gaps a priority, School Board president James Howard said he's OK with the Franklin - Randall parking privilege.

Although ever - increasing external demands to raise student achievement amidst budget cuts are raising stress levels for many educators, school leaders, like company CEOs, may be able to unleash creativity and collective problem - solving by reframing threats as challenges — for example, by converting the fear of school failure into the challenge of helping students succeed.

Although they claim to be «public» educational institutions, and are in fact funded with taxpayer dollars, no genuine public school would ever try or get away with the dubious education policies and practices that Achievement First engages in.

Many of these states, such as Colorado, Louisiana and Ohio, say that achievement must count for 50 % of the teacher evaluations, although that is often divided into various methodologies, some of which are school - wide.

Muir says that although the school did administer a standardized achievement test, that program did not: 1) provide a sufficient measure of proficiency against state requirements; 2) enable progress monitoring; or 3) include math - skills benchmarking.

Although the goal of the majority of schools today is to have higher student achievement on standardized tests, the promise of that happening depends upon the school community as a system: (1) becoming student - centered (Comer, Meier, Darling - Hammond), and (2) learning how to reach and teach the diversity of students (Dewey, Johnson, Wheelock, Goodlad, Gay).

Although white test - takers and ELL test - takers are largely not educated in the same public schools, there are public schools that educated both white and ELL students.8 To gauge how much of the ELL achievement gap is due to white students and ELL students attending different schools, this section of the report measures the difference in math proficiency, based on the state assessment tests, between ELL students and white students who attend the same schools.

Although we can help decrease the achievement gaps in elementary schools, there are many other practices we can use to help shrink the gaps.

However, if a gifted child has lost the motivation to learn, he or she may not do well in school, although achievement test scores will usually remain high.

Although charter school companies like Jumoke Academy and Achievement First, Inc. have been unwilling to take their fair share of students who face language barriers and children who have special education needs, Malloy and Pryor have been diverting millions of dollars away from public schools to finance charter school operations.