Sentences with phrase «core district middle schools»

Figure 1: School - level correlations of average student social - emotional skills and indicators of academic performance and behavior for CORE district middle schools

Figure 2 shows the correlations between school - average social - emotional skills and key indicators of academic performance (GPA and state test scores) and student behavior (the percentage of students receiving suspensions and average absence rates) across CORE district middle schools.

Figure 3: Student - level correlations between social - emotional skills and English language arts (ELA) test scores in CORE District middle schools, overall and within schools

Figure 2: School - level relationship between combined social - emotional learning (SEL) measure and English language arts (ELA) test scores for CORE Districts middle schools

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More than 71,000 elementary and middle school students refused to take the state Common Core math test yesterday in 80 of Long Island's 124 school districts that responded to a Newsday survey — nearly 53 percent of those eligible for the exam in those systems.

By the middle of year three, the district had pressured the school to begin using its core curriculum and, like other neighborhood high schools, administer biweekly benchmark tests based on it.

Education Week spent six months reporting on how the District of Columbia's vision of the common - core English / language arts standards is being put into practice in one 8th grade classroom at one school, Stuart - Hobson Middle School on Capitolschool, Stuart - Hobson Middle School on CapitolSchool on Capitol Hill.

Using an article about labor leader Cesar Chavez's grape boycott and hunger strike, these students at Stuart - Hobson Middle School are doing a «close read,» a skill prized by the new Common Core State Standards being put into practice in the District of Columbia.

In this on - demand webinar, two of the people featured in this series — Dowan McNair - Lee, a middle - school teacher, and Brian Pick, a top curriculum official from the District of Columbia schools — discuss how they are implementing the Common Core State Standards in English / language arts.

The CORE Districts are leveraging their comprehensive data system and strengthening their ongoing collaboration to solve a shared problem — middle school math outcomes and the performance gap for African American and Hispanic / Latino students.

Roberta Gerold, the superintendent of Middle Country Central School District, described the Common Core - aligned assessments as a «one - sizes - fits - all program without a real recognition of the need to be attentive to individual needs.»

Several districts and charter schools have taken a middle - of - the - road approach: developing or purchasing a Common Core - aligned curriculum teachers can use as a resource at little to no cost.

Implementation of either new curriculum this year was optional at the district's middle and high schools but common core - aligned curriculum will be mandatory starting this fall, for all Elk Grove students..

While the performance of the district's middle schools tended to break along familiar lines — with the top schools filled with high levels of white students in less impoverished areas — the CORE data for high schools reveal a different story in several key categories.

The State School Board's recent decision to eliminate physical education, arts and health courses as core statewide requirements for middle - school students is seen as a way to give local districts more flexibility in designing curriculum, which is a positive development in the context of allowing more local control over education pSchool Board's recent decision to eliminate physical education, arts and health courses as core statewide requirements for middle - school students is seen as a way to give local districts more flexibility in designing curriculum, which is a positive development in the context of allowing more local control over education pschool students is seen as a way to give local districts more flexibility in designing curriculum, which is a positive development in the context of allowing more local control over education policy.