Sentences with phrase «choice as an achievement»

The California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) responds to Arizona State University professor David Dr. Garcia's review for the National Education Policy Center's (NEPC) Think Twice think tank review project of CCSA's report: Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap - Closing Reform: The success of California charter schools in promoting African American Achievement.

Last week, one of our local charters, KIPP Bridge, was featured in CCSA's report «Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap Closing Reform: The Success of California Charter Schools in Promoting African American Achievement», which details the performance and enrollment trends of African American students in California's public schools, including charter schools.

You can find those practices in the Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap - Closing Reform report and accompanying Fact Sheet.

The Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap - Closing Reform report shows that California charter public schools are effectively accelerating the performance of African American public school students, and that African American students are enrolled at higher percentage in California charters, among other findings.

These results are highlighted in CCSA's Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap - Closing Reform: The Success of California Charter Schools in Promoting African American Achievement, which shows that, overall, charter schools in California are effectively accelerating the performance of African American public school students, and are earning higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores and proficiency rates statewide, in many urban districts and across all subjects when compared with traditional public schools.

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He reminded the diplomats and dignitaries that the UDHR «was adopted as a «common standard of achievement» and can not be applied piecemeal, according to trends or selective choices that merely run the risk of contradicting the unity of the human person and thus the indivisibility of human rights.»

As a world renowned game creator, Kojima was honored with a «Lifetime Achievement Award» at the 2009 Game Developers Choice Awards and recognized as one of the «10 Important People to Watch» by Newsweek in 200As a world renowned game creator, Kojima was honored with a «Lifetime Achievement Award» at the 2009 Game Developers Choice Awards and recognized as one of the «10 Important People to Watch» by Newsweek in 200as one of the «10 Important People to Watch» by Newsweek in 2001.

When President - elect Donald Trump tapped Betsy DeVos as his pick for U.S. Secretary of Education, he triggered a debate over whether widespread school choice — like the voucher system that DeVos supports — would really boost student achievement across the country.

Many have cited the series of accountability and choice reforms that Florida adopted between 1998 and 2006, under the leadership of Governor Jeb Bush, as the driving force behind the large and rapid improvement in student achievement (see «Advice for Education Reformers: Be Bold!»

Osborne attributes increases in student achievement to expanding school choice and charters, as well as an equitable school choice system.

On the other hand, he defies proponents of charters, vouchers, and other forms of school choice as wishful thinkers disposed to let marketplace theories trump evidence of student achievement while also undervaluing education's civic and cultural roles.

Almost 80 percent of youth picked high achievement or happiness as their top choice, while about 20 percent selected caring for others.

In the end, the teacher professionalism agenda has functioned like a black hole, sucking in much of the available energy, attention, and funds and leaving little for other reforms - not just other teacher - related reforms (such as those urged by the Excellence Commission), but also a very different list of changes (technology, choice programs, preschool, new curricula) that might prove more effective and economical as strategies for boosting pupil achievement.

Reform efforts such as school choice, charter schools, reconstituting schools, and reducing class size all rest on the belief that changes in structure or governance will result in higher student achievement.

The studies were conducted as a partnership with the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas and look at the impact of the vouchers on student achievement and non-cognitive skills, on racial segregation, and on students attending nearby public schools (competitive effects).

Some of these cities» semi-autonomous schools, including Achievement School District schools in Memphis, violate the choice principle as assignment - based schools.

Almost 80 percent of the youth surveyed picked high achievement or happiness as their top choice.»

I take Grissmer's silence as an acceptance of my conclusions that the RAND study shows a weak relationship between spending and student achievement and can not be used to identify good policy choices.

As reform ideas expand from school choice to educational choice — not just where a child learns but how they learn — more research is needed on the accounts to determine how a menu of educational choices affects student achievement and parent satisfaction over a longer time horizon.

Second, magnet schools have been incorporated into the school choice movement as a means of improving achievement and into No Child Left Behind as a way of increasing the opportunities available to children in low - performing schools.

A large 2007 corpus of research [2] in the United States and elsewhere shows that charter and private schools, which are referred to here as choice schools, excel in achievement, parent satisfaction, and students» social engagement.

Debates about school choice policies often focus on their impacts on student achievement, typically as measured by standardized tests.

If the results are largely inconsistent with the hypothesis, as in the case of our study, one retains a healthy amount of doubt regarding the association between achievement and attainment results of school choice evaluations.

As a result of our findings of no consistent statistical association between the achievement and attainment effects in school choice studies we urged commentators and policymakers «to be more humble» in judging school choice programs or schools of choice based solely or primarily on initial test score effects.

Despite decades of one - off interventions and reforms, such as improved curriculum, greater choice and accountability, or teacher training, significant achievement gaps still exist across the country between white and black students, and wealthy and poor students.

One develops a theoretical hypothesis, such as «The achievement effects from school choice evaluations reliably predict their attainment effects.»

This project, in partnership with the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas, addresses the effects of LSP vouchers on the achievement and non-cognitive skills of students offered vouchers, as well as racial segregation and the competitive effects on students in public schools.

What if the key to raising achievement (even as measured by standardized tests) was to have students engage in authentic, student - driven, choice - based, and fun learning?

Almost 80 percent of youth picked high achievement or happiness as their top choice, while about 20 percent selected caring for...

As someone who is concerned about rising inequality, I'm willing to restrict parental choice only when there's evidence that parents are being hoodwinked or when the option they have chosen has a poor track record of fostering student achievement.

And so, sans meaningful accountability — or, put another way, whether the district takes responsibility for and responds to unacceptably low student achievement, as well as other measures of school performance and culture — parents will make other choices.

The strategy is becoming all too clear — ignore poverty, blame the effects of poverty on teachers, maintain the public perception of failing teachers and schools with an A-F formula that is designed to rank order students so that the bottom 33 percent will always exist (no matter how much achievement gains are made), use it to designate teachers and schools with low grades, then create a red herring for an impatient public by offering a placebo known as charter schools and school choice to appease them.

«The public has an interest in disclosure of the scores because they reflect on both student achievement and teacher performance, as well as on LAUSD's choices in allocating time and resources,» Chalfant wrote.

In its letter, NSBA took the opportunity to inform the conversation about the efficacy of school choice on student achievement and school performance and highlight several options that are currently offered by public school districts; from local magnet schools and charter schools authorized by local school boards to public specialty schools, such as military academies and those offering specialized curricula for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

As the only CDFI in the country focused exclusively on the facility and financing needs of charter school organizations, CSDC helps charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build and expand their school facilities with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American public education system

A: As a teacher I benefit from school choice by having the ability to work in a school environment where the achievement gap is most prominent.

As defined by CCE, Personalized Learning tailors the educational experience for every student by embracing individual strengths, needs, interests, and culture, and elevating student voice and choice to raise engagement and achievement.

Secondly: Hess himself has earned a reputation for being racially myopic, especially in his dismissal of focusing on achievement gaps in transforming public education as well as his statement that expanding school choice rewards the supposed irresponsibility of poor and minority families.

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, Volume I — Title I School Choice, Supplemental Educational Services, and Student Achievement (2007) examines the impact of participation in Title I school choice and supplemental educational services (SES) on student achievement, as well as the characteristics of participating stuChoice, Supplemental Educational Services, and Student Achievement (2007) examines the impact of participation in Title I school choice and supplemental educational services (SES) on student achievement, as well as the characteristics of participatinAchievement (2007) examines the impact of participation in Title I school choice and supplemental educational services (SES) on student achievement, as well as the characteristics of participating stuchoice and supplemental educational services (SES) on student achievement, as well as the characteristics of participatinachievement, as well as the characteristics of participating students.

Now retired, Holtz says his experiences teaching and working in a number of school districts of various sizes and demographics make him a superior choice to Evers at a time when Wisconsin has been labeled as having the largest gap in academic achievement between black and white students in the nation.

«This is an exciting year for charter schools, given the emphasis by President Obama's Administration, as well as our own state leaders, on things such as parent choice and academic achievement, which are the core values of our movement,» said Jed Wallace, President and CEO of CCSA.

As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve succesAs I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve succesas New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve succesas the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.

Achievement gaps are the result of opportunity gaps, a reflection of choices we continue to make as a state.

In fact, cities and states with strong school choice programs have seen significant achievement gains in their public schools as increased student options encourages them to be more competitive.

According to the Harvard report, net changes in growth were «driven by shifts in enrollment due to school closures, new school openings, and student choice, as opposed to improvements in achievement growth within existing schools.»

We find that the estimated gaps are strongly associated with the proportions of the test scores based on multiple - choice and constructed - response questions on state accountability tests, even when controlling for gender achievement gaps as measured by the NAEP or NWEA MAP assessments, which have the same item format across states.

School «reform» in this country is well down a specific road, one that seeks to view the public school system as something of a business rather than a civic institution and that promotes choice in the form of charter schools, vouchers, etc., as well as standardized tests as the key measurement of student achievement and teacher effectiveness.

Remarkably, this growth is occurring despite Mayor Bill de Blasio's distaste for school choice, as well as his continuing disparagement of charter student achievement that often outstrips students in traditional schools.

Wylie and other critics maintain that there's no indication that student achievement has improved as a result of school choice.

Longitudinal evaluations of the effects of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP), the voucher program initiated by Governor Thompson, indicate that student achievement outcomes were not consistently affected by vouchers but other vital student outcomes, including educational attainment, civic values, criminal proclivities as well as parent and student satisfaction were positively influenced by participation in private school cChoice Program (MPCP), the voucher program initiated by Governor Thompson, indicate that student achievement outcomes were not consistently affected by vouchers but other vital student outcomes, including educational attainment, civic values, criminal proclivities as well as parent and student satisfaction were positively influenced by participation in private school choicechoice.