Sentences with phrase «decades of school effectiveness»

Professor Richard Murnane delivers the faculty speech at the 2011 HGSE convocation titled, «Five Challenges from Five Decades of School Effectiveness Research.»

The title of my talk is: «Five Challenges from Five Decades of School Effectiveness Research.»

Not exact matches

Model two would deploy «behavior modification» accountability methods, refined through decades of public sector reform, to force low - performing schools and districts to set goals, assess effectiveness, and do better.

Historically, state and local policies have tended to treat all teachers as if they were equally effective in promoting student learning, 1 but a good deal of evidence amassed over the past decade documents enormous variation in teacher effectiveness.2 The effectiveness of a teacher is indeed the most important school - based factor determining students» levels of academic achievement, yet few state and district policies reflect this finding.

The reading scores of 17 - year - olds on the National Assessment of Educational Progress constitute the single most accurate indicator of the effectiveness of our schooling, and as we look at the low reading scores of 17 - year - olds over the past few decades of reform, we see no real movement.

It seems odd to me that we are still arguing about the effectiveness of high - stakes testing after two decades of testing has had ZERO positive impact on schools.

We are paid using the same antiquated system established four decades ago: incremental salary increases with every new contract, automatic raises for time in the classroom regardless of our success, and rewards for graduate school classes that are required by law but have shown no correlation with teacher effectiveness.

She has focused her recent research on the effectiveness of numerous school and district educational interventions designed to improve student achievement and has more than two decades experience conducting mixed methods studies.

Together, the consortium reviewed decades of research on teacher effectiveness and implemented data - based studies of diverse schools.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

In 1992, an economist called Eric Hanushek reached a remarkable conclusion by analysing decades of data on teacher effectiveness: a student in the class of a very ineffective teacher — one ranked in the bottom 5 % — will learn, on average, half a year's worth of material in one school year, whereas if she was in the class of a very effective teacher — in the top 5 % — she would learn a year and a half's worth of material.

Two decades of experience with the use of school counselors in rural areas of Russia has demonstrated their necessity in supporting students, but their further development and increasing effectiveness requires a significant increase in resources provided to them.

As the charter school movement edges into its third decade, with enrollment reaching a critical mass at five percent of all public - school students, it appears to be taking stock of its own effectiveness.

For decades, principals have been recognized as vital to the effectiveness of schools, but strong empirical evidence on the extent to which, and the ways in which, school leaders matter has not been available.

Decades of school reforms and volumes of school effectiveness literature have produced very thin gruel as to what would help these students learn more efficiently.