Sentences with phrase «hispanic student subgroup»

Finally, when reviewing the statistically poor performance of the Hispanic student subgroup, the English Language Learner plan was reviewed and revised.

Not exact matches

A combined underserved subgroup similar to Oregon's: aggregating American Indian or Alaskan Native, Black or African American, Hispanic / Latino, and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander students within each grade level.

A study of how Hispanic 10th graders are performing in mathematics and English language arts on Massachusetts» state exams compares the scores of various subgroups of Hispanic students.

For several days in early January, Michaelis and support staff members met with classroom teachers in grades three to six charged with identifying students in different subgroups (Hispanic, African American, English language learners, special education) at levels 1 and 2 with the best chance of scoring at a higher level on the math, reading, or writing section of the CMTs, if they received intensive, targeted remediation.

In math, charter school entry increases performance among all subgroups of students at district schools except Hispanic students and students classified as LEP, who experience no effects; Asian students only experience a significant positive effect in math in district schools located within a half - mile radius.

Among all of the various subgroups we considered, only Hispanic students seem to have experienced increases in isolation.

In reading, Hispanic students experience significant gains, whereas most other subgroups show slightly smaller positive effects.

Instead, schools and students are selected randomly to participate so that enough students take the NAEP test for it to produce usable data for the all students group and for particular subgroups, like Black, Hispanic, and low - income kids.

Indeed, on the most recent Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), black and Hispanic DoDEA students scored significantly above the national average for their subgroups.

Charter schools in New York consistently grew academic achievement among the following demographic groups at significantly higher rates than the same subgroup of students in their district peers: Black, Hispanic, students in poverty, and special education.

«We made AYP 100 percent in each student subgroup,» says Conyers, referring to Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, and Pacific Islander groups.

By requiring the calculation of separate API numbers for student subgroups, it exposed gaps in achievement for low - income students, special education students and Hispanic and African - American children.

Results are most positive for charter schools in urban areas, and several student subgroups see particularly strong positive benefits, including black and Hispanic students, students from low - income families, and students receiving special education services (CREDO, 2015).

He breaks the students down into racial subgroups (Black, Hispanic, Economically Disadvantaged, Special Needs, etc.) and advocates most instruction to be focused on the students within those groups that can most help bring a school's scores up.

The school's student achievement data shows growth in all student demographic subgroups, most notably closing the achievement gap for Hispanic learners.

Likewise, Hispanic students as a whole had a dropout rate of 11.8 percent, but drastic gaps existed among subgroups — Guatemalan students had dropout rates of 27 percent and Dominicans of slightly more than 8 percent.

Advocates contend that the disparity in test scores, often referred to as the «achievement gap,» provides political leverage and forces politicians and other stakeholders to respond to the needs of historically underserved subgroups such as African - American, Hispanic, and low - income students.

Hispanic English language learners showed the greatest learning gains of any student subgroup, with 72 additional days of learning in math and 79 in reading.

While almost all student subgroups have experienced test score gains in math, these improvements were higher among the more affluent black and Hispanic students.

Additionally, the graduation rates for Hispanic, American Indian and African American students in Nevada continue to lag behind the rates of most student subgroups.

Among the subgroups defined by race, black and Hispanic students are overrepresented at the lower levels of achievement and underrepresented at the higher levels relative to white peers.

While each subgroup of students — including economically disadvantaged children — made progress this year, achievement gaps remained stubbornly large: 92 percent of white students were proficient in reading, for example, compared with 52 percent of Hispanic students, 44 percent of black students and 42 percent of poor children.

Virginia Asian, black, Hispanic and white fourth - grade students achieved the highest average scores for their respective subgroups.

In grade 8, black and white students in the commonwealth achieved the fourth - highest state averages for their subgroups, Hispanic students in Virginia ranked fifth when compared with Hispanic students in other states, and Asian students ranked seventh.

Only one year after being designated as a turnaround school, the Grew exceeded its state growth targets for all students, as well as for black and Hispanic / Latino subgroups.

A minimum of 95 percent of students overall must participate in reading and mathematics testing, and 95 percent of students in each of the following subgroups also must take state assessments in these two subjects: white, black, Hispanic, students with disabilities, economically disadvantaged students, and students with limited - English proficiency.