For instance, Peter Hinrichs, «When the Bell Tolls: The Effects of School Starting
Times on Academic Achievement,» Education Finance and Policy, 2011, found no benefits in terms of ACT scores.
The Causal Effect of School Start
Time on the Academic Achievement of Adolescents,» American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011.
Not exact matches
It's easy to fall into the mindset that you'll have
time to be happy and enjoy yourself after you accomplish x, y, and z. However, human nature (and plenty of
academic research) suggests that after each major
achievement, our brain adapts and then sets its sights
on a new goal.
The Massachusetts Expanded Learning
Time (ELT) Initiative is based on the notion that providing teachers with more time to teach and plan, and giving students additional exposure to academic enrichment and extracurricular activities, will increase student achievement and teacher effectiven
Time (ELT) Initiative is based
on the notion that providing teachers with more
time to teach and plan, and giving students additional exposure to academic enrichment and extracurricular activities, will increase student achievement and teacher effectiven
time to teach and plan, and giving students additional exposure to
academic enrichment and extracurricular activities, will increase student
achievement and teacher effectiveness.
Educators and the education policy community will be familiar with his work
on topics including homework, extra-curricular activities, remediation in higher education, and the impact of part -
time jobs
on academic achievement.
Jefferson is so successful, the Harvard researchers conclude, because it has «more instructional
time, a relentless focus
on academic achievement, and more parent outreach» than other schools.
Illustrative of this, when we divided teachers into five equal - sized groups based
on the average prior
academic achievement of their incoming students, we found that roughly three
times as many (29 %) of the teachers with the least prepared incoming students were identified as low performing based
on classroom observations relative to teachers with the most prepared students incoming students (11 %).
At the same
time, we can't allow for definitions of
academic growth and
achievement to focus too narrowly
on exams (the approach embodied by NCLB).
In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for
academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the
time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developme
time and effort needed to succeed); More
Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developme
Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus
on Results (scores
on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus
on character development).
Participation in afterschool programs is influencing
academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by
achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in
academic achievement test scores; greater
on -
time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.
Because they're already above the «proficient bar» in
academic achievement at a
time when most federal and state policies are fixed
on boosting low achievers over that bar, schools and teachers have little incentive to focus
on their educational needs or to devote resources to their schooling.
For Winn, a better alternative would be to base accountability not
on a student's
academic «status» at any one point in
time, but instead
on documented «growth» in
achievement.
It inaugurated big -
time federal aid to K - 12 education, initially in the name of equitable opportunity, now more targeted
on academic achievement and gap - closing.
A research professor of education at New York University, Ravitch recently published a book, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools — which argues that the crisis in American education is not a crisis of
academic achievement, but of the destruction of public schools across the country — that landed in the number 10 spot
on the New York
Times Best Seller list.
Performance - based compensation systems must consider gains in student
academic achievement as well as classroom evaluations conducted multiple
times during each school year among other factors and provide educators with incentives to take
on additional responsibilities and leadership roles.
Other school characteristics associated with better student
achievement included: more
time spent
on English instruction; teacher pay plans that were based
on teachers» effectiveness at improving student
achievement, principals» evaluations, or whether teachers took
on additional duties, rather than traditional pay scales; an emphasis
on academics in schools» mission statements; and a classroom policy of punishing or rewarding the smallest of student infractions.
For school leaders who have been under pressure to meet standards and improve
academic achievement, December provides a
time to reflect
on the past few months -LSB-...]
Describing the most important aspects of instructional leadership in more detail and clarity, this refined version of the framework helps school leaders better identify areas for instructional improvement and focus their
time and energy
on academic achievement for all students.
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.
As we have worked together to craft our revised Denver Plan this spring, I have spent much
time engaging with our teams
on how to best accelerate our
academic improvements and close our
achievement gaps.
He wants states to use funds to ease limits
on charter schools, tie teacher pay to student
achievement and move for the first
time toward common
academic standards.
Summary: In a
time where the focus is
on academics and
achievement even for our youngest students.
Expanding School Resources and Increasing
Time on Task: Effects of a Policy Experiment in Israel
on Student
Academic Achievement and Behavior
That allows teachers to spend more classroom
time on academics but the connection to student
achievement can often be indirect.
Studies of students who attend high - quality programs for a significant period of
time show improvements in
academic performance and social competence, including better grades, improved homework completion, higher scores
on achievement tests, lower levels of grade retention, improved behavior in school, increased competence and sense of self as a learner, better work habits, fewer absences from school, better emotional adjustment and relationships with parents, and a greater sense of belonging in the community.
In an effort to settle the case, the district and its teachers» union reach agreement
on an evaluation program that factors in standardized test scores as well as
Academic Growth over
Time, a mathematical formula used to measure student
achievement.
The focus
on high expectations, high levels of
achievement, and college readiness for all has lead to a school year that has not
time for anything except
academics, and it doesn't even have
time to do that properly if you're a student who doesn't get something the first
time it's taught.
Meanwhile, TAPTM: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement, adopted by districts across the country, created a system of master teachers and mentor teachers to help alleviate some of the
time burden
on principals by providing full - or part -
time release hours to conduct teacher evaluations; provide extensive feedback and instructional demonstrations; identify context - relevant, research - based instructional strategies; analyze student data; create school - wide
academic achievement plans; and interact with parents.
Each
time a taunt based
on a child's exceptionality (such as «nerd» or «dweeb») is permitted in the classroom or
on the playground, each
time a highly gifted child is deliberately held back academically, each
time a school policy prohibits
academic acceleration or continuous progress, we need to ask, «What messages are we giving all children about developing talents, about the value of
academic achievement, and about intellectual diversity?»
The principal focused
on retaining and hiring effective teachers, implemented data - based decision making, increased learning
time, and concentrated
on family engagement to significantly increase
academic achievement.
At the same
time, Connecticut has one of the nation's largest
academic achievement gaps, and Governor Malloy has faced pushback from teachers unions
on his efforts surrounding teacher evaluation.»
And, Fletcher said, the program's key measure of student
achievement — known as
Academic Growth Over
Time — is based
on state standardized tests that will be phased out in the next few years as California moves toward a new national curriculum and assessments.
Teachers are the most important in - school factor for student
achievement.97 Indeed, research estimates that teachers have two to three
times the effect of any other school factor, such as school services and leadership,
on student
academic performance.98 An oft - cited study underscores the scope of this effect, finding that students with three consecutive high - performing teachers scored approximately 50 percentile points higher than students placed with three consecutive low - performing teachers.99
USDE further elaborated that at that
time, the only choice for special education students was to either take a grade - level assessment or an alternate assessment based
on alternate
academic achievement standards and that neither of these options provided an accurate assessment of what these students know and can do.
Tillman said this week he'd be in favor of changing the formula to better account for students»
academic growth over
time rather than one - day
achievement on tests.
Educators have always nurtured such skills in children, but pressure to demonstrate
academic achievement still causes many schools to focus most instructional
time on core
academics.
In a summary of the studies
on extended
time in «School Reform Proposals: The Research Evidence», noted researcher Gene Glass found that increases in the
time allocated for schooling would be expensive and would not produce appreciable gains in
academic achievement — especially as compared to smaller classes.
At the same
time that DoDEA is expanding data collection
on its graduates, there is strong bipartisan support for an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that would require states and school districts to report the
academic achievements of children from military families.
Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over
time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that
academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average
academic achievement (as opposed to very good
achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based
on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in
time.
Includes articles about sleep
timing and quality; racial / ethnic differences; role of sleep disruptions in emotional security and
academic achievement; behavior development; marital relationship in the 1st year of life; family stress and insomnia; and other effects of sleep disturbances
on family dynamics.
In evaluating the deleterious effects of missing in - school
time, empirical research has almost exclusively focused
on absences, and the scant amount of empirical literature
on tardiness has focused
on academic achievement.
On a yearly basis, data with regard to
time in program,
academic achievement, behavioural problems and anxiety problems were collected.
In another study, observations of peer victimization during class
time predicted restricted growth within one
academic year
on students» state - based standardized reading
achievement test scores, after statistical control of their previous reading
achievement test scores, ADHD symptom severity, and ability grouping (i.e., tracking) in their classroom [30].