Sentences with phrase «about early achievement»

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The home page talks about him, who is he, his early life and his achievements.

In his first book, about the antipoverty work of the Harlem Children's Zone, Tough stressed the importance of early cognitive development in bridging the achievement gap between poor and more affluent students.

Other studies have shown about half of the behavioral, achievement, and emotional problems seen in boys from divorced families could be identified as early as four year prior to the divorce.

Drawing an emotional response from the audience, more than a dozen Chicago Public School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this month.

Perhaps no one will be watching as closely as President Obama, who insists he won't get an early heads up from the justices about their decision on the signature achievement of his four - year tenure.

«This suggests a notable management achievement in the park, considering that thousands of people visited Yosemite annually in the early 1900s, while about four million people visit each year today.»

Tracking young Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from childhood to college, the near - three - hour picture «feels much less like a greatest hits package and more analogous to being in the moment,» according to Rodrigo Perez's review, proving to be «warm, soulful, funny and quietly insightful,» and something of a crowning achievement for the filmmaker, feeling «disarmingly light on its feet, sweet, funny and playful in the early years not unlike the director's movies about kids, but as they mature, so does the movie.»

Anaheim, Calif — The narrowing achievement gap between black and white students, first reported about two years ago, is also beginning to show in college and graduate - school admissions tests, according to a new analysis of national data by the researcher whose earlier analyses first summarized the change.

Despite the popularity of ERI programs, little is known about how inducing experienced teachers to retire early affects student achievement.

Throughout the week, participants learned about the science of early childhood development, early literacy instruction, and the achievement gap.

I think it suggests that if we are to make a real dent in achievement gaps, we need to be better about addressing inequity that exists early on, or become far more aggressive in interventions between 3rd grade and 8th grade.

What can breakthroughs in neuroscience and molecular biology teach practitioners and policy makers about how to promote the early foundations of academic achievement, economic productivity, responsible citizenship, lifelong health, and successful parenting of the next generation?

If Cuomo adopts this spectacularly wrongheaded notion, it will be a clear signal that he simply doesn't give a damn about the children of the poorest New Yorkers, who desperately need energetic and rigorous early childhood interventions if they are to have any hope of closing pernicious and persistent achievement gaps.

«Part of that is that people worried about early reading achievement say, «Oh, well, we sort of know what to do.»

Roger Lowenstein, who visited Brooke earlier this year, shares more about what charter schools are doing differently and how they are closing the achievement gap in Boston and across the country.

For now, I think it is important to note that my colleague Valerie Strauss's distress about the president's emphasis on teachers improving student achievement harks back to an earlier era that will never return.

Every elected official talks about Connecticut's stunning achievement gap and virtually every elected officials knows that early childhood education is the single most important step we can take to ensure more successful educational outcomes.

He explains that since about half of the achievement gap between children from higher and lower economic statuses at age 10 already exists at age 5, education interventions need to start even earlier.

Based on these conversations and what the research was showing, we knew that starting earlier with quality pre-K had to be an essential piece of our policy platform if we were serious about boosting student achievement and helping close the achievement gap.

For example, in order to address concerns about the fairness of using student test scores to evaluate teachers, Hillsborough County Public Schools, in Tampa, Florida, decided early on to focus on the growth in test scores between two points in time rather than a static achievement measure captured only once a year.

Earlier today, the Global Strategy Group, a political consulting and public relations company released a memo about a public opinion survey that it had conducted for the «education reform» advocacy group, ConnCAN, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc..

Aligning a high - quality PreK experience with its overall education reform goals has helped MCPS achieve significant results: almost 90 percent of Kindergarteners enter first grade with essential early literacy skills; nearly 88 percent of third graders read proficiently; achievement gaps between different racial and ethnic groups across all grade levels have declined by double digits; 90 percent of seniors graduate from high school and about 77 percent of them enroll in college.

Therefore, making definitive claims about the outcomes of such programs remains a challenging task.83 Some studies find no link between financial incentives for student achievement and higher test scores, while others see higher achievement for students in systems with performance bonuses.84 A large - scale 2014 study on TIF presented findings on early implementation from 153 districts.

It's too early to draw hard and fast conclusions about the program's effectiveness from those numbers, in part because they only cover one year of achievement data, the secretary cautioned.

I recently read the stream of comments on an article about the author's journey to, and ultimate achievement of, early retirement in his 30's.

If you are a college student, then the best resume format for you will almost certainly include an education section at the top, as academic achievements are likely the best thing you can emphasize about yourself at this early stage in your professional life.

In addition to restricting the details of your resume to the past 15 years and including a career note about your early career history, you may want to add a «Career Highlights» or «Selected Achievements» section below your professional summary to call attention to your most noteworthy career aAchievements» section below your professional summary to call attention to your most noteworthy career achievementsachievements.

«Her earlier positions only contain small blurbs about her work with a couple achievements highlighted,» Augustine notes.

Our findings add insight into the pathways linking early childhood adversity to poor adult wellbeing.29 Complementing past work that focused on physical health, 9 our findings provide information about links between ACEs and early childhood outcomes at the intersection of learning, behavior, and health.29 We found that ACEs experienced in early childhood were associated with poor foundational skills, such as language and literacy, that predispose individuals to low educational attainment and adult literacy, both of which are related to poor health.23, 30 — 33 Attention problems, social problems, and aggression were also associated with ACEs and also have the potential to interfere with children's educational experience given known associations between self - regulatory behavior and academic achievement.34, 35 Consistent with the original ACE study and subsequent research, we found that exposure to more ACEs was associated with more adverse outcomes, suggesting a dose — response association.3 — 8 In fact, experiencing ≥ 3 ACEs was associated with below - average performance or problems in every outcome examined.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.

Also, while both the cognitive advantage and family support explained impacts on early child outcomes, such as school achievement, family support explained more of the effects on juvenile delinquency and about equally explained the effects on school completion.