Sentences with phrase «about reading and math»

Education is not only about reading and math.

Klein also reports that a «top staffer overseeing implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act at the U.S. Department of Education has a message for states and districts as they embrace the law's new school quality measures: Don't forget about reading and math.»

These assessments told me more about their computer knowledge than about their reading and math skills.

Although the ESSA and educational officials will continue to care about reading and math scores, the opportunity for states and local school districts to redefine accountability is an exciting one.

«Education is so much more than data about reading and math, and some of the data today is utterly untrustworthy.»

After years of tough - minded superintendents and would - be reformers talking only about reading and math scores, we're now enthusiastically rediscovering that schools are actually supposed to tend to other important stuff too — things like character, decency, perseverance, responsibility, and citizenship.

Parents ought to know about reading and math scores, safety, and the school's candid assessment of their own «state of education.»

I feel like we've been a lone voice on this in an education reform community where most people care about reading and math scores.

Randi Weingarten likes to brag a little about the reading and math test scores posted this year at two New York City charter schools she...

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I read books about the female brain, met with science and math elementary school teachers and nonprofit educators who were doing programs to get kids interested in STEM.

For K and 1st grade you can be done with «school» work (reading, writing, math) in about an hour a day (while the baby naps).

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We talk about how school age students can lose up to two months of reading and math development each summer.

and for me it wasn't just about teaching my kids to read or swim or do math — it was about having fun with them.

And it has become clear, at the same time, that the educators who are best able to engender noncognitive abilities in their students often do so without really «teaching» these capacities the way one might teach math or reading — indeed, they often do so without ever saying a word about them in the classroom.

For the child born late preterm, the preschool and kindergarten health supervision visits are an important opportunity to inquire about skills in early reading and math including letter and word recognition, letter sounds, number recognition, counting and recognition of colors and shapes, which are some foundational skills for school readiness.

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«They've started to teach students about feelings as explicitly as they teach math and reading,» writes Seattle Times education reporter John Higgins.

Studies indicate most students will lose about two months of a grade level in math skills and low - income students lose more than two months in reading.

A data breach at the company that develops New York State's third - through - eighth grade reading and math tests allowed an unauthorized user to access information about 52 students who took the tests by computer last spring, the state's Education Department said on Thursday.

They all work slightly differently, but most of them use a complex algorithm that takes information about your cycle (i.e., basal body temperature [BBT] readings, cycle length, and period start and stop days) and uses math to predict your fertility each day.

But when I stopped to think about just how long I had this jean jacket, and did some math, I came... Read more»

It may be harder to code and analyze essays about paintings than to run another value - added regression on the math and reading scores that the centralized authorities have collected for us, but that doesn't mean it's any less important.

We can say everything we want about how much [credibility] we should invest in a one - time test, but some of the most poignant discussions I've had are with parents who didn't find out until their child was in the seventh or eighth grade that she or he was way behind — not reading up to par, not doing math up to par, and not prepared to take on high - school - level work.

While about two - thirds of SIG schools did register modest gains in reading and math, scores at one - third actually declined over the period.

But something was lost from the Clinton administration, which provided a lot of supportive materials to parents about their children's reading and math.

The difference between affluent and poor students is around three years of schooling, it equates to about three years of schooling in each maths, science and reading literacy — that is really, very concerning.

«Reading and math are a big focus in our district, so they are often discussed; and we often talk about data and what we can do differently across the curriculum.»

The bottom line, as phrased by Education Next's Paul Peterson, Martin West, and Michael Henderson, is that «everyone wants more emphasis on just about everything in school, except athletics, though the general public is especially eager for more emphasis on reading and math, while teachers see greater needs in history and the arts.»

The exam, which takes around 3 and a half hours, asks students to apply reading, math and science skills to real - life situations and respond to questions about themselves and their schools.

The impact on student math and reading achievement differed by about 20 percent of a standard deviation, a difference which the authors note is «striking, roughly equivalent to having a teacher who is at the 16th percentile of effectiveness rather than at the 50th percentile.»

About 62 percent of those responding had trouble finding applicants with the necessary math skills, and 59 percent reported problems finding potential employees with sufficient reading skills.

They read a novel about life in urban America, they write letters to city council members and state representatives, the compile statistics to support their arguments in their letters; in short, they use their discipline - based skills of scientific inquiry, math, literacy, social studies and health to do what people in the real world do — synthesize the skills and knowledge in a meaningful way.

about his findings that later school start times increase student achievement in math and reading and have many other benefits.

The two groups differ by about 20 percent of a standard deviation in students» math and reading achievement (see Figure 2).

And there are real questions about whether it makes sense to equate effectiveness at moving math and reading proficiency with broader instructional excellenAnd there are real questions about whether it makes sense to equate effectiveness at moving math and reading proficiency with broader instructional excellenand reading proficiency with broader instructional excellence.

Tests are given about every three weeks in math, and every four - to - six weeks in reading and language arts.

Now, in 2013, CREDO finds that charter students perform somewhat better in reading and about the same in math as their district counterparts.

◦ Trend: Nearly four out of five respondents favor the federal requirement that all students be tested in math and reading in each grade from third through eighth and at least once in high school, about the same as in the past.

Only about one in four of the high - school graduates who took the American College Testing (ACT) program's college - readiness test last year met the benchmarks in reading comprehension, English, math, and science.

And about one in three Newark students attends «beating the odds» schools, those that outperform schools with similar demographics in their state in reading and maAnd about one in three Newark students attends «beating the odds» schools, those that outperform schools with similar demographics in their state in reading and maand math.

But it seems pretty obvious that reading and math proficiency are critical and easy to judge in straightforward ways, and therefore ought to be a key part of how school districts go about their work.

The sum of the reliable evidence indicates that, on average, private school choice increases the reading scores of choice users by about 0.27 standard deviations and their math scores by 0.15 standard deviations.

Viewed as a group, schools managed by our CMOs achieve rates of proficiency on state assessments in reading and math that average about 9 percentage points higher than those of schools in their local districts (see Figure 2).

The same Stanford researcher conducted an RCT of charter schools in Chicago and found: «students in charter schools outperformed a comparable group of lotteried - out students who remained in regular Chicago public schools by 5 to 6 percentile points in math and about 5 percentile points in reading....

PDK provides more context when it asks whether the respondent had «heard about the new national standards for teaching reading, writing, and math in grades K through 12, known as the Common Core State Standards?»

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

The current lesson is about reading and writing, a dash of math tossed in, much more complex than a casual observer can follow.

«Unfortunately, the majority of students entering Urban Prep read at about the fifth - or sixth - grade level, and most of them are not able to perform math above the seventh - grade level,» explains Allen.