Evidence
for academic improvement comes almost exclusively from scores on statewide tests, which assess relatively basic skills that many no - excuses schools target with intensive drilling.
The more likely explanation is that private schools in the city are competing with a public - and charter - school system that has demonstrated
substantial academic improvements in recent years.
Results will eventually be used to measure a school's
academic improvement over time, although the state is currently appealing a federal directive to implement scores this year.
This school, led by a savvy, veteran educator, was committed to
constant academic improvement and willing to change course in order to strengthen student results.
All three reduce anonymity in school environments, foster long - term relationships between students and teachers, and result in
overall academic improvement.
Whether competition from charter schools can eventually
spur academic improvements in traditional public schools also depends on the academic performance of the charter schools themselves.
HARTFORD, CT)-- Governor Dannel P. Malloy, joined by Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor, today hat Alliance Districts are set to receive a total of $ 132,901,813 in additional funding for the 2014 - 15 academic year to help implement
academic improvement plans.
Under the Senate plan, districts that do not show
academic improvement across subgroups could face a loss of the funding flexibility provided in the bill.
Under Tuck's leadership, the Partnership raised four - year graduation rates by more than 60 percent and had the
highest academic improvement among California's school systems with more than 10,000 students.
This will be a boon to students at the three elementary schools in the pilot; Superintendent's Zone schools bear that designation because they have been targeted as
needing academic improvement, and students eating breakfast each morning has been linked with better school performance.
School leadership will receive more professional development and teams of «master» and «model» teachers, as designated in the United Federation of Teachers contract, will be deployed to the schools to help
with academic improvement.
Instead of fostering progress and
accelerating academic improvement, many NCLB requirements have unintentionally become barriers to State and local implementation of forward - looking reforms designed to raise academic achievement.
One year into an aggressive, expensive school turnaround initiative, some of Denver's lowest - performing public schools are showing
marked academic improvement by providing an education nearly identical to that of the highest - performing charter schools in the country.
These educators and schools are responsible for overseeing substantial
academic improvement at their schools, establishing sustainable business practices, designing highly ambitious goals for their schools, and showing valid achievement and growth data.
Public school students made greater
academic improvements as their school choices increased under Florida's tuition voucher program, a study says.
«While Vallas may have been the right choice to clean up the administrative act immediately, he really doesn't have the skills to
do academic improvement,» says Dorothy Shipps, a Columbia University education professor who served for three years as one of the directors of the University of Chicago - based Consortium for Chicago School Research.
The Truth: Nearly every study on the topic, even those conducted by anti-school choice organizations, shows school choice programs
drive academic improvements in public schools.
A new meta - analysis has been released showing that student benefits from Social Emotional Learning can be long - lasting in several areas,
including academic improvement.
For school communities not yet dedicated to arts education practices, PAIR arts integration methods and practices provide a potent strategy for improving
school academic improvement and equity simultaneously.
It's not clear if Carranza saw the letter before he told Chalkbeat last week that the Renewal program lacks a single clear «theory of action» and noted that simply providing a package of social services (as the city does by making each Renewal a «community school») «doesn't
cause academic improvement.»
Facing a dilapidated set of facilities that
discouraged academic improvement and scared off middle - class parents, Vallas and the equally ambitious Chico, who recently announced his intention to run for the U.S. Senate, embarked on a $ 2.5 billion school construction and renovation program that was at one point the largest building project in the nation, according to Vallas.
True educational equity comes from comprehensive school reform, which
incorporates academic improvements along with health care, housing policy, funding changes, family support and other policies that allow students to go to class safely and actually focus on their work, and that provides teachers with a work environment and enough support to operate creatively, not like infantilized robots.
Shaping education policy decisions in California and across the nation on issues ranging
from academic improvement to equity and access.
This addressed a key limitation of decentralization - namely, that organizational changes at the school level can not
compel academic improvement across the system.
While authorizers collect written assurances that schools will follow federal and state laws specific to students with IEPs (including federal law that
specifies academic improvement for most students with IEPs), it's unclear why a relatively low proportion of authorizers don't use more tools to understand applicant plans for recruiting students with IEPs or ensure applicants have a high bar for outcomes.
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