Sentences with phrase «academic improvement among»

Under his leadership, the partnership increased 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.

Under Tuck's leadership, these schools raised four - year graduation rates by more than 60 %, and had the highest academic improvement among California's school systems with more than 10,000 students.

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But if the assessments of Cao and Miller are correct — if UC postdocs will indeed rank among the nation's top postdoc earners, if the new workplace protections really are without precedent in so elite an academic system, and if the pact in fact heralds serious economic improvement — these facts say more about the generally dismal circumstances of young academic researchers than they do about the prosperity and security in store for those employed at UC.

A national school - based mental health program that is now reaching almost one quarter of all elementary school students in Chile appears to have produced significant improvements in both behavioral and academic outcomes, such as attention problems and school attendance, among participating students.

He was returning to a theme he and the governors had sounded in Charlottesville last September at the education summit, where their list of suggested goals included «the reduction of the dropout rate and the improvement of academic performance, especially among at - risk students.»

Though the increase in school attendance among disciplined students led to only very modest improvements in their academic performance on state reading exams, it did not have a substantively negative effect on their peers» academic performance.

Teachers reported a trend toward fewer problem behaviors, an improvement in academic functioning, and a decrease in symptoms of anxiety among anxious children after six weeks of mindfulness training.

By the 2015 - 2016 academic year, the schools are expected to show improvement in attendance and teacher retention, among other factors.

Academic progress in Boston increased steadily under his leadership, with Boston's 4th and 8th graders handing the 65 - year - old Boston native a nice farewell gift by coming out on top in math improvement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2005 assessments among ten participating urban districts (see Figure 1).

In the second year of implementation — the 2013 - 2014 academic year — gains among TTO students were almost 47 % above national norms (effect size = 0.35 SD), a sizable improvement over the first implementation year.»

The Academic and Personal Behaviors Institute is a network of educator teams from New York City public schools who are dedicated to using data and improvement science methodologies to spread academic mindsets (growth, value, and belonging) among both colleagues and sAcademic and Personal Behaviors Institute is a network of educator teams from New York City public schools who are dedicated to using data and improvement science methodologies to spread academic mindsets (growth, value, and belonging) among both colleagues and sacademic mindsets (growth, value, and belonging) among both colleagues and students.

The group's waiver application has sparked controversy among other state superintendents, who see a district waiver as giving too much power to locally - run districts, as well as teachers unions that argue they were not consulted in constructing CORE's academic accountability system, known as the School Quality Improvement Index.

New scores meant to show student improvement for the last academic year reveal a wide discrepancy among Nashville - area districts.

The Broad Prize for Urban Education and The Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools were created to recognize the public school systems that show the greatest academic performance and improvement while reducing achievement gaps among low - income students and students of color.

The California schools, which are either high achieving or made significant academic improvement, are among 337 schools in 47 states to receive the 2014 National Blue Ribbon Award.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

Three elementary schools in the Puyallup School District are among 35 in the state making enough academic progress to earn their way off the needs improvement list this year.

Teachers reported a trend toward fewer problem behaviors, an improvement in academic functioning, and a decrease in symptoms of anxiety among anxious children after six weeks of mindfulness training.