Sentences with phrase «academic performance at their school»

Missing out on even one hour of sleep a night could have major consequences for a child, possibly lowering their cognitive abilities the following day and possibly hurting their academic performance at school or acquisition of knowledge at home.

Using students» test scores as one part of evaluations for teachers, principals, and superintendents is associated with better academic performance at schools serving the middle grades, a report released this week has found.

On February 13, 2014, long before the Clark School Turnaround Committee had even begun the extensive process of assessing what would be the best solution to improve academic performance at their school, Andrew Ferguson and Oliver Barton, a Portfolio Director for the Hartford Board of Education, were already working on how best to insert Friendship Charter Schools successfully into the final plan.

Not exact matches

The new design school will increase the academic space at Kwantlen's Richmond campus by 124 per cent and offer a bachelor's degree in technical apparel «to provide training for future leaders and entrepreneurs in the performance and technical apparel and product sectors,» said Kwantlen president and vice-chancellor Alan Davis.

Naming an endowed Chair or Professorship at the Rotman School will help recruit and retain the world's leading teachers and researchers, enhance our curriculum, foster research and advance the academic performance of tomorrow's business leaders.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

Admission is based on a review of many factors, including strong prior academic performance, positive teacher reports, a successful interview at our School, and the student's ability to give something back to our School community.

This effort is intended to offer an alternative to the prevailing notion in so many schools of success as high academic performance, often at the cost of children's mental and physical health, character and integrity.

Read Achieve NYC to learn how to stay informed about your child's academic performance and behavior at school.

«Ultimately what we have shown at WJA is that if the circumstances are right and the commitment is there, school food can be predominantly sourced locally; those preparing these healthy meals can be paid a fair wage with benefits; the students will indeed eat healthier, non-processed foods; and this will have direct results on academic performance and behavior.»

On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.»

«We are in agreement that the current academic performance in the middle school grades at Wadleigh is not acceptable,» he wrote.

Academic performance on annual ELA and math tests at the school are low as well, according to DOE statistics.

There is little pressure to improve academic performance when the student body by dint of having students from affluent, well educated, stable families will perform very well even with mediocre academic instruction at school.

«Conventional wisdom is that academic performance in high school is important for college admission, but this is the first study to clearly demonstrate the link between high school GPA and labor market earnings many years later,» says French, director of the Health Economics Research Group (HERG) in the Department of Sociology at the UM College of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding author of the study.

Strikingly, children from low - income families, who typically don't perform as well at school, show similar academic performance as children from high - income families.

A program aimed at reducing behavior problems in order to boost academic achievement has improved performance in math and reading among low - income kindergartners and first graders, according to a study by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

A family - centered, school - based intervention in pre-kindergarten programs developed at NYU Langone Medical Center, known as ParentCorps, has a positive and lasting impact on mental health and academic performance, according to new research published online October 3 in JAMA Pediatrics.

«In many cases, school performance in kindergarten sets the pattern for later academic performance,» said James A. Griffin, Ph.D., deputy chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch at the NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which funded the study.

Although children with these conditions are at higher risk for reduced school performance and academic attainment, there are other problems that they can encounter as a result.

«High social - emotional health has been associated with greater academic performance and improved behavior in the school environment,» said Elisa I. Muñiz, M.D., M.S., developmental - behavioral pediatrician, Department of Pediatrics, Bronx - Lebanon Hospital Center, who led the research while a fellow at CERC.

Benefits to School Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subjectSchool Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subjectschool trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subjectschool trip based on the subject area.

«It's evident that parents value a school's academic performance, but many are also interested in life at the school, the space in which their children will be studying, and more importantly what is being done to motivate them internally.

Using methodology developed with Ed School Lecturer Terrence Tivnan, he compared the «academic rating» that admissions officers assign to applicants (a combination of grades, test scores, teacher recommendations, etc.) with their actual academic performance once they enrolled at Middlebury.

The evidence suggests that the theory holds true: that the A-Plus program has been successful at motivating failing schools to improve their academic performance.

Last year, at the National Education Summit, governors and business leaders concluded that «efforts to set clear, common... academic standards for students in a given school district or state are necessary to improve student performance.».

The Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics has released research that suggests the banning of mobile phones at school could lead to better academic reSchool of Economics has released research that suggests the banning of mobile phones at school could lead to better academic reschool could lead to better academic results.

«We've got a very good reputation for our Science Faculty and I think I'm just lucky that the school I'm at has got a big focus on students, not just on student welfare but also on academic [performance].»

There is no evidence that high school students who enroll in college - level courses such as Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate classes improve their academic performance in college unless they take the tests offered at the end of each course, says a study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

At the same time, waiting lists remain long for many charter schools, and their overall academic performance is strong.

We look at level of school (high school, middle school, or elementary school), total enrollment, percentage of the student body that is white, average experience of teachers, and school performance, as measured by the school's academic rank within the state.

For example, a young man, Randy, was sent by his parents to a parochial school to improve his academic performance, but Randy didn't want to be separated from his friends, so he created havoc at the school hoping to be returned to his friends at his former school.

State and federal school accountability programs hold schools to specific standards of academic performance and assume each school is given a fair shake at accomplishing the task of educating its students.

In November 2002 the Texas Education Agency ordered the shutdown of five charter schools (all open for at least three years), citing persistent low academic performance.

I was also informed that while my academic performance had placed me in the highest track at my East Harlem school, I would be educated with the «average» kids at P.S. 183.

Performance management in schools is traditionally initiated at the beginning of the academic year, but beyond the odd email or discussion in passing, the process often gets lost amongst the preoccupations of teaching, lesson planning and exam preparation.

His career includes roles as Chief Learning Officer at Reuters and Thomson Reuters, Consultant with global companies working at the forefront of the «new learning and performance» world, Director of Strategic Technology for the transactions division of Dow Jones Markets, and several academic positions, including that of Professor at Southampton Business School and the Director of CECOMM.

The Coleman Report identified the peer group at school as an important factor affecting learning, but several papers in this volume suggest that the socioeconomic status or academic ability of peers has little effect on academic performance.

In their portfolios, Salvin says, «teachers must have evidence of their students satisfying our critical academic skills, which are the performance standards of project - based learning at the school and the schoolwide initiatives.»

But the state's urgent task is to provide new, high - quality seats for the 57,000 students languishing in its worst schools, those occupying the bottom 10 percent of academic performance for at least three years.

And before they receive their high school diploma, students must complete separate performance assessments (known at the Urban Academy as academic proficiencies) that demonstrate their skills and knowledge in six academic areas: mathematics, social studies, science, creative arts, criticism, and literature.

Since improved AP outcomes may not necessarily reflect increased learning and could come at the expense of other academic outcomes, I also looked beyond these immediate effects to the broader set of outcomes, such as high school graduation rates, SAT and ACT performance, and the percentage of students attending college.

So, in our research, we're looking at a whole range of individual characteristics... such as student demographic background, their academic performance and educational aspirations, the number of hours they work after school and their peers» aspirations.

We have two different interventions and what we're looking at is, on one arm, to see if delaying the school start time — starting lessons at 10 am versus 9 am — if that improves academic performance in GCSE exams (which people take in the UK when they're about 16).

Improved academic performance, increased positive social behavior, improved academic behaviors, and improved climate at the school

«Since 2000, however, academic performance has declined when compared to other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, suggesting that Australian students and schools are not improving at the same rate and are falling short of achieving the full learning potential of which they are capable,» he wrote.

Dr. Weast led Montgomery County Public Schools — 16th largest school district in the nation — to achieve both the highest graduation rate among the nation's largest school districts for four consecutive years and the highest academic performance ever in MCPS at a time when the non-English-speaking student population more than doubled and enrollment tipped toward low socioeconomic demographics.

At least one indicator of school success or student support — such as attendance, school climate, or access to AP or other advanced coursework — must be included in measuring school performance (though academic factors must still make up at least half of all indicators for accountability purposesAt least one indicator of school success or student support — such as attendance, school climate, or access to AP or other advanced coursework — must be included in measuring school performance (though academic factors must still make up at least half of all indicators for accountability purposesat least half of all indicators for accountability purposes).

At Haut Gap Middle and other Charleston, S.C., schools, educators say PBIS has transformed student behavior and increased academic performance.

the State designated performance level on a State elementary assessment in social studies administered prior to the 2010 - 2011 school year; provided that beginning in the 2010 - 2011 school year, at which time a State elementary assessment in social studies shall no longer be administered, a school shall provide academic intervention services when students are determined to be at risk of not achieving State learning standards in social studies pursuant to subparagraph (iii) of this paragraph;