Sentences with phrase «academic test scores»

This program utilizes some of the most accessible, engaging novels in young adult literature to elevate literacy levels and raise academic test scores.

December 17, 2011 Kewanee, Illinois students and staff speak at a Raising Student Achievement Conference about how SEL has improved academic test scores and lessesened discipline problems in the school.

The last 15 years of research has shown the many benefits to teaching SEL, such as reductions in violence and truancy and gains in academic test scores.

The latest round of state standardized academic test scores showed gains both across New York State and locally.But rather than celebrate the largest bump since New York adopted new tests tied to the Common Core Learning Standards, education officials reported the increases with caution.

Education policymakers have placed almost exclusive emphasis on standardized academic test scores in core academic subjects as the measure of student success.

And in 2005, US psychologist Frank J. Landy pointed out that there is no correlation between nurturing emotional intelligence and high academic test scores.

The new Every Student Succeeds Act, the successor to NCLB, provides an opening for states to broaden their accountability regimes by including a non-traditional measure along with academic test scores.

The passage of the ESSA includes important accountability provisions that advance the principle that student success and school quality are measured by more than just academic test scores.

Control - Treatment School data comparisons were based on annual teacher and student survey data focused on classroom practices, student interviews about learning processes in both the arts and academics, and standardized math and reading academic test scores.

From housing information site Trulia, we obtained academic test scores in all of the districts.

«The higher rate of twins and preterm birth in ART singletons might have given rise to lower academic test scores.

The following year, academic test scores for a million - plus immigrant students in California rose substantially, confounding naysayers and putting the story back on the front pages of the major state newspapers.

Effective social - emotional learning (SEL) is a transformative and evidence - based educational process that teaches children, from pre-k through 12th grade, the mental skills that will significantly reduce emotional stresses that lead to violence and addiction, improve problem - solving skills, enhance empathy, raise academic test scores and increase resiliency.

«There is no correlation between nurturing emotional intelligence and high academic test scores»

The last 15 years of research has shown the many benefits to teaching SEL, such as reductions in violence and truancy and gains in academic test scores.

They were afraid that such activities would negatively affect their academic test scores but instead the opposite happened — test scores increased!

academic test scores improved as much as 10 percent on national standardized math and reading tests.

Rosenberg, TX «As a direct result, the climate and culture of our schools and our district changed substantially... an increase in student attendance rates and academic test scores for ALL subject areas...»

Quantitative yearly data collected over the past two years (2008 - 2010) indicate an increase in student attendance rates and academic test scores for ALL subject areas.

The results speak for themselves: Our students are community assets, instead of tax liabilities; academic test scores are improving; students spend more time actively learning; discipline problems have significantly reduced; and we cut students» average stay in half, while doubling the number of students who return to their home schools.

Effective social - emotional learning (SEL) is a transformative and evidence - based educational process that teaches children, from pre-k through 12th grade, the mental skills that will significantly reduce emotional stresses that lead to violence and addiction, improve problem - solving skills, enhance empathy, raise academic test scores and increase resiliency.

In recent years, schools across the United States have substantially reduced Arts programs in response to budget concerns and pressures to improve academic test scores.

academic test scores improved as much as 10 percent on national standardized math and reading tests.