Sentences with phrase «achievement at the highest standards»

Our school is committed to both academic achievement at the highest standards and to the promotion of diversity, justice, human rights, and the democratic process.

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In her first year on the job, Jewell - Sherman launched Excellence for All, a comprehensive plan aimed at improving teaching and learning to enable students to reach high academic standards, and promoting involvement with the community as a way of addressing nonacademic barriers to student achievement.

A 2013 quasi-experimental analysis found that, «on average, extended learning time (ELT) tutorials at Match Charter Public High School raised student achievement on the 10th grade English language arts examination between.15 and.25 standard deviations per year.»

The latter is one of nine principles of learning formulated by the Institute for Learning that I direct at the University of Pittsburgh to provide assistance to school systems in building organizational and instructional practices that will enable their students to meet higher achievement standards.

Even though both of her parents set high standards for achievement — her father earned a masters degree in education at Harvard — high school was difficult for her.

Despite a mediocre track record of school improvement, Ohio was a winner, partly for its «simple, yet bold, long - term aspirations,» including «a near - 100 % high school graduation rate from schools teaching at internationally competitive standards,» elimination of achievement gaps, and higher - ed completion rates «that are among the highest in the nation and world.»

Rigorous studies consistently show that the impact of a more - effective teacher is substantial A high - performing teacher, one at the 84th percentile of all teachers, when compared with just an average teacher, produces students whose level of achievement is at least 0.2 standard deviations higher by the end of the school year.

At E.J. Scott Elementary in Houston, a relentless focus on student achievement and high standards has created what researchers say is a model of a successful urban school.

Achieve serves as a significant national voice for quality in standards - based reform and regularly convenes governors, CEOs and other influential leaders at National Education Summits and other gatherings to sustain support for higher standards and achievement for all of America's schoolchildren.

These must include content standards in at least reading and mathematics, aligned «high - quality» assessments, and achievement standards for at least grades 3 - 8 and once in high school.

The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.

The percentage of low - income students and English Learners meeting the standards increased, but these increases were not at fast enough rates to close substantial achievement gaps with higher income students who are fluent in English.

Investigating the transition to high school, we find that students moving to a new high school between grades 8 and 9 suffer a small drop in achievement of 0.03 standard deviations in math and 0.04 standard deviations in reading (relative to those in grade 6 — 12 schools or schools with another configuration that requires no transition at this point).

Decades of research on effective schools conclusively demonstrates that setting high standards and expectations for all children, but especially those most at - risk of academic failure, creates a more positive, inclusive school culture and raises their level of achievement.

Although Gaetz's bill does not include fiscal expenditures, as noted in the main text (§ IV, supra), in reviewing the start time / academic achievement studies undertaken by fellow economists, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics Jonah Rockoff and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, concluded that delaying middle and high school start times «from roughly 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. -LSB-,]» will increase academic achievement by 0.175 standard deviations on average, with effects for disadvantaged students roughly twice as large as advantaged students, at little or no cost to schools; i.e., a 9 to 1 benefits to costs ratio when utilizing single - tier busing, the most expensive transportation method available.

As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, the purpose of Title 1 funding, «is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high quality education and reach, at minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and state academic assessments.»

The purpose of Title I is to ensure that every student has access to an equal, fair, and high - quality education that meets, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and assessments.

The plans, introduced in the Education and Adoption Bill, are aimed at raising standards in hundreds of schools that are achieving adequate exam results, but where the government believes achievement could be much higher.

«is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high - quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging State academic achievement standards and state academic assessments.»

Again, a search of the benchmark standards demonstrates that 90 % of these nations / regions that outperform the United States in student achievement actually do emphasize narrative writing at the high school level.....

The Recovery Act provides $ 10 billion in additional Title I, Part A funds to state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) to support schools that have high concentrations of students from families that live in poverty in order to help improve teaching and learning for students most at risk of failing to meet state academic achievement standards.

A learning disability is thought to exist if the student's IQ scores are at least two standard deviations (30 points) higher than scores on the achievement test.

The Title I funds are used to provide supplemental core academic instruction, instructional support, and parental involvement and engagement to schools to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high - quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging State academic achievement standards and state academic assessments.

«With a 7:08.679 lap time, we can authoritatively say that the Nissan GT - R Nismo * holds the volume production car lap record at the Nürburgring Nordschliefe, which is the gold standard of high performance achievement.»

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The Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art have since reaffirmed the statement of purpose and supplemented it with the following statement of mission: The mission of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is to collect, preserve, study, exhibit, and stimulate appreciation for and advance knowledge of works of art that collectively represent the broadest spectrum of human achievement at the highest level of quality, all in the service of the public and in accordance with the highest professional standards.

When neither maternal grandparent has completed high school, children's scores on standardized assessments of math and reading achievement are one - quarter to one - third of a standard deviation lower compared with families where at least one grandparent finished high school.