Sentences with phrase «achievement for poor»

From where EdTrust sits, the uproar over the Florida plan (and similar plans like it) also ignores its contention that Cut the Gap in Half actually forces states, districts, and schools to work harder because they must improve achievement for poor and minority students at annual clips greater than the average rate.

Secondly, they would have to really accept measuring the performance of districts and those who work in schools in improving achievement for poor and minority children (and no merely talk about disaggregation of «multiple measures».)

In addition, an unprecedented range of policymakers and philanthropic organizations are also setting their sights on community colleges to wrestle with some of education's most intractable problems — low achievement for poor and minority students, and embarrassing college completion rates.

Now, the two states are beginning to reap the benefits from focusing resources to support educational programs aimed at strengthening educational achievement for poor students.

They argue that the focus should solely be on growth (or progress) schools are making in improving achievement for poor and minority kids.

When the group got its start in the mid-1990s, achievement for poor and minority children was lagging, and the education policy community largely ignored their needs.

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For this real achievement, we should be very grateful indeed, even if we should deplore the low intensity conflicts against the poor that are the more characteristic wars of economism.

One of the achievements of the Reagan administration was to bring into the Republican party an acceptance of the basic principles of the welfare state, such as that the resourceless poor properly turn to the state as a last resort for needed assistance.

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After all, when we offer a person (in reality) demotion to the level of the lowest, no measure of achievement, and approval only from the poor — all for the sake of life - giving community to others ---- we are making the same offer a Certain Man made to all of us 2,000 years ago.

Legal representatives for the families of the two students argue, however, that it is unlawful for a school to exclude students on the grounds of an alleged poor academic achievement.

It is a worry that Tottenham just did what no other team has managed to do in the UCL group stages for five years, although I would qualify the achievement by pointing out that Madrid were pretty poor.

Researchers have found, in fact, that most of the achievement gap between well - off and poor children opens up before age five; for most children, the gap then stays pretty steady from kindergarten through the end of high school.

Fox Valley has also earned a certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting by the GFOA in each of the past 16 years, and maintains an AA bond rating with Standard & Poor's.

«We had good, ambitious goals to eliminate achievement gaps for poor students and we just failed.

«Earning LEED Gold status for this important center for programming and education is an achievement about which Drumlin Farm and all of Mass Audubon can be justly proud,» said Vice President for Operations and Chief Financial Officer Bancroft Poor, who oversees Mass Audubon's sustainability programs.

Gaps in academic achievement then limit educational attainment, which perpetuates the cycle of poverty, unemployment, and poor health for a lifetime.

In a poor country without compulsory voting, this is a major achievement in the maturing of East Timor's democracy and its EMBs — the Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration and the National Electoral Commission — deserve much of the credit for this.

The statement added that the lack of free sanitary towels for schoolgirls «can impact negatively on the Free SHS programme,» explaining that: «As poor menstrual hygiene management can result in absenteeism, poor performance, hamper gender parity in education and the overall achievement of the Free Senior High School programme.»

Paul Johnson, of the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank, told the Financial Times it was «quite an achievement given how poor economic growth has been».

Links have been found between high e-game usage and increased BMI, depression, vision problems, sleep deprivation, poor academic achievement, musculoskeletal health issues and markers for cardio - metabolic disorders.

Now a new study of a large ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of children from across the United States has identified poor planning skills as one reason for the income - achievement gap, which can emerge as early as kindergarten and continue through high school.

Bilingual children from low - income homes are at greater risk of falling behind their peers in developing the appropriate language skills for their age group, leading to poorer academic achievement over time.

Immigrant children are at risk for poor school achievement, particularly when they are from low - income families.

Chronic feeding problems increase a child's risk for poor medical and developmental outcomes, including malnutrition, growth retardation, social deficits and poor academic achievement.

For instance, although he cites one successful example of an effort to move poor kids into schools in better neighborhoods, the Moving to Opportunity program — a randomized, controlled trial of this approach — has not had much success in boosting school achievement among poor kids.

The landmark 1966 Coleman Report highlighted the importance of peer environment along a number of dimensions, but work by Caroline Hoxby and Gretchen Weingarth in 2006 suggests that the share of poor students has only a modest effect on achievement once differences in the prior achievement of students have been accounted for.

As educators search for ways to boost perennially low levels of student achievement, many are zeroing in on what they consider a root cause of poor performance: the lack of students» motivation to learn.

Over the last two decades, policymakers, compelled by the demands of equal opportunity and aghast at widening achievement gaps — particularly for poor and minority youngsters — have focused resources on the neediest kids.

If you run a small school in a poor city, and you're trying to boost outcomes for your students by awarding scholarships to encourage attendance and achievement, do you give the scholarships to the best students, or to the neediest?

A handful of experimental studies have documented that early - education programs promote school achievement, especially for children at risk for poor school outcomes.

Since the causes of most early reading difficulties are similar regardless of whether a poor reader meets the aptitude / achievement - discrepancy definition of LD, it makes no sense to wait for a discrepancy to reveal itself.

California auditors released a scathing assessment of the Oakland public schools last week, blasting one of the state's most beleaguered districts for mismanagement and poor student achievement and warning that it is hovering on the brink of serious financial difficulty.

For the past decade, school reform has been primarily about «closing achievement gaps» by boosting math and reading proficiency and graduation rates, among black, Latino, and poor students.

Since a teacher had to score at least 64 points to avoid the «ineffective» rating, according to the Regents» plan, it was conceivable, as the judge noted, that «the regulation allows for an «ineffective» rating based solely on poor student achievement results (the first 40 % category) without regard to the 60 % evaluation category.»

The inspectorate also criticised the trust for the «especially poor» achievement of disadvantaged pupils.

TIMSS, and the Australian - specific Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report, found a 15 - year - old achievement gap exists between rich and poor students.

To look for patterns of behavior that may explain achievement, a careful analyst examines subjects across the distribution — middling and poor performers as well as those at the top.

Russ makes three arguments: 1) A recent study that compared grit scores among fraternal and identical twins suggests that grit may be heritable to a large degree, which would make it unrealistic to expect schools or others to be able to alter it; 2) The twin study as well as a meta - analysis of grit research found that grit only explains about 2 - 3 % of the variance in achievement scores, which Russ thinks makes it a poor predictor of other outcomes; and 3) The meta - analysis suggests that grit may be highly correlated with conscientiousness, one of the Big 5 personality traits that psychologists have been studying for a long time.

If you run a small school in a poor city, and you're trying to boost outcomes for your students by awarding scholarships to encourage attendance and achievement, do you give the scholarships to the best students, or to the neediest?As it turns out, both pathways have beneficial effects on...

I'm going to focus on the final two posts, in which Greene argues that student achievement tests are poor proxies for school quality and that they're not correlated with other measures of quality.

It's no secret that the American educational system today lists under the weight of some massive, seemingly intractable burdens such as poor college preparation, modest achievement results compared with other nations, high dropout rates, significant teaching and performance disparities across racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, and a deficit of graduates equipped with the necessary skills for tomorrow's workforce.

It says a large - scale voucher study would help determine whether giving public school students vouchers to pay for tuition at private schools can improve achievement, especially for students in poor, urban areas.

The PISA data — underwhelming for those two subjects as well — also showed that achievement and career opportunities were far from equal, especially for poor and immigrant youngsters and those not fluent in German.

How much of a correlation is there, if any, between the two, and what metrics are most reliable to determine who's at fault for poor student achievement?

The implications of those policies for schools and teachers, he says, can be seen in the achievement gap that isolates disadvantaged students, often students of color, in poor neighborhoods.

Concerns over our educational system, fueled by our students» poor performance in international comparisons of achievement, have reinvigorated the call for early academic instruction as a remedy for inadequate teaching later on.

Thus, the case for charter schools today is almost always made in social - justice terms — promoting charters» success in closing achievement gaps, boosting poor kids» chances of upward mobility, and alleviating systemic inequities.

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

While this report welcomed «the impressive progress made by the Programme of sponsored academies to date» it expressed the worry that «academies» educational achievements should not be undermined by poor stewardship of the public funds necessary to sustain the impacts of the Programme» and that there are «increased risks to value for money and proper use of public money».