Sentences with phrase «achievement gains we have made»

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School Supt. David Schuler called Burlinski «strong and effective» and noted the achievement gains students at the school have made in recent years.

In Washington, D.C., where I was chancellor, IMPACT teacher evaluations are among the strongest in the country and have helped that school district go from the worst urban district in the country to the one making the biggest gains in student achievement.

But in classic triangulation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made his achievements at the Capitol the same success story Senate Republicans can tell, even as the GOP conference tries to keep Democrats from gaining full control of the chamber.

Black - white achievement gap makes little progress since 1960s At current rate, closing the disparities to take centuries Greatest gains in South which has caught up with the rest of the country

While we've made some gains at the 4th - grade level (probably reflecting better instruction in decoding), reading - achievement trends by the end of high school are depressingly flat.

Blended Learning: Making it Work in Your Classroom: Discover how P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School in Gainesville, Florida, integrates digital content with face - to - face learning and how this has resulted in impressive gains in student achievement.

Other studies have taken a less sanguine view of these achievement gains, arguing that they are misleading because states have made their assessment systems less rigorous over time.

Focusing only on charters making the biggest achievement score gains would miss those charters with more modest achievement results but truly impressive attainment outcomes.

And, finally, do students who attend traditional public schools subject to competition from charter schools make larger achievement gains than they would have in the absence of charter schools?

We address three main questions: Do students attending charter schools in these grades make larger or smaller gains in achievement than they would have made in traditional public schools?

Students in these grades make considerably smaller achievement gains in charter schools than they would have in traditional public schools, and the negative effects are not limited to schools in their first year of operation.

Nor do the researchers find evidence that students who attend middle schools make larger achievement gains than their K - 8 peers in grades 9 and 10, by which time most Florida students have entered high school.

And in fact, students with disabilities have made almost no gains in reading since 2002 — even though NCLB focuses specifically on boosting the achievement of this subgroup of students.

However, without the changes Massachusetts made to its entire system of teacher licensing (e.g., subject area licensing tests for all prospective teachers, criteria for achieving full licensure after beginning teaching, and criteria for license renewal for veteran teachers), it is unlikely there would have been enduring gains in achievement for students in all demographic groups and in all its regional vocational / technical high schools — gains confirmed by tests independent of control or manipulation by Massachusetts or federal policy makers.

However, all the states had some successful charter schools, and underperforming charter schools generally made achievement gains over time.

In a report issued here, the 34 - member commission — whose honorary co-chairmen were former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford — acknowledges that minorities have made gains in educational achievement and income since the 1960's.

Gains in student achievement were seen during the Bush administration, but over the past 8 years, little progress has been made (and in 8th grade math there have been declines).

What the schools all have in common is that they made adequate yearly progress under NCLB and otherwise demonstrated impressive student - achievement gains.

This achievement has made a significant contribution to 80 per cent of students gaining an apprenticeship year upon year.

While nationwide gains in closing achievement gaps have been made, research shows that underserved student populations still achieve at lower rates than their peers in many areas.

And while many parents want to avoid a «summer slide,» a term to describe the tendency for students, especially those from low - income families, to lose some of the achievement gains they made during the previous school year, many experts say it's important to keep in mind that summers don't have to be packed with worksheets and math camps for kids to keep their brains active and learning.

Such low scores indicate that the majority of students will have to make large gains in achievement before they are able to pass the test.

The authors examined the student achievement data of each school included in the turnaround initiatives — and in LPS, each traditional public school in the district — to select schools that have made notable academic gains since implementing these practices.

The purposes of the observations were to gain an understanding of the instructional activities in the schools, which should assist us to better place the student achievement outcomes within a context; provide some corroboration for the claims made by the various district and building interviewees about the teaching and learning conditions in the school; and provide a basis for discussion during the teacher interviews that would follow the observations.

Amid the intense debates about how much progress the nation has made in raising student achievement and whether federal investments in education have produced results, one important trend tends to be overlooked — namely, the notable gains made by African American and Latino students in reading and math achievement since 1971.

In closing achievement gaps in mathematics and science, the nation has made minimal gains since 2005, while the diversity of our nation's students has grown dramatically.

Each of these principals has demonstrated exemplary instructional leadership — however, to achieve the gains they made, each of these principals did not focus solely on academic achievement.

The curriculum - test misalignment places upper - track teachers at a disadvantage because of the misalignment between the test and course content, but this might be offset by the advantage of having students who are likely to make achievement gains for reasons having nothing to do with the teacher.

In our study of schools making achievement gains, we've seen a few additional practices that seem to be very effective, especially for secondary schools.

That is, upper track students seem to have unobserved traits that make them likely to achieve larger achievement gains.

They faced the facts of where they were with student achievement, with instructional practices, how the teachers were developing their skills collaboratively, what gains had been made in improving the overall learning culture of the school and what parent and community partnerships were developing.

The report says that students have made significant gains in math and reading since the passage of NCLB; and achievement gaps between white and minority students have closed somewhat since 2002.

In Washington, D.C., where I was chancellor, IMPACT teacher evaluations are among the strongest in the country and have helped that school district go from the worst urban district in the country to the one making the biggest gains in student achievement.

Andy Smarick of the Fordham Institute, a conservative nonprofit education policy think tank, this week noted that, despite the gains made by Houston and the Broad finalists in raising achievement, students» overall performance in all those districts remained lower than many would hope.

Traditional public school students in Arizona have made massive achievement gains in recent years.

With small classes, individualized learning programs, strong teaching, and support from the local community, King / Chavez has more than tripled the student achievement gains made in the broader public school system.

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As a school turnaround specialist, Mr. Ankrum has consistently helped schools to make sizable gains in hopes of bridging the achievement gap for students in the hardest to move subgroups, which include but are not limited to Black and Latino students.

New Haven, Conn. — Connecticut's fourth - and eighth - grade students continue to score higher than their national peers in reading, and have made modest long - term gains in math based on 2017 results from the Nation's Report Card — but our current rate of progress means The Constitution State would need a century to close the achievement gap.

California's K — 12 students have made gains in reading scores, but achievement gaps remain for English Learner, low - income, and African American and Latino students.

It turns out that the quality of state standards is not related to past gains in student achievement, the levels at which states set past proficiency standards did not make a difference in achievement, and standards have little effect on the variation on National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores both within and among states.

One of the biggest changes in achievement gaps between 1971 and 2012 is a 27 - point narrowing between the average reading scores of black and white 17 - year - old students.The report's data indicate that such race - based gaps have narrowed because black and Hispanic students have made larger gains than their white peers.

Another ambitious investigation, conducted by the National Center for Educational Achievement (2009), sent teams of researchers to 26 public schools in five states that had a high percentage of low - income students, and whose students had made significant gains on math and science exams in a three - year period.

The greatest gains in reducing gaps in achievement and opportunity have been made during periods when concentrated poverty has been dispersed through efforts at integration, or during economic growth for the black middle class and other communities, or where significant new investments in school funding have occurred.

The strategies must be reliable, trustworthy, and have valid evidence to show that when the program or practices are used, children can be expected to make adequate gains in reading achievement.»

Edison's annual reports have repeatedly indicated that students enrolled in the firm's schools are making large and substantial achievement gains.

Using a value - added model to analyze performance data from 179 high - need charter schools across the country during the 2008 - 2009 school year, EPIC identified 22 schools that have made the most dramatic gains in student achievement.

While white, black and Hispanic children all made modest test score gains in DC since 2003, the Rhee agenda has not significantly narrowed achievement gaps between the various demographic groups, nor has it brought disadvantaged DC youth up to the national average scores for peers of their same race and class in other cities.

The 2013 International Happy Hour marked the second year that the U.S. Department of Commerce used the SEMA Show as the venue to present U.S. Department of Commerce Export Achievement Awards to SEMA members who have made impressive gains in international sales.

The International Happy Hour marked the second year that the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) used the SEMA Show as the venue to provide its Export Achievement Awards to SEMA members that have made impressive gains in international sales.