Sentences with phrase «achievement in a single school year»

This model is designed to help teachers incorporate the highest - impact instructional practices: classroom discussion, debate, and repeated reading of text to ensure the greatest literacy achievement in a single school year.

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For example, in a forthcoming analysis in three school districts where it was possible to track teachers» student achievement growth over many years, Doug Staiger and I found that of those teachers who were in the bottom quartile of value - added in a single year, 55 to 65 percent were in the bottom quartile over their careers and 82 to 87 percent were in the bottom half.

«Importantly, the narrowing gap in reading achievement as students progress by year level suggests that the value - add over time that is experienced in coeducational schools is not being realised in single - sex schools,» Dix writes.

Because the studies use data from a single school year to contrast students in middle schools and K — 8 schools, most of the available research can not reject the possibility that differences between the groups of students, rather than in the grade configuration of their schools, are actually responsible for the differences in behavior and achievement.

Our results indicate that highly effective principals raise the achievement of a typical student in their schools by between two and seven months of learning in a single school year; ineffective principals lower achievement by the same amount.

The safe harbor provision in NCLB was a crude way to measure growth, but it at least attempted to account for the fact that not all students come in with the same achievement levels and we can't expect schools to erase those gaps in a single year.

Last year, Education Next published the findings of a study of the academic achievement of two groups: those who in adolescence lived in single - parent households and those who lived in two - parent households (see «One - Parent Students Leave School Earlier,» features, Spring 2015).

In fact, the effect of a single year spent in a charter school was equivalent to half of the black - white achievement gaIn fact, the effect of a single year spent in a charter school was equivalent to half of the black - white achievement gain a charter school was equivalent to half of the black - white achievement gap.

We averaged these percentages across grades and subjects in order to increase the stability of scores, producing in a single achievement score for each school for each of three years.

We averaged these percentages across grades and subjects in order to increase the stability of scores, 119 producing a single achievement score for each school for each of three years.

Four years later, Dara Holt, the curriculum director for Valdosta City Schools (VCS), reports that DreamBox continues to boost achievement rates in K — 5 schools across the district, «We do universal screening three times a year and our math scores are higher than our rating scores every singlSchools (VCS), reports that DreamBox continues to boost achievement rates in K — 5 schools across the district, «We do universal screening three times a year and our math scores are higher than our rating scores every singlschools across the district, «We do universal screening three times a year and our math scores are higher than our rating scores every single time.

As researcher Thomas Kane writes, «Oversubscribed charter schools in the Boston area are closing roughly one - third of the black - white achievement gap in math and about one - fifth of the achievement gap in English — in a single school year!»

The second chart shows how the total cost of sending a single child through the public school system has changed over the years, along with trends in student achievement.

Mr. Pryor's tenure has been steeped in controversy, due in part to his commitment to the corporate education reform agenda, his leadership style and his relationship with charter schools, most directly with Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company that has been the largest single financial beneficiary of state funds to charter schools over the past four years.

By developing and supporting high - quality school leaders, the NYC Leadership Academy affects the achievement of nearly 1.2 million students across the country in a single year.

Instead of judging schools based on a snapshot of a single year's test scores, we compared results during a four - year period, looking for trends in student achievement.

Research shows that highly effective principals raise the achievement of a typical student in their schools by between two and seven months of learning in a single school year and that ineffective principals lower achievement by the same amount.3 And principal quality affects teacher turnover and specifically turnover among effective teachers.

We averaged these percentages across grades and subjects in order to increase the stability of scores, 41 arriving finally at a single achievement score for each school for each of three years.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.