Sentences with phrase «achievement over the school year»

Given a large data set, I also was able to account for characteristics of schools that I could not directly measure but that might influence student achievement over the school year.

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This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

In addition, students are responsible, whenever possible, for assessing themselves; twice a year, at report - card time, parents or other family members come in to the school for meetings known as student - led conferences, in which students as young as five narrate for their parents and teacher their achievements and struggles over the past semester.

Two elementary schools in North Carolina increased the achievement test scores of students from the 30th percentile to the 83rd percentile over a three - year period.

The evidence is compelling: Two elementary schools in North Carolina were able to increase the achievement - test scores of students from the 30th percentile up to the 83rd percentile over a three - year period.

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuSchool District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuSchool District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuschool system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.

In addition, Yamashiro continued to work on a project that he had begun during the school year for the Education Achievement Authority (EAA) of Michigan — a new statewide school system that was just beginning the process of taking over some of the lowest performing schools in the state, starting in Detroit.

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.

Over the last two years, the school I'm thrilled to be a part of has been able to create a laser - like focus that enables student achievement while protecting teacher autonomy in the classroom.

Over the last two years, the school I'm thrilled to be a part of has been able to create a laser - like focus that enables student achievement while...

I first analyze changes over time in the FCAT test scores of students in their initial 3rd - grade year in order to discern the extent to which Florida's elementary - school students made true achievement gains during the period in question.

Treatment - group schools need to at least outpace their counterparts in the control group over these two years for us to say that merit pay made a real difference for student achievement.

Here's one solution: Start with the premise that a great school either has very high achievement for all students or helps all of its students make a lot of progress over the course of the year.

And while U.S. real GDP has nearly quintupled since 1970, education achievement of 17 year - olds and high school graduation rates have remained basically unchanged over the same time period.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

Over the past twenty years, Mapp's research and practice focus has been on the cultivation of partnerships among families, community members and educators that support student achievement and school improvement.

Gibb replied: «The ruling represents a significant threat to one of the government's most important achievements over the last six years - improving school attendance.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

It's important to stage more than one event and to space them out over the school year so there's a constant drumbeat for achievement that reaches into all of the nooks and crannies of the community.

Over the first half of the year, a number of Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty, students, and alumni were recognized for their hard work and achievements with awards and fellowships.

The authors note that the schools given the opportunity to participate needed to «out - pace their counterparts in the control group» over the program's first two years in order to demonstrate that merit pay made a real difference for student achievement.

Many school leaders attribute this to changes over the past two years in how school performance is measured and the greater focus on pupils» achievement in academic subjects.

This unique and groundbreaking book is the result of 15 years research and synthesises over 800 meta - analyses on the influences on achievement in school - aged students.

His 2008 book Visible Learning details the results of 15 years of research and synthesises over 800 meta - analyses on the influences on achievement in school - aged students.

Speaking about the Trust and its aspirations, CEO, Professor Sonia Blandford, said: «Over the past two years, Park House School and Achievement for All have been working closely with the Department for Education to design a Multi Academy Trust that puts children and young people at the centre of everything we do.

Growth models track individual student achievement from one year to the next, giving schools credit for student improvement over time.

Thus, evidence from the NAEP indicates improvement over the last 10 to 15 years in reading and mathematics achievement among students entering high school at the bottom of the skill distribution.

This unique and ground - breaking book is the result of 15 years research and synthesises over 800 meta - analyses on the influences on achievement in school - aged students.

A nonpublic school, other than a registered high school, shall be placed under department review when the school scores below one (or more) of the review criteria on indicators of student achievement specified in paragraph (7) of subdivision (p) of this section, has not shown improvement on such indicators over the preceding three school years, and has not otherwise demonstrated satisfactory performance on other student achievement indicators determined by the commissioner in consultation with the appropriate nonpublic school officials.

The Washington, DC - based Higher Achievement program works with motivated, disadvantaged youth throughout the middle school years, providing intensive academic instruction and other enrichment activities after school and over the summer.

In response to a Harvard Graduate School of Education report centered around reforming the college admissions process, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan announced Wednesday that Yale would be making changes to next year's application to emphasize ethical conduct and authentic academic and extracurricular engagement over laundry lists of achievements.

Growth measures — like «value added» or «student growth percentiles» — are a much fairer way to evaluate schools, since they can control for prior achievement and can ascertain progress over the course of the school year.

States that failed to improve student achievement over five years would be required to place the administrative portion of their federal aid into a fund for charter schools.

PLA schools were defined as those with baseline achievement in the lowest five percent (based on three - year average proficiency rates) as well as having made the least progress in raising student achievement over the previous five years.

Over the past three years, Dr. Cassellius has delivered on Governor Dayton's 7 - point Plan, Better Schools for a Better Minnesota; which puts a sharp focus on early learning, third grade reading, high school graduation and the elimination of achievement gaps.

TFA evaluates corps members» performance by determining which teachers produced student gains of 1.5 years of achievement growth over the course of the school year.

Poring over school records, he noted a pattern of significantly higher scores on tests of academic achievement and cognitive ability, including IQ tests, up to four years after the program's end.

The district won 14 state Governor Achievement Awards and one national «Blue Ribbon Award School» over the past four years.

Following Linn «s (2003) advice for generating stable achievement measures, we represented each school «s performance by the combined mathematics and language scores for all grades tested, averaged over three years.

Several research reports over the past year have examined the effects of the Louisiana Scholarship Program on the achievement and non-cognitive skills of scholarship recipients, broader effects on school segregation and the fiscal impact on schools.

Instead of trained professionals with Connecticut experience, Pryor has handed the operation over to a former Achievement First, Inc. administrator Morgan Barth who managed to spend a number of years illegally teaching at a Achievement First school despite his lack of proper state certification.

On the other hand, District size, School size, School level, and Number of principals in the school over the last 10 years were significant moderators of the relationship between efficacy and conditions in the class and school, along with student achievSchool size, School level, and Number of principals in the school over the last 10 years were significant moderators of the relationship between efficacy and conditions in the class and school, along with student achievSchool level, and Number of principals in the school over the last 10 years were significant moderators of the relationship between efficacy and conditions in the class and school, along with student achievschool over the last 10 years were significant moderators of the relationship between efficacy and conditions in the class and school, along with student achievschool, along with student achievement.

Over twenty - five years ago, Rosenshine and Furst (1973) found that asking multiple levels of questions was consistently related to student achievement, and Puma et al. (1997) found that teachers in effective high - poverty schools emphasized both basic skills and higher order comprehension skills in reading.

The nation's second state - run school district, Tennessee's Achievement School District oversees 12 schools in the city and plans to run more than 50, most of them within Memphis, over the next five school district, Tennessee's Achievement School District oversees 12 schools in the city and plans to run more than 50, most of them within Memphis, over the next five School District oversees 12 schools in the city and plans to run more than 50, most of them within Memphis, over the next five years.

Just a little incremental change every year on the part of the teacher, over time, you know, would have this cumulative effect on student achievement where you'd say that, «Hey, in this district, in this school, we know that our teachers are getting better every year.

As Baltimore City Public Schools began searching last year for a new leader, the Fund for Educational Excellence, a nonprofit working to secure resources needed to improve student achievement in the city schools, recognized that we knew very little about how community members viewed the major educational reforms that had taken place over the previous six years when Andrés Alonso was at thSchools began searching last year for a new leader, the Fund for Educational Excellence, a nonprofit working to secure resources needed to improve student achievement in the city schools, recognized that we knew very little about how community members viewed the major educational reforms that had taken place over the previous six years when Andrés Alonso was at thschools, recognized that we knew very little about how community members viewed the major educational reforms that had taken place over the previous six years when Andrés Alonso was at the helm.

Since the 2015 - 2016 school year marked the second year of new tests aligned with the Common Core, policymakers and advocates can finally start to compare test scores over time and see how student achievement has changed under the standards.

After a two - month period (40 consecutive school days) implementing this poetry lesson plan, Ms. Eikenberry found that her third graders made over a year's worth of growth in reading achievement as measured by the i - Ready reading comprehension standards, while her fourth grade students made more than three - quarters of a year's growth.