Sentences with phrase «among district middle schools»

But by the end of the first year, their scores on standardized tests showed the most improvement in English among district middle schools and exceptional growth in math, according to a Times analysis.

Not exact matches

Superintendent Christopher Brown told his school board recently that the district would have to cut 62 full - and part - time positions, drop a year of middle school art and eliminate its seventh - grade reading program and high school Latin classes, among many other reductions.

West Babylon, Middle Country and Seaford were among 10 school districts in Suffolk that recorded opt - out rates higher than 60 percent.

City school results still fall well below state proficiency levels but sit within the middle of the pack among the five biggest urban districts in the state.

One in 4 middle schools in the Duke study were among those with the highest absence rates, but that dropped to 1 in 12 among middle schools serving the district's most affluent students.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

Among those dismissed were Gascon and 16 others who ranked in the top fifth of district middle school instructors in boosting test scores, The Times» analysis found.

In a district like mine, with high poverty and minority representation in the schools and terrible academic outcomes, it is an unfortunate given among those middle class people who have succeeded in school (or think they have) that the only reason that the district has such lousy test scores and graduation rates is «the parents.»

Insight in action At the onset of a district effort to identify teachers leaders in each school, one middle school principal dedicated half of the school year to increasing understanding of teacher leadership and its importance among the school's entire instructional staff.

In 2015, for instance, the Skills for Success grant program supported local educational agencies and their partners in developing programs and practices that promoted positive learning mindsets among middle - grade students.37 The winning entities included Chicago Public Schools, KIPP, Long Beach Unified School District, and Los Angeles Unified School District.38

Achieve3000, the Leader in Differentiated Instruction, and Rowan - Salisbury School System, a North Carolina district committed to 21st - century learning, report literacy gains over and above the growth expected with typical instruction among elementary, middle and high school stuSchool System, a North Carolina district committed to 21st - century learning, report literacy gains over and above the growth expected with typical instruction among elementary, middle and high school stuschool students.

examines the connections between neighborhood characteristics and boundary school enrollment rates among the District of Columbia's public school students, and finds there's only one pocket of the city where a majority of families in public school choose their in - boundary middle or high school.

The LCS - SRC Engineering Ambassadors Program was created in the spring of 2006 with the goal of establishing a foundational understanding of math and science among Syracuse City School District middle school stuSchool District middle school stuschool students.

This project draws on two data sources — large - scale administrative data from middle and high school students in five large California school districts and a new nationally representative experimental test of a mindset intervention among 9th grade students — to analyze heterogeneity in the effect of a growth mindset on academic outcomes across different structural positions.

We find that there was the most movement of district scores from the old to the new test among schools that were in the middle of the distribution for the share of high - need students, with a 70 % lower share meeting the standards as measured by the SBAC in comparison to the CST.

Within their respective districts (Cabarrus county and Iredell - Statesville), among other public elementary and middle schools Langtree ranked No. 4 in reading and No. 7 in math, while Cabarrus ranked No. 6 in reading and math and No. 5 in science.

It showed that the district's 13 lowest performers are all elementary schools, and it looked at the top and bottom elementary schools, the stark differences among middle schools and the high and low high schools (Harbor Teacher Prep Academy at the top, Jordan High at the bottom).

If the administrator looks only at data provided by the school's attendance clerk, they might fail to recognize that the increase in tardy notices is concentrated among students who get to school via district buses that are also used to transport middle and high school students.

When Principal James Lee learned that his students at Sylmar Charter High School had among the biggest jumps in state test scores in the local school district, he was thrilled but surprised, because they managed to pull it off despite a well - publicized lunchtime brawl that erupted on campus right in the middle of teSchool had among the biggest jumps in state test scores in the local school district, he was thrilled but surprised, because they managed to pull it off despite a well - publicized lunchtime brawl that erupted on campus right in the middle of teschool district, he was thrilled but surprised, because they managed to pull it off despite a well - publicized lunchtime brawl that erupted on campus right in the middle of testing.

While students used to score in the middle of the pack statewide, they are now the top or among the top performing school districts in reading, math and writing, Marchio says.