Sentences with phrase «among groups of students»

The repeat success suggests that the school's efforts might be paying off, boosting scores among groups of students whose success on standardized tests has proved elusive.

A: Yes, under a five - star grading system that accounts for students» growth in reading and math skills, school poverty levels and a school's ability to close gaps in achievement among groups of students.

Alex Fralin, assistant superintendent for secondary schools for the Madison School District, said he expects the district will show improvement next year among groups of students who traditionally have seen low graduation rates because of the district's efforts to improve core instruction.

The Rural Schools Network (RSN) Alliance is studying how college enrollment and persistence rates vary among groups of students in RSN schools.

Using portable EEG to measure brain activity among groups of students, researchers were able to record from multiple people simultaneously to study social interactions in real life.

The scoring also helps teachers set attainable benchmarks for individual students and locate areas of weakness and strength among groups of students.

In answering those questions about submitted state ESSA plans, we previously explored how some states are defining away low performance among groups of students rather than honestly acknowledging it.

Although Achievement Level Descriptors are intended to aid interpretation of the four categories, they are less precise than scaled scores for describing student growth or changes in achievement gaps among groups of students since they do not reveal changes of student scores within the four levels.

One of these, Sherif Girgis, was among the group of students who received the most recent death threat.

While NCLB established a noble new aspiration — raising achievement while closing achievement gaps among all groups of students — its goals were undermined by accountability requirements for schools to make «Adequate Yearly Progress» (AYP) that were generally onerous and, in the case of English learners, literally impossible to meet.

The document indicated Holtz would receive a guaranteed three - year, $ 150,000 job with a personal driver at the Department of Public Instruction should Humphries win and would have authority to take over large districts with persistent gaps in academic achievement among groups of students.

Among this group of students they found that 9.1 percent were identified as disabled when attending a private school, but 14.6 percent were identified as disabled when attending Milwaukee's public schools.

In 1960 my world changed radically when, as a 2nd grader at P.S. 121 in East Harlem, I learned that I was among a group of students who would help fulfill the integration mandate of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Among this group of students, a shift of 10 percentage points of time from problem solving to lecturing is associated with an increase in test scores of almost 4 percent of a standard deviation — or between one and two months» worth of learning in a typical school year (see Figure 3).

The No Child Left Behind Act is the bipartisan landmark education reform law designed to change the culture of America's schools by closing the achievement gap among groups of students, offering more flexibility to states, giving parents more options and teaching students based on what works.