Sentences with phrase «at improving school performance»

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«Tension can easily build up if both parties have different expectations of what acceptable standards are,» says Maria Rotundo, a professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management who has researched how appraisals can improve performance.

Unions at Kaiser Permanente, Harley Davidson (HOG), Southwest Airlines (LUV), ABC School District in Los Angeles and others are building and sustaining partnerships with employers to improve performance, quality and working conditions.

The study thus challenges the conventional wisdom that a more demanding school will improve the performance of students who are already performing well, but only at the cost of forcing out poor performers.

Access to healthy meals at school has been shown to improve student behavior, school performance, and cognitive development.

Being physically active and eating well promote disease prevention, weight loss or maintenance, stress reduction, improved performance at school and work, increased longevity, and more.

They found that paternity leave improved children's performance at secondary school, and that daughters especially seem to flourish if their dads had taken time off (Cools, Fiva & Kirkebøen, 2014).

Directors of School Standards will be appointed at a local level to monitor performance and intervene in under - performing schools to support them to improve.

There is little pressure to improve academic performance when the student body by dint of having students from affluent, well educated, stable families will perform very well even with mediocre academic instruction at school.

A program aimed at reducing behavior problems in order to boost academic achievement has improved performance in math and reading among low - income kindergartners and first graders, according to a study by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

«High social - emotional health has been associated with greater academic performance and improved behavior in the school environment,» said Elisa I. Muñiz, M.D., M.S., developmental - behavioral pediatrician, Department of Pediatrics, Bronx - Lebanon Hospital Center, who led the research while a fellow at CERC.

In a 7 - year study at a Boston elementary school where half the students are English Language Learners (ELL), setting a school - wide goal of improved writing skills and using a genres - based instructional method improved the performance of ELL students on state and internal assessments, according to Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Maria E. Brisk, who presents her findings today at the American Educational Research Association annual meschool where half the students are English Language Learners (ELL), setting a school - wide goal of improved writing skills and using a genres - based instructional method improved the performance of ELL students on state and internal assessments, according to Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Maria E. Brisk, who presents her findings today at the American Educational Research Association annual meschool - wide goal of improved writing skills and using a genres - based instructional method improved the performance of ELL students on state and internal assessments, according to Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Maria E. Brisk, who presents her findings today at the American Educational Research Association annual meSchool of Education Professor Maria E. Brisk, who presents her findings today at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting.

The ability to predict the need for referrals stems from an unprecedented and ever - increasing availability of diverse data sources and has the potential to improve health services delivery and health system performance, said Paul K. Halverson, founding dean of the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI and one of the project's researchers.

Building on a growing body of work that suggests dietary nitrate improves muscle performance in many elite athletes, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that drinking concentrated beet juice — high in nitrates — increases muscle power in patients with heart failure.

If there existed one, simple thing you could do to improve your child's performance every day at school, in addition to their long - term educational and health outcomes, earnings, and family stability, you'd want to do it, right?

Their improved performance at school also helps to build their self - esteem amongst their peers at school.

In a report on the 2009 — 10 school year, the project says that, nationally, its students improved their scores in all four core subjects compared to their performance in their home school the year before — by from 6 to 11 percentage points — and that 96 percent of the students classified as seniors at the beginning of the school year graduated.

The evidence suggests that the theory holds true: that the A-Plus program has been successful at motivating failing schools to improve their academic performance.

Last year, at the National Education Summit, governors and business leaders concluded that «efforts to set clear, common... academic standards for students in a given school district or state are necessary to improve student performance.».

Alicia, Clearly, the Title I funds are directed at low performing schools... but, our opinion is that we can affect the performance of ALL schools by using our funds to provide parent training and professional development opporunities for staff about strategies that will ultimaeley improve learning opportunities for all students.

There is no evidence that high school students who enroll in college - level courses such as Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate classes improve their academic performance in college unless they take the tests offered at the end of each course, says a study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

For example, a young man, Randy, was sent by his parents to a parochial school to improve his academic performance, but Randy didn't want to be separated from his friends, so he created havoc at the school hoping to be returned to his friends at his former school.

Harris instead offers two potential alternatives: 1) the improved public / charter school performance in New Orleans made the performance of the private sector look relatively worse; and 2) the curriculum at most private schools may not have been aligned to the state test, so the poor performance merely reflects that lack of alignment rather than poor performance.

This is despite the fact that microlevel data is critical to improving day - to - day student performance, says Beverly Donohue, vice president of policy and research at New Visions for Public Schools, a school support organization responsible for working with 76 of the district's public sSchools, a school support organization responsible for working with 76 of the district's public schoolsschools.

At schools using the TAP, striving for the annual performance awards improves teaching and enhances collegiality and morale.

Peer assessment may improve performance for students who receive evaluations and for students as they give evaluations of writing assignments (Karegianes, Pascarella, & Pflaum, 1980) at the elementary school and secondary school levels (Topping, 2009).

Students themselves and the United States as a whole benefit from improved performance in the early grades only if that translates into measurably higher skills at the end of school.

At Bill Quay Primary School, the technology allows people to upload their own self - assessment contributions, saving time and improving access to information such as Ofsted reports, policy documents, quality assurance processes and guidelines, minutes of meetings, school performance data and other documentSchool, the technology allows people to upload their own self - assessment contributions, saving time and improving access to information such as Ofsted reports, policy documents, quality assurance processes and guidelines, minutes of meetings, school performance data and other documentschool performance data and other documentation.

[KIPP co-founder Mike] Feinberg said he'd like to see students at new schools show improved performance faster, but he cautioned that building schools is a long - term effort.

They found that «an increase in the share of independent - school students improves average performance at the end of compulsory school as well as long - run educational outcomes.»

As the «adequate yearly progress» aspect of the law results in increasingly heightened performance expectations, this number will probably rise, too, even though many schools will «graduate» off the list due to improving (or at least fluctuating) test scores.

Learn how to organise, plan and conduct an effective PD inservice day at your school that will improve your aspirations and inspire your colleagues to change their practices and improve the school's performance in student attainment of ICT capability.

The fact that socio - economically disadvantaged pupils are not equally exposed to these more complex problems at school can contribute to lower performance in mathematics and PISA advises that widening access to mathematics content could simultaneously work to improve performance and reduce inequalities.

Since the partnership was formed, performance at the primary school has improved and Ofsted has rated its leadership and management «Outstanding».

Since improved AP outcomes may not necessarily reflect increased learning and could come at the expense of other academic outcomes, I also looked beyond these immediate effects to the broader set of outcomes, such as high school graduation rates, SAT and ACT performance, and the percentage of students attending college.

We have two different interventions and what we're looking at is, on one arm, to see if delaying the school start time — starting lessons at 10 am versus 9 am — if that improves academic performance in GCSE exams (which people take in the UK when they're about 16).

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Helping schools to protect and improve their kitchen and cooking infrastructure is an investment in children's performance at school.

«Since 2000, however, academic performance has declined when compared to other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, suggesting that Australian students and schools are not improving at the same rate and are falling short of achieving the full learning potential of which they are capable,» he wrote.

Game Room Enhances Successful School Turn - Around When Constance Burnes saw her efforts to improve student behavior and performance at Wilkerson Middle School pay off, she listened to the students when it came to deciding on a reward.

Identification of, and comprehensive, evidence - based intervention in, the lowest - performing five percent of title I schools, all public high schools with a graduation rate below 67 percent, and public schools in which one or more subgroups of students are performing at a level similar to the performance of the lowest - performing five percent of title I schools and have not improved after receiving targeted interventions for a State - determined number of years; and

That's why we're excited to launch RELevant, a blog that shares information and perspectives aimed at helping decision makers consider ways to use research to improve school performance.

Improving school performance requires data - driven decision making at all levels, from the classroom through local and state education agencies; from early childhood through higher education.

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Martin West, a professor of education at Harvard, states that «weaker scores among voucher recipients may be a result of the fact that public school performance is improving, particularly in the District, where math and reading scores at traditional public and public charter schools have increased quickly over the past decade.»

After throwing up the standard straw men — «At its core, the reform movement believes that great teachers and improved teaching methods are all that's required to improve student performance, so that's all the reformers focus on,» «reformers act as if a student's home life is irrelevant,» «Dodd [the teacher] does everything a school reformer could hope for» — he rolls out the woefully tired and hopelessly unhelpful nostrum: «What needs to be acknowledged, however, is that school reform won't fix everything.»

He cited progress on the state's Academic Performance Index, which he said showed the average LAUSD school improving at a faster rate than the rest of the state's schools.

My analysis finds no significant changes in school demographics at district schools after charter entry that might explain improved student performance (see Figure 3a).

Republican presidential candidate and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker spoke about improving education at a conference at Harvard University in July 2012 on Learning from Improving School Systems at Home and Abroad: International and U.S. State Trends in Student Perimproving education at a conference at Harvard University in July 2012 on Learning from Improving School Systems at Home and Abroad: International and U.S. State Trends in Student PerImproving School Systems at Home and Abroad: International and U.S. State Trends in Student Performance.

Copyright 1988 The study looked at student achievement in the 16 school systems participating in the three - year - old pilot program, which seeks to improve the teaching force through incentives, performance - based pay, and improved evaluation techniques.

At Marina (California) Junior High School, teachers discovered that students academic performance improved dramatically after only 20 days of chess instruction.