Sentences with phrase «at improving student achievement»

Here are the stories of five union leaders who were featured on the magazine's cover and who are helping to drive reforms aimed at improving student achievement at priority schools.

Education leaders across the country are focusing on how to better recruit, evaluate and retain teachers who are effective at improving student achievement.

If anything, these measures suggest that middle schools are more likely to have policies aimed at improving student achievement.

But preliminary new research focusing on Denver's residency program showed that teachers trained through the program were less effective at improving student achievement in math than other novice teachers in Denver.

AFT Report Actually Bolsters California Charter Schools» Effectiveness at Improving Student Achievement Despite Less Funding and Clear Political Obstacles Report Shows that California's Charter Schools Perform as Well, and Slightly Better, than Broader Public School System

A recent study found Alberta's charter schools to be, on average, 30 % more effective than conventional public schools at improving student achievement on provincial language arts and math tests over a five - year period — a particularly impressive figure considering the province's students already lead the pack on interprovincial comparisons of student achievement.

The program, which got under way in 10 schools last week, is aimed at improving student achievement by enabling schools to assess their own needs and priorities and implement changes of their own design, officials said.

The researchers examined whether providing large financial incentives ($ 20,000 paid out over two years) would encourage high - performing teachers to transfer to selected low - performing schools, whether those teachers would be successful at improving student achievement, and whether they would remain at the school after the payments ended.

Reform policies directed at improving student achievement should be based on a theory of action.

OERI has yet to systematically examine which models of education interventions are especially effective at improving student achievement in different settings.

The Albertson Family Foundation made education its primary focus in 1997, and officials there said it has donated $ 700 million since that year, most of it aimed at improving student achievement in Idaho.

Other school characteristics associated with better student achievement included: more time spent on English instruction; teacher pay plans that were based on teachers» effectiveness at improving student achievement, principals» evaluations, or whether teachers took on additional duties, rather than traditional pay scales; an emphasis on academics in schools» mission statements; and a classroom policy of punishing or rewarding the smallest of student infractions.

Bill Gates» philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is making an about - face on its education priorities to focus on networks of traditional public schools aimed at improving student achievement.

The series is part of the Bush Institute's focus on school accountability, which is aimed at improving student achievement, empowering parents, and helping educators in their important work.

When schools build partnerships with families that respond to their concerns and honor their contributions, they are successful in sustaining connections that are aimed at improving student achievement,» (14).

Wayne RESA is a regional educational service agency that provides a broad spectrum of services and support to Wayne County's 33 school districts aimed at improving student achievement and maximizing economies of scale in staff development, purchasing, and administrative services.