Sentences with phrase «at improving student achievement in»

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.

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.

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I believe that the successes we are having in Harlem are beginning to turn some heads in this country, and making people realize that things are not hopeless — that we adults can improve student achievement at a much - larger scale than we have been doing.

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.

HEADLINE: Strong Libraries Improve Student Achievement Last month, site - based management teams at 11 elementary schools in Kalamazoo, Michigan, chose to cut their budgets for the 2000 - 2001 school year by eliminating the position of school librarian.

Ms Rodgers, who most recently served as Deputy Secretary, Early Learning and Student Achievement at the New Zealand Ministry of Education, has experience in improving system effectiveness with school leaders across education and the wider social sector.

We have to look at ways to address those things and try to improve the achievement levels of those students in order to lift the performance of the whole system.

We find that the overall effect of teacher turnover in DCPS at worst had no adverse effect on student achievement and, under reasonable assumptions, improved it.

In her first year on the job, Jewell - Sherman launched Excellence for All, a comprehensive plan aimed at improving teaching and learning to enable students to reach high academic standards, and promoting involvement with the community as a way of addressing nonacademic barriers to student achievement.

Recent studies purport to show that voucher programs result in better achievement by black students at private schools, and that vouchers motivate public schools to improve.

An article by Matthew Ladner and Dan Lips that appeared in the Summer 2009 issue of Ed Next looked at the strategies Florida pursued to improve student achievement, strategies which produced strong results, particularly among Hispanic students.

Los Altos already ranked among the best - performing districts in the state, but it had set itself a goal of improving individual achievement, and «capturing data at a granular level» on each student was proving difficult, Goines told me.

Because academic resources are relatively scarce in higher - poverty schools (e.g., there are more disruptive peers, lower academic expectations, fewer financial resources, and less - competent teachers), parents in these schools seek teachers skilled at improving achievement even if this comes at the cost of student satisfaction.

Aimed primarily at reducing the dropout rate and improving student achievement, the Boston Compact represents the most comprehensive and broad - based school - improvement effort in the country, according to Robert B. Schwartz, a special assistant to the president of...

A pilot study conducted by the researchers has shown that the initiative is effective at increasing teacher performance and student achievement and in improving teachers» views of the evaluation system.

In reading, the achievement gap has improved slightly more than in math (0.3 standard deviations), but after a half century, the average black student scores at just the 22nd percentile of the white distributioIn reading, the achievement gap has improved slightly more than in math (0.3 standard deviations), but after a half century, the average black student scores at just the 22nd percentile of the white distributioin math (0.3 standard deviations), but after a half century, the average black student scores at just the 22nd percentile of the white distribution.

The media and observers across the ideological spectrum were surprised and, in some cases, disconcerted in July 2014 when at the annual American Federation of Teachers (AFT) convention in Los Angeles, the union's leadership team announced that its Innovation Fund grants of $ 20,000 to $ 30,000 were going to be made available to state and local affiliates to critique the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the massive multistate effort to improve student achievement.

It says a large - scale voucher study would help determine whether giving public school students vouchers to pay for tuition at private schools can improve achievement, especially for students in poor, urban areas.

In The Four - Day School Week, another School Administrator report, Jack McCoy, deputy director of learning services at the New Mexico Department of Education, said in his district's case attendance for teachers and students improved while scores on standardized achievement tests remained stablIn The Four - Day School Week, another School Administrator report, Jack McCoy, deputy director of learning services at the New Mexico Department of Education, said in his district's case attendance for teachers and students improved while scores on standardized achievement tests remained stablin his district's case attendance for teachers and students improved while scores on standardized achievement tests remained stable.

The Commission will examine factors in raising student achievement from prekindergarten through high school including: state accountability and curriculum requirements; model programs to improve student achievement beginning in early learning programs and continuing throughout high school; strategies for every student to achieve at grade level such as intervention and support systems; and policies to improve student attendance and retention.

Grade - level teams have also helped improve student achievement at Franklin School in Rahway, New Jersey, according to principal Margaret Morales.

15, is dedicated to improving student wellbeing and achievement in India, one parent at a time.

«Orange County demonstrates that a sense of urgency and focus can improve student achievement in a hurry,» Broad Foundation president Bruce Reed said at the time.

Parents at Leesburg Elementary School in Virginia's Loudoun County, for example, found themselves in a fracas with the school's principal after he refused to provide them better accounting of the funds they helped raise and tell them what the school was doing to improve student achievement.

The use of a proficiency index or providing schools credit for students at different points in the achievement distribution improves the construct validity of the accountability measures over the NCLB proficiency rate measures (Polikoff et al., 2014).

The Bureau of Federal Educational Programs provides technical assistance, program support and monitoring to local educational agencies that will lead to improved academic achievement outcomes for students who are disadvantaged, migrant, neglected, delinquent, at - risk, or homeless; or in rural and low - income schools.

In the first micro-credentialing effort at Kettle Moraine, about 40 teachers signed up to be part of a learning group on «close reading» to improve students» literacy achievement.

By reviewing what is in place for PD at the district and building level, district leaders have an opportunity to make adjustments and add supports to ensure that the professional development provided to teachers results in improved instructional practices and increased student achievement.

Obama has proposed a «Success in the Middle Act,» which would provide federal support to improve the education of middle school students in low - performing schools by requiring states to develop detailed plans to improve student achievement, develop and utilize early identification data systems to identify those students most at - risk of dropping out, and invest in proven strategies that reduce the number of drop outs.

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.

The Executive Leadership Program for Educators at Harvard University in association with The Wallace Foundation will emphasize midcareer development of teams of high - level education leaders that share responsibility for making changes in their organizations and across their states to broadly improve school leadership and its impact on student achievement.

«Subtle» aspects of family involvement — parenting style and parental expectations, for example — may have a greater impact on student achievement than more «concrete» forms such as attendance at school conferences or enforcing rules at home regarding homework.144 Some researchers, policy makers, and practitioners argue that these subtle forms of family involvement are not easily influenced by schools.145 In contrast, we argue that the value of creating participatory structures in schools lies in its potential for increasing family and community members «sense of engagement in children «s education, and, as a consequence, augment and reinforce the subtle behaviors responsible for improved outcomes.1In contrast, we argue that the value of creating participatory structures in schools lies in its potential for increasing family and community members «sense of engagement in children «s education, and, as a consequence, augment and reinforce the subtle behaviors responsible for improved outcomes.1in schools lies in its potential for increasing family and community members «sense of engagement in children «s education, and, as a consequence, augment and reinforce the subtle behaviors responsible for improved outcomes.1in its potential for increasing family and community members «sense of engagement in children «s education, and, as a consequence, augment and reinforce the subtle behaviors responsible for improved outcomes.1in children «s education, and, as a consequence, augment and reinforce the subtle behaviors responsible for improved outcomes.146

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.

The scale - up grants are aimed at practices, strategies or programs in which sponsors can show strong evidence of having a statistically significant effect on improving student achievement or growth.

«One of the responsibilities of school leadership teams with the strongest correlation to improve student achievement is in the area of monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of school practices and their impact on student learning,» Beth Wallen, principal of Panther Lake Elementary School in Kent, Wash., summarizes the need to look at results.

Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE) Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At - Risk (CRESPAR) Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy (CTP) National Center for Early Development and Learning (NCEDL) National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and Science National Center for Postsecondary Improvement (NCPI) National Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) National Research and Development Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA) National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC / GT) Research Reports from the National Research and Development Centers

In the next seven years, they will open 41 schools serving an estimated 15,000 students in the Achievement School District, or ASD, a state program aimed at improving low - achieving schools, which was created through Tennessee's Race to the Top plaIn the next seven years, they will open 41 schools serving an estimated 15,000 students in the Achievement School District, or ASD, a state program aimed at improving low - achieving schools, which was created through Tennessee's Race to the Top plain the Achievement School District, or ASD, a state program aimed at improving low - achieving schools, which was created through Tennessee's Race to the Top plan.

The study found that AI / AN students» achievement in reading and math improved over the study period or at least held stable.

Hembree and Dessart (1986) found that, when calculators are integrated with regular instruction, students at all achievement levels show an improved attitude toward mathematics, improved test scores in basic operations, and improved scores in problem solving.

During her tenure at Hamilton, student achievement improved in all subgroups as evidenced by growth on the California Academic Performance Index.

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 the helm.

But as James Shuls, education policy fellow at the Show - Me Institute in Missouri, writes, ``... the best ones — the ones that significantly improve student achievement and make a lasting impact on students — could easily garner six figure salaries.»

«At my request, business leader Austin Beutner has assembled the LA Unified Advisory Task Force, bringing together innovative civic, education and other leaders to support our efforts to improve District schools and accelerate student achievement,» King said in a statement.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

As parents and guardians, you need to be involved with your children and their education, and stay aware of events in the district and at your school, to improve student achievement.

«When common assessments are developed and employed properly, as a collaborative, formative system aimed at improving learning for teachers and learners alike,» writes Erkens in the introduction, «the gains in teacher efficacy and student achievement can be staggering.»

Intensive case studies were conducted on these schools, some of which made noteworthy student achievement gains in a relatively short (one - to two - year) time frame, while others improved at a slower, steadier pace over a longer period.

«If adopted these reforms could help expand the availability of online education alternatives and increase the number of students taking advantage of them, potentially improving student achievement and reducing costs at a time when the state budget is chronically in the red,» concluded Mr. Izumi.

As head of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 students..

How can simple tools — already at your fingertips — work more effectively to improve student achievement in reading, math, and more?