Sentences with phrase «at their achievement prior»

They looked at their achievement prior to entering a charter, pilot, or regular public school, as well as their achievement in one of those schools.

Not exact matches

At one point Kirkpatrick writes that the process view asks us «to imagine a process of unification as having, in effect, subjective unity prior to the achievement of subjective unity» (PS 3:20).

Being too young at that time, I obviously don't have first hand experience of Wenger's achievements prior to the Invincibles, but times have change and we've got to accept oil clubs being part and parcel of the game.

Prior to 2008 general elections most of us were of the view that looking at these record achievements by the New Patriotic Party, The Flag bearer of the Party Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo was going to win the election hands down but Ghanaians voted otherwise.

Prior to joining at the DOE JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni was a co-founder and Chief Science Officer at a clean technology start - up, Bio Architecture Lab, Inc. where his significant achievement was using synthetic biology to develop the first microbial platform technologies enabling to unlock the potential of macroalgae as highly environmentally sustainable and cost - effective biomass for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals.

The Achievement Award will be presented by Rose Troche to Cooper prior to the festival's opening night gala screening of «The Intervention» on Thursday at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles.

Under the NCLB - era accountability regimes in many states, practically every school serving lots of low - income students was eventually designated as failing («needs improvement») because the dominant measures of school performance at the time — especially proficiency and graduation rates — are strongly correlated with prior achievement and student demographics.

The proportion of principals in their first year leading a school is roughly 40 percent higher in schools in the bottom quartile of average prior achievement than in schools in the top quartile; the proportion of principals that have been at their current school at least six years is roughly 50 percent higher in schools with higherachieving students.

Even when attrition and replacement throughout the middle school years are taken into account, the limited range of potential peer effects at KIPP schools does not explain the large cumulative impacts on student achievement identified by prior studies.

Students leaving KIPP schools have similar prior achievement to those leaving nearby middle schools, but the late entrants at KIPP schools tend to have had higher achievement than late entrants at these other schools.

The increase in peer prior achievement from 5th to 8th grade at KIPP schools was 0.15 standard deviations greater in reading and 0.19 standard deviations greater in math than for students who attended feeder elementary schools (see Figure 4).

One way to estimate the possible size of peer effects at KIPP is to combine our findings with other research on how peers» prior scores affect student achievement.

Even if the largest estimates of peer effects are correct, however, the improvement in peers» prior test scores would appear to benefit KIPP students» achievement only by about 0.07 to 0.09 standard deviations after four years at KIPP.

Finland is able to meet the needs of high - ability students, to some extent at least, by employing «exceptionally well - prepared teachers whose skills include the capacity to differentiate their instruction according to the needs, capacities, and prior achievement of their pupils.»

Because of the way tracking was done (splitting the grade into two classes at the median baseline test score), the two students closest to the median within each school were assigned to classes where the average prior achievement of their classmates was very different.

Black students in particular demonstrate large relative gains in math achievement prior to entering a middle school but then suffer larger drops both at and following the transition.»

The Fordham study controls for both the demographic and prior achievement variables that are measured at the state level of e-school students.

-- According to findings released today by researchers at the Strategic Data Project (SDP), the gap in college enrollment rates between black students and white students in four large, urban districts disappears or even reverses direction once prior achievement and socioeconomic background is accounted for.

When the children at risk were placed in high - quality classrooms, these gaps were eliminated: children from low - education households achieved at the same level as those whose mothers had a college degree, and children displaying prior problem behavior showed achievement and adjustment levels identical to children who had no history of problems.

Prior to this work, Ms. De Vivo conducted extensive neuropsychological and achievement testing with young children and adults at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City and at the University of California at San Francisco.

Because Indiana public and private schools use the same assessment in grades 3 — 8, we could identify public - school students who shared similar achievement trajectories and demographic characteristics with these voucher students at baseline (the year prior to a student switching from a public to a private school) and track both groups» academic progress for up to four subsequent years.

Prior to her service in the presidential administration of President Barack Obama, Ericka was Vice President for Operations and Strategic Leadership at the Education Trust, a nationally recognized research and advocacy organization dedicated to promoting high academic achievement of all students, kindergarten through college.

At the time of the admission lottery, those applicants who are offered a slot at a charter school and those who are denied are indistinguishable; they have the same prior achievement, parental engagement, and motivatioAt the time of the admission lottery, those applicants who are offered a slot at a charter school and those who are denied are indistinguishable; they have the same prior achievement, parental engagement, and motivatioat a charter school and those who are denied are indistinguishable; they have the same prior achievement, parental engagement, and motivation.

However, recent studies using randomized admission lotteries at charter schools and the random assignment of teachers has suggested that simple, low - cost methods, when they control for students» prior achievement and characteristics, can yield estimates of teacher and school effects that are similar to what one observes with a randomized field trial.

When it came to education, meaning did they plan to, for instance, go onto university, we looked at a number of variables and one of them was prior achievement using NAPLAN data.

Prior to her service in the presidential administration of President Barack Obama, Miller was vice president for operations and strategic leadership at the Education Trust, a nationally recognized research and advocacy organization dedicated to promoting high academic achievement of all students, kindergarten through college.

Prior to his time at BVP, he taught grades 2 through 4 with Achievement First in New York and New Haven.

As described in an earlier brief, some research provides evidence that value - added measures — at least those that compare teachers within the same school and adjust well for students» prior achievement — do not favor teachers who teach certain types of students.

Prior to joining the foundation, Orville was a Senior Research Analyst at the Education Trust - West, where he conducted research and advocated for policies to boost educational achievement and close opportunity gaps impacting students of color and students in poverty in California schools.

Prior to her work at Achievement First, Christina taught special education for six years, first as a teacher in Harlem and later helping to build a special education program at Rise Academy in Newark, N.J. Throughout this time, she spent her summers working as a school director at Teach For America's Summer Institute, while also earning a master's degree in public policy at the University of Chicago, where she received a Harris Fellowship.

Prior this role, De-Lea served as the dean of special services, dean of academic culture, and founding dean of students at Achievement First Brooklyn High School.

Prior to Teach Plus, Candace was the assistant director for pre-K-12 school and district assistance at the Education Trust, where she worked with schools and districts to improve student assignments and provide coaching and professional development on practices to close achievement gaps.

In addition, they all use students» prior test score data to «control for» the risk factors that impact student learning and achievement both at singular points in time as well as over time.

All teachers will report to work at the same time every Wednesday to enable 50 - 60 minutes of time for teachers and administrators to review student achievement data, develop individualized student achievement plans, and hold parent conferences prior to student arrival.

We did the same thing at the school level, to be certain that we ruled out school - level factors that might have impacted instruction and hence, achievement, such as proportion students of color, school size, poverty level, and how well students had done on the assessments the prior year.

We study ability peer effects in English secondary schools using data on four cohorts of pupils taking age14 national tests and measuring peers» ability by prior achievements at age - 11.

Third, teachers who work in schools that were more effective at raising achievement in a prior period improve more rapidly in a subsequent period than do those in less effective schools.

Prior to joining Teaching Matters, Lance was the Senior Literacy Specialist at the Institute for Student Achievement in the research division of the Educational Testing Service.

The SRI analysis looked at four years of data, controlled for student background characteristics, demographics and prior achievement.

Facing the challenges associated with an increase in student population from 3,600 in 2001 to over 13,000 in 2017, Vail has used the Beyond Textbooks approach to increase student achievement in math and reading from levels near or below state averages prior to the advent of the program to pass rates that are now consistently 20 % or more above state averages and greater than 90 % year after year at most grade levels.

Prior to her work in Los Angeles, Ms. Brown was the founding Leadership and Student Achievement Manager at Success Academy Bronx 1 and played various roles to ensure the success of the developing school.

Freshman year course performance — more than background characteristics such as race, gender, socioeconomic status, or prior achievement — predict which students with disabilities are most at risk for dropping out of high school, according to a new report from the National High School Center at AIR and the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago.

Prior to Flamboyan, Justin worked at The Achievement Network (ANet) for six years.

Prior to joining Match, Ms. Therrien Wells also worked at the Achievement Network as the managing director of the math assessment team.

Using a ten - year student - level panel dataset from North Carolina, we examine how school - specific pressure related to two school accountability approaches (status and growth) affects student achievement at different points in the prior - year achievement distribution.

Far more fashionable in education today is the concept of «differentiated instruction,» in which — in theory — every teacher instructs every student at his appropriate level of ability and prior achievement, all within the same classroom.

The news means that the time he spent working at Achievement First, Inc. prior to July 1, 2010 was in direct violation of Connecticut state law.

He had racked up significant, quantifiable achievements that demonstrated expertise in project management, marketing, operations, finance and new business development as a senior management level executive at good companies... prior to leaving to start his own business.

Federal government job interviewers look at an ability to deliver results for their division, so prepare for that at least one week prior to the interview by selecting a few work achievements that will get a positive response from your interviewer.

Research consistently indicates that children with more developed executive function skills prior to kindergarten experience greater school success.6, 7 For academic achievement, these skills may scaffold language and mathematic success.12 In fact, in a low - income sample of children, researchers have found that executive function skills prior to kindergarten predict growth in both numeracy and literacy skills across the kindergarten year.12 A successful transition to school may be particularly critical for children who have faced high levels of adversity and may be at risk for poorer school performance.