Sentences with phrase «because earlier achievement»

We excluded kindergarten and first - grade teachers because earlier achievement exams were not available for their students; this prevented us from developing a «value - added» measure of student learning.

Not exact matches

If you became an Arsenal fan because of Wenger's early achievements then you have a peculiar attitude.

The early achievements of the committees were especially impressive because they were accomplished without oversight.

Then I realizedthat this was probably because my memories of early educationwere all geared toward quantifiable achievements: learning to count, recite the alphabet, and so on.

We found that attrition and replacement patterns could not explain most of KIPP's positive effects on student achievement, because (a) early attrition patterns at KIPP schools are similar to those at nearby district middle schools; and (b) KIPP schools have large achievement effects in the first year of students» enrollment, before replacement patterns could have any effects.

The schools — 16 in the Detroit Public Schools Community District and eight from the Education Achievement Authority, a soon - to - be-dissolved state - run recovery district for struggling schools — had been identified for closure earlier this year by the Michigan School Reform Office because they've ranked in the bottom 5 percent academically for three straight years.

Because of hard - edged accountability policies, low - income and minority students saw significant achievement gains in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

It's too early to draw hard and fast conclusions about the program's effectiveness from those numbers, in part because they only cover one year of achievement data, the secretary cautioned.

Because achievement gaps are self - perpetuating, the earlier we intervene to reduce them, the more effective we will be at eliminating them in the long run.

Don't bury a top achievement from your early career in the experience section, just because chronologically that's where it goes.

Don't bury a top achievement from your early career in the Professional Experience section, just because chronologically that's where it goes.

At the population level, however, with more than 9 million men in the United States in their early fifties, a 3 percentage point reduction in heart attacks would be seen as a major public health achievement, because it would mean a quarter of a million fewer heart attacks in this group over a decade.