Not exact matches
Wigginton employs Twitter to cultivate and maintain a network
of potential reviewers in countries that once were poorly represented in
academic journals but,
because of significant
improvements in the quality
of their research, are attracting fresh attention.
But RTI was quickly adopted as a model for overall school
improvement because of its focus on providing assistance quickly to struggling students, before any
academic deficits have a chance to become entrenched.
TVAAS is critical to school
improvement because it statistically isolates the impact
of schools and teachers on the
academic growth
of students.
Because of the negative effect that closing schools has on students and communities, PAA believes that schools should be closed only as a last resort, and never as a strategy for «
academic improvement.»
Because of the research associated with strong social and emotional skills as they relate to
academic performance, we believe that this is a strong indicator
of student
improvement and should be considered as part
of a state's implementation plan.
Despite reporting positive
improvements as a result
of receiving special funding, three Kern County high schools were denied state approval last week to remain in the Quality Education Investment Act program
because they did not meet their
academic growth targets.
Improvement is critical, but few parents I know would send their own kids to a school like Trevista
because of its poor performance in reaching important
academic standards.
Average
academic performance will go down
because ceiling effects limit the
improvement of the proschool group.
Corinne Gregory, the president and founder
of the Seattle - based schoolwide SEL program SocialSmarts, suggested the
improvement in those soft skills likely caused the rise in
academic achievement, in part
because educators could teach more efficiently with calmer, more cooperative students.