Sentences with phrase «because reading achievement»

This is consistent with a number of studies that show larger effects in math than in reading, presumably because reading achievement is more strongly influenced by family and other factors besides schooling.

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It is well worth reading if one likes gossip, bitching and behind the scenes insights into a diverse group of highly ambitious individuals, all inevitably bound to fail in realising their ultimate ambition because they were unfortunate enough to seek to achieve it in a year when the press had turned one of them, with few achievements to his name, into a saint who could do nothing wrong.

When he came back to Egbe in 1915, he was regarded as successful because learning to read and write was a big achievement then.

For admission, they must score at an 8th - grade level on standardized reading and math tests (the Richmond Tech PLC raised that to 9th grade because it had so many applicants), pass an interview, and sign an achievement contract that also commits them to attend a daily meeting called Morning Motivation.

Curriculum isn't what it ought to be partly because, as Merrow argues, our fixation on reading and math achievement has squeezed it, but also because it's been decentralized to individual districts and schools and because (as Hirsch has explained so often and well) the belief structure of most educators resists well - sequenced, knowledge - centric curricula.

Regular readers of my blog know that this is not because I'm convinced they're the answer to the «achievement gap» or to driving up math and reading scores, but because chartering offers an opportunity to rethink how we go about teaching, learning, and schooling.

For this reason, I performed a variety of sensitivity tests for math achievement because the reliability of the math test across countries and cultures is usually considered higher than it is for reading or science.

Without mastery, this course may look the same, but a learner could make it all the way to the third achievement, the solo performance, and then fail miserably because they never learned how to read sheet music.

The uncertainty surrounding the achievement effects of the DC voucher program is because we set the high standard of 95 % confidence to judge a voucher benefit as «statistically significant», and we could only be 94 % confident that the final - year reading gains from the DC program were statistically significant.

That's because our friends at the Department of Education read ESSA's language to mean that proficiency rates — and proficiency rates alone — must be the sole measure of «academic achievement.»

We find that students who will enter a middle school in 6th or 7th grade have positive achievement trajectories in math and reading from 3rd grade to 5th, relative to their counterparts who will never enter a middle school because they attend a school that continues through 8th grade.

The study also determined that the study results can not be dismissed with claims that the students in the program performed worse because they were adjusting to a new school: «There was no statistically significant association between changing schools and student achievement in reading and mathematics.»

We used quantitative and descriptive methods to examine the programs and practices in 11 moderate - to high - poverty schools selected because of their dual reputation for implementing recent reading reform and for beating the odds by promoting greater than expected primary - grade reading achievement.

The other point — which David presumably left out because it's undoubtedly well known to anyone reading this — is that it's a universal truth that demographics and other outside - school factors closely correlate with academic achievement.

Individual achievement test scores can be misleading at the pre-school and kindergarten levels, if the child is already reading and doing arithmetic — these abilities are not expected in this age group, so precocious readers or mathies will score significantly above their age level, just because they are precocious readers or mathies.

About 20 schools are expected to be designated next month as «priority schools» because of rock - bottom reading and math achievement plus other problems, such as weak student growth or high dropout rates.

They further found that higher turnover was associated with lower student performance on reading and math achievement tests, apparently because turnover takes a toll on the overall climate of the school.42 «It is far from a trivial problem,» the researchers say.

Duke points to research by Goodwin and Ahn (2013) that argues that instruction in morphemes leads to improvements in word decoding, spelling, and vocabulary; and because word decoding and vocabulary contribute to reading comprehension, there is evidence that morphology instruction leads to improvement in reading comprehension and overall reading achievement (Goodwin & Ahn, 2010; Goodwin, Lipsky, & Ahn, 2012), even in the elementary grades (Rasinski, Padak, Newton, & Newton, 2013), and even for children who struggle in learning to read (Goodwin & Ahn, 2010; Nagy, Carlisle, & Goodwin, 2013).

Wisconsin has embraced the national standards in part because sharing curriculum and test development costs with other states can save money, said Jennifer Thayer, assistant state superintendent for reading and student achievement.

• The Reading Crisis — Because everything about student achievement follows from the ability to read, we should declare the moral equivalent of war on the illiteracy of our children, beginning immediately in our urban areas.

Both the complexity and the level of detail in state reading standards are important areas of analysis because they are likely to impact the development of local systems of curriculum, instruction, and assessment in ways that will significantly effect student achievement.

Because reading skills are fundamental to achievement in every area, a key focus across the school has been to help students develop a passion for reading.»

The report said it was «essential» for children to make time to read because reading outside lessons was linked to strong academic achievement.

Less is known about spelling competence in the general population than is known about reading achievement because there is no national test for spelling and many states do not test students» spelling skills.

One of the biggest changes in achievement gaps between 1971 and 2012 is a 27 - point narrowing between the average reading scores of black and white 17 - year - old students.The report's data indicate that such race - based gaps have narrowed because black and Hispanic students have made larger gains than their white peers.

The final, most compelling reason I don't care for the Student Achievement Partners questions is that although they teach the reading — the content of the text — there's no attempt to teach the reader strategies by which that reader can pursue meaning independently, yes independently (notice my repetition for emphasis modeled after Because of Winn - Dixie).

Now, there is more bad news: The real magnitude of that reading achievement gap may be greater than previously believed, because educators and researchers have not adequately accounted for the different skills that are required to successfully read online, as opposed to in print.

UK - based children's book author Allan Ahlberg declined the Booktrust Best Book Awards «Lifetime Achievement Award because the # 5,000 prize money had been donated by... [Read more...]

The positions are being eliminated — I believe because of the lack of direct data within our school or district that shows what we do has an impact on student achievement, even though dozens of studies show that we do, such as the Keith Curry Lance studies in Colorado (http://www.lrs.org/documents/lmcstudies/CO/CO2brochure.pdf): «Schools with well - developed library media programs average 10 - 15 % / 18 % higher reading scores.»

And that's about all the Sea of Thieves Achievements, I hope you had a fun time reading through these because I sure did.

Because the details in the middle often get pushed aside for a second read, make sure your achievements that pack the biggest punch appear first and last under your job experience.

Because there is no guarantee the same person who reads your resume will also read your cover letter, I recommend recycling and rephrasing achievements listed in your resume.

It's no good assuming that just because your interviewer has read your CV that there is no need to talk about the achievements you have on there.