Sentences with phrase «beneficial effects on achievement»

Abella (2005) noted in her study of Miami - Dade County schools that K — 8 students had significant short - term beneficial effects on achievement, attendance, and suspension rates.

This policy would have enormous beneficial effects on achievement.

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If you run a small school in a poor city, and you're trying to boost outcomes for your students by awarding scholarships to encourage attendance and achievement, do you give the scholarships to the best students, or to the neediest?As it turns out, both pathways have beneficial effects on...

These patterns suggest that increasing exposure to black teachers is beneficial at best and neutral at worst for all students in terms of discipline, and that increasing teacher diversity while keeping teacher quality constant would have a modest positive effect on the reading achievement of black students while having an opposite effect on the math achievement of white students.

Freed from the efforts of AEI's education czar, Rick Hess, to spin the results in support of his opposition to accountability and focusing on achievement gaps, Ahn and Vidgor point out that AYP has «beneficial» effects on student achievement.

Research points to the beneficial effects of smaller classes on students» academic success, and many states have turned to class - size reduction to raise student achievement (U.S. Department of Education, 2000).

There are two relevant research questions: Do exit exams have beneficial effects on students in terms of achievement or labor - market outcomes?

But ERA's research shows that the RSD's willingness to close schools has actually been beneficial, finding that «roughly one - third of the reforms» large positive effects on measured student achievement can be attributed to this process.»

Thus, despite several decades of research, there is little consensus on whether childhood television viewing has beneficial, harmful, or negligible effects on educational achievement.10 This uncertainty is at least partly due to a lack of long - term follow - up data, particularly for school - age children.

And the First Five Years Fund mobilizes nationwide support for early education programs, citing the research evidence on early education's beneficial effects on health as well as economic well - being and academic achievement.