Sentences with phrase «better math scores»

And when students eat breakfast, the results are pretty spectacular: Improved academic performance on standardized tests Improved concentration and memory Better math scores Better attendance and fewer tardies Fewer trips to the nurse's... Continue reading →

In boys, the lower the ratio, the better their math scores, the team reports in the May issue of the British Journal of Psychology.

Eating breakfast improves academic performance, health, and behavior; that means better performance on standardized tests, improved concentration and memory, better math scores, better attendance and fewer tardies, as well as fewer behavioral referrals to the front office.

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It found that children of American homeowners scored no better on math and reading tests than renters» kids, nor did they have lower high - school dropout rates.

Additionally, why does my basket of people — skeptics — score better in math, science, literature and history and contain a majority of the world «a artists, poets and musicians?

Recent analysis of the widely followed voucher experiment in Milwaukee shows that low - income minority students who attended private schools scored substantially better in reading and math after four years than those who remained in public schools.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

Private school students, on average, score better than public school students in reading, math and a host of other subject areas, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

To win the PL we at least need to win 25 matches to be within a shout of wining it that requires a minimum of 75 goals without conceding so we need attack minded players and defensive minded players from looking at our attaching force gerouid around 20 alexis 20 thats 40 we need another 35 and than we have the champion league and cup matches on the top of it all we got to consider form fatigue knocks and injuries can the midfield score another 40 another 40 goals have to come from somewhere so physics tells me so another good striker with 25 so goals is required for the math to make any sense

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine studied eighth grade math students and found gum chewers scored 3 percent better on standardized math tests and achieved better final grades (Wrigley Science Institute, 2009).

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

National studies show that students who eat school breakfast are more likely to: reach higher levels of math achievement; score higher on tests; have better concentration, memory and alertness, improved attendance, behavior, and academic performance; and maintain a healthy weight

During the early school years, children spend a lot of time learning basics like reading and math — fundamental skills necessary for a productive life (not to mention good test scores!).

Belluck has used his own Twitter handle in recent days to dog the State Education Department over the results of third - through eighth - grade English and math test scores that showed charter school students performing slightly better than their public school counterparts.

She gives the example of a school with five fifth grade classes, where students in one classroom score much better on the math tests than the other four.

This past year, 96 percent of students passed the Common Core math exams while 55 percent passed the English exams - both scores are well above state averages.

As predicted by state education officials, scores on the first English and math tests given statewide to elementary school students under tougher new learning standards are not very good.

At PS134, the numbers were only slightly better, with 36 % of 3rd, 4th and 5th graders scoring «proficient» or above on the state math tests, and only 14 % of 3rd, 4th and 5th graders scoring «proficient» or above on the state ELA tests.

The school, JHS / MS 80, has come under fire for dismal math and English test scores as well as allegations that its principal downplayed other violent incidents.

Using income as well as math and reading scores, the study also found that the lower the household income during infancy, the worse the children's performance on reading and math in fifth grade — replicating the well - known gap between income and achievement.

Although our colleges and universities are home to world - class science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs that attract the best and brightest domestic and international students, I am very concerned that the math and science test scores of American school children are lagging behind their counterparts in other countries.

«Students with higher intelligence had better grades and test scores, but those who also enjoyed and took pride in math had even better achievement.

These students also scored significantly better on California state standardized math and English tests.

On the practice college entrance exams, I did very well in math but scored below average in the verbal and writing sections.

• Both reading and math skills were closely correlated with the socioeconomic status of the child's family: The higher the family's status, the better the child's scores in both areas.

Students who had a sharper mathematical intuition scored better on math tests from kindergarten onward.

The dataset included measures of students» academic competence, specifically test scores in math and reading, as well as psychosocial outcomes.

Students who scored highest on creative topics, such as music and Swedish, were more likely to develop bipolar syndrome than students who did well on more fact - based topics such as chemistry, physics and maths.

Students who didn't score well on the image test tended to receive lower math scores, even after factors, such as IQ levels, were taken into account.

Children that performed best in the image test also scored the highest in standard math achievement tests.

She steals a teacher's grade book and then lies about her math grade to get a better score.

The failure was exemplified by high drop - out rates, dismal national test scores in math, reading, and other subjects, as well as widening achievement gaps.

When a teacher posts high value - added scores in reading and math, we say, «That's a good (or «highly effective») teacher.»

Most of the seven hundred or so children who attend this K - 12 institution located in a tough neighborhood in Northeast Washington enter scoring well below their grade level in reading and math; the school is overwhelmingly black and largely poor or working - class.

The study found that OMA improved diverse students» test scores in reading, language arts, and math, as well as improving teachers» effectiveness.

But they also showed that many youngsters — including some with otherwise good scores — were unsteady at fractional models, or word problems, which are among the 15 math standards that Washington schools are expected to teach their 4th graders.

Although the retention rates for TFA and VIF are low, it's worth noting that teachers who come through those preparation routes are better at raising student reading and math scores.

The 309 schools included in the study differed from other city schools in the following ways: They had a higher proportion of English Language Learners (ELL), special education, minority students, and students eligible for the Title I free or reduced - price lunch program, as well as lower average math and reading scores.

But all previous evaluations of the effects of private schools or of school voucher programs reported test - score results for both reading and math, or a composite measure of the two, even if the researchers thought that one or the other was a better measure of school performance.

«While 62 per cent of our students performed better in collaborative problem solving than was expected based on their reading, Maths and Science scores, a focus on one skill shouldn't come at the expense of the others,» he said.

In our sample of first - year college students, 75 percent of MCAS students scored as proficient or better in math, and 66 percent scored as proficient or better in ELA.

So, in your context of a sports hall, obviously shape is one that you have identified and used, but others that quickly come to mind would be dimension and measurement esp for different activities that can be played indoors - the dimensions of different playing surfaces / areas etc; construction design (more shape and space incl scale drawings), costs of construction (lots of maths including rates which could incorporate linear equations with fixed and variable costs); the rules and scoring of different indoor games played (basketball is a good example with different points for different shots); and probably more.

While girls do as well as or better than boys when teachers assign grades in all three subjects, they score significantly lower on both the math and

New research finds that students attending a district school in New York City within a half - mile radius of a charter school score better in math and reading and enjoy an increase in their likelihood of advancing to the next grade.

Their advantage in math and reading test scores in 5th grade is roughly 0.7 of a standard deviation, which amounts to well over two years of academic progress (see Figure 1).

• Duke researchers Charles Clotfelter, Helen Ladd, and Jacob Vigdor found that being taught by a sub for 10 days per year has a larger effect on a child's math scores than if he'd changed schools, and about half the size of the difference between students from well - to - do and poor families.

Moreover, if an income gap made America unique, you would expect the percentage of American students performing well below proficiency in math to be much higher than the percentage of low performers in countries with average test scores similar to the United States.

And more good news: the most recent sixth - grade proficiency scores surpassed AYP targets» for language and eighth graders met AYP language targets, missing AYP in math by one point.

These results suggest either that the academic considerations parents value are better captured by principal ratings or that parents have difficulty observing how much value a teacher adds to reading and math test scores.