Sentences with phrase «boost school test scores»

Preschool's Hidden Value May Be in Combating Poverty Head Start may not boost school test scores, but researchers find long - term, multi-generational benefits in the program.

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Julia Bauscher, who is president of a national advocacy group called the School Nutrition Association, says administrators are under intense pressure to increase instruction time and boost standardized test scores.

UPPER EAST SIDE — Republican mayoral contender Joe Lhota wants to give teachers a pay boost for everything from improving kids» test scores to teaching in low - performing schools.

New York City's new schools chancellor pledged to boost training for elementary math teachers, after a national test found a drop in average math scores for the city's fourth - graders.

New York City's new schools chancellor pledged to boost training for elementary math teachers on Tuesday, after a national test found a drop in average math scores for the city's fourth - graders.

Parents, community leaders and former participants of after - school programs maintained that such initiatives can help improve low - performing schools, boost test scores and improve work habits.

Schools ply students with calories on test days in hopes of boosting scores, a new report suggests

The new research builds on two previous studies that found the two programs benefitted children in early elementary school, boosting third - grade reading and math - test scores and reducing third - grade special education placements.

As mentioned earlier, high - stakes testing poses the risk that it may cause teachers and schools to adjust their effort toward the least costly (in terms of dollars or effort) way of boosting test scores, possibly at the expense of other constructive actions.

Five specific whole - school practices have been shown to boost test scores and increase graduation rates, according to Professor Roland Fryer.

It'll boost their reading scores; prepare them to succeed in middle school, high school, and beyond, where U.S. test scores (and other metrics) crash; and equalize opportunity in American society in ways that no anti-poverty or compensatory education program can possibly do.

Performance incentives may cause schools and teachers to redirect their efforts toward the least costly ways of raising test scores, at the expense of actions that do not boost scores but may be important for students» long - term welfare.

Our research sought to examine whether schools that have demonstrated success in raising test scores also boost students» fluid cognitive skills — either as a byproduct or perhaps as a principal pathway for improvements in test scores.

To be sure, there is nothing in our current forms of direct evaluation that requires schools and teachers to abandon a broad, knowledge - laden curriculum to boost test scores; but it should be abundantly clear that if the field hasn't gotten this message nearly fifteen years after No Child Left Behind, it's not going to.

That has left unions ill - prepared to respond to current demands on teachers and schools to boost test scores, increase graduation rates, and better prepare students for success in college or on the job.

Still, even a modicum of school choice and competition can boost student test scores, especially when combined with a comprehensive examination system for high - school graduates, says Ludger Woessmann, whose systematic, sophisticated analyses of international test - score data best summarize what can be learned from abroad.

Black children exhibited the familiar effect of an initial boost in test scores that faded away, leading the researchers to attribute the lack of sustained gains to the abysmal public schools in disadvantaged black neighborhoods.

Ackerman's first superintendent position was in the Washington D.C. Public Schools from 1998 to 2000, where she made key changes to the system that included reworking the schools budget, revamping instruction resulting in boosted test scores, and reorganizing staff strSchools from 1998 to 2000, where she made key changes to the system that included reworking the schools budget, revamping instruction resulting in boosted test scores, and reorganizing staff strschools budget, revamping instruction resulting in boosted test scores, and reorganizing staff structure.

A growing body of academic research supports the use of project - based learning in schools as a way to engage students, cut absenteeism, boost cooperative learning skills, and improve test scores.

Still, its detractors argue that the law has had unfortunate side effects: too much time spent teaching to narrow tests, schools focused on boosting the scores of students who are just below the proficiency threshold, and some states lowering their standards to reduce the number of schools missing their achievement targets.

While experts worry that schools are «teaching to the test» on some high - pressure state exams, a pair of economists have suggested yet another way schools can boost scores: by «feeding to the test.»

In the piece, headlined «Alternative» Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduationSchools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduationschools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduation rates.

Course for Families Enhances Math Test Scores With boosting math scores as a goal, the staff at one Wisconsin school focused on curriculum, instructional practices, and the role parents play in student suScores With boosting math scores as a goal, the staff at one Wisconsin school focused on curriculum, instructional practices, and the role parents play in student suscores as a goal, the staff at one Wisconsin school focused on curriculum, instructional practices, and the role parents play in student success.

Likewise, having 12 additional private schools nearby boosts public school test scores by almost 3 percent of a standard deviation.

And so, for the past 20 years, the question of whether school choice «works» has been understood to mean simply whether a school - choice program boosted reading and math test scores in a given year.

In the program's first year, the bonus program boost to math scores was 3.2 points on the New York state test, or 0.08 standard deviations, in schools with small cohorts of teachers with tested students (approximately ten or fewer such teachers in elementary and K - 8 schools and five or fewer such teachers in middle schools).

The problem with framing the issue merely as a question of whether technology boosts test scores is that it fails to address the interaction between technology and the values learned in school.

A blind spot in our technocratic impulse to improve outcomes (read: boost test scores) is that we forget that schools are also civic institutions where children go to become Americans.

Students at the same Boston charter high schools that have boosted test scores are also more likely to take and pass Advanced Placement courses and to enroll in a four - year rather than a two - year college.

In this small, mostly African - American, overwhelmingly poor town in rural South Carolina, Kingstree Junior High School's new principal, Margie Myers, was desperate to boost dismal test scores and rein in severe discipline problems — without spending money she didn't have.

It should not surprise us that private schooling boosts student attainment more than it does test scores.

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Concerns that schools artificially boosted test scores by dumping low achievers into alternative programs have surfaced in connection with ongoing litigation in Louisiana and Pennsylvania, and echo findings from a legislative report a decade ago in California.

These BBA blog posts offer a range of perspectives on the importance of attending to children's mental and physical well - being in order to boost learning: In Crunching Test Scores Isn't Enough, veteran DCPS high school...

Many of the charter schools in our study aspire to boost minority achievement, so a natural benchmark for charter effectiveness is the black - white test score gap.

Among those dismissed were Gascon and 16 others who ranked in the top fifth of district middle school instructors in boosting test scores, The Times» analysis found.

Competition from the Choice program appears to have boosted the test scores of students who remained in Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), but those systemic effects of the program were modest in size.

Teachers and administrators in schools that saw dramatic boosts in test scores would win bonus money of between $ 500 and $ 1,000 each.

The Council of the Great City Schools analyzed test scores in reading and mathematics for 59 city districts and found the greatest progress was made in boosting math scores.

The investigation has provided more fuel for the national debate over how charter schools use suspensions, expulsions and other harsh disciplinary practices to weed out students who need extra support and, in so doing, boost the schools» test scores.

Further, with lowered accountability mandates, schools and districts are under less pressure to boost state test scores.

Such practices could give charters a boost in standardized test scores, the primary gauge by which schools are judged.

Raising test scores is a priority for many schools, and PTOs and PTAs can play a significant role in boosting student achievement.

Recently, Duckworth heard about the school that was instituting a Grit Week in order to boost its students standardized testing scores, a goal she 100 percent would not have picked, for one simple reason: Who ever heard of a teenager being passionate about standardized tests?

At Roberts, an alternative high school in Salem, Oregon, the focus is not only on boosting test scores but also on raising up the whole student — and the result is that academic success follows.

Some parents complain that gifted students are used to tutor students during the school day to give them something to do and boost test scores.

Many schools abandoned decades of research and training in whole child and developmentally appropriate pedagogy to focus on boosting test score outcomes.

Heavier sanctions required for schools that do not boost test scores have previously been shown to be counter-productive; • The requirement that limited English proficient students score «proficient» on English exams is self - contradictory, as is the provision that most children with special needs demonstrate competency in the same manner as other students; • Education is being damaged as students are coached to pass tests rather than taught a rich curriculum that will help prepare them for life in the 21st Century; and • The federal government has failed to adequately fund the law.

Ironically, one of the biggest critics of New York City's charter schools is UFT president Michael Mulgrew, who has frequently accused them of intentionally pushing out ELL, SPED, and other hard - to - teach students in an effort to boost their test scores.

In just two years, overall scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills improved by 70 percent, boosting the school's ranking from near the bottom quartile to eight percent above the national median.