Sentences with phrase «to 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.

Why it's effective: Research shows that SEL curriculum can boost test scores by as much as 11 percent and decrease classroom behavior problems by nine percent.

They say they've tried repeatedly to get the message across to teachers that spending time on reading comprehension «skills» won't boost test scores.

More than 15,000 students avoided repeating a grade and thousands more boosted their test scores substantially.

And the writing efforts have boosted test scores too.

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.

The next question the authors asked was whether classes that specifically boosted test scores were those that also improved long - term outcomes.

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.

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.

Recent research also shows that online math homework, which can be designed to adapt to students» levels of understanding, can significantly boost test scores (Roschelle et al., 2016).

Researchers at Stanford have found that, when used correctly, technology does indeed help boost test scores for low - income students.

But the catch, administrators freely admit, is that the school does not immediately boost test scores for students in middle school — and in Washington's case, a decline in middle school test scores was enough to land the school on the Indiana Department of Education's failing school list again.

Guy is a rancher, develops a program to boost test scores based on how he relates to his horses.

Within - class and cross-grade programs, which entail moderate amounts of curricular adjustment, boost test scores of higher aptitude students by about 0.2 to 0.3 standard deviations, or by 2 to 3 months on a grade - equivalent scale.

The UCLA Center for Civil Rights Remedies reported in 2016 that many charter schools artificially boost test scores and graduation rates by using harsh discipline to encourage lower - achieving youth to leave.

Partnering with parents — by hosting coffee hours, inviting them into classrooms and encouraging attendance at parent - teacher conferences and PTA events — can significantly boost both test scores and teacher practice.

Proven to help boost test scores, improve literacy rates, and enhance overall academic performance

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.

They can't handle those kids, have no answers and cherrypick the most motivated families to boost test scores.

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.

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.

Yes, many interventions that boost test scores, such as being assigned to an effective teacher, have been shown to generate substantial gains in later earnings (see «Great Teaching,» research, Summer 2012).

There is no excuse for school administrators and teachers tampering with student tests to boost 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.

And yet, in the world of education, the «next big thing» is merit pay for teachers and boosting test scores.

This is a fairly stringent test of gaming behavior, because prior research has found evidence of «fade - out» of test - score gains even when there are no strong incentives to boost test scores artificially.

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 structure.

When school reassignments resulted in the arrival of students with either very low or very high achievement, this boosted the test scores of other students with very low or very high achievement, probably because it created a critical mass of students at the same achievement level, and schools could better focus attention on their particular needs.

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 graduation rates.

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.

By shifting money and power away from the central office, districts are gambling that they can win back public confidence and boost test scores.

Boosting Test Scores: «Principal» Strategies That Work Raising test scores is a goal at the top of all principals» lists.

The Honolulu Star Advertiser today ran a story (entitled «Cheating by Educators Rare in Hawaii») about the Atlanta cheating scandal vis - a-vis Hawaii: Revelations of widespread cheating by educators in Atlanta to boost test scores are raising questions about efforts to ensure the integrity of statewide tests and the pressures of high - stakes testing.

In an effort to boost test scores, the district mandated the use of Open Court Reading, a scripted language arts program, and an accompanying assessment system.

Additional research seeks ways to boost the test scores and academic achievement of students in negatively stereotyped groups.

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.

They put them in the worst schools to boost test scores - then they segregate the magnet kids from «general population» (yes, they actually use that term) and give them the good teachers.

In November, she suggested that some charter schools push kids out ahead of state tests to boost their test scores.

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.

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.

Students were required to wear uniforms, were subject to strict behavior rules, and received cash payments for boosting their test scores.