Sentences with phrase «concerns about the achievement»

Paul Tough's work reflects his enduring concern about the achievement gap in our society between children from the poorest and wealthiest families in the United States.

Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch says while the numbers were not unexpected, she is concerned about the achievement gap based on race, ethnicity and English language learners.

Similarly, No Child Left Behind's left - leaning supporters like the Education Trust, Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, and Council of the Great City Schools, which are all concerned about the achievement gap, do not enter the Winerip conversation either.

The Future of Learning initiative is not only concerned about the achievement gap but with what Professor David Perkins called in his opening remarks of the institute a relevance gap.

The third problem, Ho explains, raises concerns about achievement gaps — for example, average differences between test scores of white or higher - income students and minority or poor students.

Although districts in San Diego and New York City drove reform with little direct state policy support, accountability systems in California and New York State had raised concerns about achievement and thus motivated these reform efforts.

Among those raising concerns about the Achievement First Inc. project during the public portion of last night's meeting were Dave Cicarella, the President of the New Haven Federation of Teachers and Keisha Hannans of the New Haven School Administrators Association.

Oakland Tech High School teacher, Steve Wright shared his experience of studying school - wide grades by demographic and feeling deeply concerned about the achievement gaps between white, African American, and Latino students at his school.

About 80 % said that their teachers are more concerned about achievement than caring for others.

Academic problems included 4 items about problems at school (0 = parent contacted by school 0 — 1 times, 1 = parent contacted ≥ 2 times); concerns about achievement and learning difficulties (0 = none or a little, 1 = a lot); and grade repetition (1 = yes, 0 = no; mean: 0.93; SE: 0.010; range: 0 — 4).

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It's great to be able to talk to experienced employees about your day - to - day challenges and create a space to discuss concerns, achievements, and tricky situations.

That formal process has been replaced with «check - ins,» in which managers and employees meet intermittently throughout the year for unstructured chats about achievements, expectations, goals and concerns.

Her drive for achievement and high level aspiration are thus a type of «busy work» — a method of filling up her life with a lot of things about which she, can feel or express concern even though she realizes they are rather unimportant.

Always communicate with your pediatrician about any concerns you have regarding your baby's developments and / or failure to meet milestone achievements.

A warm, open family environment — where kids can talk about their feelings, where their achievements are praised, and where their self - esteem is boosted — encourages kids to come forward with their questions and concerns.

Stephen Sigmund, executive director of the pro-Common Core group High Achievement New York — a nonprofit coalition of mostly business groups — said he was concerned about Rosa's remarks.

Parents worry about funding and standards for their public school students and remain least concerned about the amount of testing in classrooms, a survey released by High Achievement New York and Achieve found.

Teaching Kids to Be Kind (U.S. News and World Report) Coverage of Making Caring Common's research that illustrated that parents were more concerned about academic achievement than teaching their children kindness, and ways that parents can help teach kids to be kind.

EW: What are some of the concerns educators voice to you about meeting accountability and achievement standards?

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

According to the report, a majority of teens view their parents as more concerned about their children's achievements than about their being caring people.

This view would assign less importance to concerns about declining test scores at the elementary - school level, since the increasing skill of the workforce provides evidence that overall student achievement is not falling.

Tilles raises legitimate concerns about the use of these tests — the quality of the tests, their snapshot nature, the unintended consequences of their being high stakes — but seems to forget that 20 % of the teacher score comes from «locally - selected measures of student achievement» and that 60 % of evaluation is based on «other measures.»

In this, the second of two articles on one - to - one computing (See The 411 on One - to - One Computing), we look at reasons to consider one - to - one computing in the classroom, research data on the impact of technology on student achievement, concerns about technology's overuse in the classroom, and tips to ensure that classroom computing helps, rather than hinders, the learning process.

Mike Petrilli has written about how concerns about overtesting have been driven by the federal government's insistence that states evaluate all teachers in ways that include student achievement data.

While local governments have been strengthened with notable achievements in social services, concerns remain about their support for and competencies in managing educational programs.

The association's decision reflects members» concern about the significant achievement gap between those who have participated in preschool programs and those who have not, according to Samuel G. Sava, executive director of the national association.

As an additional step to address any lingering concerns about Catholicism's direct influence on student achievement, we conducted both stages of our analysis again, this time accounting for the relationship between contemporary differences in the share of Catholic adherents in a country and student achievement.

They are concerned about the levels of student achievement in their chosen range of schools but, above this, they want to know about the social profile of the students already enrolled at each school.

Union leaders were told they could only address bread - and - butter issues and then were criticized for caring only about their own selfish concerns rather than student achievement or larger policy issues.

The advantages come at the price of concerns about the limited number of country observations, the mostly cross-sectional character of available achievement data, and possible bias from unobserved country factors such as culture.

«Over the past three years, we have seen increased student achievement because of the commitment teachers have made to coming together and sharing strategies, best practices, and concerns about individual students.

Some civil rights advocates have voiced similar concerns about accountability systems that rely exclusively on growth measures, which could allow schools serving disadvantaged students to avoid sanction even if their students» academic progress is insufficient to close achievement gaps.

They care more about equal results than just equal opportunity, and are more concerned about lifting the achievement floor than raising the ceiling.

Some in Montgomery see promise in a newly appointed superintendent and more county funding this year, but there are also concerns about wide gaps in achievement, lagging graduation rates and language barriers.

There's no single, healthy approach to promoting children's achievement — largely because how parents and teachers think about achievement may be rooted in widely different values concerning money, status, and accomplishment.

Comparing achievement trends in Chicago with those in other urban districts in Illinois as well as in large midwestern cities outside Illinois enabled me to address the concern about actions at the state and federal level that might have influenced achievement.

There are therefore several things to think about as we further explore the AEI study: long term outcomes do indeed matter a lot, especially for poor kids; if large test - score gains don't eventually translate into improved long term outcomes, it is a legitimate cause for concern; and we must stay open to the possibility that some programs could help kids immensely over the long haul, even if they don't immediately improve student achievement.

Second, given the potential concerns about schools cherry - picking students and other concerns with high - stakes testing, it's worth looking at other evidence on academic achievement.

As someone who is concerned about rising inequality, I'm willing to restrict parental choice only when there's evidence that parents are being hoodwinked or when the option they have chosen has a poor track record of fostering student achievement.

The report said achievement and assessment were «weak» and raised concerns about the school's religious studies curriculum.

All top administrators expressed concern about New Jersey «s policies on subgroup achievement scores.

In most schools, the teachers and principals were genuinely concerned about developing the abilities of struggling readers, and in many, appeared willing to take necessary steps to improve the reading achievement of all their students.

An additional reason was concern about the development and use of the achievement levels in the Main NAEP.

The possibility that Inglewood Elementary School may become a part of the Achievement School District caused parents there to send a letter supporting the school's principal and expressing concern about being included in the ASD.

However, NSBA's comments expressed concern for the method by which ED seeks to obtain the identified data about student achievement, the data's usefulness, and the significant cost and validity issues associated with the proposal.

Which makes the lack of concern about stemming achievement gaps on the part of Petrilli and other critics of the Ed Trust report particularly troubling.

«Like many other large urban school districts in the country, Boston administrators and educators are concerned about suspension rates, dropout rates, and academic achievement challenges,» explains Nova Biro, Open Circle Co-Director.

More generally, although a substantial literature base has shown that manipulating students» beliefs about the plasticity of ability leads to positive motivational and achievement gains, the research base concerning how technologies can be used to tap this construct is quite limited.

Despite some concerns about high - stakes uses of the measures, there is strong evidence that they provide important information about teachers» effectiveness in promoting student achievement growth.