Not exact matches
Enrollment has increased by over 200 students, scholars
consistently perform well
above grade level in math and literacy and gain admission to college - preparatory secondary schools, and the school serves as an effective training ground and research site for developing teachers.
Phone call # 4: The mother of a highly gifted girl who does algebra in her head «for fun» and
consistently scores four years
above grade level on tests of mathematics achievement called to ask me how she could convince the classroom teacher and the gifted coordinator that her young daughter did not need to keep adding and subtracting one - and two - digit numbers with the rest of the third
grade class.
In one school district that appears to have beaten the odds, Union City, N.J., students
consistently performed about a third of a
grade level above the national average on math and reading tests even though the median family income is just $ 37,000 and only 18 percent of parents have a bachelor's degree.
Facing the challenges associated with an increase in student population from 3,600 in 2001 to over 13,000 in 2017, Vail has used the Beyond Textbooks approach to increase student achievement in math and reading from
levels near or below state averages prior to the advent of the program to pass rates that are now
consistently 20 % or more
above state averages and greater than 90 % year after year at most
grade levels.