Sentences with phrase «consistently high test scores»

Universities and colleges that push their teachers to teach in high income, low need areas will show their «worth» by having graduates that have students that produce consistently high test scores.

Jeremy attends a «no excuses» school with zero tolerance for misbehavior and consistently high test scores, the result of extensive preparation.

In fact, Stanford Economist Caroline Hoxby's work examining three choice programs in America — in Milwaukee, Arizona and Michigan — concluded that areas with maximum inter-district choice have consistently higher test scores than do areas with zero inter-district choice.

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Students who attend five charter schools in the San Francisco Bay area that are run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or kipp, score consistently higher on standardized tests than their peers from comparable public schools, an independent evaluation of the schools concludes.

The groundswell of community support for the school helped create and maintain what is now the most ethnically and socioeconomically diverse school in the district, with consistently some of the highest test scores — and very little teacher or student attrition.

For one thing, the prevailing method of compensating public school teachers — higher pay for additional years of experience and schooling — has not been shown to correlate consistently with improved test scores.

Teachers also appear to generate higher test - score gains during the year they are being evaluated, though these estimates, while consistently positive, are smaller.

Despite those added challenges, the 400 children at Stanford still learn the basics, consistently scoring higher than district standards on state tests in reading and math — the latter taught exclusively in Japanese or Spanish.

Specifically, the average teacher's students score 0.05 standard deviations higher on end - of - year math tests during the evaluation year than in previous years, although this result is not consistently statistically significant across our different specifications.

Even though value - added measures accurately gauge teachers» impacts on test scores, it could still be the case that high - VA teachers simply «teach to the test,» either by narrowing the subject matter in the curriculum or by having students learn test - taking strategies that consistently increase test scores but do not benefit students later in their lives.

The child who works consistently and diligently may be more successful in life than another who studies 12 hours a day and gets high test scores.

It's a figure that also stands out because D.C. charter school students consistently score higher on tests than those at traditional public schools in the capital.

Year after year, students continue to post consistently higher math scores on Georgia Milestones testing and other assessments.

We hope the courts will also understand the importance of the 20,000 DACA teachers in public K - 12 schools who bring a unique set of skills to the classroom and serve as role models and navigators for students — especially students of color — who consistently perform better when taught by teachers of color, leading to better attendance, fewer suspensions and higher test scores.

Bethlehem's two high schools offer AP courses, and SAT scores are consistently close to or above the national average, with most students taking the test.

The standardized math and English Language Arts test scores of her students are consistently higher than the state average.

Brill and the accountability crowd are correct to note that high - performing teachers are consistently able to raise the test scores of even the poorest children.

West Hartford students consistently score near the top on the Connecticut Mastery Tests, joining the likes of Avon and Greenwich students with over 79 percent attaining proficiency or higher on national exams.

Our scholars consistently improve their state test scores each year; surpass their peers in their home district; and achieve some of the highest academic growth in the regions we serve.

Robert Treat students consistently score among the highest of all students in New Jersey on statewide standardized tests.

2) Decades of research into the causes of the gap in test scores between low - income and high - income students in the United States has consistently found a limited contribution from school - based factors.

Research has consistently demonstrated vouchers and school choice increase high school graduation rates, college attendance rates, achievement test scores, parental satisfaction, school safety and discipline, tolerance of other cultures, racial integration, and civic engagement.

This is newer than the 2.7 GHz Snapdragon 805 on the 6 - inch Nexus 6, but benchmark tests have consistently scored the Exynos 7420 processor powering the Galaxy S6 higher than the Snapdragon 810, although it remains to be seen if Qualcomm has incorporated new improvements to boost the chip's performance in the second version.

Children raised in families that experience multiple transitions do not consistently have higher levels of behavioral problems or lower test scores than do children in family types with one or fewer transitions, even when only child characteristics are controlled... Finally, maternal psychological well - being is shown to be an important mechanism by which family structure affects behavioral outcomes, but not cognitive ones.»

Others have also consistently reported that breastfed children score slightly higher than those bottlefed on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development or later tests of IQ, such as the McCarthy Scales, after controlling for standard covariates including socioeconomic status (SES), maternal age and education, maternal smoking and drinking, 16, 17 and in one study maternal psychological state.18 Longitudinal studies indicate that these differences persist to 5 years and into school age.