Sentences with phrase «decline in academic achievement»

A negative climate contributes to teacher absence and attrition, which contributes in turn to a decline in academic achievement for all students.

A Nation at Risk argued that much of America's decline in academic achievement could be traced to the «cafeteria - style curriculum» or «curricular smorgasbord» offered to high - school students.

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Many of my friends believe that the push for diversity in higher education has led to a decline in emphasis on academic achievement.

One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.

In many cases, this is accompanied by a slight decline on various academic outcomes such as task completion and achievement.

When these 6th graders move to a middle school in the 7th grade, however, we see the same dramatic fall in academic achievement: math scores decline by 0.17 standard deviations and English achievement falls by 0.14 standard deviations.

Nonetheless, «racial academic achievement gaps in fourth grade declined at roughly the same rate as kindergarten entry gaps,» said Reardon.

Thus, although our report notes the encouraging news that truancy has declined in D.C., we did not infer a cause - and - effect relationship between that change and academic achievement.

With no strong overarching vision to unite the faculty, Westwood Elementary School was seeing a conspicuous decline in student behavior and academic achievement.

Denver students» achievement, as measured by Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) scores, increased for nearly every group of students since 2015 when the tests were first administered (there has been some stagnation and declines for students on Individual Education Programs (IEPs) in some subjects).

For example, a recent meta - analysis, or a statistical breakdown that aggregates the results of multiple studies, found that academic achievement declined as suspensions increased, with a stronger association between out - of - school suspension and performance than in - school suspension.

«A six - or seven - point decline in IQ may have substantial consequences for academic achievement and occupational potential,» says senior author Robin Whyatt.

With no strong overarching vision to unite the faculty, Westwood Elementary School was seeing a conspicuous decline in student behavior and academic achievement.