Sentences with phrase «difference in student attendance»

Their comments echoed what we learned in preparing our October 2017 report on Newark's high school chronic absenteeism — caring adults in the school building make a big difference in student attendance patterns and school engagement.

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Differences in test scores, college attendance, and graduation rates between wealthy and poor students are reaching an unprecedented disparity, with tremendous implications for the American public schooling system.

These patterns suggest that the positive effects of charter school attendance on educational attainment are not due solely to measured differences in the achievement of students in charter and traditional public high schools.

It has been difficult to study the effects of private school attendance on indicators of students» character development, such as their behavior in school, owing to differences in disciplinary norms between sectors.

«[We] came out quite convinced,» report co-author Jeannie Oakes said by phone, «that not only community schools as a whole, but [their] components all made a positive difference in things like student achievement, attendance, behavior and graduation rates.»

Evidence points to the improvement - focused messaging having a stronger impact on both credit attainment and student attendance, though the size of the study limits our ability to call the difference in outcomes between positive and improvement messaging statistically significant.

Even if we were confident that the test score gains in New Orleans are not being driven by changes in the student population following Katrina (and Doug and his colleagues are doing their best with constrained data and research design to show that), and even if these test score gains translate into higher high school graduation and college attendance rates (which Doug and his colleagues have not yet been able to examine), we still would have no idea whether portfolio management and other high regulations in NOLA helped, hurt, or made no difference in producing these results.

Join the California Department of Education, the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading and Attendance Works as they highlight the work of principals who have made a difference in reducing chronic absence and raising student achievement.

Average daily attendance won't tell you which students or subgroups miss class regularly and are in need of intervention, and truancy numbers often hinge on the nebulous difference between what schools consider to be «excused» or «unexcused» absences, they argue.

Our school profiles now include important information in addition to test scores — factors that make a big difference in how children experience school, such as how much a school helps students improve academically, how well a school supports students from different socioeconomic, racial and ethnic groups, and whether or not some groups of students are disproportionately affected by the school's discipline and attendance policies.

I heard and observed that difference myself, from the eleventh grade student in Leigh VandenAkker's class at East High School who told me that he «almost never went to school» in his middle school years, but since taking this course in ninth grade has turned his attendance around and now almost never misses school.