Sentences with phrase «disadvantaged student populations»

A likely consequence is that schools and teachers serving disadvantaged student populations will be disproportionately counted as underperforming.

They found that early retirement programs did not reduce test scores, and that instead, small, positive effects were observed in schools that serve more disadvantaged student populations.

Late hiring concentrates in schools that disproportionately serve disadvantaged student populations, contributing to challenges in ensuring an equitable distribution of educational resources across students.

In response to this fear, the authors of NCLB focused on ensuring that schools were being held accountable for disadvantaged student populations.

Baker calls the impact the «Collateral Damage of the Parasitic Chartering Model» and writes, «In previous posts I showed how the population cream - skimming effect necessarily leads to an increasingly disadvantaged student population left behind in district schools.

The «David» is Fern Creek Elementary, a small urban school in Orlando, Florida, that serves an overwhelmingly disadvantaged student population.

The relatively low initial test scores and disadvantaged student populations of the 63 always - D schools in our analysis make them an attractive group to compare with the voucher - eligible and voucher - threatened schools.

Indeed, anyone who has spent much time in the company of school reformers in the past decade has seen this practice turn almost comical, as when charter - school operators try to one - up one another over who can claim the most disadvantaged student population.

The findings were striking: «Charter school takeovers in the New Orleans Recovery School District appear to have generated substantial achievement gains for a highly disadvantaged student population that enrolled in these schools passively.»

Martínez has been named one of four winners of the 2017 Fishman Prize for his «superlative classroom practice» at KIPP Raíces Academy, a public charter elementary school with a nearly 100 percent Latino and nearly 90 percent disadvantaged student population.

Additionally, the report highlights that with historically disadvantaged student populations, charter schools should be embraced as a solution in Oakland's efforts to raise student achievement.

One way they strove to correct this was to tackle state policy around funding education, particularly for disadvantaged student populations.

We find the program did not reduce test scores; likely, it increased them, with positive effects most pronounced in schools that serve a more disadvantaged student population.

Those who support this massive spending on non-teaching staff argue that it was necessary to improve the academic outcomes of an increasingly disadvantaged student population.

The «David» is Fern Creek Elementary, a small urban school that serves an overwhelmingly disadvantaged student population.

Washington, D.C., June 22, 2010 — In response to the lack of evaluative data on many college access programs, The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education (The Pell Institute), in partnership with the Institute for Higher Education Policy's (IHEP) Pathways to College Network, has launched the «Evaluation Toolkit» to help increase the effectiveness of college access programs that serve disadvantaged student populations.

Here, there was no complaint, hence no basis for DOJ to intrude into the affairs of Louisiana and its disadvantaged student population.

These requirements may appear to relieve educators of the pressures to achieve proficiency, but they also provide the opportunity for systemic exclusion which would further marginalize the needs of these historically disadvantaged student populations.

Dr. Mavrogordato's research centers on issues surrounding school reform and improvement for disadvantaged student populations.