Sentences with phrase «educational gains»

However, helping children make educational gains, love to learn, and see the fun and connections in what they know and new concepts has taken my over the moon and back.

That's a lot of money for a program that produces no long - term educational gains for most kids.

High standards may also generate broader educational gains as schools, teachers, and students struggle to attain them.

Leading all scholars to gap - closing educational gains.

Ernest Pascarella, a professor of higher education in the UI's College of Education and supporting author of the report, says the study, which involved 28 four - year liberal - arts colleges, was designed to test the assumption that liberal - arts majors make greater educational gains than their classmates majoring in such fields as education, business and engineering.

School Wastage Study - National Absenteeism in Armenia «The term, school wastage, can be broadly defined as lack of demonstrated school success or realized educational gain (or value), measured as output of student achievement, outcome of social and economic returns, from provided educational services, finance, and other schooling related consumption of resources.

«[B] oth groups,» the authors point out, «have made huge educational gains over the past two generations.»

Ravitch contends that voucher programs and public charter schools have failed to demonstrate measurable educational gains.

Mexico sorely needed linguistic research to develop the country's many unwritten indigenous languages before real educational gains could be made.

In fact, students at liberal arts colleges realized virtually the same educational gains, no matter their major, according to the UI report released earlier this month.

The situation would be even worse if not for educational gains among African - Americans over the past 75 years, Bayer said.

In an effort to maximize educational gains, educators and policymakers are placing more importance on the early education of the 19 million children in the United States under the age of 5.

The families participating in METCO expressed a need for more help in consolidating educational gains.

And, more generally, what educational gains or losses might be encountered by explicitly including LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, transgender and queer / questioning) educational content in classrooms?

At least one of the academic articles the dissent cites to support this proposition fails to establish a causal connection between the supposed educational gains realized by black students and racial mixing.

With 1.4 million students in 4,600 schools, charters are by far the most significant achievement of the «choice» movement that strives to promote educational gains through school competition.

Those with fewer computers were seeing larger educational gains, as measured by PISA test score changes between 2009 and 2012.

There are some problems with this scenario, chiefly that a possible outcome will be that some students will enter into a private educational environment that may fail them and parents will only realize it after some time has passed and their children have consequently missed out on critical educational gains or worse.

All that is in keeping with past research documenting the big educational gains that Massachusetts charters, and Boston's in particular, impart.

Whereas the most universal finding is that the presence of full - time, credentialed school librarians and appropriate support staff who implement a quality, school integrated program of library services is directly related to these student educational gains;

At a time when young women are making greater educational gains than their male counterparts and closing the gender pay gap, a 2015 survey finds that millennial women are no less likely to rely on their partner than previous generations when it comes to financial decision making.

After decades during which the educational attainment of Americans steadily increased, educational gains have stagnated.

«In other words, the institution has more of an impact than the major» on a student's educational gains.

In our research, we've long pointed out that merely cramming computers in schools or simply handing them out to students won't produce the educational gains well - intentioned people desire when they start with technology.

«The educational gains will begin with many of the services available to the zone's most needy families.»

Because we used a randomized controlled trial design, we were able to establish convincingly that our intervention was not only the cause of the educational gains; importantly, the program was also inexpensive.4

In early April, Beth Swanson, Vice President of Strategy & Programs, joined thought leaders from the Education Trust, Chicago Public Schools, the University of Chicago, the Chicago Fund for Education, and the Center for American Progress for a half - day symposium discussing Chicago's educational gains.

In early April 2018, Beth Swanson, Vice President of Strategy & Programs at the Joyce Foundation, joined thought leaders from the Center for American Progress, the Education Trust, Chicago Public Schools, the University of Chicago, and the Chicago Fund for Education for a half - day symposium discussing Chicago's educational gains.

KALAMAZOO — When it comes to measuring student achievement, Edison schools perform at levels similar to their host districts but fail to make the educational gains Edison administrators claim.

We see hints of what is possible in the educational gains children make in New Mexico PreK, where added support to 4 - year - olds in participating child care centers and public schools makes a difference long - term, as the study showed.