Sentences with phrase «effects on student achievement gains»

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If research continues to show that comprehensive character education has positive effects on student achievement as well, then the movement may in time gain more robust political and financial support from education policymakers.

Using the upper range of their effect size estimates, $ 100 spent on classroom coaches would yield a gain of over one - half standard deviations in student achievement, and one - to - one tutoring would yield a one - quarter standard deviations improvement.

Estimating the effect of individual teachers» grading standards on their students» achievement gains assumes that these standards remain relatively consistent over time, that they are not unduly influenced by the composition of their class, and that they are not a reflection of some other observable characteristic that might account for any effects we observe.

An evaluation of the Apollo 20 program found that infusing these high - performing charter school best practices into HISD schools had a statistically significant effect on math achievement that rivals student - achievement gains in math of high - performing charter schools.

The strategy is becoming all too clear — ignore poverty, blame the effects of poverty on teachers, maintain the public perception of failing teachers and schools with an A-F formula that is designed to rank order students so that the bottom 33 percent will always exist (no matter how much achievement gains are made), use it to designate teachers and schools with low grades, then create a red herring for an impatient public by offering a placebo known as charter schools and school choice to appease them.

It turns out that the quality of state standards is not related to past gains in student achievement, the levels at which states set past proficiency standards did not make a difference in achievement, and standards have little effect on the variation on National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores both within and among states.

The gains at the high school level were «particularly noteworthy, as there is little systematic evidence that any of the many high school reforms attempted to date have had a positive effect on student achievement.»

The report shows that the charter network has positive effects on students» academic success in math and reading, and that elementary and middle schools in particular show large gains in achievement.

However, evidence is emerging that shows that arts education can have powerful effects on student achievement, with the greatest gains for students in the lowest socioeconomic status quartile, those most at risk of academic failure.