Sentences with phrase «elementary school achievement»

During the last decade, we have made remarkable progress in improving elementary school achievement, but have accomplished far less at the secondary school level.

For more than a decade, progress in elementary school achievement has not translated into comparable gains in middle and high school.

Combining anecdotal material with quantifiable data from a nationwide sample of large cities, they find positive impacts on both school management and elementary school achievement.

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I also volunteer with Junior Achievement in their elementary school programs and Get Hired events.

And for elementary school students there is no proven correlation between homework and higher academic achievement, except for reading.

Achievement First has been assembling its own version of Geoffrey Canada's «conveyor belt»; this year, for the first time, one of the group's charter elementary schools began feeding students into one of their middle schools with four years of Achievement First education under their belts — arriving ahead of grade level instead of well behind it.

«For elementary - school kids, there is really no correlation between homework and achievement,» says Denise Pope, Ph.D., a senior lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and a coauthor of Overloaded and Underpreschool kids, there is really no correlation between homework and achievement,» says Denise Pope, Ph.D., a senior lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and a coauthor of Overloaded and UnderpreSchool of Education and a coauthor of Overloaded and Underprepared.

Two elementary schools in North Carolina increased the achievement test scores of students from the 30th percentile to the 83rd percentile over a three - year period.

Read an article, «Rethinking Lunchtime: Making Lunch an Integral Part of Education,» on the achievements realized when one elementary school switched lunch and recess.

The evidence is compelling: Two elementary schools in North Carolina were able to increase the achievement - test scores of students from the 30th percentile up to the 83rd percentile over a three - year period.

«The findings, combined with previous research in this area, show that programs of this nature can enhance low - income children's self - regulation skills and, with it, enhance their academic achievement in early elementary school.»

Stephanie Anzman - Frasca, Ph.D., of ChildObesity180, Tufts University, Boston, and co-authors used data from 446 public elementary schools in a large, urban school district in the United States to look at the impact of BIC on participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievschool district in the United States to look at the impact of BIC on participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievSchool Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievschool attendance and academic achievement.

Baylor College of Medicine education programs — from elementary school to postdoctoral training — that foster achievement of career goals.

The Supreme Court based its decision on a lower court's findings that the re-segregated neighborhood elementary schools in Oklahoma City had increased achievement, parent and community involvement, while maintaining equity and integration in the city's schools.

It found that progress had been made in closing achievement gaps in the elementary grades, but that middle and high schools are still struggling to close those gaps.

HEADLINE: Strong Libraries Improve Student Achievement Last month, site - based management teams at 11 elementary schools in Kalamazoo, Michigan, chose to cut their budgets for the 2000 - 2001 school year by eliminating the position of school librarian.

In an effort to improve the achievement levels of their most disadvantaged students, the Dade County schools have launched a large new program this year that will place more than 17,000 elementary - school children in classes of 15 or fewer.

It doesn't tell us that California has bad elementary education, or that exit exams are useless, or that we should lower our achievement standards for high school graduates.

For schools in the bottom quartile of the number of teachers with tested students, that is, schools with approximately 10 or fewer such teachers in elementary and K — 8 schools and five or fewer in middle schools, school - wide merit pay did lead to improved student achievement.

(Disadvantaged high schools were also randomly selected into the program; we focus only on elementary and middle schools since these are the grades for which we can measure math and reading achievement.)

In his 2014 academic paper — The achievement effects of tardy classmates: Evidence in urban elementary schools — Michael Gottfried explores the impact of tardy students» behaviour on their peers.

The achievement effects of tardy classmates: Evidence in urban elementary schools.

The return to resegregated neighborhood elementary schools in Oklahoma City, after 13 years of busing for integration, has not led to the gains in achievement, parent involvement, and equity the school district had claimed, according to a report released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Educschool district had claimed, according to a report released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of EducSchool of Education.

But my biggest achievement of late is co-founding a school newspaper at my daughter's local elementary school and feeling even more in awe of teacher's daily sacrifices and creativity.

I first analyze changes over time in the FCAT test scores of students in their initial 3rd - grade year in order to discern the extent to which Florida's elementary - school students made true achievement gains during the period in question.

To guard against illusory achievement gains, states should rate elementary and middle schools based on the on - time promotion rate of students in the next two grades after they leave a school (as Morgan Polikoff recommends).

In New Jersey, the Pequannock Township School District helped raise achievement with a number of initiatives, including implementing a special reading program in the elementary schools.

As with many other successful data - driven schools, at Elm City the work begins before school starts, when teachers and principals — both Dale Chu, who heads up the elementary grades, and Marc Michaelson, who oversees the middle school — use a variety of diagnostic tests to understand the ability and achievement levels of their incoming students.

Students who attend middle schools at risk of dropping out of high school As compared to students in K - 8 elementary schools, middle school students also score lower on achievement tests.

The districts must explain why the child's school is «in need of improvement» in the first place, including «how the school compares in terms of academic achievement to other elementary schools or secondary schools served by the local educational agency and the State educational agency.»

In the specific year when students move to a middle school (or to a junior high), their academic achievement, as measured by standardized tests, falls substantially in both math and English relative to that of their counterparts who continue to attend a K — 8 elementary school.

Thomas Cook, writing in 1984, concludes that meta - analyses of results from all the studies, taken together, support the view that the effects on the mathematics and reading achievement in elementary school are quite small or even zero.

Beginning with the 1990 - 91 school year, Texas began to administer a statewide achievement test, the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), to elementary - school students.

A leading test publisher, aiming to refute charges that standardized - test scores are inflated, has found in a new study that elementary - school students registered substantial gains in basic - skills achievement over the past decade.

In rapid - fire fashion, Grier ticks off Apollo 20's achievements: «It eliminated the math achievement gap in the 11 lowest - performing elementary schools in two years,» he says with emphasis.

This view would assign less importance to concerns about declining test scores at the elementary - school level, since the increasing skill of the workforce provides evidence that overall student achievement is not falling.

Sarah Cordes of Temple University shows that elementary schools in New York City see a notable uptick in student achievement, attendance, and grade completion when a charter school opens nearby — and that these gains are largest when the schools are «co-located» in the same facility.

Because moving between schools is known to have a negative impact on student achievement, we also control for whether the student changed schools in the current year and whether that change was structural (for instance, the student moved to a junior high school from its feeder elementary school).

The increase in peer prior achievement from 5th to 8th grade at KIPP schools was 0.15 standard deviations greater in reading and 0.19 standard deviations greater in math than for students who attended feeder elementary schools (see Figure 4).

Using both quantitative and qualitative measures, she found that from elementary school to high school, happiness is positively correlated with motivation and academic achievement.

«In the decades before Common Core, an enormous amount of the instruction in American elementary and middle schools has been with leveled text,» says David Liben, a veteran teacher and Senior Content Specialist at Student Achievement Partners.

KIPP students» grade 4 achievement is very similar, however, to that of non-KIPP students who attended the feeder elementary schools (see Figure 1b).

At the elementary school level, the lion's share of focus goes to building achievement in reading.

Gov. Ritter's «Colorado Achievement Plan for Kids,» unveiled March 19, would require both the state board of education and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education to redo elementary and secondary school standards, which legislators say hasn't been done since the mid-1990s.

«Somehow, as they go through elementary school, there is a difference in [achievement] in racial groups.

As compared to students in K - 8 elementary schools, middle school students also score lower on achievement tests.

Dr. Hall: The achievement level of our elementary schools has been the most satisfying so far.

Cordes analyzed 14 years of student achievement data for 876,731 3rd — through 5th - graders attending 584 district elementary schools located in the same community school district within New York City where at least one charter school served students in the same grades.

In Massachusetts, a pilot extended - day program in which 10 elementary schools have eight - hour days has led to higher attendance and achievement.

The No Child Left Behind act is forcing school systems to take a closer look at the academic achievement of their elementary and middle school students.