Sentences with phrase «evaluate academic gains»
Two new studies on preschool programs evaluate academic gains — and offer clues about what it takes to boost student progress.
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Known as the CREDO study, it evaluated student progress on math tests in half the nation's five thousand charter schools and concluded that 17 percent were superior to a matched traditional public school; 37 percent were worse than the public school; and the remaining 46 percent had academic gains no different from that of a similar public school.
Montera's Academic Performance Index — the state's primary metric for evaluating student achievement — had increased by 94 points in the previous three years, with the largest gain coming from black students.
President Obama's plan uses academic gains, instead of Bush's AYP, as the criteria for evaluating schools.
Obama's plan uses academic gains for evaluating TEACHERS, not evaluating schools, consequently identifying effective teachers teaching effectively.
[30] This deference likely extends to the judgment that educators should be evaluated in part on the basis of the academic gains of their students.