Sentences with phrase «focus on student achievement in»

These calls focus on student achievement in content areas, issues related to the social impact of educational technology, and overall cost - effectiveness.

A cut in funding won't alter its focus on student achievement in Title I schools; other money will be shifted there, she said.

The report by the Reston, Va. - based association — developed in collaboration with the Education Alliance at Brown University and a commission of middle school experts — is a follow - up to a 2004 NASSP report, «Breaking Ranks II,» which focused on student achievement in high school.

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In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeeIn contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeein order to succeed.

The Partnership is also performing an intermediary function to resolve conflicts over education policy and resource allocation in an effort to keep the focus on student achievement.

The study focused on achievement in math, which is not only important for education and economic productivity but is also known to prompt strong emotional reactions in students.

Although most reformers say that they want to raise student achievement, many projects focus on interim targets, like attracting more students into STEM fields, training more and better math and science teachers or improving the skills of those already in the classroom, and strengthening curricula.

Harrington, an assistant professor of public affairs, said NCLB has been in effect for more than 10 years, and prior research on the program mostly has focused on student achievement.

A bonus, in reviewers» eyes, is a focus on workforce diversity: «Particularly encouraged are projects that develop and implement research - based instructional materials that ameliorate achievement gaps between student populations and lead to improved understanding of, and participation in, STEM disciplines by members of underrepresented groups.»

The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a teacher's contribution to his or her students» growth in math and English achievement, as measured by state tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy on what really matters: classroom learning.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

While the word «accountability» never appears in Risk, its call for higher academic standards and its focus on student achievement as the main barometer of quality laid the intellectual groundwork for the rigorous curricula and tests envisioned by the promoters of standards - based -LSB-...]

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The power of culture - and its effect on student achievement - is evident in adolescents» lesser concentration on academic endeavors as they focus more on television, video games, and excessive employment during the school year.

Murphy imagines a hypothetical model program called Administrative Leaders for Learning — ALL for short — that would be organized to spotlight and connect three overlapping domains of knowledge: instructional practice and learning theory, with a particular focus on high achievement for all students; the education sector, with a particular focus on schooling in context; and matters of leadership and management.

«Reassessing the Achievement Gap: Fully Measuring What Students Should Be Taught in School» argues that NAEP results offer a «distorted» picture of student achievement because of their exclusive focus on academic skills and take attention away from nontested areas that often fall under the purview Achievement Gap: Fully Measuring What Students Should Be Taught in School» argues that NAEP results offer a «distorted» picture of student achievement because of their exclusive focus on academic skills and take attention away from nontested areas that often fall under the purview achievement because of their exclusive focus on academic skills and take attention away from nontested areas that often fall under the purview of schools.

In these days of high standards, accountability, and a focus on student achievement, Potter says, Paideia is an approach that warrants consideration.

And it put a special focus on ensuring that states and schools boost the performance of certain groups of students, such as English - language learners, students in special education, and poor and minority children, whose achievement, on average, trails their peers.

Studies have not focused on young adolescents, the time when students are particularly sensitive to gender differences and when gender gaps in achievement are pronounced.

The federal role in education has been a growth industry since at least the Johnson administration, when the Elementary and Secondary School Act (ESEA, now the Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA) was passed as a part of the War on Poverty, with a focus on closing the achievement gap and equalizing funding between the rich and the poor.

This year the case study focused on the Aldine Independent School District located in Houston, where student achievement was declining.

Not surprisingly, perhaps, board members who are or were educators (27 percent of the total surveyed) believe that funding is a barrier and that the focus on student achievement is misplaced; these beliefs were held «regardless of the actual level of funding in the district,» «regardless of the actual teacher salaries» in the district, and «even after controlling for the type of student population that the district serves and the actual rigor of academic standards» in the district.

The BellSouth Foundation intends to support efforts focused on improving student achievement in the Southeast, with plans to award $ 15 million over the next five years for this purpose.

In an article on National Review Online, Jeb Bush describes what he sees as the reforms that are the key to raising student achievement, focusing on standards and accountability, including the Common Core.

[In Rochester,] we've had a common focus on improving student achievement and people have rallied behind that.

The difference between his vision and AmeriCorps, however, was that Match volunteers would be singularly focused (more than most AmeriCorps programs) on driving student achievement up in a measurable way.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmFocus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmfocus on character development).

Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.

Some of the acknowledged limitations of the data used in the Coleman study — the need to focus on the relationship between teacher variables averaged to the school level and student achievement, in particular — have been addressed by more - recent research.

For example, states have shown progress in supporting student achievement by focusing on the lowest - performing students.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

In their avid focus on performance metrics and achievement gaps, contemporary reformers can sometimes seem unbothered that so many students find school so mind - numbing.

Even though most education policy debates have focused on school quality and student achievement, most research on the economic impact of schooling has focused narrowly on the number of years students remain in the educational system.

In our first article on the STAR School - Placing importance on relationships - Sorensen recalled that the goal was to create a model that not only focused on culture, but also led to high levels of student achievement.

Thompson: The council was one of the few education organizations in Washington to support the No Child Left Behind Act and we believe the federal law deserves credit for focusing the attention of urban schools more sharply on student achievement, and increasing the national focus on educating our neediest children.

And in fact, students with disabilities have made almost no gains in reading since 2002 — even though NCLB focuses specifically on boosting the achievement of this subgroup of students.

In terms of policy, one might speculate that if a nation assesses the performance of students with some sort of national exam and uses this information to monitor teachers, teachers will put aside their other interests and focus mainly on raising student achievement.

Supporters of the plan, which will operate in 12 of the district's 102 schools next fall, hope that it will focus the system's energy on improving student achievement in a manner they say is...

Each entry in Education World's «Partners for Student Success» series focuses on a school or district that has taken a unique approach to bringing together the school, its parents, and the community to help ensure student achieStudent Success» series focuses on a school or district that has taken a unique approach to bringing together the school, its parents, and the community to help ensure student achiestudent achievement.

In particular, the researchers focused on the achievement gap between whites and minority students, particularly African American and Hispanic students.

Three major developments of the past 20 years are now bearing fruit: 1) the creation of standards and accountability; 2) research on how the brain develops in early childhood and its implications for pre-K education and child care; and 3) an emerging focus on the single biggest factor in student achievement - teacher quality.

I'm going to focus on the final two posts, in which Greene argues that student achievement tests are poor proxies for school quality and that they're not correlated with other measures of quality.

The highest - performing charters are those that that have most fully embraced a «no excuses» approach to teaching and learning; have created strong school cultures based on explicit expectations for both academic achievement and behavior; have an intensive focus on literacy and numeracy as the first foundation for academic achievement; feature a relatively heavy reliance on direct instruction and differentiated grouping, especially in the early grades; and are increasingly focused on comprehensive student assessment systems.

In the NCLB era, we got an increased focus on student achievement.

But preliminary new research focusing on Denver's residency program showed that teachers trained through the program were less effective at improving student achievement in math than other novice teachers in Denver.

The 1966 «Equality of Educational Opportunity» (EEO) study — better known as the Coleman Report — focused exclusively on the distribution of resources and student achievement in America's public schools.

She claims that Ferguson found that «every additional dollar spent on more high - qualified teachers netted greater increases in student achievement than did less instructionally focused uses of school resources.»

At the same time, the cost - effectiveness of the board's approach, its focus on what teachers should know and be able to do rather than on the student outcomes or achievement associated with teaching, and its methods of assessing teacher quality, are features that have attracted strong criticism — issues we will return to later in this article.

The rubric we use includes teacher and counselor recommendations focusing on social - emotional issues in conjunction with student achievement and attendance data.