Sentences with phrase «for public school achievement»

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The popular clamor for more science and mathematics in the public schools lest the Russians outdistance us in military achievements and in the conquest of outer space is a symptom of the common assumption that science has the answer.

For the Chicago Public Schools, the empty seats undermine efforts to boost achievement and cost the district millions in attendance - based funding.

The «No Child Left Behind» act, signed by President Bush in January, greatly expands federal oversight of public education, mandating annual testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and one grade - level in high school, insisting every classroom teacher be fully certified and setting a 12 - year timetable for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in test scores.

«This is truly an outstanding achievement for the Buffalo Public Schools and a significant milestone for New York State's effort to create a thriving solar energy sector in our state,» said Alicia Barton, president and chief executive officer of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, or NYSERDA.

A new report says the NYC Education Department's support networks for public schools fail to boost student achievement, just days ahead of an announcement by city Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to overhaul the massive, citywide schools fail to boost student achievement, just days ahead of an announcement by city Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to overhaul the massive, citywide Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to overhaul the massive, citywide system.

The budget's landmark achievement was a commitment to raise the state minimum wage in New York City to $ 15 an hour by 2018, but the budget also contained other good news for New York City and its public schools.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)-- When looking at the results of Wednesday's re-organization meeting for the Buffalo School Board, the public will read Dr. Barbara Seals Nevergold retained her position as President of the Board while Sharon Belton - Cottman was voted Vice President of Executive Affairs and Theresa Harris - Tigg was voted the Vice President of Student Achievement.

A new report says the Education Department's support networks for public schools fail to boost student achievement, just days ahead of an announcement by city Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to overhaul the massive, citywide schools fail to boost student achievement, just days ahead of an announcement by city Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to overhaul the massive, citywide Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to overhaul the massive, citywide system.

Parents worry about funding and standards for their public school students and remain least concerned about the amount of testing in classrooms, a survey released by High Achievement New York and Achieve found.

Those awarded scholarships on Thursday were 12th graders Tyriek Watt, who attends Medgar Evers College Preparatory School; Danny Espinal - Alvarez, who attends the High School For Public Policy; and Rae - Anne Clarke, who attends Achievement First Brooklyn High School.

Ministers, fresh from bullying schools into concocting bogus league tables of their achievements in the name of the public's right to know, appear to have concluded that for pollution, ignorance is the safest policy.

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 leadSchools 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 leadSchools 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 leadschools 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 leadSchools 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 leadSchools 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.

What remains to be seen is whether widespread public support for universal academic achievement can be maintained when the youth culture is against it, when significant fractions of young people are dropping out of high school, and when others are failing high - school exit examinations.

Despite the united front of opposition, with studies like Carol Klein's 2006 Virtual Charter Schools and Home Schooling finding high levels of parent satisfaction and student achievement at virtual schools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stoSchools and Home Schooling finding high levels of parent satisfaction and student achievement at virtual schools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stoschools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stoschools will be able to stop them.

For example, no effort is made to show the increase in public - school spending in America during the past 30 (or 50) years, the uses to which that money has been put, the steady reduction in class size, the huge increase in numbers of school employees, and the various trends in achievement that correlate almost not at all with any of these resource trends.

Education and Child Development Minister Susan Close said the targeted funding — for students in public primary schools — is designed to lift achievement and modernise the state's public education system.

Until recently, public schools never aimed to create high scholastic achievement for the masses.

A recent paper published by Public Health England, «The link between pupil health and well ‑ being and attainment: A briefing for head teachers, governors and staff in education settings» (November 2014) presented the following evidence: pupils with better health and well ‑ being are likely to achieve better academically; effective social and emotional competencies are associated with greater health and well ‑ being, and better achievement; the culture, ethos and environment of a school influences the health and well - being of pupils and their readiness to learn; and a positive association exists between academic attainment and physical activity levels of pupils.

Half those schools missed their achievement goals for two or more years, putting almost one in five of the nation's public schools in some stage of a federally mandated process designed to improve student achievement.

For instance, waiver states no longer have to aim toward the (now past) 2013 - 14 deadline for getting all students to proficiency, or offer public school choice or tutoring for schools that miss achievement targeFor instance, waiver states no longer have to aim toward the (now past) 2013 - 14 deadline for getting all students to proficiency, or offer public school choice or tutoring for schools that miss achievement targefor getting all students to proficiency, or offer public school choice or tutoring for schools that miss achievement targefor schools that miss achievement targets.

Schools operated by Achievement First, for example, have helped their students gain an additional 125 days of learning in math and 57 days in English over traditional public sSchools operated by Achievement First, for example, have helped their students gain an additional 125 days of learning in math and 57 days in English over traditional public schoolsschools.

New York and Texas see a connection between their early decisions to raise expectations for public schools and the progress their students have made toward closing gaps in academic achievement.

In March 1996, the nation's governors met in Palisades, N.Y., and called for an «external, independent, nongovernmental effort» to measure and report on each state's annual progress in raising student achievement and improving the public schools.

The GRC enables users to compare academic achievement in math and reading between 2004 and 2007 for virtually every public school district in the United States with the average achievement in a set of 25 other countries with developed economies that might be considered our economic peers and sometime competitors.

In a new article for Education Next, David Osborne, director of the project on Reinventing America's Schools at the Progressive Policy Institute, finds Denver's pursuit of this strategy, which has increased school leader autonomy, has produced impressive gains in student achievement, leading to growing public support for the reforms.

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

Working with data from the State of Florida, I have regularly noticed that achievement gains by students who move from one public school to another badly trail the gains of students who remain in the same school — even after one has adjusted for many family background characteristics.

They also seem to be willing to accept some propositions with highly circumscribed causal contingency — for instance, that reducing class size increases achievement (provided that it is a «sizable» change and that the reduction is to fewer than 20 students per class); that Catholic schools are superior to public ones in the inner - city but not in suburban settings.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

While we encourage readers to be cautious about applying our findings without qualification to all public schools, we also encourage school districts to support research that can identify middle - school effects in other settings, especially since we find the consequences of attending a middle school for student achievement to be substantial and troubling.

July 14, 2016 — Under former superintendent Cami Anderson, Newark Public Schools spent more per - pupil than any other district in the nation — a whopping $ 25,000 — but failed to improve achievement for its predominately minority student population.

Dodenhoff set out in his study to assess the potential for public school choice to improve student achievement in Milwaukee Public Scpublic school choice to improve student achievement in Milwaukee Public ScPublic Schools.

California auditors released a scathing assessment of the Oakland public schools last week, blasting one of the state's most beleaguered districts for mismanagement and poor student achievement and warning that it is hovering on the brink of serious financial difficulty.

In our work with public school educators seeking to close the achievement gap for disadvantaged students, we have confronted this question often and have come to believe that the critical difference between schools that excel and schools that do not is the quality of execution.

As school leaders nationwide are increasingly being held responsible for what students learn, Delaware has crafted a method for evaluating its public school administrators that is drawing acclaim for its attention to leadership characteristics connected to student achievement.

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.

The recommendations come from the Academic Achievement and Accountability Commission, known as the A + Commission, which has spent a year weighing how to hold the state's public schools and districts more accountable for students» academic performance.

Yet speakers at the third annual Achievement Gap Initiative Conference, «Structures, Cultures, and Achievement Gaps: New Research with Implications for Public Engagement,» argued that educators and school systems play a large role in the achievement gap issAchievement Gap Initiative Conference, «Structures, Cultures, and Achievement Gaps: New Research with Implications for Public Engagement,» argued that educators and school systems play a large role in the achievement gap issAchievement Gaps: New Research with Implications for Public Engagement,» argued that educators and school systems play a large role in the achievement gap issachievement gap issue as well.

The report cites an analysis of 1991 International Assessment of Educational Progress (IAEP) data as offering international evidence that private schools do not have significantly higher student achievement than public schools after controlling for student background.

• Tuition or fees at a qualified school or an eligible postsecondary institution • Textbooks • Educational therapies or services from a licensed or accredited practitioner or provider • Tutoring or teaching services • Curricula and related materials • Tuition or fees for an online learning program • Fees for a nationally standardized norm - referenced achievement test, an advanced placement examination, or any exams related to college or university admission • Contributions to a college savings account • Services provided by a public school, including individual classes and extracurricular programs • Any fees for the management of the ESA

Price, a nonresident Senior Fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institute and John L. Weinberg / Goldman Sachs visiting professor of public and international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, wrote Achievement Matters: Getting Your Child the Best Education Possible «for educators who wish to mobilize their own communities to support student success,» he wrote.

The Florida Department of Education's Education Data Warehouse provides test scores from the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test (FCAT) and demographic characteristics for all students in the public schools.

While the positive competitive effects partially offset the negative effects for users, I think most would agree that we shouldn't sacrifice the achievement of one group by sending them to low - performing private schools only as an incentive to public schools to get better.

New Jersey's is a complex and troubled public school system: although the state ranks in the top 5 on most nationally normed tests (NAEP, SAT, ACT), it has one of the worst achievement gaps in the country — 50th out of 51 in 8th - grade reading, for example.

CREDO controlled for the unique characteristics of students enrolled in virtual charter schools by comparing their performance to a «virtual twin,» a student with the same demographic characteristics and similar prior achievement enrolled in a traditional public school.

It alleges that a review of the research on charter schools leads to the conclusions that, overall, charter schools: 1) fail to raise student achievement more than traditional district schools do; 2) aren't innovative and don't pass innovations along to district schools; 3) exacerbate the racial and ethnic isolation of students; 4) provide a worse environment for teachers than district schools; and 5) spend more on administration and less on instruction than public schools.

«Boston has made a significant investment in early childhood education as a key strategy for closing the achievement gap,» said Carol Johnson, superintendent of the Boston Public Schools.

For reducing the achievement gap between the Atlanta Public Schools and the State of Georgia, lowering the dropout rate, cutting back the number of teacher vacancies, and renovating and consolidating some of Atlantas schools, Atlanta superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall earned the 2006 Richard R. Green Award, the nations highest honor for urban education leadership, at the Council of the Great City Schools 50th Annual Fall ConferenFor reducing the achievement gap between the Atlanta Public Schools and the State of Georgia, lowering the dropout rate, cutting back the number of teacher vacancies, and renovating and consolidating some of Atlantas schools, Atlanta superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall earned the 2006 Richard R. Green Award, the nations highest honor for urban education leadership, at the Council of the Great City Schools 50th Annual Fall ConfSchools and the State of Georgia, lowering the dropout rate, cutting back the number of teacher vacancies, and renovating and consolidating some of Atlantas schools, Atlanta superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall earned the 2006 Richard R. Green Award, the nations highest honor for urban education leadership, at the Council of the Great City Schools 50th Annual Fall Confschools, Atlanta superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall earned the 2006 Richard R. Green Award, the nations highest honor for urban education leadership, at the Council of the Great City Schools 50th Annual Fall Conferenfor urban education leadership, at the Council of the Great City Schools 50th Annual Fall ConfSchools 50th Annual Fall Conference.

These data provide us with information on achievement, as measured by the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS), before students applied and, even more crucially, with post-application achievement data for students who remained in Chicago's regular public schools.

It says a large - scale voucher study would help determine whether giving public school students vouchers to pay for tuition at private schools can improve achievement, especially for students in poor, urban areas.