Sentences with phrase «gain higher language»

The implementation of blogging in school curriculum has also seen positive effects in student literacy, with blog - savvy pupils tending to gain higher language grades than non-bloggers.

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Fathers» involvement in parenting is associated with positive cognitive, developmental, and socio - behavioural child outcomes such as improved weight gain in preterm infants, improved breastfeeding rates, higher receptive language skills, and higher academic achievement [33].

Implementation in five Saint Paul Public Schools serving high proportions of dual language learners led to gains in literacy of nearly a half a year at the end of preschool.

Students in New Orleans» Recovery School District produced gains on Louisiana's high - stakes exam this spring, with 4th graders posting scores that showed across - the - board growth in language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.

The results suggest that observed gains on English language arts assessments in the year of instruction do not fully capture the benefits that students are accruing from high quality English language arts instruction.

In middle school and high school, students gain in both math and language arts.

By 2012, though, things had changed for the better: Sanger Unified ranked third in achievement gains among California districts with high populations of minority, English language learners and disadvantaged students.

However, the study concludes that «elementary and middle - school charter students exhibited higher learning gains than equivalent students in the traditional public school system» and «students in poverty and English - language learners experience larger learning gains in charter schools.»

Compounding this problem, children from low - income families, on average, begin kindergarten approximately a year behind their peers in preliteracy and language skills.106 This fluency gap widens as students continue in school and has a significant impact on economic success later in life.107 As a result, gains from high - quality preschool programs — including improved health, better social - emotional skills, and better cognitive outcomes — are particularly beneficial for children from low - income families.108

The study also found that black teachers rated black children's language and literacy skills higher upon school entry in the fall than white teachers did, but tended to report fewer gains in those skills at the end of the year, leading researchers to hypothesize that black teachers have higher standards for black children.

The groups pointed to gains at Webb Middle School and Reagan High School, where the school district doesn't just provide an education, but also access to a web of social services for families with health, employment and housing needs, and even education and language classes for parents who need better skills to support their children.

Additionally, students who score higher over time seem to have mastered the construct, when in reality they only gained more language proficiency.

By: Lauren Culler, Research Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College and JSEP co-Principal Investigator, and Lee McDavid, Program Manager of the Institute of Arctic Studies, Dartmouth College Twenty high school students from Greenland, Denmark, and the U.S. learned about polar science this past summer as they gained first - hand experience of how international research teams work together and some of the challenges they face, especially when speaking different languages.

The costs are programming and analysis, where the gains from using high - level languages such as R or Matlab, vastly outweigh any slight benefits in execution speed from using assembly language or Cobol or Fortran.

A few months later, UNIC - the largest independent university in Cyprus and one of the largest English language higher education institutions in Southern Europe - launched a free online course titled Introduction to Digital Currencies aimed at students wanting to gain a better understanding of bitcoin.