Sentences with phrase «gained during the school year»

Summer is long, and learners need to practice their vocabulary or they lose much of the knowledge they've gained during the school year.

For children in low - income communities, summer is more likely an educational drought, a period when not only are they not learning anything new, they are actually slipping backward and leaving behind knowledge they gained during the school year.

Summer for such children can be an educational drought, a period when they are not learning anything new and often slipping backward, leaving behind knowledge they gained during the school year.

Doris Entwisle, Karl Alexander, and Linda Steffel Olson noted, «children from poor and middle - class families make comparable gains during the school year, but while the middle - class children make gains when they are out of school during the summer, poor and disadvantaged children make few gains or even move backwards academically.»

Even if I couldn't pay off all the interest that had gained during the school year, every little bit helped!

Not exact matches

Mobile feeding is particularly advantageous during the summer months, but the trend toward using mobile trucks is gaining plenty of traction during the school year as well.

Teaching reading to your kids the right way can help them gain an educational advantage during their school years and beyond.

At the same time, their parents attended training sessions to learn the skills that will ensure that gains made in this inspiring week are not lost during the school year.

If your family is seeking to jumpstart progress during the summer or maintain gains made during the school year, this program is designed to help meet those goals while also providing a fun summer camp experience tailored to your child's particular needs.

During his high school years he was the president of the Metropolitan New York Region of United Synagogue Youth where he «gained experience in leadership and administration.»

My career has been quite successful so far, judging by the many titles I have gained during these 4 years: deputy head of science, head of physics and co-ordinator of key stage 3 science (lower school years 7 to 9), special educational needs representative, staff governor, staff IT trainer, and maybe most important of all, disco and BBQ organiser.

Achieving a healthy weight before becoming pregnant and gaining an appropriate amount of weight during pregnancy significantly reduce the risk of the baby dying in his or her first year of life, according to new research from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.

The Youth Sport Trust has 20 years» experience in school sport and during that time we have gained a unique understanding of how PE and sport can make a huge difference to young lives.

The estimated impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a gain of 5.3 scale points in reading.

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.

According to research from Stanford, Bay State charter pupils gain 1.5 months more learning in reading during a single school year than their district - schooled counterparts.

Although the evaluation found no impact on student math performance, the estimated reading impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a statistically significant gain of more than 5 scale points.

There are beaucoup reasons why the new D.C. study ought not be taken too seriously — kids often do worse during their first year in a new school and an earlier IES evaluation of the DC program found significant long - term gains (notably high school graduation) for voucher users.

LOtC should not be about a once a year school trip, but about frequent, continuous and progressive opportunities to learn outside the classroom that build on knowledge and skills gained during previous experiences both inside and outside the classroom.

During Keppel's fourteen year administration, the Graduate School of Education gained a strong national reputation as a leading institution for teacher preparation, advanced study, and research in education.

Almost 1000 primary school pupils have gained an insight into the workings of the justice system through taking part in the Mayor's Fund for London Theatre of Law project during this academic year.

Young people need time to develop these skills during school and university years and gaining work experience whilst at school is a great preparation for a 21st century career.»

Tens of thousands of Illinois students — the most in recent history — sat out the state's standardized exams during the last school year as resistance to testing gained momentum nationwide, new state data show.

And while many parents want to avoid a «summer slide,» a term to describe the tendency for students, especially those from low - income families, to lose some of the achievement gains they made during the previous school year, many experts say it's important to keep in mind that summers don't have to be packed with worksheets and math camps for kids to keep their brains active and learning.

«Promotion vs. Retention» centers around a hardworking 8th grade student who, in spite of the impressive gains she made during the school year, doesn't have the skills she needs to succeed in high school.

These comparisons seem to suggest that the gap in math scores narrows through elementary school, with some (but not all) of this gain lost during the middle - school years.

I certainly applaud the desegregation that occurred during the years immediately following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and I quite explicitly say, on p. 75, that «careful studies show that school desegregation has had positive impacts on student learning, especially in the South,» a passage which must have escaped Kahlenberg's attention when he claims I «neglect» to point out a possible connection between desegregation and southern gains.

Did they improve and gain a year's worth of knowledge during the school year?

Although charter and non-charter gains during Rhee can be separated under NAEP, the Rhee administration closed a number of schools in DC during the 2007 - 09 period causing enrollment in charters to increase by half and enrollment in non-charter DC public schools to decrease by one quarter in only two years.

Performance - based compensation systems must consider gains in student academic achievement as well as classroom evaluations conducted multiple times during each school year among other factors and provide educators with incentives to take on additional responsibilities and leadership roles.

The positive student achievement gains were announced during a new school year that has 78 new public charter schools opening their doors for the first time - a 15 percent increase in the number of new charter schools compared to last year.

The «summer slide» is the tendency for students to lose some of the achievement gains they made during the previous school year.

The U.S. Department of Education looked at about 700 of the schools in their second year of the program and found that a quarter of them posted double - digit gains in math during the 2010 - 11 school year.

The key findings from the study are summarized in the Executive Summary as follows: «during the 2012 - 2013 school year TTO students gained mathematics skills at a rate that was roughly 15 % higher than the national average (effect size = 0.12 SD).

This study found that students whose teachers crafted high quality SLOs outperformed their peers and showed significantly greater gain on two independent measures of student achievement at all three school levels during all years under study.

During her 14 years as a principal in the Dallas Independent School District, she developed a reputation for consistently and effectively integrating the efforts of students, parents, teachers, and community members to achieve solid academic gains while providing safe and nurturing learning environments.

A report released in November on a blended learning math program called Teach to One found positive but uneven gains during the first year at seven urban middle schools.

Bryan authored a much - discussed draft of legislation last year that would have funneled five of the state's lowest - performing elementary schools into the state - controlled achievement districts as a pilot program, although the notion did not gain any significant traction during the General Assembly's long budget debates last summer.

This blog provides step - by - step guidance about how leaders can evaluate data during the school year so that by June they will have a concise summary of the gains made and needs for the future.

These findings indicate that students in classrooms implementing Great Expectations ® methodology showed greater gains in student academic achievement during the school year compared to demographically similar students not exposed to GE.

As mentioned during the session, we have gained so much knowledge from our 29 school teams and are really excited to take the feedback in regards to data collection as well as what teacher learning needs exist as we already plan for next school year.

In one study, Alexander, Entwisle, and Olson (2007) found that low - income students made similar achievement gains to other students during the school year; the widening of the achievement gap between the two groups occurred over the summer.

White, whose proposal to count academic gains at 25 percent is part of an overall draft proposal, noted that even in D - rated schools, up to 66 percent of struggling students exceeded academic growth targets during the 2015 - 16 school year.

Objective: To ensure that elementary school students maintain school - year gains during the summer months.

At Cameron College Prep, Ms. Tey and her team were able to make significant academic gains with their students, achieving the highest mathematics growth scores in the state of TN during the 2013 -2014 school year.

During the last few years, Dr. Mucetti has gained tremendous experience in strategizing and leading innovative reform efforts as she works to address issues of equity and school district performance in the Hayward and San Jose Unified School Distschool district performance in the Hayward and San Jose Unified School DistSchool Districts.

And in fact, they find that low - income kids gain a little on higher - income kids during the school year.

A 2007 Ohio State University study found that many children gain weight two or three times faster during summer months compared to the traditional school year.

CTAC research found that students whose teachers crafted high quality SLOs outperformed their peers and showed significantly greater gain on two independent measures of student achievement at all three school levels during all years under study.

Using a value - added model to analyze performance data from 179 high - need charter schools across the country during the 2008 - 2009 school year, EPIC identified 22 schools that have made the most dramatic gains in student achievement.