Sentences with phrase «gains for students overall»

Increases in achievement for African American and Latino students, in particular, were substantially higher than the average gains for students overall at all three age groups and in both subjects.

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AACS Locations with a HUMAN Healthy Vending program will gain: 1) Healthful food and beverage options for students / future professionals, including hot meals 2) Energy savings compared to traditional vending equipment 3) Increased value - add for AACS schools, which adds to their overall marketability

Overall, the upcoming involvement of academia in the drug discovery process will provide graduate students and postdocs the opportunity to gain experience and skills which are important for pharmaceutical and biotech companies whilst still engaging in hypothesis - driven academic research.

Overall, studies in the field indicate that children from low - income families tend to show the most gains from social emotional learning interventions, but results for other groups of students are more mixed, although a number of studies show positive effects.

The individual studies of the privately funded K — 12 scholarship programs in the District of Columbia and Dayton reported overall achievement gains only for the large subgroup of African American students in the program.

Scholars including Swarthmore College's Tom Dee and Stanford University's Eric Hanushek have reported, for instance, that students appear to benefit from having a teacher of the same race, suggesting that the matching of teachers and students contributes to the pattern of overall achievement gains.

As for academic performance, Sawgrass has been making big gains in both math and reading, both overall and for its lowest - performing students.

Moreover, the cross-school differences in the relative success of advantaged and disadvantaged students argue for enacting school accountability policies that shine the light on the success of specific populations, rather than concentrating solely on overall schoolwide performance levels or gains.

But the evidence on test score gains is massive: CREDO has studied dozens of cities and have found an overall effect of ~.1 for urban areas serving hundreds of thousands of students.

However ~ NAEP shows minimalto - no improvement for these students ~ and some losses; whats more ~ white and Hispanic students scores fell by 3 points ~ and black students scores stayed the same ~ so only the influx of new wealthier students with higher scores could account for the small overall gain.

Moreover, and importantly for understanding the district's overall gains, these two groups of students made huge progress since the test's last administration.

This has been particularly helpful for evaluating the effectiveness of charter schools, a controversial education reform with a mixed record overall but one that shows remarkably large gains for disadvantaged students in urban areas.

For instance, between the early 1970s and 2008, reading scores for 9 - year - olds rose by 14 points for white students, 34 points for African American students, and 25 points for Latino students — more in every case than the average gain of 12 points for 9 - year - olds overaFor instance, between the early 1970s and 2008, reading scores for 9 - year - olds rose by 14 points for white students, 34 points for African American students, and 25 points for Latino students — more in every case than the average gain of 12 points for 9 - year - olds overafor 9 - year - olds rose by 14 points for white students, 34 points for African American students, and 25 points for Latino students — more in every case than the average gain of 12 points for 9 - year - olds overafor white students, 34 points for African American students, and 25 points for Latino students — more in every case than the average gain of 12 points for 9 - year - olds overafor African American students, and 25 points for Latino students — more in every case than the average gain of 12 points for 9 - year - olds overafor Latino students — more in every case than the average gain of 12 points for 9 - year - olds overafor 9 - year - olds overall.

When the overall population contains a greater share of students from lower - performing racial / ethnic groups, then achievement must go up even more to produce gains in the average score for all students.

Overall, the learning gains of students who used Achieve3000 were statistically significant and substantively important for all areas assessed: the GMRT - 4 Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, and Total Reading tests, as well as the LevelSet Lexile reading assessment.

Of the LA Unified elementary schools with with the top five scores on the CORE index — there were nine overall due to some ties — the only perfect score of 100 was Balboa Gifted / High Ability Magnet Elementary, which is a magnet school for gifted students who must already be high - achieving students in order to gain admission.

Overall results show that gains are especially pronounced for black, Hispanic, low - income and special education students.

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State Report Shines Positive Light on Florida Charter School Student Performance For Overall Achievement and Learning Gains Compared to All Florida Students

«In 2011 Alabama moved from near last to 25th in the nation in overall grades and scores [Education Week assessment]... 12th in the nation for standards, assessments and accountability... data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed a historic gain of eight points in fourth grade Reading for Alabama public school students — the... highest gain ever in NAEP recorded history.

Overall, the reported academic gains of students enrolled in these schools were so miniscule, says Margaret Raymond, executive director of CREDO, it was «literally as though the student did not go to school for the entire year.»

For summative assessment, classroom observations are used to gain insight into changes in teaching strategies, types of innovative technology used in classrooms, and overall effectiveness of lessons for engaging students during science inquiFor summative assessment, classroom observations are used to gain insight into changes in teaching strategies, types of innovative technology used in classrooms, and overall effectiveness of lessons for engaging students during science inquifor engaging students during science inquiry.

According to Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), charter school students overall made larger learning gains than their peers in traditional schools on state tests from 2007 - 2011.

Accountability Plan Spurs Achievement Gains for Indiana District — Making accountability a matter of policy helped this school district narrow the acheivement gap and raise students» achievement scores overall.

This publication can help coaches, district leadership, and pathway teams gain an understanding of the overall process of designing and implementing pathways that will continue to improve over time and become high - quality learning environments for students.

While that may be the case for students with deficits in the specific skill, studies have demonstrated that while performance on the single skill can be improved, this doesn't necessarily translate into gains in overall reading ability (Pressley, Hilden, & Shankland, 2005; Samuels, 2007).

For students as a whole, the overall effects of the Tulsa pre-K program are: a 52 percent gain in the Letter - Word Identification test score; a 27 percent gain in the spelling test score; and a 21 percent gain in the applied problems test score.

Third, the students who saw the biggest gains had teachers who were lower performing overall, suggesting that having the same students twice may be particularly useful for helping teachers improve.

Adding to a growing body of evidence of overall progress made by Newark's public schools and life outcomes for Newark students, two studies released this month by Harvard University and MarGrady Research reveal significant gains made by the school district.

Overall Hispanic performance in mathematics also dropped one point to 71 percent but Hispanic students did achieve a one - point gain in Algebra I with 75 percent passing the SOL test for the course.

Liddiard called the bills an overall assault on housing as they limit or exclude gains on sales of principal residences, and repeal the deduction of student loan interest, which will make it more difficult for millennial buyers to purchase their first homes.