Sentences with phrase «gains in student achievement over»

This special report by the EPE Research Center analyzes the links between state policies related to standards - based reform and gains in student achievement over the past decade.

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These estimates project the historical pattern of growth to determine the result of gains in student achievement, calculate the additions to GDP over the next 80 years, and discount them back to today so that they are comparable to other current investments.

State efforts in standards - based education over the past decade have had a positive, but modest, relationship with gains in student achievement.

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 schools.

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.

Research on summer learning loss indicates that income - based gaps in student achievement tend to widen over the summer and narrow when school is in session, suggesting that low - income students have the most to gain from shortened summers.

Massive economic gains for states that invest in student achievement Fifty - state effort could increase GDP by $ 76 trillion over next 80 years

Students in states with «report card» systems, where scores are publicly reported but no consequences are attached to performance, fell in the middle: they could expect to gain 1.2 percent in achievement between grades 4 and 8, over and above what they would normally learn from grade to grade.

A leading test publisher, aiming to refute charges that standardized - test scores are inflated, has found in a new study that elementary - school students registered substantial gains in basic - skills achievement over the past decade.

For these teachers, we can test whether improvement over time in the practices measured by TES is related to improvement in the achievement gains made by the teachers» students.

Each summer most youth lose about two months» worth of math skills, while low - income students also lose morethan two months in reading achievement despite the fact that their middle - class peers make slight gains over the summer break.

The improvement approach would first identify a set of K - 12 districts that have realized the greatest gains in measured student achievement over a multi-year period.

Using the upper range of their effect size estimates, $ 100 spent on classroom coaches would yield a gain of over one - half standard deviations in student achievement, and one - to - one tutoring would yield a one - quarter standard deviations improvement.

Gains in student achievement were seen during the Bush administration, but over the past 8 years, little progress has been made (and in 8th grade math there have been declines).

This may be why the U.S. has seen significant achievement growth for its lowest - performing students over the last twenty years (especially in fourth and eighth grades, and particularly in math), but minimal gains for its top students.

More than 100,000 teachers in schools all over the world are already seeing gains in student achievement as they implement Visible Learningplus professional development.

For the United States, the research suggests, modest gains in student achievement as measured by one international assessment could cumulatively boost the country's gross domestic product by tens of trillions of dollars over the coming decades.

The new report, Effective Teacher Professional Development, reviewed 35 scientifically rigorous studies conducted over the past 30 years which showed significant gains in student achievement resulting from teacher development programs.

A new study of international and U.S. state trends in student achievement growth shows that the United States is squarely in the middle of a group of 49 nations in 4th and 8th grade test score gains in math, reading, and science over the period 1995 - 2009.

Through the support of the program, the school is starting to see gains in student achievement, with scores increasing across all grades in reading and writing over last year.

Intensive case studies were conducted on these schools, some of which made noteworthy student achievement gains in a relatively short (one - to two - year) time frame, while others improved at a slower, steadier pace over a longer period.

They find that there's much greater gain in student achievement in a school when people work collaboratively in teams and when teams of teachers stay together over a period of time and build their collective know ledge and collective capacity.

Denver Public Schools students are making some gains in achievement, but available data is insufficient to know which of the reforms adopted over the past five years are — and are not — working, according to a report released...

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.

Value - added scores, which measure growth in student achievement over the previous year, showed better than anticipated gains for grades 3 through 8 in both subjects.

Professional learning communities that perform common assessments have found that their collaboration and dialogue over instructional goals, coupled with a review of student data, lead to gains in student achievement (Christman et al., 2009; King, 2012; Reeves, 2004; Schmoker, 2004).

Distinguished Principals have demonstrated that they are highly effective school leaders, either maintaining high student achievement results over the course of a number of years, or producing clear student achievement gains in their buildings.

Applying the same adjustments to measures of gains in NAEP scores over time also brought a different crop of states to the top of the list, highlighting gains in scores in Nevada, Maryland, and Hawaii, with Massachusetts and New Jersey remaining near the top as well.3 The variation in relative student achievement among states highlighted by this analysis demonstrates the caution necessary when interpreting state - level NAEP.

In Ohio for example, where the charter sector has been struggling with poor student achievement results for over a decade, charter schools in Cleveland are producing positive learning gains for their students in both reading and math, compared to students attending traditional district schools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality resultIn Ohio for example, where the charter sector has been struggling with poor student achievement results for over a decade, charter schools in Cleveland are producing positive learning gains for their students in both reading and math, compared to students attending traditional district schools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality resultin Cleveland are producing positive learning gains for their students in both reading and math, compared to students attending traditional district schools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality resultin both reading and math, compared to students attending traditional district schools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality resultin the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality resultIn Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality resultin particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality resultin partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality results.

After establishing what Ripley describes as a more rigorous core curriculum nationally, with over 100 approved curricula that teachers can use at the local level, Poland began to see gains in their student achievement scores on the PISA test.