Sentences with phrase «generating gains in achievement»

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We find that the accountability provisions of NCLB generated large and statistically significant increases in the math achievement of 4th graders and that these gains were concentrated among African American and Hispanic students and among students who were eligible for subsidized lunch.

(To generate the weights, we regressed a teacher's average student - achievement gain in one class against the three different measures from another class, resulting in weights of.758,.200, and.042 on value - added, student survey, and classroom observation, respectively).

A recent Council of the Great City Schools report hailed Houston for «beating the odds» by generating sizable gains in student achievement.

These «Jubilee Schools» received generous support from private benefactors and are now generating remarkable gains in student achievement, thanks to a combination of old - fashioned high expectations and a modern focus on measurable results.

More than 63 percent of TFA teachers generated achievement gains in reading that were higher than the median achievement gains for new non-TFA teachers (see Figure 3).

The findings were striking: «Charter school takeovers in the New Orleans Recovery School District appear to have generated substantial achievement gains for a highly disadvantaged student population that enrolled in these schools passively.»

How much growth could K - 12 achievement gains generate in the economy?