By comparing fourth -
grade literacy outcomes against the experiences and inputs that produced these results — including indicators of health - care and preschool access, family economic well - being, mental - health and child - welfare services, nutrition, and comprehensive school quality — we can identify gaps in how we are serving children and target investments and reforms to those areas with the greatest potential to improve children's long - term life outcomes.
Just as important, policy - makers should be held accountable for how the policies they support affect fourth -
grade literacy outcomes.
Not exact matches
Another Obama effort, The Striving Readers Comprehensive
Literacy grants program, assists states in creating or maintaining a comprehensive literacy plan for children birth through grade 12; creating quality learning environments across the age span has the potential to promote academic outcomes for all children, including EL l
Literacy grants program, assists states in creating or maintaining a comprehensive
literacy plan for children birth through grade 12; creating quality learning environments across the age span has the potential to promote academic outcomes for all children, including EL l
literacy plan for children birth through
grade 12; creating quality learning environments across the age span has the potential to promote academic
outcomes for all children, including EL learners.
New Tech teachers build their instruction around eight Learning
Outcomes — content standards, collaboration, critical thinking, oral communication, written communication, career preparation, citizenship and ethics, and technology
literacy — which they embed in all projects, assessments, and
grade reports.
It is her hope that the Lead Early Educators for Success series will follow the same path as her prior set of briefs, Lead for
Literacy, currently being used across the nation for literacy planning, including underpinning a statewide plan to improve third - grade reading outcomes in
Literacy, currently being used across the nation for
literacy planning, including underpinning a statewide plan to improve third - grade reading outcomes in
literacy planning, including underpinning a statewide plan to improve third -
grade reading
outcomes in Arizona.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, New Jersey, and Boston, pre-kindergarten programs demonstrate impressive
outcomes that include positive effects on math scores,
grade retention, and chronic absenteeism at the end of
grade 8; increased achievement on language arts,
literacy, math, and science, as well as decreased
grade retention and special education placement at the end of
grade 5; and stronger than typical impacts on academic readiness (effect sizes in the 0.4 — 0.6 range) at school entry.
Instead, she says this year's six week academy was designed specifically to promote
literacy outcomes for students entering
grades 1 - 3 who could benefit from the extra attention the program provides.
Toews: I support the superintendent's commitment to addressing the achievement gap and her focus on educational
outcomes such as improving third -
grade literacy and high school graduation rates.
Across the country, states are adopting a number of different strategies to improve
outcomes for students: third
grade reading requirements,
literacy initiatives, new assessment and accountability systems, plus an increased focus on data - driven decision - making are changing how districts approach teaching and learning for all students.
Classroom Promotion of Oral Language (CPOL): protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial of a school - based intervention to improve children's
literacy outcomes at
grade 3, oral language and
In 2011, the findings that K - 3 Plus associated with positive student
outcomes in
literacy and numeracy from the New Mexico Standards Based Assessment data for third
grade, resulted in a new legislated funding formula that assigns a percent of the school year unit or «per pupil» value to support K - 3 Plus.
Fourth -
grade literacy rates are such an
outcome.
Long and short - term students
outcomes were measured by tests of
literacy, curriculum - based measures of reading, monitoring of basic spelling and math skills, and classroom observations, the State of Kansas Reading Test (3rd
grade) and the time to onset of special education services.