Sentences with phrase «growth in math»

Our students typically see up to two times more growth in math scores than their peers.

Aside from the placement in top colleges and high schools, our students demonstrate up to a semester of academic growth in math and reading after our summer session.

The video documented student growth in math skills and behavior.

In that same time, our first - graders saw an average growth in math aptitude of one school year.

Findings showed significant growth in math achievement for all three years and significant reading growth for two of the three years.

In the 2012 - 13 school year, the district's schools posted drops in reading scores, and modest growth in math and science.

If you look at our data, in our first year we saw growth in math and science.

The school met growth in reading and exceeded growth in math.

Use this report to view student growth in math and reading relative to end - of - year growth targets.

For students who received an accommodation in the previous year, but not in the current year, average growth in math was much less than it was for all students.

The strategy of closing or repurposing the least effective schools, opening new district and charter schools, and giving families greater access produced gains in English and offset what would have been a relative decline in achievement growth in math.»

In four months, after receiving a School Improvement Grant for transformation, bringing in a new principal and implementing a Continuous Improvement Plan which included use of DreamBox Learning, West Seattle Elementary posted the highest growth in math scores in the Seattle School District, 2.5 times greater than the average math gains for the district.

The authors relied on work by researcher Finley Edwards, who showed that if a middle school in Wake County, North Carolina, pushed its start time back an hour, the school would see a 2 percentile growth in math scores.

They showed vast improvement on the 2017 PARCC assessment, ranking number one for growth in ELA of all elementary schools in Denver, and number one for growth in math in the entire state of Colorado.

KIPP Collegiate ranked in the 99th percentile for all public schools in the state for growth in reading, and 98th percentile for growth in math.

West Seattle students had the highest growth in math MAP test scores of any school in the Seattle School District, increasing at a rate that was 2.5 times higher than the district average!

Her statement on company letterhead emphasized in boldface that 63 percent of students gain at least two grade levels in reading and 77 percent make grade - level growth in math after attending ALS schools for at least a semester.

Their results showed that children enrolled in INSIGHTS experienced growth in math and reading achievement and sustained attention that was significantly faster than that of children enrolled in the supplemental reading program.

One study by Martin Carnoy and Susanna Loeb of Stanford, which was based on state - level NAEP data, found that the within - state growth in math performance between 1996 and 2000 was larger in states with higher values on an accountability index, particularly for African American and Hispanic students in 8th grade.

This is unprecedented growth in math and is the greatest one - year change in SGP any high school has seen in math in Massachusetts history.

«Overall, we were seeing students with low growth in maths and low engagement, and this was very concerning.»

But by the end of the first year, their scores on standardized tests showed the most improvement in English among district middle schools and exceptional growth in math, according to a Times analysis.

Students in five of the nine grade levels showed positive growth in math, and six of the nine in reading on the state's annual Measures of Academic Progress, or MAP, tests.

Join TEP's middle school math department, which has placed in the top 5 in NYC (out of all 373 ranked NYC public middle schools) for three consecutive years, based on students» long term growth in math from 5th to 8th grade.

The Teach to One pilot for 6th graders at Roosevelt Middle resulted in a 25 % growth in math proficiency and will be expanding to all grade levels at the school this year.

Middle - school students have made similar strides over three years, though growth in math is down.

Students in the summer learning programs began the 2013 - 2014 academic year with a meaningful advantage in math, the equivalent of more than one - fifth of the amount of growth in math skills achieved by the typical student between the spring of 3rd grade and the spring of 4th grade.

Among Connecticut African - American, Hispanic, and low - income students, performance growth is three times greater than statewide growth in math and twice as great for reading and writing, trimming the size of the achievement gap.

Almost two - thirds of students met or exceeded national normative growth in reading and nearly three - quarters met or exceeded normative growth in math.

Classroom instruction and exposure to RCCP lessons also directly predicted growth in math achievement and related to decreases in teacher perceptions of youth problem behavior.

Specifically, students enrolled in urban charter schools receive the equivalent of 40 additional days of learning growth in math and 28 days of additional growth in reading compared to their matched peers in [traditional public schools].

Under her leadership, schools which were defined as failing by the state's accountability system, attained significant academic growth in math and reading as measured by Louisiana state and national assessments.

«The CCAS middle school also out - performed the local school system in language arts and demonstrated significant growth in math.»

Prior to the reforms, Newark's average rate of student achievement growth in math was above the state average, with math achievement growth remaining constant in 2015, according to the study.

For children between the ages of 13 and 17, there is modest growth in the math and reading gender gaps but a substantial expansion of the gap in science (see Figure 1).

Shelby County Schools (SCS) also saw growth in math and science, and cited the ASD as a catalyst for district - wide improvement.

West Seattle students had the highest growth in math MAP test scores in the Seattle School District.

Of the 180 schools competing for the national recognition, Kayne Siart was ranked sixth overall for growth in reading and ranked first overall for growth in math.

After bringing in a new principal and implementing a Continuous Improvement Plan that included the use of DreamBox Learning, the school posted the highest growth in math scores in the Seattle School District, 2.5 times greater than the average math gains for the district.

But within a few short years, their schools all showed very high growth — one school was in the top 1 percent in North Carolina for growth, and the other two received the highest growth score possible in the Tennessee system, with one getting the highest level of growth in math in Nashville in grades three through eight.

The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a teacher's contribution to his or her students» growth in math and English achievement, as measured by state tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy on what really matters: classroom learning.

A 2010 study by Mark Berends and Roberto Penaloza of longitudinal data over 30 years demonstrates a relationship between increasing segregation of black and Latino students and growth in math achievement gaps between these groups and white students.

Similarly, Denver charter school University Prep Steele Street had the most academic growth in math of any school in the state and was in the top ten for reading.

The achievement growth in math was not statistically significant relative to the achievement growth of the matched district - school students, but the study concluded that Milkwaukee district - school students were «performing at somewhat higher levels as a result of competitive pressure from the school voucher program.»

Recent evidence from Cincinnati Public Schools confirms that providing midcareer teachers with evaluative feedback based on the Danielson Framework for Teaching observation system can promote student - achievement growth in math, both during the school year in which the teacher is evaluated and in the years after evaluation (see «Can Teacher Evaluation Improve Teaching?»

In reading, students in all three grades showed higher growth than they had the previous year; growth in math was similar to the previous year, except for 7th graders, whose improvement was slightly better.

Growth in math and reading, as well as family and school factors that encourage success during the middle grades years, will be the focus of MGLS: 2017, which will provide evidence about the effectiveness of middle grades programs and practices.