Sentences with phrase «high achieving students whose»

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Achieve, Inc., the Education Trust, and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation established the American Diploma Project, whose report contends that the high - school diploma too often fails to signify that students are well prepared for postsecondary education or the workplace.

Unfortunately, high - quality summer enrichment programs remain out of reach for many low - income, high - achieving youth who can not afford the tuition and related costs of residential programs or whose local community does not offer a program specifically geared toward such students.

The California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) has repeatedly gone on record debunking and factually proving that charters are public schools, kids in charters are achieving academically, charters are non-profits, comply with federal and state laws, are held to exceptionally high standards of accountability, and supports anyone from the community whose primary concern is advocating and creating high quality education opportunities for students.

The award honors public and private elementary, middle and high schools whose students achieve at very high levels or have made significant progress and helped close gaps in achievement especially among disadvantaged and minority students.

Have you ever been part of a staff development process where the key function is to learn from teachers whose students are consistently high achieving?

I am thrilled to be a part of an organization whose mission is to help students achieve their highest potential and work towards their dreams.

And they fund the same vehicles to achieve their goals: charter schools, high - stakes standardized testing for students, merit pay for teachers whose students improve their test scores, firing teachers and closing schools when scores don't rise adequately, and longitudinal data collection on the performance of every student and teacher.

Most notably, they deliver thorough data on the highest - and lowest - achieving students, whose needs and particular challenges don't show up on more conventional tests.

Furthermore, teachers in schools whose students achieve in the highest and second - highest quintiles award significantly more relative influence to staff teams; teachers in the highest - quintile schools award significantly more relative influence, as well, to individual parents and to groups of parents.

He says the current system can penalize schools whose students are already high - achieving.

Teachers whose students achieve higher than predicted scores are deemed highly effective.

The Blue Ribbon Award designation goes to public and private elementary, middle and high schools whose students achieve at very high levels, or have made significant academic progress and helped close gaps in achievement especially among disadvantaged and minority students.

I've previously posted about studies that have found that the laser - like focus on raising student test scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Update).