Sentences with phrase «high student mobility rates»

States and districts should target equitable resources to middle level and high schools with high student mobility rates and significant proportions of low - income students, English - language learners, students with disabilities, and low - achieving students to help all students meet high expectations.

VCS in southern Georgia, faces several challenges that negatively affect student achievement, including high poverty, high student mobility rates, insufficient funding, and problems with teacher retention.

Moreover, they do so while operating with similarly high percentages of students eligible for free / reduced lunch, similarly high student mobility rates, similar curriculum frameworks, and similar per - pupil expenditures.2

The high student mobility rate forced DoDEA administrators to institute within the system a uniform curriculum and standards - based instruction, so teachers know what material students have covered when they arrive.

The school has a high student mobility rate, and half of the students speak a language other than English at home.

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After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

Most online schools have higher - than - average rates of student mobility — a fact that states are beginning to consider in their accountability frameworks.

To explore these questions, we studied the 29 high school closures begun between 2003 and 2009 in New York City to determine the degree to which a closure affected a range of student outcomes, including graduation rates, mobility, attendance, and academic performance.

A school system with a 35 percent annual student mobility rate, with half of its students living at the poverty line, with most of their parents having only a high school education — with National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores among the highest in the U.S.?

• Private colleges tend to have higher economic mobility rates for low - income students, but they also tend to be somewhat more selective.

• Private colleges serve a similar proportion of low - income students as public colleges, and low - income students have higher economic mobility rates at private colleges (although this may be due to their greater selectivity).

High rates of student mobility are an ever - present feature of all urban school districts.

Even though the district struggles with high mobility rates, its students have performed well academically.

These schools tended to have a «more experienced principal, a schoolwide Chapter 1 program, some tracking by ability in grades 1 - 6, lower rates of teacher and student mobility, a balanced emphasis on remedial and higher - order thinking in classroom instruction, and higher levels of community and parent support» (p. 62).

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He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»

A massive infusion of resources not only for schools, but also for pre - and after - school and summer programs, and for resolving aspects of poverty that clearly affect student achievement (e.g., high mobility rates; lead paint; nutrition; medical and dental care) might lead to substantial progress toward this goal, but the proposed resources in the bill are completely inadequate to the task.

The factors identified in the GAO report — that low - income students and high - mobility students are high - risk, that low achievement and grade retention are precursors to leaving school — provide a guide for what we need to do to improve high school completion rates.

Under the new law, the entry and exit of English learners from services will have to be consistent at least within states, thus allowing educators to better serve students with high rates of mobility and making the definition of an English learner consistent across the state.

Studies show students in foster care experience high rates of school mobility; delayed enrollment when school changes occur; high suspension, expulsion, and dropout rates; and low college graduation rates.

Title I schools face particular challenges that affect academic performance, including high rates of student mobility and large proportions of English language learners.

Furthermore, in the schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.

With 47 percent of its population connected to the military, Killeen Independent School District (KISD) in Texas has the unique challenge of educating students with a diversity of primary languages, a wide range of socio - economic levels and a high mobility rate.

School mobility rates were highest for minority and disadvantaged students.

Barton updates the data frequently, and he must, to keep up with the high mobility rate of the student population.

Neelys Bend and Madison Middle Schools both struggle with high mobility rates, with more than two out of five children spending less than the whole year at the schools last year, statistically hurting those students» academics.