Sentences with phrase «higher literacy results»

When Zena Carusi - Lees realised Balmoral State High School could be achieving much higher literacy results, she implemented a new system to effect change.

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In Shanghai, «the mathematics scores are contributing to a high score in financial literacy,» Michael Davidson, head of early childhood education and schools for OECD, told reporters in a webinar on the results.

Chandra's program plays a key role in NASA's EPO portfolio, synthesizing and disseminating results from NASA's exploration of the high - energy Universe into a broad suite of programs and activities focused on increasing science literacy and contributing to science, mathematics, engineering and technology (STEM) education.

The impact of these Healthy Schools activities means that: pupils are more engaged in P.E; literacy has improved; pupils have better relationships with one another and are more physically active at break and lunch times; attendance is in line with national averages; there are very low incidences of bad behaviour recorded after lunch time; all pupils that attended swing high club showed improved handwriting as a result of this intervention; 55 fruit pots are sold each day to pupils in KS2; and 40 pupils attend breakfast club.

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

PISA results show that when students discuss money matters with their parents, they have significantly higher financial literacy skills, even after accounting for differences in socio - economic background and their performance in other subjects.

The latest Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) results, released today by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), show 81 per cent of Australian Year 4 students are achieving at or above the Intermediate benchmark (the proficient standard for Australia), compared to 76 per cent in 2011, with more students achieving at the High or Advanced benchmark.

The results showed that both approaches significantly improved students» literacy skills, but one framework that utilized authentic texts and implemented specific reading strategies did more to improve students» reading comprehension and vocabulary and increase literacy in high school CTE classrooms.

The Urban League's report states that these gains are a result of lower high school dropout rates, increased literacy actives by Black children at home, and a higher percentage of Black Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 earning associate's degrees.

At the same time, the state has moved towards a higher standard for education results with the Mississippi Assessment Program (MAP), our most challenging assessment to date, and the Literacy Based Promotion Act, or 3rd Grade Reading Gate, which requires students to read at grade level before entering 4th grade.

As a result, the Code of Virginia § 22.1 — 200.03 required the Board of Education to develop and approve objectives for economics education and financial literacy to be required of all students at the middle and high school levels to «further the development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for responsible citizenship in a constitutional democracy.»

See two examples of effectively integrating literacy education: an elementary school district where integrated literacy programs are having real results across its 44 schools (two - thirds of which are Title 1) and a high school whose literacy coaching program is now a model for other programs nationwide.

This video shows two examples of effectively integrating literacy education: an elementary school district where integrated literacy programs are having real results across its 44 schools (two - thirds of which are Title 1) and a high school whose literacy coaching program is now a model for other programs nationwide.

Aligning a high - quality PreK experience with its overall education reform goals has helped MCPS achieve significant results: almost 90 percent of Kindergarteners enter first grade with essential early literacy skills; nearly 88 percent of third graders read proficiently; achievement gaps between different racial and ethnic groups across all grade levels have declined by double digits; 90 percent of seniors graduate from high school and about 77 percent of them enroll in college.

Through these activities, the evaluation has contributed to the Pathway Schools Initiative stakeholders» knowledge and thinking about how to build a preK — 3 literacy system that results in proficient third - grade readers among diverse and high - need students.

Results show that low - SES students made statistically significant gains in social studies and content literacy and, at post-test, showed no statistically significant differences from the students in the high - SES schools: Following instruction, there was no SES achievement gap on these assessments.

High levels of student achievement will result only when core instructional practices are defined and educator and system practices are in place to contribute to literacy success for every student.

Focusing particularly on the schools with the highest numbers of disadvantaged pupils and greatest literacy challenges, we will spend # 8m directly funding both programmes that have already been evaluated by the EEF with good results and support disciplined innovations that show promise.

It's not that the voters are too «stupid», it's that (at least in the U.S.), the dominant culture doesn't place a high value on thinking scientifically, so the public schools don't emphasis science, resulting in abysmally low levels of scientific meta - literacy in the electorate.

I would have thought the social sciences question was more relevant to his work - does his political - polarisation - vs - scientific - literacy result extend all the way to the people with the highest possible science literacy?

The result is also consistent with the finding from the CCP Nature Climate Change study, which found that those who are high in science literacy and numeracy (a component of which is CRT) are the most culturally polarized on both climate change and nuclear power.

Participants also called for greater recognition of the high levels of media literacy among Aboriginal children, which belied the mainstream media's focus on the NT's poor NAPLAN results as a justification for the abolition of bilingual education programs.

Overall, the findings from this study indicate that teachers» implementation of a universal emotional well - being programme with high fidelity resulted in significant gains for the children in terms of improved emotional literacy skills at post-intervention and at 12 - month follow - up.

These results indicate that fidelity had a direct impact on the intervention group's emotional literacy scores at post-intervention, in that, the higher the level of fidelity, the higher the children's emotional literacy subscale scores at post-intervention.

Baseline results from the Emotional Literacy Checklist indicate relatively high emotional literacy scores across the intervention and control group suggesting a possible ceiling effect at post-intervention and follLiteracy Checklist indicate relatively high emotional literacy scores across the intervention and control group suggesting a possible ceiling effect at post-intervention and follliteracy scores across the intervention and control group suggesting a possible ceiling effect at post-intervention and follow - up.