Sentences with phrase «higher on standardized tests»

Francis et al. reported students in schools with a certified school librarian and a better funded library scored significantly higher on standardized tests.

Students in high - quality school music programs score higher on standardized tests compared to students in schools with deficient music education programs, regardless of the socioeconomic level of the school or school district.

As Obama pointed out, «Last year, a study found that students who win a spot in one of the charter schools score higher on standardized tests than those who didn't.»

Director of the Institute of Education Sciences Grover J. Whitehurst reported — drawing on research by Jordan, Mendro, and Weerasinghe (1997); Rowan (2002); and Sanders and Rivers (1996)-- that a student who has effective teachers for three straight years is likely to score more than 50 percentile points higher on standardized tests than a student who has ineffective teachers.

In addition to being 21 percentage points more likely to graduate high school, students from low - income families scored slightly higher on standardized tests.

Our educators have graduated from top academic institutions, and many of them have achieved in the 90th percentile or higher on standardized tests.

The report by Alan B. Krueger, a professor of economics and public policy, analyzed data presented last year by Harvard University Professor of Government Paul E. Peterson that found black students in the voucher schools scoring 5.5 points higher on standardized tests than their counterparts in public schools.

Many charter schools are producing students who score higher on standardized tests.

Increasing racial, ethnic, linguistic, socio - economic, and gender diversity in the teacher workforce can have a positive effect for all students, but the impact is even more pronounced when students have a teacher who shares characteristics of their identity.20 For example, teachers of color are often better able to engage students of color, 21 and students of color score higher on standardized tests when taught by teachers of color.22 By holding students of color to a set of high expectations, 23 providing culturally relevant teaching, confronting racism through teaching, and developing trusting relationships with their students, teachers of color can increase other educational outcomes for students of color, such as high school completion and college attendance.24

Particularly important for Brill are the charter schools, such as Harlem Success, that are housed in the same facilities as regular public schools and score much higher on standardized tests.

The authors assert that teachers «still don't trust test scores» and only one in three support rewarding teachers whose students routinely score higher on standardized tests; overall, however, teachers think evaluations are improving.

For example, teachers of color can better identify and promote giftedness in students of color: These students score higher on standardized tests when taught by teachers of color.

Students with access to libraries with highly trained and certified library media specialists score higher on standardized tests.

Contrary to contemporary pedagogical thinking, we find that students score higher on standardized tests in the subject in which their teachers spent more time on lecture - style presentations than in the subject in which the teacher devoted more time to problem - solving activities.

Attending a Boston charter school makes special education students 1.4 times more likely to score proficient or higher on their standardized tests, resulting in a 30 percent reduction of the special education achievement gap.

That report, Dick and Jane Go to the Head of the Class, contends that data from those three studies indicate that students in schools with strong library media programs learn more and score higher on standardized tests than do their peers in schools with less adequate library facilities.

According to a 2002 study of children in Dane County, Wisconsin, by urban - policy consultant David Rusk, low - income children at schools with a middle - class majority scored 20 - 32 percent higher on standardized tests compared with what their scores would be at schools with a lower percentage of middle - class students.

Cambridge, MA — A new study finds that 8th grade students in the U.S. score higher on standardized tests in math and science when their teachers allocate greater amounts of class time to lecture - style presentations than to group problem - solving activities.

The best incentive plans are those that go beyond rewarding select teachers whose students score higher on standardized tests, says Darling - Hammond; they use multiple measures to evaluate teacher performance and create career ladders capable of supporting and rewarding all teachers.

Students who attend five charter schools in the San Francisco Bay area that are run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or kipp, score consistently higher on standardized tests than their peers from comparable public schools, an independent evaluation of the schools concludes.

Students score higher on standardized tests, engage in healthier behaviors at home, increase their community involvement, and report more engagement in the classroom.

On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59).

But now the CFR study says that teachers who are unusually good at helping students score high on standardized tests today aren't just unusually good at helping students score high on standardized tests tomorrow.

Citing the model of several countries where students regularly score high on standardized tests, Mr. Duncan said that they pull their teaching corps from the top tenth to top third of college graduates.

Like teachers in many other countries, South Korean educators face pressure to score high on standardized tests.

And with these students less distracted and more engaged in school, they do better on their academics; they average 11 percentile points higher on standardized test scores than do students without SEL training.

The above class produces kids who score high on standardized tests, but not kids who I would want creating the future.

My daughter and son have both scored very high on standardized testing and my daughter did amazing on her high school entrance exams so quality of education has definitely not been an issue!

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Girls, for example, now make up about half of the enrollment in high - school science and math classes and are scoring almost identically to their male classmates on standardized tests.

And, high schools that emphasize athletic participation and success are associated with higher scores on standardized tests and higher graduation rates.

A high school student's GPA, researchers have found, is a better predictor of her likelihood to graduate from college than her scores on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT.

Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

Homework has long inspired strong feelings — and creative excuses — in children, but it has more recently become an area of growing concern for parents in a scholastic system increasingly focused on high - pressure, high - stakes standardized testing.

A new study shows that students who achieve the highest gains on standardized tests do not show improvements in their cognitive skills.

Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign reported in 2013 that on average, students who eat school breakfast attend 1.5 more days of school per year and score 17.5 percent higher on standardized math tests; when combined, these factors translate into a student being twenty percent more likely to graduate high school.

In general, the results suggest that after adjustment for confounding, there were small but consistent tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with increased IQ, increased performance on standardized tests, higher teacher ratings of classroom performance, and better high school achievement.

NYS has a standardized testing problem, a NYSUT official writes: Many students do poorly on tests for grades 3 - 8, but pass high school Regents exams.

«That's the message sent loud and clear yesterday by thousands of parents across New York who rose up against a top - down, one - size fits all approach to education that focuses on the over-utilization of high stakes Common Core standardized tests and refused to have their children be any part of this culture of testing.»

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to stop intimidating New York parents and school districts with threats of pulling funding from schools with high percentages of students who opt out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests — in essence, telling them to stop trying to «kill the messenger» for their introduction of a flawed system.

The online RefuseCommonCore.com website offers New Yorkers the ability to write a message directly to the Governor to respect the rights of parents to make important decisions on the educational future of their children and enable parents to have their children refuse to take the high stakes Common Core - based standardized tests.

In face of this criticism, Moskowitz has time and again cited the network's high performance on standardized tests compared to traditional district schools.

Parents and local school administrators have panned the Common Core testing, arguing that it takes the learning out of the classroom by setting unrealistic educational guidelines for success due to the high rate of failure on standardized tests.

The measure also comes as school districts across the state on Tuesday reported high numbers of students choosing to opt out of the current round of English Language Arts standardized tests that will run for the next two weeks.

Though the student bodies in her schools have an overall poverty rate of 77 percent, they regularly register among the highest - scoring schools on standardized math and reading tests.

The resolution declares «no confidence» in education department commissioner John King's policies and calls for a three - year moratorium on high - stakes standardized testing.

«The leadership has clearly heard the concerned parents and educators who support high standards but know that a moratorium on the use of standardized tests in high - stakes decisions is essential until the State Education Department makes major corrections to its failed implementation plan,» president Richard Iannuzzi said in the statement.

They argued that the fiscally conservative governor, in his effort to tie education funding to performance on standardized testing, has failed to fulfill the 2006 order of the state's highest court and allowed overcrowding and cuts to local schools» budgets.

One commonly used definition of a «good» school is one that has high academic outcomes in absolute terms - its students don't drop out, frequently go to college, frequently go to selective colleges if they do go to college, frequently find decent jobs if they don't go to college, perform well on standardized tests, take more advanced classes such as advanced placement, international baccalaureate, honors and college classes, etc..