Sentences with phrase «higher test scores»

When comparing students, we also find that students with higher test scores in math and English language arts have stronger growth mindset.

It will ramp up the pressure for higher test scores in mathematics, and in the process narrow further the curriculum.

Physical education could help schools in their goal of higher test scores due to constant accountability from the government.

And many produce high test scores compared with nearby traditional schools.

Nonetheless, the congressional endorsement was valuable publicity for charters, which gained public recognition and new opportunities to expand and compete with neighborhood public schools for higher test scores.

They would get higher test scores if schools could fire more bad teachers and pay more to good ones.

Teachers are routinely given accolades for achieving high test scores — and invariably acknowledged for coaching a winning sports team or producing the school play.

The more affluent one does not spend much on its schools but posts high test scores on the state assessment.

If teachers see the primary goal, for instance, as higher test scores, there's a very direct path to achievement: give students the answers.

Naturally, schools with high test scores show the smallest academic gains, while schools with low test scores show the largest academic gains.

Higher test scores among charter students are probably part of the equation.

Two recently released studies show higher test scores by students who are taught by board - certified teachers.

Teachers at schools with higher test scores don't need to do this.

Strong progress with high test scores means students have strong academic skills and the school is a doing a better job at supporting academic growth than most other schools.

The research suggests that babies who weigh more at birth have higher test scores from third through eighth grade.

I've written before about the odds of getting into schools that have consistently high test scores.

Even a mediocre school can expect high test scores if its students come from wealthy backgrounds.

A «miracle» school is one that gets extremely high test scores despite having the same types of students as the nearby failing school.

It is a movement of teachers, administrators, parents, and students who are demanding something more of their schools than just higher test scores.

If the states that had not done annual testing improve their test scores more than the states that did annual testing, the findings suggest annual testing causes higher test scores.

The schools had very high test scores and they rated as the most challenging in the nation.

In several recent studies, kids who used tablets instead of books demonstrated higher test scores and greater proficiency than those not using tablets.

And it is interesting to see sustained high test scores after three years.

We have seen not only higher test scores, but attitudes of the children have changed for the better.

If you taught students with high test scores then make sure to include this on the document.

Why didn't tying money to outputs such as good grades or higher test scores work?

When schools have both high demand and high test score impacts with students living in poverty, government should not prevent these schools from serving more students!

Not all schools are obsessed with ensuring high test scores for students.

The main conclusion is that students using vouchers to attend private schools do not generally attain higher test scores than public school students.

Other schools with similar poverty levels but better attendance rates posted much higher test scores.

Students, families, communities, and educational leaders demand innovation in schools, while states and district leaders demand high test scores.

Schools with a history of low test scores spend concentrated time on test prep; schools with traditionally high test scores do not spend time on test prep.

While some schools draw over 80 % of their students from within their boundaries, even many with high test scores draw far fewer.

When success of a school is based on numbers — what percentage of the students graduate or how high the test scores are — all kinds of unethical practices occur.

Another study indicated that preschoolers who had a rule with bedtime generally obtained higher test scores.

The plan would reward teachers not only for experience, but for results in the classroom in the form of higher test scores and other measures.

So it's no wonder charters often produce higher test scores.

One study of 29 countries found that the level of competition among schools was directly tied to higher test scores in reading and math.

Learn how to help more children, save money for your school district, achieve higher test scores, and improve the future of our society.

Items are embedded into the opening of a class or students take many practice exams and are asked to set goals around getting higher test scores.

The vision was sold to us based on the assumption that higher test scores mean better education.

Simply offer a bonus for higher test scores, fire the bottom five percent, and you have the perfect combination of carrot and stick.

Currently, schools with high test scores get more money; the opposite is what is needed.

Teach Like A Champion has been both celebrated as highly effective classroom management and stigmatized as highly controlling «no excuses» teaching that produces higher test scores at the expense of emotional well - being.

Laura Du's empirical paper, «The Potential of K - 12 Blended Learning: Preliminary Evidence From California Schools,» found that these schools produced significantly higher test score gains than traditional schools who serve a similar demographic.

And last week when touting higher test scores, King noted that the district is providing more teachers at high - needs middle schools and high schools to help support the achievement levels.

BASIS has sometimes been criticized for allegedly selecting students who will earn high test scores, but the schools» results are impressive — and demand for slots in BASIS schools continues to soar.

While some charter networks boast high test scores, many do so by employing methods that would never be tolerated in our city's high - performing schools largely attended by middle and upper middle class families.

By Jack Gillum and Marisol Bello, USA TODAY Marvin Tucker raised questions about high test scores of daughter Marlana, right, now 16, that showed math proficiency despite...

Yet, if we go by test scores, the question remains: Do these schools have high test scores because there is something fundamentally better about the teaching there, or is it because the majority of families have the resources to hire outside tutors?