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Looking at achievement trends across these different assessments raises questions about the effectiveness of our current approach to school reform in the U.S.. By 2008 and certainly by 2012, we should have seen evidence of a positive impact on achievement from the test - driven reforms of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB).

Not exact matches

Achievement of these goals was considered by the HRC as very challenging, even aggressive, given the expected modest economic growth for 2007 for the financial services industry, the impact and duration of the on - going flat / inverted yield curve (meaning short - term interest rates that are virtually equal to or exceed long - term interest rates, thus lowering profit margins for financial services companies that borrow cash at short - term rates and lend at long - term rates), potentially higher credit losses, fewer available high - quality, high - yielding loans and investment opportunities, and a consumer shift from non-interest to interest - bearing deposits.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry (R) World (TM); risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information;

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

Bolton FC should feel a sense of achievement in seeing 33 year - old Kevin Davies strutting his stuff for England in midweek, and even though the fans favourite didn't quite make the impact intended on Wednesday night as England drew 0 - 0 with Montenegro, the confidence alone just from being called up to the England team at such a late stage in his career will have left Davies in buoyant mood ahead of Saturday's encounter with Stoke, where he should be fired up and motivated to put in a string of pleasing performances from now on in the knowledge that Fabio Capello is watching on intently.

More impact from Geoffrey Canada's recent speech in Minneapolis: The Twin Cities Daily Planet reports that on Saturday, a coalition of local groups announced the launch of the Northside Achievement Zone, inspired by the success of the Harlem Children's Zone.

Among the important factors that could cause Rio Tinto's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, among others, levels of actual production during any period, levels of demand and market prices, the ability to produce and transport products profitably, the impact of foreign currency exchange rates on market prices and operating costs, operational problems, political uncertainty and economic conditions in relevant areas of the world, the actions of competitors, activities by governmental authorities such as changes in taxation or regulation and such other risk factors identified in Rio Tinto's most recent Annual Report on Form 20 - F filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the «SEC») or Form 6 - Ks furnished to the SEC.

But those results were widely criticized by educators and software makers for lumping together the outcomes from many different products and for testing their impact on student achievement in the 1st year the teacher had used the material.

But the software had no overall impact on student achievement when data from both student cohorts were combined.

Stephanie Anzman - Frasca, Ph.D., of ChildObesity180, Tufts University, Boston, and co-authors used data from 446 public elementary schools in a large, urban school district in the United States to look at the impact of BIC on participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievement.

Application of the new methods has also lead to more reasonable estimates of all kinds of important quantities from children's rates of achievement, to the duration of the doctoral career at HGSE, to realistic assessments of the positive impact of the GED on entry into the workforce, the duration of the teaching career, and so on.

The absence of ReadNet Bronx from our evaluation is likely to have only a small impact on our assessment of student achievement because the school had only two years of test - taking students before it closed.

We also drew on an additional year of data, from the 2012 13 school year, in assessing IMPACT's effects on student achievement in tested grades and subjects.

The impact of the program on the reading achievement of Cohort 1 students did not differ by a statistically significant amount from the impact of the program on the reading achievement of Cohort 2 students, Carnoy's claim notwithstanding.

One of my all - time favorite duh - posits, the Impact of Grading Standards on Student Achievement, Educational Attainment, and Entry - Level Earnings, comes from The National Bureau of Economic Research.

A recent paper from John Papay and Matthew Kraft found that teachers who were hired after the school year started had a significant negative impact on student achievement.

A new study by Dan Goldhaber and Roddy Theobald from the University of Washington looks at the characteristics of teachers who were targeted for layoffs in Washington state, and at the impact of LIFO provisions on student achievement.

In a previous study, Hill followed the progress of students from the seventh through the eleventh grade, tracking the impact of parental involvement on variables such as behavior, achievement, and occupational and educational goals.

Researchers expected that the move to a better neighborhood would have discernible effects on the academic achievement of the children involved, yet MTO data from the five cities show no overall positive impact on the children's learning.

The award commemorates the achievements of a teacher from Coalwood, West Virginia, who, despite Hodgkin's disease, made a great impact on her students.

Because moving between schools is known to have a negative impact on student achievement, we also control for whether the student changed schools in the current year and whether that change was structural (for instance, the student moved to a junior high school from its feeder elementary school).

Combining anecdotal material with quantifiable data from a nationwide sample of large cities, they find positive impacts on both school management and elementary school achievement.

The Commission, chaired by Dr. Paul Hill of the University of Washington, carefully reviewed the research on the impact of school choice on student achievement and included in its report the following statement: «The most rigorous school choice evaluations that used random assignment... found that academic gains from vouchers were largely limited to the African - American students in their studies.»

With the help of mentors at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institue of Technology, and thanks to the loan of hardware from Microsoft, Bick conducted a study called «The Impact of Personal Digital Assistants on Academic Achievement,» in which he investigated the correlation between the use of Microsoft Pocket PCs and the academic performance of Millburn freshmen and sophomores over the course of five months.

Ideas should also lead to enjoyment and satisfaction in being able to answer or find answers to the kinds of questions that people ask about themselves and the natural world, and have cultural significance reflecting achievements in the history of science, inspiration from the study of nature and the impacts of human activity on the environment.

A body of research literature on teacher quality has isolated the impact of teachers on student achievement, apart from other factors, such as the student's own motivations, support from family and peers, and school resources.

With one exception (immigrants benefited less than native - born students from a performance pay regime), I found only small differences in the impact of performance pay on the math achievement of subgroups in the population.

All of these factors, on average, make an impact on academic achievement from a very early age.

Marcotte and Steven Hemelt (2008) collected data on school closures from all but one school district in Maryland to estimate the impact on achievement.

As another teacher from a SPARK (Service, Persistence, Achievement, Responsibility, Kindness) School told me, «You have such a big impact on what they become eventually, and that's a very powerful thing to think of as a teacher.

Utilizing data from the Measures for Effective Teaching project, we propose to test the impacts of ability grouping on observed teaching practice and student achievement gains.

For students continuing from a KIPP middle school, KIPP high schools» impacts on student achievement are not statistically significant, on average.

Experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) played a significant role in studying and reporting the findings of The Impact of Two Professional Development Interventions on Early Reading Instruction and Achievement, a report that was released on September 22, 2008 by the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

Nancie's books for Heinemann include Systems to Transform Your Classroom and School, which takes teachers inside her award - winning school to learn about the innovations that make the biggest impact on achievement and community; Lessons That Change Writers, a year's worth of instruction straight from Nancie's file cabinets; and Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons, which helps teachers to jumpstart their teaching of writing and literature each day by unpacking a poem with their students.

Responding to Whitehurst and Chingos» call for more research on textbook efficacy, we have recently undertaken a project [vii] using data from California to investigate the impact of textbooks on student achievement.

Summary: This article reports on a study that shows the positive impact of support from a teacher on student achievement and their desire to continue their education.

Employing a quasi-experimental design based on data from the first year years of IMPACT, we find that, on average, DCPS replaced teachers who left with teachers who increased student achievement by 0.08 SD in math.

«This study drew on teacher survey responses from randomized experiments exploring three different pay - for - performance programs to examine the extent to which these programs motivated teachers to improve student achievement and the impact of such programs on teachers» instruction, number of hours worked, job stress, and collegiality.

The Capital Area Region and the Utica Area Region collected data that provided indicators of success and impact on student achievement using the Instructional Strategies from Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind after offering distance learning workshop from the Teaching is the Core Grant.

RTI and PTHV, in partnership with Dr. Steven Sheldon from Johns Hopkins University, also plan to extend this research to examine how the home visit program is being implemented across the four sites and its impact on parent engagement and student achievement.

As researchers from the University of Minnesota and University of Toronto - authors of the largest study of the impact of school leadership on student achievement - put it: «To date, we have not found a single case of a school improving its student achievement record in the absence of talented leadership.

National Assessment of Title I: Interim Report to Congress (2006) provides preliminary findings from the congressionally mandated National Assessment of Title I. Volume I contains findings on the implementation of the Title I program under the No Child Left Behind Act, and Volume II presents early findings from Closing the Reading Gap, an evaluation of the impact of supplemental remedial reading programs on achievement of 3rd and 5th grade students.

Volume I contains key findings on the implementation of the program under the No Child Left Behind Act, and Volume II presents a report on follow - up findings from Closing the Reading Gap, an evaluation of the impact of supplemental remedial reading programs on achievement of 3rd and 5th grade students.

The truth is that NCLB has failed to prevent millions from falling behind, and has had very little impact on closing the achievement gap; instead, its main effect has been to instigate ever - increasing emphasis on standardized test scores and superficial, formulaic essay writing.

The most recent data from Louisiana and Ohio shows that voucher programs actually have a negative impact on student achievement.

Watch Attendance Works webinar to learn from states and communities that are already using local chronic absence data to raise awareness about the impact of absences on student achievement?

From large urban districts to rural communities, Agile Mind programs have had a dramatic impact on student engagement and achievement.

What can we learn from states and communities that are already using their local chronic absence data to raise awareness about the impact of absences on student achievement?

Department of Education researchers have been publishing studies for several years that use data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- often called «The Nation's Report Card» — to compare state standards and to analyze the impact of NCLB on student achievement.

The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement: Evidence from Within - Teacher Within - Student Variation