Sentences with phrase «improved student performance after»

Although each is subject to uncertainty, the combined picture shows improved student performance after the introduction of test - based accountability.

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But the early enthusiasm waned after they showed mixed results in improving student performance.

After our education plan finished first in the «Race to the Top» federal funding competition for its capacity to improve student performance, we continue to move forward.

After that, they will test the new items in classrooms across the country to see if the changes can improve ELL students» test performance.

However, research from the Nuffield Foundation has suggested that after school clubs and sports groups improve the academic performance of primary school students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Ten years after the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) began as a collaboration between the Ed School and the Harvard Business School to see how business strategies could be used to help public schools improve student performance, what has been the program's impact?

These obstacles are compounded by the fact that few districts are making it easy for parents to exercise their right to choose or to avail themselves of the related option that offers «supplemental services,» such as after - school tutoring, to students who remain in schools that have failed to improve student performance.

First, student performance on the available measures, usually state tests, improves after accountability reforms are introduced.

As NPR's Cory Turner reports, the study finds that public school students in Indiana who used a voucher to switch to a private school tended to backslide academically after switching schools, but if the students remained in the private school long enough, their performance improved.

About five years ago, it started to become popular for schools to teach students social - emotional skills like grit, self - control, and perseverance after research showed that these skills improved academic performance.

The results of this analysis show that, after only one year's time, attending a private - school improved student performance on standardized tests in math and reading by between 5.4 and 7.7 percentile points.

In recent years, the consensus among policymakers and researchers has been that after the first few years on the job, teacher performance, at least as measured by student test - score growth, can not be improved.

The improvement in teacher performance from before to after evaluation is larger for teachers who received relatively low TES scores, teachers whose TES scores improved the most during the TES year, and especially for teachers who were relatively ineffective in raising student test scores prior to TES.

PSA's findings demonstrate that Citizen Schools bridges the transition from middle school to high school and improves performance in core academic courses and high - stakes tests well after students graduate from the program.

An experiment at the primary grades suggests that students» mathematics performance improve after teachers use these tasks to assess mathematical competency.

Identification of, and comprehensive, evidence - based intervention in, the lowest - performing five percent of title I schools, all public high schools with a graduation rate below 67 percent, and public schools in which one or more subgroups of students are performing at a level similar to the performance of the lowest - performing five percent of title I schools and have not improved after receiving targeted interventions for a State - determined number of years; and

After the reforms, the performance of New Orleans's students shot upward by 0.2 to 0.4 standard deviations by 2012, enough to improve a typical student's performance by 8 to 15 percentile points.

After throwing up the standard straw men — «At its core, the reform movement believes that great teachers and improved teaching methods are all that's required to improve student performance, so that's all the reformers focus on,» «reformers act as if a student's home life is irrelevant,» «Dodd [the teacher] does everything a school reformer could hope for» — he rolls out the woefully tired and hopelessly unhelpful nostrum: «What needs to be acknowledged, however, is that school reform won't fix everything.»

My analysis finds no significant changes in school demographics at district schools after charter entry that might explain improved student performance (see Figure 3a).

At Marina (California) Junior High School, teachers discovered that students academic performance improved dramatically after only 20 days of chess instruction.

Its children spend 60 % more time in class than their public school peers, and teachers» only hope for job security is improving student performance year after year.

After setting the context by examining poverty and its stunning effects on students, the authors then zero in on what HP / HP schools stopped doing or eliminated and what they started doing or improved on in three key areas of performance:

The City has implemented a number of initiatives in the past three years to improve middle school students» academic performance, including expanded after - school programs, the School Renewal Program (providing the most challenged schools with additional funding), instructional resources and experienced leadership, and the Community School expansion.

In January 2016, he dressed as a mime — and went without talking for the day — after his students improved their performance on state tests.

«Ill Communication: The Impact of Mobile Phones on Student Performance» found that after schools banned mobile phones, the test scores of students aged 16 improved by 6.4 %.

Macomb Public Schools, a district of about 300 students in Oklahoma, switched back to the traditional five - day week after finding the four - day week didn't improve student performance.

AUGUSTA — After a survey of members of the Commission to Reform Public Education Funding and Improve Student Performance in Maine, Commission Chair Bill Beardsley is announcing the meeting schedule through the end of the year.

It is people like Ravitch, who wrote in The New York Times, one week after George W. Bush's inauguration, that «Mr. Bush is basing his national plan on the Texas model, which over the past decade has successfully improved the performance of black and Hispanic students, particularly in math and writing.»

The Blue Ribbon Commission to Reform Public Education Funding and Improve Student Performance is now underway, after enactment by the Legislature and signed into law by Governor Paul LePage.

«After much interest and an extensive review, we chose Pearson, a partner with a deep commitment to improving student performance.

After using DreamBox for just one year, Kerrick Elementary's third -, fourth -, and fifth - grade students showed tremendous gains on their statewide exams in May, with 69 percent improving by one performance level.

After hearing him present at Blackman High School this fall, I knew that the rest of our state needed to hear how, with a bit of work and research, their students could learn to improve their ACT performance.

Of those, 22 found that the performance of students at district schools improved after a school choice law was enacted.

After six years of earning an F, school districts can create their own plan to improve student performance by using existing resources in the district or community.

For example, classroom concentration, attention, and memory immediately increase after physical activity, and student test scores correlate positively with regular participation.122 Research has also shown that elementary school students that perform better in reading, mathematics, and science have higher physical fitness test scores.123 In addition, children who perform below grade level academically and participate in a physical activity program are more likely to improve their performance on standardized tests than are their less active peers.124

After several unsuccessful turnaround efforts and years of chronic low performance at Cameron Middle School, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) decided to try something different to dramatically improve student outcomes: gradually convert operation of the school from the district to a charter management organization.

Enacted under Title IV, Part B of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the 21st CCLC program provides competitive grant funding to support before school, after school, and summer learning programs that focus on improving the academic performance of students in pre-Kindergarten through grade 12.

Each middle school also offers after - school programs, providing high - quality activities where students can feel safe, improve academic performance, improve social, emotional, and physical well - being, and reduce the potential for risk - taking behaviors.

This brief offers a new conception for secondary teacher preparation that ensures candidates are able to prepare students for college and career success after high school, encourages a shift to the skills, knowledge, and competencies candidates should have once they become classroom teachers of record, highlights the need for improved teacher performance assessments and data systems, and contemplates how federal policy can support the realization of these goals.

Study after study shows that student performance improves and test scores increase when there is a school librarian on staff

Utilized after - school tutoring sessions to provide small group attention, while improving students» overall performance.

Assessed an «at - risk» learner's reading skills and diagnosed the student with dyslexia; after the diagnosis, the student received the proper support she needed and improved her performance in all academic areas.

Teachers» use of RC practices was associated with students» improved reading achievement, improved closeness between teachers and children, prosocial skills, more assertiveness, and less fearfulness, even after controlling for family risk and children's previous years» performance.