Sentences with phrase «improvement in student outcomes»

Specifically, we're examining whether implementing challenging state academic standards led to larger improvements in student outcomes in states with lower prior standards than in states with higher prior standards.

It suggests that performance - based evaluation and compensation systems can drive improvements in student outcomes.

Although those resources are critical to the effective use of data, alone they are often insufficient to produce sustained, significant improvement in student outcomes.

There were some signs of improvement in student outcomes just before the storm, but, as we will see, these were relatively modest compared with what came next.

The systemic approach to data provides vital support for continued improvement in student outcomes.

Introducing evidence - based programs and interventions is one strategy that can be used by schools to target specific improvements in student outcomes.

But, just providing more funds to a typical school district without any change in incentives and operating rules is unlikely to lead to systematic improvements in student outcomes.

To drive groundbreaking improvement in student outcomes through integrated programs that deliver efficient schools, dynamic leaders and exceptional education.

This comprehensive solutions approach led to steady improvement in student outcomes and best - in - state accreditation ratings.

Both of these stories were backed up with solid data — and I don't want to diminish the achievement here — these schools have impressive improvements in their student outcomes.

And while there are some modest improvements in student outcomes to show for these efforts, I think most advocates would say the movement has not lived up to its initial promise.

We recognise there's a lot of noise in education telling us «what» should be changed, so we are interested in helping educators actually achieve those changes and create real improvements in student outcomes.

They provided insightful information about the strong commitment Texas has in making improvements in student outcomes a priority and emphasizing a «college - going culture» among students beginning in third grade.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, the history of education in the United States includes a long list of ambitious programs, initiatives, and reforms that have floundered in producing their promised improvements in student outcomes.

Consider the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 — a brilliant piece of bipartisan politics and sweeping policy, which resulted in better student data and more accountable school systems (even if improvements in student outcomes were modest).

In an effort to create immediate and enduring improvements in student outcomes, most states have adopted Common Core State Standards or other content standards that reflect higher expectations for student learning than previous iterations.

The experiential component and the sense of having applied content and skills in a real - world environment for real - world benefits, lead to tangible improvements in student outcomes as well as increased motivation to learn.

At just over 10 minutes long, Robinson explains how most modern education systems are getting it wrong (``... in thinking that, in some way, education is an impersonal process...») and gives some clues for how a new model for education to make vast improvements in student outcomes.

In our research on New Orleans, we found very large improvements in student outcomes when charter schools were taken over based on low performance and replaced with others.

Maybe it's because earlier this week I thoroughly read the recently - released study from Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research that delves into Newark's citywide improvements in student outcomes, as well as a separate paper that confirms the study's conclusions.

«Because public schools have traditionally operated as a closed system, on average we're only seeing incremental improvements in student outcomes.

While the District of Columbia continues rapid improvement in student outcomes, progress is too slow to meet the needs of the city's 80,000 public school students.

The SIP Big Picture site is intended to support educators in building, using, communicating, and monitoring school improvement plans that actively link improvements in student outcomes with improvement in professional practices.

If the standards and assessments are to produce desired improvements in student outcomes, it is essential that policymakers and the developers of the CCSS assessments attend to the above seven challenges.

Instead, we need to provide the tools, supports, and culture that enable well - prepared principals to lead significant improvements in student outcomes without having to go to unrealistically heroic lengths.

That treasure trove of information enabled the consortium to determine with a high degree of reliability the organizational characteristics and practices that predict whether a school is likely to produce above - average improvement in student outcomes.

In a recent article on Real Clear Education's website, Hanna Skandera, Secretary of Public Education at New Mexico's Department of Public Education and chair of the George W. Bush Institute's Education Reform Advisory Committee, is interviewed about the recent improvement in student outcomes in New Mexico.

Through the Georgia's Systems of Continuous Improvement framework, GaDOE is focusing on the systems and structures that must be in place for sustained improvement in student outcomes.

Howard claims exceptional results in many urban school systems, including, most recently, Memphis, Boston, and Palm Beach County, Florida, where the efficacy approach has resulted in clear and measurable improvement in student outcomes (personal communication, August 15, 2008).

The Syracuse (NY) City School District conducted a holistic, comprehensive initiative to revise and implement a new code over the last four years resulting in substantial improvements in student outcomes.

In this report, we take the analysis a step further, formulating research - informed recommendations for statewide actions — policies, investments, and expansion of best practices — that have potential to address performance gaps and contribute to broad improvement in student outcomes.

[10] Yet how schools are structured (or restructured) has been found to be a weak driver of improvement in student outcomes, despite great enthusiasm for structural arrangements such as middle schools, mixed ability groupings and «open classrooms».

Government setting the direction and providing the funding is necessary but not sufficient to drive improvement in student outcomes.

Eric Taylor and John Tyler report that midcareer teachers in Cincinnati saw significant improvements in student outcomes in the years during and after intensive observations (see «Can Teacher Evaluation Improve Teaching?»

Opponents argue that charter schools lead to increased racial or ethnic stratification of students, skim the best students from traditional public schools, reduce resources for such schools, and provide no real improvement in student outcomes.

While it is too soon to know whether states awarded RTT grants will see improvements in student outcomes, there is little hope that their efforts will be a source of rigorous evidence on the merits of specific policies they pursued.

In a series of actions, the lower courts held that, even though there was improvement in student outcomes, the central issue remained whether the legislature should enact even greater increases in funding.

It follows the evidence base to instead recommend a greater subject - focused approach to training — research suggests that this is more likely to support an improvement in student outcomes in the long - term.

It is still unclear, however, whether these changes in the market have contributed to the improvements in student outcomes.

Due to the significant improvements in student outcomes and the collaborative culture at Pattimura, Paul was recognized as the 2012 Distinguished Principal of the Year by the National Association of Elementary School Principals, and in 2015 Pattimura was recognized as a model professional learning community.

We don't know why the TIF program succeeded, but it suggests that performance - based evaluation and compensation systems can drive improvements in student outcomes.

the TIF program succeeded, but it suggests that performance - based evaluation and compensation systems can drive improvements in student outcomes.