Sentences with phrase «in our math scores in»

We saw more than a 15 % increase in our math scores in one year and the only thing we did differently was use DreamBox.

Since the passage of NCLB, studies have shown an increase in math scores in both 4th and 8th grade, along with the highest high school graduation rate in our nation's history.

So when the 2015 NAEP results came out last month, showing the first declines in math scores in 25 years (a two - point drop in fourth - grade math and a three - point drop in eighth - grade math between 2013 and 2015), Stancavage didn't think the problem was only that teachers needed more practice and training to teach the new Common Core material effectively.

In four months, after receiving a School Improvement Grant for transformation, bringing in a new principal and implementing a Continuous Improvement Plan which included use of DreamBox Learning, West Seattle Elementary posted the highest growth in math scores in the Seattle School District, 2.5 times greater than the average math gains for the district.

After bringing in a new principal and implementing a Continuous Improvement Plan that included the use of DreamBox Learning, the school posted the highest growth in math scores in the Seattle School District, 2.5 times greater than the average math gains for the district.

Compared to their matched pairs who did not participate, preschool participants showed gains equivalent to a 7 % boost in reading and a 6 % increase in math scores in 5th grade.

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It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

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.

Like, for instance, when he mentions that he was the first New Zealander to be selected as a Fulbright Scholar in entrepreneurship, or tells you he once spent two weeks in a coma after contracting malaria in Indonesia, or says he was among the highest - scoring secondary - school students on a national math exam.

The United States has been falling behind on math and science test scores for decades — and waiting for help from the federal government is almost always a bad idea, no matter who is in office.

If you've ever wanted to get an up close and personal view of fighter planes in training, but just never had the math scores to get into the cockpit, don't lose hope.

It's counter-intuitive, but Grant says a study involving a math test has confirmed the finding: «When the defensive pessimists distracted themselves with another task right before the math test, their scores were about 25 percent lower than when they listed the most extreme outcomes that could happen in the test, and how they might feel.

Additionally, why does my basket of people — skeptics — score better in math, science, literature and history and contain a majority of the world «a artists, poets and musicians?

Recent analysis of the widely followed voucher experiment in Milwaukee shows that low - income minority students who attended private schools scored substantially better in reading and math after four years than those who remained in public schools.

It's the reason our test scores are lower than other nations in math and science.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

Private school students, on average, score better than public school students in reading, math and a host of other subject areas, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Research by the Education Policy Institute has found that just one in ten disadvantaged pupils in England score grade 7 - 9 (A-A * in old system) in GCSE maths.

They'll likely become confused by what's true and what isn't, they'll be disinterested in science as a subject, and our already declining test scores in math and science will decline further while we stand around bickering over whether our kids should learn the thing we can prove or the thing we can't prove but choose to believe in anyway.

Doing a little math of my own, I was able to determine that there are approximately 30 teams ahead of the Stars in scoring since February 4th.

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According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the gap in eighth - grade reading and math test scores between low - income students and their wealthier peers hasn't shrunk at all over the past 20 years.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

In those schools, a greater number of suspensions corresponded to lower end - of - semester math and reading scores for the students who were never suspended — even after correcting for various demographic indicators.

Students in 4th - 6th grade who went to bed an average of 30 - 40 minutes earlier improved in memory, motor speed, attention, and other abilities associated with math and reading test scores.

- The Department of Education, which has for years pushed an agenda that places paramount importance on schools» test scores, especially in reading and math, leaving no time for the nutrition education which is such an important part of helping children learn to make sensible eating choices.

If you praise your child for scoring the most goals in the soccer game or for getting the highest grade on his math test, your words will fuel his competitive nature.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

We just finished a study in Maryland where we found that in high - need schools, school breakfast is correlated with a 17 percent increase in math scores.

The Western Australian study, the results of which were published in the Jan 2011 issue of Pediatrics, which «studied more than 2900 children born between 1989 and 1991 from before birth to the age of 10» and «found that boys who were breastfed for the first six months of life received significantly higher scores in math, reading and spelling compared to formula - fed children with the same socioeconomic background.»

When kids eat breakfast they demonstrate broader vocabularies, improved memory and faster speed on cognitive tests, and they score higher in both reading and math.

Even borderline iron levels were linked to lower math scores among adolescent girls in one study.

Those higher math scores were equivalent to roughly a fifth of what kids this age typically learn in a school year.

Traditionally, Canadian students have some of the highest math scores in the world.

A second reason, as discussed by Oddy, Li, Whitehouse, Zubric, and Malacova (2010), in their study, is that when a mother primarily breastfed for 6 months and longer, there was a statistically significant relationship to 10 year old children having higher scores in math, spelling and reading (p. e142).

When compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.

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.

Studies conducted in Minnesota and Maryland found that students who ate breakfast before starting school had a general increase in math grades and reading scores.

Approximately 30,000 students will take up to three - hour - long field tests for new Common Core - based exams starting Monday — a week ahead of official state exams that will count students» scores in math and English.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has quietly dropped plans to raise passing scores on Common Core Regents exams in English and math by the year 2022 — plans originally pushed as a linchpin in efforts for students» strengthened academic performance and preparation for college and careers.

In math, 37.8 percent scored at proficient levels last year, an increase of 1.3 percentage points from 2016, according to the state figures released Tuesday.

Belluck has used his own Twitter handle in recent days to dog the State Education Department over the results of third - through eighth - grade English and math test scores that showed charter school students performing slightly better than their public school counterparts.

Skelos noted that the Harlem Academy's fifth - graders had the highest math scores in the entire state.

In math, the percentage of students in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased slightly over last year in most of the Big 5 City School DistrictIn math, the percentage of students in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased slightly over last year in most of the Big 5 City School Districtin grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased slightly over last year in most of the Big 5 City School Districtin most of the Big 5 City School Districts.

Hamilton has served as a community board president and was involved in raising math and reading scores.

While Syracuse School Superintendent Jaime Alicea is encouraged by the modest improvement in student English and math test scores, he said ``... there are still far too many students who are not scoring proficient on these exams.»

It collated results from a five - year study and a two - year study of 159 middle schools in Texas and found no statistically significant improvement in scores for English, maths, science or social studies, despite a # 3,000 bonus being offered to successful teachers.

New York's school children made incremental progress in math scores but no gains in English tests in the second year of Common Core - related exams.

No consequences for teachers or principals related to student scores on state tests in English language arts and math given in grades 3 - 8 until the start of the 2019 - 20 school year.

The regulation approved by a Regents committee would postpone until at least the 2019 - 20 school year any use of standardized state English and math scores in penalizing students, teachers or principals.