Sentences with phrase «include grade retention»

Investing wisely in teacher and principal preparation and development can improve student achievement and generate overall budget savings by reducing costs associated with low student performance (including grade retention, remediation, and higher dropout rates).

Not exact matches

«Although some types of school moves can have positive effects, most are associated with a range of negative outcomes, including lower test scores, grade retention, low self - esteem, trouble fitting into schools, dropping out and event adult substance abuse.»

Not surprisingly, in September, Mayor Bloomberg announced that the retention program would in the future include 5th grade as well as 3rd grade.

Defined as perseverance and passion for long - term goals, grit accounted for an average of 4 percent of the variance in success outcomes, including educational attainment among two samples of adults; grade point average among Ivy League undergraduates; retention among two classes at the United States Military Academy, West Point; and ranking in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

The study also showed no discernible impact for either group on many of the long - term outcomes desired by policymakers, including minimizing grade retention and dependence on public assistance and positively impacting later employment and earnings.

The Commission will examine factors in raising student achievement from prekindergarten through high school including: state accountability and curriculum requirements; model programs to improve student achievement beginning in early learning programs and continuing throughout high school; strategies for every student to achieve at grade level such as intervention and support systems; and policies to improve student attendance and retention.

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, New Jersey, and Boston, pre-kindergarten programs demonstrate impressive outcomes that include positive effects on math scores, grade retention, and chronic absenteeism at the end of grade 8; increased achievement on language arts, literacy, math, and science, as well as decreased grade retention and special education placement at the end of grade 5; and stronger than typical impacts on academic readiness (effect sizes in the 0.4 — 0.6 range) at school entry.

Its purpose was to promote the usage of students» test scores to grade and pay teachers annual bonuses (i.e., «supplements») as per their performance, and «provide a procedure for observing and evaluating teachers» to help make other «significant differentiation [s] in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions, including transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions in force, [as] primarily [based] on evaluation results.»

The study included a caveat: «Given the expense of grade retention and the emotional toil retention exacts on students, a finding of «no significant difference» for retention on achievement calls into question the educational benefits of grade retention policies.»

Studies of students who attend high - quality programs for a significant period of time show improvements in academic performance and social competence, including better grades, improved homework completion, higher scores on achievement tests, lower levels of grade retention, improved behavior in school, increased competence and sense of self as a learner, better work habits, fewer absences from school, better emotional adjustment and relationships with parents, and a greater sense of belonging in the community.

The program's economic benefits in 2007 dollars exceeded costs, including increased earnings and tax revenues, averted costs related to crime and savings for child welfare, special education and grade retention.

Absenteeism in early grades, including prekindergarten, can negatively impact future attendance, retention, and academic performance.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

Grade retention that results from narrow measures of academic preparedness can increase student risk for problems in school, including increased drop - out rates, and even when the student is promoted, the use of such assessments to sort students creates tracks within grade levels that reflect racial, ethnic, and social - class differences and that function to direct entire categories of students toward low - wage jobs or incarceration.

Multiple research studies show that community schools work, including a recent Child Trends meta - analysis that found that community schools support young people's needs, reduce grade retention and dropout rates, and increase attendance, math achievement, and grade - point averages.15

Those later costs in K - 12 education can include special education services, remediation, grade retention, drop - out / alternative programs, etc..

Other examples could include outlining your dissertation (e.g. «achieved a first class distinction grade in my dissertation on x»), or more quantifiable achievements you may have attained whilst in previous positions (e.g. «increased staff retention by x % during my time in employment», «an increase in students» grades by x» etc..)

Duties include instructing students in medical billing, reviewing lesson plans, grading & electronically recording assignments, and promoting student retention.

Responsibilities include providing classroom instruction, reviewing lesson plans, grading & electronically recording assignments, and promoting student retention.

The long - term benefits of early childhood education — including improved academic performance, reduced need for special education and grade retention, higher high school graduation rates, and higher wages — necessitate greater investments.