Sentences with phrase «include reading achievement»

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But a body of newer work on the apostle — including, perhaps, as Hurtado notes, Wright's own new books (which I haven't had the chance to finish reading yet)-- reveals that Paul may, after all, look less like a liberal Westerner than the New Perspective has taught us to think and more like a Christ - haunted figure whose radical social practices arose directly from his pioneering, innovative thinking about the identity and achievement of Jesus Christ.

You can read through the sporting achievements of the last year, including a roundup of the BUCS performances, individual club reports, and more.

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Past achievements include writing and editing a full - length non-fiction book — iDo — for Simon & Schuster in less than two months, hosting Twitter parties that launched targeted brand hashtags onto the trending topics list, creating widely - read link building content for brands like T - Mobile, creating and executing on custom marketing packages for brands like GB International (the largest baby product manufacturer in the world), and editing the memoir Four Before Their Time.

Of course, in this moment, Effie is reading the names of the chosen victors from District 12, who include co-protagonists, ostensible lovebirds, and last year's winners, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), a tailored pair Effie regards as the crowd - pleasing achievement of her career.

Nonetheless, NCLB offered some positive changes that the new ESSA maintains, including academic standards, annual assessments of reading and math achievement, and report cards on schools that students, parents and the public can use to gauge results.

Sources might include reading and math achievement test scores, IQ scores, benchmark and state test results, and grade level progress in the curriculum.

The study includes observations of math and reading achievement at 9 and 10 different points in time, respectively.

Highlights of this year's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of movement of students from lower to higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year levels

Student performance measures include average student achievement on reading and math exams, along with median proficiency and the percentage of students achieving proficiency.

Annual average improvement target of 2.5 percentage point gains in achievement on state reading and math tests between 2018 and 2025 for all students and student subgroups; plan includes goal of reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2025 for all students and student subgroups

In New Jersey, the Pequannock Township School District helped raise achievement with a number of initiatives, including implementing a special reading program in the elementary schools.

The K - 20 EDW includes detailed enrollment, demographic, and program participation information for each student, as well as reading and math achievement test scores.

In these surveys, we asked principals to evaluate their teachers along a variety of dimensions, including dedication and work ethic, organization, classroom management, parent satisfaction, positive relationship with administrators, student satisfaction, role model value for students, and ability to raise math and reading achievement.

The school characteristics include whether it is in an urban area, grade level (e.g., high school), the number of students enrolled, student - teacher ratio, the percentage of students who are eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program, the percentage of minority students, and measures of student achievement in reading and math.

Principals were asked not only to provide a rating of overall teacher effectiveness, but also to assess, on a scale from one (inadequate) to ten (exceptional), specific teacher characteristics (ten altogether), including dedication and work ethic, classroom management, parent satisfaction, positive relationship with administrators, and ability to improve math and reading achievement.

The Obama administration will waive cornerstone requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, including the 2014 deadline for all students to be proficient in math and reading / language arts, and will give states the freedom to set their own student - achievement goals and design their own interventions for failing schools.

Some of the best examples that I write about in the book include back - to - school rallies at the start of the school year, book reading contests, achievement fairs, and achievement «gangs» or community - based honor societies for youngsters who earn B averages or better in school.

The narrow focus on math and reading achievement is driving out other subjects, including the arts.

Have students earn and collect them to show off great work, reading achievement, positive behaviors, growth mindset, and other goals Instructions for printing and assembling bookmarks along with ideas for use are included.

Of the 50 countries participating in this cycle of PIRLS, 48, including Australia, recorded significant differences in reading achievement favouring girls.

Several other high - performing charter networks, including Achievement First, Uncommon Schools, and Success Academy, are also discovering the need for a new approach to teaching reading.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

This meta - analysis includes 84 rigorous studies (with over 60,000 K - 12 participants) that examine the impacts of technologies designed to improve K - 12 reading achievement.

These must include content standards in at least reading and mathematics, aligned «high - quality» assessments, and achievement standards for at least grades 3 - 8 and once in high school.

During his eight years in Tallahassee, the governor established a far - reaching accountability system, including limits on social promotion in elementary school; introduced a plethora of school choice initiatives (vouchers for the disabled, vouchers for those in failing schools, tax - credit funded scholarships for the needy, virtual education, and a growing number of charter schools); asked school districts to pay teachers according to merit; promoted a «Just Read» initiative; ensured parental choice among providers of preschool services; and created a highly regarded system for tracking student achievement.

In the case study, Lavely describes the leadership responsibilities she has accepted and her team's results: A set of classrooms fully proficient in both math and reading — including students in special education and English language learners — and 70 percent of those students ranking in the top two achievement categories on the 2011 — 12 state math exam, up from 52 percent the previous year.

We also linked the lottery data to publicly available CPS data on students» middle schools, including the percentage of 8th graders who scored proficient or better on the math section of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT), the percentage scoring proficient or better on the reading section, and the percentage of black or Hispanic students.

Findings from this large and comprehensive evaluation show that KIPP schools lead to educationally meaningful increases in student achievement, not just in basic reading and math, but in a broader set of subjects, including science and social studies.»

complies with nonpublic school accreditation requirements as set forth in Section 22.1 - 19 of the Code of Virginia, and administered by the Virginia Council for Private Education (VCPE) or is a nonpublic school that maintains an assessment system that annually measures scholarship students» progress in reading and math using a national norm - referenced achievement test including, but not limited to, the Stanford Achievement Test, California Achievement Test, and Iowa Test of Baachievement test including, but not limited to, the Stanford Achievement Test, California Achievement Test, and Iowa Test of BaAchievement Test, California Achievement Test, and Iowa Test of BaAchievement Test, and Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

In the GOP Assembly plan, both the board and DPI would establish criteria to determine a school's letter grade, including test scores on math and reading, graduation and attendance rates, and the closure of achievement gaps between groups of students.

Baumgartner, Lipowski, and Rush (2003) studied a program to improve reading achievement among elementary and middle school students using differentiated instructional strategies, including flexible grouping, student choice of learning tasks, self - selected reading time, and access to a variety of texts.

In this study, Lavely describes the leadership responsibilities she has accepted and her team's results: A set of classrooms fully proficient in both math and reading — including students in special education and English language learners — and 70 percent of those students ranking in the top two achievement categories on the 2011 — 12 state math exam, up from 52 percent the previous year.

Still, the Education Northwest evaluation team gained valuable information from the study, including the lesson that it is possible to make a statistically significant difference in the reading achievement of struggling readers in a single year.

But the literature contains many examples of schools serving substantial portions of economically disadvantaged students and ethnic minorities that have raised student achievement in reading and math while delivering a well - rounded curriculum that includes the arts (Petersen, 2007).

They found students of compassionate or «high facilitative» teachers made «greater gains on academic achievement measures, including both math and reading scores, and present [ed] fewer disciplinary problems (McEwan 2002, 33 - 34).»

Harvey Silver, Richard Strong, and Matthew Perini have collaborated on a number of recent best sellers in education including So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences and Teaching What Matters Most: Standards and Strategies for Raising Student Achievement, both published by ASCD; Reading for Academic Success: Powerful Strategies for Struggling, Average, and Advanced Readers, Grades 7 — 12 for Corwin Press; and Thoughtful Education Press's Tools for Promoting Active, In - Depth Learning, which won a Teachers» Choice Award in 2004.

Key takeaways from this study include the following: Coaching programs tend Read more about Teacher Coaching Can Boost Instruction and Student Achievement.

The What Works Clearinghouse review of Spelling Mastery for the Students With Learning Disabilities topic area includes student outcomes in nine domains: alphabetics, reading fluency, reading comprehension, general reading achievement, mathematics, writing, science, social studies, and progress in school.

Viewers can see how reading programs developed by an inner - city high school, a suburban high school, and an urban middle school enhance student achievement in reading and in the content areas (Stock No. 402033; members, $ 195; nonmembers, $ 234; includes one tape and a Facilitator's Guide).

Including families to support reading interventions at home is a powerful lever for improving reading achievement.

The SIOP Model was included in Tiffany Park's school improvement plan as an instructional approach for improving the reading and mathematics achievement of all students, and also as an equity and access strategy for low - income students and English learners.

A carefully designed program that includes teaching how to choose a book, monitoring the process, and evaluating can impact reading achievement (Routman, 2003).

The only measures a State may include within its Academic Achievement indicator in addition to the required measure of student performance on the statewide reading / language arts and mathematics assessments under ESEA [Education and Secondary Education Act, of which ESSA is the latest version] section 1111 (b)(2)(B)(v)(I) are the two optional measures: (1) an achievement index or similar measure of student performance in reading / language arts and mathematics at multiple academic achievement levels above or below proficient (see question B - 10 and B - 11); and (2) measures of student growth in reading / language arts and mathematics for high schools (see questions B - 14 aAchievement indicator in addition to the required measure of student performance on the statewide reading / language arts and mathematics assessments under ESEA [Education and Secondary Education Act, of which ESSA is the latest version] section 1111 (b)(2)(B)(v)(I) are the two optional measures: (1) an achievement index or similar measure of student performance in reading / language arts and mathematics at multiple academic achievement levels above or below proficient (see question B - 10 and B - 11); and (2) measures of student growth in reading / language arts and mathematics for high schools (see questions B - 14 aachievement index or similar measure of student performance in reading / language arts and mathematics at multiple academic achievement levels above or below proficient (see question B - 10 and B - 11); and (2) measures of student growth in reading / language arts and mathematics for high schools (see questions B - 14 aachievement levels above or below proficient (see question B - 10 and B - 11); and (2) measures of student growth in reading / language arts and mathematics for high schools (see questions B - 14 and B - 15).

The new law requires states to design rating systems that rely heavily on student achievement, including proficiency rates on standardized math and reading tests, year - to - year growth on those tests and graduation rates.

February 2012 — The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research found that four years after undergoing dramatic reform efforts, including turnarounds, low - performing elementary schools in Chicago closed the achievement gap in test scores by almost half in reading and two - thirds in math compared to similar schools that did not receive intervention.

These schools will receive training and materials over three years to advance achievement in reading, including:

Sections include achievement tests in mathematics and reading comprehension.

Although the bill maintains NCLB's annual testing regimen in reading and math and public reporting of disaggregated student achievement data, it allows states to build their own accountability systems, which can include measures of student growth.

«Academies, reading, teachers «progress, IT underused and evidence ignored» Professor Robert Cassen, expert in social policy and social exclusion at the LSE, on some policy challenges emerging from Ofsted «s annual report Academies Addressing the social achievement gap needs many initiatives, including some for school improvement.