Sentences with phrase «including attendance rates»

Many teaching tools used in classrooms are granting private companies access to personal student data, including attendance rates, grades and disciplinary records.

Legislators should demand better tracking of truancy, and include attendance rates in school accountability measurements.

The Legislature should also include attendance rates in the state's school accountability program.

California's newly adopted school accountability system includes attendance rates as one of the performance measures that schools will be evaluated on.

Not exact matches

(Indicators could include graduation rates, student attendance, suspension rates and parent, family and teacher engagement.)

Since the mid-1990s, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) has required all districts to submit data that include demographic information, attendance rates, and behavioral outcomes, yearly test scores in math and reading for grades 3 through 8, and subject - specific tests for higher grades.

Our outcome measures include Stanford Achievement Test scores and attendance rates, both of which are drawn from administrative data provided by the district.

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

To explore these questions, we studied the 29 high school closures begun between 2003 and 2009 in New York City to determine the degree to which a closure affected a range of student outcomes, including graduation rates, mobility, attendance, and academic performance.

The outcomes we analyzed included: attendance, chronic absenteeism, mobility, graduation rates, diploma type, and credits earned.

Our data on students» adult outcomes include earnings, college attendance, college quality (measured by the earnings of previous graduates of the same college), neighborhood quality (measured by the percentage of college graduates in their zip code), teenage birth rates for females (measured by claiming a dependent born when the woman was still a teenager), and retirement savings (measured by contributions to 401 [k] plans).

What if there were schools where attendance is in the top five per cent nationally, as are their test results, and Ofsted rates them Outstanding in all areas, including for welfare, behaviour and personal development?

In Michigan, for instance, the new chief state school officer recently replaced the test - focused accountability system with a new grading system that relies on a broader set of measures of school quality, including family involvement, the quality of professional development, attendance, and dropout rates, among others.

Schools, teachers, and administrators are evaluated based on a series of performance indicators, including staff and student attendance, student performance on assessment tests, graduation and remediation rates, and the amount of contact with...

The school's results are nothing short of superlative: BINcA has consistently bested state averages in academic measures across the board, including post-secondary attendance and graduation rates.

Some of those factors include student attendance, teacher working conditions, student discipline such as suspensions, and rate of English fluency for non-native English speaking students.

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.

The 20,914 resulting home visits have led to many positive results, according to the project's Sacramento - area director Lisa Levasseur, including not only better communication, trust and support between families and teachers but also increases in student attendance rates and test scores, and decreases in suspension and expulsion rates.

This week's brief includes new research from a February 2018 study that found «that the implementation of DACA significantly improved attendance and graduation rates among Hispanic high school students, with the gap in high school completion between undocumented Hispanic young people and their citizen peers shrinking by 40 percent.

As Angirst, et al, Dobbie and Fryer, and Tuttle, et al show, a bunch of charter schools with large achievement test gains, including Boston «no - excuses» schools, Harlem Promise Academy, and KIPP, have produced little or nothing in terms of high school graduation and college - attendance rates.

Quantitative yearly data over a three - year period (2007 - 2010) of implementation includes a 40 % dropout decrease from 87 to 52 students, a district attendance rate of 97.26 %, a decrease in district discipline referrals from 4,671 to 1,997, and a 35 % decrease in out - of - school suspensions / expulsions.

A school's score is based on a numerous factors, including student progress as measured by the average growth in state test scores (PARCC) of individual students from one year to the next, the percentage of students who scored College and Career Ready or Approaching on the PARCC, school attendance rates, and school re-enrollment rates.

Compton Unified School District improved its daily attendance rate by employing new strategies including improving communication between school and home and monitoring truancy and attendance in real - time.

In the Central Valley and across the country, the Parent Home Visit Project is offering a different model of family engagement that has led to many positive results including better communication between school and home, and improvements in student attendance rates and test scores.

Demonstrated outcomes of Check & Connect include: increased attendance, persistence in school, accrual of credits and school completion rates; and decreased truancy, tardies, behavioral referrals and dropout rates.

Performance metrics include high school graduation; completion of the Smart Core curriculum, the state's college and career readiness curriculum; college attendance rates; remediation rates; and application for financial aid.

After learning more about the school and looking in - depth at disaggregated student outcomes disaggregated by race and free and reduced lunch eligibility (including test scores and attendance and retention rates) for the last few years, you decide to write a memo that you will submit to the leadership team to enhance the expertise of the faculty to teach and engage diverse students effectively.

A report by a Washington think tank about a California virtual charter run by the company found a series of problems, including dramatically lower test scores than traditional public schools, startling high dropout rates, questionable attendance figures and a host of other problems.

«There is ample research showing that positive school climates will increase several aspects of student success, including school attendance, academic achievement and graduation rates.»

These teams took on challenges including increasing school attendance rates, building better relationships between teachers and students, and improving the ways students are taught, as well as the kinds of things they are learning.

Teachers and administrators at each school will join forces to share professional development and mentoring, including access to ASU faculty, a self - paced digital curriculum for students, and other resources in an effort to boost student achievement, graduation rates and college attendance.

Internal ISBE discussions led to the discovery that the average daily attendance being used to calculate tuition rates included charter school students, Matthews said.

The Los Angeles pact proposes to do that using a unique mix of individual and schoolwide testing data — including state standardized test scores, high school exit exams and district assessments, along with rates of attendance, graduation and suspensions.

The fifth indicator, vaguely titled «other academic indicators» is 10 % and includes graduation, promotion, and attendance rates.

The other half will come from metrics including the graduation rate, attendance rate and, primarily, test scores.

On Track to Graduate: Includes two components, graduation rates for high schools or attendance rate for other schools, and a set of measures including third - grade reading scores, eighth - grade math scores and ACT participation and performance, as applicable to the school.

Supt. John Deasy and the board have together brought an unrelenting focus on poor children of color and there has been much progress as a result of his leadership including increased graduation and attendance rates, increases in the numbers of African American and Latino students taking Advanced Placement courses and exams, and reduced suspensions along with an overhaul of the school discipline policy.

Research on child development and outcomes in out - of - school time highlights the many benefits these programs have for students including achievement in the areas of literacy, STEM, school day attendance, career and college readiness, and graduation rates.

Furthermore, education can't have a simple win / loss record due to its complexity: it should include academic measures, attendance and turnover rates of students and teachers, community involvement, and more.

The district has implemented several key initiatives to successfully reduce their chronic absence rates including their innovative use of Teachers on Special Assignment (TOSA) as dedicated attendance liaisons.

We chose the schools based on several factors, including recommendations from experts and high standardized test scores as well as attendance and graduation rates.

The schools are now collaborating in new ways to address challenges and share successes, which include increases in student attendance and graduation rates.

Schools earn a rating on a 1 - to - 10 scale in multiple categories, including student performance in ELA, math, and science, in addition to student attendance, school incidents, and college matriculation.

Released in September 2013 and updated in September 2014, this brief describes the steps that states can take to reduce chronic absence including: building public awareness, tracking and publicly reporting chronic absence rates for schools and districts, using attendance as a metric in school improvement efforts, sharing best practices with educators and parents, and enabling interagency efforts among schools, public agencies and community groups.

For students to experience lasting benefits from attending summer programs, the report recommends that districts: run programs for at least five weeks; promote high attendance; include sufficient instructional time and protect it; invest in instructional quality; and factor in attendance and likely no - show rates when staffing the programs in order to lower per - student costs.

Historically, indicators including academic proficiency rates and graduation rates have widely varying performance from school to school, while indicators such as attendance rates typically have the same performance across all schools.

For students to experience lasting benefits from attending summer programs, the report recommends that districts run programs for at least five weeks, promote consistent attendance, include sufficient instructional time and protect it, invest in instructional quality, and factor in attendance and likely no - show rates when staffing the programs in order to lower per - student costs.

In SY 14 - 15 and SY 15 - 16, outcomes included significant increases in student and faculty attendance, reduction in chronic absences and suspension rates, increases in family events and participation rates, improved scores on staff, student and community feedback surveys, and academic increases.

A three - year district profile that includes student test scores, teacher evaluation data, dropout rates, minority college attendance rates, demographics in Advanced Placement / IB classes, and other key indicators of district performance.

«To help as many students as possible reap these benefits, the study suggests that districts run summer programs for at least five weeks, include sufficient time on academics, and focus on the challenge of achieving high attendance rates.»