Sentences with phrase «incoming academic performance of their students»

«[T] he context in which teachers work — most notably, the incoming academic performance of their students — plays a critical role in determining teachers» performance» as measured by teacher observations.

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In a series of experiments, Cohen, Walton, and Yeager have shown the power of what seem to be small - scale mindset interventions — watching a brief video of an older student talking about his struggles with belonging, or reading a magazine article that presents a growth - mindset perspective on brain development — to significantly improve the academic performance of students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat, including low - income students and African - American students.

It is persistently at the bottom of most national rankings for academic performance and students» well - being, and faces daunting challenges: nearly three quarters of students are from low - income families and some 16 percent have limited English language proficiency.

It improves the academic performance of the low - income, mostly minority students who use scholarships to attend private schools, and also that of their peers who stay in the public schools.

A similar study of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) found that for every $ 1000 increase in family annual income over two to five years, student academic performance, including test scores, impIncome Tax Credit (EITC) found that for every $ 1000 increase in family annual income over two to five years, student academic performance, including test scores, impincome over two to five years, student academic performance, including test scores, improves.

It lays out a blueprint for addressing three of the most intractable challenges facing college applicants today: excessive academic performance pressure, the emphasis on personal achievement over good citizenship, and the uneven opportunities available to students of varying income levels and backgrounds.

A few reasons they might be classified as at - risk students include: high number of absences, single - parent home, low academic performance or low - income family.

Aspire's mission is to open and operate small, high - quality charter schools in low - income neighborhoods, in order to increase the academic performance of underserved students, develop effective educators, share successful practices with other forward - thinking educators, and to catalyze change in public schools.

In his study, Douglas N. Harris of the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans argues that while many of the lowest - income and minority students did not return to New Orleans after Katrina for a variety of reasons, academic performance in the city schools rose among those who remained.

In designing the program, LISC tried to aim for schools with good academic performance and a high ratio of low - income students.

SAT scores and GPAs are important measures of the academic abilities of incoming prospective teachers, but they are only moderate predictors of later teaching performance.13 Both teacher preparation programs and alternative certification programs are beginning to search for other traits and dispositions that may be better predictors of teachers» abilities to drive student learning once in the classroom.

MarylandCAN chose to focus on Baltimore, a district that arguably faces the biggest hurdles in the state: high concentrations of low - income students and a history of poor academic performance.

The public website features the academic performance of students from low - income families in 213 of the 300 largest cities in America, according to school - age population, and which had available data.

The Broad Prize awards $ 250,000 to the large public charter school system that has demonstrated the best overall academic performance while closing achievement gaps and serving low - income students and students of color.

The Broad Prize for Urban Education and The Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools were created to recognize the public school systems that show the greatest academic performance and improvement while reducing achievement gaps among low - income students and students of color.

The prize awards $ 250,000 to the public charter network that, according to a press release, «has demonstrated the best overall academic performance while closing achievement gaps and serving low - income students and students of color.

This, combined with the fact that there is a directly negative relationship between residential mobility and student academic performance, particularly for students in low - income or single - parent families (Scanlon and Devine), shows how mobility patterns based on a long history of housing segregation can have direct impacts on individual students before they even affect institutional matters like funding.

Teachers and schools are no longer able to hide behind school averages in performance, and are now having to answer for the low academic performance of students of color and low - income students.

Data collected by the National Center for Education Statistics show that 51 % of students across US public schools were from low - income families in 2013.1 Socioeconomic disparities in school readiness and academic performance are well documented.