Sentences with phrase «increasing reading proficiency»

They recommend that independent reading libraries should be developed with student input as the critical resource for increasing reading proficiency.

Levels of increasing reading proficiency are shown here, with the lowest level at the bottom and the highest at the top.

Overall, early elementary black students increased reading proficiency and growth in elementary grades with a 10 percent increase in reading proficiency for third grade in two years, according to the report.

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Even worse, across all cohort - one schools, the average reading - proficiency increase was a mere five points — a cost of one billion dollars for each point of improvement in reading proficiency.

After three years of relatively flat and sometimes declining test scores, K12, Inc.'s full - time students appear to have increased their proficiency levels in both reading and math, even as K12, Inc. serves a population with 62 percent of its student eligible for free - and - reduced price lunch, compared to 49 percent nationally.

Although the increases were most significant in the lower grades, the number of seventh - grade students with limited English proficiency who scored above the 50th percentile also increased — by 2 percent in language, reading, and spelling and by 3 percent in math.

Standards - based reform was fed by three factors: increased expectations for learning beyond high school, which led to a focus on college readiness for all; the availability of reliable and cheap measures of student proficiency in reading and math; and the push for teacher and school accountability.

The biggest gains occurred in high schools, where student proficiency increased by 30 points in reading and 34 points in math.

During the last four years of her tenure, special education student proficiency on state reading and math assessments increased between 13 and 34 points at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

Meanwhile, average proficiency rates in a matched set of comparison schools increased by lesser amounts, 9 percentage points in reading and 13 percentage points in math (although the Edison advantage is statistically significant only in math).»

«For every one percent of a public school's students who leave for a charter,» concludes Mr. Winters, «reading proficiency among those who remain increases by about 0.02 standard deviations, a small but not insignificant number, in view of the widely held suspicion that the impact on local public schools... would be negative.»

We support policies, practices, and funding to strengthen the state's early childhood system, with the goals of dramatically increasing school readiness, improving third grade reading and math proficiency, supporting families, and ultimately building a strong workforce for Kentucky's future.

Likewise, DPS elementary schools in the DSSN increased their math proficiency rate by 18 percentage points and their reading proficiency rate by 11 percentage points over the course or two years.

The Kentucky Department of Education recently set a goal of reducing gaps to proficiency by half by 2030 which will require increasing 3rd grade proficiency and beyond for at least an additional 4,800 children in reading and 6,300 children in math by 2020.

Black students and Hispanic students saw increases of 9 percentage points in reading proficiency for grades 3 - 5 over four years, white students and English language learners saw a 13 percentage - point rise, and multiracial students saw an 11 percentage - point increase.

Among all district students in grades 3 - 5, reading proficiency as measured by the standard Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) exam was up 9 percentage points over four years to 45 percent, including a 3 percentage - point increase over the past two years.

Sanfelippo said Thursday the state's education «statistics don't match the rhetoric» from Evers that schools are improving overall — pointing to DPI data that show reading proficiency among the state's students has increased 2 percentage points since 2005.

As an example, between 2005 and 2015, Kentucky's 4th - grade reading proficiency on the National Assessment of Educational Progress increased:

Standardized test scores showed a schoolwide increase in reading proficiency.

And it raised the importance of the National Assessment, requiring the Department of Education to increase the frequency of its administration in math and reading to once every two years, to help Americans monitor progress toward the goals of universal proficiency and the elimination of the achievement gap.

Scores increased only marginally for eighth graders and not at all for fourth graders, continuing a sluggish six - year trend of slowing achievement growth since passage of the law, which requires schools to bring 100 percent of students to reading and math proficiency by 2014.

Data from 700 of the 850 schools that participated in the program during the 2010 — 11 school year reveal that about one in four schools experienced double - digit increases in math proficiency and about one in five schools posted double - digit increases in reading proficiency.

End - of - year assessments in 2015 revealed a 22 % increase in reading proficiency for grades K — 3 and a 21.6 % increase in math proficiency for grades 3 — 5.

Overall, fewer than half of students in any of the grades highlighted were considered proficient in reading or math, but all three grades also showed increases in proficiency in both subjects since the 2012 - 13 school year.

In just our first year of using Accelerated Reader 360, we've experienced tremendous success, including increased English language arts proficiency and an unprecedented enthusiasm for reading across the school.

Overall, students» proficiency in reading increased by 15 percent and 11 percent in math during the school year, according to the report.

Empowering Writers provides teachers with instructional methods proven to develop sustained writing proficiency, support higher levels of reading comprehension and increase student literacy as a whole.

Lack of proficiency in reading and writing in social studies is exacerbated by the fact that schools are spending far less time on social studies instruction in the face of increasing pressure to improve standardized test scores in reading and mathematics (Manzo, 2005).

By 2020, literacy grantees will provide evidence - based interventions and support services to a minimum of 2,500 K - 3 public school students, stronger systems will be in place to support schools to strategically partner with effective and appropriate interventions, and early literacy will be reflected in community priorities and investments, with the shared goal of increasing third grade reading proficiency to 85 %.

Positive movement on our community indicators indicates increased likelihood of achieving Read Charlotte's goal of 80 % third grade reading proficiency by 2025.

Although fidelity of implementation monitoring has shown Science IDEAS classrooms to be affectively positive, this advanced component student motivation strategy is designed to make the linkage between conceptual learning in science (or increasing proficiency in reading comprehension) and student recognition of achievement progress more explicit on a continuing basis.

In the summer of 2015, South Berwyn, Illinois, a district where 100 % of students are eligible for free or reduced lunch and 90 % are English language learners, defied the odds and not only avoided summer slide but experienced a significant increase in reading proficiency.

«I think our track record is pretty good,» Evers said, citing decreased suspensions and expulsions, increased number of students taking college - level courses while still in high school and modest increases in reading proficiency.

Reports from the 2013 - 2014 school year revealed that students» reading and math proficiency rates have increased steadily since 2007 across every demographic.

Denise Juneau, Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction, said her office doesn't have the capacity to assist an increasing number of schools, so she froze the proficiency bar for Montana schools at the 2010 levels of 83 % for reading and 68 % for math — a violation of federal law.

In fairness, New London did make small but steady gains in most grades & subjects that averaged about a 1.5 % increase in math proficiency, no change in reading, and 4 % increase in writing.

She has led LAMB to continuous growth in proficiency in third grade reading with an average of 8 % increase in student achievement in mathematics, an overall in - seat attendance rate of 94 %, 1 % out - of - school suspension rate for violence and 0 % expulsion rate.»

The companies are working together to provide personalized reading instruction to help educators increase students» literacy comprehension and proficiency.

The company's curricular solutions and professional development are designed to ensure that every student can read, write, discuss, think, investigate, and solve problems at ever - increasing levels of proficiency.

This is due in large part to federal school classification requirements, which were specific by design to label and differentiate treatment of schools based on whether they met annual reading and math proficiency targets.2 This often led to narrow or simple pass / fail categorization systems based on schools meeting incrementally increasing state targets for test scores and graduation rates.

Interventions That Increase Children's Access to Print Material and Improve Their Reading Proficiencies 3.

Since implementing the universal screening in English / Language Arts using Accucess two years ago, proficiency ratings on the state test have increased 7 percentage points in reading and have held at a steady 86 % in writing.

But between 2007 and 2013, proficiency rates in math and reading increased 18 percentage points on the DC tests, including a four point gain in the past year, to 51 percent.

As a result, all students read, write, discuss, think, investigate, and solve problems at ever - increasing levels of proficiency.

Increased over 220 elementary students» English proficiency by assessing reading, writing, listening, and speaking

«It is unacceptable to have the gap in reading proficiency rates between low - income and high - income children increase by nearly 20 percent over the last decade.

African American and Latino children are seeing increases in reading and math proficiencies, but still hail from some of the poorest communities and households in the U.S., McCarthy said.