Sentences with phrase «into higher student achievement»

But the ASD impact extends beyond Memphis, and it is translating into higher student achievement in Priority schools — those in the bottom 5 % — across Tennessee.

A CDW - G national survey found that most teachers believe the use of computer technology translates into higher student achievement and improved parent - teacher communication.

Not exact matches

A new report from the Royal Society on improving U.K. science and mathematics education contains a lengthy wish list: Upper - level students should take a lot more science and math; more college graduates with science degrees should go into teaching; current teachers should continually upgrade their skills and have a larger voice in the educational process; and the government should de-emphasize the high - stakes tests used to measure student achievement.

For high schools: accelerated or dual coursework (like AP or IB); share of students completeing a world language, fine arts, CTE or advanced course; share of students showing college or career readiness through entrance into technical college, or achievement on various advanced courses.

Since No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was enacted into federal law in 2002, states have been required to test students in grades 3 through 8 and again in high school to assess math and reading achievement.

If the state had turned the MEAP into a high - stakes exam by making high - school graduation contingent on passing it, this would have affected only those students at the bottom of the achievement curve.

The study, part of the Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series at Harvard University, found that students moving from grade 5 into middle school show a «sharp drop» in math and language arts achievement in the transition year that plagues them as far out as 10th grade, even risking thwarting their ability to graduate high school and...

That means putting money into initiatives that will bring achievement for all students: historically low performers, who must be able to compete in a world that demands higher skills; average students, who need to care more about their studies if they are going to succeed; and top students, who will drive the country's future innovations.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

As part of the Strategic Data Project's (SDP) first Institute for Leadership Analytics, participants spent four days examining student achievement data as a means to understand students» progress through high school and into college, and patterns of teacher effectiveness.

At the top, honors students fret not about boredom or weak achievement, but about the stress that attends all that cramming and homework as they compete for entry into high - status universities.

Governor Patrick and his education secretary Paul Reville should be praised for their efforts to transform the public education system into one that works for and promotes high achievement for all students.

These observations should be of concern because the evidence is clear that the world's highest - performing nations in international achievement studies consistently attract more able people into teaching, resulting in better student outcomes.

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.

Embedding writing instruction, as well as opportunities to write, into all content areas is key to improving student achievement at the middle and high school levels.

The Harvard study mostly attributed the growth in student achievement in English to reforms that moved students into higher - performing schools, such as closing low - performing schools and expanding charter schools.

take into account data on student growth as a significant factor as well as other factors, such as multiple observation - based assessments of performance and ongoing collections of professional practice reflective of student achievement and increased high school graduation rates; and

Our results confirm that transitions into both middle schools and high schools cause drops in student achievement but that these effects are far larger for students entering middle schools.

But when it came to the highest achievement quartile, if you like the students who have the greatest possibility of easily making it into university, there was a really stark difference between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.

But, it raises profound challenges to the interpretation of score trends on high - stakes tests, to the meaning of achievement trend and gap reports in terms of percent proficient, to the interpretation of crossnational achievement comparisons, and to popular assumptions about testing of students in special populations (including some assumptions written into law).

An evaluation of the Apollo 20 program found that infusing these high - performing charter school best practices into HISD schools had a statistically significant effect on math achievement that rivals student - achievement gains in math of high - performing charter schools.

As Oklahoma continues to lose its teachers to surrounding higher - paying states, students see a revolving door of educators entering and leaving their school — a process that research shows hurts student achievement.56 Instead of loosening requirements for entry into the profession to solve this problem, the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) assembled a Teacher Shortage Task Force to implement changes that would strengthen the teacher pipeline, thereby bolstering recruitment and retention efforts in the state.

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77 This reform has translated into strong achievement gains for both low - and high - income students in the district.78

CEI works with schools with persistently low achievement to help them transform into high - functioning educational institutions with vibrant and engaging learning environments capable of advancing learning for all students.

When you look deeper into the data, you see that underserved students in high - performing schools still suffer from an achievement gap.

Ensuring accountability by guaranteeing that when students fall behind, states redirect resources into what works to help them and their schools improve, with a particular focus on the very lowest performing schools, high schools with high dropout rates, and schools with achievement gaps.

There is no shortage of research being conducted into the benefits of gifted education in urban settings and lots of evidence of the achievement gap between high and low socio - economic high performing students.

Many teachers are already doing much of what goes into producing an SGO: working in collaborative groups to address questions surrounding student achievement, using high - quality assessments, differentiating instruction and setting goals based on student readiness, and teaching a curriculum aligned to state standards.

While there is not a clear causal effect between a teacher's own academic record and his or her ability to achieve the kinds of learning gains that help students excel, most studies do find a correlation between higher GPA and teacher effectiveness.43 Taken in aggregate with other factors, such as experience and rank of undergraduate school, some studies have found larger positive impacts, especially for math achievement.44 For this reason, a high GPA should not be the only factor that determines entry into the profession.

But the focus belongs on propelling students into the higher categories of achievement, the best indicator of a successful high school experience.

Thomson Elementary School is a rigorous and multicultural environment where students grow into global citizens with a sense of inquiry, values and a desire for high academic achievement.

Thomson Elementary School is a rigorous multi-cultural environment where students grow into global citizens possessing a sense of inquiry, values, and a desire for high academic achievement.

Many schools inadvertently foster low achievement by sorting some students into high - quality instruction while relegating others to lower - quality education.

Although it may seem as though having more assessments will mean we are more accurately estimating student achievement, the use of multiple measures does not, by itself, translate into high - quality evidence.

If there is a need to group students by ability, teachers can organize students into heterogeneous grouping mixing students with different abilities or into homogenous groups with students in separate groups based on high, medium, or low academic achievement.

Given that defined - benefit pensions (along with near - free healthcare benefits, near - lifetime employment rules in the form of tenure, and seniority - and degree - based pay scales) have been proven to be ineffective in either spurring improvements in student achievement, are a disincentive in rewarding high - quality work by teachers (who get the same levels of compensation as laggard colleagues), and actually serve as a disincentive to luring math and science collegians into teaching, it is high time to scrap this and other aspects of traditional teacher compensation.

Additionally, because of the summer slide in mathematics and growing math achievement gap between high and low - income students, those fears may become a reality, tossing some students into a vicious cycle of math avoidance, poor preparation, and further math failures.

The study, which analysed the results of different methods of teaching maths in three American high schools, found that an approach that involved students not being divided into ability groups, but being given a shared responsibility for each other's learning, led to a significant improvement in the achievements of high and low achieving students.

Austin, TX — Over seventy delegates from six communities around the Central Texas region composed of students, teachers, administrators, higher education, community and business leaders are convening next week to create a historic plan for closing achievement gaps that will feed into a 21st century blueprint to bring about educational change in Central Texas.

They selected the top three public charter systems — Achievement First, IDEA Public Schools and KIPP Schools — and ultimately found that KIPP Schools deserved recognition for its ability to provide a high - quality education to students across the country, particularly noting the network's ability to scale, adapt to new locations and pursue continuous innovation by bringing technology into the classroom.

Demographics are not destiny in student achievement, according to an expert who spoke at NSBA's pre-conference session on Friday called «Disrupting Poverty: Turning High - Poverty Schools into High - Performing Schools.»

A leader who can singularly focus on student achievement within a positive, high energy culture that brings all educators in the building into the vision

When I began incorporating basic instruction about the brain into my classes and teaching simple activities to improve brain processing, students not only became more engaged and confident, but they also began changing their study practices in ways that paid off in higher achievement.

Additionally, ESSA requires states to annually test 95 percent of students in reading and math, to use the participation rate to calculate the achievement indicator, and to factor assessment participation into the statewide accountability system another way.21 For example, four states — Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Vermont — plan to lower a school's classification for not meeting this requirement.22 In three states — Illinois, Nevada, and Tennessee — schools that do not have a 95 percent participation rate can not score at the highest level of proficiency; receive zero points for proficiency; or receive an F on the achievement indicator for the given group of students, respectively.23

During Dr. George McKenna's tenure as prinicpal of Washington Prepratory High School in South Los Angeles, students, parents, and community members witnessed the transformation of an inner - city high school that had been torn by violence, low achievement, and lack of community confidence into a school with an attendance waiting list and nearly 80 % of the graduates enrolled in collHigh School in South Los Angeles, students, parents, and community members witnessed the transformation of an inner - city high school that had been torn by violence, low achievement, and lack of community confidence into a school with an attendance waiting list and nearly 80 % of the graduates enrolled in collhigh school that had been torn by violence, low achievement, and lack of community confidence into a school with an attendance waiting list and nearly 80 % of the graduates enrolled in college.

These indicators are grouped into the following seven categories: student enrollment and demographics; dropout rate and high school completion; student attendance, suspensions and expulsions; elementary and middle school student achievement; high school performance; youth labor force participation; and youth civic engagement.

That year, the group established their first school, Amistad Academy, in what would eventually grow into Achievement First (AF), a network of 32 high - performing public charter schools in five cities serving nearly 12,000 students.

At a time when school leaders are trying to translate urgent calls for higher achievement into actions that work, Align the Design provides expert guidance and practical tools that will help educators work more purposefully together to create better schools for their students.

Now, the new teacher evaluation system that is being introduced by the State, the City, and the Talent Management Pilot Program, does not take into consideration the time and effort our community has invested in establishing high quality educational programs and student achievement.