Our approval and vetting process is designed to find member schools and networks that are committed to recruiting, enrolling, and serving a diverse and integrated student body reflective of their broader community with respect to characteristics such as race / ethnicity, socioeconomic status, English
language learner status, and disability.
Despite these successes, Reville could not shake an uncomfortable truth: the overall achievements of Massachusetts students masked large gaps on every measure of performance that correlated strongly with socioeconomic status, race / ethnicity, disability, and English
language learner status.
The percentages for both certified and experienced teachers in both groups of data, however, did not appear to vary by student disability status, English
language learner status, or grade level.
IQ and other standardized tests produce results that can be skewed by background cultural knowledge,
language learner status and racial and social privilege.
Most states now combine student subgroups, previously identified by race, ethnicity, economic disadvantage, special education, and English
language learner status, into opaque «super-subgroups» that are very purposefully less transparent.
The Massachusetts Students Information Management System (SIMS) contains information on all Massachusetts public school students» race, ethnicity, sex, reduced - price lunch status, special education status, English -
language learner status, town of residence, and current school.
Yet, much of that work depends on a simple, often unstated, assumption: that the short list of control variables captured in educational data systems — prior achievement, student demographics, English
language learner status, eligibility for federally subsidized meals or programs for gifted and special education students — include the relevant factors by which students are sorted to teachers and schools.
In student - based allocation models, dollars follow students and are tied to student characteristics, such as poverty or English
language learner status.
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status as the world
language of science presents challenges and opportunities to native speakers and English
learners.
English's
status as the world
language of science presents challenges and opportunities to native speakers and English
learners.
Our challenges are clear and they line up with socioeconomic
status, students with disabilities, and English
language learners.
For Science and the Arts to be engaged with fully by all in a community, disenfranchisement of
learners through differences in gender,
language, religious / ethnic background, social economic
status or disability need to be acknowledged and supported.
Specifically, we calculate growth for schools based on math scores while taking into account students» prior performance in both math and communication arts; characteristics that include race, gender, free or reduced - price lunch eligibility (FRL), English -
language -
learner status, special education
status, mobility
status, and grade level; and school - wide averages of these student characteristics.
For example, adjusting for English
language learner (ELL)
status means that each score reflects the performance the state's ELL students relative to ELL students nationwide.
Aggregate child - level assessment data means the data collected by an agency on the
status and progress of the children it serves that have been combined to provide summary information about groups of children enrolled in specific classrooms, centers, home - based or other options, groups or settings, or other groups of children such as dual
language learners, or to provide summary information by specific domains of development.
Supplemental Table 1: Demonstrates that students who won lotteries for SSCs and students who did not are virtually identical on all measured characteristics, including race / ethnicity, gender, poverty
status, eighth - grade reading and math proficiency, and English
language learner and special education
status.
The percentage of proficient students within various subgroups, broken out by ethnicity, income, disability, and English -
language -
learner status, must also meet these same targets.
When we adjusted the gains made by students in each school to take into account a wide variety of individual and peer - group background characteristics, such as ethnicity, English
language -
learner status, family income, and student mobility rates, the yardstick's performance actually worsened.
In the development of the formula, the commissioner shall consider other factors such as a student's attendance record, disability
status, or
status as an English
language learner.
Teachers can also select from dropdowns to filter the data by grade level, subject, test year or student subgroups such as ethnicity or English -
language learner or disability
status.
In California, for example, a recent study linking child welfare and education data found a previously «invisible achievement gap» between children in foster care and other students, including students with low socioeconomic
status, English
language learners, and students with disabilities.
For example, a 2010 New York state charter school law requiring charter schools to mimic the demographics of the surrounding neighborhood — implemented to address gaps in English
language learner and special education enrollment at charter schools — might mean, if enforced, that a school in upper Manhattan's District 6 would need to enroll a student population in which 98 percent are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, a commonly used measure of low - income
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status, primary
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Learner status, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic that is contained in the definition of hate crimes set forth in section 422.55 of the Penal Code, or any other information that would violate federal or state law, prior to admission, participation in any admissions or attendance lottery, or pre-enrollment event or process, or as a condition of admission or enrollment.
Snow said she'd like to see more meaningful measures of how schools are closing the achievement gap for English
learners, such as how quickly a student is able to move out of English -
learner status, or finding a way to measure content knowledge without their
language limitation being a factor in the score.
Results are provided for groups of students defined by shared characteristics — race or ethnicity, gender, eligibility for free / reduced - price school lunch, highest level of parental education, type of school, charter school, type of school location, region of the country,
status as students with disabilities, and
status as students identified as English
language learners.
Race / ethnicity and English -
language -
learner (ELL)
status are inadequate proxies for immigrant
status, but this brief illustrates that students from immigrant families are a group that requires researchers», policy makers», and educators» attention.This brief draws on interviews conducted with 47 eighth grade students and 27 parents during the 2008 - 09 school year, including 25 students from immigrant families and 16 immigrant parents.
The school's score is as much proof that kids can learn despite their socioeconomic level and English -
language -
learner status as it is an endorsement of Hiawatha per se.
Continuing the chat from the previous week, this week's conversation will focus on how all - inclusive learning environments can address race, social - economic
status, gender communities, mental health, and English
language learners.
They must also be able to disaggregate the data they use to determine interventions by race and ethnicity, disability
status, English
language learners, and income.
There are two kinds of supergroups that are dominating state plans so far: 1) «high - need» groups, which lump together students who have been historically underserved, including students of color, low - income students, students with disabilities, and English
learners; and 2) «lowest performing» groups, which include students in the bottom 25 percent or 30 percent of achievement within their school, regardless of demographics, English
language proficiency, or disability
status.
Schools must still test all students annually in grades 3 through 8, and those results must still be made public and broken out by subgroups including race, socio - economic
status, English
language learners and special education students.