Sentences with phrase «largest impact on student»

«Research shows that, other than teachers, principals have the largest impact on student learning in schools,» said NISL CEO Jason Dougal.

Of all school factors — from extended learning opportunities to family and community engagement to smaller class sizes — teachers exert the largest impact on student achievement.

Now that we know that the preschool programs that are part of DPP are doing well as a group, it's time to take a closer look at which ones are having the largest impact on student learning in early elementary grades.

First, as is widely recognized, teachers and principals have the largest impact on student performance, implying leverage on the achievement side of the efficiency equation.

Rather, we found that the particular charter schools in the Boston area (especially those that were part of the lottery study) seem to be having large impacts on student achievement.

Another reason for the proliferation of the myth on learning styles is the publication of meta - analysis which showed a large impact on students» learning from teachers using specific learning styles.

Moreover, the best available evidence shows that KIPP produces large impacts on students in their first year at a KIPP school — before late - entering students could possibly have any effect.

While the public discussion around college usually focuses on the price paid by students, recent work by economists David Deming and Chris Walters suggests that declines in the amount colleges and universities spend may have a larger impact on student outcomes.

The by - products of policy — not just education policy, but immigration policy, for example — had a large impact on students before they even got into the classroom.

Compared to teachers, who have a larger impact on student achievement, superintendents had little.

In a new three - part webinar series, CEL experts and central office leaders share tested strategies on how central offices can support principals better and with a larger impact on student learning.

Research has found that teachers» qualifications, academic preparation, and high performance on standardized tests can have a positive effect on teacher quality.31 Teachers» experience levels can also have a large impact on student success.

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«The student loan debt crisis is having a serious impact on our economy, the largest since the mortgage foreclosure crisis,» contends Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, whose office has been tracking the student loan industry for years and drafted the bill that Rauner spiked.

Some board members cited the large number of students of color in the city school district and the impact the comments will have on them, as well as the poor example they set.

The large number of test refusals had an impact on teacher evaluations last school year, with student growth on state exams making up 20 percent of a teacher's rating.

It is also possible that students who attend college in small towns make a larger, or more noticeable, impact on their surroundings as a consequence of their drinking and that these consequences can be more easily attributed to college - student drinking in smaller compared to larger towns.

It includes recommendations to provide direct funding incentives in the PBF model for the success of one or more at - risk student groups, to introduce measures that wouldn't punish institutions for experimenting with new programs to increase student success, and to better understand the impact of PBF on community colleges before a larger proportion of state funds are tied to the model.

«There hasn't been a large - scale assessment of just the simple full topographic impact of mountaintop mining, which occupies more than 10 percent of the land in the region we studied,» said Matthew Ross, an ecology PhD student and lead author on the study.

The decision to terminate the 2017 program has significant impacts on partners and the large number of graduate students involved.

Gladstone touches the lives of budding scientists through a number of outreach programs, but its most considerable impact is on the large number of students who visit Gladstone every summer as part of the National Student Leadership Conference (NSLC).

The New York Times reported that the study is the largest to address the controversial «value - added ratings,» which measure the impact individual teachers have on student test scores.

Consequently, the movement of a single student from one sector to another has a much larger impact on the proportion of students with IEPs enrolled in charter schools than on the proportion of students with IEPs enrolled in district schools.

Becca, the largest impact of federal stimulus money for CCSD has been on improving student achievement.

The $ 6 billion funding for the federal Reading First program has helped more students «crack the code» to identify letters and words, but it has not had an impact on reading comprehension among 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders in participating schools, according to one of the largest and most rigorous studies ever undertaken by the U.S. Department of Education.

While the impact of vouchers on African American students was large, the impact of a voucher offer on the college enrollment rate of Hispanic students was found to be a statistically insignificant 2 percentage points.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A study showing the large impacts that highly skilled teachers have on students» academic achievement and lifetime earnings is available on the Education Next website, www.educationnext.org.

We chose to convert the money to pennies because of the visual impact a very large collection of pennies might have on our students.

Importantly, the schools attended by students in our sample include both open - enrollment public schools operated by the local school district and five over-subscribed charter schools that have been shown to have large, positive impacts on student achievement as measured by state math and English language arts tests.

Providing students with the means to broaden their horizons has a large impact on their ability to think outside the box.

Figure 2 also shows that schools with smaller percentages of their students on scholarships have larger positive impacts on college enrollment rates.

«SDP represents a unique opportunity to build on this foundation, by working even more closely with districts and states to impact student achievement on a large scale.»

The Urban study also finds evidence that schools that serve a smaller percentage of FTC students have larger positive impacts on college enrollment than schools where a majority of students are on scholarship.

Several rigorous studies have confirmed that many KIPP middle schools have large, positive impacts on student performance on math and reading tests.

Even when attrition and replacement throughout the middle school years are taken into account, the limited range of potential peer effects at KIPP schools does not explain the large cumulative impacts on student achievement identified by prior studies.

Perhaps the largest long - term impact of the Coleman Report has been its effect on elite opinion about the contribution schools make to student achievement.

In other words, qualitative differences among teachers have large impacts on the growth in student achievement, even though these differences are not related to the measured background characteristics or to the training teachers have received.

Finally, we project for each state the large positive impact that improvements in student achievement would have on a state's GDP (See Figure 1).

Tom Payzant, the veteran superintendent who heads up Boston Public Schools, says large school districts get funding from a variety of philanthropic organizations, but he has had to work hard to persuade these funders to align their efforts to support a system - wide vision of how to improve education and avoid contributing to what he calls «project-itis,» which is just a series of ad hoc donations that make givers feel good but have little impact on students.

But since the report's publication, scholars have developed more precise data on teacher effectiveness, and, by probing at differences in teacher quality within schools, have found very large impacts of teacher quality on student achievement.

Finally, we project for each state the large positive impact that improvements in student achievement would have on a state's GDP.

Instead of focusing the education conversation around a select number of hot topics ~ often related to school governance ~ we should focus our efforts on overcoming larger societal realities and their impact on student learning.

Based on a review of rigorous impact evaluations on college success interventions, we find that interventions providing sustained supports, both financial and non-financial, have the largest impacts on long - run student outcomes such as persistence and degree attainment.

She is well aware of the research literature that shows little evidence that family income has a large causal impact on student achievement.

Not every school is fortunate to have such a large company headquartered in its backyard, but that does not mean that every school can not have partnerships that have a great impact on students.

Meanwhile, Picus and Odden ignore a large body of literature that shows little impact on advantaged students and smaller impacts on disadvantaged ones, to say nothing of the empirical reality that the 56 percent of students currently attending schools that have full - day kindergarten do not surpass the remaining 44 percent attending schools without full - day kindergarten by anything like a 0.77 margin.

Despite the numbers, the school choice programs are not large enough to have had more than a limited statewide impact on the millions of students attending Florida's public schools.

This is impact on a large scale — five million K - 12 students in Brazil have accessed the Geekie learning platform over the last 18 months.

[C] harter schools are pulling large numbers of students from the private education market and present a potentially devastating impact on the private education market, as well as a serious increase in the financial burden on taxpayers.

In other words, to make the very large effects disappear, you have to make either the very strong assumption that student learning has little effect on the U.S. economy or the equally strong assumption that teachers have little impact on students.

The ban is certain to have a large impact on international student enrollment and faculty recruitment, well beyond the bans on immigration from the seven specific countries and beyond the 90 days that the ban is in effect for.