Sentences with phrase «lead in math scores»

Nevertheless, at the fourth - grade level, a 10.7 point lead in math scores evaporated into a 4.2 point lag behind public schools.

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Small doses of lead may have big impacts on reading and math scores, scientists report April 7 in Environmental Health.

Researchers find that even at low levels, lead exposure is associated with lower reading and math scores in young children.

Our analysis reveals that pressure on schools to avoid a low performance rating led low - scoring students to score significantly higher on a high - stakes math exam in 10th grade.

And building test - score - based student achievement into teacher evaluations, while (in my view) legitimate for some teachers, has led to crazy arrangements for many teachers whose performance can not be properly linked to reading and math scores in grades 3 — 8.

For too many policymakers, student achievement is defined solely by test scores in reading and math, which has led in turn to the disappearance of the arts, particularly in low - performing schools.

Analysts have cited a legion of reasons for the state's slide in achievement: the steady leaching of resources from the schools that was the inevitable result of the infamous 1970s property - tax revolt led by Howard Jarvis; a long period of economic woes caused by layoffs in the defense industry; curriculum experiments with «whole language» reading instruction and «new math» that were at best a distraction and at worst quite damaging; a school finance lawsuit that led to a dramatic increase in the state's authority over school budgets and operations; and a massive influx of new students and non-English-speaking immigrants that almost surely depressed test scores.

The final evaluation found being admitted to a KIPP middle school via a lottery leads to significant improvement in students» average math and reading scores after two years.

A 2017 multi-state review of voucher programs by Carnoy with the Economic Policy Institute found that students in voucher programs scored significantly lower than traditional public school students on reading and math tests and found no significant effect of vouchers leading to improved public school performance.

A growing number of people, including both school choice advocates and education reform opponents, say there's little evidence that standardized test score gains in math and reading lead to improved long - term life outcomes.

Led by strong scores in 8th - grade reading, California moved closer to the national averages in reading and math, continuing a decade - plus trend of generally slow but steady improvement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

The results were impressive: hundreds of students moved to proficiency in both math and reading in schools led by NISL EDP graduates and overall achievement scores grew at faster rates in those schools than in schools led by non-NISL graduates.

«The study finds that being closer to a charter school led to small increases in math and reading scores, boosts in reported student engagement and school safety, and fewer students being held back a grade (in the traditional public school.)

In 2000, a scoring error by NCS - Pearson (now Pearson Educational Measurement) led to 8,000 Minnesota students being told they failed a state math test when they did not, in fact, fail it (some of those students weren't able to graduate from high school on timeIn 2000, a scoring error by NCS - Pearson (now Pearson Educational Measurement) led to 8,000 Minnesota students being told they failed a state math test when they did not, in fact, fail it (some of those students weren't able to graduate from high school on timein fact, fail it (some of those students weren't able to graduate from high school on time).

For almost two decades, scores on math and reading tests have dominated how success was defined in American schools; low test scores led to the restructuring — and in some cases closure — of schools across the country under No Child Left Behind.

Pearson has nearly 20 years of experience in automated scoring, having invented many of the leading technologies that exist today for text, speech, and math scoring.

For almost two decades, scores on math and reading tests have dominated how success was defined in American schools; low test scores led to the restructuring — and in some cases closure — of schools across the country under No Child Left Behind law.

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.

Last year a group of nine leading educational researchers summarized the evidence this way: «Among voucher programs, random - assignment studies generally find modest improvements in reading or math scores, or both.

Standardized test scores in reading and math also have improved significantly in both sectors, with charters leading the way at a time when curricula have been enriched and after - school options expanded in both D.C. charters and DCPS.

After controlling for students» economic and language backgrounds, Florida's fourth - grade scores lead the nation in both reading and math.

Between 1998 and 2007, Delaware led the nation in narrowing the minority student achievement gap in fourth - grade math and eighth - grade reading scores.

In Houston, implementing a set of charter school «best practices» in traditional public schools led students to earn higher math test scoreIn Houston, implementing a set of charter school «best practices» in traditional public schools led students to earn higher math test scorein traditional public schools led students to earn higher math test scores.

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), which works on SEL at a national level, conducted a meta - analysis in 2011 and found that systematic SEL implementation with fidelity led to a 9 - percentage - point drop in problem behaviors, a 9 - percentage - point increase in prosocial skills (meaning managing emotions and conflict appropriately), and an 11 - percentage - point increase in reading and math standardized test scores.