Sentences with phrase «lower achievement»

Bullying can also affect children's concentration and lower their achievement at school.

9/8/2014 This sorting of students in Alabama based on the color of their skin or their parents income and the setting of lower achievement goals for African Americans than Caucasians has been widely reported.

And it is reflected in education, in my opinion, on the way we allow schools and classrooms serving black students to fail year after year but then blame their lower achievement on poverty (but..

Another study from Italy found significantly lower achievement and smaller wages after graduation for college students, depending on how large their introductory lecture classes were.

The whole grade level had lower achievement.

Teachers with students with higher incoming achievement levels receive classroom observation scores that are higher on average than those received by teachers whose incoming students are at lower achievement levels, and districts do not have processes in place to address this bias.

Research shows that highly effective principals raise the achievement of a typical student in their schools by between two and seven months of learning in a single school year and that ineffective principals lower achievement by the same amount.3 And principal quality affects teacher turnover and specifically turnover among effective teachers.

«Large high schools, particularly those serving low - income students in urban areas, have disproportionately lower achievement and higher incidences of violence than smaller schools serving similar student populations,» Dixon read from a resolution passed by the association.

Branch, Hanushek, and Rivkin discovered that such principals can lower achievement by between two and seven months of learning in a school year.

The head of Maryland's Alliance of Public Charter Schools said it would be «most damaging for students within Maryland's minority and low - income populations who need every opportunity available to them to lower the achievement gap — not being held to lower sub-par standards.»

But these days, the connections between low - income enrollment and lower achievement are being enacted at scale in predominantly white communities with the same depressing regularity as they have been for years in low - income communities of color.

Research has found that this approach can raise the academic achievement of low - income students without lower the achievement of higher - income students, as well as giving all students the benefits of a diverse learning environment.

How do these patterns differ from other high - poverty schools with lower achievement?

Most essential, a federal stipulation should require that those urban students in the greatest need (those with lower achievement scores and those attending the most troubled and most crowded schools) receive priority.

In five states, including Florida, Texas and New Jersey, more money meant slightly lower achievement.

Moreover, in comparing the strength of teachers» unions with overall K - 12 achievement (as ranked by Education Week in its annual survey), it's hard to make the case that states with stronger unions have lower achievement (see Figure 3).

Although efforts have been made to specifically improve graduation rates among subgroups that regularly have lower achievement, including English learners, those in the foster care system or low - income youth, the American Institutes» study released last week suggests districts should also target subgroups within racial and ethnic subgroups where significant cultural variety is common.

«The proposed bill, which limits school reforms in Maryland, is most damaging for students within Maryland's minority and low - income populations who need every opportunity available to them to lower the achievement gap — not being held to lower sub-par standards.»

We find that, relative to their sisters, boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of disciplinary problems, lower achievement scores, and fewer high - school completions.

More than 10,000 students transferred into or out of the District's public schools during the 2013 - 2014 school year, a massive ebb and flow that experts say is linked to lower achievement and faltering graduation rates.

Several high quality research studies show that the impact of chronic absence leads to lower achievement, disengagement and often dropout.

The study found that the longer students remain in charter schools, the lower the achievement difference.

«We show that minority students have lower achievement scores than white students with the same cognitive ability, and that placement in a [gifted] class effectively closes this minority underachievement gap,» the authors wrote.

Some teachers, administrators, and parents believe that an inclusive intervention will water down teaching and lower the achievement of all students.

The analysis, from researchers affiliated with the University of Texas at Dallas and the Hoover Institute at Stanford, also suggests that an ineffective principal can lower achievement by the same amount.

Students who enter KIPP middle schools typically have lower achievement than the average for their school districts.

They research methods to lower the achievement gap.

Students who had lower achievement scores in reading at the time of applying to the voucher program and used a voucher (9.8 % points)

Before enrolling in KIPP, typical students had lower achievement levels than both the average in the elementary school they attended and the average in the district as a whole.

In the third grade, there is no evidence that retention led to greater achievement growth two years after the promotional gate, and in the sixth grade, we find significant evidence that retention was associated with lower achievement growth (emphasis added).

This report finds that retention impedes the educational progress of children and leads primarily to lower achievement and higher dropout rates....

Ineffective principals lower achievement by the same amount.

Further, the study indicated that the longer students stay in a middle school, the lower their achievement.

Uncertified teachers, teaching fellows, and TFA corps members all tend to teach in schools that, relative to those employing more certified teachers, have a higher percentage of minority students; more low - income, ESL, and special - education students; and students with lower achievement levels.

Essentially, the longer students stay in a middle school, the lower their achievement.

For younger students, research has shown that chronic absenteeism in kindergarten is associated with lower achievement in reading and math in later grades, even when controlling for a child's family income, race, disability status, attitudes toward school, socioemotional development, age at kindergarten entry, type of kindergarten program, and preschool experience.

Its findings bolster the research - based consensus that suspensions predict lower achievement, higher drop out rates, and greater risk of involvement in the juvenile justice system.

Our results indicate that highly effective principals raise the achievement of a typical student in their schools by between two and seven months of learning in a single school year; ineffective principals lower achievement by the same amount.

With the transition into a middle school, students set out on a trajectory of lower achievement gains.

These effects are concentrated at lower achievement levels and among students who were eligible for subsidized lunch.

While many affluent suburban districts have lower achievement than we might expect, some districts are producing very high achievement even when compared with that of students in other developed countries.

The goal is to shrink the achievement gap... not lower the achievement standard for ALL kids.

It doesn't tell us that California has bad elementary education, or that exit exams are useless, or that we should lower our achievement standards for high school graduates.

Students who experienced anger, anxiety, shame, boredom, or hopelessness had lower achievement.»

Kids who feel rejected by peers become less motivated at school, which can lead to a downward spiral of lower achievement, increased behavior problems, and even more social rejection.

Dropout from youth sport occurs for a variety of reasons, including personal factors such as lack of enjoyment or motivation, time constraints, pressure to perform, and low achievement orientation and organizational factors such as coaching issues, lack of playing time, and lack of opportunities to participate (22,45).

Unveiling the Liberal Democrat education policy for the party's general election campaign with a keynote speech in London, Mr Clegg said that the link between deprivation and low achievement remained, despite Labour's investment programme.

«The roots of low achievement for some schools and students lie in concentrated poverty, segregation by race and class, and underfunding,» Hawkins said.

In fact, he won a Nobel Prize for his extraordinarily low achievement.

Previous research has generally shown that distractions reduce the amount of time that kids are learning and that in turn lowers achievement.