Sentences with phrase «lower reading performance»

Chronic absenteeism is linked to low reading performance, discipline issues and dropping out, according to ODE.

A study at Stanford University separately found that of the 26 school districts nationwide with low reading performance, 11 were in California.

, Rudolph Flesch argued that the primary cause of low reading performance during the 1940s and 1950s was the failure of our schools to teach phonics because of the strong grip of the look - say approach on our nation's teachers and textbook authors.

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In a series of experiments, Cohen, Walton, and Yeager have shown the power of what seem to be small - scale mindset interventions — watching a brief video of an older student talking about his struggles with belonging, or reading a magazine article that presents a growth - mindset perspective on brain development — to significantly improve the academic performance of students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat, including low - income students and African - American students.

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Using income as well as math and reading scores, the study also found that the lower the household income during infancy, the worse the children's performance on reading and math in fifth grade — replicating the well - known gap between income and achievement.

Children who performed poorly in agility, speed and manual dexterity tests and had poor overall motor performance in the first grade had lower reading and arithmetic test scores in grades 1 - 3 than children with better performance in motor tests.

Especially children in the lowest motor performance third had poorer reading and arithmetic test scores than children in the other thirds.

A program aimed at reducing behavior problems in order to boost academic achievement has improved performance in math and reading among low - income kindergartners and first graders, according to a study by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

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DHA is especially important for kids because studies have shown that lower plasma levels of this oil are associated with poorer reading ability and working memory performance.

Now since virtually everyone reading this article is doing so for their athletic performance and health it is important to note virtually all of the LCD athletes follow the OFM protocol so do cycle in concentrated forms of carbohydrates «strategically» and use the supplement, VESPA, for their races and high intensity blocks of training, however, to control variables for the study, their diet was restricted to a Low - Carb / NK protocol.

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Drawing from math test scores from PISA 2009 in which the United States performed lower than the OECD average, the report argues that while demand for STEM labor is predicted to increase over the next few decades, a shortage of STEM labor in the United States, along with inadequate performance in science, math, and reading compared to other countries, endangers U.S. future competitiveness and innovation.

NCLB required that states test students in math and reading each year, that average student performance be publicized for every school, and that schools with persistently low test scores face an escalating series of sanctions.

A Brookings Institution study released in September 2002 concluded that student performance in charter schools was significantly lower than that of district schools on state tests in reading and math.

Despite the higher average education level of their parents, charter school students exhibit lower levels of performance on end - of - grade tests in both reading and math.

In terms of academic performance, KIPP students» achievement in grade 4 (before entering KIPP) is lower than the district average by 0.09 standard deviations in reading and by 0.08 standard deviations in math, or roughly one - quarter of a grade level in each subject.

The chiefs are standing behind the key accountability elements of NCLB: the annual administration of statewide reading and math assessments in grades 3 — 8; the disaggregation of results; the annual determinations of school and district performance; and the identification of and intervention in persistently low - performing schools.

As for academic performance, Sawgrass has been making big gains in both math and reading, both overall and for its lowest - performing students.

Among the 43 states that in 1998 were gathering information on their students» performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Florida had the fifth - lowest 4th - grade reading scores.

Thomson says most of the difference in scores is due to the lower socioeconomic level of Indigenous students and their weaker performance in mathematics and reading.

Moreover, if reading practice is linked to reading growth and achievement, then it follows that low levels of reading practice should correlate to low levels of reading performance and high levels of reading practice should connect to high levels of reading performance.

Mindful of problems with permission, attrition, and absences, we asked each teacher, in the fall, to select four average - achieving and four low - achieving children, based on teachers» perceptions of reading performance (or emergent literacy performance), to complete pretests.

The lower performance in math vs. reading, however, is consistent with many other voucher studies, including Indiana, Washington, D.C., Milwaukee, Florida, and Ohio.

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.

Hence, the statistical expectation for reading performance in high - poverty schools is relatively low.

Carr attributed the lack of an increase in national reading scores and a decline of two points in math since 2013 to declining performance of the lowest performers --- those whose scores fall within the bottom 25 percent of students.

Researchers examined the effects of Readers Theater (performance reading) on the reading achievement and motivation of struggling eight grade students in a low socioeconomic neighborhood in a large metropolitan area in south Texas.

From America's Wire: «Educators cite these causes for the disparity in performance: Lowered expectations for students of color Growing income inequality and lack of resources in low - income school districts Unequal access... Read More

They further found that higher turnover was associated with lower student performance on reading and math achievement tests, apparently because turnover takes a toll on the overall climate of the school.42 «It is far from a trivial problem,» the researchers say.

Back in August, NFER researchers Jennie Harland and Claire Hodgson discussed the provisional national curriculum assessment results for KS2, focusing on reading moving from its position as the subject with the highest performance under the old curriculum and assessment regime to the lowest under the new one.

The mentees who participated in the program demonstrated lagging performance in reading, dysfunctional family structures, low socioeconomic status, and a lack of a print - rich home environment, based on the input from the school counselor, social worker, and classroom teacher.

Also among positive trends the study found were the high opening rate, the low closing rate and the high reading academic performance of students at California's charter schools.

Abstract In this article, I consider social class and reading performance, outline a non-categorical approach to reading disability, describe the reading intervention program we have developed for older low - progress readers, and seek to demonstrate how students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds can, and do, make substantial progress when offered effective reading instruction based on the available scientific research evidence.

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped sincReading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped sincreading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

In 2015, black students had an average fourth - grade reading score that was 33 points lower than that for white students, and this performance gap was not significantly different from that in 1998 (31 points).

That's the rough threshold for reasonable school performance, according to Hattie: Countries that spend less than $ 40,000, which are all poor, tend to have much lower reading scores on the international PISA exam, and their performance correlates strongly with the money they spend.

Figure 2: Poor children who were chronic absentees in kindergarten had the lowest performance in reading and math in fifth grade

The study focuses on student performance, management practices, and oversight mechanisms at California Virtual Academies (CAVA), whose students are «at risk of low quality educational outcomes, and some are falling through the cracks entirely, -LSB-...] Read More»