«Instruction was aligned with standards, and as a school
we made significant gains in student achievement.»
The Consortium's goal is to connect with and learn from schools serving high - need populations that are
making significant gains in student achievement.
Not exact matches
On the one side, she agreed with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to a test plan offering monetary incentives to teachers
in schools whose poorest
students make significant gains in achievement (see «New York City's Education Battles,» features, Spring 2008).
Students across our state are making significant gains in academic performance, and we are seeing real progress closing the achievement gap among students o
Students across our state are
making significant gains in academic performance, and we are seeing real progress closing the
achievement gap among
students o
students of color.
It can also help
students make significant gains in academic
achievement — on average, a
gain of 11 percentile points
in reading and math, according to a 2011 review of more than 200 studies published
in the journal Child Development.
The department comparisons shall be
made to determine if there is any
significant difference
in the performance of these groups of teachers, as measured by their
students»
achievement levels and learning
gains as measured by s. 1008.22.
The report says that
students have
made significant gains in math and reading since the passage of NCLB; and
achievement gaps between white and minority
students have closed somewhat since 2002.
Outstanding educators, more time
in school, a rigorous college - preparatory curriculum, and a strong culture of
achievement and support help our
students make significant academic
gains.
Using publicly available data from the California Department of Education (CDE), the results show that charter schools are
making significant gains in narrowing the
achievement gap, with African American
students consistently earning higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores and proficiency rates statewide
in many urban districts and across subjects.
Another ambitious investigation, conducted by the National Center for Educational
Achievement (2009), sent teams of researchers to 26 public schools
in five states that had a high percentage of low - income
students, and whose
students had
made significant gains on math and science exams
in a three - year period.
Results show that low - SES
students made statistically
significant gains in social studies and content literacy and, at post-test, showed no statistically
significant differences from the
students in the high - SES schools: Following instruction, there was no SES
achievement gap on these assessments.
A national study conducted by Mathematica Policy Research found that
students attending KIPP middle schools
made gains in reading, math, science, and social studies equal to 11 to 14 months of additional learning when compared to similar non-KIPP
students.60 Similarly, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania found that
students selected by lottery to attend Harlem Success Academy
made significant gains in reading and math equal to 13 to 19 percent higher test
achievement, compared to demographically similar
students not selected via lottery.61
It can also help
students make significant gains in academic
achievement — on average, a
gain of 11 percentile points
in reading and math, according to a 2011 review of more than 200 studies published
in the journal Child Development.