Sentences with phrase «making significant achievement gains»

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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).

And sometimes schools with unimpressive achievement gains make significant contributions to attainment and annual earnings when students join the workforce.

«Instruction was aligned with standards, and as a school we made significant gains in student achievement.»

This achievement has made a significant contribution to 80 per cent of students gaining an apprenticeship year upon year.

At the two year mark, they found no significant achievement effects for students who were offered vouchers, but their third - year results found voucher recipients making outsized reading gains.

Students across our state are making significant gains in academic performance, and we are seeing real progress closing the achievement gap among 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.

Still, the Education Northwest evaluation team gained valuable information from the study, including the lesson that it is possible to make a statistically significant difference in the reading achievement of struggling readers in a single year.

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.

The greatest gains in reducing gaps in achievement and opportunity have been made during periods when concentrated poverty has been dispersed through efforts at integration, or during economic growth for the black middle class and other communities, or where significant new investments in school funding have occurred.

While they identify where a student is, they don't measure significant gains made toward closing achievement gaps.

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.

The Consortium's goal is to connect with and learn from schools serving high - need populations that are making significant gains in student achievement.

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.