Sentences with phrase «math scores on»

Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, serving a low - income urban minority community, launched a concerted and successful campaign to raise its students» low math scores on standardized tests.

Banneker students» math scores on the 2004 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System indicated strong effects from the campaign.

Thus, while reading and math scores on the TUDA assessment have generally increased since 2002 or 2003, large urban districts have made little progress since 2009.

A number of studies have shown that in addition to benefitting from a more desegregated schooling experience, magnet school students tend to outperform students in regular public and private schools in both reading and math scores on standardized tests (Frankenberg & Seigel - Hawley, 2008).

In schools that implemented FSS over a two - year period, there was a positive trend in math scores on the DC - CAS, with all schools averaging over nine points of growth.

The results are that math scores on National Assessment of Educational Progress declined for the first time since 1990 and reading scores are flat or decreased, the achievement gaps based on race and income persist, teachers are demoralized, causing teacher shortages, and, most tragically of all, children are receiving an education which harms them.

Looking across ELA and math scores on state exams for New York City students in grades three through eight in 2003, the achievement gap separating black and Latino students from white and Asian students was.74 of a standard deviation.

After math scores on state - mandated testing at Kerrick Elementary School in Louisville, Kentucky, dropped for two consecutive years in a row, administrators at this Title I School knew they needed help.

Superintendent Francois and middle school math teacher Mike Chambers, who helped initiate the use of Apex Learning digital curriculum in the district, noticed that while sixth and seventh graders had math scores on the state assessment that ranged from mediocre to good, eighth graders had elevated math scores.

Using MIND's visual math instructional software in 36 of the 38 school district's elementary schools, the district's 25,000 K - 5 students have closed a 16 point gap and now match the California state average math scores on the 2011 state tests, according to the institute.

After just one year of using the Renaissance practice and assessment solutions, eighth - grade students» math scores on state testing quadrupled, and over a three - year period, school reading levels doubled.

To throw things into even more of a cocked hat, at one point NAEP began reporting math scores on a 0 - 300 scale, making it difficult to compare results reported on this scale with earlier NAEP assessments reported on a 0 - 500 scale.

For example, suppose your team learns that math scores on the state test noticeably improved for all students except those in the bottom quartile.

The weak math performance echoed the results of a second national exam, the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), on which 4th and 8th graders also posted lower math scores on the 2015 test.

The picture is not as rosy nationwide: In 2015, math scores on national tests ticked downward for the first time in two decades, and reading scores were stagnant.

Year after year, students continue to post consistently higher math scores on Georgia Milestones testing and other assessments.

The state has been rightfully recognized for making some of the greatest gains of late in math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

After statistically controlling for several variables, the author concludes that nations with some form of merit pay system have, on average, higher reading and math scores on this international test of 15 - year - old students.»

In state after state, boys are slipping behind girls in math scores on state exams — which steps on all the conventional wisdom about boys excelling in math — while falling far behind girls in reading.

The Common Core standards, which 45 states and Washington, D.C., have adopted, could be the cure to United States» mediocre math scores on PISA.

Grace Thomas wasn't satisfied with the reading scores she was seeing, and math scores on the high school graduation exam positively set off alarms.

Students participating in arts - integrated lessons show increased language and math scores on standardized tests and improved engagement, motivation, and sense of community (Smithrim and Upitis, 2005).

Between 2011 and 2015, math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress declined in twenty states, rose in just nine, and were mixed in two.

A study conducted by Fordham University researchers found that reading and math scores on standardized tests are higher at IS 218 than at comparable middle schools.

According to their research, a child from a low - income background with math scores on par with a child from a high - income background is still less likely to become an inventor.

Not exact matches

It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

Girls, for example, now make up about half of the enrollment in high - school science and math classes and are scoring almost identically to their male classmates on standardized tests.

Like, for instance, when he mentions that he was the first New Zealander to be selected as a Fulbright Scholar in entrepreneurship, or tells you he once spent two weeks in a coma after contracting malaria in Indonesia, or says he was among the highest - scoring secondary - school students on a national math exam.

The United States has been falling behind on math and science test scores for decades — and waiting for help from the federal government is almost always a bad idea, no matter who is in office.

We ranked the countries with the smartest kids based on science, math, and literacy scores for fourth graders.

It found that children of American homeowners scored no better on math and reading tests than renters» kids, nor did they have lower high - school dropout rates.

Private school students, on average, score better than public school students in reading, math and a host of other subject areas, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

To win the PL we at least need to win 25 matches to be within a shout of wining it that requires a minimum of 75 goals without conceding so we need attack minded players and defensive minded players from looking at our attaching force gerouid around 20 alexis 20 thats 40 we need another 35 and than we have the champion league and cup matches on the top of it all we got to consider form fatigue knocks and injuries can the midfield score another 40 another 40 goals have to come from somewhere so physics tells me so another good striker with 25 so goals is required for the math to make any sense

SAN RAFAEL — As coaches and golfers stood and watched the scores post at the North Coast Section Division I Girls Golf Championships on Oct. 28, it was easy to hear the whispered math taking place.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

«Wow, that is a great score on your math test.

- The Department of Education, which has for years pushed an agenda that places paramount importance on schools» test scores, especially in reading and math, leaving no time for the nutrition education which is such an important part of helping children learn to make sensible eating choices.

Eating breakfast improves academic performance, health, and behavior; that means better performance on standardized tests, improved concentration and memory, better math scores, better attendance and fewer tardies, as well as fewer behavioral referrals to the front office.

If you praise your child for scoring the most goals in the soccer game or for getting the highest grade on his math test, your words will fuel his competitive nature.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine studied eighth grade math students and found gum chewers scored 3 percent better on standardized math tests and achieved better final grades (Wrigley Science Institute, 2009).

Studies show that children who eat breakfast at the start of their school day have higher math and reading scores, and demonstrate a sharper memory and faster speeds on cognitive tests.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

When kids eat breakfast they demonstrate broader vocabularies, improved memory and faster speed on cognitive tests, and they score higher in both reading and math.

Dr. Pope's org Challenge Success, which used more than twenty studies on homework for its papers, found similar results, reporting,» [I] n a recent study comparing the standardized math scores across multiple countries, no positive link was found between student math achievement and the frequency or amount of homework given (Baker & LeTendre, 2005).

Calculating the value of each word, counting the number of tiles on a rack, and adding the final scores is all math.

Using longitudinally linked, student - level data collected from two urban school districts, New York City and Washington, DC, Mathematica estimated the impacts of five EL middle schools on students» reading and math test scores.

The most obvious sign of that were the scores on the citywide math exam at our middle school, which had been the school with the most challenges.

National studies show that students who eat school breakfast are more likely to: reach higher levels of math achievement; score higher on tests; have better concentration, memory and alertness, improved attendance, behavior, and academic performance; and maintain a healthy weight

Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign reported in 2013 that on average, students who eat school breakfast attend 1.5 more days of school per year and score 17.5 percent higher on standardized math tests; when combined, these factors translate into a student being twenty percent more likely to graduate high school.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has quietly dropped plans to raise passing scores on Common Core Regents exams in English and math by the year 2022 — plans originally pushed as a linchpin in efforts for students» strengthened academic performance and preparation for college and careers.