Sentences with phrase «math scores serve»

When using one - hour testing sessions to gauge student performance, combined reading and math scores serve as a better indicator of student achievement than either test separately.

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Hamilton has served as a community board president and was involved in raising math and reading scores.

Maybe there's that one teacher who is amazingly talented at what she does; or the teacher's aide who serves as a de facto grandmother to half the student body; or the chess club leader who manages to keep young boys engaged in school through early adolescence; or the superstar math teacher who seems solely responsible for a middle school's stellar math scores.

After three years of relatively flat and sometimes declining test scores, K12, Inc.'s full - time students appear to have increased their proficiency levels in both reading and math, even as K12, Inc. serves a population with 62 percent of its student eligible for free - and - reduced price lunch, compared to 49 percent nationally.

Finally, in Kenya, where the raw test scores showed students in private and public schools performing at similar levels, the fact that private schools served a far more disadvantaged population resulted in a gap of 0.1 standard deviations in English and 0.2 standard deviations in math (after accounting for differences in student characteristics).

At Kernan Middle School in Duval County, Florida, charts in the conference room that serves as the data room list students» name, race, gender, homeroom, and scores from annual state reading and math tests.

Madison School District Superintendent Jen Cheatham delivers remarks Monday regarding the district's annual report at Glendale Elementary School, where she highlighted progress in early literacy and math proficiency scores in the 50 - school district serving 27,000 students, along with improved parental engagement district - wide.

On the negative side, the study found a low percentage of minority students, reduced - price lunch students, special education students and English learners served by charters, as well as overall low math scores.

A follow - up study by Rouse found that low - income students attending Milwaukee public schools served by a state class - size reduction and enrichment program significantly outperformed voucher students in reading and scored as well in math.

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.

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Research also shows significant gains in school readiness and achievement: Parents in home visiting programs are more likely to read aloud to their children at home and children served by these programs achieve higher math and reading scores, as well as better grades in elementary school.