Sentences with phrase «math than their peers»

English language learners who participated in the intervention also scored significantly higher in math than their peers in the control group.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

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«Fewer than one in five African - American fourth graders is proficient in reading and Latino eighth graders are less than half as likely to be proficient in math as their white peers.»

Many kids would rather have their peers view them as the «class clown» rather than the kid who can't do the math.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

A year later, the math scores of the kids with glasses had improved far more than those of peers in the other schools.

The alcohol - exposed children performed significantly worse than their peers in all academic areas, with particular weaknesses found in math performance.

Children whose parents are more educated and have better jobs and higher incomes tend to have stronger math and reading skills than their peers.

In a new longitudinal study, first - generation immigrant children who took part in a community - based intervention had higher scores on math and reading tests than their first - generation immigrant peers who did not participate in the program.

By 2012, German 15 - year - olds were outscoring their U.S. peers by 32 points in math, a difference representing more than a year's worth of learning.

This analysis (again the Newspeak) builds on a large body of program evaluations in Louisiana, Indiana, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., all of which show that students attending participating private schools perform significantly worse than their peers in public schools — especially in math.

Ludger Woessman (see «Merit Pay International,» research) looked at 27 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and found that students in countries with some form of performance pay for teachers score about 25 percent of a standard deviation higher on the international math test than do their peers in countries without teacher performance pay.

While we estimated that, after one year, African - American students scored 7 percentile points higher on the math portion of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills than their peers in public schools, Barnard reports impacts of 6 percentile points for African - American students from low - performing public schools.

In eighth grade, for example, in both reading and math, as recently as 2015, pupils in Catholic schools outperformed their public - school peers by a solid margin — more so in reading than in math.

This comports with the interpretation that average peer achievement influences everyone's test scores, since Asians score higher than whites in math overall (the Asian - white score gap is positive and relatively large in math, 0.62 of a standard deviation in the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades).

Across the portfolio, CMO schools perform somewhat better in math than in reading, when benchmarked against their local peers on state assessments.

«For instance, girls» lower performance in maths literacy is associated with lower confidence in their ability to succeed in school than their male peers.»

A study of 300 schools which increased their EBacc entry rates between 2010 and 2013 found that pupils» average attainment in GCSE English and maths increased following the curriculum changes and that pupils at these schools were also less likely to have left education after the age of 16, than peers at other schools.

The increase in peer prior achievement from 5th to 8th grade at KIPP schools was 0.15 standard deviations greater in reading and 0.19 standard deviations greater in math than for students who attended feeder elementary schools (see Figure 4).

Among students assigned to different teachers with the same Overall Classroom Practices score, math achievement will grow more for students whose teacher is better than his peers at classroom management (i.e., has a higher score on our Classroom Management vs. Instructional Practices measure).

In math, 47 percent of Detroit charter schools perform significantly better than their local peers, the same proportion as for the charters as a whole statewide.»

Similarly, the Stanford University Center for Research on Education Outcomes [4] found in a 2013 study that after only a year, New York City charter school students gained substantially more in reading and math than their traditional school peers.

On average in the three cities, African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored 6.3 percentile points higher than their peers in the control group on the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portion.

Here's just one example: After almost a year in Head Start (with an average cost of about $ 7,700 in 2005), children were able to name only about two more letters than their non — Head Start counterparts, and they did not show any significant gains on much more important measures, such as early math learning, vocabulary, oral comprehension (more indicative of later reading comprehension), motivation to learn, or social competencies, including the ability to interact with peers and teachers.

At Blackstone Valley Prep, analysis of the suburban and urban students» scores on the 2013 state exams measuring proficiency in reading and math offers 80 different snapshots, by grade, subject and family income, with Blackstone students faring better than their peers on nearly all.

We find that the gains made by retained students did diminish over time, as critics predicted, but these students still entered high school performing at higher levels in both reading and math than similar peers who were promoted on time.

And while we know that young children need a healthy dose of playtime in school, a new study reminds us why academics are important at that age: Over the course of a year, preschoolers who spent more time on language, literacy, and math activities than their peers gained, on average, 2.5 months of additional learning.

And yet, by 2012, German 15 - year - olds were outscoring their U.S. peers by 32 points in math, a difference representing more than a year's worth of learning.

Sixth - and seventh - grade Citizen Schools participants earned better grades than peers who did not attend the program in English and math and scored higher on a state English exam during their first year in the program, all at statistically significant levels.

They arrive at primary school less ready to learn than their peers, fewer than two in three of them then leave primary school at the expected level and they leave secondary with two thirds of them not achieving five GCSEs including English and maths.

Recent research, as published in the British Journal of Music Education, found that school children between the ages of 11 - 16 who were taking instrumental lessons, attained higher levels of academic success in GCSE Maths and English than their peers.

Additionally, though their sample was too small to establish causality, Schiess and Rotherham found that rural students are more likely than their urban peers to choose less - rigorous diploma options and to opt out of higher level math courses such as algebra II.

A 2009 MIT - Harvard study, under the direction of Thomas Kane of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, found that «achievement gains among Boston charter school students were significantly higher than those of their peers in either BPS or pilot schools, especially in math.»

In fourth - grade math, DCPS's black students» average scale score was better than their peers» average in only four cities.

In those papers, we report that the most talented U.S. students dreadfully lag peers abroad in math, that the percentage of U.S. students who are proficient is seriously lagging, and that the rate of improvement in the United States is no better than average.

In a study of the Alaska Statewide Mentorship Program, our researchers and evaluators found that new teachers who were provided with experienced mentors were more likely than their peers to still be on the job after three years — and students in their classrooms were performing better in math and reading.

Findings revealed that, overall, the math attitudes of students who participated in the technical math course improved more than their peers taking traditional algebra and geometry courses.

At present, pupils on free school meals are 40 per cent more likely to get good GCSEs in maths and English in London, and twice as likely to go to university, than their peers in the north.

She found that students at charter schools performed 5 % better on state reading tests than their traditional public school peers and that charter school students performed 3 % better on state math tests than similar students at public schools.

CREDO released a 2014 report (http://credo.stanford.edu/pdfs/LA2014ReleaseFinal.pdf) finding that the typical LA charter school student gains more learning in a year than his / her district school peer, amounting to about 50 more days of learning in reading and an additional 79 days of learning in math.

In Illinois, charter school students were 21 % more proficient on their state math tests and 16 % more proficient on their state reading tests than their regular public school peers.

Across that period, charter schools statewide consistently provided greater academic growth than their district peers: on average, charter students over the course of the study saw the equivalent of 34 additional days in reading and 63 in math each year.

URBAN NAEP COVERAGE EdWeek: NAEP: Urban School Districts Improving Faster Than the Nation Baltimore Sun: Baltimore students score near bottom in reading, math on key national assessment Cleveland Plain Dealer: Vast poverty differences create unfair comparisons on Nation's Report Card Miami Herald: Miami and Florida students outperform peers on national test

African - American 12th - graders scored on average 30 points lower than their white peers on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress math exam, while Hispanic students scored 22 points lower.

The WaPo reporters then claim, «But a U.S. Department of Education study released in June showed that students in the program generally scored no higher on reading and math tests after two years than public school peers.»

The Bay Area, Boston, D.C., Memphis, New Orleans, New York City and Newark are much stronger than their traditional public school peers in math.

Students who are homeless, economically disadvantaged, have limited English proficiency and those with disabilities scored higher than their peers on the English and math exams.

Asian charter students showed the biggest gains in English and math scores when compared to the state average for Asian students, scoring 12 percentage points higher in ELA than their peers and 11 points better in math.

North Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee all independently concluded that TFA corps members were the most effective out of recent graduates from other teacher preparation programs with which they had worked.151 A controlled study conducted by Mathematica found that students taught by TFA teachers earned higher math scores than students taught by non-TFA teachers with similar years of experience; the TFA - taught students learned approximately 2.6 months of additional material in math during the school year.152 Similarly, another study found that TFA first to third grade teachers» students grew 1.3 additional months in reading compared with their peers who had non-TFA teachers.153