Sentences with phrase «middle grades policies»

The project - Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better - focused on identifying middle grades policies and practices that differentiate higher - from lower - performing schools.

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The Panel for Educational Policy will vote on the phaseout of Wadleigh's middle school grades, along with the partial closing of Washington Irving High School, on Feb. 9 at Brooklyn Technical High School.

For example, when Aregbesola reclassified schools into Elementary School (primary grades 1 - 4), Middle School (primary grades 5 & 6 plus JS 1 - 3), and High School (SS grades 1 - 3), he was roundly criticized for violating the 6 -3-3-4 education policy.

«We have to discuss the failure of the mayor's educational policies,» said Fred Baptiste, a PTA vice president and the parent of a son at PS 161 in Brooklyn, a school which is losing its middle grades.

In his first major policy speech as chancellor, given this morning at NYU, Dennis Walcott focused on the issues of middle schools, ticking off a panoply of problems in grade six through eight and acknowledging his department must do more to address them.

The study, part of the Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series at Harvard University, found that students moving from grade 5 into middle school show a «sharp drop» in math and language arts achievement in the transition year that plagues them as far out as 10th grade, even risking thwarting their ability to graduate high school and...

Keep in mind that federal policy — at least the test - related elements of it — has concentrated on the elementary and middle grades and the only statutory NAEP mandates are for grades four and eight.

While some earlier studies questioned the role of grade configuration in school success and student achievement, including the 2008 National Forum «Policy Statement on Grade Configuration» and a 2010 study by EdSource, «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better» in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger in the past two years,» West says.

«Intuitively, I had not expected this to be an important policy lever, but there are a lot of indicators that things are not going well for students in the middle school grades in the United States,» says West, who serves as executive editor of Education Next.

Using an innovative technique made possible by Internet surveys and geo - coding technology, Martin West and his colleagues at Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance («Grading Schools,» research) were able to match each member of a nationally representative sample of adults to the specific elementary and middle schools that serve his or her neighborhood.

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

«Lack of specialized teacher preparation for middle - grades teachers amounts to malpractice,» asserted Ken McEwin, a professor of curriculum and instruction at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., and a member of the policy committee of the National Forum to Accelerate Middle - Grades Rmiddle - grades teachers amounts to malpractice,» asserted Ken McEwin, a professor of curriculum and instruction at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., and a member of the policy committee of the National Forum to Accelerate Middle - Grades Rgrades teachers amounts to malpractice,» asserted Ken McEwin, a professor of curriculum and instruction at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., and a member of the policy committee of the National Forum to Accelerate Middle - Grades RMiddle - Grades RGrades Reform.

Learn about how promising digital tools and resources are now available to help you strengthen teaching and learning in middle grades mathematics, and the policy changes that California must make to take advantage of these new opportunities.

That, Klein aides argue, will show that major reforms in lower grades, like the citywide curriculum and the 3rd - and 5th - grade retention policies, will have combined with reforms to middle schools and high schools to produce their desired effects.

Chapter 19: The National Forum's Policy Statement on Teacher Preparation The National Forum to Accelerate Middle - Grades Reform

A Los Angeles book launch event on Dec. 2 featured four Teach Plus Teaching Policy Fellows and contributing writers: Sujata Bhatt, founder of the Incubator School; Kyle Hunsberger, a mathematics teacher at Johnnie L. Cochrain, Jr., Middle School who developed and successfully implemented a 6th - grade basic - skills intervention program; Jeannette Marrone, a founding teacher at Environmental Science and Technology High School; and Stephanie Widmer, a Teach for America Learning Team Leader and humanities teacher at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy.

Professor and Chair Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dr. Anfara is the first recipient of the Lipka Lifetime Achievement Award due to his longtime leadership and service in middle grades education.

SREB's Challenge to Lead 2020 goals call for states to align middle grades and high school policies with college - readiness standards, to recognize multiple paths to graduation and to provide students with diverse postsecondary options and resources.

After careful deliberation, the National Forum to Accelerate Middle - Grades Reform has endorsed the following policy statement.

This final report, «Leading the Way: State Actions to Improve Student Achievement in the Middle Grades,» sets out a framework for policies and actions that can alter that discouraging pattern.

Samantha Durrance joined the Southern Regional Education Board in 2017 as a policy analyst for early childhood through middle grades.

Take a look at the most recent information on FCPS» grading and reporting policies for middle school and high school students.

Melvoin, an attorney and former middle - school teacher, campaigned last year for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton; Gonez, a seventh - grade science teacher, worked for two years as an education policy adviser for the Obama administration.

Their work focuses on four main areas: high school achievement, attainment and post-secondary preparation; achievement and development in the middle grades; contexts that support effective teaching; and data use for practice and policy.

Tennessee stated that the new Educator Licensure Policy shifts middle - grades licensure from an interdisciplinary 4 - 8 to a single discipline endorsement area (6 - 8) in either English, mathematics, science or social studies.

The National Forum unites key stakeholders to speak with a common voice to leverage research, policy, leadership, and replicable model practices to drive middle grades reform.

NASSP has been a long - time supporter of policies that seek to promote equity and excellence, including the work of Pathways to College Network, the Data Quality Campaign, Adolescent Literacy, National Standards and Assessments, the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform, and the National High School Alliance.

The best school policy that I have seen on this requires that in both the middle and high school there will be no less than three and no more than five summative assessments during each grading period of about 20 weeks.