Sentences with phrase «most dramatic student»

While many charter schools across the state achieved impressive gains, charter schools in San Diego County and in Oakland Unified School District experienced the most dramatic student achievement gains relative to their neighboring public schools.

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FORTUNE — Hundreds of students, business leaders, and investors crammed into the Shell Auditorium at Rice University on Thursday evening to watch the Rice Business Plan Competition elevator pitch contest, arguably the most dramatic event at the university's three - day business plan extravaganza.

By his way of thinking, the most pressing problems include a dramatic drop in college and university endowments, an ever increasing number of graduate students and recent PhDs who will likely never secure full - time academic jobs, and a graying, backward - looking professoriate that refuses to get out of the way.

The most dramatic effect was measured in students attending middle schools; they were more likely to have a negative view of their reading skills and interest levels.

According to Usdin, the schools have seen the «most dramatic gains in a school system in a short amount of time,» with 56 percent of students performing on grade level compared with 35 percent before Katrina.

Arguably, the most important development in K — 12 education over the past decade has been the emergence of a growing number of urban schools that have been convincingly shown to have dramatic positive effects on the achievement of disadvantaged students.

Students analyze and evaluate critical comments about personal dramatic work explaining which points are most appropriate to inform further development of the work

Riley: Possibly the most dramatic impact on inclusion efforts across the nation is the inclusion of students with disabilities in the assessment and accountability provisions of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act.

The West has seen the most dramatic decline in white students and the largest increase in Hispanic students.

The reason we have operated only «A» rated schools every year since 2006 is primarily because 60 percent of that grade has been based on individual student growth, a metric on which our scholars and teachers post some of the most dramatic improvements year - over-year.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

While the differences in incoming achievement are not dramatic, they certainly do not support the theory that charter schools drain regular public schools of their best, most - advantaged students.

In the most dramatic display of civic activism by American students in recent memory, tens of thousands walked out of their schools Wednesday and took part in somber, politically charged demonstrations marking the Feb. 14 shooting that killed 17 educators and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla..

Prior research by William Howell and Paul Peterson suggested that the reason low - income inner - city African Americans benefit most from private - school choice is that moving to the new school represents a more dramatic improvement in the school environment for them than for less - disadvantaged white and Hispanic students.

In our book, we analyze student performance in the four states that have had the most dramatic increases in funding as a result of court orders — Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Wyoming.

However, what is clear is that reading practice is decreasing among all age groups, with the most dramatic decreases among the very students who may need it the most.

Some of the most dramatic improvements were among the school's most at - risk students.

The change from the previous state standards was dramatic, and they have the most important, detailed insight into how challenging that was for them and their students.

This is a dramatic change from a generation ago: In 1987, a U.S. student was most likely to be assigned to a 15 - year veteran (Ingersoll & Merrill, 2012).

«The bottom line is that state takeovers, for the most part, have yet to produce dramatic and consistent increases in student performance, as is necessary in many of the school districts that are taken over,» the report concluded.

Some of the most dramatic gains in urban education have come from school districts using a «portfolio strategy»: negotiating performance agreements with some mix of traditional, charter and hybrid public schools, allowing them great autonomy, letting them handcraft their schools to fit the needs of their students, giving parents their choice of schools, replicating successful schools and replacing failing schools.

This process leads to off - the - charts teacher love (our data shows teachers love BetterLesson more than Apple users love their iPhones), high administrator engagement, and, most importantly, dramatic teacher and student growth.

Former KIPP students, now adults, tell me that losing a year - end trip was the most dramatic moment of their middle school years.

The challenges and needs are particularly dramatic in low - income communities where students are the most likely to be behind grade level and who stand to benefit most from additional learning time.

Bellwether Education Partners is a national, nonpartisan nonprofit of more than 50 professionals dedicated to helping education organizations become more effective in their work and achieve dramatic results, especially for the most underserved students.

The most dramatic impact is for academically talented students who are offered accelerated classes.

But the most dramatic increase has been for black students.

The Student Success Act's most dramatic components center on the bill's accountability provisions, which allow states to determine how they will judge and improve school performance with minimal interference or direction from the federal government.

The study found that most white students attend schools that are 73 percent white, that the percentage of Black students in mostly minority schools has risen over the last two decades, that Black and Latino students are mostly sharing the same schools, and that the rise in segregation has been most dramatic for Latino students.

In the most dramatic form of resistance, students simply refuse to do things they have been taught to believe should be done for them.

Using a value - added model to analyze performance data from 179 high - need charter schools across the country during the 2008 - 2009 school year, EPIC identified 22 schools that have made the most dramatic gains in student achievement.

Some of the most dramatic progress has been made in the area of graduation requirements, where 13 states, up from just two in 2004, now require high school students to complete a college - and work - ready curriculum in order to earn a diploma.

Even in a city hailed nationally for its gains in public - school student proficiency, Cohen stands out for its dramatic improvement from one of the most reviled, lowest - performing schools in the state to a «B» performance score in a mere four years.

SACRAMENTO, California — Most Californians support dramatic changes set to take hold in public education, including funneling more money to schools with disadvantaged students and implementing rigorous national standards known as the common core curriculum, a new poll shows.

ABOUT BELLWETHER Bellwether Education Partners is a national, nonpartisan nonprofit of more than 50 professionals dedicated to helping education organizations become more effective in their work and achieve dramatic results, especially for the most underserved students.

In some of the country's most vulnerable neighbourhoods, more than 50 per cent of students do not graduate high school, taking a dramatic toll on our communities, our health and justice systems, and our economy.