Sentences with phrase «most of the student subgroups»

Both overall and for most of the student subgroups — including gender and race — their reading scores went up when money was offered.

Not exact matches

About a thousand Asian Americans, most of Chinese heritage, converged on the Legislative Office Building Thursday to support a bill that would ban the separation of data about Connecticut's students into ethnic subgroups in the public school system unless...

The report gives only passing attention to the positive impact of NCLB on the education of the most disadvantaged students, a consequence of the requirement to report performance by specific subgroups (e.g., racial and ethnic groups and the economically disadvantaged).

For smaller American Indian / Alaskan Native and Hawaiian Native / Pacific Islander subgroups, the majority of students in the subgroup remain uncovered if only students in that subgroup are pooled: the «super subgroup» strategy of aggregating across racial / ethnic groups is the only way to account for most students in these groups, although their data are not identifiable at the subgroup level.

Our ability to conduct these subgroup analyses is further constrained by the relative homogeneity of the students in our sample, with most being white and in advanced classes.

Across grades and different student subgroups, the Coleman study found that most of the variation in student achievement is within rather than between schools, but a larger share of the variation is found between schools in earlier grades and among more disadvantaged subgroups.

Most pieces focused on instructional practices, but did not focus on a particular content area or subgroup of students.

More recently, black and Latino students in NYC gained the most of any subgroup on new tests aligned with higher standards.

Part of their job will be to assemble «a repository of practices that are most effective in improving performance of student subgroups,» Cohn said.

Although most of comparisons showed no association, the report claims that some subgroups of voucher students were less likely to commit crimes as adults.

One of the most significant deviations the initial 11 states would make from the original NCLB law is backing away from the importance of individual student subgroups in assessing schools» performance.

85 % of parents who attended sessions said «Student Performance by Subgroup» and «Teacher Quality» were the most important factors needed on a DC school report card.

This study explores the heterogeneous effects of ESL compared to developmental English on first generation, second generation, and generation 1.5 students as well as other language minority subgroups in order to illuminate which language minority students benefit the most (and the least) from ESL.

Most state web sites do a poor job of comprehensively visualizing multiple years of student data for multiple subgroups so that trends can be easily seen.

Additionally, the graduation rates for Hispanic, American Indian and African American students in Nevada continue to lag behind the rates of most student subgroups.

Authorizers must also place increases in student achievement for all subgroups as the most important factor when determining whether to renew or revoke a school's charter - including the progress of economically disadvantaged students, students from major racial and ethnic groups, students with disabilities, and students with limited English proficiency.