Sentences with phrase «most student subgroups»

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

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).

Pooling data across years and grades will include most students in accountability systems, but for lower enrollment populations, pooling across racial / ethnic groups may provide an opportunity to include students in accountability systems in cases where subgroup size is otherwise too small.

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.

Most states now combine student subgroups, previously identified by race, ethnicity, economic disadvantage, special education, and English language learner status, into opaque «super-subgroups» that are very purposefully less transparent.

Similar patterns are observed for most subgroups — black and white students are approximately equally likely to move between groups, as are students who are eligible and ineligible for a free lunch.

In reading, Hispanic students experience significant gains, whereas most other subgroups show slightly smaller positive effects.

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.

Indeed, on the most recent Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), black and Hispanic DoDEA students scored significantly above the national average for their subgroups.

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 charter schools serve disadvantaged kids, those with disabilities, ELL students, and others that fit the NCLB «subgroup» descriptors.

Results are most positive for charter schools in urban areas, and several student subgroups see particularly strong positive benefits, including black and Hispanic students, students from low - income families, and students receiving special education services (CREDO, 2015).

He breaks the students down into racial subgroups (Black, Hispanic, Economically Disadvantaged, Special Needs, etc.) and advocates most instruction to be focused on the students within those groups that can most help bring a school's scores up.

Prompted by federal regulators, California may be forced to make a fundamental change in how charter schools are evaluated for renewal by putting student achievement for all subgroups as the most important factor.

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.

The school's student achievement data shows growth in all student demographic subgroups, most notably closing the achievement gap for Hispanic learners.

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

``... Achievement gaps can persist or even widen with no accountability for improving actual achievement rates among subgroups with the most struggling students.»

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.