Sentences with phrase «neighborhood school test scores»

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Charter school's students of the poorest neighborhood of New York City are doing excellent test scores in the state exams & the traditional public schools are falling miserably where those charter schools are co located.

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

Ms. Moskowitz has drawn plenty of praise for the high test scores her schools achieve despite operating in poorer, minority - heavy neighborhoods.

However, evidence presented in the report sheds doubt these large test score increases: according to an Education Writers Association study, when neighborhood schools were restored, the superintendent in Oklahoma City reduced the number of low - achievers taking the standardized tests by increasing the number of students retained (or «flunked») and implementing transition grades (in which students repeat all or part of the previous grade).

The study examines the impact of winning a school choice lottery on dropout rates and crime for groups of students with different propensities to commit crimes, using an index of crime risk that includes test scores, demographics, behavior, and neighborhood characteristics to identify the highest - risk group.

For the city, Hansen says, the moral of the story was that most parents don't want to move their children from their neighborhood school, no matter how miserable its scores on standardized tests.

Black children exhibited the familiar effect of an initial boost in test scores that faded away, leading the researchers to attribute the lack of sustained gains to the abysmal public schools in disadvantaged black neighborhoods.

The significant relationship with precinct test scores and the absence of a relationship with district scores suggests that voters were more concerned with school performance within their immediate neighborhood than across the district.

We can address this issue by comparing the prior test scores of charter school applicants in our data with the test scores of students in regular public schools in their neighborhoods (within three miles).

While some have been critical of Success Academy's intense focus on test - prep, the school's students consistently achieve impressive scores on their New York state exams, routinely outranking students from wealthy neighborhoods and prestigious private schools.

Charter - school advocates say the shift in resources is warranted because charters often excel where traditional schools have failed, posting stellar test scores even in impoverished neighborhoods with little history of academic success.

Each voucher student who «persisted» in the private school to graduation was matched by «grade, neighborhood, race, gender, English Language Learner (ELL) status and math and reading test scores» to a student who did not use a voucher.

Without giving too much away, the novel tells the story of a college - educated white family in Brooklyn whose condo is zoned for a local school whose demographics and test scores have not kept up with the gentrification of the surrounding neighborhood.

In 2012, former NYC chancellor Joel Klein (and Michelle Rhee, and Warren Buffett) half - jokingly floated the idea of «banning» private schools and assigning children to schools randomly (rather than by neighborhood or test score).

In 2007 we interviewed a random sample of parents of MPCP students in grades 3 — 8, all the parents of MPCP 9th graders, and a sample of parents of MPS students who were matched to the sample of MPCP students based on their grade in school, neighborhood of residence, ethnicity, test - score performance, and other characteristics.

Ms. Hardy — who is in her first year as principal — has staked her career on improving the culture and upping the test scores at this struggling elementary school, located in a gritty part of New Orleans» Central City neighborhood.

The studies examined schools that scored well on standardized or criterion - referenced tests while serving students from inner - city areas or neighborhoods with low socioeconomic status.

Since then, I'm proud to report that tests scores and graduation rates at neighborhood schools are increasing and the dropout rate is down.

All 15 schools marked for closure are east of Rock Creek Park, many of them east of the Anacostia River in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods, and all had below - average test scores.

«Background characteristics (e.g., race, gender, neighborhood poverty, free lunch eligibility, being old - for - grade, and special education status) are all related to high school grades and test scores, but they do not tell us any more about who will pass, get good grades, or score well on tests in high school, once we take into account students» eighth - grade GPAs, attendance, and test scores,» the authors said.

Across the board, all of us, from real estate agents to the edu - press, have bought into the zero - sum game of comparing kids, schools, and neighborhoods by test scores.

It points out that test scores improved even at District 4's neighborhood schools.

To accurately compare the SAT scores of students in LAUSD Alliance charter schools with those attending LAUSD traditional high schools located in the same neighborhoods with similar student demographics, it is necessary to consider the relative proportions of students taking the test.

These education reformers argue that their increased test scores justify their existence, as if improving school quality will break the chief cause of inequality: segregated neighborhoods and their segregated school districts.

The change was controversial: Some PS 307 parents worried that a community institution that has long nurtured black and Latino families would be «taken over» by outsiders from the gentrifying neighborhood of DUMBO, while some DUMBO families worried that the school's low test scores mean their children might not be challenged.

Instead, her daughter will most likely be required to «attend the only neighborhood school left in the area, which is farther away, posts terrible test scores, and primarily serves a destitute public housing complex.»

Improving access to and quality of arts learning first requires conducting audits of what exists by school, neighborhood or region and then making equitable access to arts learning a priority to help counteract the emphasis on tests scores.

Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor has chosen Clark, a North End neighborhood school that has struggled with low test scores and chronic absenteeism, as a candidate to enter the state Commissioner's Network after this academic year.

«When it comes to the test scores, I think the nitty - gritty is most interesting to parents,» said Kristina Turley, whose children attend school in San Diego's Clairemont neighborhood.

Ms. Moskowitz has drawn plenty of praise for the high test scores her schools achieve despite operating in poorer, minority - heavy neighborhoods.

There's a stark difference between the city's overall opt out numbers and the state's, and it's certainly true that parents at some schools in wealthier neighborhoods, whose schools can count on high test scores (as they are largely correlated with socioeconomic status), may have more time, a bigger platform to speak up, and, above all, more access to accurate information about the tests, their impacts and the right to refuse them.

And teachers don't rely on the rote drills that can take up so much classroom time when schools in poor neighborhoods fixate only on improving test scores.

In Oakland County, of the more than 9,600 students in charter schools, 3,458 are from Detroit, which means comparing their test scores to scores of those in the neighborhoods around the charter schools does not give correct information, Bauer said.

People have suggested these patterns might be due to: neighborhood / local area / region of family background; other family background characteristics; high school test scores or high school quality; quality of college attended; choices of majors and occupations; choice of neighborhood or area to live in after college.

In this example, white citizens based their decision about where to live on the school districts that served the area, using test scores to select school districts in which they wanted their children, and therefore which neighborhoods to which they wanted to move.

Every time a neighborhood is recommended on the basis of such scores, the tests gain a little more legitimacy and the schooling that children receive becomes a little worse.