Sentences with phrase «of additional learning gains»

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Learning something new can actually be a waste of time if your goal is to make progress and not simply gain additional knowledge.

«As we learn more about the sources for dust, we can gain additional knowledge about the history of the universe and how various stellar objects within it evolve.»

For example, preschool systems in Tulsa and Boston have produced gains of between half and a full year of additional learning in reading and math.

It also suggests that although the schools gained extra income upon conversion, little of this additional money was spent on frontline service such as extra teachers or learning resources.

Broadening our ideas about where, when, and how learning happens helps communities to create richer learning pathways that have the potential to include more nonacademic opportunities to help youth gain the skills necessary for a healthy adulthood, offer a seamless learning environment that can help stem summer learning loss, and tap resources outside of schools for additional opportunities to help close the achievement gap.

Schools operated by Achievement First, for example, have helped their students gain an additional 125 days of learning in math and 57 days in English over traditional public schools.

These are highly statistically significant, educationally meaningful achievement gains of several months of additional learning from school choice.

Gains achieved by 9th - grade students ranged between nearly five months of additional learning to more than nine months of additional learning.

For instance, the median finding across 10 studies of teacher effectiveness estimates that a teacher who is one standard deviation above the average in terms of quality produces additional learning gains for students of 0.12 standard deviations in reading and 0.14 standard deviations in math.

The CREDO analysis also shows that Michigan's low - income students, who comprise the vast majority of charter students in Detroit, make modest achievement gains (less than a month of additional learning in math each year) compared to district schools, as do black and Hispanic students.

Alex Hernandez of the Charter School Growth Fund celebrated: «[CREDO] reports that the 107,000 students whose schools receive support from the Charter School Growth Fund gain, on average, the equivalent of four additional months of learning in math and three additional months of learning in reading each year when compared to peers in other public schools.»

A third - party evaluation conducted by Douglas Ready at Teachers College found that students made annual academic gains equivalent to a half year of additional learning compared to national averages.

Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found that NYC charter students gained an additional one month of learning per year in reading over their district - school peers; in math the advantage was five months of additional learning each year.

Based on the findings presented here, the typical student in Michigan charter schools gains more learning in a year than his [traditional public school (TPS)-RSB- counterparts, amounting to about two months of additional gains in reading and math.

And while we know that young children need a healthy dose of playtime in school, a new study reminds us why academics are important at that age: Over the course of a year, preschoolers who spent more time on language, literacy, and math activities than their peers gained, on average, 2.5 months of additional learning.

When charter students moved to higher - quality schools, they gained an additional fifty - eight days of learning in reading and eighty - eight days of learning in math by the third year after their school closed.

In the study, students whose teachers were in the New Teacher Center's mentor program gained an additional two to four months of learning in reading and an additional two to five months of learning in math when compared to their peers in the control group.

We know that mentors provide new teachers with much - needed support and guidance in their crucial first years, but there's a strong pass - through effect as well: Students of mentored teachers gained the equivalent of 3 to 3.5 months of additional learning in reading and math over the course of a year, a new study found.

According to a 2015 study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, students enrolled in urban charter schools gained 40 additional days of learning in math per year and 28 additional days in reading compared to students in district schools.

They found that a principal in the top 16 percent of the quality distribution will produce annual student gains that are at least 0.05 standard deviations higher than will an average principal for all students in their school, or roughly two additional months of learning.

Although online learning makes it possible for the best online teachers to live in any state of their choosing and simultaneously serve students across the entire country, the requirements for gaining additional state licensures often limit them to teaching only in the state where they physically reside — or, at most, in a small handful of states for which they have completed the licensure transfer process.

In order to gain additional insight into other factors that might lead to explanations of how to nurture teaching strategies that promote student learning, we undertook an analysis of instructional practices that was independent of student achievement.

In the most recent growth period included in the study (meaning the learning gains in the last year - to - year analysis) the impact was even larger — 57 additional days of learning in reading and 68 additional days in math.

CREDO released a 2014 report (http://credo.stanford.edu/pdfs/LA2014ReleaseFinal.pdf) finding that the typical LA charter school student gains more learning in a year than his / her district school peer, amounting to about 50 more days of learning in reading and an additional 79 days of learning in math.

Researchers found that the typical student in a Boston charter (about 13 percent of the state's charter students) gained more than twelve months of additional learning per year in reading and thirteen months greater progress in math.

Gains achieved by ninth - grade students ranged between nearly 5 months of additional learning to more than 9 months of additional learning.

Planners can gain additional insights by analyzing the performance of subgroups of students, in particular the learning progress of students of different socioeconomic backgrounds, ability levels, language experiences, ethnicities, races, and genders.

Thinking about whether school partnerships drive effective school improvement, our evaluation of The Gaining Ground Strategy (2009 - 11), comprising school - to - school partnership working; additional support from School Improvement Partners (SIPs); additional training in Assessment for Learning (AfL); and study support, found that Gaining Ground consistently had a positive effect on pupil attainment and attendance.

• In Indianapolis, charter schools students gain an additional 47 days of learning in math and 55 days in reading compared to district peers each year.

For every school year, Texas charter students are gaining nearly an additional month of learning, which accelerates student preparation for more advanced coursework.

Most notably, students are gaining an additional 17 days of learning in reading and have closed the gap in math.

DeVos supporters point to a 2013 Stanford study that found that Michigan charter - school students are learning at a faster rate in reading and math than their public - school peers — seeing an additional two months of gains in each subject.

Even for groups where the claimed learning is the greatest, the most those students gain is about one month of additional learning.

Most recently, a 2012 study by Harvard University's Strategic Data Project found that students of NBCTs in the Los Angeles Unified School District made learning gains equivalent to an additional two months of instruction in math and one month in English Language Arts.

On average, charter students in California gain an additional 14 days of learning in reading over their district school peers, but lag behind their district school peers by 14 days of learning in math.

That finding, the report explains, is the equivalent of gaining an additional seven to nine months of learning each year.

Schools that partnered with City Year also gained the equivalent of approximately one month of additional learning in math and ELA.

Statewide, students attending public charter schools in Louisiana gained an additional 50 days of learning in reading and 65 days in math compared to their peers attending traditional public schools.

Compared to their traditional public school peers, Tennessee charter school students gained the equivalent of 86 additional learning days in reading and 72 days in mathematics over the course of a single year.

In a statistically significant study, Mathematica Policy Research finds that EL middle school students gain an additional ten months of learning growth in math and seven months in reading after three years.

The NYT article fails to mention that the same study found that «on average, charter students in Michigan gain an additional two months of learning in reading and math over their [traditional public school] counterparts.

Additionally, New Teacher Center advocates for multi-year induction programs that incorporate co-teaching models.44 Teachers supported by New Teacher Center demonstrate higher proficiency in both engaging students and using assessment in instruction, while 90 percent of new teachers agree that working with their New Teacher Center mentor influences their practice and meets their needs as a growing professional.45 Moreover, a preliminary independent Evaluation of Investing in Education, or i3 evaluation, showed that «after just one year, students of teachers supported by New Teacher Center gained 2 to 3.5 months of additional learning in reading compared to control teachers.»

From my point of view, this limited communal interaction provided an important connection with the preservice English teachers beyond the university classroom, allowing me to gain additional insight into their development as teachers and provide more individualized support in their learning.

A 2014 Mathematica report found that students who attended the school for four years gained an additional 1.6 years of school in math, an additional 40 percent of a year of school in English language arts, and an additional 60 percent of a year of school in science when compared with the learning gains of their peers across New York City schools.45

The gains translated to more than a month of additional learning for students led by NISL - trained principals.

Learning through an online math tutor app and program provides your student with additional life skills outside of gaining just math knowledge.

The gains for DC charter high schools weren't statistically significant, but at the national level high schools provided their students with the equivalent of 32 additional days of learning in math and only 9 in reading.

As in DC, the highest gains nationally were in middle school math, with 73 additional days of learning.

Nationally, the CREDO study found that students in urban charter schools gained the equivalent of 40 additional days of learning in math and 28 additional days in reading.

Their findings suggest Board - certified teachers produce gains of up to 1.5 months of additional learning.