Sentences with phrase «on high achievement for all students»

Murphy imagines a hypothetical model program called Administrative Leaders for Learning — ALL for short — that would be organized to spotlight and connect three overlapping domains of knowledge: instructional practice and learning theory, with a particular focus on high achievement for all students; the education sector, with a particular focus on schooling in context; and matters of leadership and management.

Assistant Superintendent Georgeanne Warnock and her team at Carrollton - Farmers Branch ISD (CFBISD) fiercely focus on high achievement for all students, and this commitment to excellence goes far beyond test scores.

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When discussing student performance on achievement tests, Barton notes that private or religious schools account for a disproportionately high number of National Merit Scholars and says that is because «one school utilizes religions principles and one does not.»

Schools would gain greater state recognition for achievement by high school students on college - level Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate exams.

The Success network is known for its students» high achievement on state tests, and it emphasizes getting — and keeping — scores up.

This drive for academic achievement leads to high attainment in international academic assessments but has contributed to the curtailment of nocturnal sleep on school nights to well below the recommended eight to ten hours of sleep, putting students at risk of cognitive and psychological problems.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

While the word «accountability» never appears in Risk, its call for higher academic standards and its focus on student achievement as the main barometer of quality laid the intellectual groundwork for the rigorous curricula and tests envisioned by the promoters of standards - based -LSB-...]

Most of the contributors to the volume have found evidence that policies that focus on high - stakes testing corrupt educational reform and undermine achievement, especially for at - risk students.

Evidence on the achievement effects of desegregation by income is limited by both an absence of detailed information on family income (including indicators for severe poverty or high income) and the difficulty in separating the effects of students» own circumstances from the influences of peers.

Perhaps it's because white students score higher on achievement tests and graduate at substantially higher rates that many of the loudest voices in this debate aren't troubled by asking for patience and time to get things exactly right before proceeding.

But she acknowledges reaching the president's college - graduation goals will take considerable efforts, with low - income students among those targeted for increased achievement on the higher - education level.

Achievement; growth; social studies in certain grades; growth of students; on - track high school graduation for 9th graders; progress in English - language proficiency; four -, five -, and six - year cohort graduation rates

However, high - performing countries tend to require high academic achievement of entering teacher education students, and then select on the basis of skills and personal attributes required for effective teaching.

For high schools: accelerated or dual coursework (like AP or IB); share of students completeing a world language, fine arts, CTE or advanced course; share of students showing college or career readiness through entrance into technical college, or achievement on various advanced courses.

Despite these differences, the bulk of the available, high - quality evidence on school voucher programs suggests that they do yield positive achievement effects for participating students.

In her first year on the job, Jewell - Sherman launched Excellence for All, a comprehensive plan aimed at improving teaching and learning to enable students to reach high academic standards, and promoting involvement with the community as a way of addressing nonacademic barriers to student achievement.

The major substantive chapters of the book place Swedish expenditure and achievement in comparative perspective (in both, Sweden rates high); show that the decline in education inputs during the 1990s worsened the teacher - student ratio and teacher quality; review the international research on the effects of school choice; and test for the effects of school choice in Sweden on achievement.

The 2006 Child Well - Being Index, released in March by the Foundation for Child Development in cooperation with Duke University and the Brookings Institution, suggests a general lack of progress for K - 12 students, evidenced by flat scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, persistent achievement gaps, and falling high school graduation rates.

The state sets the criteria for determining who is a high - performing teacher, mostly based on student achievement, he said.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

To the contrary, the Loveless study cited above offers some support for the proposition that high performers suffer systematically from the focus on closing the achievement gap, while there is limited data that grouping all students together improves the quality of education for struggling students.

If high - income parents are more likely to make a request, and such requests are for better teachers on average, then the availability of requests could exacerbate the achievement gap between students from low - and high - income families, even if all families equally value academic achievement.

Michigan's high school achievement test, in place since 1978, could be on its way out to make way for a set of new tests that would measure students» college readiness.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

Such pay innovations should also boost student achievement and, because they are based on performance, strengthen the argument for dramatically raising teacher salaries — at least for those with the highest levels of professional expertise.

Because moving between schools is known to have a negative impact on student achievement, we also control for whether the student changed schools in the current year and whether that change was structural (for instance, the student moved to a junior high school from its feeder elementary school).

How, too, could the district move the needle on student achievement, on high dropout rates, and on families getting frustrated with dismal numbers and jumping ship for other districts or competing charter schools?

Researchers identified a «consistent, positive relationship between student exposure to high - quality intellectual assignments and students» learning gains on the test — even after controlling for race, socioeconomic class, gender, and prior achievement differences among classrooms.»

Among students assigned to different teachers with the same Overall Classroom Practices score, math achievement will grow more for students whose teacher is better than his peers at classroom management (i.e., has a higher score on our Classroom Management vs. Instructional Practices measure).

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

The effects on academic achievement are greatest for students from higher income families, while the effects on behavior are more pronounced on students who are less well - off.

«Students who have highly effective teachers three years in a row score as much as 50 percentile points higher on achievement tests than those who have ineffective teachers for three years in a row.»

The report we produced, Putting Learning First: Governing and Managing the Schools for High Achievement, was the CED's fifth education study and the product of more than 10 years of ongoing research and vigorous debate by a committed group of business leaders on the most effective strategies for improving student aAchievement, was the CED's fifth education study and the product of more than 10 years of ongoing research and vigorous debate by a committed group of business leaders on the most effective strategies for improving student achievementachievement.

In most industrialized countries — nearly all of which outperform us on measures of academic achievement, such as PISA and TIMSS — students begin preparing for a career while still in high school.

Drawing on a study by Stanford education professor Sean Reardon, Ladd says that the gap in reading achievement between students from families in the lowest and highest income deciles is larger for those born in 2001 than for those born in the early 1940s.

The highest - performing charters are those that that have most fully embraced a «no excuses» approach to teaching and learning; have created strong school cultures based on explicit expectations for both academic achievement and behavior; have an intensive focus on literacy and numeracy as the first foundation for academic achievement; feature a relatively heavy reliance on direct instruction and differentiated grouping, especially in the early grades; and are increasingly focused on comprehensive student assessment systems.

In light of abundant data on low academic achievement and effort among high school students, Wagner's goal sounds impossible, but years of experience plus 150 interviews he conducted for the book convince him otherwise.

For instance, states with higher percentages of certified teachers may also have strong accountability systems that focus their schools on student achievement.

The survey, released this month by MetLife Inc., found that nearly nine in 10 teachers and principals — 86 percent and 89 percent, respectively — believe that setting high expectations for students can have a major impact on student achievement.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Lecturer Rick Weissbourd, Ed.D.» 87, commenting on his new study that found that middle and high school students care more about personal achievement and being happy than caring for others.

That study, while reporting negative achievement effects for participants in Ohio's largest voucher program, also found that students remaining in public schools performed higher on tests, owing to program - induced competition.

She has also served as a consultant for the Institute for Student Achievement (ISA) in the Atlanta Public Schools, where she focused on assisting school leaders and teachers in implementing small school reform model in select high schools.

In recent years, several studies using randomized admission lotteries have found large and persistent impacts on student achievement, even for middle school and high school students.

The focus on holding students, educators, schools, and school districts accountable for achievement is a critical element to ensuring high - quality educational opportunities and access for each student.

For students continuing from a KIPP middle school, KIPP high schools» impacts on student achievement are not statistically significant, on average.

For example, if teachers are hired without having been fully prepared, the much higher turnover rates that result are costly in terms of both dollars spent on the replacement process and decreases in student achievement in high - turnover schools.

KIPP high schools have positive, statistically significant, and educationally meaningful impacts on student achievement for high school students new to the KIPP network.