Sentences with phrase «on reading and math»

Right now we are concentrating on reading and math.

You might need to work on both your reading and math skills, little buddy.

Under the No Child Left Behind law, some schools engaged in test cheating to meet requirements that students score at levels deemed proficient on reading and math tests.

However, what you may not be aware of is that social studies has been increasingly marginal and especially within the last two years to focus more on reading and math scores.

Various efforts, such as the crafting of a uniform curriculum known as the Common Core, seek to broaden the narrow exams that have resulted in a laser - like focus on reading and math.

For too long, elementary schools have concentrated on reading and math skills to the near exclusion of all else.

States therefore have an opportunity to broaden NCLB's myopic focus on reading and math and on getting low - performing students to proficiency.

Backers of these reforms are particularly enamored of a new type of charter school represented by the Rocketship chain of schools — a low - budget operation that relies on young and inexperienced teachers rather than more veteran and expensive faculty, that reduces the curriculum to a near - exclusive focus on reading and math, and that replaces teachers with online learning and digital applications for a significant portion of the day.

Standardized tests, which have proliferated in classrooms in DC and elsewhere in recent years, have led teachers to concentrate on reading and math at the expense of subjects like social studies and science.

Standardized tests, which factor into the evaluation of schools and teachers, focus primarily on reading and math skills.

Yet we all know the downsides of the narrow focus on reading and math scores in grades three through eight and once in high school.

«You have teachers and administrators whose jobs rise and fall on school performance as measured on reading and math tests given for three to four days in the spring,» he said.

By that measure, too, elementary students at charter schools and neighborhood schools in Chicago were in a virtual tie on the reading and math exams last year, the Sun - Times / Medill Data Project analysis found.

In recent years the federal government has done a very effective job, intentionally or not, of influencing American elementary schools to do the very thing that King is now warning against: focus on reading and math to the near exclusion of other subjects.

Educators have long suggested that the No Child Left Behind Act's singular focus on reading and math combined with state and federal budget woes has forced schools to dramatically cut their arts programming.

Both the 2015 and 2016 versions of the guidance do some myth - busting — they make clear, for example, that Title I money used for schoolwide programs don't just have to be used on reading and math instruction, and that Title I aid can be used for children in preschool.

They found that retention in third grade had large positive effects on reading and math achievement in the short run.

A team of 36 science and education experts led by Achieve, an education nonprofit that partnered with the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers on the reading and math standards, is developing next - generation science standards that they expect to release by fall 2012.

For the past several decades, American education reformers have focused on reading and math test scores as the primary means of holding schools and teachers accountable for improving student performance.

Last year, about 50 % of 10th graders scored proficient or advanced on those reading and math tests.

I have worked with her on reading and math her whole life.

As Thomas explains, Connecticut's broken system has created one of the largest achievement gaps in the nation: «The majority of students from low - income families test far below where they should on reading and math exams.

Specifically, the Student Progress Rating looks at how much progress individual students have made on reading and math assessments during the past year or more, how this performance aligns with expected progress based on a student growth model established by the state Department of Education, and how this school's growth data compares to other schools in the state.

What's more, required tests focus on reading and math because these subjects are the foundation of other kinds of learning.

Scores on reading and math were lowest for kindergartners in households with incomes below the federal poverty level and highest for those in households with incomes at or above 200 percent of the federal poverty level.

It's well known that NCLB's narrow focus on reading and math test scores meant that too many students, especially poor students, ended up with little in their school day other than preparation to take tests in math and reading.

Indiana students who received vouchers to attend a private school actually moved backward on reading and math tests compared with students who remained in public school.

In this context, it should come as no surprise that a decade of No Child Left Behind — with its myopic emphasis on reading and math — has led to the introduction of the Common Core Standards — with their broader emphasis on critical thinking.

They reduce their curriculum to a near - exclusive focus on reading and math, and, for nearly two hours a day, teachers are replaced with computers.

We must take care that the ready availability of data on reading and math scores for grades 3 through 8 or on high school graduation rates — all of which provide useful information — do not become streetlights that distract more than they illuminate.

The tendency to casually focus on student achievement, especially given the testing system's heavy emphasis on reading and math, allows a large number of employees to either be excused from results - driven accountability or be held accountable for activities over which they have no control.

They further found that higher turnover was associated with lower student performance on reading and math achievement tests, apparently because turnover takes a toll on the overall climate of the school.42 «It is far from a trivial problem,» the researchers say.

[11] The matrix in Table 2 shows rankings of teachers on both their reading and math value - added scores.

The WaPo reporters then claim, «But a U.S. Department of Education study released in June showed that students in the program generally scored no higher on reading and math tests after two years than public school peers.»

Over a few months starting in the summer of 2009, as governors and schools chiefs sought the input of their school boards, Coleman, Zimba and other experts worked on reading and math committees to actually write the standards.

«Folks are focused more on reading and math, and so physical education and health education and recess can get squeezed as a result by some very well - intended people.»

The combination of KIPP pre-K and early elementary school had «positive and statistically significant impacts on reading and math achievement» by second grade, researchers found.

Another culprit may be the No Child Left Behind Act and its over-emphasis on reading and math.

The I - Zone schools showed some of the highest gains on reading and math tests in the state last year, higher than both the rest of the district and the ASD.

[4] Recent research has concluded that public school students who receive vouchers to attend private schools score much lower on both reading and math tests than similar students who remain in the public schools.

A 2017 multi-state review of voucher programs by Carnoy with the Economic Policy Institute found that students in voucher programs scored significantly lower than traditional public school students on reading and math tests and found no significant effect of vouchers leading to improved public school performance.

«Over the past 10, almost 15 years,» he continued, «we've so focused on reading and math scores and this is the real opportunity to make sure we're capturing the things that are important, whether it's grit and persistence or school culture or parent engagement, and the only way to do that is to give power back to the states.

Memorial Middle School, in Orlando, Fla., now has a «zero» period at the start of the day, a time when students can come an hour early and work on reading and math skills using computer programs, or finish homework.

In under - resourced and struggling school districts across the country, too many students continue to fall below national benchmarks on reading and math and on school attendance, high school graduation and college admission rates.

The special education teachers focus on reading and math instruction, Peltier told Education World.

Five states that posted A's in academic achievement on NAEP also posted A's when it came to ROI — suggesting that they're faring relatively well on reading and math, and doing so in a cost - effective manner.

Eric Hanushek, joined by nationally recognized school finance lawyer Alfred Lindseth: Since about 1970, the achievement levels of U.S. students on the reading and math tests of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have remained largely flat despite massive financial and other efforts to improve them.

As illustrated in Figure 9, the public thinks much more emphasis should be placed on reading and math than do teachers and (to a lesser extent) parents.

The general public is especially eager for more emphasis on reading and math, while teachers see greater needs in history and the arts.

I find that students in district schools do better when charters open nearby: students in these schools earn higher scores on reading and math tests and are less likely to repeat a grade.