For example, Hawaii reshaped its school accountability system so interventions, based
on school performance data, will productively support rather than punish schools with the most struggling students.
Instead, state leaders should work to strengthen state standards and tests, provide school performance information to parents and taxpayers, and empower parents to act
on school performance data by offering more school - choice options.
Not exact matches
The
data on charter -
school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic
schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public
schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue
on to graduate
school.»
• The majority of parents (53 %) are positive about the impact of
schools collecting
data on their child's academic
performance and behavior.
As if anticipating that attack, Cuomo released a 250 - page book listing his positions
on issues of the day, including a strong defense of charter
schools and the use of student -
performance data in assessing teachers.
Commenting
on the primary
school performance tables released today by the DfE, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The NASUWT has consistently highlighted to Government the serious problems with the reforms to primary assessment, particularly the impossibility of comparing
data for last year with previous years due to changes introduced to the testing system.
The Scottish Government's Parentzone website has published
data on the
performance of
school leavers.
The
School's curriculum will focus
on best practices in software engineering — version control, continuous integration,
data management, programming paradigms, etc. — to promote reproducibility and reliability in research as well as aspects of modern high -
performance computing architectures and code optimization.
States should focus
on improving the quality of
school performance data, and then making that
data available to third parties so they can work their magic and offer it to all parents.
The NEPC report presents information comparing the finances of a subset of K12 - operated
schools with other
schools in the same states, but it is hard to interpret the spending
data without good information
on the
performance of K12
schools.
Measures of
school performance based
on carefully constructed comparisons of student achievement growth, and other important outcomes, such as high -
school graduation and college enrollment rates, require student - level
data that are not publicly available.
Monitor student
performance data across the
school to ensure teachers are focused
on areas of need; and,
For instance, submitting homework
on a tablet allows the
school — and even the district — to collect
performance data.
He used
data from Wake County, North Carolina, to study how start times affect the
performance of middle
school students
on standardized tests.
In 2015, Brazil's
school assessment exams, the National Education Evaluation System (SAEB in Portuguese), will provide the first
data on how
schools in Amazonas have fared since receiving the IDB loan, and while this will be a useful tool for evaluating the
performance of rural students compared to their urban counterparts, Perez says the exam may not be an entirely accurate measurement of the success of PADEAM and the Media Center.
Data from Ohio show little relationship between a
school's enrollment and its rating
on the Ohio
school performance index.
Nevada holds
schools accountable for student
performance by publishing test
data on school report cards and using the results to help rate
schools.
In this study, I use
data from Wake County, North Carolina, to examine how start times affect the
performance of middle
school students
on standardized tests.
A Better Way to Compare State
Performance on NAEP By Matthew M. Chingos and Kristin Blagg Demographically - adjusted data provide important insights into differences in state - level school p
Performance on NAEP By Matthew M. Chingos and Kristin Blagg Demographically - adjusted
data provide important insights into differences in state - level
school performanceperformance.
Over the last eight years, the district has spent $ 32 million
on the hardware systems necessary to track student demographic and
performance data districtwide, and another $ 2 million
on additional computers that allow teachers to access the system; much of this funding has come from the federal E-Rate program, which has allocated more than $ 10 billion toward Internet infrastructure in K — 12
schools and libraries since 1996 (see «World Wide Wonder?»
For some time now, I've been giving the Department a hard time about not releasing enough
data on the
performance of the SIG (
School Improvement Grants) program — I'm trying to hold them accountable for the Secretary's talk of turning around 5,000 persistently failing
schools over the course of five years.
Moreover, summative assessment sat at the core of many of the policy reforms that the leaders described: additional accountability levers such as teacher evaluation systems and statewide
school report cards draw
on data coming out of these summative tests to make determinations and comparisons regarding teacher and
school - level
performance.
The survey is supplemented by a separately collected
data set
on the demographics and academic
performance of the
school districts in which each respondent lives.
Well - functioning
school choice requires a federal role in gathering and disseminating high - quality
data on school performance; ensures that civil rights laws are enforced; distributes funds based
on enrollment of high - need students in particular
schools; and supports a growing supply of
school options through an expanded, equitably funded charter sector and through the unfettered growth of digital learning via application of the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause.
With all the attention being paid these days to
school accountability for students»
performance on academic assessments, it's easy to overlook an indicator like attendance, especially when the
data don't set off alarm bells.
The simple but striking illustration, created by sifting through a mountain of
data on student mobility and
performance, shows what actually occurred to students from a real Chicago
school.
Barely more than one third said it was false that the federal government requires all states to use the Common Core standards (it does not), just 15 percent said it was false that the federal government will receive detailed
data on the test
performance of individual students in participating states (it will not), and fewer than half said it was true that states and local
school districts can decide which textbooks to use under Common Core (they can).
In this paper, we use an extensive student - level
data set to evaluate the impact of charter
schools in North Carolina
on the math and reading
performance of students in grades 4 through 8.
The report goes
on to say that
data on free
school performance is mixed and it is too early to determine whether they have been a success.
Excellent
Schools Detroit (ESD), a coalition of philanthropic, education, and community leaders, began grading publicly funded schools based on school climate and academic performance data i
Schools Detroit (ESD), a coalition of philanthropic, education, and community leaders, began grading publicly funded
schools based on school climate and academic performance data i
schools based
on school climate and academic
performance data in 2012.
«In the 21,000 - student Syracuse city
school system in New York, which was recently accepted into the Strategic
Data Project for this school year, administrators hope to use data uncovered by Harvard researchers to gather information on key performance indicators.&ra
Data Project for this
school year, administrators hope to use
data uncovered by Harvard researchers to gather information on key performance indicators.&ra
data uncovered by Harvard researchers to gather information
on key
performance indicators.»
Criticizing those before and after A Nation at Risk who have urged education reform in the interest of maintaining economic growth, he wrote in a recent Washington Post essay, «None of these fine gentlemen provided any
data on the relationship between the economy's health and the
performance of
schools.
Our strategy takes advantage of the fact that
data were collected
on both actual and average class sizes and
on students»
performance and socioeconomic backgrounds for more than one grade level in each
school.
The foundation has already committed some $ 135 million to overhauling fundamental aspects of urban
school districts: identifying new sources of talent for positions of authority; developing alternative training methods for managers, principals, and teachers union leaders; creating new tools for analyzing
performance data; and working with
school boards to help those sometimes obstructionist bodies become more focused
on student learning than
on petty power plays.
On the «managing by results» side, there has been the big battle over the use of test
data for accountability purposes (CompStat for
schools), culminating in the fight over value - added measurement of teacher
performance.
The software will import real demographic
data on a
school district's student
performance, personality, racial makeup, and even social characteristics to generate a realistic classroom mix.
Marshalling a vast array of
data and summarizing the relevant literature, he makes a compelling case that nothing that we have done, to date, has had a meaningful, system - wide positive impact
on urban
schools»
performance.
Yet virtual
school students come and go at all times of the year, leaving the public with no
data on their
performance.
In order to get a clearer picture of what's really happening in Detroit, we thought it would be useful to assemble all the available
data on the
performance of Detroit's charter and district
schools into one place.
Here we use the
data from all three cities to analyze the one - and two - year effects
on academic
performance of switching from a public to a private
school.
The results add one more
data point to the diverse assortment of studies about charter
performance: an example of the charter sector outperforming,
on the whole, nearby traditional
schools.
Dr Allen said: «When we reran the
performance data based
on a student's time in
school, there were enormous changes to some
schools»
performance.
By instructional leadership, we mean the principal's capacity to: 1) offer a vision for instruction that will inspire the faculty; 2) analyze student
performance data and make sound judgments as to which areas of the curriculum need attention; 3) make good judgments about the quality of the teaching in a classroom based
on analysis of student work; 4) recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization and practice; 5) provide strong coaching to teachers
on all of the foregoing; 6) evaluate whether instructional systems in the
school are properly aligned; and 7) determine the quality and fitness of instructional materials.
Commenting
on the release yesterday of secondary
school performance data for England in 2015/16, teachers union NAHT says pupils who would be more suited to a broader range of GCSE subjects are not being served well by having their subjects restricted by EBacc.
Education researcher Gerald Bracey, for example, has argued that no one has «provided any
data on the relationship between the economy's health and the
performance of
schools.
And teachers and
schools should have access to the rich
data that is consequently generated to shine a light
on a student's
performance in innovative new ways.
The law distinguishes between «report cards,» where States must compile and release a wide array of
data on school performance and finances, and a «statewide accountability system» with a «state - determined methodology» to identify low - performing
schools.
For example, we had a presentation
on our PIPS [
Performance Indicators in Primary
Schools]
data, looking at Prep at the beginning and Prep at the end, sharing that and what are our improvement goals for this group of children.
Please see the «NJ Education Facts» section of our website for the full NAEP results,
data on the achievement gap and US
performance on international tests, and independent rankings of the NJ
school system.
College / Career Indicator Reports and
Data The College / Career Indicator uses multiple measures to provide a
performance level based
on the number of students who are likely prepared for success after high
school.