Sentences with phrase «on student achievement during»

2011 - 2012 AYP ratings are based on student achievement during the 2010 - 2011 school year.

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Meeting this fifth challenge depends on better ways of: identifying children at risk of being locked into trajectories of low achievement at the earliest possible ages; enhancing levels of school readiness; diagnosing learning difficulties upon entry to school; and intervening intensively during the early years of school to address individual learning needs to give as many students as possible the chance of successful ongoing learning.

The power of culture - and its effect on student achievement - is evident in adolescents» lesser concentration on academic endeavors as they focus more on television, video games, and excessive employment during the school year.

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.

As is well known, the economic benefits of a college education have risen dramatically during the past quarter century, and substantial evidence shows that students with good grades or high scores on achievement tests tend to pursue more education.

One way in which NCATE attempts to demonstrate its effectiveness is by citing the fact that the three states that required NCATE accreditation for all schools of education during the 1980s — Arkansas, North Carolina, and West Virginia — experienced greater than average increases in student achievement on the NAEP assessments during the 1990s.

For example, from 1990 to 2007, black students» scale scores increased 34 points on the NAEP 4th - grade mathematics tests (compared with a 28 - point increase for whites), and the black - white achievement gap declined from 32 to 26 points during this period.

By designing groups based on need and not achievement, students who once never interacted with each other during the core day are now sitting side by side with the understanding that, no matter their differences, they share a common academic challenge.

But today's school leaders understand that a strong home - school connection can have a direct impact on student achievement, so they have created many new and fun ways to forge a strong relationship between parents and teachers during the opening weeks of the new school year.

Two manifestoes issued during the Democratic primaries laid out competing philosophies on improving student achievement that were intended to influence the eventual Democratic nominee.

We measure the initial impact of the EITP on a school's math and reading achievement by comparing student achievement between the Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 schools at the end of the 2008 — 09 school year, during which Cohort 1 schools implemented the EITP but Cohort 2 schools did not.

So teachers should make sure parents see the results, if not in person during project presentations, then by posting student work, sharing student reflections after a project, and reporting on the achievement of learning goals.

A Pew Foundation report on school closures found that «academic studies suggest that student achievement often falls during the final months of a closing school's existence.»

During his six year tenure, the district raised student achievement by elevating academic standards, aligning the curriculum and focusing on principal leadership and teachers» quality of instruction.

During his eight years in Tallahassee, the governor established a far - reaching accountability system, including limits on social promotion in elementary school; introduced a plethora of school choice initiatives (vouchers for the disabled, vouchers for those in failing schools, tax - credit funded scholarships for the needy, virtual education, and a growing number of charter schools); asked school districts to pay teachers according to merit; promoted a «Just Read» initiative; ensured parental choice among providers of preschool services; and created a highly regarded system for tracking student achievement.

Recent results on our Nation's Report Card (the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP), for example, tell us that during the NCLB era, student achievement in reading and math improved for African American, Hispanic, and white students alike, and achievement gaps among these groups narrowed.

The teachers» value - added from prior years, in which they had been assigned students based on the principals» predilections, provided unbiased forecasts of student achievement during the randomized year.

Performance - based compensation systems must consider gains in student academic achievement as well as classroom evaluations conducted multiple times during each school year among other factors and provide educators with incentives to take on additional responsibilities and leadership roles.

Of course, then you have to gather information about student achievement — how well they did on a test that was designed specifically for the content that was being taught during a given lesson.

«(C) lassroom achievement has been found to improve when students, particularly low - achieving students, are actively engaged and receive feedback on their performance during an instructional event» (Whitte 2010).

We study the impact of post-1990 school finance reforms, during the so - called «adequacy» era, on the distribution of school spending and student achievement between high - income and low - income school districts.

During her tenure at Hamilton, student achievement improved in all subgroups as evidenced by growth on the California Academic Performance Index.

Investing time in planning will pay off in maximizing time during instruction and a greater impact on student achievement.

As examples, studies that use student test performance to measure teachers» effectiveness — adjusted for prior achievement and background characteristics — demonstrate that, on average, teachers add more to their students» learning during their second year of teaching than they do in their first year, and more in their third year than in their second.

This study found that students whose teachers crafted high quality SLOs outperformed their peers and showed significantly greater gain on two independent measures of student achievement at all three school levels during all years under study.

An Investigation of the Impact of the 6 +1 Trait ® Writing Model on Grade 5 Student Writing Achievement A scientific study conducted in 74 Oregon elementary schools showed that the 6 +1 Trait Writing ® Model caused a statistically significant increase in student writing scores during the year in which it was studied Student Writing Achievement A scientific study conducted in 74 Oregon elementary schools showed that the 6 +1 Trait Writing ® Model caused a statistically significant increase in student writing scores during the year in which it was studied student writing scores during the year in which it was studied (2010).

During his tenure, he made the MTA the voice of the profession and established the teachers union as a partner in developing and implementing state and federal policy such as teacher - evaluation frameworks, new curriculum standards, district and school accountability measures, while strengthening labor - management collaboration focused on improving student achievement.

The Policy Forums held during SEDL's 2001 - 2005 Regional Educational Laboratory contract with the U.S. Department of Education focused on the topics of school finance, instructional spending, teacher quality, and student achievement.

Addressing the state's persistent achievement gaps and ensuring a pathway to excellent education for all students, particularly those who are most vulnerable, led the Board's discussion about the new accountability system and new charter school regulations, which will be voted on during the Board's October meeting.

During the three - year experiment, educators were rewarded with $ 5,000, $ 10,000 or $ 15,000 bonuses based on whether their students» achievement rose by a specific amount over a certain period of time.

Dora Silva, center, of Centro Hispano, makes a point during an August 1996 Schools of Hope meeting on minority student achievement.

During the same time that the Legislature was considering Senate Bill 1566, TASB hosted the first eXceptional Governance (XG) Summit in Austin, presenting research that shows the positive effect a school board's beliefs and behaviors can have on student achievement in a district.

During middle school, for example, students from elementary schools that had implemented the Developmental Studies Center's Child Development Project — a program that emphasizes community building — were found to outperform middle school students from comparison elementary schools on academic outcomes (higher grade - point averages and achievement test scores), teacher ratings of behavior (better academic engagement, respectful behavior, and social skills), and self - reported misbehavior (less misconduct in school and fewer delinquent acts)(Battistich, 2001).

The latest results on the most important nationwide math test show that student achievement grew faster during the years before the Bush - era No Child Left Behind law, when states were dominant in education policy, than over the years since, when the federal law has become a powerful force in classrooms.

Researchers used scores of roughly 8 million students tested in fourth and eighth grades in math and reading / ELA in 47 states during the 2008 — 09 school year to estimate state - and district - level subject - specific achievement gaps on each state's accountability tests.

Ratings are based on the achievement of students on tests taken during the previous academic year or on a three - year average of achievement.

If, as research indicates and many teachers suspect, student achievement is more highly correlated with student interests than with cognitive ability, then we should make curriculum design based on human interests a primary focus for professional development during the next decade.

The awards are based on student achievement on state assessments during the 2011 - 2012 and 2010 - 2011 school years.

The schools and school divisions earning 2016 VIP awards — which are based on student achievement and other performance indicators during 2014 - 2015 — include:

Black students» achievement on state tests in math increased from 17 percent scoring proficient or advanced during the 2009 - 10 school year to 18.3 percent.

How would you rate your ability to use strong evidence of student learning to evaluate the effectiveness of your instructional decisions on the learning and achievement of your current students during each lesson?

Because it has a direct, positive impact on student achievement, principals should promote collaborative opportunities for teachers by building a master schedule that gives teachers time during the school day to meet together.

«We have many reasons to celebrate achievement in our school system, as well as areas that we need to address that might need improvement,» Susan Brown, executive director of curriculum, instruction and assessment, told Board of Education members during a presentation on overall student achievement.

See how summer learning programs help students retain and build - on their achievements during the school year.

There is every scientific reason to predict that an intensive focus on oral language development during the classroom reading period in early grades will not only raise reading achievement for all students, it will also help narrow the gap between social groups.

During her time as Superintendent of Paloma, she started a grant - funded preschool, won two blended learning grants, increased school enrollment, student achievement, developed community space on campus, and has started construction of a new school.

During his time as superintendent, McClure led a school revitalization process that effectively improved student achievement by turning around all the schools in his district from School Improvement Status to successful schools that focus on teaching standards that are relevant to students and have a real - world connection.

One reason D.C.'s education reforms attracted significant attention across the country was their timing: DCPS started using IMPACT to evaluate teachers during the 2009 — 2010 school year, just as the education reform organization The New Teacher Project (TNTP) released a report recommending that districts develop evaluation systems that rate teachers «based on their effectiveness in promoting student achievement.»

During the session, experts will share information on specific provisions in ESSA that can be used to bolster states» school leadership investments, especially for the lowest - performing schools, schools with large, persistent achievement gaps, and other schools identified as a state priority based on other crucial indicators of school capacity and performance and student success.

Their study concludes: ``... the preponderance of evidence suggests positive effects of the accountability movement in the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s on student achievement, especially in math.»