Sentences with phrase «over academic impact»

Charter school policy discussions often devolve into political battles that pit advocates armed with competing research studies against one another in arguments over academic impact.

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PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

The process, which took roughly XX hours over the course of four months, helped overcome terminology barriers between the medical professionals and educational personnel, as well as helped teachers understand the impact of concussions on academics and vice-versa, including cognitive function, classroom environment, and symptom resolution.

Hence the expansion in universities, the elision of the university / polytechnic distinction, the increased hegemony of the business world (the importation of people like BP's Chris Motishead into places like KCL, the creation of the BIS Dept) over that of education, and the introduction of weaselly concepts like «research impact» into how HEFCE funds our academics.

«Over the past decade we've been able to identify a growing number of educational interventions that have managed to have notable impacts on students» academic achievement as measured by standardized tests,» West says.

With the help of mentors at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institue of Technology, and thanks to the loan of hardware from Microsoft, Bick conducted a study called «The Impact of Personal Digital Assistants on Academic Achievement,» in which he investigated the correlation between the use of Microsoft Pocket PCs and the academic performance of Millburn freshmen and sophomores over the course of fiveAcademic Achievement,» in which he investigated the correlation between the use of Microsoft Pocket PCs and the academic performance of Millburn freshmen and sophomores over the course of fiveacademic performance of Millburn freshmen and sophomores over the course of five months.

«If you look at his record over the past 15 years, he had an enormous impact on the education framework in this country,» said Academic Dean Robert Schwartz, who moderated the discussion that included panelists Clayton...

Independently reviewed by volunteering charity Pro Bono Economics and supported by the NHS, the study assessed the impact of the Greenhouse Sports model - established for a minimum of three years in each school - on the attendance, behaviour and academic attainment of over 700 participating pupils at four inner - city London schools.

They changed elements to increase impact on these skills in subsequent years and in the 2015 programme over 50 per cent or participants are already exceeding their literacy targets for the academic year.

The Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project, which will be implemented over the next two academic years, seeks to develop an array of measures that will be viewed by teachers, unions, administrators, and policymakers as reliable and credible indicators of a teacher's impact on student achievement.

This means that the studies may be over - or underestimating the impact of universal pre-k on later academic performance.

Alturas International Academy School Type: Charter Public Location: Idaho Falls Grades Served: K - 8 ’20 in 10 ′ Investment: $ 1,000,000 over five years ’20 in 10 ′ Impact: 538 new seats About the School: Alturas International Academy promotes academic distinction, while empowering students to be principled and intellectual leaders as they explore, create, investigate, and analyze in a safe, engaged, collaborative environment that inspires them to make a genuine difference in their local and global community.

Over a three - year period, researchers found that academic impacts were equivalent to 1.2 and 0.9 years of additional instruction in math and reading, respectively.

The project aims to investigate the impact of a knowledge - rich primary curriculum on the reading abilities of Year 4 students over five academic terms.

These data demonstrate the positive impact that public charter schools have on their students» academic achievement and growth over the past several years.

In terms of impact, we've had significant increase in academic achievement over a very short time.

In response to the negative impact on English Learners from over 10 years of «drill and kill», narrowly focused reading and math curricula and limited access to social science, science and the arts, Californians Together has issued a policy brief to delineate research - based teaching practices with policy recommendations for accelerating the language development and academic growth of English Learners.

Georgetown University; Washington, D.C. $ 175,000 over two years to extend the longitudinal study of the impact of Tulsa's universal PreK program by tracking academic, social, and other student outcomes as the students enter the Eighth Grade.

Research shows that the opportunity to learn from educators of color can have additional positive impacts on academic achievement for children of color — who make up over 90 % of New Orleans public school students.

And although some of the measured academic differences to peers without preschool do shrink over time, there is strong evidence of meaningful, long - term positive impacts of preschool on important indicators including high school graduation, health, employment, crime, and other outcomes.

The school saw significant progress, including an increase in attendance stability from 86.8 % (SY 13 - 14) to 91.4 % (SY 15 - 16), and an impact over two years on State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness Results in Math (20.2 % gain), Science (18.4 % gain) and Writing (20.8 % gain).

Participants will complete two residencies over the course of one academic year, «first at a high - performing Achievement First school and then at a district school with a high - impact principal.»

The most recent report is a meta - analysis of over 200 experimental studies of social and emotional learning which have demonstrated that SEL programs not only impact social cognitions and behavioral adaptation, but in addition such programs have a substantial effect size on academic achievement.

With participants representing over one dozen academic and governmental research institutions, SEARCH focuses on how retreating sea ice, thawing permafrost, and diminishing land ice are impacting society within and beyond the Arctic.

The information gathered will be handed over to academics at National Oceanography Centre, where researcher John Allen said it would provide clues on the impact of climate change in the Arctic....»

Actually, by the time you approach 200ppmv for CO2, you have already reached the break point in the curve, beyond which additional CO2 has much less impact on the RF — and this is close to the glacial value — suggesting that CO2 changes do not drive the glacial cycles (CO2 changes are supposed to amplify T rise during deglaciation, but there is scant evidence for this and the assumption that it did also underlay the IPCC belief — and a great many references in academic papers give a T degrees C per ppmv CO2 without stating over which range of concentrations this is meant to apply.

Because it is theorized that teacher expectancies might have an impact on pupils» academic achievement through pupils» perceptions of control over their achievement, we investigate the role of pupils» sense of academic futility.