Sentences with phrase «over student achievement»

Her focus is on education, where the teachers unions have blocked meaningful reforms for years; protecting bad teachers from being terminated, promoting based on seniority instead of merit, taking over local school boards with hand - picked, union - financed candidates, attacking charter schools, prioritizing teacher compensation and job security over student achievement, and pushing a social agenda in front of academic fundamentals.

From the article: «Virtual schools, particularly those that provide full - time services for students, are coming under increasing scrutiny over student achievement and accountability.

Key to answering these questions is knowing how much influence teachers have over student achievement and what specific teacher attributes lead to higher student achievement.

Thus, perhaps the greatest concern is not even the new Snapshots» favoring qualitative measures over student achievement, but Tweed's capacity to gather meaningful, high - quality data even on the things it prizes.

Not exact matches

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

Notwithstanding substantial increases in expenditure on education over the past decade, national and international assessments of student achievement in Australia show little improvement and in some areas standards of achievement have dropped.

In a draft report, the Productivity Commission says that education spending has substantially increased over the past decade but student achievement has shown little improvement, and in some areas has declined.

The Productivity Commission has said that education spending has substantially increased over the last decade but student achievement has shown little or no improvement.

In addition, students are responsible, whenever possible, for assessing themselves; twice a year, at report - card time, parents or other family members come in to the school for meetings known as student - led conferences, in which students as young as five narrate for their parents and teacher their achievements and struggles over the past semester.

Two elementary schools in North Carolina increased the achievement test scores of students from the 30th percentile to the 83rd percentile over a three - year period.

The evidence is compelling: Two elementary schools in North Carolina were able to increase the achievement - test scores of students from the 30th percentile up to the 83rd percentile over a three - year period.

EdVoice network members have sent over 100,000 letters to help protect school funding and push for important reforms to boost student achievement.

The Partnership is also performing an intermediary function to resolve conflicts over education policy and resource allocation in an effort to keep the focus on student achievement.

The Productivity Commission has said that education spending has substantially increased over the last decade but student achievement has shown little or no improvement.

«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.

Furthermore, the President will make it a national imperative to dramatically improve student achievement in math and science, and move US students from the middle of the pack to the top on international benchmarks over the next decade by challenging all Americans to dramatically increase support for math and science education.

The bulk of evidence over the last century «suggests that academic acceleration and most forms of ability grouping like cross-grade subject grouping and special grouping for gifted students can greatly improve K - 12 students» academic achievement.»

But is that stern warning coming from the same Administration that touts «a historic $ 1 billion commitment to improve math and science achievement among K - 12 students, an increase of over 40 %» in its 2011 budget?

Scholarly articles published by over 20 researchers in Monographs, titled «The Relation of Childhood Physical Activity to Brain Health, Cognition and Scholastic Achievement» indicate that while physical activity in schools has diminished in part because of a growing emphasis on student performance and academic testing, decreased physical activity is actually related to decreased academic performance.

Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a sligStudents who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a sligstudents — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a sligstudents in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a sligstudents with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a sligstudents showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a sligstudents in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.

Boseman has shared his excitement over the moment, adding, «I'm excited to return to the Mecca in celebration of the achievements of our illustrious students.

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

My assistant principal believed that he was an advocate for our students, but his actions were driven by unconscious assumptions that formed a glass ceiling over their achievements.

For example, in a forthcoming analysis in three school districts where it was possible to track teachers» student achievement growth over many years, Doug Staiger and I found that of those teachers who were in the bottom quartile of value - added in a single year, 55 to 65 percent were in the bottom quartile over their careers and 82 to 87 percent were in the bottom half.

A 2010 study by Mark Berends and Roberto Penaloza of longitudinal data over 30 years demonstrates a relationship between increasing segregation of black and Latino students and growth in math achievement gaps between these groups and white students.

• Look at proficiency rates plus the growth in individual students» achievement over time on all of the above.

These estimates project the historical pattern of growth to determine the result of gains in student achievement, calculate the additions to GDP over the next 80 years, and discount them back to today so that they are comparable to other current investments.

When President - elect Donald Trump tapped Betsy DeVos as his pick for U.S. Secretary of Education, he triggered a debate over whether widespread school choice — like the voucher system that DeVos supports — would really boost student achievement across the country.

Already, we've seen states advance policies to gloss over inadequate student achievement and to stymie interventions in low - performing schools.

State efforts in standards - based education over the past decade have had a positive, but modest, relationship with gains in student achievement.

Agreement between school boards and superintendents over achievement goals, an emphasis on the lowest - performing students, and the adoption of districtwide curricula are among the most successful strategies being used in four urban school districts, concludes a report released last week.

«Importantly, the narrowing gap in reading achievement as students progress by year level suggests that the value - add over time that is experienced in coeducational schools is not being realised in single - sex schools,» Dix writes.

Over the last two years, the school I'm thrilled to be a part of has been able to create a laser - like focus that enables student achievement while protecting teacher autonomy in the classroom.

Australian results from the first of two major international education studies have indicated Years 4 and 8 student achievement in mathematics and science has flatlined over the past 20 years.

Over the last two years, the school I'm thrilled to be a part of has been able to create a laser - like focus that enables student achievement while...

Highlights of this year's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of movement of students from lower to higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year levels

We have seen a lot of studies over the years that indicate that what a student believes about him - or herself has a huge impact on that student's achievement across all areas of life.

Australian results from the first of two major international education studies have been called a «cause for grave concern» after they indicated Years 4 and 8 student achievement in mathematics and science has flatlined over the past 20 years.

Schools operated by Achievement First, for example, have helped their students gain an additional 125 days of learning in math and 57 days in English over traditional public schools.

When teachers receive well - designed professional development, an average of 49 hours spread over six to 12 months, they can increase student achievement by as much as 21 percentile points (Yoon, Duncan, Lee, Scarloss, and Shapley, 2007).

Arguably, the most important development in K — 12 education over the past decade has been the emergence of a growing number of urban schools that have been convincingly shown to have dramatic positive effects on the achievement of disadvantaged students.

Over the coming 12 to 18 months, as successful conversions take place at schools using the parent trigger, we are confident the new school leadership will bring significant improvement in student learning and achievement.

As such, he argues that, if our results are correct and school spending really does improve student outcomes (with larger effects for low - income children), outcomes should have improved over time and achievement gaps by income should have been eliminated over this time period.

Who is most likely to be willing to abandon control over their admissions, accept tiny voucher amounts as payment in full for serving the lowest achieving students, and be willing to take the state achievement tests?

Through collections of student work over time, portfolios show effort, development, and achievement using multifaceted criteria, often with personal commentary or self - analysis (Stecher, 2010).

Studies have shown that only about 25 percent of today's teachers produce enough progress — well over a year's worth of learning growth in a year's time — to help students close achievement gaps and leap ahead.

I first analyze changes over time in the FCAT test scores of students in their initial 3rd - grade year in order to discern the extent to which Florida's elementary - school students made true achievement gains during the period in question.

Research shows that interest, confidence and achievement are positively related to one another: improvement in performance over time requires concurrent increases in students» level of interest in mathematics and their competency beliefs (Denissen, Zarret, & Eccles, 2007).

Research on summer learning loss indicates that income - based gaps in student achievement tend to widen over the summer and narrow when school is in session, suggesting that low - income students have the most to gain from shortened summers.

Treatment - group schools need to at least outpace their counterparts in the control group over these two years for us to say that merit pay made a real difference for student achievement.