Sentences with phrase «overall academic results»

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The notion promoted by the Canadian technology council that an arts education leads to better results in a wide range of other areas was repeatedly deflated: «There is no evidence for a link between theatre training and overall academic skill... We found no evidence that dance education improves overall academic skills or reading... There is no evidence that training in visual arts improves overall academic skills or literacy.»

«Montessori preschool boosts academic results and reduces income - based inequality: Not only do Montessori children do better overall than those in conventional preschools, but Montessori preschools help low - income children to perform as well as wealthier children.»

The authors wrote that, overall, the results of 46 articles published between 1985 and October 2008 found that «there is substantial evidence that physical activity can help improve academic achievement, including grades and standardized test scores.

On the basis of these survey results, we created three measures: (1) the principal's overall assessment of the teacher's effectiveness, which is a single item from the survey; (2) the teacher's ability to improve student academic performance, which is a simple average of the organization, classroom management, reading achievement, and math achievement survey items; and (3) the teacher's ability to increase student satisfaction, which is a simple average of the role model and student satisfaction survey items.

All three reduce anonymity in school environments, foster long - term relationships between students and teachers, and result in overall academic improvement.

The state's overall academic performance lags national averages, with its students scoring in the bottom quartile in both reading and math on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress results.

As a result of extensive meta - analytic work, Marzano, Waters and McNulty concluded: «A highly effective school leader can have a dramatic influence on the overall academic achievement of students... Leadership has long been perceived to be important to the effective functioning of organisations in general and, more recently, of schools in particular.

Over the years, a body of scholarly evidence has accumulated showing that Catholic schools have not only excellent academic results overall, but also a peculiar ability to help disadvantaged students.

Parent Interviews, Introduction, Themes, Effective overall, Supportive teachers, Positive student outcomes, Positive family relationships, Improvements, A Day in the Life, STAR Results, Adequate Yearly Progress and Academic Performance Index, School Personnel / Instructional Designer Interviews, Instructional Designer, CAVA Board Members Head of School, Administrative Staff, and Teaching Staff, Leadership Characteristics and Dynamics, Parental Relationships and Contributions, Benefits Associated With This Educational Partnership, Challenges / Areas of Improvement, Teacher Perspectives, Review of Documents

Lessons from Tate County Although the results of state takeovers have been relatively mediocre overall, Tate County is a rare example of academic success.

First, Results encourages leadership teams to reflect on their overall student learning results and look beyond the minimum measures of state academic assesResults encourages leadership teams to reflect on their overall student learning results and look beyond the minimum measures of state academic assesresults and look beyond the minimum measures of state academic assessments.

Association of School and College Leaders general secretary Geoff Barton said he was concerned to see a decline in the pass rate overall and feared that this may be the result of driving children down this narrow academic route.

But there didn't appear to be any firm academic goals apart from the AYP metric, just general description of its test results and how they were better than the New Haven Public Schools overall.

While noncompliance is certainly a critical concern and risk factor, the overall costs of a poorly planned and executed parent communication strategy result in much more impactful consequences: lost dollars that could be spent furthering success in the classroom and a failure to actively engage all students and parents in a way that serves as a foundation for achieving sustained and long term academic achievement.

In a recent study, we calculated the consequences for economic growth, lifetime earnings, and tax revenue of improving educational outcomes and narrowing educational achievement gaps in the United States.1 Among other results, we found that if the United States were able to raise the math and science PISA test scores of the bottom three quarters of U.S. students so that they matched the test scores of the top quarter of U.S. kids (and thereby raised the overall U.S. academic ranking to third best among the OECD countries), U.S. GDP would be 10 percent larger in 35 years.

These results are highlighted in CCSA's Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap - Closing Reform: The Success of California Charter Schools in Promoting African American Achievement, which shows that, overall, charter schools in California are effectively accelerating the performance of African American public school students, and are earning higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores and proficiency rates statewide, in many urban districts and across all subjects when compared with traditional public schools.