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The inclusion of larger percentages of students with disabilities — 11 percent in both grades in 2009 compared with eight percent in 2007 — did not impact overall achievement as average scores and proficiency levels for the commonwealth's fourth and eighth graders were similar to 2007.

Not exact matches

Manulife is proud to be the recipient of many awards that recognize the Company for its overall excellence and specific achievements in areas such as culture, corporate governance, customer satisfaction, and charitable and community programs.

This year's Awards recognized 10 consumer product goods (CPG) companies and their achievements in expanding the frontiers of glass packaging design in the following categories — beer, wine, food, carbonated beverage, non-carbonated beverage, organic food or beverage, distilled spirits, flavored alcoholic beverage (FAB), and cosmetics or fragrances — as well as an overall package design winner.

As it turned out, Ray finished 11th in ribs and 12th in pork, for an overall placement of 7th out of 37 teams — a major achievement, and he was a happy cooker.

The American's win turned the tables on Olympic champion Ekaterini Stefanidi as she cleared 4.76 m for the runner - up spot but the Greek vaulter's achievements throughout the rest of the Diamond League series did mean she secured overall victory.

The statement added that the lack of free sanitary towels for schoolgirls «can impact negatively on the Free SHS programme,» explaining that: «As poor menstrual hygiene management can result in absenteeism, poor performance, hamper gender parity in education and the overall achievement of the Free Senior High School programme.»

The study also shows that the departure of teachers who were identified by IMPACT as low - performing resulted in substantial improvement in overall teacher quality and student achievement.

Overall, Canada performs well in student science achievement relative to other countries as measured through the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)(OECD, 2016).

The colors pop and shine like a spring day, and the overall achievement makes Avatar look as if it were made with old sticks and Elmer's glue.

The sheer number of zombies in the game and the overall scope of Harran stands out as an impressive technical achievement, but it doesn't entirely benefit Dying Light's emphasis on parkour.

For instance, in an April 28, 2004, column, Winerip described a school in Florida as unfairly penalized by NCLB, but he failed to mention that the school reported low overall test scores and had significant achievement gaps between white and minority students.

A teacher's contribution to a school's community, as assessed by the principal, was worth 10 percent of the overall evaluation score, while the final 5 percent was based on a measure of the value - added to student achievement for the school as a whole.

Jay's column quotes Rick Hanushek, «Nowhere does the report indicate an alternative educational program that leads to as large an improvement in overall U.S. achievement as accountability.

During this time, we emerged as the nation's top state for student achievement and one of the world's leading jurisdictions for overall student performance.

Nowhere does the report indicate an alternative educational program that leads to as large an improvement in overall U.S. achievement as accountability.

As with schools, that determination must be based not just on overall student achievement, but also on the performance of student subgroups, broken down by categories such as race and ethnicitAs with schools, that determination must be based not just on overall student achievement, but also on the performance of student subgroups, broken down by categories such as race and ethnicitas race and ethnicity.

Also, overall, effectiveness may not only be seen in student achievement but in behavior and motivation of students as well.

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

«The literacy achievement gap in particular is important because literacy achievement often serves as the proxy for overall achievement,» said Dorothy Strickland, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Professor of Education at Rutgers Graduate School of Education.

For example, assessments can be used to establish overall levels of student achievement in a subject such as Physics; mastery of particular topics such as energy and mechanics; or the ability to apply Newton's First Law to explain the relationship between force and motion in practical situations.

• Although countries with strong overall achievement also tend to have many top scorers, the U.S. can not assume that raising the water level will do enough for the gifted - ed boat, as it's far too small to contain all who belong in it.

The task of ensuring that millions of children learn English — and succeed academically — is putting pressure on states and school districts as they push to boost student achievement overall.

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.

The overall goal of this extension of our existing work in partnership with TFF and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy (AFBA) is to continue and expand our work in Bridgeport focusing in several keys areas: (1) building knowledge about (a) children's emerging skills and areas of challenge in the social - emotional domain and why these skills are critical to school success, and (b) the ways in which adult stress and skills in the social - emotional domain can impede or foster children's social - emotional skill development; (2) identifying, deploying, and evaluating strategies to build adult and child skills in social - emotional learning with an emphasis on the Tauck Family Foundation's (TFF) five essential SEL skills; and (3) developing and testing a performance management system for SEL that (a) guides the identification of strategies, (b) provides a mechanism for ongoing progress monitoring, feedback, and changes to practice, and (c) serves as an anchor point for ongoing coaching and support in using SEL strategies.

Although research has established the overall viability of homework as a tool to enhance student achievement, for the most part the research does not provide recommendations that are specific enough to help busy practitioners.

Four Connecticut schools were designated as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2014 based on their overall academic excellence or their progress in closing the achievement gaps.U.S.

If the gap between these students remained the same as in the overall sample, this would suggest that the quality of the schools is not playing a major role in the expanding achievement gap.

Students would be much better off if policymakers and education leaders were to focus on student achievement results as a way to assess teacher quality overall, and to assess the quality of teacher preparation programs supported by federal and state dollars.

Noting this is especially important since the results could be construed narrowly as supporting increased racial segregation of teachers and students as a means of improving overall achievement.

Predicted scores were obtained from a regression analysis that accounted for changes in student composition and prior achievement levels as well as overall trends in achievement before the introduction of the accountability program.

Major Responsibilities Develop relationships with faculty and staff as a means to foster a positive school climate; analyze achievement and discipline data to find leverage point for system change; create user - friendly, service - oriented administrative team that focuses on overall student growth.

As a principal of a turnaround or low - performing school, it is imperative that you create a sustainable system to increase overall student achievement; otherwise, the results aren't lasting, and students suffer.

The premise is that there would be a cumulative effect of principal turnover during this time, which would appear as an overall low level of achievement in the schools in the most recent three years.

are an annual list, going this year to schools that in the 2011 - 2012 state tests either showed high achievement levels overall or the greatest progress as indicated by the state's new system of «student growth percentiles» (SGP).

The study also shows exiting teachers who were identified by IMPACT as low - performing, resulted in substantial improvement in overall teacher quality and student achievement.

To further strengthen democracy as well as promote equity and overall achievement, government and education systems should be accountable for promoting, expanding and strengthening schooling that is integrated by race and class.

The most controversial of them include what is known as value - added models1 that use data from standardized tests of students as part of the overall measure of the effect that a teacher has on student achievement.

Just nine schools were highlighted as «high growth» for reaching the progress targets, with the remaining 48 on the list as «high performing» based on overall achievement.

Improvements in discipline and teacher - student relations at Ware County High School were accompanied by improvements in the overall learning environment, as indicated by the sharply lower percentages of teacher climate survey responders saying «very true» or «sort of true» to the statement «the learning environment in this school is not conducive to academic achievement for most students».

The resulting churn undermines student achievement as a function of teacher inexperience, underpreparation, and overall instability.

But only 26 % see standardized tests as an accurate reflection of overall student achievement.

Three months ago, Tennessee Schools Director Jesse Register announced he was to fire 63 Tennessean teachers, of 195 total who for two consecutive years scored lowest (i.e., a 1 on a scale of 1 to 5) in terms of their overall «value - added» (as based on 35 % EVAAS, 15 % related «student achievement,» and 50 % observational data).

Under the regulation, schools and districts would receive an overall rating of one to five stars as determined by school performance (very low to very high) on multiple indicators — proficiency, a separate academic indicator for science and social studies, growth (elementary and middle school), achievement gap closure, transition readiness, graduation rate (high school) and opportunity and access.

Domain 1 — Element 1 of the School Leader Evaluation Model As you may know, our School Leader Evaluation Model focuses on overall student achievement goals for student achievement as its very first elemenAs you may know, our School Leader Evaluation Model focuses on overall student achievement goals for student achievement as its very first elemenas its very first element.

As part of an overall restructure of the state's school accountability report card, Ohio created a CTE - specific school report card, reporting on achievement, preparation for success, graduation rates and post-program outcomes.

A centerpiece of the administration's plans throughout the state is the creation of seven new «regional achievement centers» that will serve as the hub of turnaround efforts for schools with low student achievement overall or wide gaps in achievement levels.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today recognized 337 schools as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2014 based on their overall academic excellence or their progress in closing achievement gaps among student subgroups.

For example, NAEP scores are measures of the overall achievement level of students and not necessarily an accurate reflection of the quality of each state's school system, yet they were used as the sole measure of academic achievement.

«In order to do that, and to recognise the achievements of schools in the most challenging areas, we want to measure the progress that all pupils make as well as their overall attainment.

Domain One — Element Three of the School Leader Evaluation Model In our last entry, Establishing and Monitoring Overall Student Achievement Goals As School Leader — Part 1, we looked at how a high school principal might establish overall student achievement goals with members of the fOverall Student Achievement Goals As School Leader — Part 1, we looked at how a high school principal might establish overall student achievement goals with members of tAchievement Goals As School Leader — Part 1, we looked at how a high school principal might establish overall student achievement goals with members of the foverall student achievement goals with members of tachievement goals with members of the faculty.