Sentences with phrase «peers at school districts»

In fact, the most recent Texas Academic Performance Report Data indicates these underserved subgroups are outperforming their peers at school districts in reading, writing, and math, demonstrating that public charter schools are working.

These students outperform their peers at school districts in reading.

Not exact matches

In other words, Boston charter - school students are learning at more than twice the rate of their district - school peers.

At the urging of district officials, about 35 students at Poughkeepsie High School coordinated a schoolwide survey to find out what their peers wanted to see in their schooAt the urging of district officials, about 35 students at Poughkeepsie High School coordinated a schoolwide survey to find out what their peers wanted to see in their schooat Poughkeepsie High School coordinated a schoolwide survey to find out what their peers wanted to see in their sSchool coordinated a schoolwide survey to find out what their peers wanted to see in their schoolschool.

Teachers at LACES probably have more work to do than their counterparts in other districts schools, but the longer hours for staff members pay off in the relationships they build with students and peers, Rutschman said.

She asked the school district to adopt a uniform policy banning peer grading and requiring teachers either to grade assignments themselves or at least to forbid students from grading papers other than their own.

In his new study, Boosting the Quality and Efficiency of Special Education, he and his team identified school districts that get similar (or superior) results for special - education students as their peer districts, yet do so at significantly lower cost.

First, CTBA cites a longitudinal study of Milwaukee's voucher program by researchers at the University of Arkansas, claiming that voucher students in grades 3 - 8 «performed statistically similar» to a matched group of district - school peers on standardized tests.

If districts» data showed that children of color were being suspended or otherwise sanctioned at higher rates than their peers, that alone would demonstrate that schools» policies were having an «adverse impact» on protected groups and could trigger an OCR investigation.

For instance, the change in MAP - R or MAP - M scores for a student at the beginning of the second and third grades could be compared to that student's school peers (equivalent to your average scale score comparison if I understand correctly), district peers, and national peers to evaluate the rate of academic growth.

She has helped, for instance, mend misconceptions about career and technical education by convening the district's secondary - math teachers with peers at the Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology — a technical high school serving Bellefonte and two other nearby districts.

A Black student in a district with below - average property wealth (less than $ 6,363 per pupil) has an adequacy level of 61 %, but his peer in a wealthier school district is only a bit better at 69 %.

Students with disabilities and English language learners at New York City charter schools are outperforming their peers in traditional district schools.

In fact, Cambridge Public Schools received a zero on both the Isolation of Poverty Index and the Isolation of Wealth Index, meaning none of the district's students attend a school where at least 75 percent of their peers have the same economic status as they do.100 Students in Cambridge also outperform their peers in neighboring districts on standardized assessments.101

«We have taken on the complexity and controversy of this issue and produced a new way forward for teacher evaluation, one that unites ideas from our union and our district and considers input from our peers, community members and most important - our students,» said April Bain, a math teacher at Downtown Magnets High School.

A study conducted by the school district and researchers at Stanford University, and published last year, found that students in the district's English - only programs performed better than their peers in bilingual education programs in the early grades.

Charter schools in New York consistently grew academic achievement among the following demographic groups at significantly higher rates than the same subgroup of students in their district peers: Black, Hispanic, students in poverty, and special education.

Today, we begin a series of case studies that provide in - depth looks at how districts, charter schools, and other programs have begun using Opportunity Culture models or experimented with similar means of expanding teachers» impact on students and peer teachers.

It said that the District's poor and minority students are still far less likely than their peers to have a quality teacher in their classrooms, perform at grade level and graduate from high school in four years.

A 2015 report by the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, said the District's poor and minority students were still far less likely than their peers to have a quality teacher in their classrooms, perform at grade level and graduate from high school in four years.

According to the 2014 NBCT Survey, more than half of NBCTs are teacher leaders at the school, district, state, and national levels, leading Common Core State Standards (CCSS) implementation, STEM initiatives and programs, peer review and observations, data literacy, personalized learning, technology integration, and professional development.

Further, English language learners at charter schools outperform their school district peers in every subject!

Philanthropist Eli Broad and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan came together at the Library of Congress in Washington this morning to commend Houston's leaders and those of other large urban school district that have made strides in recent years in boosting student achievement and reducing achievement gaps between low - income students and students of color and their more advantaged peers.

Even after you take out gifted magnet programs where students have to meet academic admissions requirements, students at LA Unified's magnet schools outperformed their peers at independent charter schools, an LA School Report analysis of district data found.

Instead, the lawsuit says, districts across the state suspend and expel special - education students at more than twice the rate of their peers — and further, school officials often send the children to «time - out» rooms or have their parents pick them up early, which results in their exclusion from an educational setting.

«This year's results reveal noteworthy achievement gains in many districts...» our neediest students continue to perform significantly worse than their wealthier peers, especially at the high school level.

Black students in school districts from Madison to Milwaukee and Green Bay to Kenosha also graduate at much lower rates than their white peers.

The researchers found the percent of students scoring either proficient or with advanced proficiency in reading went up at schools on a four - day schedule and were higher than their peers in school districts who remained on the five - day schedule.

Ke'ara Smith, a 14 - year - old eighth grader at Edna Brewer Middle School in Oakland, Calif., who was trained as a peer conflict mediator as part of Oakland Unified School District's Restorative Justice Program, has found that students find it difficult to talk about their emotions during the restorative justice process.

Hampton City Schools has pulled students into leadership roles on its tech support team at the high school level, and these students are helping their peers and teachers with common technology issues, said John Eagle, the district's IT director.

Those at higher - performing charter schools deemed themselves less conscientious, less self - controlled and less gritty than lower - achieving peers at district public schools.

College enrollment rates for charter schools students are 20 percentage points higher than their peers at district - run schools (70 % vs. 50 %).

These findings turn out to be as good or better to what we've seen in urban districts, where Linked Learning students are earning more credits and graduating at higher rates than peers in traditional high school programs.

On May 17, 20 Canyons School District students from fifth grade through tenth grade were honored as RizePoint scholarship recipients after a committee reviewed their applications, which included a personal explanation of their own ambitions to learn at a STEM camp, their academic record and recommendations from a teacher and a peer.

Bring your team and collaborate with like - minded peers, gaining the confidence and skills necessary to improve the adult learning culture at your district or school.

Peer effect is a critical missing measure in studies that purport to show charter effectiveness (CREDO NJ for example)-- because it's really hard to separate «school effect» from «peer effect» [because «peers» are an integral part of the «school»] Clearly, schools like North Star that serve substantively different student populations than district schools, and shed «weak» non-compliant students (& their parents) at astounding rates, create peer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it throPeer effect is a critical missing measure in studies that purport to show charter effectiveness (CREDO NJ for example)-- because it's really hard to separate «school effect» from «peer effect» [because «peers» are an integral part of the «school»] Clearly, schools like North Star that serve substantively different student populations than district schools, and shed «weak» non-compliant students (& their parents) at astounding rates, create peer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it thropeer effect» [because «peers» are an integral part of the «school»] Clearly, schools like North Star that serve substantively different student populations than district schools, and shed «weak» non-compliant students (& their parents) at astounding rates, create peer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it thropeer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it through.

In Chicago, charter public school students grow more academically, graduate high school, enroll in college, and persist in college at higher rates than their peers at district - run open enrollment schools.

Which is what both Cut the Gap in Half does (by setting lower levels for districts improving proficiency for minority students versus white and Asian peers), and No Child waiver gambit tacitly endorses (by allowing states to only focus on the worst five percent of school districts and at least ten percent of districts with wide achievement gaps).

Charter school teachers in the 678,000 - student Los Angeles school district are up to three times more likely to leave their school at year's end compared to their peers in traditional public schools, according to a study from the University of California, Berkeley.

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While a home in a popular school district or in a higher income neighborhood may come at a greater cost, homeowners in these areas actually tend to be in better financial shape than their peers in lower value markets.