Sentences with phrase «peers in other states»

These technical assistance liaisons also facilitate linkages with peers in other states who are facing similar challenges.

In Tennessee, for instance, the credential is licensed veterinary medical technician, completely isolating technicians in the state from their peers in other states.

CA teachers feel more power and influence than peers in other states, survey finds edsource.org/2017/californi...

The second frequently cited justification for the multi-state assessment is to give parents a better understanding of how our children perform academically as compared with their peers in other states.

According to the article, students are performing about as well as they did in 2003 when compared to their peers in other states.

Improving teacher licensure can work toward providing diverse populations of students the same high - quality teachers as their peers in other states.

In contrast with their peers in other states, Massachusetts» eighth - graders tied for best in the world in science in the 2007 Trends in International Math and Science Study.

Common Core will make it much easier to compare the performance of Wisconsin students to their peers in other states and around the world.

While Duncan celebrated the differences in design between the consortia, he also championed elements that would unify states — every state in each consortium would adopt the same «cut scores,» the number of questions a student has to correctly answer to be deemed proficient, making it possible for the first time to compare students to their peers in other states.

Name the group — black, white, Hispanic, poverty and non-poverty — all perform worse than their peers in all other states.»

The trend threatens to erase the performance edge Indiana's charter schools have enjoyed over their public and charter school peers in other states, according to David Harris, CEO of The Mind Trust, an education reform group based in Indianapolis.

This work has enabled teachers to collaborate with peers in other states — something that would not have been possible when each state had its own standards — and to build and refine powerful lessons.

Delaware is transitioning to use testing aligned with Common Core that is intended to present parents, students, teachers, and school administrators with an assessment that is less politically - motivated and instead allows for a better understanding of how students compare to their peers in other states.

John Fensterwald, EdSource California teachers, more than peers in other states, feel empowered to voice their opinions and say they have influence over decisions and policies in their schools.

Compared with their peers in other states, Washington's 4th graders are among the most likely students in the country to attend schools where more than half of parents attend parent - teacher conferences.

Meanwhile, students connected with their peers in other states via Skype to talk about how election plans were unfolding in different communities.

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 4th and 8th graders in Colorado are more likely than their peers in other states to attend schools where a school official reports that a lack of parent involvement is not a problem or is a minor problem.

Moreover, 4th and 8th graders in West Virginia are less likely than their peers in other states to attend schools where more than half of parents attend parent - teacher conferences, based on data from the background survey of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher was surprised by criticism from Cuomo's office that top SUNY administrators and professors are earning more than their peers in other states.

Not exact matches

While all this sounds reassuring, the State Department also writes elsewhere in the report that «a focused, peer - reviewed study of the potential corrosivity / erosivity of oil - sands derived crude oils relative to other crude oils has not yet been conducted.»

Peers in the House of Lords are expected to vote later on an amendment which would pave the way for Britain to recognise Islamic State's treatment of Christians and other minorities as genocide.

Whether or not this is a new choice of Nick is questionable, as we see his life before creating «Francois» as one always from the outside looking in (judging his mom's previous boyfriend, telling us the ways he's unique from his peers, noticing he has a friend more pathetic than himself, and stating that he's a virgin and doesn't want to be — in other words, not feeling much).

While the rationale is perhaps a bit misguided (some evidence suggests that our students already experience as much instructional time as their peers ~ and other research confirms that teachers in the United States spend more time on instruction than teachers in other nations do) ~ there are certainly reasons to focus on the issue ~ not least of which is the summer learning loss that disproportionately impacts our nations most disadvantaged youth.

The GRC enables users to compare academic achievement in math and reading between 2004 and 2007 for virtually every public school district in the United States with the average achievement in a set of 25 other countries with developed economies that might be considered our economic peers and sometime competitors.

The GRC compares academic achievement in math and reading across all grades of student performance on state tests with average achievement in a set of 25 other countries with developed economies that might be considered economic peers of the U.S..

Yet Coleman also noted that the composition of a student's peer group was more important for learning than any other school - related factor, a finding used by the Johnson and Nixon administrations to reinforce their strenuous desegregation efforts in southern states.

New Jersey measures growth for an individual student by comparing the change in his or her achievement on the state standardized assessment from one year to the student's «academic peers» (all other students in the state who had similar historical test results).

Another looming disaster is the Department's plans to «peer review» the new assessments under development — PARCC and Smarter Balanced but also the other exams that some states plan to use to assess student performance in relation to the Common Core.

For instance, although most of the studies cited above do include statistical controls for peer effects (the mean characteristics of other student in a class or school), very few states or districts do so when generating value - added estimates.

WASHINGTON — Teachers in the United States typically teach longer hours and more classes than do their peers in other economically advanced countries, a study concludes.

Now states are starting to get into the game as well, signing up to participate in PISA and TIMSS to find out how the students of Massachusetts or Minnesota compare with their peers in other countries.

Penn State University professor, David Ramey, detailed in a study two years ago that black children are more - likely than white peers to be suspended, expelled, and even sent to jail for the same acts of misbehavior; white children, on the other hand, are more - likely to be referred to psychologists and other medical professionals.

On the other hand, the United States has a higher percentage of children in poverty than other top performing countries, and many experts say that poor children need more resources to catch up to their wealthier peers.

When the 2009 PISA scores were released, noted Zhao, «The results received extensive media coverage in the United States, all emitting a sense of shock, urgency, and anxiety» (p. 56) about American students» ability to compete with peers from China and other economic rivals.

As a consequence, students in the United States lag in academic performance when compared with their peers in other industrialized nations, particularly in science and mathematics.

If these cuts were enacted, states would have to either backfill the loss of federal support for out - of - school care by drawing from other limited funding streams or accept that previously served students would now be in unsafe, unsupervised environments outside of school hours.54 Attendance, student achievement, and peer and student - to - teacher relations could suffer.55 States that cut after - school programs would likely have to allocate additional dollars in future years to triage the loss of jobs or depressed student outstates would have to either backfill the loss of federal support for out - of - school care by drawing from other limited funding streams or accept that previously served students would now be in unsafe, unsupervised environments outside of school hours.54 Attendance, student achievement, and peer and student - to - teacher relations could suffer.55 States that cut after - school programs would likely have to allocate additional dollars in future years to triage the loss of jobs or depressed student outStates that cut after - school programs would likely have to allocate additional dollars in future years to triage the loss of jobs or depressed student outcomes.

Scores from students who took both tests were used to extrapolate how peers in New Jersey and other states would fare on the international test.

According to a recent PISA report, students in the United States are more anxious than their peers in many other countries.

These selected states have each received a $ 100,000 six - month grant, in addition to expert technical assistance and peer support from other grantees, to perform a diagnostic assessment of their career preparation system and prepare for implementation of a three - year action plan.

Thanks in part to a board of education dominated by conservative reformers such as Andy Smarick of the American Enterprise Institute and former Thomas B. Fordham Institute President Chester Finn Jr. (the latter of whom presided over the think tank's initial activism against the Obama - era guidance), the Old Line State only plans to intervene when suspension levels for poor, minority, and special ed - labeled children are three times higher than that of other peers.

The notion that students with disabilities in some states are due only «de minimus» (just more - than - trivial) progress or in other states «some educational benefit» from their public schools reflects and perpetuates the belief that having a disability makes you less worthy of an education than your peers without disabilities.

Maryland's public school students made greater gains on a national standardized test than their peers in nearly every other state, although the achievement gap between white and minority students persists.

Mississippi students in low - income and high minority schools have more rookie teachers than their peers in other parts of the state, the state's report found.

In the latest release of data, we have a sense of how much progress students show on state assessments from one year to the next (as it's been two years since the last time we had growth data, here's a quick reminder on how it is calculated: a student's performance on the test is compared to her «academic peers» — other students who had the same test score she had the previous year, resulting in the individual's student growth percentilIn the latest release of data, we have a sense of how much progress students show on state assessments from one year to the next (as it's been two years since the last time we had growth data, here's a quick reminder on how it is calculated: a student's performance on the test is compared to her «academic peers» — other students who had the same test score she had the previous year, resulting in the individual's student growth percentilin the individual's student growth percentile.

Along with 17 other National Teacher Fellows, I conducted this peer research, sourcing educators of all tenures who were certified in 49 states plus the District of Columbia.

Both white and minority children in Connecticut's magnet schools showed stronger connections to their peers of other races than students in their home districts, and city students made greater academic gains than students in non-magnet city schools, Casey Cobb and a team of colleagues found in this research commissioned by the state of Connecticut.

On state assessments, their students have been outperforming peers at other schools — with 10th - graders, for example, ranking first in English language arts, 12th in math, and sixth in science in 2014 — and it's not because they've been prepping intensely.

Monique M. Chism, the director of student achievement and accountability in the department's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, shared the timeline for peer - assessment reviews with a gathering of state assessment directors on June 24, the first day of the Council of Chief State School Officers» annual student - assessment conference here, and with the CCSSO's state collaboratives on assessment and other tostate assessment directors on June 24, the first day of the Council of Chief State School Officers» annual student - assessment conference here, and with the CCSSO's state collaboratives on assessment and other toState School Officers» annual student - assessment conference here, and with the CCSSO's state collaboratives on assessment and other tostate collaboratives on assessment and other topics.

Research has shown that the students of NBCTs learn more than their peers in other classrooms, which is why many states and districts offer incentives for teachers to pursue Board certification.

In addition, charter students from other underserved groups outperformed the state average for their peer groups on the exam.