Sentences with phrase «percent of the achievement»

This strategy should raise their standardized test scores, since researchers estimate that «85 percent of achievement test scores are based on the vocabulary of the standards.»

A RCT of charter schools in New York City by a Stanford researcher found an even larger effect: «On average, a student who attended a charter school for all of grades kindergarten through eight would close about 86 percent of the «Scarsdale - Harlem achievement gap» in math and 66 percent of the achievement gap in English.»

Miller has calculated the learning loss attributable to teacher absences to be equal to about 5 percent of the achievement gap between black and white students.

The analysis revealed that the decline in achievement is roughly 20 to 25 percent of the achievement gap between poor and non-poor students in New York City.

As research has demonstrated, school factors explain only about 20 percent of achievement scores — about one - third of what student and family background characteristics explain.

Several other high - quality analyses echo this finding, and while estimates vary a bit, there is a relative consensus: teachers statistically account for around 10 — 20 percent of achievement outcomes.

For local education agencies that have schools in the bottom five percent of achievement and are mandated to participate in the statewide scholarship program, the shift of state and required local BEP funding from these local education agencies to the non-public participating schools is estimated as follows: $ 16,570,000 in FY15 - 16; $ 25,473,800 in FY16 - 17; $ 34,815,000 in FY17 - 18; and an amount exceeding $ 69,630,000 in FY18 - 19 and subsequent years.

In a city where 43 percent of students come from non-English-speaking homes, only 4.8 percent of Achievement First's students come from non-English-speaking homes.

«The magnitude of the test - score gains from one year are equivalent to 10 percent to 20 percent of the achievement gap between minority and white students,» reads the report.

«The gains from two years are equivalent to 20 percent to 40 percent of the achievement gap,» the study said.

As research has found, school factors explain only about 20 percent of achievement scores — about a third of what student and family background characteristics explain.

KIPP closed 21 percent of achievement gaps between its Hispanic students and the state's white students across the available comparisons, while on average, eligible CMOs on average closed 6 percent of achievement gaps between these groups in 2013.

By comparison, the remaining eligible CMOs on average closed 2 percent of achievement gaps in middle school.

Uncommon also closed 56 percent of achievement gaps between its African - American students and the state's white students across the available comparisons, compared to the eligible CMO average of 12 percent.

It's an interestingly side note that about 60 percent of Achievement First's «Management Fees» came from Connecticut schools, despite the fact that Connecticut students only make up about 40 percent of Achievement First's students.

There are two kinds of supergroups that are dominating state plans so far: 1) «high - need» groups, which lump together students who have been historically underserved, including students of color, low - income students, students with disabilities, and English learners; and 2) «lowest performing» groups, which include students in the bottom 25 percent or 30 percent of achievement within their school, regardless of demographics, English language proficiency, or disability status.

Not exact matches

Goal - setting actually changes the chemistry of our brains, and studies have shown that that activity can increase motivation and boost achievement levels by approximately 30 percent.

A survey by Impact Achievement Group and HRmarketer discovered 48 percent of all respondents did not believe employee surveys provide an honest and accurate assessment, compared to 31 percent who thought surveys painted a true picture.

Here's the most revealing finding from the Achievement Group / HRmarketer study: 58 percent of respondents agreed that results did not — or only slightly — helped managers gain a better understanding of what behaviors or practices they could change to improve.

The study looked at 149 participants in networking and business groups from the United States, Belgium, India, Japan, Australia and England and found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves and didn't write them down.

This study by Dr. Gail Matthews found that «more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to a friend reported successful goal achievement.»

Motivation is high because employers are rewarding several types of activities: 48 percent offer it at program enrollment; 46 percent offer it upon achievement of health outcome; and 60 percent of employer offer incentives at the completion of a program.

While it may seem like raising outside money would actually make it easier to build such a company, even that achievement is often out of reach for women: Less than 3 percent of venture capital goes to female CEOs.

More than 4,000 partners already take advantage of the Starbucks College Achievement Plan education benefit in partnership with Arizona State University (ASU) to earn a bachelor's degree with 100 percent tuition coverage.

Additionally, Starbucks will announce its achievement of ethically sourcing 99 percent of its coffee in FY15 supported by its 15 year relationship with Conservation International.

FY14 Financial Highlights / Achievements Starbucks has reported record revenues of $ 16.4 billion (11 percent growth) and record non-GAAP earnings per share of $ 2.661 (21 percent growth on a non-GAAP basis1) in fiscal 2014; $ 3.1 billion in non-GAAP operating income2 (25 percent growth on a non-GAAP basis2) in fiscal 2014; and $ 1.6 billion returned to shareholders in the form of dividends and share repurchases.

A 2015 Dominican University of California study found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves without writing them down.

The Dutch people are tolerant, he told me, and hence in Amsterdam, there are no ethnic or religious minorities, an achievement made possible by the fact that although a majority of residents are of Dutch descent, only around 25 percent call themselves Christian.

According to my interpretation of data from meta - analyses and a nationwide data set, both racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps are 25 percent narrower in Christian schools than in public schools.

Harsimrat Kaur Badal said that one of the major achievements with regard to transforming food economy through food processing has been the creation of huge 32 lakh MT capacity worth INR 9,000 crore within two years, which shall reduce wastage by 10 percent per annum i.e. INR 9,200 crore every year.

Dyke points out that 20 years ago, 60 percent of the Premier League were eligible for England, but any correlation between this percentage and international achievement seems sketchy at best.

Is Cuomo's two percent property tax cap — a signature achievement of his first term in office — actually working?

«Unfortunately, the Tea Party - controlled Republican Congress is making every effort to turn back the clock on decades of labor achievements in favor of tax breaks for corporations and the wealthiest one percent of Americans.

The Minister of Communications, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, has touted government's achievement in attaining a 100 percent digital migration in the country.

Last year, 20 percent of New York students refused to take state tests, aligned to the Common Core standards for higher achievement.

The New York State United Teachers union filed a lawsuit today to challenge the state's 2 percent cap on property tax increases, taking aim at one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature economic achievements.

In fact, differences in cortical thickness in these brain regions could explain as much as 44 percent of the income achievement gap found in this study.

The authors matched 1,395 of 1,943 newborns (71.8 percent) having normoglycemia or transient hypoglycemia with their achievement tests.

The RMA's counterpart across the Atlantic, the European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers» Association (ETRMA), recorded comparable achievements, with Europe recycling 27 percent of its scrap tires in 2004.

These benefits are why our surgeons use minimally invasive techniques for approximately 70 percent of major lung resection surgeries — a remarkable achievement over the nationwide average of 40 percent.

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 slight gain.

Baron Baptiste, the creator of Power Yoga, says in his book Journey Into Power, «Only 20 percent of success is the mechanics of achievement; the other 80 percent comes from your psychology... the «how to» element isn't the problem.

Going forward, the Subcommittees would: 1) work with USDA to generate tables of nutrient contributions for each of the various food types for each of the patterns so that it could formulate alternative strategies for any one individual nutrient; 2) review the literature on the contribution of dairy and calcium and physical activity in early life; 3) consider whether decreasing the recommendation of fiber in the younger age group would alter the ability to meet the DRI for other nutrients; 4) look at what flexibility or specificity is needed within the fruits and juices group; 5) make iterations to the food patterns to address special needs identified at this meeting, such as individuals who do not eat legumes, are lactose intolerant, or are vegetarians; 6) consider supplements for the elderly with regard to B - 12 and vitamin D, in particular; and 7) look at the rest of the nutrient DRI achievement after the iterations from the Fatty Acid Committee, looking at 25, 30, and 35 percent of the calories as fat.

Academic achievements are also similar, with 98 percent of membership in both HK and the US boasting bachelors degrees.

Back in the days when I felt like achievements mattered, I'd spend way too many hours getting 100 - percent in many of the Dynasty and Samurai Warriors games.

Troubling, though, is the fact that 35 percent of the climate grade depends on having classes smaller than 25 pupils, which means that QC has taken sides in the great class - size debate, notwithstanding the rivers of doubt that Hoover Institution economist Eric Hanushek and others have poured on the notion that smaller classes are an efficient means of boosting achievement.

In October, while ESSA conferees were still negotiating, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed into law a new school rating system under which only 30 percent of a school or district's grade will be based on student achievement.

One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.

As the Department of Education's research chief, Sharon Robinson watched almost 5 percent of her office's budget go to the Educational Testing Service to write and analyze a student - achievement test in 45 states.

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.