Sentences with phrase «performance at failing schools»

In this report, we examine the record of the three existing takeover districts, and find that there is no clear evi - dence that takeover districts actually achieve their stated goals of radically improving performance at failing schools.

«We believe money is not the answer,» said Sen. Brown, explaining instead that districts must identify other ways to deal with factors that contribute to poor performance at failing schools.

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I would like to offer two reasons why the speech experiment failed to take root at Candler: 1) my inability to identify, claim and integrate my emerging performance perspective on preaching with the dominant image of communication in the theological school.

Price also provided fascinating anecdotes from his clinical experience, wherein nutrient - dense foods corrected hypocalcemia - related seizures and chronic fatigue, made remarkable improvements in chidrens» performance at school, and wherein a surgical intervention to correct a narrowed palate induced puberty in a child long failing to develop through that stage of life, probably by releasing pressure on the pituitary gland.

George H.W. Bush (James Cromwell) is an old school statesman who sadly shakes his head at the poor performance of his failed son.

The evidence suggests that the theory holds true: that the A-Plus program has been successful at motivating failing schools to improve their academic performance.

Under the NCLB - era accountability regimes in many states, practically every school serving lots of low - income students was eventually designated as failing («needs improvement») because the dominant measures of school performance at the time — especially proficiency and graduation rates — are strongly correlated with prior achievement and student demographics.

Given that similar factors are at work in Florida's accountability system, I suspect that most, if not all, of the improvements in school performance in that state's failing schools are attributable to the state's administered accountability system, not to the voucher component of that program.

If the superintendents of failing school districts were as adept at fixing schools as they are at making excuses for their poor performance, America would have the best education system in the world.

Despite the increasingly impressive performance of many charter schools nationally and some stunning charter - driven turnarounds at Sacramento High in California and other sites, the Prudent Expansionists doubt that charter folks know any more than traditional educators do about turning around failing schools en masse.

It's also part of the National STEM School Education Strategy 2016 - 2026 and comes at a time when Australian student performance in maths is flatlining, a substantial proportion of Australian 15 - year - olds are failing to meet the National Proficient Standard, and Year 12 high - level mathematics participation is declining.

Indeed, since the idea of pay for performance first was born, in the 18th century, it has failed every time it's been tried, says Kitty Boles, Ed.D.» 91, a senior lecturer at the Ed School.

the school has failed to demonstrate, over the three consecutive year period for which accountability determinations have been made pursuant to this subdivision, at least a 25 point gain in its performance index for the «all students» group in each English language arts and mathematics measure for which the school is held accountable; and / or

schools that fail to make AYP for every accountability group, except the all students group, within an accountability performance criterion for which there are at least two accountability groups other than the all students group; or

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«These statistics about young adolescents» poor academic performance suggest that many middle - grades schools are failing to enable the majority of their students to achieve at anywhere near adequate levels,» noted the Phi Delta Kappan editors.

It makes sense that the educators at the two failing Florida schools, when subjected to clear and immediate sanctions, redoubled their efforts to improve students» performance on state tests.

«I don't think we're going to learn a lot by looking at states with only six charter schools that started last year,» she says, noting that in their first year or two, charter schools can be «oddball» places, operating out of makeshift facilities and populated by students whose parents are either very experimental or desperate to improve their child's failing performance.

'' [A] nother governor lamented that his state's plan «stymies any attempt to hold schools accountable for student performance and includes provisions aimed at preserving the status quo in failing schools.»»

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Our children have improved, to some extent, in their performances on such tests, but at significant costs to almost every other aspect of school operations and at a pace that is failing to have us keep up with the international competition that our children will increasingly face.

CLEVELAND — Donald Trump made a renewed pitch here Thursday for the school choice movement — at a charter school that has received failing grades from the Ohio Department of Education for its students» performance and progress on state math and reading tests.

But since 2002, it has also required annual standardized tests and sanctions at schools that failed to meet performance target.

They leverage additional volunteers and community organizations to support students who are at - risk for failing school because of truancy, classroom behavior problems, or poor course performance.

Statewide school performance numbers released Monday show five schools — including one charter — at the greatest risk of meeting the same fate next year as the seven «failing» schools now facing state intervention.

Within the U.S., how school performance is measured is with standardized test scores meant to indicate student achievement, so whether or not a school is considered to be successful or failing at educating students is based on how students at that school score.

We'll place the SAT at the center of high school accountability with more than half of a school's performance rating based on SAT scores, while a growing number of colleges and universities recognize that the SAT fails to properly predict college success and move to drop the testing requirement.

Under pressure from the state of North Carolina to rescue failing schools and deliver better student performance, Smith use regular testing, at least four times a year, as his vehicle to make certain that students were held to state standards and not left to fall through the cracks.

He said the aggressive overhaul tool should be available to the parents of 148,000 students «trapped» at 297 school campuses that failed to meet performance targets for two consecutive years.

Adolescents in foster care are at high risk for a myriad of negative outcomes, including substance use, involvement in the juvenile justice system, participation in health - risking sexual behaviors, placement in restrictive care settings such as residential treatment care centers, and failed school performance.