Sentences with phrase «performance of a number of schools»

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When discussing student performance on achievement tests, Barton notes that private or religious schools account for a disproportionately high number of National Merit Scholars and says that is because «one school utilizes religions principles and one does not.»

Involved parents enhance school performance in a number of ways, including by fostering a mastery orientation toward learning and encouraging self - discipline, a skill that's critical to school success.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

Beginning at 9:00 pm host Gary Axelbank will talk with Peter Murphy, the Policy Director of the New York Charter School Association, and Dr. Jessica Shiller of the Department of Middle and High School Education at Lehman College about student performance, a cap on the number of charter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, and more.

A significant number of schools that are safe but below average in absolute academic performance (perhaps half to the 10 % of schools that over perform) are excellent by a value added measure.

Hawkins was polling 9 % statewide even before a widely - praised debate performance, and has earned endorsements from a spectrum of people and organizations, including Ralph Nader, Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, education analyst Diane Ravitch, and former Mobil Oil VP - turned - renewable energy activist Lou Allstadt; as well as Albany weekly paper Metroland, 6 teachers» unions, 6 Democratic Party clubs, Socialist Alternative, and a number of groups leading the fight against school privatization, such as United Opt Out and the New York Badass Teacher Association.

For those with kids in public schools, the numbers were even grimmer, with 78 percent disapproving of his schools performance.

Mike White, who scripted biting, edgy satire of this sort («The Good Girl,»» Chuck and Buck») before making his fortune with «School of Rock,» serves up an unsettling and generally deft comedy of manners with this clash, a film that greatly benefits from subtle, stinging performances by Salma Hayek and as her opposite number, John Lithgow.

His performance earned him a number of honors, including a Best Actor Golden Globe and a Best Actor Oscar nomination.After another strong performance as a high - school football coach in Boaz Yakin's Remember the Titans, Washington cut dramatical

The film is fairly paint - by - numbers and mostly predictable, but a standout performance from Shannon as the drunk, gambling - addicted father of a high school basketball star and an impressive turn from the always - welcome, always - gorgeous Carla Gugino will help position Wolves for a decently widespread theatrical release, though it probably won't have much staying power.

Other striking male performances were provided by: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Alec Baldwin and Anthony Anderson in The Departed; Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber and Toby Jones in The Painted Veil; Wim Willaert in When the Sea Rises; Leslie Phillips and Richard Griffiths in Venus; Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Inside Man; Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase and Shido Nakamura in Letters from Iwo Jima; Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Alan Arkin and Paul Dano in Little Miss Sunshine; Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti and Rufus Sewell in The Illusionist; Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich, Gregg Edelman and Ty Simpkins in Little Children; Keanu Reeves, Christopher Plummer and Dylan Walsh in The Lake House; Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena and Stephen Dorff in World Trade Center; Tim Blake Nelson, Pat Corley, Jeffrey Donovan, Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson in Come Early Morning; Ryan Gosling and Anthony Mackie in Half Nelson; Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn, and Danny Huston in Marie Antoinette; Matt Damon, Michael Gambon, Alec Baldwin, William Hurt, Billy Crudup, Robert De Niro, Keir Dullea, Timothy Hutton, Eddie Redmayne, Mark Ivanir and Joe Pesci in The Good Shepherd; Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, James Marsden, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Vinnie Jones and Ben Foster in X-Men: The Last Stand; Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Simon Abkarian, Sebastien Foucan, Jesper Christensen and Tobias Menzies in Casino Royale; Ebru Ceylan and Mehmet Eryilmaz in Climates; Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck and Bob Hoskins in Hollywoodland; Jamie Foxx, Danny Glover, Keith Robinson and Hinton Battle in Dreamgirls; Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Trevor Fehrman, Kevin Smith and Jason Lee in Clerks II; Justin Kirk and Jamie Harrold in Flannel Pajamas; Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker and Adrian Grenier in The Devil Wears Prada; Will Ferrell, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Hulce in Stranger Than Fiction; Samuel L. Jackson, Curtis Jackson, Chad Michael Murray, Sam Jones III and Brian Presley in Home of the Brave; Harris Yulin, Ty Burrell and Boris McGiver in Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; Max Minghella, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar, Ethan Suplee, Joel David Moore and Nick Swardson in Art School Confidential; Joseph Cross, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes and Alec Baldwin in Running with Scissors; Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Ciarán Hinds, Justin Theroux, Barry Shabaka Henley, Luis Tosar and John Ortiz in Miami Vice; Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam and Tim McMullan in The Queen; Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Anthony Mackie, Marlon Sherman and Clarke Peters in Freedomland; Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Linus Roache, Alex Rocco, Ron Silver and Raul Esparza in Find Me Guilty; Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley in Lucky Number Slevin; Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Chris Klein, Shohreh Aghdashloo, John Cho, Tony Yalda, Sam Golzari and Willem Dafoe in American Dreamz; Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Rory Cochrane in A Scanner Darkly; Adam Beach, Ryan A. Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, John Benjamin Hickey, Jon Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker and Robert Patrick in Flags of Our Fathers; Chow Yun - Fat in Curse of the Golden Flower; Sergi López, Doug Jones, Álex Angulo and Federico Luppi in Pan's Labyrinth; Bill Nighy in Notes on a Scandal.

But improving academic performance is especially challenging in the Silver State, where the number of public school students increased by more than 50 percent between 1994 and...

We also generated measures of cultural exposure for these students based on the number of performances they had seen with their schools at the Walton Arts Center.

Putting the case for Year 1 assessment, its report says: «Early success in reading and number sense is a powerful predictor of later achievement, and is strongly correlated with schooling performance across the curriculum.

School performance in the autumn is already going to be measured by the number of children who attain the new certificate although it was introduced after they took the exams.

Following recent demand - driven reforms, some universities are admitting larger numbers of teacher education students with increasingly low Year 12 performances — a trend that may continue as the number of teachers required to staff our schools grows over the next decade.

Because of this, a very good teacher with a large number of teaching colleagues can do less to raise school - wide student performance than a teacher of the same quality in a school with fewer teachers.

Towards an adaptive education system in Australia says that, despite individual bright spots, overall student performance is declining in international tests, and an unacceptably high number of students are not ready for life after school.

The database includes information about each student's classroom teacher in a given year, which allows us to estimate how much the student learned in that year and to connect that information to such professional characteristics as teacher certification, acquisition of a master's degree, teacher experience, teacher test performance, and the specific school of education the teacher had attended within Florida, if the teacher had attended one of the eleven schools for which adequate numbers of teacher observations were available.

NGA has devised four model SoDs, which represent a range of approaches: with academy governing committees; with academy councils; with cluster governing committees (reporting on a number of academies); and with so - called «earned autonomy» (variable levels of responsibility for academy committees, often depending on the school's performance).

The EdChoice Program, which uses a failing schools model to determine which students are eligible, will also likely see a spike in the number of students who qualify, thanks to a change in the criteria used to rate school performance.

Many people find it hard to believe that student performance has been flat for four decades when we have more than tripled funding for schools and when we have put into place a number of reform measures.

The average performance composite among traditional public schools increased from 67 percent in 1996 — 97 to 75 percent in 1999 — 2000 as the number of charter schools in the state increased from 0 to more than 70.

Teachers receive bonuses based on the number of their students who pass AP exams — $ 200 for each student who passes with a score of 5; $ 100 for a 4 — but schools must raise money themselves for other performance bonuses.

Without extensive early - intervention efforts focused on the growing numbers of such children, the school chiefs said in a report to be forwarded to U.S. Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos, the nation can not hope to reduce the dropout rate, improve student performance, or effectively compete internationally in the 21st century.

The study examined migration between 2000 and 2012 and found that there were no links between the number of migrant pupils and the performance of schools, including the UK, where schools with a high proportion of migrant families did not perform any differently from the average.

Although the law is not slated for reauthorization until 2007, they are hoping for amendments as early as next year, in part to address the large number of schools and districts that may not meet its performance targets.

This promising pattern of performance may well reflect the fact that a surprising number of charter schools in these states serve suburban students, bucking the national trend of charters concentrating in big cities.

The foundations and donors supporting the education reform movement do have one enormous advantage over their philanthropic counterparts in the arts, health, the environment, human services, and any number of other fields, namely, the presence of measures of student achievement that allow real comparisons of school performance.

Key elements included a new principal evaluation system, a pay - for - performance teacher evaluation system, a Leadership Development Fellows Academy for principals, an Accelerating Campus Excellence plan that seeks to attract educators to «struggling» schools, and an emphasis on dramatically boosting the number of students earning career certifications.

It is also useful to have a school - hub dialogue in place, to avoid youngsters (particularly at secondary school level) being placed under too much stress from competing groups, with an unmanageable number of rehearsals, trips, and performances.

The authors concede that a number of national and city - level studies show relatively strong performance for disadvantaged youth in charters, but come to rest on the familiar refrain that charter students do about the same as those in other public schools.

The Northern Education Trust was selected for a focused review because of Ofsted's concerns about the performance of a number of its 20 schools.

Amid the shift in curricular emphasis, the personnel turnover, and the shift to Common Core - aligned tests, Douglas County lost its «accredited with distinction» status, and the number of schools on turnaround plans for poor performance went from zero to 11.

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

In other words, the superior performance of network schools is not driven by the number of them that are Catholic.

As the «adequate yearly progress» aspect of the law results in increasingly heightened performance expectations, this number will probably rise, too, even though many schools will «graduate» off the list due to improving (or at least fluctuating) test scores.

Key information: Age range: 4 - 6 years Show running time: approx. 30 mins Number of parts: up to 30 + The show is designed for a class, year group or whole school Christmas performance and contains differentiated roles, in order to allow for inclusion of pupils of all abilities.

A small number of CMOs will have grown to serve at least 20,000 students, placing them among the largest 2 percent of school districts nationally in terms of size, while delivering a level of performance that will change the current paradigm of delivering performance at scale.

While charter school performance has been mixed to date, a growing number of brand - name charter schools are having tremendous success in communities where high student achievement was thought impossible.

This is an extremely rare level of performance, particularly for organizations that run a number of schools.

About one - quarter also reported rising numbers of applications in recent years, perhaps due to media attention, awards, school performance, population growth, and the closing of underperforming schools in the area.

Like a rapidly growing number of schools around the nation, Ms. Dubos said, hers is considering using portfolios as a way of measuring student performance in writing.

More importantly, based on continuing their historic levels of performance, these schools could double the number of low - income students going on to college in these communities.

After schools in England earned «fail» ratings, school performance improved across a number of core subjects.

«Does it make sense to wait seven years from the time children start school to make a punitive judgement about the school, based on the performance of whatever proportion of that small number of children are still at the same school?

This was the thrust of a recent task force report in Ohio titled «High - Quality High Schools»; it was the point of the president's proposed $ 200 million Performance Plan Fund (part of the $ 1.5 billion initiative); and it's the essence of any number of private - sector initiatives.

Paige also tied the renewal of principals» contracts to school performance and privatized a number of non-academic services.

That path is a limited replication of No Excuses schools that rely on a very unusual labor pool (young, often work 60 + hours per week, often from top universities); the creation of many more charters that, on average, aren't different in performance from district schools; districts adopting «lite» versions of No Excuses models while pruning small numbers of very low performing teachers; and some amount of shift to online learning.

While it is true that some have struggled to recruit and a small number have closed, this needs to be seen in the context of both the commercial realities of new start - ups, and the broader educational picture of national school performance.