Sentences with phrase «performing schools increased»

But probably the most interesting finding — and, for fans of true portfolio management, the most encouraging — is that demand for higher - performing schools increased over time.

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Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

Unfortunately, not only can a poor diet greatly increase students» risk for obesity and other health issues, but what students eat can also have profound effects on their ability to learn and perform well in school.

Munn said the increase in salaries mainly would accommodate new part - time workers needed to support a budgeted increase in district programming, where the growth is mostly seen in the area of performing arts and before - and after - school programs.

The Project Development Objective is to increase access to senior secondary education in underserved districts and improve quality in low - performing senior high schools (SHSs) in Ghana.

«The Government should increase the intake of Schools of Midwifery & Nursing to 100 and the State should devise a mechanism for safer blood transfusion by equipping one comprehensive health centre and one secondary health centre per LGA Other recommendations include, all key institutional stakeholders such as the Ministry of Health, Hospital's Management Board and the Ondo State Primary Healthcare Development Board should be strengthened to better perform their respective regulatory and implementation roles as regards the RBF in the state.

In their letter, the members of Congress echoed many of Mr. de Blasio's arguments yesterday, pointing to his expansion of universal prekindergarten and increased funding for under - performing schools as evidence of what is possible under mayoral control.

In the last four years, our neighborhoods have not gotten safer, our schools have not performed better and our fiscal strength has not increased.

The state committed to adopting the Common Core standards, tying teacher evaluations to test scores, turning around or closing low - performing schools and increasing the number of charter schools, among other things.

The goals of the program include increasing interest in biological sciences and medicine among high school students, helping students to understand how scientific research is performed and increasing diversity of students and researchers in the sciences.

But only when data is tied to action do we see increases in student achievement and high school graduation rates, as well as more dollars and resources directed to low - performing schools.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadschools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Of the 20 local areas with the biggest increases in high performing school places, 16 of which were in London, the proportion of such places rose significantly from 36 per cent to 60 per cent from 2010 - 2015.

In New York City, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña recently implied that the city's charter schools remove low - performing students in order to increase their aggregate test Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña recently implied that the city's charter schools remove low - performing students in order to increase their aggregate test schools remove low - performing students in order to increase their aggregate test scores.

Indeed, we find an average increase of about 0.06 math course credits per student in schools that face pressure to avoid a Low - Performing rating.

Under the terms of the bill, teachers and principals with five or more years of experience and five or more years of satisfactory or above performance ratings would also would receive 10 - percent annual increases if they opted to transfer or remain in a low - performing school.

Schools in danger of receiving a «Low - Performing» rating were likely to mitigate their risk both through an increase in the number of math courses for students who previously failed the 8th - grade exam and other increased staffing and instructional time.

In 2009, Mayor Menino tacitly supported an increase in the number of «proven» Commonwealth charter schools that could operate in Boston as part of a broader education - reform bill that invested school districts with greater authority to intervene in low - performing schools and permitted districts to establish a few Horace Mann charter schools without the required union sign - off.

The difference in enrollment trends suggests that the LSP's regulatory burden had the opposite of its intended effect: discouraging higher - performing schools from participating, leaving only the lower - performing schools that were so desperate to reverse their declining enrollment and increase their funding that they were willing to do whatever the voucher program required.

The limited research on efforts to improve school choice systems also demonstrates that simplifying the information parents receive about their school choices increases the likelihood that parents will select a higher - performing school.

Schnur and Wyner point to the role of increased standards through the Common Core and the success of certain high - performing schools.

Dearing examined a ratio termed the «income - to - needs» of families below the poverty line and showed that when income increased (roughly $ 4,500 per year over three years), very young children performed better on tasks where they were asked to identify colors, shapes, and letters (skills considered important in school readiness).

Compared with 2000, the proportion of 2003 Blue Ribbon public schools that performed well or in the middle tier on state tests increased, while the number of low - performing schools dropped.

When the district had sufficient funds prior to 2011, it agreed to a series of wage increases for union employees, added remedial summer - school classes, reduced class sizes, operated underutilized buildings, and devoted extra resources to improve poorly performing schools.

A second important outcome was that the lower - performing students, so these were students who were about the bottom third of our sample, these were students who were earning Grade Point Averages (GPAs) of a C or below in the semester prior to the intervention [and were] most likely going to be struggling in school; for these students, the intervention increased their GPAs and also increased their likelihood of passing core courses like Math, English, Social Studies and Science - and increased that by around 6.5 percentage points.

In poorly performing schools, there are usually more challenges to contend with, such as demoralized staff (which often leads to high turnover), increasing pressures from district staff to meet adequate yearly progress targets on standardized tests, and physical environments that are poorly maintained and often unsafe.

The school system has increased the amount of money it spends per pupil and offers incentives to experienced teachers to encourage them to teach in schools with lower - performing students.

The use of interdistrict - choice programs is unlikely to increase most students» educational opportunities significantly, a new report concludes, despite recent attention to the idea as a means of reducing economic and racial segregation and giving students in low - performing public schools a chance to find a better school.

The 11th edition of the Washington - based association's yearly report says that although spending per student has increased nationwide by 53 percent in the past 20 years, 73 percent of public school 8th graders taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress mathematics exam in 2003 performed below the level of proficient.

KH: Over the past 10 years, the total number of students attending schools run by high - performing CMOs increased at least tenfold, from approximately 10,000 students in 2000 to more than 100,000 students today.

Specifically, RttT was designed to encourage higher state standards, create new data systems, improve teacher effectiveness, increase college readiness, stimulate charter - school expansion, and strengthen low - performing schools.

Whereas the schools identified for closure experienced an increase of 6.5 percentage points relative to their projected graduation rate, the other low - performing comparison schools experienced an increase of 1.4 percentage points.

Admissions preference may be given to children in low - performing schools, or to children who will increase diversity in their new school, or, in less - populated states, to those who live closer to an out - of - district school than to one that is in the district.

In some states, there are concerns that charter schools are increasing segregation, but as Scharfenberg notes, some of the charter schools in Massachusetts that serve large numbers of minority students are among the highest - performing charter schools in the nation.

Increase the number of jobs students may perform at school.

Second, magnet schools have been incorporated into the school choice movement as a means of improving achievement and into No Child Left Behind as a way of increasing the opportunities available to children in low - performing schools.

• Deming examines Texas's test - based accountability system and show that for students at low - performing schools, it led to increased achievement, college attendance, degree attainment, and income earning.

This means that the net difference was a 5.1 - percentage - point increase in graduation rates over and above the influence of other factors that were affecting low - performing schools citywide.

Generally, the states did little to explain how they intend «to help increase student achievement, increase options for students, or intervene in chronically low - performing schools.»

There will likely be a significant increase in the number of charter schools that open in New Orleans in the next school year, as 117 of the 125 schools were labeled as «low performing» by the state and thus could be taken over and converted to charters.

I suspect that online learning will continue to expand mainly via course providers like K12, but savvy customers like CMOs and high - performing stand - alone charter schools will help increase the quality of high - tech platforms.

Although the college - sending rates of the highest - performing high schools in the sample are low relative to Texas as a whole, our findings suggest that offering eligibility for automatic admission may not be effective at accomplishing even the narrow goal of increasing access to the top public universities for students in the most - disadvantaged settings.

The bonus increased by 28 percentage points the likelihood that gifted teachers would enter a low - performing school.

While students in the study who engaged in physical activity tended to perform better in school, the benefits were seen when students exercised vigorously — enough to increase their heart rate and breathing.

A clear plurality of the public at large supports revisions in NCLB to increase the number of choice options available to parents whose children attend low - performing schools.

Using rigorous non-experimental methods, a 2013 study of charters in 16 states by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes found that average charter school effectiveness increased overall, due in large part to closures of poorly performing schools.

The Commission will examine state and local policies to increase parent and family engagement, including: how the school calendar meets the needs of students and families to optimize engagement such as parent - teacher conferences and half - days; district and school - level policies to address student attendance issues; access to information regarding teacher effectiveness; and parental involvement in school policies such as placement of students in low - performing schools and in the classrooms of ineffective teachers.

As the number of low - performing schools eligible for transfer options grew under NCLB, the number of Internet searches about those search units increased.

As might be expected, the cheating by school personnel increased following the introduction of high - stakes testing, particularly in the lowest - performing classrooms.

Ideally, system leaders use this information — along with other data on school quality — to increase the number of high - quality seats (e.g., by adding seats to desirable schools or opening more schools like them) and reduce the number of low - quality seats (e.g., by closing low - performing, undesirable schools).