Sentences with phrase «produce academic gains»

Schools that reduced violence and improved school climate tended not to produce academic gains afterwards.

WHAT»S WRONG: Few charter schools have produced the academic gains they promised, nor do they accept the responsibility for educating the most disadvantaged students.

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It's hard to imagine a modern - day academic, under pressure to produce, leaving such a volume of work unpublished, but Oakeshott never felt compelled to bow to worldly pressures or pursue worldly gains — going so far as to decline, graciously, an offer of a knighthood.

Briefings produced in 2010 by civil servants in the Department for Education (DfE) on the principle of whether or not Steiner schools should gain state funding through the Free Schools programme express serious concern about issues such as racism, systemic bullying, academic rigour, secrecy and whether or not the schools would be able to pass Ofsted inspections, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can today reveal.

«Forgive some academic jargon, but the most common education reform ideas — reducing class size, raising teacher pay, enrolling kids in Head Start — produce gains of about 0.1 or 0.2 or 0.3 standard deviations.

That's not to say that academic gains are the only thing you need to produce a safer school.

Though a New York Times evaluation found Cincinnati's famed community schools have not produced clear academic gains, Fariña called Cincinnati's results «pretty good.»

It's unclear from this research why academic gains produce safer schools.

All of the available data provide a wake - up call for researchers and policymakers to renew their commitment to high school students and ensure that the academic gains that elementary and middle schools have produced are not squandered.

The reason is that even if evidence showed the impact of such policies on observable outcomes, such as student test scores, we know that good teachers produce learning gains in areas that go beyond tested academic subjects.

Research shows that supporting students» social and emotional development can produce an 11 percentile point gain on academic scores.

«To produce drastic gains in the academic achievement levels of our students we need the strongest, most prepared teachers.

With these tools, participating schools saw the eLearn Lessons web application produce noticeable gains in students» academic achievement.

This case study highlights two community schools in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City that produced positive gains in academics, attendance, and an increased level of family engagement.

In a summary of the studies on extended time in «School Reform Proposals: The Research Evidence», noted researcher Gene Glass found that increases in the time allocated for schooling would be expensive and would not produce appreciable gains in academic achievement — especially as compared to smaller classes.

They no longer claim that vouchers will close the achievement gap or produce miraculous academic gains for poor and minority students.

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