Sentences with phrase «produce higher achieving students»

Certified teachers not only produce higher achieving students, but, conversely, teachers without certification showed significant negative effects on student achievement (Darling - Hammond et al., 2005).

Not exact matches

Our schools are producing fragile, stressed - out students who achieve at high levels but at a high cost.

Earlier this year, we published a report produced by a team of volunteer economists from Pro Bono Economics, which revealed that students who have taken a CREST Silver Award achieved half a grade higher on their best science GCSE result and were more likely to continue with STEM education, compared to a matched control group.

Speaking at the launch of the OECD's «Education at Glance» report, which compares education systems around the world, Schleicher noted that selection was widely used in countries such as Germany and Switzerland and has not been proven to produce high - achieving students.

An earlier study by Peterson, Hanushek, and Ludger Woessman looked at which countries — and which U.S. states — were producing large numbers of high - achieving students in math.

Similarly, in a 1999 National Review article, Danielle Dunne Wilcox and Chester Finn wrote, «After a dozen years of R & D and the investment of $ 120 million, [the NBPTS] can not demonstrate that its blue - ribbon winners actually produce higher - achieving students.

Dedicated educators who have a passion for their subjects have the ability to profoundly influence learning experiences and produce intellectually curious, high - achieving students.

In both reading and math, in raw numbers, the United States produces more high - achieving Hispanic students than Asian students.

To see how well schools in the United States do at producing high - achieving math students, we compared the percentage of U.S. students in the high - school graduating Class of 2009 with advanced skills in mathematics to percentages of similarly high achievers in other countries.

And countries such as Germany and Switzerland, where selection was widely used, were not more likely to produce high - achieving students.

Fulfillment Fund (CA): Helps promising, yet educationally underserved and economically disadvantaged students achieve high school graduation and access to and completion of higher education through programs that also produce systemic change.

Multi-classroom leaders who produced high - growth student learning as teachers help whole teams of teachers achieve student learning growth matching or approaching that of excellent teachers.

We know that teaching is a complex intellectual activity and that teachers who think at higher levels produce students who are higher achieving, more cooperative, and better problem solvers.

For example, a student who is achieving at a low level may or may not benefit by transferring to a school that is producing high gains only with high achieving students.

The same can be said of a high achieving student who transfers to a school that is producing high gains with low achieving students.

Simple value - added models that control for just a few tests scores (or only one score) and no other variables produce measures that underestimate teachers with low - achieving students and overestimate teachers with high - achieving students.

That said, the highest - quality research studies find that charter schools tend to produce greater gains in math and reading test scores for traditionally disadvantaged students, compared to the gains these same students would achieve if they attended a traditional public school.

Further, charter schooling may produce improvements in the broader education system by creating an environment where schools must compete for students; to attract students, schools must maintain a high level of quality.2 And though results vary among schools, states, and student subgroups, on average charter schools achieve positive results relative to traditional public schools, particularly with traditionally underserved student groups.

Yet even in the face of these challenges, many urban schools provide a high - quality education and produce high - achieving students.

The authors embark on a study of twelve countries and regions to address these issues, exploring the structures and practices that enable some countries to produce a higher proportion of high - achieving students than the United States and to more equitably represent disadvantaged students among their top scorers.

These are countries that consistently produce high - achieving, well - prepared students.

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