Sentences with phrase «raise reading scores»

Even though the vast majority of teachers at all schools in the project voted to engage in schoolwide reading reform, the schools clearly have a long way to go to raise their reading scores to «breaking the mold» levels, with current mean standardized reading comprehension scores across schools, for example, standing at 40 in grades 2 and 3, and at 37 in grades 4 and 5.

Why is it harder to raise reading scores than math scores for students from low - income families?

Schools and teachers may indeed be making a Herculean effort to raise reading scores, but these efforts do little to improve reading achievement and to prepare children for college, a career, and a lifetime of productive, engaged citizenship.

E.D. Hirsch and others have demonstrated for decades that the best way to raise reading scores is to make sure students build a strong vocabulary and a strong knowledge base; elsewise, they won't comprehend what they're reading.

He compared this figure with Jeremy Finn and Charles Achilles's finding that attending a smaller class in the Tennessee STAR experiment raised reading scores for black 2nd graders by one - third of a standard deviation.

Similarly, a study of public library summer reading programs found that these programs raised reading scores but also found that participants were from a higher socioeconomic level than students who did not participate (Roman, Carran, & Fiore, 2010).

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A researcher, she read scores of baby how - to books to determine the «right» way to raise her children.

Hamilton has served as a community board president and was involved in raising math and reading scores.

When Jesse was a Community Board President he hired Dr. Evelyn Castro from Hunter Elementary School and raised math and reading scores 6 percent over a three year period.

France, on the other hand, also raised boys» enjoyment of reading, but French males» reading scores declined by 15 points.

Nations such as Germany raised boys» enjoyment of reading and increased their reading scores by about 10 points on the PISA scale.

It has become a mantra in education that No Child Left Behind, with its pressure to raise test scores, has reduced classroom time devoted to the arts (and science, social studies, and everything else besides reading and math).

For admission, they must score at an 8th - grade level on standardized reading and math tests (the Richmond Tech PLC raised that to 9th grade because it had so many applicants), pass an interview, and sign an achievement contract that also commits them to attend a daily meeting called Morning Motivation.

Our results indicate that, on average, New York City's charter schools raise their 3rd through 8th graders» math achievement by 0.09 of a standard score and reading achievement by 0.04 of a standard score, compared with what would have happened had they remained in traditional public schools (see Figure 3).

Although the retention rates for TFA and VIF are low, it's worth noting that teachers who come through those preparation routes are better at raising student reading and math scores.

NCLB required states to test ELLs and report their subgroup scores, increasing pressure on schools to move students to English fluency and raise reading and math scores.

Passing rates on state tests plummeted this year in New York after state education officials raised the cut score on the state's reading and math tests.

In the racial and ethnic comparison, the results show that being surrounded by peers who score 1 point higher in reading raises a student's own reading score by 0.3 to 0.8 points.

Schools faced increased pressure to move students to English fluency and raise reading and math scores.

A 2015 study by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found Newark charter schools outperformed traditional district schools: 77 percent of Newark's charters were more effective at raising test scores in reading, and 69 percent were more effective at raising scores in math.

It's how we know, for example, how much progress there has or has not been in closing achievement gaps nationwide, but it just doesn't work to say we can hold teachers accountable simply for raising math and reading scores.»

Two researchers from New York University's school of education found that raising the number of students taught in special education resource rooms appeared to have triggered a marked decrease in particular in their state assessment scores in reading.

Children raised in families with higher incomes score higher on math and reading tests.

Recent assessments of school - based pre-K programs in Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia indicate that they substantially raise children's vocabulary, math, and reading comprehension test scores at the end of one year.

The results showed that recession - era teacher hires were strikingly successful in raising math scores; reading scores also improved in these teachers» classrooms, though less than half the amount that math scores did.

For reading, the literacy hour raised boys» mean percentile reading scores by somewhere between 2.5 and 3.4 percentile points and raised the percentage achieving level 4 or above in Key Stage 2 English by between 2.7 and 4.2.

Moreover, the program proved to be a highly cost - effective means of improving reading scores, especially when compared with the common alternatives, like class size reductions and raising teachers» salaries.

RH: During the No Child Left Behind era, many schools felt pressured to raise these math and reading scores, and cut down on recess in favor of more time in the classroom.

RH: It seems that the lion's share of education reformers and providers nowadays focus on raising reading and math scores.

The research consensus suggests TFA corps members are about equally effective at raising students» test scores as teachers from all other pathways, though better in math than in reading and writing.

For example, that same study following 2.5 million students found that an English teacher who raises students» reading test scores by the same amount as a math teacher raises students» math test scores has an impact on long - term life outcomes approximately 1.7 times that of the math teacher.

Teachers who enter New York City schools through alternative pathways such as Teach For America and the city's Teaching Fellows program are as effective as their traditionally certified counterparts in raising student test scores in mathematics and reading, a report says.

We should not be «organizing schools around the goals of raising reading and math scores,» writes Giroux, «but our primary concern is to [get students] to learn how to affirm their own experiences, and to understand the need to struggle individually and collectively for a more just society.»

In 2016, Danish Shakeel and colleagues analyzed 19 international randomized controlled trials of school vouchers, finding that vouchers tended to raise both reading and math scores.

Campbell contends it is a task that we should study as seriously as we do programs to raise test scores in reading and mathematics.

A 2009 study by NACAC, the National Association of College Admission Counseling, showed that SAT prep courses raised critical reading scores by about 10 points and math scores by about 20 points

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Tragic amounts of time have been wasted that could have been devoted to enhancing knowledge and vocabulary, which would actually raise reading comprehension scores.

In fact, in the 1990s only seven states raised their NAEP grade four reading scores while three actually declined.

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In recent years, however, the federal law known as No Child Left Behind has put pressure on schools to raise scores on the standardized reading and math tests given to students starting around age 8.

Dahl and Lochner say, «Our baseline estimates imply that a $ 1,000 increase in income raises math test scores by 2.1 percent and reading test scores by 3.6 percent of a standard deviation (Available at: http://www.irp.wisc.edu/research/education.htm).»

For years, critics of test - based school accountability have pointed out that when schools face pressure to raise students» scores in math and reading, they tend to respond by doubling down on those two subject areas and cutting back on the teaching of history, art, music, civics, and more.

A growing body of research has found that high quality pre-k programs can boost reading and math scores, and teach children important classroom skills like how to raise their hand and pay attention.

Signed into law in 2002, No Child mandated annual tests in reading and math and required schools to raise scores every year or face penalties.

These differing approaches kept coming to mind as I read Ron Childress» And West is West, a novel that addresses some serious, even urgent, social questions but which seems at times more interested in scoring quick points for being socially conscious than really exploring the issues it raises in a thoughtful and thorough way.

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