Sentences with phrase «reading achievement among»

The intervention also improved math and reading achievement among children identified by teachers at baseline at highest behavioral risk.

Consider, for instance, the work of Patrick Wolf at the University of Arkansas, who has examined the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship and found that it led to improved reading achievement among participants while also increasing a student's chance of graduating high school by 21 percentage points.

How do the contexts of homes, communities, classrooms, and schools support high levels of reading achievement among primary - level children?

Baumgartner, Lipowski, and Rush (2003) studied a program to improve reading achievement among elementary and middle school students using differentiated instructional strategies, including flexible grouping, student choice of learning tasks, self - selected reading time, and access to a variety of texts.

Washburn found little difference in reading achievement among the groups.

Indeed, the most important (and uncertain) premise of Reading First was that it could catalyze and support meaningful change in the SEAs — could help them build agile expert systems that gave high - quality support to schools and districts — and thereby improve reading achievement among the poor, not just in isolated schools and districts as in the past but across entire states.

It appears as «Calibration of reading self - concept and reading achievement among 15 - year - olds: Cultural differences in 34 countries» in the September issue of Learning and Individual Differences (volume 19, issue 3, pages 372 - 386).

We do not, however, find evidence that NCLB accountability had any impact on reading achievement among either 4th or 8th graders.

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A program aimed at reducing behavior problems in order to boost academic achievement has improved performance in math and reading among low - income kindergartners and first graders, according to a study by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Modeling the Relationships Among Reading Instruction, Motivation, Engagement, and Achievement for Adolescents.

The most extreme claim in the essay, among many, is that «the effect of vouchers on student achievement is larger than the following in - school factors: exposure to violent crime at school...» Yep, you read that correctly: selecting a private school for your child is as damaging to them as witnessing school violence.

New findings coauthored by Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Kathleen McCartney, published today in the September / October 2009 issue of Child Development, reveals the quality of early childcare may play a role in boosting reading and math achievement among low - income youth.

Among the reform milestones they achieved were a new requirement that 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based on student achievement; raising the charter school cap from 200 to 460; and higher student achievement goals on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 4th grade and 8th grade reading tests and Regents exams.

For the past decade, school reform has been primarily about «closing achievement gaps» by boosting math and reading proficiency and graduation rates, among black, Latino, and poor students.

Among U.S. fourth graders whose reading achievement was in the lowest 5 % of the distribution — children who were all experiencing clinically significant and severe reading difficulties — over 80 % of white children were receiving additional help through special education.

For example, researchers found that children who were homeless or mistreated disrupted their classrooms, pulling down reading achievement and attendance rates among children who were not homeless or mistreated.

While only two factors among many, student achievement in math and reading can predict the future success of those students.

They found a positive relationship between teacher collaboration and differences among schools in mathematics and reading achievement.

Thus, evidence from the NAEP indicates improvement over the last 10 to 15 years in reading and mathematics achievement among students entering high school at the bottom of the skill distribution.

The results, however, also revealed wide disparities in achievement among student groups, with 65 percent of English language learners, 46 percent... read more

During his eight years in Tallahassee, the governor established a far - reaching accountability system, including limits on social promotion in elementary school; introduced a plethora of school choice initiatives (vouchers for the disabled, vouchers for those in failing schools, tax - credit funded scholarships for the needy, virtual education, and a growing number of charter schools); asked school districts to pay teachers according to merit; promoted a «Just Read» initiative; ensured parental choice among providers of preschool services; and created a highly regarded system for tracking student achievement.

Recent results on our Nation's Report Card (the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP), for example, tell us that during the NCLB era, student achievement in reading and math improved for African American, Hispanic, and white students alike, and achievement gaps among these groups narrowed.

The «black box» nature of reading tests is actively undermining reading achievement, particularly among disadvantaged kids.

Among the issues highlighted during the conference were the role of media in literacy instruction, ways of teaching reading comprehension, contributions of the family to language and literacy development, and methods for promoting family involvement in students» school achievement.

While Virginia students again ranked among the nation's highest achievers, the 2009 NAEP results for the commonwealth show that overall achievement among Virginia fourth graders is similar to achievement in 2002, while the overall average reading score for eighth graders has declined.

A: Yes, under a five - star grading system that accounts for students» growth in reading and math skills, school poverty levels and a school's ability to close gaps in achievement among groups of students.

Moving forward requires additional descriptive studies of early reading programs and attempts to understand the relationships among the schoolwide and other factors that promote early reading achievement in high - poverty schools.

More importantly, families are recognizing that the «experts» really don't know what they are doing, that it is the very practices championed by traditionalists — from near - lifetime employment for teachers regardless of their ability to help kids succeed;, to the overuse of the overdiagnosis of learning disabilities (especially among young black men, whose reading deficiencies are often diagnosed as being special ed problems)-- are the underlying reason why schools fail to improve student achievement.

Among these were the National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence Award, Milken Teacher of the Year, International Science Teacher of the Year, National Exemplary Reading Award, State PTA Program of the Year Award, State Exemplary Writing Hall of Fame Mentor, National Public Relations Golden Achievement Award, South Carolina International Reading Award, National Science Teaching Award, Astronomy & Space Science Award, CIBA - GEIGY Award for Excellence in Elementary Science, International Science Teacher of the Year, NCNB Young Artist Showcase Award, NASA Newest Program, National Presidental Award for Math and Science, and the North American Invention Convention Winner.

Based on results measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), improvements in accountability have significantly raised achievement in reading and math among all student groups.

There were no differences in math test scores among students whose parents had low math anxiety, and no differences in reading achievement for parents with different levels of math anxiety.

To raise achievement levels among poor students on a grander scale, the report recommends allowing principals at opportunity schools to train other school leaders and increasing the number of social workers and reading interventionists in schools.

«This... resulted in districts throughout Illinois holding high school students to different academic content and achievement standards in reading / language arts and mathematics... based solely on their zip code, and afforded inconsistent information to parents and the public about student achievement among districts in Illinois.»

Among Connecticut African - American, Hispanic, and low - income students, performance growth is three times greater than statewide growth in math and twice as great for reading and writing, trimming the size of the achievement gap.

While the 2016 election brought a renewed interest in engagement among youth, 4 only 23 percent of eighth - graders performed at or above the proficient level on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) civics exam, and achievement levels have virtually stagnated since 1998.5 In addition, the increased focus on math and reading in K - 12 education — while critical to prepare all students for success — has pushed out civics and other important subjects.

There was no evidence to show whole language worked and lots of evidence that teaching children the relationship among sounds, letters and spelling patterns improves reading achievement.

Figure 5 provides national - level data on achievement among ethnic subgroups in reading and math in grades 4 and 8.

From the nefarious achievement gaps, to the racial isolation in our increasingly segregated schools; from the digital divide that results in kids not having access to computers, to the poverty gulf that results in kids not having homes; from boys» reading difficulties and girls» problems with math, to the disparities among rural, suburban, and urban school needs — these gaps present baffling problems.

«The goal of Reading WonderWorks is to close the achievement gap among students, help struggling students develop foundational reading and writing skills in a self - paced and flexible environment starting as early as kindergarten, and accelerate them so that they can read on grade level and graduate with the confidence they need to succeed in college and beyond.Reading WonderWorks is to close the achievement gap among students, help struggling students develop foundational reading and writing skills in a self - paced and flexible environment starting as early as kindergarten, and accelerate them so that they can read on grade level and graduate with the confidence they need to succeed in college and beyond.reading and writing skills in a self - paced and flexible environment starting as early as kindergarten, and accelerate them so that they can read on grade level and graduate with the confidence they need to succeed in college and beyond.»

Among other features are Kindle FreeTime, which lets you gamify reading by setting reading goals for your kids, and gives them achievements for making them.

The adjusted effect of POBW (centred) on reading achievement for different SEIFA Education groups among non-Aboriginal singletons born in Western Australia who undertook the Western Australian reading test in 2000, 2002 — 5.

In fact, combined treatment, medication management, and behavioral treatment never differed significantly among themselves, with 3 exceptions (combined treatment > behavioral treatment for parent - reported internalizing problems and oppositional / aggressive symptoms, and Weschler Individual Achievement Test reading achievemAchievement Test reading achievementachievement score).