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Read Naturally Encore accelerates reading achievement by combining three research - based reading strategies for struggling readers — teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress monitoring.

Differentiate instruction easily using Read Naturally Encore, a powerful reading fluency intervention that accelerates reading achievement by using the research - based Read Naturally Strategy using printed materials and audio CDs.

Read Naturally GATE accelerates reading achievement by combining the research - proven strategies of teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress monitoring to teach phonics, develop fluency, and provide support for phonemic awareness, comprehension, and vocabulary.

Differentiate instruction easily using Read Naturally Encore, a powerful intervention that accelerates reading achievement by using the research - based Read Naturally Strategy in a print / CD format.

Vocabulary development at age three has been found to predict reading achievement by third grade.

Using regression discontinuity designs, we find that these reforms led to substantial improvements in school performance, raising math achievement by 17 percent and reading achievement by 9 percent.

The grants will help schools improve reading achievement by providing students with increased access to current school library materials; technologically advanced media centers; and professionally certified media specialists.

Last year, MDRC released results of a randomized evaluation of a volunteer - based tutoring program, Reading Partners, that increased reading achievement by 0.1 of a standard deviation for an out - of - pocket cost to the schools of only $ 320 per student.

We measure the initial impact of the EITP on a school's math and reading achievement by comparing student achievement between the Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 schools at the end of the 2008 — 09 school year, during which Cohort 1 schools implemented the EITP but Cohort 2 schools did not.

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).

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This considerable achievement was made possible by Fior's conversations with many people who knew Weil, as well as extensive reading, and reliance on the earlier, excellent biography by Simone Pétrement.

Wanderers won the 2014 Asian Champions League by beating Al Hilal, becoming the first Australian team to win the title, and the new strip features a golden star to commemorate that achievement Continue reading →

Her unique achievement is evident if one reads comparable works, for example, The Function of the Orgasms (2009) by her near contemporary, Dr. Michel Odent.

Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

By contrast, achievement scores on the Woodcock Word, Passage, and Reading Comprehension tests were higher for breastfed than for bottle - fed children (Table 4).

Researchers measured 11 outcomes previously shown to be impacted by breast - feeding: body mass index (BMI); obesity; asthma; hyperactivity; parental attachment; behavior compliance; and achievement in vocabulary, reading recognition, math ability, intelligence and scholastic competence.

Speaking at the second edition of the Ghana Renewable Energy fair themed, «Energy and Energy Efficiency, Accelerating Energy Access and Security,» Mr. Terkper, whose speech was read on his behalf by Deputy Minister of Finance, Mona Quartey, said the government is well aware of the important role renewable energy can play in accelerating and catalyzing the country's socio - economic development and the achievement of universal access ahead of the target date of the UN Sustainable Energy for All Initiative.

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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.

Teacher quality and student achievement in both math and reading increased substantially after the departure of low - performing teachers — those dismissed by IMPACT, or those who left voluntarily following their first «minimally effective» rating.

Our region, transforming now Middle East Annual Review looking at our achievements over the past year and illustrate some of the Fy17 highlights Read the In December 2010, a man in Tunisia burned himself to death in protest at his treatment by police.

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So you can imagine how happy we were to have any tenuous reservations quickly dismissed by one of Leigh's greatest achievements (read our review).

The failure was exemplified by high drop - out rates, dismal national test scores in math, reading, and other subjects, as well as widening achievement gaps.

Project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During the Summer) is designed to improve reading comprehension by providing children with books and promoting summer reading with teachers and pReading Enhances Achievement During the Summer) is designed to improve reading comprehension by providing children with books and promoting summer reading with teachers and preading comprehension by providing children with books and promoting summer reading with teachers and preading with teachers and parents.

Federal officials have asked states that received awards under the Reading Excellence Act to submit performance reports by the end of this month detailing the progress made in local districts and schools in improving reading achieReading Excellence Act to submit performance reports by the end of this month detailing the progress made in local districts and schools in improving reading achiereading achievement.

Some people try to justify the place of art in education by claiming that art positively affects achievement in math and reading — subjects whose importance is a matter of broad consensus.

«Importantly, the narrowing gap in reading achievement as students progress by year level suggests that the value - add over time that is experienced in coeducational schools is not being realised in single - sex schools,» Dix writes.

The study, conducted by McCartney, Boston College Associate Professor Eric Dearing, and Samford University Professor Beck Taylor, looked at reading and math achievement of more than 1,300 children in middle childhood from economic backgrounds ranging from poor to affluent.

While we've made some gains at the 4th - grade level (probably reflecting better instruction in decoding), reading - achievement trends by the end of high school are depressingly flat.

A separate study of the ECLS - K data, also by Peterson and Llaudet, similarly showed that private school students gained significantly more in reading achievement than demographically similar public school students in schools with similar student populations.

In reading, student achievement is estimated to increase by 0.14 of a standard deviation.

• «All of which» means «some of which,» as the multi-year Louisiana study cited (of which I am co-author) reports no significant achievement impacts of the program after three years and the Indiana study cited reports that the initial negative results of that program turn positive in reading by year four.

In reading, student achievement improves by 0.14 of a standard deviation, with an improvement of 1.0 standard deviations in teacher quality.

They mean that the students in the control group would need to remain in school an extra 3.7 months on average to catch up to the level of reading achievement attained by those who used the scholarship opportunity to attend a private school for any period of time.

The impact of the program on the reading achievement of Cohort 1 students did not differ by a statistically significant amount from the impact of the program on the reading achievement of Cohort 2 students, Carnoy's claim notwithstanding.

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.

The third intervention was reported to have boosted math achievement by less than half the amount of the reading gain from the D.C. voucher program.

The reading impact of the D.C. voucher program is the largest achievement impact yet reported in an RCT evaluation overseen by the NCEE.

Annual average improvement target of 2.5 percentage point gains in achievement on state reading and math tests between 2018 and 2025 for all students and student subgroups; plan includes goal of reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2025 for all students and student subgroups

We can't fix the limits of math and reading achievement tests by adding mandatory «grit» surveys or other measures.

Using more recent data, a report by the Center on Education Policy concludes that reading and math achievement as measured by state assessments has increased in most states since 2002 and that there have been smaller but similar patterns in NAEP scores.

For further analysis, read «It Pays to Improve School Quality: States that boost student achievement could reap large economic gains,» by Eric Hanushek, Jens Ruhose, and Ludger Woessmann.

In 1999, Michigan increased the reward for good academic performance by offering the Michigan Merit Award, a one - year $ 2,500 scholarship for any student who scores at Level I or Level 2 on the Michigan Educational Achievement Program (MEAP) tests in reading, mathematics, science, and writing.

However, in learning areas such as mathematics and reading, students in the same year group vary in their achievement levels by as much as five or six years of school.

The impact on student math and reading achievement differed by about 20 percent of a standard deviation, a difference which the authors note is «striking, roughly equivalent to having a teacher who is at the 16th percentile of effectiveness rather than at the 50th percentile.»

Semiparametric lower bound estimates of the variance in teacher quality based entirely on within - school heterogeneity indicate that teachers have powerful effects on reading and mathematics achievement, though little of the variation in teacher quality is explained by observable characteristics such as education or experience.

Another study, by Eric Hanushek and Margaret Raymond, both also at Stanford, evaluated the impact of school - accountability policies on state - level NAEP math and reading achievement measured by the difference between the performance of a state's 8th graders and that of 4th graders in the same state four years earlier.

If you are not persuaded by the evidence I reviewed yesterday on the disconnect between achievement results and other outcomes, I suggest you read an excellent book written by Nobel Prize winning economist James Heckman and his students called The Myth of Achieveachievement results and other outcomes, I suggest you read an excellent book written by Nobel Prize winning economist James Heckman and his students called The Myth of AchievementAchievement Tests.

A Little Rock, Arkansas, performance - pay program lasted only three years and was not renewed by the local school board, despite evidence of positive effects on student achievement in math, reading, and language.