Sentences with phrase «reading achievement over»

Children in the experimental classrooms gained about two months in reading achievement over those in the control group.

However, in terms of the compounding influence of being in a single - sex school over time, there appears to be no value - add in numeracy achievement and even a decline in reading achievement over time in single - sex schools compared to coeducational schools.»

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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.

If improvements continue at the same rate as seen since 1965, it will be two and a half centuries until racial achievement gaps are closed in math and over one and a half centuries for them to close in reading.

«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.

Highlights of this year's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of movement of students from lower to higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year levels

As one reads the book, his sense of profound respect for his students comes through; he honors their collective wisdom over his own authority, training them for something urgently needed, which has never been done before — the achievement of world peace.

After training thousands of teachers over the past five years in a massive effort to raise reading achievement, Oklahoma officials are worried that the exercise may have been for naught.

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.

Each summer most youth lose about two months» worth of math skills, while low - income students also lose morethan two months in reading achievement despite the fact that their middle - class peers make slight gains over the summer break.

«Teacher identities and professional histories; departmental structures; differentiated roles, such as reading specialists and literacy coaches; lack of teacher preparation to teach literacy skills; arguments over whose responsibility literacy instruction is; competing factors such as motivation and engagement; disparities between in - and out - of - school literacy practices; and the increasing demands of reading to learn all contribute to the stagnation in literacy achievement,» he says.

Whenever you read a new eLearning article or hear about a project that's gone well in a press release, be sure to send over a brief but complimentary email to recognize this achievement.

The two - day anniversary event on September 8 and 9, entitled Reading the Past, Writing the Future, will review achievements and lessons learnt over the last half century and identify challenges and solutions within the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Analysts have cited a legion of reasons for the state's slide in achievement: the steady leaching of resources from the schools that was the inevitable result of the infamous 1970s property - tax revolt led by Howard Jarvis; a long period of economic woes caused by layoffs in the defense industry; curriculum experiments with «whole language» reading instruction and «new math» that were at best a distraction and at worst quite damaging; a school finance lawsuit that led to a dramatic increase in the state's authority over school budgets and operations; and a massive influx of new students and non-English-speaking immigrants that almost surely depressed test scores.

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; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

This meta - analysis includes 84 rigorous studies (with over 60,000 K - 12 participants) that examine the impacts of technologies designed to improve K - 12 reading achievement.

Consider a reasonable, simple, even elegant alternative to replace the vicious circle of narrowed curriculum and comprehension skills of limited efficacy, which over time depress 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.

Investing in high - quality teacher - preparation programs for reading teachers could lead to higher student achievement in the subject, concludes the final report of a commission that has studied the issue over the past three years.

Over the past three years, Dr. Cassellius has delivered on Governor Dayton's 7 - point Plan, Better Schools for a Better Minnesota; which puts a sharp focus on early learning, third grade reading, high school graduation and the elimination of achievement gaps.

The results showed that not only were reading and math achievement highly corrected in fourth grade, but that there was a tendency for students with higher initial reading scores to have higher mathematics growth rates over time.

Culbertson is an urban elementary school with an enrollment of just over 600 students, almost all of whom meet state achievement expectations on the grades 3 - 5 standardized tests in reading, science, and mathematics.

The study found that AI / AN students» achievement in reading and math improved over the study period or at least held stable.

Over twenty - five years ago, Rosenshine and Furst (1973) found that asking multiple levels of questions was consistently related to student achievement, and Puma et al. (1997) found that teachers in effective high - poverty schools emphasized both basic skills and higher order comprehension skills in reading.

More than two - thirds of charter students were found to perform better in reading and math and to have a significant achievement advantage over students in the nearest regular public school.

Over the past three years, Emerald has performed above or near its state average on reading achievement.

A new study of international and U.S. state trends in student achievement growth shows that the United States is squarely in the middle of a group of 49 nations in 4th and 8th grade test score gains in math, reading, and science over the period 1995 - 2009.

After a two - month period (40 consecutive school days) implementing this poetry lesson plan, Ms. Eikenberry found that her third graders made over a year's worth of growth in reading achievement as measured by the i - Ready reading comprehension standards, while her fourth grade students made more than three - quarters of a year's growth.

Through the support of the program, the school is starting to see gains in student achievement, with scores increasing across all grades in reading and writing over last year.

Much of the debate over what constitutes appropriate reading instruction in schools is based on results of studies of reading instruction that by their nature are not designed to detect the effects of schoolwide mechanisms on reading achievement.

Students who don't read over the summer can potentially lose more than two months of reading achievement?

Reading over the summer has the potential to prevent a decline in reading achievement scores from the spring to the fall, even the small step of reading one book can be beneReading over the summer has the potential to prevent a decline in reading achievement scores from the spring to the fall, even the small step of reading one book can be benereading achievement scores from the spring to the fall, even the small step of reading one book can be benereading one book can be beneficial;

The reason for creating this program is the district's shift toward prevention over remediation to address a decline in reading achievement.

The tendency to casually focus on student achievement, especially given the testing system's heavy emphasis on reading and math, allows a large number of employees to either be excused from results - driven accountability or be held accountable for activities over which they have no control.

If improvements continue at the same rate as seen since 1965, it will be 2 1/2 centuries until racial achievement gaps are closed in math and over 1 1/2 centuries for reading.

The gap between Hispanics and whites on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation's Report Card, has stayed fairly stagnant over the past few years in both math and reading, even as the country has become more focused on closing achievement gaps as required by the 2002 federal education law, No Child Left Behind.

Attending a high - poverty school lowers math and reading achievement for students in all racial / ethnic groups and this negative effect has not diminished over time.

For example, they will acknowledge that it takes years to learn academic English and, in the next breath, bluster over the «achievement gaps» of English learners with graduation rates and national reading and math assessments.

NAEP has two major goals: to compare student achievement in states and other jurisdictions and to track changes in achievement of fourth -, eighth -, and twelfth - graders over time in mathematics, reading, writing, science, and other content domains.

In addition, the RAND Corporation, a highly regarded organization providing research and analysis, will perform an extensive study to assess the impact of this new coaching model on the reading and mathematics achievement in these schools over three years.

Facing the challenges associated with an increase in student population from 3,600 in 2001 to over 13,000 in 2017, Vail has used the Beyond Textbooks approach to increase student achievement in math and reading from levels near or below state averages prior to the advent of the program to pass rates that are now consistently 20 % or more above state averages and greater than 90 % year after year at most grade levels.

These schools will receive training and materials over three years to advance achievement in reading, including:

The nation's race - and gender - based achievement gaps are narrowing, according to new data that compare the reading and mathematics achievement of today's 9 -, 13 -, and 17 - year - olds with their peers over a 40 - year span.

Children who do not read over the summer can potentially lose more than two months of reading achievement, and unfortunately summer reading loss is cumulative.

Conducting meta - analysis of over 50 reading research studies, Stephen Krashen found that the single greatest factor in reading achievement (even above socio - economics) was reading volume — how much reading people do.

This form of brief assessment measures overall performance of key foundational skills at each grade level and draws upon over thirty years of scientific research that demonstrates both its versatility to provide accurate prediction of reading and math achievement as well as its sensitivity to growth.

Over 40 percent of black students score at the lowest achievement level («below basic») in reading in all grades (nearly 50 percent in grades 4 and 12), indicating a failure to even partially master essential grade level material.

In Chicago, which has been subject to a variety of reforms over the years, research by Carnegie Foundation president Anthony Bryk and his colleagues found that schools with community school characteristics were more successful in terms of academic achievement in reading and math scores, and in reducing chronic absenteeism, along with other key indicators of student success.16 Spanning many years, the research concluded that successful schools had robust parent - community ties, a student - centered learning climate, and instructional guidance.

In Ohio for example, where the charter sector has been struggling with poor student achievement results for over a decade, charter schools in Cleveland are producing positive learning gains for their students in both reading and math, compared to students attending traditional district schools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality results.