Sentences with phrase «reading and math achievement»

Higher levels of scaffolding are related to higher reading and math achievement in African American families; thus strategies to increase parental scaffolding may be effective in decreasing the «achievement gap.»

School Readiness and Achievement Participating children scored 25 % higher on first - through - third grade reading and math achievement tests.

«Examples include the NC Healthy Start Foundation, which supports better birth outcomes and saves the state money through lower healthcare costs, and pre-k programs, which help narrow reading and math achievement gaps and increase the state's graduation rate.»

Children in full - day kindergarten made greater gains in both reading and math achievement — gains that close the achievement gap between the highest and lowest performing students by nearly one - third in reading and by one - fourth in math.

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.

The report provides examples where the Chicago Public School system has shown significant increases in reading and math achievement at each grade level, 3 - 8.

The school's data showed a wide gap in reading and math achievement between white and Hispanic students in 3rd grade; it looked like an insurmountable chasm at 5th grade.

They found that retention in third grade had large positive effects on reading and math achievement in the short run.

The Jefferson County Public Schools, which encompass Louisville, have said the district is committed to supporting those students to help bring their reading and math achievement on par with their native English - speaking classmates.

This measures the progress for students identified as the lowest 20 % statewide in reading and math achievement.

Wisconsin schools that adopted the non-punitive disciplinary measures advocated by the Obama administration (and now, the GAO) had lower reading and math achievement than schools that stuck with traditional discipline.

For example, the WISC — III was found to provide only two specific shape patterns that contributed to prediction of achievement: relatively high verbal scores positively predicted both reading and math achievement, and relatively low scores on the AR subtest negatively predicted math achievement.

Only two shape patterns contributed to the prediction of achievement: relatively high verbal scores positively predicted reading and math achievement and relatively low scores on the AR subtest negatively predicted math achievement.

Findings suggest: (a) teachers without prior preparation learn informally from peers to use CPT; (b) they use CPT to promote student and teacher learning and well - being and to respond to school - wide needs; (c) teacher knowledge of CPT varies and teams could function more fully and / or efficiently with formal professional development; (d) teachers have adapted the ways they use CPT under NCLB, planning fewer interdisciplinary units and more lessons to promote reading and math achievement.

Even as they are graduating at higher rates, students» performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a test of reading and math achievement, is unchanged or slipping.

They further found that higher turnover was associated with lower student performance on reading and math achievement tests, apparently because turnover takes a toll on the overall climate of the school.42 «It is far from a trivial problem,» the researchers say.

About 20 schools are expected to be designated next month as «priority schools» because of rock - bottom reading and math achievement plus other problems, such as weak student growth or high dropout rates.

The combination of KIPP pre-K and early elementary school had «positive and statistically significant impacts on reading and math achievement» by second grade, researchers found.

Amid the intense debates about how much progress the nation has made in raising student achievement and whether federal investments in education have produced results, one important trend tends to be overlooked — namely, the notable gains made by African American and Latino students in reading and math achievement since 1971.

For instance, the high school graduation rate is at a record high, and the test scores of Black and Hispanic students have outpaced those of white students on long - term measures of reading and math achievement.

But fifth - graders at the Liberation College Preparatory School and Spirit College Prep, new schools in Houston, declined in both reading and math achievement in their first year, based on standardized tests administered by KIPP to keep track of each school's and each child's progress.

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.

To determine the relationship between teacher collaboration and student achievement, the researchers used reading and math achievement scores for 2,536 fourth - graders, controlling for school context and student characteristics such as prior achievement.

Off - the - shelf courseware supplements class instruction to accelerate reading and math achievement.

By the second year of implementation, performance bonuses improved reading and math achievement by 1 to 2 percentile points — the equivalent of about four weeks of additional learning.

Schools can win a Blue Ribbon award without demonstrating high levels of reading and math achievement or attaining large gains in these subjects.

Putting aside this expansive view of excellence, how do Blue - Ribbon winners perform on tests of reading and math achievement?

Curriculum isn't what it ought to be partly because, as Merrow argues, our fixation on reading and math achievement has squeezed it, but also because it's been decentralized to individual districts and schools and because (as Hirsch has explained so often and well) the belief structure of most educators resists well - sequenced, knowledge - centric curricula.

The K - 20 EDW includes detailed enrollment, demographic, and program participation information for each student, as well as reading and math achievement test scores.

«We found that the effect of quality child care on fifth grade reading and math achievement varies by family income.

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.

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 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.

Study results indicate that English - language learners (ELLs) in bilingual / ESL programs perform better in reading and math achievement compared to ELLs in English mainstream programs.

Despite commitments to improve reading and mathematics achievement, states are still not making enough progress in helping all students reach grade - level standards in those subjects, concludes a report that examines reading and math achievement in all 50 states.

Differences between low - and high - income children in reading and math achievement are much larger now than they were several decades ago, as are differences in college graduation rates.

Sources might include reading and math achievement test scores, IQ scores, benchmark and state test results, and grade level progress in the curriculum.

Nonetheless, NCLB offered some positive changes that the new ESSA maintains, including academic standards, annual assessments of reading and math achievement, and report cards on schools that students, parents and the public can use to gauge results.

Not exact matches

For example, in the Nurse Family Partnership model children born to mothers with low psychological resources had better academic achievement in math and reading in first through sixth grade compared to their control peers (i.e., mothers without the intervention with similar characteristics).30, 31

When compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.

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.

Using income as well as math and reading scores, the study also found that the lower the household income during infancy, the worse the children's performance on reading and math in fifth grade — replicating the well - known gap between income and achievement.

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.

Standardized tools were used for measuring temperament, attention span, behavioral problems, and reading / math achievement.

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.

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.

Charter school students in grades 3 through 8 perform better than we would expect, based on the performance of comparable students in traditional public schools, on both the math and reading portions of New York's statewide achievement tests.

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.

The fact that math and reading achievement results are overly narrow and easily distorted makes them particularly poor indicators of quality and weak predictors of later - life outcomes.

We also find that class size, optional afterschool programs, and most math and reading curricula seem to have no relationship to student achievement.