Sentences with phrase «reading and math over»

The NYT article fails to mention that the same study found that «on average, charter students in Michigan gain an additional two months of learning in reading and math over their [traditional public school] counterparts.

The policy recommendations are a response to the No Child Left Behind Act's singular focus on student performance in reading and math in addition to the Obama's administration's Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) blueprint and FY11 budget request, which continue to prioritize reading and math over other subjects.

Chart 1 displays the percentage of twelfth - grade students nationally who have reached NAEP's «college - prepared» level in reading and math over the past twenty - five years.

We know that mentors provide new teachers with much - needed support and guidance in their crucial first years, but there's a strong pass - through effect as well: Students of mentored teachers gained the equivalent of 3 to 3.5 months of additional learning in reading and math over the course of a year, a new study found.

Regardless of initial differences in test score levels, all schools appear to help their students make similar improvements in reading and math over two years.

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According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the gap in eighth - grade reading and math test scores between low - income students and their wealthier peers hasn't shrunk at all over the past 20 years.

A 2013 study by Mathematica Policy Research revealed that students at five urban EL middle schools advanced ahead of matched peers at comparison schools by an average of ten months in math and seven months in reading over the course of three years.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

You may have limited family time to spend with your child (by the time you get home from work and you eat dinner together as a family and go through your evening routines — make sure homework is done, school bags are packed for the next day, teeth are brushed, baths are done, and so on — there's very little time to sit and review schoolwork with your child); but you can try to look over what your child is doing with his tutor, and try to use free time on the weekends to incorporate fun into learning by playing math games, reading fun books and helping your child pick out books he likes to encourage reading and more.

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.

Now a primary school with fewer than 60 per cent of pupils achieving the basic standard of level 4 in reading, writing and maths (that increases to 65 per cent next year), and fewer pupils than average making the expected levels of progress between KS1 and KS2 will be taken over.

Their tallies of 600 in mathematics, 575 in science, and 556 in reading gave them a 38 - point margin over Singapore in math, a 21 - point margin over Finland in science, and a 17 - point margin over Korea in reading.

CPC not only helps children be school ready, but improves reading and math proficiency over the school grades, which led to higher rates of graduation and ultimately greater economic well - being.»

The study also found that factors including family background, health, home learning, parenting and early care and education explained over half the gaps in reading and math ability between children in the lowest versus highest socioeconomic strata.

The movie explores the source of that concern, the system which finds statewide reading and math proficiency levels looming around 30 % across the nation over eight years after President George W. Bush and Senator Ted Kennedy signed the ambitious, bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act into law.

The most likely explanation, we believe, is that schools largely control math education, but that both families and schools exert strong influence over reading skills.

Researchers have found that replacements for low - rated teachers have produced four or five months» worth of additional student learning in math and nearly as much in reading over three school years.

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.

While about two - thirds of SIG schools did register modest gains in reading and math, scores at one - third actually declined over the period.

Drawing from math test scores from PISA 2009 in which the United States performed lower than the OECD average, the report argues that while demand for STEM labor is predicted to increase over the next few decades, a shortage of STEM labor in the United States, along with inadequate performance in science, math, and reading compared to other countries, endangers U.S. future competitiveness and innovation.

Some kids just below the line will succeed in college nonetheless (and may even be able to skip remedial courses); some kids over the line will falter (probably because, not surprisingly, young people need to be «prepared» in much more than reading and math to finish a college degree).

The school's percentage of students proficient or advanced in math has grown four times more than the state's over the same period, and five times more in reading.

Over the past seven years, my district has mandated quarterly and mini-testing leading up to the state test at the end of the year, homogeneously - leveled classes according to test scores, double - blocked reading and math classes for students who do not pass the state tests, detailed lesson plans aligned to tested reading skills, and a strict pacing guide designed to cover all skills on the state test.

We look at the students» scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests in math and reading (ELA) and improvements in those test scores over time.

Moreover, DCPS students show impressive gains over the last decade, not only on district tests but also on National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading and math assessments.

Over half of poor and minority students have reading and math skills far below grade level, whether measured by the tough performance standards of the NAEP or by the standards of the various states.

So when I recently learned that PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment, a worldwide evaluation of 15 - year - old school pupils» scholastic performance — and one of the main sources of concern over the state of reading, math, and science education in the US) had released an overview of performance in digital reading, navigation and computer use in 2009, I was excited.

A related issue is where to land on the «Common Core» standards, a set of expectations in reading and math developed by the nation's governors and state superintendents, but viewed by many conservatives as a federal plot to take over the schools.

Their advantage in math and reading test scores in 5th grade is roughly 0.7 of a standard deviation, which amounts to well over two years of academic progress (see Figure 1).

The 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the Nation's Report Card, showed that nine - year - olds made «more progress in reading over the past five years than in the previous 28 years combined... and posted the best scores in math in the history of the report.»

Put differently, if we continue to close gaps at the same rate in the future, it will be roughly two and a half centuries before the black - white math gap closes and over one and a half centuries until the reading gap closes.

We have identified specific questions that we will continue to discuss with the STA, to help them to enhance the validity of the reading and maths tests, over time, for all pupils.»

Our own study (the largest rigorous study of KIPP) estimated that over three years KIPP middle schools have an average cumulative impact of 0.21 standard deviations in reading and 0.36 standard deviations in math, roughly equivalent to an additional eight to 11 months of learning.

We gathered as a faculty to pore over data from state reading and math tests.

Here's what we found — the trends for «college preparedness» over time — since 1992 for reading and since 2005 for math:

While both treatment and control groups saw an increase in the average math and reading scores over the two - year period studied, the average scores of all the schools in the treatment group did not exceed those in the control group to a statistically significant degree.

We find that the gains made by retained students did diminish over time, as critics predicted, but these students still entered high school performing at higher levels in both reading and math than similar peers who were promoted on time.

As the debate over the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) makes its murky way through the political swamp, one thing has become crystal clear: Though NCLB requires that virtually all children become proficient by the year 2014, states disagree on the level of accomplishment in math and reading a proficient child should possess.

Just over a quarter of pupils significantly exceeded the expected standard in maths and in reading, and four in 10 achieved this high level in GPS.

Content: Sumdog provides free educational games that motivate students to practice math and reading, while providing educators with control over what their students learn.

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.

That's the generous grade to give the Obama Administration — based on student test performances in math and reading over the eight years it held office (2009 - 2017).

And our overall growth over the last decade is greater than any other state or district: seventeen scale - score points in fourth grade math, nineteen in fourth grade reading, and twelve in eighth grade maAnd our overall growth over the last decade is greater than any other state or district: seventeen scale - score points in fourth grade math, nineteen in fourth grade reading, and twelve in eighth grade maand twelve in eighth grade math.

Over the past 15 years, however, many school music programs have been cut to reduce budgets and to spend more time on math and reading instruction.

An evaluation of the Ohio EdChoice Scholarship Program, conducted by David Figlio and Krzysztof Karbownik, was an exception, reporting negative effects of that voucher program on both reading and math scores that persisted over time.

On average, KIPP students moved from the 40th percentile to the 50th in math over two years of middle school and from the 37th to the 44th percentile in reading over the same period.

The graph below compares average math and reading proficiency rates over two time periods.

For each tested subject that counts (math, reading, and any other subject the state chooses), some constant * times the natural log of the following quantity for all students: one plus the absolute change in percentage proficient over the past three years (e.g., for a 7 % positive change, the natural log of 1.07).

With more than 40 states adopting common math and reading standards, fresh questions arise over whether the NAEP assessment should be less independent.