Sentences with phrase «reading and math scores»

For example, when the first wave of young, upscale urban pioneers settled in Chicago's long - neglected Wicker Park neighborhood, they wanted to send their kids to the local public schools, but the schools had substandard reading and math scores, dropout rates, and resources.

A study of pre-k programs in 11 states showed that native Spanish speakers» reading and math scores improved more when they received more instruction in their native language, particularly when their teacher was caring and supportive.Margaret Burchinal et al., «Instruction in Spanish in Pre-kindergarten Classrooms and Child Outcomes for English Language Learners,» Early Childhood Research Quarterly 27 (2012): 188 — 197.

Fatherless children are twice as likely to drop out of school, and show lower reading and math scores

Consider, however, that there is also evidence that shows a focus on evidence based SEL interventions improves school climate, student interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, and these things in turn have a positive impact on student outcomes in both reading and math scores.

This study represents one of the more comprehensive investigations of candidate explanatory factors, yet our analyses explained just over half of the gaps between the highest and lowest, and lowest and middle, SES quintiles with regard to early reading and math scores, suggesting that many additional factors are involved.

Under a new state law, the state board will be required to add additional factors, like graduation rates, into the API, reducing the weight of reading and math scores.

A growing body of research has found that high quality pre-k programs can boost reading and math scores, and teach children important classroom skills like how to raise their hand and pay attention.

However, what you may not be aware of is that social studies has been increasingly marginal and especially within the last two years to focus more on reading and math scores.

Thus, while reading and math scores on the TUDA assessment have generally increased since 2002 or 2003, large urban districts have made little progress since 2009.

State accountability systems that emphasize minimum proficiency and teacher evaluation systems that focus monomaniacally on improving reading and math scores have the effect of marginalizing those students whose families have taken care to read to them and do math problems with them — and who look to schools for more.

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.

For students in kindergarten through fifth grade, both reading and math scores were lower for students who won vouchers.

Most important, it involves expanding the benefits of choice, ensuring that educators are accountable to families and taxpayers for more than reading and math scores, empowering the educators in schools and school systems, and constructively addressing widespread parental concerns.

The new law requires states to report reading and math scores and to design accountability systems that incorporate these results.

«The 2017 NAEP reading and math scores, while showing some gains for certain groups, indicate additional work is needed to ensure all children are proficient in mathematics and reading.

Indeed, nearly half of Detroit's charter schools outperformed the city's traditional district schools in reading and math scores, while only one percent of charter schools performed worse in reading and only seven percent performed worse in math.

Yet we all know the downsides of the narrow focus on reading and math scores in grades three through eight and once in high school.

A number of studies have shown that in addition to benefitting from a more desegregated schooling experience, magnet school students tend to outperform students in regular public and private schools in both reading and math scores on standardized tests (Frankenberg & Seigel - Hawley, 2008).

This despite the fact that children in counties participating in Smart Start and NC Pre-K have higher third grade reading and math scores and are less likely to require special education placements.

There is a national test that enables us to compare reading and math scores for every state!

ESSA calls for states to come up with new plans for holding schools accountable and gives them flexibility to add measures other than reading and math scores.

-- a relentless focus on basic - skills reading and math scores.

The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.

And yet the D.C. agency charged with coming up with a new school accountability plan — the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE)-- wants to base a full 80 % of the rating for middle and elementary schools on (wait for it...) reading and math scores.

Title I is a federal grant that gives schools funds to help parents form support committees, be involved in school functions, and boost reading and math scores.

«In 2013, reading and math scores edged up nationally to new highs for fourth and eighth graders.

Reading and math scores for the nation's 12th graders have stagnated since 2009, according to new data published today, prompting U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to urge for an overhaul of the nation's high school model and amplified efforts to narrow the achievement gap for minority students.

Since the early 1970s, when the Department of Education began collecting long - term data, average reading and math scores for 9 - and 13 - year - olds have risen significantly.

Title 1 is a federal grant that gives schools funds to help parents form support committees, be involved in school functions, and boost reading and math scores.

The negative difference is larger for students who end up at low - performing schools, with roughly a four - point gap for both reading and math scores between displaced and non-displaced students by the fourth year after a closure.

Still, Greene thinks that even though reformers have not succeeded in really transforming teacher evaluations, they have effectively narrowed public discourse around education, defining «achievement» down to mean, merely, gains in reading and math scores.

a) reading and math scores b) positive attitude about school c) working memory d) IQ scores e) having parent participation

A 2012 study by the National Education Policy Center found that students attending K12 «are falling further behind in reading and math scores than students in brick - and - mortar schools.»

«We focused on [getting] the reading and math scores up because most of them were lacking in those areas,» said Patrick Schrader, the assistant principal of Roberts / Early College High School.

The study, commissioned by the NAEP Validity Studies Panel, an independent panel run by the American Institutes for Research, was published in advance of this week's release of the 2015 NAEP reading and math scores for 4th and 8th grade students.

2012 study by the National Education Policy Center found that students attending K12 «are falling further behind in reading and math scores than students in brick - and - mortar schools.»

Fourth grade reading and math scores both fell, while eighth grade reading and math scores remained flat.

The editorial noted a slippage in reading and math scores in 2015 (as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress), and argued that this shows that the recent education initiatives have not worked.

First of all, the state saw statistically - significant jumps in fourth grade reading and math scores in NAEP in 2015, yet those gains were reversed in the recently released results.

High - stakes tests are given only in math and English language arts, so reformers have decided that all teachers (and, sometimes, principals) in a school should be evaluated by reading and math scores.

Results have been mixed, ranging from gains in high school graduation and college enrollment rates (e.g., Chingos and Peterson 2012), small increases in reading and math scores (e.g., Greene et al. 1998), or increases in math but not reading scores (Rouse 1998), to no significant change in test scores (e.g., Howell and Peterson 2006; Wolf et al. 2011).

Recent results indicate reading and math scores have improved slightly since 2009.

This coincides with research showing that closely linked night or evening work is especially harmful for children's reading and math scores.

To be sure, the proof will come when local innovation and investing in what works yields results — better reading and math scores, safer schools, fewer expulsions and dropouts, higher graduation rates, and more students prepared for college and employment.

When our economy dove into a tailspin in 2008, was it because poor reading and math scores were finally catching up to us?

A second meta - analysis led by University of Arkansas researcher Patrick Wolf, using 19 gold standard studies of private school choice programs globally, found that private school choice increases the reading and math scores of choice users.

We must take care that the ready availability of data on reading and math scores for grades 3 through 8 or on high school graduation rates — all of which provide useful information — do not become streetlights that distract more than they illuminate.

There is also the daunting challenge of separating out individual teachers» effect on their students» reading and math scores from the myriad of other influences on student achievement.

This corresponds with Dropout Nation «s analysis of NAEP data, which shows that average reading and math scores for top - performing students improved between 2002 and 2011 (versus almost no change between 1998 and 2002, before No Child was implemented), while the percentage of students reaching such levels increased since its passage (including a four percentage point increase in the number of students reaching such levels in reading between 2002 and 2013).

But in 2013 — the last year that California published reading and math scores — four of Rocketship's elementary schools showed significant dips in state reading scores.