Sentences with phrase «rich schools scored»

It is possible that children in arts - rich schools scored higher on creativity and academic self - concept as a direct consequence of their experiences with the arts.

Arts - rich schools scored higher (from teacher ratings) on affiliation, student support, professional interest, teacher innovativeness, and resource adequacy, and lower on achievement orientation, formalization, and centralization, suggesting that arts - rich schools are not top - down structures.

Overall, students from richer schools score higher on the tests, around half are considered to have passed the exams.

Not exact matches

But she admitted there is still a large gap in the test scores of children from richer schools, where around two - thirds scored highly on the tests, and the results in poorer schools.

But she admits there's still a large gap in the tests scores of children from richer schools, where around two thirds scored highly on the tests, and the results in poorer schools.

And in the absence of a coherent, content - rich curriculum, schools have struggled to boost reading scores for kids coming from low - income families.

While selection bias is still a concern, it is worthwhile noting that the authors control for a very rich set of covariates including student demographics, parental income, parental education, student AFQT score, freshman year GPA, state of birth and various school characteristics.

Incorporating rich information on students» high school performance, placement test scores, and demographics, we developed statistical models to predict how remediated students would have performed had they been placed directly into college - level courses.

Many of the students living in these richer areas attend private schools in D.C. and contribute to the high scores in the city.

Every school — particularly those serving disadvantaged learners — should be encouraged to have a knowledge - rich curriculum that results in virtually all students scoring proficient in reading comprehension by the eighth grade.

The upshot, per the article, is that «children in the school districts with the highest concentrations of poverty score an average of more than four grade levels below children in the richest districts.»

But she admitted there is still a large gap in the test scores of children from richer schools, where around two - thirds scored highly on the tests, and the results in poorer schools.

To build teacher capacity to create rich, valid performance tasks, and to reliably score student work, MCIEA performance assessment lead teams from a first cohort of 15 consortium schools are participating in a four - day institute over four months.

The Naiku platform allows educators to create, share, import and deliver rich standards aligned quizzes and tests in any subject area, using graphics, multimedia clips and hyperlinks to query students with multiple item types.With automated scoring and built - in analysis tools, teachers can inform and differentiate instruction within the classroom, and data can be shared across the school and district to enhance best practices.

But, when taken in tandem with Ofsted ratings, the IDACI per cent falls even more (i.e. the area gets richer) so that those living within one kilometre of an outstanding secondary have an IDACI score of 15.5 per cent, and those living within one kilometre of an inadequate school have an IDACI score of 25.3 per cent.

I've worked in urban schools for 20 years as a teacher, instructional coach, and administrator — and have consistently seen test scores take care of themselves when schools provide rich curriculum AND provide teachers the support they need to implement it.

Tell him you want: small class size; a rich curriculum - a better day, not just a longer day; fair compensation for teachers, no test - score based pay; schools that are fully and equitably resourced; more nurses, social workers, counselors, and psychologists.

«They would lead to creation of high - quality assessment systems that use a rich range of evidence to help schools improve, not just test scores to label them passing or failing.»

Heavier sanctions required for schools that do not boost test scores have previously been shown to be counter-productive; • The requirement that limited English proficient students score «proficient» on English exams is self - contradictory, as is the provision that most children with special needs demonstrate competency in the same manner as other students; • Education is being damaged as students are coached to pass tests rather than taught a rich curriculum that will help prepare them for life in the 21st Century; and • The federal government has failed to adequately fund the law.

Children in the school districts with the highest concentrations of poverty score an average of more than four grade levels below children in the richest districts.

This study compared standardized test scores in reading and math for second - and fifth - grade students from two similar technology - rich elementary schools in Miami Dade County, Florida.

On Diane Ravitch's blog Daniel Wydo Disaggregates PISA Scores by Income makes the case that poverty is to blame by isolating rich schools in the US.

If you just report straightforward test scores, schools with rich students will likely have higher scores than those with poor students.

That includes, according to Till and other critics, yawning pay gaps between rich and poor counties and uncertainty for school district leaders now tasked with negotiating scores of contracts with essential administration, critics say.

A rich, complex picture of a school emerges from the intersection of all four categories of data, such as a comparison of state test scores — disaggregated by program, gender, and grade level — with questionnaire results for students — also disaggregated by program, gender, and grade level.

Some suggested that, with districts presumably having to negotiate scores of contracts with school personnel, it would exacerbate pay inequities between rich and poor counties and spur more employment complaints or lawsuits.