Not exact matches
The primary purpose of Title III is to «help ensure that children who are limited English proficient, including immigrant children and youth, attain English proficiency, develop high
levels of
academic attainment in English, and meet the
same challenging state
academic content and student
academic achievement standards as all children are expected to meet» (Title III, Part A, Sec. 3102).
At Longwood Primary Academy, we set the wellbeing of pupils at the
same level of importance as that of
academic achievement.
The distinction between within - school and between - school comparisons is an important one, because teachers within the
same school share the
same organizational conditions (leadership and resources); are subject to similar contextual factors (neighborhood safety, parental support, norms that favor
academic achievement); and, particularly in elementary school, they tend to teach students with similar
levels of prior
achievement.
As an educator I can not support a system that requires students, who all learn differently, to have the
same level of
academic achievement at the end of a given year.