Sentences with phrase «saw growth in math»

If you look at our data, in our first year we saw growth in math and science.

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States that have recently adopted higher standards are seeing growth in key content areas such as reading and math.

For children between the ages of 13 and 17, there is modest growth in the math and reading gender gaps but a substantial expansion of the gap in science (see Figure 1).

«The average growth rate of Boston charter students in math and reading is the largest CREDO has seen in any city or state thus far,» the authors write.

There is also, the increased collaboration between the two nations in education, science and technology that is forecast to see big growth and is seen as a way for the Australian education curriculum to address the weakening areas of science and math.

Launching Principals Pursuing Excellence in partnership with our districts and watching those 84 schools, all historically low - performing, double and triple the statewide average in math and reading growth... and seeing entire districts in the northwest corner of the state be transformed because of their local leadership embracing change.

This may be why the U.S. has seen significant achievement growth for its lowest - performing students over the last twenty years (especially in fourth and eighth grades, and particularly in math), but minimal gains for its top students.

National trends are mostly flat, and as Mike Petrilli notes, it's now been almost a decade since we've seen strong growth in either reading or math, with the slight exception of eighth grade reading.

«Overall, we were seeing students with low growth in maths and low engagement, and this was very concerning.»

They concluded, «the average growth rate of Boston charter students in math and reading is the largest CREDO has seen in any city or state thus far.»

Two of the authors of this report have shown elsewhere that countries with students who perform at higher levels in math and science show larger rates of increase in economic productivity than do otherwise similar countries with lower - performing students (see «Education and Economic Growth,» research, Spring 2008).

The study noted that urban areas like Boston, Detroit, Indianapolis, Memphis, and Nashville «appear to provide their students with strong enough annual growth in both math and reading that continuous enrollment in an average charter school can erase the typical deficit seen among students in their region.»

Across that period, charter schools statewide consistently provided greater academic growth than their district peers: on average, charter students over the course of the study saw the equivalent of 34 additional days in reading and 63 in math each year.

This was unprecedented math growth and was the greatest one - year change in SGP any high school had seen in math in Massachusetts history.

The authors relied on work by researcher Finley Edwards, who showed that if a middle school in Wake County, North Carolina, pushed its start time back an hour, the school would see a 2 percentile growth in math scores.

A former math teacher, Simmons said neither math nor English is considered more important, «but when you're not making the growth and the progress you're hoping to see (in a subject), you keep trying to throw more time on it.»

It is difficult to see any real growth across the board since 2011, with math scores backsliding to 2009 levels, eighth - grade reading flat for four years, and a small uptick in fourth - grade reading that is not a significant increase from 2013, which, in turn, was not significantly different from 2011.

And when students have equitable access to math education, they see similar amounts of growth in proficiency as other subgroups of students (gifted, SPED, economically disadvantaged).

And after years of struggling to meet academic goals set by the state, the district has seen student achievement improve in certain measures — almost all grade levels showed positive growth in reading and math on 2015 - 16 state tests.

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The school is seeing growth in subject areas like psychology, art, math and humanities.