Sentences with phrase «school district student achievement»

We make no claims that this Global Report Card is a perfect reflection of school district student achievement relative to international norms.

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Sharing non-school nutrition stories about your school or district: student and staff achievements, special events, and sports news.

More than 1,000 delegates voted to adopt a resolution which noted that «studies conducted by prominent researchers and renowned education experts show that individual merit pay plans have not helped to significantly improve student achievement in any of the United States school districts where they have been implemented.»

At the Batavia City School District Board of Education meeting on Feb. 6, several students and staff members were presented with achievement awards for their exemplary work and contributions.

«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate teacher and principal effectiveness, and to hold schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.

In Washington, D.C., where I was chancellor, IMPACT teacher evaluations are among the strongest in the country and have helped that school district go from the worst urban district in the country to the one making the biggest gains in student achievement.

Radford tells WBFO he believes taking away a day of testing right now would harm data in tracking student achievement in the city school district.

«It is unfortunate that DOE is trying to stifle the autonomy of charter schools when their time would be better spent on evaluating what great teachers and leaders in the very best charter schools, traditional district schools and nonprofit providers are doing to make pre-kindergarten an investment that pays off in increased student achievement,» Merriman said.

The new evaluation system will provide clear standards and significant guidance to local school districts for implementation of teacher evaluations based on multiple measures of performance including student achievement and rigorous classroom observations.

A study of one Texas school district reveals one of the best evidence - based ways ever found to close the educational achievement gap between black and white students.

The Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors project is aimed to measurably enhance student STEM engagement and achievement in selected school districts via professional development for teachers consisting of: (1) STEM Professional Development in astrophysics and planetary science delivered via webinars & in - person workshops; (2) a week - long STEM immersion experience at NASA's science research aircraft facility in Palmdale, California, including participation in research flights on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); (3) follow - through involving continuing webinars fostering reflection and connections with astrophysics & planetary science subject matter experts.

The improved scores were impressive enough to lead several states and other major school districts, including New York, to adopt elements of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policy — making student progress toward the next grade dependent on demonstrated achievement on standardized tests.

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuSchool District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sDistrict, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuSchool District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sDistrict, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuschool system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sDistrict in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sdistrict of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

He flew to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to consult with faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and learned of Tony Alvarado, the former New York City schools chancellor and head of District 4 on the East Side of Manhattan, where he had had remarkable success in raising achievement in a district dominated by minority sDistrict 4 on the East Side of Manhattan, where he had had remarkable success in raising achievement in a district dominated by minority sdistrict dominated by minority students.

In October, while ESSA conferees were still negotiating, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed into law a new school rating system under which only 30 percent of a school or district's grade will be based on student achievement.

For example, in a forthcoming analysis in three school districts where it was possible to track teachers» student achievement growth over many years, Doug Staiger and I found that of those teachers who were in the bottom quartile of value - added in a single year, 55 to 65 percent were in the bottom quartile over their careers and 82 to 87 percent were in the bottom half.

The new law includes provisions implementing a proposal Mr. Bush made in last year's gubernatorial campaign to allow for the creation of «home rule» school districts, which could vote to operate under fewer state regulations in exchange for promising to improve student achievement.

And the topics covered in those pages extend far beyond bread - and - butter questions of salary and benefits; there are dozens of clauses covering a district's ability to evaluate, transfer, terminate, and manage the workload of teachers, all having potentially serious effects on the management of schools and student achievement.

Agreement between school boards and superintendents over achievement goals, an emphasis on the lowest - performing students, and the adoption of districtwide curricula are among the most successful strategies being used in four urban school districts, concludes a report released last week.

In Colorado, the state's 2008 Innovation Schools Act is giving approved schools greater flexibility by waiving certain state statutes, district policies, and union contract provisions to help boost student achievement — but it is also getting puSchools Act is giving approved schools greater flexibility by waiving certain state statutes, district policies, and union contract provisions to help boost student achievement — but it is also getting puschools greater flexibility by waiving certain state statutes, district policies, and union contract provisions to help boost student achievement — but it is also getting pushback.

And Rubinstein and McCarthy's research shows that the district's students have higher achievement in the schools with stronger partnerships between teachers unions and school administration.

Innovative and effective practices at Cleveland's MC2 STEM High School are driving learning and higher achievement for students in a district where every student qualifies for free or reduced - price meals.

It is difficult to pin down the relative quality of charter and district schools with confidence without studies that use admissions lotteries to compare the achievement of students who win charter - school admission to those who don't.

«We feel student achievement is at a higher rate when students are in school regularly,» said Beth Shields, deputy superintendent for instruction in the School District of Hillsborough County, Flschool regularly,» said Beth Shields, deputy superintendent for instruction in the School District of Hillsborough County, FlSchool District of Hillsborough County, Florida.

For example, David Sims has shown that after a 2001 Wisconsin law required schools to open after Labor Day, districts forced to delay their start dates saw their students» achievement on the state math test fall relative to districts that were unaffected by the law.

Because the presence of charter schools in an area might affect both student achievement and the decisions of families to move to a district, we measured state demographics and student achievement during the 1989 — 90 school year, several years before the first charter laws took effect.

Across the board at the federal, state, and district level the role of partnerships between home and school is becoming a more important factor in education reform and student achievement, Mapp said.

From a broader policy perspective, our estimates suggest that ERI programs could be beneficial for school districts, saving them money on teacher salaries without harming student achievement.

Importantly, the schools attended by students in our sample include both open - enrollment public schools operated by the local school district and five over-subscribed charter schools that have been shown to have large, positive impacts on student achievement as measured by state math and English language arts tests.

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

It will prevent Maryland school districts from using their resources to extend the school year, even if they believe that is the best way to advance student achievement.

Evelyn S. Thompson Elementary School is located in a Texas district that has been nationally recognized for improving student achievement over the last decade.

In four states — Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, and West Virginia — there is not a single traditional school district with average student achievement in math above the 50th percentile.

Or we might discover some schools or districts or states that deserve more credit for their student achievement results, considering their rates of true disadvantage.

Student achievement in virtually every one of the nearly 14,000 public school districts in the United States compared to students overseas can be found at The Global Report Card's interactive web site.

Based in Half Moon Bay, Calif., ISKME is an independent think tank that conducts research and provides resources to school districts and educational organizations interested in using data and information to improve student achievement.

And though the authors of this report acknowledge the «countless intervening factors» that «no doubt affect a school board member's ability to influence district achievement» and which they haven't covered in this report, they nevertheless provide an invaluable guide to policymakers for making a few simple changes in board governance that could effect major improvements for student academic performance.

This year the case study focused on the Aldine Independent School District located in Houston, where student achievement was declining.

These results add to evidence that boosting student achievement has few simple fixes — particularly in a school district like Houston, in which 88 percent of students are black or Hispanic, about 30 percent have limited English proficiency, and about 80 percent are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

We found that overall screening performance was predictive of teachers» contributions to student achievement, teacher evaluation outcomes, and attendance, but not predictive of a teachers» retention in their school or the district.

In a study published in Education Next earlier this month, Doug Harris looks at the impact of school reforms on student achievement across the school district in New Orleans.

To offset such misperceptions, we need to require that all schools in all districts report student performance — and calculate achievement gaps — using the same, internationally benchmarked standards.

The report, «Boosting Performance and Containing Cost through Mayoral Academies,» contrasts the low performance of low - income and minority students and the wide achievement gaps in traditional district schools, and the high performance of low - income and minority students and smaller achievement gaps in high - performing charter schools in neighboring states.

There are an endless number of interesting stories that could be told with this information, but the one that really stood out to us is that achievement in many of our affluent suburban public school districts barely keeps pace with that of the average student in a developed country.

The GRC allows users to compare student achievement in virtually every one of the nearly 14,000 school districts in the United States against the achievement in a set of 25 developed countries.

In Phase 2 Validation, the evaluator will a) conduct an experimental test of the cumulative effects (across 2 summers) of the most cost - effective version of READS (CE READS) in as many as 10 school districts, and b) compare achievement growth in the summer and school year for students who received CE READS and students who did not receive READS.

But it's also increasingly clear that the new generation of teacher evaluations have the potential to strengthen instruction, make teaching more attractive work, and raise student achievement on a wide scale — if states and school districts stay the course on reform.

A study of a representative sample of schools in California shows that schools where the principal and the district extensively used test data to improve instruction and student learning had the highest achievement for English - language learners.

The Ed Trust proposal would also require achievement targets for districts, schools, and student subgroups.