Sentences with phrase «school performed at the level»

KALAMAZOO — When it comes to measuring student achievement, Edison schools perform at levels similar to their host districts but fail to make the educational gains Edison administrators claim.

«If every school performed at the level of our 18 winners, Tennessee would lead the nation in educational improvement.»

Not exact matches

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

You can help youth and high school athletes perform at a higher level and provide a one - stop resource for all of their needs.

ou can help youth and high school athletes perform at a higher level and provide a one - stop resource for all of their needs.

While studies have not yet been performed using the K - D test in screening athletes at the youth and high school level, the long use of the test in diagnosing reading problems in children «gives me reason to be very optimistic that the test could help parents and coaches to determine whether an athlete who has been hit may have suffered a concussion,» Dr. Balcer told MomsTeam.

This was during the first few years of the Harlem Children Zone's middle school, which were a struggle, and those KIPP schools, which had very good test results, were for the Promise Academy administrators both a standard to be aspired to and a frustrating reminder that their own students weren't performing at the same high level as KIPP's students.

Each obstetric practice comprised five to six obstetrician / gynecologists, each of whom performed deliveries exclusively at Rochester General Hospital, a level II, 526 - bed community hospital affiliated with the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Ms. Moskowitz and her allies like to point instead to Success» successes on standardized tests, with almost two - thirds of students performing at grade level — more than twice the rate of the public schools.

Directors of School Standards will be appointed at a local level to monitor performance and intervene in under - performing schools to support them to improve.

Next year, Shea Reeder will likely have to enroll her son in a public school that is performing at a significantly lower level instead of keeping him in a successful charter school.

Lead author Dr Erzsébet Bukodi said: «Whether a child's parents were educated to a higher level appears to be the strongest determinant for how that child performs at school in later years.

For starters, there's the fact that 70 % of middle school students possess no more than a «basic» understanding of what they need to know to do well in the subject, and only 2 % perform at an «advanced» level.

Mitzi Dulan has guided me on how to have my high school athletes eat on game day and how to eat better to perform at a higher level than most high school athletes.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadschools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

No central - office administrator can perform this kind of detailed planning at the school level.

As our schools serve greater numbers of Hispanic students and fewer whites, for example, we should expect achievement to decline somewhat because Hispanic students, who are more likely to live in poverty, tend to perform at lower levels, on average, than whites.

The same analysis also found that pupils from poorer backgrounds who performed just as well as their more well off peers were still less likely to attend grammars, with 66 per cent of children who achieve level five in both English and Maths at Key Stage 2 who are not eligible for free school meals going to a grammar school compared with 40 per cent of similarly high achieving children who are eligible for free school meals.

Students in Word Generation schools learned more of the target words than students in comparison schools, even though the latter group performed at a higher level at the start.

This is a boldly democratic and egalitarian expectation and the very first time that the nation has asked its schools to perform at an explicit level.

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.»

As expected, the students in Word Generation schools learned more of the target words than students in comparison schools, even though the latter group performed at a higher level at the start.

In the end, though, it is hard to imagine many teachers performing at the level that Meira Levinson did, under any reforms envisaged for the school system.

Researchers compared practices at 10 successful middle schools and those at five average - performing middle schools with similar demographic profiles and funding levels.

«They know that going into high school, if they perform at this particular level at this GPA and class rank, they can get into the University of Colorado guaranteed,» said Jack O. Burns, the university's vice president for academic affairs and research.

They rail against state standards and accountability systems, but offer few practical alternatives for ensuring that all public schools perform at a high level.

The study found that if a school had 25 percent more students performing at a proficient level in math and reading, the school was rated a half grade higher by parents.

In 2007, just 32 percent of 8th graders in public and private schools in the United States performed at or above the NAEP proficiency standard in mathematics, and 31 percent performed at or above that level in reading.

We then linked the grades given to each school to data on the school's characteristics: its size, the size of classes at the school, the racial and ethnic composition of its students, the percentage of students from poor families, and the percentage of students performing at proficient levels on state reading and math tests.

And elementary schools may also have mixed motives: older children are easier to teach and they perform at higher levels, just by virtue of being older.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

That is, the older you are in relation to your peers, the more likely you are to perform at an elite level in sports, to excel in school, and even to attend college.

While this sounds both noble and egalitarian, it in fact expects those schools that had a lower percentage of students scoring at the proficient level in 2002 to make more rapid progress over the ensuing years than those with higher - performing students.

After leaving NASA and returning to the University of Washington [to teach], I continued to «perform» in schools and became increasingly interested in science education reform at all levels.

Last school year ~ I worked with one brilliant young lady ~ who could perform math and reading at three levels above her grade ~ recite hundreds of historical facts from memory ~ and trouble - shoot the teachers technology problems ~ but when you gave her a county - required essay prompt to hand - write ~ she would stand in the corner and cry.

The business schools also seemed to have a top - down approach or managerial structure, and advocated for firing teachers who may not be performing at level.

Let's turn now to the preferred strategy, which controls for the fact that students performing at different levels may be sorted into smaller or larger classes both between and within schools.

Finally, in Kenya, where the raw test scores showed students in private and public schools performing at similar levels, the fact that private schools served a far more disadvantaged population resulted in a gap of 0.1 standard deviations in English and 0.2 standard deviations in math (after accounting for differences in student characteristics).

4) People like their local schools more than ever before, but at the same time they judge a substantial share of the teaching force to be performing below a satisfactory level.

Every school had to report to the public the percentage of students at each grade level who performed at «proficient» or above in reading, math, and, later, science.

Under NCLB, every school had to report to the public the percentage of students at each grade level who performed at «proficient» or above in reading, math, and, later, science.

Students attending metropolitan schools in Australia performed at a significantly higher level (528 points on average) than those in provincial (510 points) and remote areas (475 points).

Half an hour to an hour set aside daily can help students close learning gaps and perform at higher levels during the upcoming school year.

To assess overall performance, we identify the percentage of students in the high school class of 2015 who are performing at proficient and advanced levels of achievement in math.

And contrary to the claim that vouchers hurt public schools, the report found that students at Milwaukee public schools «are performing at somewhat higher levels as a result of competitive pressure from the school voucher program.»

The worst thing that would happen is that the kids currently performing above grade level would be more challenged and engaged at school.

The achievement growth in math was not statistically significant relative to the achievement growth of the matched district - school students, but the study concluded that Milkwaukee district - school students were «performing at somewhat higher levels as a result of competitive pressure from the school voucher program.»

Students who take more rigorous math courses in high school perform at higher levels on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in math.

As evidence, Harris cites what he calls a «well - regarded study,» which «found that Detroit's charter schools performed at about the same dismal level as its traditional public schools.»

Dr. Hall: We still have a lot of work to do to get our middle and high school students to perform at high levels and to get more of them graduating prepared for post-secondary options.