Sentences with phrase «school reading gains»

A recent independent study found that one third of the variance in North Carolina school reading gains result from «luck of the draw» [Rothstein 1/24/01 in New York Times].

Not exact matches

when i was in grade school i constantly read science books, i knew the position of the planets, their distances from the sun, diameters, etc. however, by the time i graduated high school, 50 % of the scientific knowledge i had gained had already been proved untrue.

I gained some perspective on the present situation in Tübingen when I read extensively about the history of theology there and reviewed the controversy evoked by the famous «Tübingen schools» (both Protestant and Catholic) in the 19th century.

Teaching reading to your kids the right way can help them gain an educational advantage during their school years and beyond.

Follow up with explaining that school is where people learn to read and gain other skills necessary in everyday tasks.

The minor gains that NYC students made on state reading and math tests aren't good enough, according to Eva Moskowitz, the Success Academy charter school founder, who blasted Mayor de Blasio for the incremental improvements at a press conference in her Wall Street headquarters.

On statewide tests for third through eighth graders this year, New York City's most troubled schools kept pace with the rest of city schools, showing similar gains in reading and math.

A groundbreaking study from the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute has found that African - American students in first grade experience smaller gains in reading when they attend segregated schools — but the students» backgrounds likely are not the cause of the differences.

I'm a bit of an old - school gentleman, a quite driven online marketeer, a hobby long - distance runner and a wannabe space - time traveller... but most importantly I'm a simple man who enjoys simple things, like travelling, reading, watching a movie, eating out or even cooking for my lady, etc.. I really love visiting new places, gaining new experiences, learning different things, and all I really need right now is a lovely female companion to have all these adventures with.

Joel and Ethan Coen (Burn After Reading, No Country for Old Men) set their Kafkaesque morality tale in 1967 in Minnesota, where a Jewish physics professor, Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg, The Grey Zone), a lifelong mensch on the verge of seeing his secure life finally gain permanent ground by obtaining tenure at his school sees his life begin to unravel when his wife (Lennick) and mother of his two children announces that she's leaving him for someone else.

To realize the same gain as the A-Plus program accomplished in reading, Florida schools would need to spend $ 888 more per pupil, more than a 15 percent increase in per - pupil spending.

While about two - thirds of SIG schools did register modest gains in reading and math, scores at one - third actually declined over the period.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.

Although elementary schoolers in Los Angeles have made real gains in literacy in recent years, among high - school students, only 23 percent in reading and 34 percent in math meet or exceed the national norm on the Stanford 9.

Yet many schools and teachers across the nation who've used Fast ForWord have seen astronomical gains in their students» reading capabilities.

While we've made some gains at the 4th - grade level (probably reflecting better instruction in decoding), reading - achievement trends by the end of high school are depressingly flat.

The estimated impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a gain of 5.3 scale points in reading.

A separate study of the ECLS - K data, also by Peterson and Llaudet, similarly showed that private school students gained significantly more in reading achievement than demographically similar public school students in schools with similar student populations.

Nor did students with low initial levels of achievement and applicants from SINI schools experience significantly different reading gains from the program than high achievers and non-SINI applicants.

Kids in Houston Earn Bucks for Reading Books A special Earning By Learning program sponsored by the Houston Automobile Dealers Association is gaining attention as a model of school - business partnership.

The data indicate that members of the treatment group who were attending private schools in the third year of the evaluation gained an average of 7.1 scale score points in reading from the program.

Students made short - term gains in math and reading achievement, were better prepared for high school, and took fewer remedial courses once there.

In reading, across all of cohort two, the average school gained just a single point in reading proficiency.

For further analysis, read «It Pays to Improve School Quality: States that boost student achievement could reap large economic gains,» by Eric Hanushek, Jens Ruhose, and Ludger Woessmann.

As far as increasing reading skills, my most recent «scientific» study came two years ago when I compared reading gains at our school in Oakland, Envision Academy.

The CREDO report found that students in Boston charter schools gain the equivalent of 259 additional days of instruction in math and 245 days in reading compared to their counterparts in traditional district schools.

The researchers» estimates of black students's gains in reading ability after one year's attendance at an integrated school ranged from «somewhat less than a month» to about two months.

On average, teachers and schools that engage in better quality collaboration have better achievement gains in math and reading.

Estimates of teacher effects on achievement gains are similar in magnitude to those of previous econometric studies, but the authors found larger effects on mathematics achievement than on reading achievement, and in low socioeconomic status (SES) schools than in high SES schools.

Students identified for retention by the Florida policy gained 0.06 of a standard deviation in reading on both the FCAT and Stanford - 9 over equally low - performing 3rd graders from the previous school year (see Figure 1).

Within a single academic year, these high school tutors show, on average, two years of reading gains.

Some have attributed the spectacular Florida gains to the state's accountability system, its Just Read initiative, or the state's school choice programs.

According to research from Stanford, Bay State charter pupils gain 1.5 months more learning in reading during a single school year than their district - schooled counterparts.

Specifically, I pointed out that gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress under Rhee's tenure were much larger than average gains for the other ten urban school districts participating in the assessment in 8th grade math and in 4th grade reading and math.

Although the evaluation found no impact on student math performance, the estimated reading impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a statistically significant gain of more than 5 scale points.

Reading is essential for all forms of learning and education, but many students complete elementary school with inadequate reading ability, and there has been little progress in the last few decades in helping these students gain necessary reading profiReading is essential for all forms of learning and education, but many students complete elementary school with inadequate reading ability, and there has been little progress in the last few decades in helping these students gain necessary reading profireading ability, and there has been little progress in the last few decades in helping these students gain necessary reading profireading proficiency.

These new systems depend primarily on two types of measurements: student test score gains on statewide assessments in math and reading in grades 4 - 8 that can be uniquely associated with individual teachers; and systematic classroom observations of teachers by school leaders and central staff.

Despite facing higher academic standards and budget cuts, urban schools are continuing to see gains on assessments in reading and mathematics, a national study released last week has found.

A simple comparison, examining only those elementary schools with significant bilingual - education programs (more than 120 students enrolled before Prop 227), reveals that the schools that eliminated their bilingual education programs had a 10 - point gain in reading and a 13 - point gain in math, but those that maintained some form of bilingual - education program had only a 6 - point gain in reading and a 14 - point gain in math.

Although our data do not allow us to address this issue directly while still accounting for the self - selection of students into charter schools, simple comparisons indicate that students who entered charter schools in the later grades made smaller gains in math (but not reading) than students who entered earlier.

The results of our analysis of these «switchers,» which continues to take into account the difficulties associated with moving between schools, again indicate that students make smaller gains while enrolled in charter schools, by nearly 0.10 standard deviations in reading and 0.16 standard deviations in math.

Alex Hernandez of the Charter School Growth Fund celebrated: «[CREDO] reports that the 107,000 students whose schools receive support from the Charter School Growth Fund gain, on average, the equivalent of four additional months of learning in math and three additional months of learning in reading each year when compared to peers in other public schools.»

A study of test scores from 2010 through 2014, by economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Duke University, found that Denver's charters produced «remarkably large gains in math,» large gains in writing, and smaller but statistically significant gains in reading, compared to DPS - operated schools.

Thompson: One of the areas urban schools are making gains is in improving the academic achievement in reading and mathematics.

Similarly, Hernandez's pride in the reading in math gains of CSGF schools may be well - placed... or it may be that CSGF selects for a select population of schools that get big test gains, that those schools know big gains are expected, and thus that they employ strategies that may produce big reading and math gains (providing a distorted picture of learning).

Although some relatively small gains have been made (most likely due to Reading First's spread of phonics - based decoding instruction), high - school scores have been flat for decades.

We can either use reading and math gains as imperfect indicators of effectiveness while working to build better measures — buttressed by school visits and the like — or we can succumb to «analysis paralysis» and do nothing.

Similarly, the Stanford University Center for Research on Education Outcomes [4] found in a 2013 study that after only a year, New York City charter school students gained substantially more in reading and math than their traditional school peers.

• On average, schools with one year of funding and interventions under their belts saw a two percentage - point gain in reading proficiency — just about the same gain as all other U.S. schools that didn't get these huge cash infusions.