Sentences with phrase «schools perform at a high level»

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

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

We find that the gains made by retained students did diminish over time, as critics predicted, but these students still entered high school performing at higher levels in both reading and math than similar peers who were promoted on time.

Of course the challenge to keep the city's current (and growing) group of charter schools performing at a high level is itself a formidable one.

Meanwhile, a Michigan State University initiative launched November 2 tracks the teaching of legal services innovation and technology at 38 American law schools and ranks Chicago - Kent one of two schools performing at the highest level.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.»

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.

This data implies that elementary school teachers are performing at a higher level than high school teachers, and that female teachers are more effective than male ones.

If all students in the United States were performing at the level of high - schoolers in Massachusetts, our country would be at the top of the pack among peer nations.

The program is a hybrid: it gives formula grants to states, but to receive their share of funds (fixed amounts calculated by a formula tied to the states» levels of need) states had to submit applications specifying in detail how they would set up competitive grant programs for their districts aimed at helping low - performing, high - poverty schools improve reading instruction in grades K — 3.

High - performing Sharnbrook Upper School is celebrating record A level results today — with students achieving outstanding grades and many securing places at some of the world's best universities.

Rigorous studies consistently show that the impact of a more - effective teacher is substantial A high - performing teacher, one at the 84th percentile of all teachers, when compared with just an average teacher, produces students whose level of achievement is at least 0.2 standard deviations higher by the end of the school year.

Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing countries.

A characteristic of high performing schools is strong and effective leadership; but, what is it about leadership (at all levels in a school) that can move a school towards improvement and transformation?

One of the rallying cries of standards - based education is that all students can achieve at high levels — a point proven by a number of high - performing, high - poverty schools.

An LEA shall use these grant funds to support direct student services including: (1) a student's enrollment and participation in academic courses not otherwise available at the student's school; (2) credit recovery and academic acceleration courses that lead to a regular high school diploma; (3) activities that assist students in successfully completing postsecondary level instruction and examinations that are accepted for credit at institutions of higher education; and (4) if applicable, transportation to allow a student enrolled in a low - performing school to transfer to another public school.

Identification of, and comprehensive, evidence - based intervention in, the lowest - performing five percent of title I schools, all public high schools with a graduation rate below 67 percent, and public schools in which one or more subgroups of students are performing at a level similar to the performance of the lowest - performing five percent of title I schools and have not improved after receiving targeted interventions for a State - determined number of years; and

High - performing charter schools have shown that disadvantaged students can achieve at high levHigh - performing charter schools have shown that disadvantaged students can achieve at high levhigh levels.

«Retained students continue to perform markedly better than their promoted peers when tested at the same grade level and, assuming they are as likely to graduate high school, stand to benefit from an additional year of instruction.»

Among those goals are children prepared to start kindergarten, students performing at grade level by the end of the third grade, making sure students are prepared for a high school curriculum and on track to graduate once they start.

That debate often overlooks the considerable progress since then: a record - high national high school graduation rate for 2014 - 2015, above 83 percent, and double the number of students performing at grade level in reading and math, compared with 20 years ago.

Chadwick Elementary is a fascinating case of a high poverty, high ELL school performing at very high levels.

And evangelical Protestant schools are found to perform at a similar level to public schools in math but at a higher level in reading.

While these very low - performing schools may not have every indicator in the bottom 5 percent, it is obvious when looking at their data that these are the schools in need of the highest level of support.

As is well known, the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB) required states to test students annually in grades 3 - 8 (and once in high school), to report the share of students in each school performing at a proficient level in math and reading, and to intervene in schools not on track to achieve universal student proficiency by 2014.

Under Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City became an empowerment district with a high degree of autonomy at the school level, but the NYC DOE actively closed and replaced low performing schools.

On the other end of the spectrum, our sample included districts and schools that were performing at high levels relative to state performance standards.

According to the New Jersey Department of Education, «High Performing» schools are classified as schools that show proficiency levels at the top 10 percent of the state in all categories of students.

Create a separate funding stream to improve student achievement at the middle and high school levels and turn around low - performing secondary schools.

The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program recognizes public and private elementary, middle, and high schools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in students» academic achieSchools Program The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program recognizes public and private elementary, middle, and high schools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in students» academic achieSchools Program recognizes public and private elementary, middle, and high schools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in students» academic achieschools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in students» academic achievement.

Under the new law, states and districts are required to provide comprehensive support and improvement to: the lowest - performing 5 percent of schools, high schools that fail to graduate one - third or more of their students, and schools in which subgroups perform at the same level as students in the lowest - performing schools despite local interventions.