Sentences with phrase «secondary school achievement»

The relationship between parent involvement and urban secondary school achievement: A meta - analysis.

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The term «Gifted» is defined by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as Students, children, or youth who give evidence of high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who need services and activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities.

Byrne Creek Secondary School was the 2012 winner of the ASCD Whole Child Award that recognizes schools that move beyond a narrow focus on academic achievement to take action for the whole child.

Unable to withstand the popularity of his opponents because of the latter's achievements, he started promising heaven including the 350 new secondary schools, free galamsey operation, free secondary education, one constituency one million dollar, free chocolate drink for all pupils and students, restoration of trainees» allowance etc..

The fact check provides a fair and nuanced picture of achievement levels in English primary and secondary schools, and specifically the gap in achievement between richer and poorer students.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has released broad principles for renewing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that seek to address perennial complaints that the law's current version — the No Child Left Behind Act — is inflexible and focuses too narrowly on student test scores to get a picture of a school's achievement.

The study included survey data from 70,000 students in 1,015 public and private secondary schools, student achievement tests in mathematics and language arts, and survey data from school officials.

Based on a randomized controlled trial with 78 secondary school teachers and 2,237 students, MTP - S improved student achievement test scores in the year following its completion, equivalent to moving the average student from the 50th to the 59th percentile.

An Interaction - Based Approach to Enhancing Secondary School Instruction and Student Achievement [Abstract].

The federal role in education has been a growth industry since at least the Johnson administration, when the Elementary and Secondary School Act (ESEA, now the Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA) was passed as a part of the War on Poverty, with a focus on closing the achievement gap and equalizing funding between the rich and the poor.

The districts must explain why the child's school is «in need of improvement» in the first place, including «how the school compares in terms of academic achievement to other elementary schools or secondary schools served by the local educational agency and the State educational agency.»

Specific strategies for middle school administrators to use to improve academic achievement and better prepare students for high school are outlined in a report released last week by the National Association of Secondary School Princschool administrators to use to improve academic achievement and better prepare students for high school are outlined in a report released last week by the National Association of Secondary School Princschool are outlined in a report released last week by the National Association of Secondary School PrincSchool Principals.

Gov. Ritter's «Colorado Achievement Plan for Kids,» unveiled March 19, would require both the state board of education and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education to redo elementary and secondary school standards, which legislators say hasn't been done since the mid-1990s.

According to the report, TIMSS 2015: A first look at Australia's results, released by the Australian Council for Educational Research, average achievement levels in secondary schools continue to slide in comparison with performances in many other countries.

The relationship between parental involvement and urban secondary school student academic achievement: A meta - analysis.

A three - year 1997 study of two British secondary schools — one that used open - ended projects and one that used more traditional, direct instruction — found striking differences in understanding and standardized achievement data in mathematics.

The Education Business Awards recognise the outstanding achievements of primary and secondary schools from all sectors.

Among the achievements that impressed the judges were «the crisis school» Baxter College in Worcestershire, which took home the Outstanding Progress Award for secondary education for its impressive turnaround, and a cultural exchange trip to Kurdistan, northern Iraq, organised by King Edward VI School in Suffolk, which won the The Educational Visits school» Baxter College in Worcestershire, which took home the Outstanding Progress Award for secondary education for its impressive turnaround, and a cultural exchange trip to Kurdistan, northern Iraq, organised by King Edward VI School in Suffolk, which won the The Educational Visits School in Suffolk, which won the The Educational Visits Award.

But the key to narrowing the achievement gap is high - quality literacy and numeracy interventions that are targeted towards pupils who are falling behind in primary and early secondary school.

Drawing on data collected between autumn 2011 and spring 2015, annual increases in reading, writing and maths amongst schools participating in the Achievement for All programme were notably above the expected level of progress (equivalent to 3.0 APS for KS2, and 3.6 APS for secondary schools — see notes to editors).

The Administration's legislation to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) requires states to identify schools with the lowest achievement levels and least improvement.

A study of highly successful senior secondary teachers in public schools in New South Wales by Paul Ayres, Wayne Sawyer and me demonstrated the importance of feedback in influencing student achievement.

Designed to recognise, showcase and celebrate young people's involvement in film and education, the star - studded, red - carpet event will bring together film industry professionals and young people to shine a spotlight on the filmmaking achievements of 5 - 19 year olds from across the UK, as well as recognising teachers» use of film in the classroom, young film reviewers, and exceptional film clubs in primary and secondary schools.

The 2014 Education Business Awards shone a spotlight on primary and secondary schools of all sectors in the UK that are making outstanding achievements in a number of areas.

An Interaction - Based Approach to Enhancing Secondary School Instruction and Student Achievement

For example, CT showed advantage in promoting mathematics achievement of elementary over secondary school students.

In this view, the overriding mission of reform is to boost academic achievement in primary and secondary schools.

Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act provides funding for school districts that serve low - income students in order to address achievement gaps.

Improving teaching quality is widely recognized as critical to addressing deficiencies in secondary school education, yet the field has struggled to identify rigorously evaluated teacher - development approaches that can produce reliable gains in student achievement.

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A randomized controlled trial of My Teaching Partner — Secondary — a Web - mediated approach focused on improving teacher - student interactions in the classroom — examined the efficacy of the approach in improving teacher quality and student achievement with 78 secondary school teachers and 2237 Secondary — a Web - mediated approach focused on improving teacher - student interactions in the classroom — examined the efficacy of the approach in improving teacher quality and student achievement with 78 secondary school teachers and 2237 secondary school teachers and 2237 students.

Schools must use a range of assessment tools, not standardized tests alone, to measure students» «authentic» achievement levels, a new report by the National Association of Secondary School Principals concludes.

During the last decade, we have made remarkable progress in improving elementary school achievement, but have accomplished far less at the secondary school level.

Brazil introduced an aggressive conditional cash - transfer program (Bolsa Escola) that increased primary and secondary school attendance and reduced dropout rates, while Chile implemented a number of compensatory programs that improved student achievement in the lowest - performing and most - disadvantaged schools.

In 2011, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education classified Bentley Elementary as a Level 4 school for its low test scores and academic achievement.

However, research by economists Stephen Cameron and James Heckman suggests that the real problem may be that poor children simply don't do as well in school, a somewhat discouraging conclusion since sending families bigger checks to help with college is arguably easier than improving academic achievement in elementary and secondary schools.

Even more surprising is the fact that secondary schools dominate the lowest achievement cell in our matrix of high - and low - scoring principals.

For Factor 2, there were four elementary schools but no secondary schools whose principals were rated high (i.e., in the top 20 % of all schools) and who also had high mathematics achievement.

Low - rated principals on Factor 1 whose schools also had low mathematics achievement numbered three at the elementary level and eight at the secondary level.

From the initial sorting of all principals whose teachers rated them as either high - or low - scoring, there were five elementary schools and five secondary schools in the top 20 % of all schools whose principals were rated high on Factor 1 and who also had high mathematics achievement.

RAISEup TexasTM (Research - Validated Approach to Instruction for Secondary Excellence in Texas) is a targeted, whole - school approach to improving student achievement in middle school.

Our results, as we have noted, suggest the need for further inquiry; still, it is clear that the job of fostering student achievement is far easier in elementary schools than in secondary schools.

There were no secondary school principals who scored high on Factor 2 whose schools also had high mathematics achievement.

From its beginnings in the 1960s, NAEP has presented a psychometrically - sound picture of student achievement in the elementary and secondary schools.

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

Principals who rated low on Factor 2 and whose schools were lowest in mathematics achievement numbered 2 at the elementary level and 7 at the secondary level.

In their special strategies study, Stringfield et al. (1997) found that reform programs that focused on the primary grades had larger achievement gains in reading than schools that spread their efforts out across the elementary grades or into the secondary grades.

If states or districts tested math or literacy proficiency in more than one grade in elementary or in secondary schools, we averaged the percentages across the grades within the building level, resulting in a single achievement score for each school.

The second (Jeynes 2007), focusing exclusively on studies of urban secondary school students, found that family involvement had a significant effect on student achievement for minority and white students.

It is even more notable that the raw number and relative percent of secondary schools with low ranking and low achievement were significantly higher than for elementary schools.