Sentences with phrase «serve student subgroups»

Strengthen school accountability for traditionally underserved students by maintaining required statewide assessments for all students in grade 3 - 8 and once in grades 10 - 12, with flexibility for states to intervene in schools failing to serve student subgroups.

Not exact matches

As sample size shrinks, the chances rise that a few individual children influence the school's accountability rating — either positively or negatively — in a way that has nothing to do with how well the school serves students in that subgroup.

a. Should states mandate that charter schools serve a minimum percentage of special education students, English language learners, or other subgroups?

For example, the idea that the success of LEAs will be determined based on: «the number and percentage of participating students by subgroup who have daily access to effective and highly effective teachers» is problematic in the way that it potentially limits the innovative staffing models possible to serve students if educator is defined as one being co-located with the student.

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

This school year, charters will serve nearly 38,000 students — 44 percent of all public - school students in D.C. And these schools, which consistently outperform D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) overall and across all subgroups, offer students a tremendous variety of quality educational opportunities.

Using the NY State Assessments in evaluations allows us to meaningfully compare teacher performance statewide, which helps policymakers know which students need help or which teachers serving particular student subgroups may need additional support.

Most charter schools serve disadvantaged kids, those with disabilities, ELL students, and others that fit the NCLB «subgroup» descriptors.

Underrepresentation of subgroups in special education may signal inadequate attention to the mandate to seek out and serve students with disabilities.

While Stephanie did mention her own instructional strategies as a part of her evidence for lesson effectiveness, the function of these strategies served to support her claims that she was attending to the learning needs of this particular subgroup of students, the English learners in her class.

The answer is likely «not much,» and that's true across America, both at the micro-level of your specific child and at the macro-level of schools, districts, and historically under - served subgroups like English Language Learners, students with disabilities, students of color, and students from economically - disadvantaged homes.

The answer is likely «not much,» and that's true across America, both at the micro-level of your specific child and at the macro-level of schools, districts and historically under - served subgroups like English - language learners, students with disabilities, students of color, and students from economically - disadvantaged homes.

Yet states still must, like under NCLB, administer annual standardized tests to students in grades three through eight, intervene in the lowest - performing schools, report progress for historically under - served subgroups, and submit accountability plans to the U.S. Department of Education.

Instead, as argued above, it is anticipated that the differentiated attention to the different disability areas — and the ESEA / ESSA «relief» of not having to track and serve an impossibly complex and varied students with disabilities subgroup — should improve the quality and outcomes of services, supports, programs, and interventions to and with these students... making everyone «a winner.»

NCLB requires states to publish and disaggregate data by subgroups so we know which students are being well served and which ones are not.