Sentences with phrase «several academic measures»

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By the fall of their kindergarten year, children who participated in Head Start and the REDI - P group scored higher than the children in the control group on several measures, showing greater increases in their vocabulary, literacy skills, reading fluency and academic performance upon entering kindergarten.

To determine whether these trends have continued in more recent cohorts, we examine trends in several dimensions of school readiness, including academic achievement, self - control, externalizing behavior, and a measure of students» «approaches to learning,» for cohorts born from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s.

«Measuring Up» covers several key indicators of the state of higher education, including academic preparation for college in high...

The following schools fall below our minimum renewal criteria and perform far below average on several other academic performance measures.

Humphries supports several measures backed by Republicans — including school vouchers and the creation of new academic standards to replace the Common Core State Standards that Evers adopted in 2010.

Today, the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) called for the non-renewal of six charter schools across the state that fall below our minimum renewal criteria and perform far below average on several other academic performance measures.

The Targeted Schools include 25 underperforming and difficult - to - staff schools that have suffered from staff retention issues and that have demonstrated growth over time based upon several measures of school - wide teacher performance and overall academic growth.

Today, CCSA called for the non-renewal of five California charter schools that fell below CCSA's minimum renewal criteria and are chronically underperforming on several other academic performance measures.

The bill would make several changes to teacher evaluations, including requiring more frequent performance reviews, more training for evaluators and the use of multiple measures of student academic progress — which could include test scores but would not require them, as current state law does.

However, they also have minimized it by adopting an accountability system, called «the dashboard,» for schools that makes academic achievement only one of several measures of their competency, and leaves improvement largely in the hands of local school officials.

Data on academic competence, behavioral self - regulation, and social competence was measured through several scales.