Sentences with phrase «showing reading gains»

November 29, 2016 • Kids are showing reading gains in dual - language classrooms.

In Duval County, two - thirds of the schools that have the extra hour show reading gains, and improvements among the 300 designated schools are greater than at other schools, according to data and the Florida Department of Education.

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In the Gospel of John (which is the only book of the Bible written with the express purpose that those who read it will believe and have life — John 20:31), Jesus shows us over and over and over how to simply, clearly, and succinctly invite people to gain eternal life.

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.

I saw your videos and read your blog about basal metabolic rate and wondered how you interpret this new study which apparently shows that low metabolic rate is not a predictor of future weight gain: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/104/4/959.abstract Guyenet etc seem to be saying this is significant.

Was that a good thing, or would you have liked some project at the end to show what you gained from your reading?

This lesson shows them how to adapt to the text that they are reading and what exactly they are trying to gain from it.

The final evidence collected from the participants may confirm the accumulation of achievement gains in reading and higher levels of parental satisfaction from the program that were evident after three years, or show that those gains have faded.

Certainly the results would have been even more encouraging if the high - priority SINI students had shown significant reading gains as a distinct subgroup.

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.

Over time, in my opinion, the effects of the program show a trend toward larger reading gains cumulating for students.

Moreover, DCPS students show impressive gains over the last decade, not only on district tests but also on National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading and math assessments.

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Thus, I also assume that the state made no meaningful gains in 4th - grade reading between 1998 and 2000 that would have shown up on NAEP, which squares with the scores on the state's own reading assessment.

The figure shows that Florida's reading gains prior to the introduction of the policy were actually larger on the NAEP than on the FCAT.

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

But two RFTs funded by IES during Whitehurst's tenure, one on professional development in reading, the other in math, show the same thing: even prolonged, high - quality, in - service professional development programs for teachers produce nothing in the way of gains for students.

Results from a new report on test scores show the nation's students making modest gains in math and science in recent years, while failing to significantly increase their reading and writing performance.

Those at the very bottom — the lowest 10 percent — showed an even sharper gain of 17 points in reading and 12 points in math.

When Mr. Obama first moved to phase out the D.C. voucher program in 2009, his Education Department was in possession of a federal study showing that voucher recipients, who number more than 3,300, made gains in reading scores and didn't decline in math.

Is it any wonder that, even as national assessment data have shown decent gains in math achievement in recent years (at least in the early grades), reading outcomes remain dismal?

Here's just one example: After almost a year in Head Start (with an average cost of about $ 7,700 in 2005), children were able to name only about two more letters than their non — Head Start counterparts, and they did not show any significant gains on much more important measures, such as early math learning, vocabulary, oral comprehension (more indicative of later reading comprehension), motivation to learn, or social competencies, including the ability to interact with peers and teachers.

The second - year study showed that the Core Knowledge kids made reading gains twice as great as those of students in the control group.

Houston, by far the largest of the six urban districts, made greater progress in reading and math than all but one of the major urban districts, San Antonio, which showed remarkable gains.

First graders at those schools also showed significant gains in reading; the results were statistically insignificant for 2nd graders.

Korematsu, which blended only in 4th grade, showed gains in reading, where blended learning was concentrated, and smaller gains in math.

The results from the 2017 National Assessment of Education Progress, also called NAEP or The Nation's Report Card, have been released, and they show that fourth - and eighth - graders have made little to no gains in math and reading since 2015.

In 2014, BGCA members who participated in Summer Brain Gain's project - based learning practices showed significant improvements in reading (fifth - and eighth - graders) and math skills (fourth -, fifth -, and sixth - graders).

A widely cited NAEP analysis shows statistically significant gains in math attributable to NCLB, but no evidence for such gains in reading.

The analysis, which used data from 1974 - 75 and 1979 - 80 reading assessments, showed that Hispanic 9 - year - olds achieved gains of 5.3 percentage points between 1975 and 1980.

A recent national study showed that African - American students in public charter schools gained an average of 36 extra days of reading and 26 extra days of math when compared to their traditional school peers.

Students in three of six subgroups tested showed significant reading gains due to the voucher offer after four or more years.

In DC ~ schools chancellor Michelle Rhee boasted that all subgroups improved reading and math test scores between 2007 and 2010 ~ with low - income and minority high school students showing double - digit gains.

Earlier program evaluation reports for Louisiana showed that voucher students made significantly lower gains on math and reading test scores in the first year (27 percentile points and 17 percentile points lower, respectively) than students who applied for vouchers but were not awarded them through the lottery.

In reading, Hispanic students experience significant gains, whereas most other subgroups show slightly smaller positive effects.

The Mathematica Policy Research report found that, after three years in the schools, students showed gains in math equal to 1.2 years of extra instruction and in reading almost a full extra year of improvement compared to outcomes for students in schools with similar demographics.

San Diego, Fresno and Los Angeles lead the nation's cities in showing the biggest gains in fourth - grade reading scores.

And a 2015 Stanford University study cited by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools showed that low - income Black students in charter schools gain the equivalent of 29 extra days of learning in reading and 36 extra days of learning in math per year compared with their Black counterparts in traditional district schools.

The gains show up on national standardized tests and the city's own tests in reading and math, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

The I - Zone schools showed some of the highest gains on reading and math tests in the state last year, higher than both the rest of the district and the ASD.

A new study of international and U.S. state trends in student achievement growth shows that the United States is squarely in the middle of a group of 49 nations in 4th and 8th grade test score gains in math, reading, and science over the period 1995 - 2009.

According to NAEP results, released by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, Alabama is one of four states to show significant gains in fourth - grade reading, and over the past eight years has shown a greater increase in scale than any other state, moving from 207 in 2003 to the national average of 220 on a 500 - point scale in 2011.

The data show that when measured as their own «state», Arizona charter students outpaced the gains realized by their state level peers in all four major tested subjects: fourth grade reading and math, as well as eighth grade reading and math.

For eighth - graders across the district, the report showed a four - year gain of 4 percentage points to 38 percent in reading proficiency, and a 5 percentage - point gain to 44 percent in math proficiency.

Students from these schools showed gains in reading and math in all four years after they entered KIPP.

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Third - party independent study shows that Achieve3000, the Leader in Differentiated Instruction ™, helped students make significant gains in vocabulary, reading comprehension, and total reading skills.

Academic progress at Zion school shows promise of new system Third and 4th graders at Beulah Park Elementary School in Zion are gaining crucial skills as they make inferences while reading books as varied as Junie B. Jones and a biography of 19th century scientist Mary Anning.

The growth score shown here is the school's average gain based on TCAP assessments in Reading, Math, and Science.

Principal Danielle Patterson shows how the staff tracks the reading gains students have made with the data wall in the main hallway of Reed Elementary in Holdenville.