Sentences with phrase «significant education gains»

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Weisler said that sales of Chromebooks have made «significant headway» with education providers, and are gaining strength in other industries like finance and banking, which he said are also looking for low - cost laptops.

In multiple studies, HFA parents show significant gains in their education that can lead to increased family income and tax base.

Vice President Kwesi Amissah Arthur, has said the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) deserves another term in office particularly due to the significant gains in the education sector.

Earlier in his opening remarks, the Director, Voter Education and Publicity, Mr. Oluwole Osaze - Uzzi said that the workshop was significant in exposing the staff to the gains of a gender responsive electoral Commission.

On the one side, she agreed with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to a test plan offering monetary incentives to teachers in schools whose poorest students make significant gains in achievement (see «New York City's Education Battles,» features, Spring 2008).

According to the latest Education Next poll, public support for merit pay gained significant ground over the past year and now outdistances opposition by a 2:1 margin.

Last week Rocketship Education announced the results of an independent 16 - week study by SRI International that showed that students who had greater access to online instruction in math, specifically a learning program called Dreambox Learning, achieved significant gains in mathematics scores.

In an analysis of the effects of the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act recently published in the Kentucky Annual Economic Report, a professor of economics at the University of Kentucky asserts that the state's higher school spending levels have not led to significant gains on national tests or substantial improvements in the dropout rate.

A simple comparison, examining only those elementary schools with significant bilingual - education programs (more than 120 students enrolled before Prop 227), reveals that the schools that eliminated their bilingual education programs had a 10 - point gain in reading and a 13 - point gain in math, but those that maintained some form of bilingual - education program had only a 6 - point gain in reading and a 14 - point gain in math.

These gains, however, have not included a significant closing of the gaps between racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups, a fact that represents a serious issue in education today.

The introduction of the National Quality Framework (NQF) in 2012, by the Australian Children's Education & Care Quality Authority, brought a renewed level of safety and quality to what had become a significant industry and provided benchmarks and targets that programs must abide by in order to gain and retain accreditation.

If implemented faithfully (a big if), I predict we'll see significant gains on national and international exams (at least in math and literacy) and, over time, a decline in the number of students in remedial education at college.

Many favored projects — including special education state grants, charter schools, and new programs to train teachers — also were granted significant funding gains this year.

No significant correlation was found between increased spending on education and test score gains.

«Learning gains for charter school students are larger by significant amounts for Black, Hispanic, low - income, and special education students in both math and reading.»

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.

To be more succinct, Governor McDonnell's signature education legislation will punish high poverty schools and divisions even where significant gains toward increasing achievement for economically - disadvantaged students have been attained.

It is only with broad public support at all levels that education reform can truly gain traction and begin to realize significant improvements.

Still, the Education Northwest evaluation team gained valuable information from the study, including the lesson that it is possible to make a statistically significant difference in the reading achievement of struggling readers in a single year.

In support of this, he cites a recent Harvard study,» Evaluating Newark's Education Reforms,» that finds more than half of the significant English language arts (ELA) gains in Newark over the past five years can be attributed to students opting for a new or different school, as opposed to benefiting from improvements in their existing school.

The most recent scores for the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) show that Mississippi has made significant gains in 4th grade reading.

Iowa, Ohio, and North Carolina have also begun to establish complete CBL systems, and in total, 42 states are using competency - based measures in some form or fashion within their schools.5 While a full overhaul of the standardized testing system may still be some time away, CBL has gained significant traction in a short amount of time and has some pretty strong proponents rallying support behind its innovative approach to education.

After three years of repeating 12 - week change cycles that focused on overcoming a specific teaching challenge with technical assistance from Education Northwest, Springdale has realized significant student achievement gains in reading and mathematics through an approach called Success Now!

Using publicly available data from the California Department of Education (CDE), the results show that charter schools are making significant gains in narrowing the achievement gap, with African American students consistently earning higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores and proficiency rates statewide in many urban districts and across subjects.

Whether charters are making significant academic gains remains a question, and until that can be resolved, CPS should hold off on adding charters, says Julie Woestehoff of Parents United for Responsible Education.

Houston Independent School District's Energy Institute High School, an MSAP school in the second year of operation has made significant gains in linking education to industry through industry partnerships.

Education leaders say both stories are true and that Louisiana has been so far behind in the quality of its public schools for so long that even significant gains in the past two decades leave the state well behind most of its peers.

Basis for Further Learning In a study of preschool classrooms, Vanderbilt University education professor Dale Farran reports that increasing the amount of time children spend engaged in instruction involving math conversation led to significant math gains.

The program has been the subject of significant scrutiny as the education sector watched to see whether a Public Private Partnership model could deliver significant learning gains.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos pointed out in a statement Tuesday that Florida was the only state that showed significant academic gains.

As school districts around the country consider investments in technology as a way to improve student outcomes, this report from the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) finds that technology — when implemented properly — can produce significant gains in student achievement and boost engagement, particularly among students most at risk.

The Louisiana Department of Education released the 2015 Louisiana Nonpublic School Choice Annual Report, finding students using the Louisiana Scholarship Program making significant academic gains.

Dr. Wright spearheaded initiatives in Mississippi that nearly doubled the Advancement Placement (AP) participation and success rate, resulted in significant annual gains in English Language Arts and Mathematics proficiency, and earned Mississippi recognition from the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) as one of the top six states in the nation for providing high - quality early childhood eEducation Research (NIEER) as one of the top six states in the nation for providing high - quality early childhood educationeducation.

Although the performance of Virginia fourth graders on the 2015 NAEP was similar to 2013, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) says Virginia fourth graders have made statistically significant gains in both reading and mathematics since 2007.

Although the overall performance of Virginia fourth graders on the 2017 NAEP was statistically similar to 2015, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) says Virginia fourth graders have made statistically significant gains in reading during the last two decades.

But time is what many principals are competing with when state and federal lawmakers, state departments of education, and even parents demand swift, significant gains in student achievement.

Students living with disabilities, whom I teach, often struggle with managing their emotions and actions, and the relationship special education teachers build with them over the course of a school year help them not only make significant gains in overall academic performance, but also social and emotional progress.

I'd rather there was an education campaign or whatever fixes the confusion compared to giving up a significant source of tax - free gains!

During her career, Caroline has gained significant experience in a number of different sectors including the public sector, education, charitable, motor and manufacturing.

To obtain a responsible career in life where I could optimally utilized my education qualification as well as gained professional experience for making significant contribution in a progressive and dynamic organization.

During graduated educations I have gained significant practical experiences in synthesis and functionalization of heterogeneous supports based on mesoporous silica (MS), periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMO) designing new recycleable heterogeneous catalysts for organic transformations.

In positive news, Bronwyn Fredricks wrote for Croakey on the significant gains in the targets for higher education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, highlighted in the Closing the Gap report.

This latest survey sounds alarm bells about continuing health and social disparities for Indigenous people in Australia, particularly related to tobacco use and chronic conditions, but also highlights significant gains in education and health and the important role of family, culture and country.

«We have seen small but significant gains in the health and education indicators for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people but much more needs to be done before Australia can claim true equity in opportunity between First Peoples and other Australians,» said Dr Calma.