Sentences with phrase «single year achievement»

My goal this year is to repeat my four books in a single year achievement.

Not exact matches

Republicans are under intense pressure to pass a tax bill or face ending a year of near - complete control over the federal government without a a single major legislative achievement to bring voters and donors.

He concluded by stressing that the NPP with just a year in office has borrowed about close to GHS30 billion yet can not boast of a single achievement like KVIP.

And yet, as the years roll on, it's a film whose reputation has just snowballed, to the point where many a hardened Kubrickite would single it out as his crowning cinematic achievement.

The Best Achievement award goes to Anna Biller who wrote, directed, produced, set designed and made every single costume and created every single prop herself, over 7 years.

For a single series to receive multiple Emmy nominations for acting in one year is quite an achievement.

For example, in a forthcoming analysis in three school districts where it was possible to track teachers» student achievement growth over many years, Doug Staiger and I found that of those teachers who were in the bottom quartile of value - added in a single year, 55 to 65 percent were in the bottom quartile over their careers and 82 to 87 percent were in the bottom half.

«Importantly, the narrowing gap in reading achievement as students progress by year level suggests that the value - add over time that is experienced in coeducational schools is not being realised in single - sex schools,» Dix writes.

Because the studies use data from a single school year to contrast students in middle schools and K — 8 schools, most of the available research can not reject the possibility that differences between the groups of students, rather than in the grade configuration of their schools, are actually responsible for the differences in behavior and achievement.

Our results indicate that highly effective principals raise the achievement of a typical student in their schools by between two and seven months of learning in a single school year; ineffective principals lower achievement by the same amount.

The safe harbor provision in NCLB was a crude way to measure growth, but it at least attempted to account for the fact that not all students come in with the same achievement levels and we can't expect schools to erase those gaps in a single year.

Three major developments of the past 20 years are now bearing fruit: 1) the creation of standards and accountability; 2) research on how the brain develops in early childhood and its implications for pre-K education and child care; and 3) an emerging focus on the single biggest factor in student achievement - teacher quality.

By this perspective, any education strategy that in a single year can raise average achievement of a large aggregate of students by one full standard deviation must be taken very seriously.

Bromley head teacher Patrick Wenham has seen the difference in achievement for boys and girls first - hand during his 30 - plus years in the classroom, and believes single - sex education is a tool that can be used to improve achievement, particularly for male pupils.

Open Day is the one day of the year when my teaching and the teaching of all my colleagues is implicitly valued as that single most important driver of student achievement, after family background.

Last year, Education Next published the findings of a study of the academic achievement of two groups: those who in adolescence lived in single - parent households and those who lived in two - parent households (see «One - Parent Students Leave School Earlier,» features, Spring 2015).

In fact, the effect of a single year spent in a charter school was equivalent to half of the black - white achievement gap.

We averaged these percentages across grades and subjects in order to increase the stability of scores, producing in a single achievement score for each school for each of three years.

We averaged these percentages across grades and subjects in order to increase the stability of scores, 119 producing a single achievement score for each school for each of three years.

And in turns of getting great «student achievement» results (aka high test scores) I could spend the whole year having students read nothing but newspaper extracts and single pages ripped from any current fiction.

Four years later, Dara Holt, the curriculum director for Valdosta City Schools (VCS), reports that DreamBox continues to boost achievement rates in K — 5 schools across the district, «We do universal screening three times a year and our math scores are higher than our rating scores every single time.

With our single plan for student achievement, we are just looking year - to - year.

Although a teacher can produce measurable effects on student achievement in a single year of instruction, a principal's efforts are likely to require several years before their full effect on student outcomes becomes evident.

This model is designed to help teachers incorporate the highest - impact instructional practices: classroom discussion, debate, and repeated reading of text to ensure the greatest literacy achievement in a single school year.

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.

Although being a business owner is challenging, being a single parent to an active, intelligent, and inquisitive 6 year old is by far her best achievement.

As researcher Thomas Kane writes, «Oversubscribed charter schools in the Boston area are closing roughly one - third of the black - white achievement gap in math and about one - fifth of the achievement gap in English — in a single school year!»

For every one of the last 50 years the annual Single Plan for Student Achievement has sat collecting dust on school office shelves.

Orders for textbooks were due last week, each school's Single Plan for Student Achievement is due to the state at the end of the week, and next week, they'll have to finalize their annual budgets for the 2014 - 15 school year.

According to the National Council of Teachers of English, «Well over a decade into federal education policy that endows significant consequences to single tests of student achievement too late in the academic year to lead to any action, teachers might be pleased that the term «formative -LSB-...]

The strategies in the T3 Framework have an observed effect size of 1.6, or the equivalent of three of more years of achievement in a single academic year.

The second chart shows how the total cost of sending a single child through the public school system has changed over the years, along with trends in student achievement.

Research has shown that «the difference in student performance in a single academic year from having a good as opposed to a bad teacher can be more than one full year of standardized achievement.»

Almost 50 years ago, the congressionally authorized Coleman Report found that the single most important predictor of academic achievement is the socioeconomic status of the student's family, with the second most important being the socioeconomic makeup of the school (Coleman et al., 1966).

Mr. Pryor's tenure has been steeped in controversy, due in part to his commitment to the corporate education reform agenda, his leadership style and his relationship with charter schools, most directly with Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company that has been the largest single financial beneficiary of state funds to charter schools over the past four years.

Many CMO - run schools operate on extended calendars, offering students longer school days and years.57 To establish a strong sense of community and culture of achievement, many grow slowly, building out a single grade at a time.58 And many focus heavily on creating strong relationships between students, teachers, and families by conducting teacher home visits, requiring parents to volunteer at school, and having families, students, and teachers all sign agreements about the expectations of attending the school.57

By developing and supporting high - quality school leaders, the NYC Leadership Academy affects the achievement of nearly 1.2 million students across the country in a single year.

Instead of judging schools based on a snapshot of a single year's test scores, we compared results during a four - year period, looking for trends in student achievement.

Research shows that highly effective principals raise the achievement of a typical student in their schools by between two and seven months of learning in a single school year and that ineffective principals lower achievement by the same amount.3 And principal quality affects teacher turnover and specifically turnover among effective teachers.

We averaged these percentages across grades and subjects in order to increase the stability of scores, 41 arriving finally at a single achievement score for each school for each of three years.

This week's agenda includes: Professional Culture Organizational update, Classified Employees of the Year, Single Plan for Student Achievement, and more...

Congratulations Peter, to be an investor for over two years and not have a single default (or even a single late loan right now for that matter) is quite an achievement.

Selection for the award was not based on any single achievement but rather on the broad influence for good you've had on New England journalism over the years.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS • Upped sales by 22 % in a single fiscal year by providing proactive support to the marketing and sales campaigns • Implemented a client feedback system that takes input from clients to determine specific needs of individual clients

Perhaps my biggest achievement in the role of a full charge bookkeeper has been handling full - cycle accounting procedures of 3 offices at the same time, with not a single unmanageable discrepancy in the 6 years that I have worked at this position.

I am a successful professional qualified by fourteen years of visible achievements in single and multi-functional food and beverage operations with a strong personal commitment to exceed guest service expectations.

The Henry Ford Community College, located in Dearborn Michigan, offers a medical assistant certificate of achievement, and it is possible to complete the course in a single year, as long as students meet all of the requirements.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

Congratulations on your professional attitude, displayed by your exceptional achievements, accomplished virtually single - handedly over those often difficult years.