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And from what I've read, others have experienced having babies that don't gain much from one check up to the next or are just super «small» in general and are totally healthy and fine.

A groundbreaking study from the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute has found that African - American students in first grade experience smaller gains in reading when they attend segregated schools — but the students» backgrounds likely are not the cause of the differences.

If the same approach is applied to the STAR sample to adjust for the fact that some students did not enroll in the class they were assigned to - and a comparable sample of low - income black students is used - the gains in test scores after two years of attending a small class (average of 16 students) as opposed to a regular - size class (average of 23 students) is 9.1 national percentile ranks in reading and 9.8 ranks in math.

Pass rates on the state's 10th - grade exam, which was also a high - stakes exit exam for students, rose from 57 percent to 78 percent between 1994 and 2000, with smaller yet still sizable gains in reading (see Figure 1).

In particular, since 2001 (that is, since NCLB was passed), there have been sizable gains in NAEP 4th - and 8th - grade math tests, small improvements in 4th - and 8th - grade reading tests, and very little change in 12th - grade scores.

Ravitch found that during Klein's five - year tenure academic gains have been smaller than during the previous five years and that the reading scores of cohorts of students are actually declining as they progress through the system.

In a revealing analysis of a large data set, Hoover Institution economist Eric Hanushek and his colleagues found that placement in special education in grades 3 - 6 was associated with gains of 0.04 standard deviation in reading and 0.11 in math; such small gains indicate that children with LD clearly are not closing the gap.

Although our data do not allow us to address this issue directly while still accounting for the self - selection of students into charter schools, simple comparisons indicate that students who entered charter schools in the later grades made smaller gains in math (but not reading) than students who entered earlier.

The results of our analysis of these «switchers,» which continues to take into account the difficulties associated with moving between schools, again indicate that students make smaller gains while enrolled in charter schools, by nearly 0.10 standard deviations in reading and 0.16 standard deviations in math.

Smaller gains were found in vocabulary and reading comprehension.

A study of test scores from 2010 through 2014, by economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Duke University, found that Denver's charters produced «remarkably large gains in math,» large gains in writing, and smaller but statistically significant gains in reading, compared to DPS - operated schools.

Although some relatively small gains have been made (most likely due to Reading First's spread of phonics - based decoding instruction), high - school scores have been flat for decades.

Results indicated that those students in the small class made greater gains in reading achievement compared to those in the larger class.»

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

The patterns were similar in reading, though the relative gains made by schools facing voucher competition were smaller and sometimes statistically insignificant.

However, the sample size for this part of the study was too small to determine whether students who participated in Reading Recovery sustained their gains on state reading tests in 3rdReading Recovery sustained their gains on state reading tests in 3rdreading tests in 3rd grade.

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

Often they need a lot more time on reading instruction, one - on one or in a small groups, with a research - based program taught by someone with training, in order to gain proficiency.

Looking at a 4 - 5 point gain in Reading will look very small as it should given the large scale score range.

The nation's 1 - point gain in 8th - grade reading was the only increase, though small, in the 2017 assessments.

Children in the top percentile of student achievement in schools missing AYP saw small gains in math and reading achievement.

Results have been mixed, ranging from gains in high school graduation and college enrollment rates (e.g., Chingos and Peterson 2012), small increases in reading and math scores (e.g., Greene et al. 1998), or increases in math but not reading scores (Rouse 1998), to no significant change in test scores (e.g., Howell and Peterson 2006; Wolf et al. 2011).

In this article, we ask teachers in a small, rural district in eastern Washington how they used 10 - to 12 - week change cycles to make gains in their students» reading...

A 2011 report (PDF) by Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), using a different methodology, indicated students in Pennsylvania's online charter schools «have significantly smaller gains in reading and math than those of their traditional public school peers.»

Nevertheless, recent studies have begun to question whether incidental instruction through book reading may be substantial enough to significantly boost children's oral vocabulary development.19 Several meta - analyses, for example, have reported only small to moderate effects of book reading on vocabulary development.20 One group of researchers examined the added benefits of dialogic reading, an interactive reading strategy, on children's vocabulary growth and reported only modest gains for 2 - to 3 - year - olds.21 Further, these effects were reduced to negligible levels when children were 4 to 5 years old or when they were at risk for language and literacy impairments.

In fairness, New London did make small but steady gains in most grades & subjects that averaged about a 1.5 % increase in math proficiency, no change in reading, and 4 % increase in writing.

Rigorous research means being able to attribute achievement gains to the CSR model and not to extraneous factors such as unusually enthusiastic teachers, a new district reading curriculum, smaller class sizes, etc..

Despite confusion over how much New York students are improving, New York City's small gains in proficiency (almost 5 percentage points in math and 1 percentage point in reading) appear to be real progress, experts say, because they mirror similar improvements on national tests (specifically the Trial Urban District Assessment portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-RRB-.

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For small schools with less resources and large schools that receive hundreds, if not thousands, of applications, the resources required to read every essay from every applicant may outweigh the benefits of the extra information gained from the admission essay.

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It is common experience that it is advantageous to read all the available papers so as to gain an overview of the entire case rather than limit that task to the relatively small area that is truly relevant to the expert's own field for the expert evidence in a particular case must be given in relation to the whole case if the opinion is to be of real value to the court when it comes to decide on the issues before it.

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Future research may gain further by assessing even more specific aspects of visual function objectively (e.g., impairment in depth perception, extreme contrast or brightness sensitivity in addition to visual acuity as assessed in NSHAP) and subjectively (e.g., self - reported trouble with reading newspaper print and recognizing people at a small distance in addition to the global assessment of one's vision as assessed in NSHAP) in the study of the effects of vision on quality of life and the capacity of a good marriage to alter these effects.

A paper recently published in PLOS ONE examines the association between maternal height and cesarean section as well as maternal height and neonatal mortality in 34 sub-Saharan African countries, a region facing numerous maternal and neonatal health challenges along with the smallest gains — even losses — in average adult height during the last century... read more