Sentences with phrase «stagnating student»

These recommendations, created with input from a coalition of statewide and Aurora - based organizations could dramatically improve the district's stagnating student achievement and student growth statistics.

For instance, Sweden's catastrophic decline in educational performance on PISA since its introduction of for - profit free schools has taken it away from the high performance of other Nordic countries and towards England and the United States, with declining equity and stagnated student achievement.

Not exact matches

This week's news is frustratingly familiar: A new round of international tests finds American students stagnating in reading and math even as other countries improve.

Compounding the problem has been the swelling number of students entering PhD training in science while the number of tenure - track academic positions has stagnated.

January 4, 2013 Study identifies strategies to help minority students in med school While minority populations are rising throughout the country, enrollment by minority students in the nation's medical schools has stagnated.

In this environment where student expectations are high, adult student enrollments are stagnating, and competition is intense, the author argues that universities just entering the online learning market must «Go Big or Go Home.»

«This Review will set a pathway to turnaround our stagnating and declining student performance and help to boost the preparedness of students for life after school.»

Policymakers and reform advocates alike have rallied around introducing a set of national content standards, suggesting that this will jump start the stagnating achievement of U.S. students.

The challenges of instruction, leadership, parent engagement, school culture, and professional capacity of teachers are things controlled by us, Knowles noted, pointing out that they also can lead to students 10 times more likely to make substantial improvement and 30 times less likely to stagnate.

«Yet somehow, despite hard - fought political battles and reforms, and the daily efforts of system leaders, teachers, parents and students across the nation, we continue to replicate a system in which key indicators of impact and equity are stagnating or going backwards,» they said.

In another study for the Fordham Institute, Loveless found a clear pattern in the late 1990s when states adopted accountability regimes: the performance of the lowest decile of students shot up, while the achievement of the top 10 percent of students stagnated.

It is true that the test - score gap between black and white students narrowed during the 1980s, only to stagnate in the»90s.

While student achievement improved in some participating schools, it stagnated in others, the study found.

As for simultaneously pointing to stagnating MCAS and excellent TIMSS scores, 2008 was the only time Massachusetts students have participated in TIMSS; those scores are the fruits of more than a decade of reform.

While the need for STEM - related expertise in the workforce is growing, the number of students choosing STEM subjects at secondary and tertiary level in Australia is stagnating.

Teachers unions only won the privilege of engaging in collective bargaining in the last 50 years, about when student achievement began to stagnate and costs to soar.

Too many students are stagnating, not learning.

They argue that it is unfair to expect students at schools in impoverished areas to perform as well as those in wealthy areas, and withholding additional funding for schools in need will stagnate performance levels.

Student results have begun to stagnate, just as accountability policies have weakened.

But Tennessee students» reading scores on NAEP have stagnated, and substantial achievement gaps remain.

«The PSEA hurts taxpayers by lobbying for increased property and state taxes that we can ill afford, all while student achievement statewide has stagnated over the last decade.»

Yet, average student proficiency in reading and math has either stagnated or fallen.

Today, the conversation has stagnated and students have plateaued in their learning.

Posted on April 11, 2018 · National exam results show Texas and the nation stagnating in academic achievement for elementary and middle school students.

The National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, two nonprofit coalitions, developed the Common Core out of a concern that the United States was falling behind on international measures of student achievement and stagnating on its own benchmarks of success, like the National Assessment of Education Progress.

Despite all this new staff, student academic achievement has stagnated — or even declined — over the past several decades.

Conventional wisdom holds that many, if not most, education schools are doing a poor job at training teachers; after all, they have a history of taking in some of the lowest performing students, and student achievement in the United States has stagnated.

However, the potential for projects and schools to stagnate on students as consultants is high.

• U.S. 4th graders topped 22 participating jurisdictions, and were outscored by just 10 of them, on the most recent Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, or PIRLS, though American students» literacy marks stagnated from the previous exam.

This legislation will help ensure we educate and prepare these students well so that our nation's brightest minds will get brighter each year and will not stagnate,» she added.

A recent influential examination of reform in Chicago elementary schools that attempted to distinguish the characteristics of schools whose students made dramatic improvements from those of schools whose students stagnated.

Reading and math scores for the nation's 12th graders have stagnated since 2009, according to new data published today, prompting U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to urge for an overhaul of the nation's high school model and amplified efforts to narrow the achievement gap for minority students.

While the 2016 election brought a renewed interest in engagement among youth, 4 only 23 percent of eighth - graders performed at or above the proficient level on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) civics exam, and achievement levels have virtually stagnated since 1998.5 In addition, the increased focus on math and reading in K - 12 education — while critical to prepare all students for success — has pushed out civics and other important subjects.

As such, implementing Bright IDEA is an attempt to address the low number of students in AIG, the underrepresentation of minority groups and socioeconomically disadvantaged students in AIG, and the stagnating achievement of students in AIG.

Fact, state takeovers of school districts do not yield improvements in student achievement; rather, more often than not, student achievement is stagnated during the short term and delayed over the long term.

Breaking with its steadily upward trend, California's annual test scores have stagnated, with fewer than half of students proficient in math and English, and a wide ethnic achievement gap persisting.

Nevertheless, the audit team concluded that student achievement for many AIG students is not improving, but rather was stagnating.

Texas, like the nation, has stagnated in elementary and middle school academic achievement and continues to fail to get black and Hispanic students performing as well as white students, according to a national «report card» out this week.

And for the seniors at Boys» Latin, it's a glimpse of a future that is out of reach for the majority of Philadelphia public school students, especially when those students are black and male — a future lived in comfort and upward mobility, rather than one that stagnates with far fewer prospects.

As University of Houston researchers Sai Bui, Steven Craig and Scott Imberman revealed last October in their Education Next report in their report, the progress among top - performing students often stagnates once they are in gifted - and - talented classes.

CA TEST SCORE COVERAGE CA math, language arts test scores level off — and achievement gaps persist scpr.org/news/2017/09/2… [note contrast with LA Times] California's students stagnate on standardized tests — but -LSB-...]

While progress to close racial achievement gaps has stagnated and income achievement gaps have grown, recent case studies enthusiastically describe «transformational» schools, which claim to establish conditions that enable students — primarily poor students of color — to achieve at levels far higher than their social background predicts.

Maybe it's stagnating wages and huge student loan bills standing in their way.

[206] While State funding for public institutions has stagnated, Federal student aid has increased dramatically.

Student debt is not dischargeable in bankruptcy like other types of debt; thus, delinquent or defaulted student loans can stagnate on borrowers» credit reports, creating an ever - increasing pool of delinquenStudent debt is not dischargeable in bankruptcy like other types of debt; thus, delinquent or defaulted student loans can stagnate on borrowers» credit reports, creating an ever - increasing pool of delinquenstudent loans can stagnate on borrowers» credit reports, creating an ever - increasing pool of delinquent debt.

'' Gordon contends that the nation's productivity growth will be further held back by the headwinds of rising inequality, stagnating education, an aging population, and the rising debt of college students and the federal government, and that we must find new solutions.

Orlando real estate agent Serina Marshall said millennials in particular face a challenge as wages stagnate and prices rise for a group of would - be buyers who are affected by student loan debts, too.