Sentences with phrase «standards of achievement if»

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The Obama agenda has focused almost exclusively on systemic school reform to address the achievement deficits of disadvantaged students: standards, testing, teacher evaluations, and a continued, if different, focus on accountability.

«These summit meetings have been quite significant, and if he can use this last summit meeting to establish international standards for fissile control, which fifty heads of state sign up to, that would be a real achievement,» Perry said.

Quite why Caviezel, Perlman and especially John Hurt got involved with this straight to DVD standard tosh is a mystery; if I ever meet him I will be torn between shaking his hand for a lifetime of cinematic achievement and demanding two hours of my life back for duping me into sitting through this steaming pile of Norse manure.

If his considerable achievement in this long - awaited film falls short of his Olympian standards, there is a reason that ought to give Kubrick some satisfaction.

But what then shall we say for Lubitsch's German period, if it is Hollywood achievements — including such silent masterworks as The Marriage Circle (1924) and Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)-- that are considered the standard bearers of the director's strength as a filmmaker?

If all schools could be persuaded to switch to one of the top quartile textbooks, student achievement would rise overall by roughly.127 student - level standard deviations.

If the current law's minimum competency standard produces gains among students near the proficiency threshold but disadvantages others, the rules of the accountability system need to be modified, perhaps to reward improvements across the entire achievement distribution.

If, under the best of conditions, schools are still incapable of adding anything but a few fractions of a standard deviation to the academic achievement of students or to their lifetime earning trajectories, might it not make sense to freeze school spending and explore supplementary policy instruments?

Even if the largest estimates of peer effects are correct, however, the improvement in peers» prior test scores would appear to benefit KIPP students» achievement only by about 0.07 to 0.09 standard deviations after four years at KIPP.

To not disconnect themselves from the big picture if you like, from the nation as a whole and from the importance of standards and levels of achievement, but have a much more responsive approach to things, which could also lead into opportunities for entrepreneurship at a local level.

Instead, we try to pretend that most, if not all, should be on an almost exclusively academic track, thereby requiring that standards of achievement be lowered and curricula watered down to accommodate the average to below - average ability student.

The promise of the Common Core included not just multi-state standards but also multi-state assessments, assessments in more - or-less every grade with results at every level of the K - 12 system: The child (though not by name, except to parents and teachers), the school (and, if desired, individual classrooms and, by implication, teachers), the district, the state, and the nation, with crosswalks (in pertinent grades) to international measures as well as to NAEP, the primary external «auditor» of state and national achievement.

However, if achievement is taken only to mean the grades, scores or marks received on summative assessment tasks, then progress often appears only to mean whether the child's standard of achievement (their grades) is improving, maintaining or declining.

The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.

To be sure, statewide analyses can provide accurate estimates of the impact of school resources — but only if the analyst includes within the statistical model all the factors that affect student performance and, in the standard linear regression model generally favored by RAND, if these factors have a constant, additive effect on student achievement.

[3] That means that if all schools could be persuaded to switch to one of the top quartile textbooks, student achievement would rise overall by roughly.127 student - level standard deviations or an average of 3.6 percentile points.

But even if those costs doubled the class - size increase needed to keep costs the same — an unlikely scenario — ending summer vacation would still increase achievement by 0.05 standard deviations, or 10 days of learning.

If accountability only means increased achievement scores, and if standards only focus on the acquisition of information, then we are using a very narrow view of those termIf accountability only means increased achievement scores, and if standards only focus on the acquisition of information, then we are using a very narrow view of those termif standards only focus on the acquisition of information, then we are using a very narrow view of those terms.

If this latter hypothesis should ever be proven correct, it would testify to the efficacy of a standards - based strategy for raising student achievement.

If you do accept a standard score generated from an achievement test as an IQ score for that child, you again need to be aware of the test ceilings, and other weaknesses.

Teachers qualify as masters only if they attain three years of exceptionally high achievement results and if they consistently demonstrate an ability to collaborate well, as defined by our teaching standards.

If the achievement criterion is raised to «proficient,» then 87 % of grade 4 students who are eligible for free / reduced lunch fall below that standard.

[iii] That means that if all schools could be persuaded to switch to one of the top quartile textbooks, student achievement would rise overall by roughly.127 student - level standard deviations or an average of 3.6 percentile points.

Even if the curricula is aligned with the standards, the curricula won't work if teachers are not capable of improving student achievement, if school cultures damn some kids (notably those from poor and minority backgrounds) to low expectations, and if school operators aren't held to high expectations (as well as rewarded and punished accordingly).

As reported by the National Center on Education Outcomes (NCEO), the leading research institute on accountability in special education, «The vast majority of special education students (80 - 85 percent) can meet the same achievement standards as other students if they are given specially designed instruction, appropriate access, supports and accommodations» as required by federal law.

By requiring the states to set high standards, pairing them with assessments that measured whether students were achieving those standards, and holding schools accountable if students failed to do so, NCLB, in the eyes of its sponsors, would close achievement gaps and make America's schools the envy of the world.

The impact of cooperative learning on achievement means that if schools wish to prepare students to take proficiency tests to meet local and state standards, the use of cooperative learning should dominate instructional practice.

The federal Race to the Top grant competition tried to stimulate competition among state departments of education to evaluate teachers and commit their state to participate in statewide tests (based on Common Core's inferior standards), as if teachers, in general, were the problem, and as if these state departments of education, in general, were staffed by people who had effectively addressed low achievement.

Finding 5: Reporting against year - level achievement standards hides both progress and attainment for some students and does not amount to a diagnostic assessment of real learning needs which — if met — would lead to growth in learning

If allowed to move forward, this bill will make Maryland a clear outlier for accountability standards from other states, most of which weigh student academic achievement and growth more significantly than this bill proposes.

There is a strong belief that there are basic academic skills that should be demonstrated by all students and that teacher effectiveness and student achievement can be better assessed if there is a set of standards to guide all educators.

Two quite different groups of people advocate this view: one group (not much concerned with equity) believes that if school professionals were more highly motivated, problems of low student achievement would be solved; a second group (passionately concerned about equity) believes that the solution is much more complicated but believes that even to acknowledge such complexity decreases the school's motivation to achieve high standards with children who, traditionally, do not do well in school.

It will be an extraordinary challenge and an extraordinary achievement if CIG can deliver so many environments with its extremely high standard of visual fidelity.

And if they don't understand their role, they no longer understand the goals and standards of achievement (filling time sheets with thousands of hours is no longer a goal that is rewarded with advancement).

Even if India is able to attract only 1 % of the total funds from the global companies, it can raise the assets from the present 5 % to as much as 17 % in the coming times, which is no mean achievement by any standards.