Sentences with phrase «stated academic achievement»

As an elementary and a secondary principal, his schools averaged over 500 % of the required stated academic achievement gains as measured by the state Academic Performance Index.

The purpose of Title III is to help ensure that students with limited English proficiency master English and meet the same challenging state academic achievement standards that all children are expected to meet.

The briefs take a deep dive on state graduation rate goals, state academic achievement goals, and how states include measures of 9th grade performance.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, the purpose of Title 1 funding, «is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high quality education and reach, at minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and state academic assessments.»

The purpose of Title I is to ensure that every student has access to an equal, fair, and high - quality education that meets, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and assessments.

«is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high - quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging State academic achievement standards and state academic assessments.»

The report found that twice as many foster youth performed «below basic» and «far below basic» on state academic achievement tests than students statewide, were much more likely to drop out than any other at - risk student group, and only 58 percent of foster youth 12th graders graduated as compared to 84 percent of all 12th graders in California.

Control - treatment outcome comparisons reveal that students at schools with an arts focus combined with arts integration programming scored higher than other types of student cohorts (non arts schools, conventional arts, and academic magnet schools) on both state academic achievement scores and arts integration learning measures.

The law permits states to select from several options for including these students in state academic achievement accountability systems.

Is the PLC assessing regularly the effectiveness of the professional development in achieving identified learning goals, improving teaching, and assisting all students in meeting challenging state academic achievement standards?

The purpose of Title I, Part A Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high - quality education and reach proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and assessments.

The Recovery Act provides $ 10 billion in additional Title I, Part A funds to state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) to support schools that have high concentrations of students from families that live in poverty in order to help improve teaching and learning for students most at risk of failing to meet state academic achievement standards.

The Title I funds are used to provide supplemental core academic instruction, instructional support, and parental involvement and engagement to schools to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high - quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging State academic achievement standards and state academic assessments.

Not exact matches

During his eight years as Deputy Superintendent and then Superintendent in San Francisco, Carranza drove progress in academic outcomes, outpacing gains in the state and narrowing the achievement gap.

His encyclopaedic essay «La crisis del Estado» (The State's Crisis), influenced by Carl Schmitt, is arguably among the most interesting works in Spanish political literature and his academic achievements made of him one of Spain's rising intellectual stars.

New York State has had the longest and most comprehensive review and implementation of new academic standards, according to a new study from High Achievement New York.

At 7:30 p.m., the Manhattan Young Democrats, New York State Young Democrats Caucus of Color, New York State Young Democrats and The City College of New York's Urban Mentoring and Achievement Network host a panel discussion on race and privilege, The City College of New York, North Academic Center Room 1/201, 160 Amsterdam Ave., Manhattan.

At the Y, we know that access to playgrounds throughout our communities provide kids with the opportunity to be physically active, which is essential for their health and academic achievement,» stated Kyle Stewart, Executive Director of the Alliance of New York State YMCAs, «We commend Senate Co-Leader Klein for his continued and progressive leadership to create strong communities by creating safe environments for kids to play outdoors, thereby leading toward a healthier New York.»

«It is laudable that in the plan the state has established long, ambitious goals for improving academic achievement.

State University of New York Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher Thursday announced 77 recipients of the 2016 - 17 Scholar Athlete Award, which recognizes outstanding academic excellence and athletic achievement.

Perhaps most remarkably, «[f] ollowing the successful conclusion of a BRIDGE Fellowship and ensuring the academic achievements are attained at the required standards, Fellows will be appointed to a permanent academic post at the University of Birmingham, normally at Lecturer grade,» states the program's website.

Federal policy should encourage school choice, require baseline achievement standards to receive Federal money and promote academic innovation by the states.

* Correction, 7 October, 12:20 p.m.: This item originally stated that 62 % of academic achievement could be attributed to genetic factors.

Research indicated that the Chinese children were sleeping less than youngsters in the United States and Europe, who had participated in similar studies — differences which may be a result of a focus on studying and academic achievement in China.

Requiring private schools that receive public money to report student test scores improves academic achievement and ultimately enhances school choice, a Michigan State University scholar argues.

Stephanie Anzman - Frasca, Ph.D., of ChildObesity180, Tufts University, Boston, and co-authors used data from 446 public elementary schools in a large, urban school district in the United States to look at the impact of BIC on participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievement.

The authors also offer one recommendation to the Department of Education, which is finalizing its ESSA regulations: Going forward, Washington should allow states to rate academic achievement using a performance index that gives schools additional credit for getting students to an advanced level.

After years of stagnation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, achievement began to rise again in the late «90s — particularly in the earlier grades and most notably in math — as states set new academic standards, started testing their students regularly, and installed their own versions of «consequential accountability» systems.

Many pundits point to the fact that in the United States, teachers tend not to be drawn from the top of the academic - performance distribution, as is the case in countries with higher student achievement, such as Finland, Korea, and Singapore.

When introducing a class to the norming process, state that the goal is to develop a class culture that promotes academic achievement.

A state sets an «accountability goal,» such as requiring students to pass an examination, and uses that score as a marker for academic achievement.

States can accomplish this by measuring achievement via average scale scores or a performance index, and by giving substantial weight to a measure of academic growth for all students from one year to the next.

A state that misses the required participation rate will lose points for academic achievement in the state's accountability system.

With the tremendous pressure — and guidelines from the federal government, state governments, and local school districts — principals are often not sure what matters most and what will improve academic achievement at their schools, Hood said.

Specifically, they agreed to develop academic standards and assessments in every state and to expand the use of information technology as a way to improve student performance and aid in the measurement of student achievement.

For instance, states might assign separate ratings to each of the five indicator types the law requires: academic achievement, student growth, graduation rates, progress toward English language proficiency, and other indicators of school quality and student success.

The regulations appear to disallow states from looking beyond «proficiency» when measuring academic achievement.

Increasing student achievement through academic and organizational innovation is the mission of Georgia's charter schools, according to a new strategic plan approved by the state board of education.

They suggested that, rather than measuring academic achievement based on proficiency rates alone, states should either look at scale scores or some sort of an index providing partial credit for getting students to a basic level (and additional credit for getting students to an advanced one).

The GRC enables users to compare academic achievement in math and reading between 2004 and 2007 for virtually every public school district in the United States with the average achievement in a set of 25 other countries with developed economies that might be considered our economic peers and sometime competitors.

The GRC compares academic achievement in math and reading across all grades of student performance on state tests with average achievement in a set of 25 other countries with developed economies that might be considered economic peers of the U.S..

In the area of academic achievement, a few years ago the school's fourth graders had the highest scores in the district on the Connecticut Mastery Test, the state's standardized achievement test.

For information about academic achievement, your state's department of education is the place to go.

In the median state, measures of academic achievement currently count for about half of schools» summative ratings.

The districts must explain why the child's school is «in need of improvement» in the first place, including «how the school compares in terms of academic achievement to other elementary schools or secondary schools served by the local educational agency and the State educational agency.»

Meanwhile, it provides $ 2.5 billion to support professional development that can be used to «improve the knowledge of teachers and principals and, in appropriate cases, paraprofessionals, concerning effective instructional strategies, methods, and skills, and use of challenging State academic content standards and student academic achievement standards, and State assessments, to improve teaching practices and student academic achievement.»

Under the «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001, states must determine each year whether school districts have made «adequate yearly progress» in academic achievement.

Yet another international survey of educational achievement has ranked the United States near the bottom of the academic hierarchy («20 - Nation Study Shows U.S. Lags in Math, Science,» Feb. 12, 1992).

A forthcoming study by a pair of Stanford University researchers is further stoking the debate over whether states» high - stakes testing programs can positively affect academic achievement.

The new law also requires states to use, as part of their rating systems, an indicator of academic achievement «as measured by proficiency on the annual assessments.»