Sentences with phrase «struggling student subgroups»
Andrew Ujifusa reports in Education Week that during a recent Senate HELP Committee hearing, Senator Patty Murray (D - WA) «took the opportunity in her opening remarks to say that not every state's ESSA plan meets the law's requirements for schools with struggling student subgroups.»
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Over time we expect more and more schools to succeed with the majority of their students, but to struggle with certain extra-needy subgroups.
The School and District Improvement (SDI) Collaborative supports states as they work to support struggling schools and districts, turn around the lowest - performing schools, and close achievement gaps for all students and for specific subgroup populations.
But because the NCLB escalating performance goals also apply to subgroups - including special education students and English learners - even the best schools nationally have struggled to keep up and avoid being designated as «failing.»
Importantly, the legislation requires action in the lowest - performing schools and those where subgroups of students are struggling.
This sixth annual update on America's high school dropout challenge shows that these gains have been made possible by raising graduation rates for students who have traditionally struggled to earn a high school diploma, and focuses on the student subgroups and geographic areas that both contribute to this progress and are key to driving toward the 90 percent goal.
It is also a good time for managers of federal programs to look closely at one of the key subgroups that often struggle with academic performance: homeless students.
The premise behind NCLB and AYP is to underscore subgroups of students who are struggling.
``... Achievement gaps can persist or even widen with no accountability for improving actual achievement rates among subgroups with the most struggling students.»
State leaders demonstrate their commitment to equity in their state visions, setting goals aimed at closing achievement gaps, understanding and reporting student achievement and progress as it relates to each subgroup, and using that information to determine how to best target supports to struggling schools and subgroups within schools.
This sixth annual update on America's high school dropout challenge shows that these gains have been made possible by raising graduation rates for students who have traditionally struggled to earn a high school diploma, and focuses on the student subgroups and geographic areas that both contribute to this progress and are key to driving toward the 90 percent goal.