Only an agreement that honors these recommendations will sufficiently drive both retention and improved
student academic achievement at our most impacted schools.
Not exact matches
At 6:15 p.m., NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina will attend the Remarkable Achievement Award ceremony at Citi Field to honor students who have overcome personal obstacles and achieved academic succes
At 6:15 p.m., NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina will attend the Remarkable
Achievement Award ceremony
at Citi Field to honor students who have overcome personal obstacles and achieved academic succes
at Citi Field to honor
students who have overcome personal obstacles and achieved
academic success.
The Buffalo School Board is taking a hard look
at all of the programs outside of the brick and mortar classrooms intended to help
students do better in
academic achievement.
This drive for
academic achievement leads to high attainment in international
academic assessments but has contributed to the curtailment of nocturnal sleep on school nights to well below the recommended eight to ten hours of sleep, putting
students at risk of cognitive and psychological problems.
In choosing schools,
at - risk
students place less weight on
academic indicators, and low performing
students are more likely to attend a school with low average
achievement.
Depending on how many
students at a given school live in poverty, strong parental networks have a favorable or inhibiting effect on the
academic achievements of their children.
Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slig
Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating
students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slig
students — 41 percent — showed a gain of
at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating
students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slig
students in the control group.Among the
students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slig
students with the lowest levels of
academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating
students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slig
students showed a significant improvement in overall
academic achievement compared to
students in the control group, which showed only a slig
students in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.
I met Branch
at D.C.'s family - funded Flamboyan Foundation, which trains — and pays — teachers to visit their
students» homes as part of a strategy to use better relations between schools and families as a means to improving
academic achievement.
Benefits to School Life Looking
at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of
academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher
academic achievement, with 61 per cent of
students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subject area.
In her first year on the job, Jewell - Sherman launched Excellence for All, a comprehensive plan aimed
at improving teaching and learning to enable
students to reach high
academic standards, and promoting involvement with the community as a way of addressing nonacademic barriers to
student achievement.
Students who are not engaged in school are
at a higher risk of poor
academic achievement, but leaders of after - school programs may not have a good understanding of how to captivate those they serve.
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).
In 1999, Michigan increased the reward for good
academic performance by offering the Michigan Merit Award, a one - year $ 2,500 scholarship for any
student who scores
at Level I or Level 2 on the Michigan Educational
Achievement Program (MEAP) tests in reading, mathematics, science, and writing.
Three educators, recognized for their efforts to integrate technology into schools or to raise
academic achievement for
students deemed
at risk of failing, were awarded the Harold W. McGraw Jr..
We may not all agree on which reforms have been proven effective, but we could all agree that
at least some of these reforms, perhaps used in combination, could make a large difference in the
academic achievement of low - income and minority
students.
«I like to reward
students with certificates and trophies that recognize
academic achievement,» said Donnette McNeill - Waters, principal
at Bennion Elementary School in Taylorsville, Utah.
The high scores of
students in a wealthy suburban New Jersey school will reflect the contributions of well - educated parents, a communal emphasis on
academic achievement, a stable learning environment
at home, and enriching extracurricular opportunities.
This initial advantage in
academic achievement dissipates sharply over time, however, and appears to vanish by high school when, as a 9th grader, the redshirted
student is
at most 7 percent older than his peers.
Because
academic resources are relatively scarce in higher - poverty schools (e.g., there are more disruptive peers, lower
academic expectations, fewer financial resources, and less - competent teachers), parents in these schools seek teachers skilled
at improving
achievement even if this comes
at the cost of
student satisfaction.
These schools are open to
students at all levels of
academic achievement, located in disadvantaged communities, and emphasize strong relationships between
students and faculty.
At minimum — in the one - size - fits - all No Child Left Behind era — her tenure reminds us of the real genius of the federal system, the opportunity to try many different approaches to a shared objective: increased
academic achievement for all
students.
«When we looked
at the evidence, we saw there were positive and convincing relationships between family involvement and
students, including improved
academic achievement.»
Since 2006, the number of Houston schools earning one of the state's top ratings has more than doubled to exceed 200 campuses, fewer
students are repeating a grade level, and more are testing
at the highest levels of
academic achievement.
In suburban San Antonio, the schools are too new to evaluate by
academic achievement, and self - selection bias will make it hard to do so: schools that are designed to appeal to
students and parents looking for faster - paced
academics would be expected to appear
at the top of state school rankings.
The No Child Left Behind act is forcing school systems to take a closer look
at the
academic achievement of their elementary and middle school
students.
Headquartered
at the International Study Center
at Boston College and taken by tens of thousands of
students in more than three dozen countries, TIMSS has become a respected standard of international
academic achievement.
For example, in describing the results of Title I, Jennings concludes, «In a nutshell, the billions of dollars spent on Title I had
at best a modest effect on the
academic achievement of the disadvantaged
students who participated in the program...» On No Child Left Behind (NCLB), he writes, «So it truly was a mixed bag.
In approaching these questions, it is crucial to remember that the federal government has a long - established interest in the operation of public schools and the
academic achievement of
students, dating back
at least to the National Defense Education Act of 1958.
In a new study presented
at the this year's fall research conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management in Chicago, we used data from CORE Districts, to assess whether there are systematic mindset differences present in the US population within and across schools, and whether holding a growth mindset predicts
academic achievement gains of
students.
For Winn, a better alternative would be to base accountability not on a
student's
academic «status»
at any one point in time, but instead on documented «growth» in
achievement.
At the Saracens High School we will combine our sporting beliefs to create a unique school environment where every individual
student matters,
academic achievement is important and a real emphasis is placed on teamwork and the creation of great memories.
The Ohio study also looked
at whether the program led to changes in
academic achievement for
students that were in schools that were close to being eligible for the program.
Their summary of the sector's
academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO)
at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive
achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban
students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.
A thought - leader in higher education, she has spent more than two decades
at prominent national educational institutions and
at the highest levels of government, working to implement effective strategies to raise
academic achievement and opportunity for low - income and minority
students.
Relationship influences on
students»
academic achievement, psychological health and well - being
at school.
Valor Collegiate is the only school in the state to be in the top 1 percent in
academic achievement and growth, and more than 80 percent of Valor
students say they feel safe and connected to others
at the school.
On the topic of communicating
student achievement, the
academic said «we've actually basically lied to parents that the information we're giving them is useful and meaningful... these grades that we give to
students, really don't tell parents anything
at all».
Because Indiana public and private schools use the same assessment in grades 3 — 8, we could identify public - school
students who shared similar
achievement trajectories and demographic characteristics with these voucher
students at baseline (the year prior to a
student switching from a public to a private school) and track both groups»
academic progress for up to four subsequent years.
Prior to her service in the presidential administration of President Barack Obama, Ericka was Vice President for Operations and Strategic Leadership
at the Education Trust, a nationally recognized research and advocacy organization dedicated to promoting high
academic achievement of all
students, kindergarten through college.
In addition to submitting the Advanced
Academic Programs Level IV Referral Form, parents or guardians should also supply if available the Gifted Behaviors Rating Scale with Commentary completed by the previous year's teacher (s), report cards for at least 1 1/2 years including teacher comments (if not included in the student's academic file already received by the local FCPS school), and achievement test
Academic Programs Level IV Referral Form, parents or guardians should also supply if available the Gifted Behaviors Rating Scale with Commentary completed by the previous year's teacher (s), report cards for
at least 1 1/2 years including teacher comments (if not included in the
student's
academic file already received by the local FCPS school), and achievement test
academic file already received by the local FCPS school), and
achievement test results.
Open to
students at all levels of
academic achievement and located in historically disadvantaged communities, SSCs were intended to be viable alternatives to the neighborhood high schools that were closing.
Annually measures, for all
students and separately for each subgroup of
students, the following indicators:
Academic achievement (which, for high schools, may include a measure of student growth, at the State's discretion); for elementary and middle schools, a measure of student growth, if determined appropriate by the State, or another valid and reliable statewide academic indicator; for high schools, the four - year adjusted cohort graduation rate and, at the State's discretion, the extended - year adjusted cohort graduation rate; progress in achieving English language proficiency for English learners; and at least one valid, reliable, comparable, statewide indicator of school quality or student succ
Academic achievement (which, for high schools, may include a measure of
student growth,
at the State's discretion); for elementary and middle schools, a measure of
student growth, if determined appropriate by the State, or another valid and reliable statewide
academic indicator; for high schools, the four - year adjusted cohort graduation rate and, at the State's discretion, the extended - year adjusted cohort graduation rate; progress in achieving English language proficiency for English learners; and at least one valid, reliable, comparable, statewide indicator of school quality or student succ
academic indicator; for high schools, the four - year adjusted cohort graduation rate and,
at the State's discretion, the extended - year adjusted cohort graduation rate; progress in achieving English language proficiency for English learners; and
at least one valid, reliable, comparable, statewide indicator of school quality or
student success; and
The Education Trust (www.edtrust.org) works for the high
academic achievement of all
students at all levels, kindergarten through college.
A Nation
at Risk argued that much of America's decline in
academic achievement could be traced to the «cafeteria - style curriculum» or «curricular smorgasbord» offered to high - school
students.
In a targeted assistance school, however, Title I funds may be used to provide services only to those
students who are not meeting, or most
at risk of not meeting, a state's
academic achievement standards.
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.
A majority of St. Louis Public Schools
students scored below proficient in math and English, but higher scores in the attendance and graduation - rate categories made up for poor results in
academic achievement, Emily Stahly, a research assistant
at the Show - Me Institute, found in an analysis earlier this year.
The Bureau of Federal Educational Programs provides technical assistance, program support and monitoring to local educational agencies that will lead to improved
academic achievement outcomes for
students who are disadvantaged, migrant, neglected, delinquent,
at - risk, or homeless; or in rural and low - income schools.
All states participating in Title I must implement assessments of
student achievement, linked to state content and
academic achievement standards, for all public school
students in each of grades 3 - 8 plus
at least once in grades 10 - 12, in reading and mathematics and
at three grade levels (
at least once in each of grades 3 - 5, 6 - 9, and 10 - 12) in science.
The «entity,» as it has been called since the idea emerged in March
at the national education summit, would provide funding for technical assistance and be a source for states and school districts trying to set rigorous
academic standards and conduct related assessments of
student achievement.