Sentences with phrase «students in specific categories»

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Several EdSource stories have highlighting the pros and cons of the dashboard, as well as new «5 × 5 reports» that show how well schools or student subgroups are doing in specific categories.

However, the authors of a new study say that minority students are less likely than similar white peers to be in one of five common disability categories — emotional disturbance, intellectual disability, «other health impairment,» specific learning disability, and speech and language impairment.

Second, Florida's accounts are available to a subset of children with special needs (the specific diagnoses are included in state law), while Arizona's program is available to all children with special needs who would qualify for an Individualized Education Plan or a 504 plan, as well as the several additional categories detailed above.17 (A 504 plan is a plan developed to provide appropriate accommodations for K - 12 students with special needs attending public schools, as detailed in Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.)

Using Data to Address Equity Issues in Special Education, from the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, addresses the conventions for approaching disproportionality data (data that show whether a specific group of students is over - or underrepresented in a specific category of education, particularly special education).

Disproportionality — The degree to which students in specific racial groups may or may not be at higher risk for being identified as having a disability and / or in a specific disability category compared with students not in that racial group.

Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Minnesota will be using a new multi-stage system to identify schools for several different categories of support going into the 2018 - 19 school year, and this presentation will provide specific details about one of the newest and most complicated measurements in that system: progress toward English language proficiency.

(Look at how each indicator would affect specific «categories» of learners — for example: students for whom English is not a first language, students who have difficulty attending in class, students who need to move when they learn, students who are academically advanced, students who struggle cognitively, etc..)

This information helped them hone in on the specific topics that teachers and coaches were most apt to explore, and will help them correlate teacher self reflection categories with growth in teacher and student outcomes.

To sort students into these two categories, a screening measure does not need to be very comprehensive, it merely needs to focus on a specific skill that is highly correlated with a broader measure of reading achievement and that results in a highly accurate sorting of students.

Students of color are overrepresented in the specific categories of special education that are deemed most «stigmatizing,» including intellectual disabilities, emotionally disturbances, and specific learning disabilities.

Resources provided by the CSDE clearly state that characterizing a student's achievement solely in terms of falling in one of four categories (levels) is an oversimplification, and that the specific achievement levels should not be interpreted as infallible predictors of students» futures.

Within each of these similar categories of practice are numerous, more specific competencies, orientations and considerations; for example, most of the 21 specific leadership practices linked to student learning in Waters, Marzano and McNulty's (2003) review fit within these categories.

Regression analysis was used to predict group differences in depressive symptoms, substance use, and health complaints of specific biracial / ethnic identification groups as compared with adolescents identifying as monoracial in one or the other racial / ethnic category, while controlling for complex sampling design, mother» s education, single parent family, and student» s grade.