Schoales explained that the lower number of
students performing at grade level likely was because many of the students were already performing well below grade level when the innovation experiment started.
Not exact matches
An English learner in the El Paso metropolitan area, for example is nearly twice as
likely to be reclassified by the end of seventh
grade compared to a
student performing at the same
level in the Rio Grande Valley.
«Retained
students continue to
perform markedly better than their promoted peers when tested
at the same
grade level and, assuming they are as
likely to graduate high school, stand to benefit from an additional year of instruction.»
It said that the District's poor and minority
students are still far less
likely than their peers to have a quality teacher in their classrooms,
perform at grade level and graduate from high school in four years.
A 2015 report by the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, said the District's poor and minority
students were still far less
likely than their peers to have a quality teacher in their classrooms,
perform at grade level and graduate from high school in four years.
And
students who
performed below
grade level in language arts and mathematics
at successful schools were far more
likely to receive intervention instruction in addition to their regular instruction than
students attending unsuccessful schools.
Students in the worst
performing schools are far less
likely to achieve
at grade level.
Where report cards may have once had a handwritten teacher's note saying a
student «plays well with others,» parents in some districts are now more
likely to see a box that shows whether their child
performs at grade level in such areas as «relationship skills.»