Sentences with phrase «students performing to high standards»

Certain age groups qualify for lower rates: individuals over 25 years old, people with respectable jobs and careers, especially men who are married and have kids, students performing to high standards in school etc..

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This was during the first few years of the Harlem Children Zone's middle school, which were a struggle, and those KIPP schools, which had very good test results, were for the Promise Academy administrators both a standard to be aspired to and a frustrating reminder that their own students weren't performing at the same high level as KIPP's students.

However ~ we must make those same adjustments for gifted and high - performing students ~ not matter what standards we are asked to teach.

On average across middle and high school math, TFA teachers out - performed veteran teachers by 0.07 standard deviations, the equivalent of 2.6 additional months of instruction or helping a student move from the 27th to the 30th percentile on a normal distribution of test scores.

Keep in mind that our highest - performing state, Massachusetts, gets only fifty percent of students to that lofty standard.

For those schools blessed with high - performing students (as a result of learning either at home or in earlier grades), the proficiency standard to which they are held accountable is often much too low.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

In the future, a students» performance across a variety of programs and platforms will likely give us a much richer picture of how that student is performing against state standards, as compared to a once annual high stakes test.

In an analysis of the program, political scientist William Howell wrote that RttT encouraged applicants to develop «common core state standards,» design a teacher evaluation plan based in part on the performance of their students, ensure «successful conditions for high - performing charter schools,» and numerous other reforms (see «Results of President Obama's Race to the Top,» research, Fall 2015).

The implication is that with no government requirement for open admissions or standard measurement, historically higher - performing private schools would expand access to students eligible for vouchers.

The ESSA also requires that, if students fall behind in meeting these standards, States and local educational agencies (LEAs) implement evidence - based interventions to help them and their schools improve, with a particular focus on the lowest - performing schools, high schools with low graduation rates, and schools in which subgroups of students are underperforming.

In fact, according to a scholarly 2011 content analysis published in Education Researcher by Andrew Porter and colleagues, the Common Core math standards bear little resemblance to the national curriculum standards in countries with high - achieving math students: «Top - achieving countries for which we had content standards,» these scholars note, «put a greater emphasis on [the category] «perform procedures» than do the U.S. Common Core standards.»

Today, hundreds of inquisitive visitors travel to Kettle Moraine, some 30 miles west of Milwaukee, to learn about the district's decade - long journey into personalized learning — one in which teachers choose or create their own microcredentials to advance their careers, students have multiple options about what they will learn and how within state standards, and their results on international tests meet or exceed those of students from the highest - performing countries in the world.

Moreover, initially low - performing students appear to benefit more from high grading standards when they are placed in high - achieving classrooms.

Likewise, high - performing students appear to react best to high grading standards when placed in low - achieving classrooms.

Countries that expect students to perform well on a national examination when they finish secondary school may induce higher rates of reading than countries that do not set clear standards for high school students.

Those high - performing schools did things like «set measurable goals on standards based tests and benchmark tests across all proficiency levels, grades, and subjects»; create school missions that were «future oriented,» with curricula and instruction designed to prepare students to succeed in a rigorous high - school curriculum; include improvement of student outcomes «as part of the evaluation of the superintendent, the principal, and the teachers»; and communicate to parents and students «their responsibility as well for student learning, including parent contracts, turning in homework, attending class, and asking for help when needed.»

By the late 1990s, long - term NAEP scores for 13 - year - olds indicated that low - performing students were better prepared upon entering high school to meet the standards that had been introduced in prior years.

They have targeted strategies to get strong teachers and leaders into high - poverty / high - minority schools and can swiftly remove ineffective teachers; they are closing low - performing schools and offering high - quality choices through both traditional and charter schools; and they have adopted demanding graduation standards and assessments so that students leave high school capable of attending college and ready for careers.

Bellwether's report focused on the law's requirements for holding schools accountable: whether the state sets high academic standards, how it will use federal money to identify and raise achievement for the lowest - performing 5 percent of schools and the lowest - performing groups of students in all schools.

Internationally benchmarked: The vendors claim that these standards are: Mirrors of standards from high - performing countries and states so that all U.S. students are prepared to succeed in a global economy and society.

Race to the Top (RTTT) grants had been awarded after considering whether states would adopt high academic standards, implement prescribed strategies in low ‐ performing schools, and use student test scores to determine the effectiveness of teachers.

Although the percentage of London Elementary students performing at or above state standards in mathematics was acceptable (and high, relative to similar schools in neighboring districts), the principal «s goals emphasized the success of all students and the need to boost learning outcomes beyond those touched on by the tests.

As Chairman of the Senate Education Committee and later as Senate Speaker Pro Tempore, Jamie was a key leader in efforts to identify and support effective teaching, overhaul Tennessee's K - 12 education funding formula, raise academic standards for Tennessee students, turn around low - performing schools, and expand high - quality public charter schools in Tennessee.

This comes as an increasing number of the state's higher performing districts are falling victim to NCLB's almost unreachable student performance standards - including the 2014 deadline for all students to be proficient in reading and math.

According to the organization, it consistently ranks among the city and state's highest performing public schools, with 97 percent of students meeting math standards and 88 percent meeting reading standards on last year's state exams.

Expanding learning time deserves more attention in high school reform debates as we raise standards and expectations, particularly in low - performing schools whose students are unlikely to reach higher standards without more time and support.

Know this: for nearly 30 years, Ms. DeVos has fought for education reform that works — putting students» interests ahead of special interests; supporting rigorous standards that lead to higher outcomes; loosening Washington's grip on local education policy and putting more power into the hands of parents and families; and, expanding access to high - performing schools.

As a high performing, innovative educational program for students who are deaf, we are deeply committed to providing a rigorous, standards - based curriculum.

The original intent of the standards movement was to ensure that all students would have access to a much more challenging curriculum and therefore, would perform to higher levels of academic achievement.

Aligned with college and work expectations; Clear, understandable and consistent; Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high - order skills; Build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards; Informed by other top performing countries, so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society; and Evidence - based.

Anticipating the coming budget battle with Congress, Obama said that educators and the lawmakers that provide funding for schools should continue to focus on directing more resources to low - performing schools; on maintaining high standards for students and providing schools with the resources to meet those standards; and on providing sufficient funding for special - education students and English language learners.

Fast - forward three years, and the nation is split between higher - performing states chafing at the prospect of less rigorous standards leading to declining student performance, and their lower - performing counterparts that are unwilling or unable to fund the transition to Common Core tests.

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«We are calling for a moratorium on the expansion of the charter schools at least until such time as: (1) Charter schools are subject to the same transparency and accountability standards as public schools; (2) public funds are not diverted to charter schools at the expense of the public school systems; (3) charter schools cease expelling students that public schools have a duty to educate and; (4) cease to perpetuate de facto segregation of the highest performing children from those whose aspirations may be high but whose talents are not yet as obvious.»

Its focus was on helping disadvantaged students and low - performing schools, as well as requiring for the first time that all students be taught to high academic standards that will prepare them for college and careers.

When teachers worried that their students were incapable of meeting even their current, rather low - level standards — much less more complex demands — Cathy took them to a high - performing school with similar demographics to see what could be accomplished when all elements of success were in place.

The panelists — including Arkansas's Fort Smith Public Schools Superintendent Benny Goodman and the National Center for Learning Disabilities's Laura Kaloi — also advocated for using multiple assessment measures to judge school quality, adding more flexibility for improving low - performing schools, maintaining a focus on holding schools accountable for the performance of student subgroups, tracking student growth, and ensuring states set high standards.

The 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC) Program provides federal funding for the establishment of community learning centers that provide academic, artistic and cultural enrichment opportunities — during non-school hours — for students, particularly those who attend high poverty and low - performing schools, to meet state and local standards in core academic subjects such as reading, math and science.

According to a school culture survey, almost 90 % of teachers at schools with strong instructional cultures feel that their school sets higher standards compared to only about half at low - performing schools, and that they can track student progress towards goals compared to only 56 % in the bottom quartile schools.

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Many high performing charter schools accept a large number of students in the early grades, but as students leave a charter school for one reason or another, charter schools are allowed to leave those seats open; clearly this can produce exceptionally low teacher - student ratios creating an uneven playing field for those in traditional public schools that are held to a higher standard.

Those include: setting high standards; continuing progress made over the past 11 years; providing families diverse school options and a fair enrollment process; ensuring equity for all students; empowering schools to make instructional decisions, and giving the community information on how money is being used and how schools are performing.

For student behavior expectations, high - performing CMOs were found to place a stronger emphasis on the following: use of a student behavior code with clear consequences for misbehavior, positive reinforcements for desired behaviors, use of a «zero tolerance» policy for potentially dangerous behaviors, and consistent schoolwide enforcement of the behavioral standards and policies in place.

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