Sentences with phrase «subgroup of students»

As a part of the new Local Control Funding Formula tentatively approved by legislative leaders and Gov. Jerry Brown this week, school districts will be required to track and report the academic progress of subgroups of students as small as 30 members.

This legislation will provide additional funding and require greater accountability from K - 12 public schools in support of the lowest performing subgroup of students in the state outside of students with special needs, which continues to be African American students.

AB2635 drives equitable funding for California's lowest performing subgroup of students not currently receiving funding under the LCFF, which are African - American students.

One of her centers — the teacher center (blending with students)-- appears to actually meet the AP bar of teaching to subgroups of students with different needs and interests (dramatic centers, phonemic awareness center).

In Excellence Gaps in Education, Jonathan A. Plucker and Scott J. Peters shine a spotlight on «excellence gaps» — the achievement gaps among subgroups of students performing at the highest levels of achievement.

Some lower their expectations by adopting less challenging standards for subgroups of students within their classrooms.

The display lists the 2016 - 17 Model SARBs, describes the multi-tiered approach of Model SARBs, and depicts many of the diverse subgroups of students who benefited from improved school attendance.

Evaluators also analyzed annual student achievement data from the criterion - based Mississippi Curriculum Test for subgroups of students at each grade in each school in the state.

In addition, we are interested in the possibility of heterogeneous effects on particular subgroups of students.

Measuring Health - Related Quality of Life in Adolescents by Subgroups of Students and Outpatient Mental Health Clients

[The Delaware Department of Education] proposes to decrease the percentage of non-proficient students in each subgroup by 50 % by 2030, which would result in no more than half to two - third of certain subgroups of students achieving proficiency.

The recent House and Senate revisions of No Child Left Behind retained both annual testing and the requirement that scores be reported separately for various subgroups of students within each school, including English language learners.

In this section, each school district must list its annual goals for all students as well as for specific subgroups of students (including racial / ethnic subgroups, the three target subgroups — English learners, low income students, and foster youth — and students with disabilities).

How do you determine the needs of different subgroups of students across your district?

When high - achieving or high - potential poor and minority students have less access to gifted education than their peers, the existence of such programs may actually worsen inequalities, thus widening what Jonathan Plucker at Johns Hopkins University and the term «excellence gaps» — the differences between subgroups of students performing at the highest levels of achievement.

The amendment that would have required to states to intervene in schools where subgroups of students, such as students of color, low - income students and English - language learners, had achievement gaps.

This super subgroup will be used for accountability only in cases where no disaggregated subgroup of these students meets the minimum n - size.

States must identify all schools with a subgroup performing similarly to the lowest - performing 5 percent of the Title I schools for «additional targeted support» in 2018 — 19, but states do not have to begin annual identification of schools with consistently underperforming subgroups of students for targeted support until 2019 — 20 — clarifying the two distinct kinds of targeted support schools, with different identification and exit criteria.

CAP believes that Congress should provide states with the flexibility to establish an accountability system that takes into account the performance and progress of all students and subgroups of students across multiple academic indicators.

As Congress looks to reauthorize the law, NEA supports the requirement that student achievement data be disaggregated by various subgroups of students based on race, poverty, disability status, and English - proficiency status.

Advocates seeking transparency for individual racial / ethnic subgroups of students have been vocal in their opposition to the «super subgroup» approach.

While Duncan is technically right that more schools are held accountable for more subgroups of students, he is also letting more schools avoid NCLB's consequences.

Are all and subgroups of students achieving proficiency in science?

Charter schools in New York consistently grew academic achievement among the following demographic groups at significantly higher rates than the same subgroup of students in their district peers: Black, Hispanic, students in poverty, and special education.

The intent of that law was to prevent schools from hiding subgroups of students from the accountability structure and was not aimed at preventing parents from refusing to have their children tested.

In addition to analyzing the sample as a whole, we also looked separately at subgroups of students defined based on gender, race, scores on college - entrance exams, and entering GPA (see Figure 3).

But numerous subgroups of students with some of the states» worst test scores didn't make the cut.

All major subgroups of students — African American, low - income, special education, and English Language Learners (ELL)-- were at least as well - off after the reforms, in terms of achievement.

Under waivers to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, the federal government required states to identify schools where targeted subgroups of students have the lowest achievement and to implement reforms in these «Focus Schools.»

During the transformation, Fruita Middle School was the only middle school in the district recognized for achieving student growth above the state median in every tested subject, in all grades, and with every demographic subgroup of students measured by the State of Colorado.

And while subgroups of students are disproportionality affected, chronic absenteeism is not confined to one population of students either.

AB 2635 will fix a fundamental flaw in the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) by creating a new supplemental grant for California's lowest performing subgroup of students not currently receiving funding, which are African American students.

Emphasis on reporting the progress of high - need subgroups of students — such as English learners, low - income, minorities and students with disabilities.

Rather than using only standardized test scores to calculate a school's letter grade, the new letter grade ratings will also consider how scores for subgroups of students scores change over time, as well as graduation rates and Advanced Placement test scores.

CAP has praised states in the past for lowering their n - sizes, but their plan to have fewer students «count» toward a school's accountability rating would mean less attention on important subgroups of students.

How can we ensure subgroups of students are a meaningful part of state rating systems?

Evidence - based interventions in the «under evaluation» category may be implemented in all but the lowest - performing schools under Title I — either those in the bottom 5 percent of all schools, or those slated for «targeted assistance» after at least one subgroup of students falls short of state benchmarks.

Has the national performance of a particular subgroup of the student population improved over time?

The researchers also studied subgroups of students and private schools.

We used discrete - time survival analysis to estimate the time it takes and the likelihood of reclassification in their first eight years of school for subgroups of students compared to other subgroups.

«No statistically significant achievement impacts were observed for the high - priority subgroup of students who had attended a SINI [«School in Need of Improvement»] public school under NCLB before applying to the program.»

The focus of this module on ELL leadership is critical to programs that may not give priority to national or regional subgroups of students who are ELLs.

Schools couldn't score higher than a C if any one subgroup of students failed to make adequate yearly progress, or AYP.

Disaggregated data — Presentation of educational data broken into subgroups of students instead of the entire student body which allows parents and teachers to measure how each student group is performing; typical subgroups include students who are economically disadvantaged, from different racial or ethnic groups, those who have disabilities or have limited English fluency.

The premise behind NCLB and AYP is to underscore subgroups of students who are struggling.