Sentences with phrase «subgroups of students who»

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

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.

Among a subgroup of students who entered school with below - average alphabet skills and ability to sound out words, those who participated in SFA for three years performed significantly better than peers whose schools were not in the program on tests of phonics skills, word recognition, and reading fluency.

4 Subgroup of students who were considered English learners at the time of the assessment.

Not exact matches

While states under ESSA need to identify for intervention only the lowest performing 5 percent of schools, high schools with graduation rates under 67 percent, and some unspecified percentage of schools in which at - risk subgroups are underperforming, the National Governors Association reports that «40 percent of all students and 61 percent of students who begin in community colleges enroll in a remedial education course at a cost to states of $ 1 billion a year.»

Tennessee: Individual student - projection data will determine the proportion of students, by subgroup and subject area, who are projected to attain proficiency on the state assessment three years into the future.

For example, the idea that the success of LEAs will be determined based on: «the number and percentage of participating students by subgroup who have daily access to effective and highly effective teachers» is problematic in the way that it potentially limits the innovative staffing models possible to serve students if educator is defined as one being co-located with the student.

The natural question is, how will that subgroup of students meet the performance targets when students who score at proficient levels are quickly taken from the group?

Rather than presenting performance as the proportion of students who have met the minimum - proficiency cut score, states could present the average (mean) score of students within the school and the average performance of each subgroup of students.

To make adequate yearly progress, or AYP, under the federal law, schools and districts must meet annual targets for the percentage of students who score at least at the proficient level on state reading and mathematics tests, both for the student population as a whole and for certain subgroups of students.

The organizations oppose the draft Student Success Act because «it abandons accountability for the achievement and learning gains of subgroups of disadvantaged students who for generations have been harmed by low academic expectations.

In math, charter school entry increases performance among all subgroups of students at district schools except Hispanic students and students classified as LEP, who experience no effects; Asian students only experience a significant positive effect in math in district schools located within a half - mile radius.

Autistic students are one subgroup of the special education population who have, overall, especially embraced and benefited from the introduction of technology in the classroom.

Performance of students in prekindergarten through grade 12 who are assigned to in - field program completers aggregated by student subgroups, as defined in the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), 20 U.S.C. s. 6311 (b)(2)(C)(v)(II), as a measure of how well the program prepares teachers to work with a variety of students in Florida public schools.

85 % of parents who attended sessions said «Student Performance by Subgroup» and «Teacher Quality» were the most important factors needed on a DC school report card.

All states, both waived and unwaived, must report the number and percentage of students in each subgroup, how many pass the reading / language arts and mathematics tests, the number who graduate high school with a standard diploma, and so on.

• Some of the same folks who are complaining about the «indecipherable» display presented to the board are also urging it to add on more indicators and the results of student subgroups to the summary display.

By reducing the subgroup size across all participating districts, schools will be held accountable for reporting the progress of about 153,000 additional students who are mostly Latino, African American, English Learners, or students with disabilities.

Measures the percentage of juniors and seniors in high school who complete broad and challenging coursework — including Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and honors courses — in order to incentivize participation in rigorous coursework and to reduce equity gaps among student subgroups enrolled in advanced courses.

Annual Measureable Objectives (AMOs) targets are set based on percent proficient in each of language arts and mathematics for each school and subgroup in annual equal increments toward a goal of reducing by half the percentage of students in the all - students group and in each subgroup who are not proficient within six years.

Analysis of 9th grade suspension data finds that black students, students who are economically disadvantaged, and special education students are three demographics subgroups that are disproportionately suspended, both in the frequency of suspensions and the duration in number of school days lost.

Among their top concerns are the incorporation of super subgroups within state accountability systems, graduation rate calculations that include students who receive GEDs, and a lack of transparency and clarity about schools» performance.

This change allows schools to continue to count the high - stakes test scores of students who are no longer classified as LEP, because they have attained English proficiency, in the LEP subgroup for two additional years after they have become English proficient.

Among all the subgroups of LA Unified students who took the state's new Smarter Balanced standardized tests, English language - learners (ELL) produced especially disappointing results, finishing behind the state average for ELLs and near the bottom compared with the state's 11 other large districts.

One example: NCLB says schools are accountable for the progress of subgroups of students — such as those with disabilities or those who are not fluent in English — only when there's a critical mass of at least 100 students in that subgroup on a given campus.

Additionally, the percentages are rates of students who meet or exceed the specific performance targets on each indicator for each subgroup.

With every subgroup of students, including English learners, expected to show annual progress toward 100 percent proficiency by 2014, a Catch - 22 was created since the law required that students in the English - learner group who became proficient in English could no longer be counted in the group for accountability purposes.

Retrieved August 31, 2016, from http://www.edweek.org/tsb/articles/2011/10/13/01disproportion.h05.html In North Carolina, all racial subgroups remain relatively proportionately represented, with the exception of African Americans, who make up 26 percent of all public schools students yet comprise 32 percent of all school - aged children with disabilities.

Measuring a minimum of 20 students per subgroup, like English Learners, low - income students, Latino students or students with disabilities, forces schools to track categories of students who would have been bypassed under the old «No Child» system.

«Specific student subgroup populations are at increased risk of being bullied, including youth who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT); youth with physical, emotional and / or learning disabilities; and youth who are overweight.