Sentences with phrase «subset of schools»

It also might suggest that the benefits of school choice are limited to students attending a small subset of schools that admit few voucher students.

One might then use value - added scores (or other indicators) to compare teachers who work in the same subset of schools.

This school year is all about making sure we can provide exceptional service to a small subset of schools, earn their trust, and demonstrate impact.

But that's not the only way schools might suffer, and one setback may impact a very specific subset of schools: private institutions with large endowments.

To test for this possibility, we compared the gains made by F schools with the performance of an even smaller subset of schools whose 2002 test scores were similar but had never received an F (which we termed low - performing non-F schools).

Not only is it home to top publishers, media companies and a strong startup community, it has the country's largest k - 12 district and a dedicated subset of schools focused on experimenting with new technologies, through the iZone project.

To check the sensitivity of those measures, one might again check convergence between two sets of estimates: those that compare teachers within schools and those that compare teachers working in different schools but in the same subset of schools.

Gov. Scott Walker and some Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature announced this week that they are working on a deal to send more money to a specific subset of schools.

Consider the relationship between teacher evaluation and accountability systems Under ESSA, states have much more flexibility in both school accountability and teacher evaluations, and can choose to focus school identification and accountability efforts on only a small subset of schools.

o Whenever feasible, solutions should be piloted in a subset of schools and classrooms and rolled out broadly only when the early results are promising.

While consumer choice would drive improvement, it is likely that, absent government oversight, data - cooking and exclusion of hard - to - educate students by a subset of schools would destabilize the entire arrangement.

This subset of schools shifted their grading and testing policies to better reflect mastery, provided supplemental content for students falling behind or moving ahead, and made assessment more frequent and formative.

We also found that there was a subset of schools that could be labeled as «persistently exclusionary.»

Untrue: Backfilling and residential assignments could be limited to a subset of schools.

To generalise to all schools from research of such a subset of schools is fallacious.

She has worked extensively with a subset of school systems eager to embrace the new policy to aid in their implementation of competency - based learning.

The next paper will analyze the role of blended learning in a subset of these schools to better understand which blended learning models appear best suited to supporting competency - based education.

The Obama administration granted New Hampshire a first - of - its - kind waiver in 2015, allowing a subset of school districts to try out new exams made up of «complex, multi-part tasks that ask students to apply what they have learned in sophisticated Read more about Innovative Assessment in New Hampshire -LSB-...]

But average results often mask failure among a subset of schools.

For starters, a subset of schools doesn't have contracts with the government — including some of the top private schools in the country — and they're often prohibitively expensive.

Analyses of student achievement in 26 Tribes TLC schools, and a subset of schools with high achievement growth show the following:

The new system is designed to foster the continuous improvement of all schools with three levels of support: general support for all schools, support for a subset of schools that are struggling on several measures that is focused on those areas of need, and intensive support for schools with persistent, significant problems.

Shavelson and Wiley suggest a refined version of this approach: for each school, select a subset of schools that match that school in terms of student characteristics.

If these are convergent, we can assume that the decision to compare teachers working in different schools (within the same subset of schools) has not contributed bias to the value - added scores.

This report refers to that subset of schools as «ELL reporting schools.»

CCSA's Accountability Framework is made up of two parts - an initial review of publicly available test score and postsecondary readiness data and then, for the subset of schools underperforming on all initial criteria, a Multiple Measures Review based on public and non-public data that is tailored to a school's mission and outcomes.