Edison's annual reports have repeatedly indicated that students enrolled in the firm's schools are making large and
substantial achievement gains.
John Deasy, former superintendent of Prince George's County, Maryland, gained national acclaim for overseeing
substantial achievement gains in low - performing schools.
The findings were striking: «Charter school takeovers in the New Orleans Recovery School District appear to have generated
substantial achievement gains for a highly disadvantaged student population that enrolled in these schools passively.»
Not exact matches
«Our results indicate the
achievement gains that are possible with remedial education,» said Jacob in a press release issued at the time, seeming to buttress Roderick's hedge about the need for «
substantial supports.»
While its ink was still drying, several education media outlets and enthusiastic funders began shouting from rooftops about the
substantial and diverse sample's
achievement gains — which, by the way, were actually quite modest.
A leading test publisher, aiming to refute charges that standardized - test scores are inflated, has found in a new study that elementary - school students registered
substantial gains in basic - skills
achievement over the past decade.
The fact that the
achievement level of a state's workers is a key driver of its economic performance suggests that the
gains from improved school quality could be
substantial.
All but one of the eight elementary turnaround schools show
substantial gains in closing the
achievement gap, with the percentage of students meeting or exceeding standards on the state test rising 8 - 28 percent, compared to the school's pre-turnaround status.
The intervention produced
substantial gains in measured student
achievement in the year following its completion, equivalent to moving the average student from the 50th to the 59th percentile in
achievement test scores.
Yet, despite
substantial student
achievement gains, [16] Mayor de Blasio has been emboldened overall and in the charter sector in particular.
The guide, «Turning Around Chronically Low - Performing Schools» (ies.ed.gov / ncee / wwc / practiceguides), cites teacher collaboration as a frequent approach to improving instruction in 35 chronically low - performing schools that achieved dramatic turnarounds (
substantial gains in student
achievement within three years).
It may well be the case that these costs are justified by the
achievement gains of having students spend more time in the school, but in the current fiscal environment
substantial increases in educational spending are unlikely to be forthcoming.
The problem is that 15 minutes seems to be the «magic number» at which students start seeing
substantial positive
gains in reading
achievement, yet less than half of our students are reading for that amount of time.
During her tenure, she drove significant shifts in ICTC's approach to teacher preparation resulting in
substantial gains in student
achievement.
In each of the four subjects studied, KIPP schools produced
achievement gains large enough to have a
substantial impact on student outcomes:
More generally, although a
substantial literature base has shown that manipulating students» beliefs about the plasticity of ability leads to positive motivational and
achievement gains, the research base concerning how technologies can be used to tap this construct is quite limited.
The Race to the Top Fund will support states» effort to drive
substantial gains in student
achievement.
Clarence Edwards Middle School, a high - poverty school in Boston, has experienced
substantial gains in student
achievement since implementing expanded learning time.
Tennessee has
gained a
substantial measure of reform success because of local and statewide public and policymaker awareness of the objectively measured increases in student
achievement produced by local schools.
Although KIPP students have shown
substantial academic
gains, when KIPP took over a regular, high - poverty public school, serving a non self - selected population, the program failed, indicating that the academic
achievement at KIPP may be due to the high motivation levels of the students, and not the charter program itself.
Yet given these limitations, the results were striking: even when analyzing the
achievement of third graders who had the benefits of a smaller class for only one year, as compared to those who were in large classes, the
gains were
substantial, especially for disadvantaged students in inner - city schools.