Sentences with phrase «substantial gains for students»

Substantial Gains for Students The study found that the program — called the Instructional Partnership Initiative — has substantial effects.

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, even the most conservative of our three methodological approaches suggests substantial variation in principal effectiveness: a principal in the top 16 percent of the quality distribution will produce annual student gains that are 0.05 standard deviations higher than an average principal for all students in their school.

In addition, much of this new spending went toward compensatory programs for minority and disadvantaged students, for whom there have been substantial score gains over time.

This activity should extend over a substantial period of time, even an academic year, serving as a fulcrum for integration of the knowledge and skills students are gaining in their academic studies.

With the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) replacing No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation, states have gained substantial new freedom to reshape their school accountability systems, including criteria for how to measure and communicate school performance to the public.

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.»

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.

Our highest - needs schools deserve a substantial increase in state and federal funding if they are going to make significant gains for their students; the best coaches, math and literacy specialist, etc. should also be working in and with schools with the greatest needs.

Analyzing more than a decade's worth of data from Chicago Public Schools, they found that schools where adults demonstrate a shared sense of responsibility for student learning are four times more likely to make substantial gains in reading than schools without strong professional ties.

Schools strong in at least three of the five areas for school improvement were 10 times more likely to show substantial gains in student learning.

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Dr. Timothy Jenney, superintendent for the Fort Bend Independent School District (home to a 2011 National School of Character), said, «Our students made substantial gains on the state assessments at every grade level assessed and in comparison to our regional district cohort and the state as a whole.

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.