Sentences with phrase «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.

The Race to the Top Fund will support states» effort to drive substantial gains in student achievement.

During her tenure, she drove significant shifts in ICTC's approach to teacher preparation resulting in substantial gains in student achievement.

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).

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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.

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.

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 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.

In each of the four subjects studied, KIPP schools produced achievement gains large enough to have a substantial impact on student outcomes:

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.

Edison's annual reports have repeatedly indicated that students enrolled in the firm's schools are making large and substantial achievement gains.

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.