Sentences with phrase «summer school achievement»

To combat what they refer to as the summer school achievement gap, the story explains, educators in less affluent areas are trying to create more summer programs that are not remedial.

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Programs that promote breastfeeding and ensure access to nutritious foods, such as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, the school meals and summer feeding programs, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and child care food assistance, improve health outcomes, school achievement, and workforce competitiveness.

Last school year, more than 4,600 CPS students scored below the 24th percentile on a portion of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test and were required to attend summer school before moving to the next grade level.

«Summer learning is an essential element to closing the achievement gap and ensuring educational equity across our city and state,» said Principal Jason Wagner, Pelham Lab High School.

And despite the obvious differences among the three schools, Summers is optimistic about their chances of succeeding — or even surpassing UMBC's achievements.

A «blueprint» he proposed in year two, as achievement lagged, increased the hours of literacy training, with additional time and summer school for those falling behind, and added more programs for the same purpose, to be paid for by centralizing control of Title I funds and eliminating other programs (such as some magnet schools).

In the absence of race - based constraints, some reform efforts that aim to improve school quality, such as charter schools, open enrollment, magnet schools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summerschools, open enrollment, magnet schools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summerschools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, SummerSchools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010).

Broadening our ideas about where, when, and how learning happens helps communities to create richer learning pathways that have the potential to include more nonacademic opportunities to help youth gain the skills necessary for a healthy adulthood, offer a seamless learning environment that can help stem summer learning loss, and tap resources outside of schools for additional opportunities to help close the achievement gap.

Research on summer learning loss indicates that income - based gaps in student achievement tend to widen over the summer and narrow when school is in session, suggesting that low - income students have the most to gain from shortened summers.

The Coleman Report, released in the summer of 1966, found that the family backgrounds of the student body had a greater influence on student achievement than did school resources, and that «a pupil's achievement is strongly related to the educational backgrounds and aspirations of other students in the school.»

Economic Impact of Student Performance Improvement Summer 2016 • Accompanies It Pays to Improve School Quality States that boost student achievement could reap large economic gains By Eric A. Hanushek, Jens Ruhose and Ludger Woessmann

However, many education researchers speak and write as though they accept certain contingency - free causal connections — for example, that small schools are better than large ones; that time on task raises achievement; that summer school raises test scores; that school desegregation hardly affects achievement; and that assigning and grading homework improves achievement.

In Phase 2 Validation, the evaluator will a) conduct an experimental test of the cumulative effects (across 2 summers) of the most cost - effective version of READS (CE READS) in as many as 10 school districts, and b) compare achievement growth in the summer and school year for students who received CE READS and students who did not receive READS.

Summer learning loss is among the most pernicious — if least acknowledged — causes of achievement gaps in America's schools, notes David von Drehle in this week's Time Magazine, and lengthening the school year is the answer.

Most of the proposals to lift student achievement offered by Ladd and her Broader, Bolder colleagues ignore the many hours children spend at school, proposing instead a potpourri of noneducational services; those services that do have an educational component are to be offered either to preschoolers or to students during their summer vacation or after school.

Summer instruction in particular may be as important as any extended time intervention, as it serves to maintain continuous learning, counters the loss of achievement gains caused by long gaps in school, and provides needed nutrition and other auxiliary supports (Borman & Dowling, 2006).

The connection is clear: Closing persistent achievement gaps between advantaged and less - advantaged students will require paying much more attention to what happens in the hours after school and over the summer.

Recent evidence also shows that exposure to disruptive peers during elementary school worsens student achievement and later life outcomes, including high school achievement, college enrollment, and earnings (see «Domino Effect,» research, Summer 2009).

Last summer, Nina Newlin, principal of Rock Hall Middle School, went to the second seminar in the series, «Building Positive School Culture to Increase Student Achievement.»

Higher Achievement did not appear to affect youth's learning over the course of the summer; the types of peers youth spent time with; the amount of adult support they experienced; or youth's reported criteria for selecting a high school.

Our research - and evidence - based literacy, math, and summer school solutions are proven to increase student engagement and achievement.

Even small differences in summer learning can accumulate across years resulting in a substantially greater achievement gap at the end of elementary school than was present at the beginning (Alexander, Entwisle, & Olson, 2004; see also Borman & Dowling, 2006; Lai, McNaughton, Amituanai - Toloa, Turner, & Hsiao, 2009).

And while many parents want to avoid a «summer slide,» a term to describe the tendency for students, especially those from low - income families, to lose some of the achievement gains they made during the previous school year, many experts say it's important to keep in mind that summers don't have to be packed with worksheets and math camps for kids to keep their brains active and learning.

Considerable research shows that the primary reason the achievement gap between poor children and their more affluent peers widens over the course of their school careers is the long break in learning over the summer.

* From Great Teachers and Great Leaders Pictured above is the 2015 - 16 Cohort of Achievement Coaches during the Summer Institute held at Princeton High School.

The Washington, DC - based Higher Achievement program works with motivated, disadvantaged youth throughout the middle school years, providing intensive academic instruction and other enrichment activities after school and over the summer.

Given the evidence that students from disadvantaged backgrounds lose ground academically over the summer while other students do not, districts that serve large populations of low - income students should be most interested in trading class size for school days as a strategy to improve student achievement.

In the summer of 2000, perfectly timed to shape the election debate over education reform, came a new RAND study that claimed to contradict the conventional research wisdom on the connection between school expenditures and class size on the one hand and student achievement on the other.

According to the Beginning School Study (1982), summer learning loss «accounts for most of the achievement gap between students who live in poverty and those whose families are better off».

As educators have become increasingly aware of the stagnating black / white and Latino / white achievement gaps, schools and districts have committed to addressing those gaps by supporting initiatives that can create equity, such as preschool interventions, extended school days, and summer programs.

Look no further than research from Eric Hanushek, Jens Ruhose, and Ludger Woessmann about the strong correlation between achievement in a state's classrooms and growth in a state's economy to understand some of the compelling reasons to improve education (see «It Pays to Improve School Quality,» features, Summer 2016).

The most advanced of this bunch, in both information dissemination and achievement gains, is the Knowledge Is Power Program — KIPP — a 14 - year - old network that this summer expects to have 66 schools in 19 states and the District.

Estimates of the cost of reforms that could help narrow the achievement gap, such as including early childhood, after - school, and summer programs into a broader definition of schooling.

The «summer slide» is the tendency for students to lose some of the achievement gains they made during the previous school year.

As proven by Stanford's Sean Reardon, the widening of the achievement gap results from additional opportunities affluent parents provide their children out of the K - 12 environment: high - quality pre-K, tutoring, and after - school and summer enrichment.

This rigorous analysis from the first year found that students who participated in this middle school STEM summer program in robotics on math achievement and student interest in STEM subjects and careers, which culminated in a city - wide tournament, had significantly higher school attendance the following year compared to a matched comparison group who did not attend summer school.

«On average, summer vacation creates a three - month gap in reading achievement between students from low - and middle - income families... even small differences in summer learning can accumulate across the elementary years, resulting in a large achievement gap by the time students enter high school.»

«We share Aberdeen's Primary commitment to improving literacy achievement for all learners, especially during the summer, and are very excited to partner with them for the coming school year.

Responsibilities also include the coordination of Summer Residential and Summer Regional Governor's School programs, the Algebra Readiness Initiative, Math and Science Partnership grants, USED Green Ribbon Schools, Governor's Wellness - Related Fitness Program, Governor's School Nutrition and Physical Activity Awards Program and other programs to meet the needs of diverse learners, promote health, and raise student achievement.

Prior to her work at Achievement First, Christina taught special education for six years, first as a teacher in Harlem and later helping to build a special education program at Rise Academy in Newark, N.J. Throughout this time, she spent her summers working as a school director at Teach For America's Summer Institute, while also earning a master's degree in public policy at the University of Chicago, where she received a Harris Fellowship.

He has been an invited guest speaker at ASCD's Summer Institutes, CT Community Foundation's Forum on School Change, Southern CT State University's Achievement Gap Symposium and numerous Boards of Education.

The foundation maintains an online library of lessons at www.wallacefoundation.org about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening educational leadership to improve student achievement; helping disadvantaged students gain more time for learning through summer learning and an extended school day and year; enhancing out - of - school time opportunities; and building appreciation and demand for the arts.

A massive infusion of resources not only for schools, but also for pre - and after - school and summer programs, and for resolving aspects of poverty that clearly affect student achievement (e.g., high mobility rates; lead paint; nutrition; medical and dental care) might lead to substantial progress toward this goal, but the proposed resources in the bill are completely inadequate to the task.

The goal of the National Math Foundation Summer Institute is to provide common core and module - aligned training and materials for teachers / schools in movement - based learning strategies in order to boost student achievement, increase physical activity, reduce obesity, and increase the overall health of students.

Bryan authored a much - discussed draft of legislation last year that would have funneled five of the state's lowest - performing elementary schools into the state - controlled achievement districts as a pilot program, although the notion did not gain any significant traction during the General Assembly's long budget debates last summer.

In fact, over half of the disparity in achievement between low - and high - income students entering high school has occurred in the summer months (Alexander, Entwisle, & Olson, 2007).

As noted above, research has shown that the summer slide is especially prevalent among students from low - income backgrounds, as well as those students who may already be struggling with academic achievement (i.e., students with disabilities) during the school year.

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Extensive research documents the impact on academic achievement of poverty - related family and community factors such as lack of school readiness, disproportionate physical and mental health needs, and summer learning loss.

Other areas of research interest include neighborhood and school effects on student academic achievement, chronic absenteeism, and summer learning loss.