Sentences with phrase «than the academic outcomes»

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All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

I have suggested previously that the academic witch - hunters are responding to a catastrophic outcome among minority students: «Little more than a third of black male college students obtain a bachelor's degree (ideally a four - year program) after six years of university attendance.

No group of academics, pollsters or campaign teams in the political parties before the election saw any outcome other than a hung parliament.

Previous research has found that «process - oriented praise» — praising children for their actions rather than their characteristics, like «good job» or «great work» — can provide children with a «positive growth mindset» that is associated with more persistence after failure and better academic outcomes, Gunderson added.

They suggest that areas with more choice and competition experience better academic outcomes than areas with less choice and competition.

And when they mapped those students against their academic outcomes, they found that the disengaged students did not perform much better than the students who were described as uncooperative or challenging behaviours, and they never caught up academically.

These strong long - term outcomes — which tend to be much more significant than any short - term test - score gains — likely reflect Catholic schools» focus on discipline and character as much as their excellent academics.

Academic outcomes, of course, but IDEA addresses more than the cognitive capacities of students.

Is there evidence that pupils taught in smaller classes do better in academic and other non-cognitive outcomes than pupils in larger classes?

Similarly, California's rural - adjacent Grimmway Academy achieves significantly better academic outcomes for the children of farm workers than local alternatives, with a model centered on an edible schoolyard and blended learning.

Nationwide, public school spending in the United States has more than doubled in the past 30 years (even adjusted for inflation), while there has been no appreciable improvement in academic outcomes.

«While a handful of SEL programs have been tested and shown to improve children's SEL skills as well as academic, mental health, and behavioral outcomes, the effect sizes are smaller than we would expect,» says Jones.

The Sutton Trust report, «Background to Success», investigates patterns of academic attainment of more than 3,000 students whose educational outcomes were studied across different phases of school and pre-school from age three to age 18.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, New Jersey, and Boston, pre-kindergarten programs demonstrate impressive outcomes that include positive effects on math scores, grade retention, and chronic absenteeism at the end of grade 8; increased achievement on language arts, literacy, math, and science, as well as decreased grade retention and special education placement at the end of grade 5; and stronger than typical impacts on academic readiness (effect sizes in the 0.4 — 0.6 range) at school entry.

Research has consistently demonstrated that low - income students who attend smaller high schools have better academic outcomes in terms of achievement, graduation rates, and discipline issues than their peers in larger schools.

Evidence confirms that student skills other than academic achievement and ability predict a broad range of academic and life outcomes.

Similarly, of two schools with similar academic achievement, a state could choose to focus limited resources for CSI on a school with poor SQSS outcomes rather than a school with positive SQSS outcomes, since the latter school may be on a road to improvement while the former is not.

The policies that were criticized were those that increased attention to academic outcomes at the expense of children's exploration, discovery, and play; methods that focused on large group activities and completion of one - dimensional worksheets and workbooks in place of actual engagement with concrete objects and naturally occurring experiences of the world; and directives that emphasized the use of group - administered, computer - scored, multiple - choice achievement tests in order to determine a child's starting place in school rather than assessments that rely on active child engagement, teacher judgment, and clinical opinion.

Theories connecting being physically present in school to better academic outcomes have never been more substantiated, yet NAEP scores show stagnation nationwide and a widening gap between subgroups while about 6.8 million students in the United States missed more than three weeks of school during the 2013 - 2014 school year (Attendance Works and Everyone Graduates Center 2017).

It features an academic program that is outcome - based rather than seat - time dependent, so students can build their skill sets, reach their potential and achieve goals.

The research reviewed for this study suggests that ELs who receive some kind of language support or specialized instruction show better outcomes on various academic measures than those who receive no special support.

In Roxbury, less than 10 percent of adults have college degrees, and the academic outcomes for students are very low relative to Boston or Massachusetts.

While multiple meta - analyses and large - scale research studies have found that models following the bilingual approach can produce better outcomes than ESL models, as measured by general academic content assessments or measures of reading comprehension or skills, other studies indicate that the quality of instructional practices matter as well as the language of instruction.

While some gains in students» academic outcomes have been achieved, no schools have budged much higher than the bottom five percent and the school takeovers have rankled parents who say that management has failed to get community support or take the time to truly understand the needs of their students.

The districts developed surveys for the student self - reports to be «measurable in less than 20 minutes, meaningful to academic and life outcomes, and malleable through school - based interventions,» according to Martin West of Harvard University's graduate school of education.

While it is reasonable that these schools would need more money, we now have a system where our «poorest» school districts are spending significantly more than others with little to show in positive academic outcomes.

In other words, one can not rule out the possibility that teacher accuracy, rather than influence, can explain the predictive nature of teacher expectations for students» academic outcomes.

For supporters and opponents alike, the first question concerns performance: are the academic outcomes of students attending charter schools higher or lower than those in the traditional public sector?

In development for more than a decade, Shanghai's empowered - management program aims to improve student achievement in all of its schools by contracting high - performing schools to turn around the academic outcomes of low - performing schools.

One clear, measurable change that took place simultaneously with Woodstock's improved outcomes was a dramatic increase — more than 400 percent in five years — in student participation in extracurricular activities, including athletics, academics, ethnic identity clubs, cultural groups, and many others.

We also find consistently strong evidence that students with disabilities who spend more time in general education classrooms experience better outcomes — fewer absences, higher academic performance, higher rates of grade progression and on - time graduation, and higher rates of college attendance and employment — than students with disabilities who are similar in other observable ways but spend less time in general education classrooms.

But some online programs operating in more than two dozen states have come under scrutiny for reaping profits while yielding poor academic academic outcomes.

According to the latest research from Stanford University's Center for Research and Economic Outcomes (CREDO), charters in Los Angeles yield academic gains that are equivalent to more than two months of extra learning in English and nearly two months in Math.

Control - treatment outcome comparisons reveal that students at schools with an arts focus combined with arts integration programming scored higher than other types of student cohorts (non arts schools, conventional arts, and academic magnet schools) on both state academic achievement scores and arts integration learning measures.

This approach will make it possible to scale impact and provide approximately 2,400 classroom teachers with the kinds of meaningful professional growth opportunities that will help them improve their craft and increase academic outcomes for more than 40,000 students.

In their report they noted that improved academic outcomes for a student in a cyber charter school was «the exception rather than the rule.»

The most recent charter school study, from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), finds that academic growth among Boston charter school students is more than four times that of their traditional public school peers in English and more than six times greater in math.

Using its Renaissance program, the District has launched turnarounds at more than 30 schools, gaining dramatically better academic outcomes for students in many cases

Specifically, we're examining whether implementing challenging state academic standards led to larger improvements in student outcomes in states with lower prior standards than in states with higher prior standards.

According to the «Going the Distance» study, most chief academic officers (67 percent) believe the learning outcomes of online programs are comparable or better than traditional programs.

«Under this system, districts can escape notice or attention simply by shining in categories that are less than academic and whose outcomes they control,» said Chad Aldeman, an education policy expert whose Boston - based nonprofit group flagged this problem in a recent report on California's school accountability system.

Safe and affirming environments have been shown to affect educational outcomes: LGBT students show lower academic achievement than their counterparts as a result of missing school to avoid harassment, being less likely to pursue higher education, and reporting higher levels of depression (Nieto 1992; GLSEN 2013).

Smith - Ingram's bill should also strengthen public disclosure requirements for most private schools, she says, by requiring state reporting of academic outcomes for private schools with more than 10 voucher students.

Set aside a full hour for essay proofreading so that you do not have to rush through this important stage of academic writing and you will be more than satisfied with the outcome.

Applicants for Admission in Advanced Standing will be notified of the review outcome by the Associate Dean for Student Affairs no later than July 15 of the academic year in question.

Several academics have proposed algorithms for predicting case outcomes based on information such as the composition of an appellate panel and the ideology, gender and background of the judges, and these algorithms have generally performed better than law professors» predictions based on the legal issues involved.

An estimated 1,560 children died because of maltreatment, with the highest rates of victimization in the first year of life — 20.6 per 1,000 children.1 Research demonstrates that outcomes for children who survive child maltreatment (defined as neglect, abuse, or a combination of the two) are poor, with performance below national norms in a range of outcomes areas, including psychosocial and cognitive well - being and academic achievement.2, 3,4 The costs to society overall of these children not reaching their full potential and the lower than expected productivity of adult survivors of abuse are estimated at as much as $ 50 - 90 billion per year in the U.S. 5,6 These findings underscore the need for strategies to prevent child maltreatment in order to improve outcomes for children, families and communities.

In the United States, more than 1.5 million children are born to unmarried parents each year.1 Many of these children will grow up in single - parent households, a backdrop that can adversely affect academic performance, emotional development, and long - term socioeconomic outcomes.2 Moreover, without specific legal action on the part of unmarried parents, these children will not share the same rights as children born to married parents.

Despite decades of research describing the harmful effects of family poverty on children's emotional and behavioral development, eg,12 - 17 experimental or quasi-experimental manipulations of family income that could go beyond description are rare18 and tend to examine the effect of such manipulations on physical health or academic attainment, rather than emotional or behavioral functioning.19, 20 Other analyses of the Great Smoky Mountains data set have focused on educational and criminal outcomes.21 The few studies looking at emotional or behavioral outcomes tend to have a short time frame.22, 23 Some studies of school - based interventions have followed up with children through to adulthood, 24,25 but we have found none that have looked at the long - term effects of family income supplementation on adult psychological functioning.