For example, the graduate program at the University of Florida turned out teachers who were particularly effective
in lifting student achievement in math but it received no better a NCTQ rating than other less effective schools.
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.
Prior to this, she was Deputy Secretary, Evidence, Data and Knowledge, using research and analysis to identify where effort and resources can best
help lift student achievement.
«There are many training programs for school principals, but few exist for top state and district education leaders who establish policies, incentives, and cultures that enable those principals to succeed
in lifting student achievement,» added M. Christine DeVita, president of The Wallace Foundation.
For more information, read «Good News for New Orleans: Early evidence shows
reforms lifting student achievement,» by Douglas N. Harris, «The New Orleans OneApp: Centralized enrollment matches students and schools of choice,» by Douglas N. Harris, Jon Valant, and Betheny Gross, and «Many Options in New Orleans Choice System: School characteristics vary widely,» by Paula Arce - Trigatti, Douglas N. Harris, Huriya Jabbar, and Jane Arnold Lincove.
When they calculate the simple correlation between income and math achievement, Helen Ladd's approach, they find that a $ 4,000 increment (a 50 percent increase in the $ 8,000 average income reported by the families in this study) in the income of the poor family will
lift student achievement by 20 percent of a standard deviation (close to a year's worth of learning in the middle years of schooling), a substantial impact that seems to support the Broader, Bolder claims.
Under the four - year $ 67.5 million Literacy and Numeracy First plan, schools will use extra funds on high - impact teaching strategies to
lift student achievement.
• What if all states improved schools enough to
lift student achievement to the level of the nation's top - performing state?
Unfortunately, neither president came close to closing racial gaps or
lifting student achievement to international levels.
If reducing poverty and
lifting student achievement are the goals, dollars would be better allocated by cutting the taxes on earned income paid by two - parent, working families with children.
She concludes,» Student gains have stalled just as policymakers have scaled back the key policies that had begun to
lift student achievement.
We know that teachers make a significant difference to student achievement and that if we can grow the proportion of expert teachers in the teaching profession then we'll
lift student achievement and increase economic growth.
For more information on New Orleans, read «Good News for New Orleans: Early evidence shows reforms
lifting student achievement,» by Douglas N. Harris, and «The New Orleans OneApp: Centralized enrollment matches students and schools of choice,» by Douglas N. Harris, Jon Valant, and Betheny Gross.
Professor Di Siemon discusses how targeted teaching in relation to six «big ideas» in number can
lift student achievement in mathematics.
For more information on New Orleans, read «Good News for New Orleans: Early evidence shows reforms
lifting student achievement,» by Douglas N. Harris, and «Many Options in New Orleans Choice System: School characteristics vary widely,» by Paula Arce - Trigatti, Douglas N. Harris, Huriya Jabbar, and Jane Arnold Lincove.
The secretary will have virtually no authority to enforce the meager «requirements» that remain, and the federal government will have no power whatsoever to require any consequences for schools that fail to
lift student achievement or close achievement gaps.
With a quickly growing national network of over3, 500 educators united by the E4E Declaration of Teachers» Principles and Beliefs, E4E teachers can learn about education policy and research, network at E4E's event series with like - minded colleagues and important education policymakers, and take action by advocating for teacher - created policy recommendations that
lift student achievement and the teaching profession.
There is a general consensus that improving the effectiveness of teachers is the key to
lifting student achievement, although questions remain about how best to do this.
E4E members can learn about education policy and research, network with like - minded peers and policymakers and take action by advocating for teacher - created policies that
lift student achievement and the teaching profession.
E4E members learn about education policy and research, network with like - minded peers and policymakers, and take action by advocating for teacher - created policies that
both lift student achievement and the teaching profession.
If access to public charter schools is sustained and accelerated in federal and state policy, the opportunity exists to
lift student achievement, educational attainment and life outcomes for all students.
The agreement essentially reverses a top - down approach to reform, giving individual schools local power over matters such as redesigning their governance, tailoring union contracts, lengthening the school day or making curricular decisions that
lift student achievement.
Second, we have to align the multiple measures we use to create a coherent system of data collection, analysis, and instruction that responds to data in a way that
lifts student achievement.
They understand that
lifting student achievement is inextricably tied to lifting the teaching profession and they have the ideas, commitment and experience to improve the state of public education, but they often lack a seat at the table where the decisions are being made,» Nyamekye said.
Charter Schools - Despite their record of success in
lifting student achievement and reducing education inequality, Mayor de Blasio refuses to embrace charter schools.
A review by the National Research Council concluded high school graduation tests have done nothing to
lift student achievement, but they have raised the dropout rate.
As more education reform efforts lean on technology to try to improve schools and
lift student achievement, policy makers are grappling with a tricky reality: a digital divide in the era of digital natives.