Sentences with phrase «to raise student test scores»

They show that the schools that are most effective in raising student test scores do so in spite of the strength of the underlying relationship between math achievement and fluid cognitive skills.

We address our central question of whether schools that raise student test scores also improve fluid cognitive skills in two complementary ways.

These — and more — initiatives are helping the district raise student test scores above state and national averages.

The organization might be more likely to place its recruits in somewhat less disadvantaged schools, where they are no more effective in raising their students test scores than their colleagues.

Charter schools in Indiana are among the nation's best at raising student test scores when compared with other public schools, a Stanford University study showed.

Enough oxygen has been sucked out of the air about whether Michelle Rhee really raised student test scores through the roof when she taught briefly at a Baltimore school a few decades ago.

Commentary on «Great Teaching: Measuring its effects on students» future earnings» By Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff The new study by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff asks whether high - value - added teachers (i.e., teachers who raise student test scores) also have positive longer - term impacts on students, as reflected in college attendance, earnings, -LSB-...]

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The improvement in teacher performance from before to after evaluation is larger for teachers who received relatively low TES scores, teachers whose TES scores improved the most during the TES year, and especially for teachers who were relatively ineffective in raising student test scores prior to TES.

Teacher Performance Pay Alone Does Not Raise Student Test Scores — New Vanderbilt Study Finds, Vanderbilt - Peabody News, Melanie Moran, September 21, 2010

It would only cost schools approximately $ 222 per student per year to implement a healthy meal program and raise student test scores by 0.1 standard deviations (about 4 percentile points on average).

Teachers who enter New York City schools through alternative pathways such as Teach For America and the city's Teaching Fellows program are as effective as their traditionally certified counterparts in raising student test scores in mathematics and reading, a report says.

WEA President Charles Hasse said the record of charter schools does not indicate they are any more effective at raising student test scores or lowering dropout rates than traditional public schools.

Our so - called «shopping - mall» high schools were predicated on offering a vast college style menu of courses; our teachers tend to be focused on raising student test scores; and metal detectors and police officers characterize many urban high schools.

First, there is evidence that schools facing accountability pressures may be able to raise student test scores through methods that do not translate into long - term improvements in skills or educational attainment, by engaging in test - prep activities or by cheating, for example.

The new study by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff asks whether high - value - added teachers (i.e., teachers who raise student test scores) also have positive longer - term impacts on students, as reflected in college attendance, earnings, avoiding teenage pregnancy, and the quality of the neighborhood in which they reside as adults.

But federal officials admit that the new partnership programs are only one step in training better teachers and raising student test scores.

And the evidence on the importance of teacher academic proficiency generally suggests that effectiveness in raising student test scores is associated with strong cognitive skills as measured by SAT or licensure test scores, or the competitiveness of the college from which teachers graduate.

While the evidence for the effectiveness of charter schools nationwide is mixed, research has found that the charter schools in these cities are on average more effective than district schools in raising student test scores.

Boston's oversubscribed charter schools are of particular interest, as multiple studies have exploited the lottery admissions process to document the schools» effectiveness in raising student test scores (see «Boston and the Charter School Cap,» features, Winter 2014).

To receive this designation a teacher must have demonstrated the ability to raise student test scores.

This effect is similar in size to those found in evaluations of primary - school inputs» impacts on postsecondary outcomes, such as being assigned to a teacher who is particularly effective in raising student test scores (see «Great Teaching,» research, Summer 2012).

Teachers entering the profession during recessions — and those entering when unemployment rates were high — were significantly more effective in raising student test scores than teachers entering at other times.

District leaders acknowledged that their progress in raising student test scores was incremental, at best, and that they still have far to go.

Without information on prior student achievement, one can not make judgments about schools» efficacy in raising student test scores.

Teachers were pressured to raise student test scores, or face penalties.

Pokes at teachers to raise student test scores, and setting up some new schools for a few students won't do the deed.

Proven effective in raising student test scores, testGEAR online test prep courses for English language arts, math, science and social studies, level the playing field so every student gets the practice they need to achieve test excellence on their state high school exit exams.

Today, educators view federal actions as unreasonably imposing penalties on schools for failing to raise student test scores to prescribed levels.

They also expressed frustration over escalating job demands to raise student test scores, serve breakfast in the classroom and submit to a new teacher evaluation system that many complained they had no voice in shaping.

Our second concern is that raising student test scores will be the primary metric of this assessment.

First, it is possible to raise student test scores, including those of student groups who traditionally have not done well in the schools.

In New York City, a performance pay plan that was rolled out in 2007, with support from the city's teachers union, rewarded entire schools on their progress in raising student test scores.

Would you salivate at the carrots being extended for you to raise student test scores?

Even so, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation has released a set of contentious new standards, under which programs would have to prove that their graduates were able to raise student test scores.

What extinguished the light in him was a second, and arguably more crushing, reality: the pressure to raise student test scores.

The Madison School Board had been expected to vote June 30 on whether to spend $ 273,000 over three years on software whose developers say features algorithms that can predict which prospective teachers are likely to raise student test scores.

According to our calculations, raising student test scores in this country up to the level in Canada would dramatically increase economic growth.

The only reliable way to raise student test scores in the United States to the level of Finland would be to raise the employment rate among the parents of students in the US and thereby lower the child poverty rate in the US.

Consistent with a Roy model of occupational choice, teachers entering the profession during recessions are significantly more effective in raising student test scores.

Coupled with the continued testing and accountability fetish are dangerous provisions that will serve to diminish the quality of the teaching workforce in favor of a competitive teacher preparation market, whose graduates» worth will be measured by their ability to raise student test scores, and little else.

RTI should not be a program to raise student test scores, but rather a process to realize students» hopes and dreams.

In 2002, under President George W. Bush, the No Child Left Behind, (NCLB), took this policy one big step further by placing great pressure on teachers to raise student test scores.

«One factor reported in almost every story is the discouragement teachers feel from a reform movement that is increasing pressure to raise student test scores, while reducing support,» it states.

For many teachers, curriculum has become a prescribed set of academic standards, instructional pacing has become a race against a clock to cover the standards, and the sole goal of teaching has been reduced to raising student test scores on a single test, the value of which has scarcely been questioned in the public forum.