Sentences with phrase «urban student achievement»

We elevate urban student achievement beyond ordinary to extraordinary.

At the same time, research confirms the critical impact that teachers and school leaders have on urban student achievement; and by extension, the tremendous need for highly effective K - 12 professional preparation and development.

Not exact matches

High Achievement New York, a business - backed group that is supportive of the Common Core standards, is pointing to the «opt - in» rates of students in the state's urban areas.

In Washington, D.C., where I was chancellor, IMPACT teacher evaluations are among the strongest in the country and have helped that school district go from the worst urban district in the country to the one making the biggest gains in student achievement.

Four years ago, GSU had achievement gaps similar to other urban universities with low - income students, with graduation rates about 10 % lower for «at risk» students.

The first to examine the effects of financial incentives among urban public school students, it found that rewards can produce excellent results in closing the achievement gap — if they are tied to specific steps the students take rather than to grades or test results.

Agreement between school boards and superintendents over achievement goals, an emphasis on the lowest - performing students, and the adoption of districtwide curricula are among the most successful strategies being used in four urban school districts, concludes a report released last week.

In his 2014 academic paper — The achievement effects of tardy classmates: Evidence in urban elementary schools — Michael Gottfried explores the impact of tardy students» behaviour on their peers.

SAME seeks to close the gap in student achievement between rural and remote and urban areas by delivering live, interactive, sessions from broadcast studios via EDUSAT — a dedicated educational satellite launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation.

A Taste of Problem - Based Learning Increases Achievement of Urban Minority Middle - School Students.

Arguably, the most important development in K — 12 education over the past decade has been the emergence of a growing number of urban schools that have been convincingly shown to have dramatic positive effects on the achievement of disadvantaged students.

As his one - year term as chairman nears its end, Garcia talked with Education World about his desire to help urban districts pinpoint ways to improve student performance and continue to shrink the achievement gap.

For example, urban students generally have higher achievement levels than rural / remote students.

John P. Papay, Martin R. West, Jon B. Fullerton, Thomas J. Kane (2012) «Does an Urban Teacher Residency Increase Student Achievement?

The Urban Institute's new report, Breaking the Curve: Promises and Pitfalls of Using NAEP Data to Assess the State Role in Student Achievement, proposes better ways to compare NAEP scores across states and over time.

One of our studies was a randomized trial in a large urban district that found significant positive effects on reading achievement for students who used Accelerated Reader according to the publisher's recommendations.

The school characteristics include whether it is in an urban area, grade level (e.g., high school), the number of students enrolled, student - teacher ratio, the percentage of students who are eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program, the percentage of minority students, and measures of student achievement in reading and math.

NIUSL brings together educators from urban contexts with Harvard faculty and top experts in the field to examine best practices and research - based techniques that support student achievement.

Urban school leaders are on the front line of this work, and research points to the important role they play in creating the conditions to improve student achievement.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

«This appointment supports my deep commitment to generating knowledge to advance the field's ability to promote the academic achievement for all students in urban schools, especially English - language learners,» Lesaux said.

A major challenge for all urban school leaders is improving student learning — especially in the context of the achievement gap.

On the other hand, Denver's steady improvement has widened the achievement gap, something that happens in many urban districts that improve, as white and middle - class students raise their scores faster than poor and minority students.

The institute will promote school restructuring, student achievement, and research on urban schools.

The relationship between parental involvement and urban secondary school student academic achievement: A meta - analysis.

Chicago had never even made the finals for the Broad Foundation Prize, which is awarded annually to an urban district for marked improvement in student achievement.

There are a growing number of grammar problems in American classrooms that affect not only a student's ability in math and English but also may contribute to the achievement gap according to the authors of Code - Switching: Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms.

Thompson: The council was one of the few education organizations in Washington to support the No Child Left Behind Act and we believe the federal law deserves credit for focusing the attention of urban schools more sharply on student achievement, and increasing the national focus on educating our neediest children.

The study found that after multimedia technology was used to support project - based learning, eighth graders in Union City, New Jersey, scored 27 percentage points higher than students from other urban and special needs school districts on statewide tests in reading, math, and writing achievement.

Thompson: Closing the achievement gaps between students of different racial groups continues to be a challenge, not only for urban schools but for schools across the board.

In Arizona, a state that has always had charter schools that draw middle - class students, there is evidence that, on average at least, charters are not doing any better at raising student achievement than district schools; outside of urban areas, they appear to do a bit worse.

A handful of high - profile current and former urban superintendents have joined a start - up education consulting firm to peddle their expertise on raising student achievement to district leaders and state education officials.

Despite progress on these issues, student achievement on the Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) declined between 2011 and 2015, and remained stubbornly low relative to that of other large cities (Figure 2).

As Stanford University professor Larry Cuban writes in Oversold and Underused, «There have been no advances (measured by higher academic achievement of urban, suburban, or rural students) over the past decade that can be confidently attributed to broader access to computers....

It says a large - scale voucher study would help determine whether giving public school students vouchers to pay for tuition at private schools can improve achievement, especially for students in poor, urban areas.

The result is Fordham's new study School Closures and Student Achievement: An Analysis of Ohio's Urban Districts and Charter Schools, which brings to bear fresh empirical evidence on this critical issue.

Urban school districts are making «steady progress» in raising student - achievement levels and meeting a vast assortment of special needs, but they «can not do it all alone,» a report to be released this week contends.

Our study examined the achievement trends of 22,722 students in grades 3 — 8 who attended one of the 198 urban schools in Ohio that shut their doors between 2006 and 2012.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

In general, charter schools that serve low - income and minority students in urban areas are doing a better job than their traditional public - school counterparts in raising student achievement, whereas that is not true of charter schools in suburban areas.

79, president of the foundation, «when we developed the conviction that dramatic structural change was going to be necessary in Boston and other urban public school systems in order to generate broad improvement in the academic achievement of the mostly low - income, minority students who populate these districts today.»

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

-- According to findings released today by researchers at the Strategic Data Project (SDP), the gap in college enrollment rates between black students and white students in four large, urban districts disappears or even reverses direction once prior achievement and socioeconomic background is accounted for.

Enlisting the Community to Promote Achievement Concerned that many urban students, especially African - American ones, were underachieving in school, Hugh B. Price made community involvement in local schools a focus of his tenure at the National Urban League as well as the subject of a urban students, especially African - American ones, were underachieving in school, Hugh B. Price made community involvement in local schools a focus of his tenure at the National Urban League as well as the subject of a Urban League as well as the subject of a book.

Because of the entrenched practice of assigning students to public schools based on their neighborhood of residence, urban public schools tend to concentrate highly disadvantaged students in schools characterized by low levels of safety and achievement.

At E.J. Scott Elementary in Houston, a relentless focus on student achievement and high standards has created what researchers say is a model of a successful urban school.

Given the compelling need of so many city students and the push to hold schools more accountable for achievement, some argue that urban schools deserve a greater share of public resources.

Findings demonstrate that a standards - based, inquiry science curriculum can lead to standardized achievement test gains in historically underserved urban students, when the curriculum is highly specified, developed, and aligned with professional development and administrative support.

In «Beating the Odds,» [a CGCS report that provides a city - by - city analysis of student performance and gaps in achievement] one of the findings is that the average per - pupil expenditure in the nation's largest urban school systems is now below the national average.

Urban charter schools have an incredible track record of increasing student achievement, while increasing school funding by as much as 10 % yields very modest test score effects, and these effects come at a very high cost.