Here's one solution: Start with the premise that a great school either has
very high achievement for all students or helps all of its students make a lot of progress over the course of the year.
Not exact matches
A lingering concern, however, is that the analysis may be contaminated by the fact that the
very cultures that introduce merit pay are those that set
high expectations
for student achievement.
This study shows that schools with
very high quality general education programs can boost
achievement for students with disabilities.
Without many of the bureaucratic requirements placed on traditional public schools, charter schools are held to a
very high standard
for advancing
student achievement.
Improvements in discipline and teacher -
student relations at Ware County
High School were accompanied by improvements in the overall learning environment, as indicated by the sharply lower percentages of teacher climate survey responders saying «
very true» or «sort of true» to the statement «the learning environment in this school is not conducive to academic
achievement for most
students».
We applaud the National Center on Educational Outcomes
for providing these
very real examples of districts that, despite widely varying demographics and economic situations, have demonstrated that it is possible to improve
achievement for all
students, including those identified as
students with disabilities, when professionals set
high expectations and work together to reach them.
Principals pick a group of teachers who have
very high student achievement results in poor schools... They invite those teachers to be a cooperating teacher... to mentor
student - teachers
for six semesters.
Screening or
achievement assessments are
very important because they demonstrate how prepared
students are
for the next level (
for younger
students, these show how ready they are
for upper grades;
for high schoolers, these show how prepared they are
for college or career).
While not every dollar a school spends directly improves academic outcomes, a new report from Rutgers school - finance expert Bruce Baker finds certain kinds of money
very much do matter: extra funding
for higher teacher salaries and more equitable distribution of resources between rich and poor districts,
for example, are correlated with
higher student achievement, especially
for the neediest kids.
Among the reasons the
achievement gap is so stark in Wisconsin is that its four - year (on - time) graduation rate
for white
students (92.9 percent) is
very high, ranking third in the nation behind only New Jersey (94 percent) and Texas (93.4 percent).