Sentences with phrase «views on academic achievement»

Interestingly, students with widely different views on academic achievement responded to the peer pressure similarly.

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According to Teach for America spokesperson Takirra Winfield, the program has three major components: discussions on the «history of inequity in the United States»; teaching recruits to view poor children's families and neighborhoods as «assets» to academic achievement, not liabilities (a concept borrowed from African American educational theorists like Lisa Delpit and Gloria Ladson - Billings); and introducing corps members to classroom management tactics.

The Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project, which will be implemented over the next two academic years, seeks to develop an array of measures that will be viewed by teachers, unions, administrators, and policymakers as reliable and credible indicators of a teacher's impact on student achievement.

(PDE, 2017, August 2) Currently, the SPP, available on the PA Department of Education website for public viewing, evaluates schools based on indicators of academic achievement, indicators of closing the achievement gap (all students), indicators of closing the achievement gap (historically underperforming students), indicators of academic growth, and «other academic indicators.»

The legislation recognizes that achieving excellence in American education depends on providing access to opportunity for all children, and that increasing inequality within external social, economic, health and community factors — traditionally viewed as outside of the domain of schools — have a significant influence on academic outcomes and a persistent achievement gap.

I realized after writing my January post on academic achievement groups, that I didn't really have a... View Post