Sentences with phrase «way school performance grades»

Perhaps the most important language in the budget is the way school performance grades are calculated.

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Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

It's not always easy to tell whether the new approaches help overall student performance, because schools interested in this type of experimentation are often innovating in other ways as well: changing grading policies, moving to more project - based learning models and rethinking discipline strategies.

A new working paper from researcher Sean Reardon offers a comprehensive analysis of student cohorts from third to eighth grade, plus a new way for looking at school performance.

[16] long - sought changes to the way the state calculates school performance grades: http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2015/09/02/another-round-of-stigmatizing-grades-for-low-income-schools/

In its report, Ofqual says: «The regulator concludes that so much weight on one grade in one subject as part of accountability and performance measures created perverse incentives for schools in the way they marked controlled assessment and led to the over-marking.»