Sentences with phrase «when high performing schools»

This might be particularly beneficial when high performing schools are part of a similar feeder pattern, where those schools could collaborate to better serve all kids in the pipeline.

Not exact matches

He compares it to the way teachers motivate students; grades based entirely upon the final exams are usually enough to incentivize the best students to go above and beyond to achieve high marks, but many students perform better when faced with regular testing throughout the school year.

With this in mind, it makes me sick sometimes when I walk into weight rooms at some high schools and see how poorly the lift is being performed — mostly because coaches haven't taken the time to study, understand, or perform the lift themselves, and therefore making it impossible to coach correctly.

She pointed to one patient, a high school athlete, who had clearly recovered from his concussion - to the point that he was performing in the superior range on neuropsychological testing and getting As in school - who was nevertheless so worried, anxious, and paranoid about hurting his head again that he thought he'd suffered another concussion when he happened to turn his head quickly from side to side!

Five high - school seniors will take that extra step Sunday when they perform as part of the annual Élan Dance Company Showcase in Naperville.

By Patricia Huertas When my oldest son, William, was entering first grade, I entered him in a lottery for one of New York City's high performing public charter schools.

He is helped by the fact Success» so - called #SaveOurPreK campaign has failed to garner anything approaching the amount of attention as the school space battle, when Moskowitz was making front - page news regularly for declaring that de Blasio was effectively shuttering high - performing charter schools.

The chancellor said it was important to have an «equity lens» to serve disadvantaged students and vowed «we're going to have resources» to serve them when they're integrated in schools with higher - performing students.

Members of the public in counties with higher median household incomes are more likely to step into action to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, when they witness someone have a cardiac arrest, according to a new study led by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, which was presented today at the American Heart Association's Resuscitation Science Symposium 2014.

«In other school districts, we usually observe negative effects when high - performing teachers leave,» Dee said.

Their abilities are tested when one teacher (Megan Mullally) takes them out of the safety of the high school and pushes them to perform in front of a real audience at a nightclub.

«Choke» (2008) 2008 was not a great year for the festival, with films like «Assassination Of A High School President,» «Transsiberian,» «What Just Happened,» «The Escapist» and «The Great Buck Howard» all under - performing when they finally made it to screens.

When the group broke up, his singing partner's career soared into other avenues while his floundered, leaving him today just a nostalgic memory for those old enough to remember their songs, which he performs at amusement parks, state fairs, and high school reunions.

But only when data is tied to action do we see increases in student achievement and high school graduation rates, as well as more dollars and resources directed to low - performing schools.

But even a local ballot measure to sustain school funding in this, the highest - performing district in the state, failed last year when antitax advocates mobilized to oppose it.

Yet according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, high - school seniors perform no better today in math, reading, or science than they did when Carter held office.

Four Corners charter students do well on NAEP, even when compared to public school students in Massachusetts, the highest - performing state.

Break out sessions cover the following areas — promoting positive behaviour; teaching students with SEND: developing their transferable skills; supporting students with English as an Additional Language; grammar, punctuation and spelling at Key Stage 2; international pedagogy - what we can learn from high performing jurisdictions; keeping it healthy and safe when covering science lessons; assessment and feedback; supporting teachers supporting students; the changing landscape of primary education and what it means for primary school teachers.

That report found that kids perform better in school when their teachers set high standards for their performance.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

Granted, the fabulous standardized test scores of those high - performing charter networks who take on this special ed challenge may not be as uniformly high — at least in the short term, but when one in every twenty public school students now attends a charter, the movement is mature and entrenched enough to move to the next stage of reform for both moral and political reasons.

Families were choosing low - performing schools over higher - performing schools — even when the high performers had room to spare.

When one of Washington, D.C.'s highest - performing traditional public schools pursued plans to convert to a charter in 2006, the district agreed to several of its demands in exchange for the school's agreement to stop flirting with charter status.

When we looked at how many students applied and were assigned to those same high - performing schools in 2016, the number rose to 38 percent.

When research was lacking, such as in elementary mathematics, we looked to the practices of high - performing nations, just as Abraham Flexner did in 1910 when he evaluated medical schools against the European moWhen research was lacking, such as in elementary mathematics, we looked to the practices of high - performing nations, just as Abraham Flexner did in 1910 when he evaluated medical schools against the European mowhen he evaluated medical schools against the European model.

When a school screens applicants for academic talent, it ends up with pupils who perform well on tests, earn high grades, and get into competitive colleges.

When selective public schools attract high - performing students and involved parents, nobody complains.

The scaling of high - performing CMOs provides one of the highest levels of return and leverage for philanthropic funds, particularly when you consider that CMOs tend to deliver much higher student achievement than the local district; these schools will continue to serve students in a high - quality way over time; and there are few investments in K — 12 that have consistently yielded this level of performance.

At the highest performing urban school in the city of Providence, Rhode Island, the mantra when it comes to education is «children always come first.»

Because we know that when low - income children of color have access to high expectations, effective teachers, and quality schools, they can perform equally as well as their wealthy, white peers.

Stein was named principal of an inner - city Denver high school when it reopened two years ago after being shut down for being the worst - performing school in the district.

That was back when NCLB was placing pressure on schools to get low - performing students over a modest «proficiency» bar — even while tacitly encouraging them to ignore the educational needs of their high - achievers, who were likely to pass state tests regardless of what their schools did for them.

When we performed this analysis, we found, as other economists before us, that when the average number of years of schooling in a country was higher, the economy grew at a higher annual rate over subsequent decaWhen we performed this analysis, we found, as other economists before us, that when the average number of years of schooling in a country was higher, the economy grew at a higher annual rate over subsequent decawhen the average number of years of schooling in a country was higher, the economy grew at a higher annual rate over subsequent decades.

Rigorous studies consistently show that the impact of a more - effective teacher is substantial A high - performing teacher, one at the 84th percentile of all teachers, when compared with just an average teacher, produces students whose level of achievement is at least 0.2 standard deviations higher by the end of the school year.

Furthermore, our research shows that board members of higher - performing D.C. charter schools, when compared to those at lower - performing ones, are more knowledgeable about their schools (particularly relative to its performance rating, demographics, and financial outlook), and more apt to evaluate their leaders using staff satisfaction as a factor in doing so.

In the New Orleans context, this suggests that governing agencies may be more willing to provide unique offerings when they manage higher - performing schools with little risk of sanctions related to standardized testing.

When public schools integrate these elements — as in a pilot project run by Harvard economist Roland Fryer in Houston, early evidence suggests those schools are seeing the same gains as high - performing charters.

«Retained students continue to perform markedly better than their promoted peers when tested at the same grade level and, assuming they are as likely to graduate high school, stand to benefit from an additional year of instruction.»

Studies seem to bear this out: Children of high SES parents do well in school, even when they are in an overall «poorly performing» school, and children of low SES parents often do poorly in school, even when they are in an overal «high performing» school.

Countries that expect students to perform well on a national examination when they finish secondary school may induce higher rates of reading than countries that do not set clear standards for high school students.

Those high - performing schools did things like «set measurable goals on standards based tests and benchmark tests across all proficiency levels, grades, and subjects»; create school missions that were «future oriented,» with curricula and instruction designed to prepare students to succeed in a rigorous high - school curriculum; include improvement of student outcomes «as part of the evaluation of the superintendent, the principal, and the teachers»; and communicate to parents and students «their responsibility as well for student learning, including parent contracts, turning in homework, attending class, and asking for help when needed.»

While these very low - performing schools may not have every indicator in the bottom 5 percent, it is obvious when looking at their data that these are the schools in need of the highest level of support.

Since ESSA requires states to adopt evidence - based interventions for the lowest performing bottom 5 percent of schools, and school diversity is a research - supported strategy linked to improved student outcomes, (when appropriate) states could use this mandate as an opportunity to invest in these schools by turning them into high - quality racially and socioeconomically diverse magnets.

When I've conducted observations to dig into these differences, the explanations for the higher performing schools are not very mysterious.

For another, Quitman's student population is rapidly changing: There was an influx of children with special needs when their school closed last academic year, and meanwhile some of the highest - performing students are being recruited away by well - regarded charter schools.

Last time I checked, the highest performing charters were doing better than their district counterparts in urban districts, but very few of these schools have come close to closing the achievement gap when it comes to college and career - readiness.

When given the chance, parents want their children to attend a high - performing school... that's close to home.

«Nicky Morgan has failed to provide a single compelling argument as to why these changes are necessary when the vast majority of schools affected are already high performing schools.»

When you look deeper into the data, you see that underserved students in high - performing schools still suffer from an achievement gap.