Sentences with phrase «whose middling results»

This year, the state charter authorizer board approved no new applications, most notably Ohio's I Can Schools, whose middling results in student achievement in Ohio and Indiana culminated in the state's Charter School Authorizer Board's decision to reject its application to establish three K - 8 schools in Mississippi.

Not exact matches

The problems faced by the «squeezed middle», on low and middle incomes, who feel that the rewards of working hard are too little compared to those whose stellar salaries are not matched by results.

It was quite an evening for the New York State Democrats, whose reunification Tuesday night could result in a 31 - 31 State Senate — with Simcha Felder of Brooklyn in the middle.

In a recent EMG experiment whose results were published over at T-Nation.com, strength coach Bret Contreras compared 20 different chest exercises to see which ones best stimulated the lower, middle and upper portions of the pectoralis major muscle of the chest.

The middle school teacher whose students recorded our highest achievement results on the New York ELA test has more than forty years of experience.

And while building these basic skills is not the only job of our K — 12 system — or even of our elementary and middle schools, whose students» performance is what we'll see in forthcoming fourth grade and eighth grade results — they are surely at the center of the enterprise.

The results of the Cook et al. research complement those of Kelly Bedard and Chau Do, whose 2005 study of national data found that moving 6th graders to middle school resulted in a 1 to 3 percent decline in on - time high - school graduation rates.

In one urban middle school, conversations about improving student achievement focused mostly on sending «bubble kids» (whose results fell just below cut scores for proficiency levels) to tutoring or after - school programs (Horn, Kane, & Wilson, 2015).