Sentences with phrase «with high test scores»

Teachers at schools with higher test scores don't need to do this.

When comparing students, we also find that students with higher test scores in math and English language arts have stronger growth mindset.

As with the first article, the second is strongest when it approaches charters as a diverse sector, teasing out the sorts of school practices associated with higher test scores.

Their conclusion: kids with higher test scores are kids with better teachers.

High progress with high test scores means students have strong academic skills and the school is a doing an excellent job at supporting academic growth compared to most other schools.

Strong progress with high test scores means students have strong academic skills and the school is a doing a better job at supporting academic growth than most other schools.

Naturally, schools with high test scores show the smallest academic gains, while schools with low test scores show the largest academic gains.

As you can see, home prices tend to be higher in attendance zones with higher test scores.

Currently, schools with high test scores get more money; the opposite is what is needed.

While some schools draw over 80 % of their students from within their boundaries, even many with high test scores draw far fewer.

Once that program has proven to be successful with higher test scores, graduation rates, or other measurements, many administrators may begin looking to expand.

However, the research clearly shows that schools with high test scores also have highly effective school library programs which ensure their students will have the best chance to succeed in the 21st century.

If you taught students with high test scores then make sure to include this on the document.

A high achieving school in this country, he says, is a school with high test scores.

Using data on teachers» test scores from North Carolina, Murnane found that teachers with high test scores left teaching sooner than those who did less well.

When we performed the analysis again, this time also including the average test - score performance of a country in our model, we found that countries with higher test scores experienced far higher growth rates.

Those charters with high test scores most often exclude low - scoring and problem students, while subjecting their students to punishing discipline systems that middle class parents would never allow for their own children.

The researchers found students» reported self - management skills and growth mindset were the best predictors of students» later reading and math performance; a higher sense of self - efficacy was associated with higher test scores for white and Asian students, but not for black or Hispanic students.

The more frequently kids played with puzzles, the more likely they were to finish the study with high test scores (Levine et al 2011).

West Virginia has relinquished the reins of a struggling school system, leaving behind a rare state - takeover success story: a state - hired superintendent in charge of a system with higher test scores and better management and buoyed by local acceptance.

Finnish Lessons 2.0 Pasi Sahlberg In his first version of Finnish Lessons, published in 2011, Visiting Professor Pasi Sahlberg looked at how Finland was able to move from being a «mediocre» education system in the 1980s to a model one, with its high test scores on international student assessments like PISA and no high - stakes testing until the end of high school.

Moreover, there are schools in downtown Detroit with higher test scores than the three Blue Ribbon schools.

And more high - performing Latino students end up in community colleges compared with their peers: In 2010, 46 percent of Latinos who graduated from high schools with the highest test scores enrolled in two - year schools, compared with 27 percent of white students, 23 percent of African American students and 19 percent of Asian students.

In particular, he points to studies by Murnane and Olsen (1989, 1990) and Stinebrickner (2001), which examine separation rates for public school teachers, and concludes that «teachers with higher test scores and better college records leave their jobs at higher rates.»

Low engagement might show up in measurable ways like low participation in school activities or underachievement (low grades among kids with high test scores).

She looked at Finland and South Korea, countries with higher test scores, and they put less emphasis on sports than do American schools.

Indeed, Baumgartner found that of the nine benchmarks, teacher professional development and specialized training seemed to be the most strongly associated with higher test scores, yet they were not among the most commonly satisfied benchmarks across pre-kindergarten campuses.

But the charters with the highest test scores are typically known not for innovation, but for «no excuses» discipline policies, where students may be fined or suspended or expelled if they fail to follow the rules of the school with unquestioning obedience, such as not making eye contact with the teacher or slouching or bringing candy to school or being too noisy in gym or the lunchroom.

In the Times story, districts with higher test scores were described as being better.

Among students with the highest test scores, the team did find that white boys outnumbered white girls by about two to one.

It is also important to note that it is possible for schools with already - high - performing students to receive a high Student Progress Rating, or for schools with high test scores to receive a low Student Progress Rating.

«Teachers know they will have an easier life at a school with high test scores.

And rather than opening new schools and implementing a choice system, the city designated «welcoming schools» for the displaced students, all with higher test scores and better attendance than the ones they left.

, Harvard University professor of education Richard Murnane and his colleagues write: «College graduates with high test scores are less likely to take [teaching] jobs, employed teachers with high test scores are less likely to stay, and former teachers with high test scores are less likely to return.»

According to Measuring the Teacher Quality Problem, a paper published by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, «College graduates with high test scores are less likely to become teachers, licensed teachers with high test scores are less likely to take teaching jobs, employed teachers with high test scores are less likely to stay, and former teachers with high test scores are less likely to return.»

It will name «model schools» — those with the highest test scores, biggest year - to - year gains, strong performance across student groups and, for high schools, best graduation rates.

Schools with higher test scores have library collections reflective of the needs of the curriculum

SB322, introduced by Senator Mark Leno, looks to align rules governing charter student suspension, expulsions, admissions and departures by putting them on par with traditional school districts, and seeks to address the frequent accusation that charters screen students during admission to admit only students with high test scores.

The legislation he filed Tuesday empowers any one of these groups to petition to either close a struggling school, transfer its students to schools with higher test scores or reorganize it as a charter school.

That report found significant benefits, particularly for high school students: After school participation was associated with higher test scores, and led to much higher rates of grade level progression for students in grades nine to 12.

The same can be true for a school with high test scores.

Students with high grades in high school but middling test scores do better in college than students with higher test scores and lower grades.

On Monday night, those principals reported their findings: Parents want schools with higher test scores, they said.

In CORE's new system, a school with high test scores won't necessarily be ranked the highest, like it was with California's Academic Performance Index (API), which was discontinued in 2013 to give the state time to transfer over new Common Core - aligned standardized tests and develop a new accountability system.

Are they open to traveling across town for parent - teacher conferences for a school with higher test scores?

With high test scores and graduation rates to flash around, suburban school officials have had an easier time than their urban counterparts arguing that charters are an unnecessary drain on their budgets.