The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, housed within the Department of Education, will work with the Executive Office of the President and Cabinet agencies to identify evidence-based best practices to improve African American student achievement in school and college, and to develop a national network of individuals, organizations, and communities that will share and implement these practices.
Chancellor Klein and I also share the belief that an outstanding principal, given the support he or she needs, is indispensable to driving the remarkable gains we need in student achievement in a school.
When Geovani was in high school, the principal wanted to honor his academic achievement by displaying his photo in school hallways.
Every student performance indicator has improved he says and over the last two years the state has ranked second in the country for achievement on college-level courses taken in high school.
The achievement gaps we see in elementary school and beyond begin before children enter kindergarten--the quality of child care and educational settings in the years preceding matter.
Being recognized as a Champion of Change is humbling for me as an individual because while poverty matters in student achievement, it is the collaborative adult actions in the school that matter more.
Obesity and hunger affect school achievement and health care in fairly obvious ways, Vilsack said, while speaking to a group at the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital at Maine Medical Center.
One of the proudest occasions of my life was facilitating and witnessing the birth of the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh Charter School in 1998, where the achievement gap between black and white students has virtually been eliminated.
Schools minister Jim Knight said that the gap in achievement between 11-year-olds on free school meals and those who were not had narrowed by three percentage points in the last four years.
Under-achievement is seen at primary school, where national tests in maths and English show both groups are less likely than others to reach the expected level, and continues up to GCSE level and beyond.
Though reaching a BCS Bowl Game is certainly a great achievement for any school, the only game that really matters in the current climate of college bowl games is the final game.
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As a result, school enrolment, retention and achievement rates are particularly low in rural areas and, more specifically, among indigenous people.
As the Wall Street Journal recently reported, both Princeton and Harvard University researchers have concluded that students in the Milwaukee choice program have made achievement gains over their public school counterparts.
My journey began in the summer of 2010 when I received a letter informing me of the restructuring of Emerson Elementary School as a result of low performance in student achievement.
In fact, it is understood in high school that recruited athletes of even modest scholastic achievement regularly do better getting into select schools than their peers with much higher academic credentials.
As a result of poor school achievement, African-Caribbean students are under-represented in scientific careers.
Curriculums in every country or school system have expectations for levels of achievement, but the Massachusetts system is characterised by a particular focus on lists of specific pieces of information.
Critics of standards-based reform argue that, in seeking to raise student achievement in core academic subjects as measured by the new assessments, teachers and school administrators have narrowed the curriculum at the expense of artistic, affective, and other "non-core" subjects.
Lessons include in-school visits from local entrepreneurs and field trips to Junior Achievement centers where kids learn financial lessons such as opening a bank account.
"In short, the budget should go further to ensure that children's achievement at school should reflect their ability not their background, " she said.
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As a result, school attendance, retention and achievement rates as well as the quality of education in Cambodia, particularly in rural areas, continues to be low.
In fact, a small school can make up for the factors that often stifle student achievement.
The Ofsted report found the school in Almond Way outstanding in its overall effectiveness and in areas of pupils' achievement, teaching quality, pupil behaviour and leadership.
The radical changes that Rhee brought to the DC public school system ushering in in top-down accountability and tremendous improvement in student achievement should be emulated nationwide.
The government says the US Charter schools movement is closer to its free school programme and that in Chicago and New York, Charter schools have helped close the achievement gap between rich and poor students.
School league tables are produced every year from official data published by the government on pupils' achievement in England.
And in the school district where I visited in Decatur, Georgia, you're already seeing closing of the achievement gap.
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Hedge fund managers, who have played a dominant role in pushing market-oriented school reforms, like nonunionized charter schools, have had their comeuppance as improving achievement has proven far more difficult than they anticipated.
And he also warned that schools and head teachers would not manage to turn achievement around in challenging areas unless they get "much more involved in the lives of children beyond the end of the school day".
Based on a review of research from various sources going back decades, the papers suggest that while existing efforts to increase student achievement are an important part of education reform, they have not focused enough on what it takes to motivate students in school.
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