Walker's supporters insisted that this policy would improve student performance.
The goal is to hold students accountable for learning teaching skills that improve student performance.
It remains hard to design big national programs that will significantly improve student performance.
A July 12 letter writer argues that more time in school would improve student performance.
Permission to expand should be granted only if the schools can demonstrate that they can actually improve student performance.
Companies promoting typewriters, moving pictures, film projectors, educational television, computers and CD-ROMS have all promised to improve student performance.
Yet he has come to the conclusion that simply dangling better pay will not improve student performance on its own.
With a multiracial cast of schoolchildren behind him, Mr. Clinton said he hoped future politicians would continue his proposals to renovate schools, recruit teachers and improve student performance.
I don't doubt that removing "stereotype threat," discussing the benefits of hard work and asking children to consider their futures and personal values improve student performance.
But some Roosevelt officials objected, saying that they had not been given a chance to show they could improve student performance.
And there is now substantial research showing that reduced class size is the most effective way to improve student performance, especially in the very early grades.
