Sentence examples for improving their students from inspiring English sources

Suppose that you'd like to identify and reward those schools which do a good job of improving their students' performance.

The controversial ratings of roughly 18,000 New York City teachers released on Friday showed that teachers who were most and least successful in improving their students' test scores could be found all around — in the poorest corners of the Bronx, like Tremont and Soundview, and in middle-class neighborhoods of Queens, like Bayside and Forest Hills.

Beyond what the students identify themselves as struggling with in mathematics, PTs are given information about the students from their respective mathematics teachers so that the PTs can focus on improving their students' specific weaknesses over the course of the 10 weeks.

Rhee has said that one of the standards used to evaluate teachers will be their success or failure in improving their students' test scores over the year.

The Obama administration's Race to the Top competitions, which began in 2009 and awarded nearly $4 billion dollars in 2010, are intended to bait state's into improving their students' test scores and overhaul their public school system- firing failing teachers and administrators and replacing underperforming school's with privately run charters.

When "The Dream is Over" blog appeared on the United Nations Web site, teachers in Uruguay responded with personal examples of how OLPC's laptops have helped to improve their students' literacy and reduce truancy.

At the same time, the system is facing contentious contract negotiations with its teachers union, and on Tuesday the board voted to approve a 6percentt raise, with merit pay for teachers who improved their students' scores on standardized tests.

One such campaign, Speaking Exchange, was for a language school in Brazil that used Skype to facilitate dialogues between senior citizens in the US to improve their students' language skills while building a bridge over a generational gap.

Using a data set with anonymous records on 2.5 million students, we found that high-quality teachers significantly improved their students' performance on standardized tests and, more important, increased their earnings and college attendance rates, and reduced their risk of teenage pregnancy.

Elements of P.S. 314's program have been copied in about 20 of the district's 30 schools, although few have the same kind of financial support, Teachers at P.S. 314 say that its program improves their students' academic drive and helps them learn a wide range of basic skills.

The school board voted this week to begin bargaining with a raise of about a third of what the union was seeking, along with an offer of merit pay for teachers who improved their students' scores on standardized tests, which the union opposed.