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Download full textMihaly, Kata; Arellano, Brenda; Prier, Shannon – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2022
New Mexico is one of 48 states that offer a biliteracy seal to high school graduates to recognize their proficiency in a non -English language. The Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest English Learners Research Partnership collaborated with a large urban district in New Mexico to study the characteristics and college readiness of students who…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Language Proficiency, High School Graduates, Student Characteristics
Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2022
This study snapshot highlights key findings from a study that examined who earns biliteracy seals in a large urban district in New Mexico and how they impact college outcomes. New Mexico is one of 48 states that offer a biliteracy seal to high school graduates to recognize their proficiency in a non-English language. The Regional Educational…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Language Proficiency, High School Graduates, Student Characteristics
Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2022
The full study to these appendixes examined who earns biliteracy seals in a large urban district in New Mexico and how they impact college outcomes. The study used data from three cohorts of grade 12 students in the district from 2017/18 to 2019/20. The New Mexico Public Education Department and district leaders can use the findings to decide how…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Language Proficiency, High School Graduates, Student Characteristics
Direct linkTaut, Sandy; Valencia, Edgar; Palacios, Diego; Santelices, Maria V.; Jiménez, Daniela; Manzi, Jorge – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2016
This paper investigates the validity of a national, standards-based teacher evaluation programme by examining the relationship between teachers' evaluation results and their students' learning progress. We used census achievement data that assessed the same cohort of students at the end of 8th and 10th grade. We applied multilevel modelling and…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, National Programs
Holmes, Venita R. – Houston Independent School District, 2018
This study hypothesized that HISD prekindergarten participation consistently correlated with better educational outcomes for students. Taking into account students' age differences through kindergarten enrollment, propensity score matching controlled for students' background characteristics. Three cohorts of students in this study were eligible or…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement, Language Arts
Houston Independent School District, 2018
Title I, Part A and Title II, Part A funds are provided to Houston Independent School District (HISD) through the 2015 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), also known as Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Both funds focus on enhancing student achievement: Title I, Part A provides supplemental support for…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Achievement Tests
Houston Independent School District, 2017
Title I, Part A and Title II, Part A funds are provided to Houston Independent School District (HISD) through the 2002 reauthorization of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965" (ESEA), also known as the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" (NCLB). ESEA was reauthorized in 2015 as the "Every Student Succeeds…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Achievement Tests
Houston Independent School District, 2016
Title I, Part A and Title II, Part A funds are provided to Houston Independent School District (HISD) through the 2002 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), also known as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). Both funds focus on enhancing student achievement: Title I, Part A provides supplemental…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Achievement Tests
Houston Independent School District, 2015
Title I, Part A and Title II, Part A funds are provided to Houston Independent School District (HISD) through the 2002 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), also known as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). Both funds focus on enhancing student achievement, Title I, Part A through providing…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Achievement Tests
Kibler, Amanda – Journal of Education, 2011
This case study analyzed the ways a native Spanish speaker of high-beginning English proficiency and his teacher negotiated an extended writing task in a tenth-grade mainstream humanities course. An "interactional histories" analysis demonstrated the teacher's pedagogical and conversational moves to adapt the academic task and the moves…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Language Proficiency, English Language Learners, Grade 10
Houston Independent School District, 2014
Title I, Part A and Title II, Part A funds are provided to Houston Independent School District (HISD) through the 2002 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), also known as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). Both funds focus on enhancing student achievement, Title I, Part A through providing…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Economically Disadvantaged
Zimmerman, Thomas G.; Johnson, David; Wambsgans, Cynthia; Fuentes, Antonio – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2011
This article reports on a public school that is succeeding in encouraging Latino high school students to select Computer Science (CS) as a major. The students attend a charter high school designed to encourage low-income Latino students to attend college and attain proficiency in English, Spanish, and computers. Using data from surveys and by…
Descriptors: High Schools, Private Schools, Intervention, Student Interests
Gossman, Ginger L. – Online Submission, 2009
Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) aimed to improve teacher practice and improve student outcomes at Lanier and International High Schools in AISD. Overall, QTEL was moderately effective based on the myriad of mixed program results.
Descriptors: English Language Learners, International Schools, High School Students, Teacher Effectiveness
Abella, Rodolfo; Urrutia, Joanne; Shneyderman, Aleksandr – Bilingual Research Journal, 2005
Approximately 1,700 English language learners (ELLs) and former ELL students, in Grades 4 and 10, were tested using both an English-language (Stanford Achievement Test, 9th ed.) and a Spanish-language (Aprenda, 2nd ed.) achievement test. Their performances on the two tests were contrasted. The results showed that ELL students, for the most part,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Scores, Test Validity, Test Results
