Raising Student Achievement
Many districts are facing the difficult challenge of improving student achievement to meet increasingly rigorous standards. Over the past ten years Edison Schools has invested considerable time in research and development to create comprehensive systems and a world-class school design that help our partner districts drive student achievement. In hundreds of communities across the country, our partners have proven that this system works.
- Students in Edison whole-school partnership schools have made average one-year gains of 7.7 percentage points on criterion-referenced tests. Students in these same schools have made average two-year gains of 12.3 percentage points.
- In Charleston, South Carolina, where Edison has an Alliance partnership with 8 schools, the Alliance schools showed a one-year 7.7 percent increase in reading scores (5.1 percentage points higher than district and 7.1 points higher than state averages and a 12.4 percent increase in math scores (9.1 percentage points higher than district and 10.8 points higher than state averages).
- Students participating in Newton Learning’s SES programs made impressive gains in the 2004-05 school year, with average gains of 33.8 percent in reading and 42.5 percentage in math on internal pre- and post-program tests.