I would also add that for high schools, I believe the CAHSEE (an 8th grade level test) was also very heavily weighted, and a number of schools gamed their scored by doing lots of CAHSEE prep, and thus ensuring their 10th and 11th graders could pass
8th grade material with proficiency.
Not exact matches
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Cherry Hill began introducing those skills in
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Similarly, the average proportion of time that
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grade material (such as simple addition, reading a clock, and multiplication facts) declined from nearly one - quarter of their mathematics instructional time in 1994 to 18 percent in 2001.
While teaching a full - time
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Common Core supporters will point to the rise in reading scores in 2017 — nearly 3 points in 4th
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