Sentences with phrase «behind requires a test»

No Child Left Behind requires testing in grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, but only once in high school.

No Child Left Behind requires tests in math and reading at the end of the school year in grades 3 to 8 and once in high school.

As you all know, No Child Left Behind requires a test in two subjects once a year in grades three through eight, and once in high school.

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The concept behind a non-stress test is that adequate oxygen is required for fetal activity and heart rate to be within normal ranges.

The No Child Left Behind Act previously required all public schools receiving Title I funding to administer statewide standardized testing with the stipulation that students make «adequate yearly progress.»

New York also promised to tie student performance on state exams to teacher evaluations in its application for a waiver from No Child Left Behind, legislation under President George W. Bush that requires states to hit certain performance benchmarks on standardized tests.

Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, a Democrat, said he will introduce legislation to require pilots departing from New York airports to take a breathalyzer test before they get behind the controls.

The study's most disturbing finding, the authors say, is that neither boys nor girls get many tough math questions on state tests now required to measure a school district's progress under the 2002 federal No Child Left Behind law.

In the above video, we explore the science behind the JWST and the rigorous testing regimen required to ensure these incredibly sensitive instruments survive a trip to space.

The personalized test can tell if a person is cured with surgery or if there are cancer cells left behind that will require additional treatment, monitor the progression of each person's cancer and its response to treatment, and alert clinicians to a recurrence of disease.

Enacted in 2001, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), for instance, emphasized academic competence by requiring that prospective teachers either graduate with a major in the subject they are teaching, have credits equivalent to a major, or pass a qualifying test showing competence in the subject.

The budget includes money for the state to continue testing students in reading, mathematics, and science, as required under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

South Dakota officials announced this past winter that they were making the state's much - touted online testing program voluntary for districts, and instead requiring new paper - and - pencil tests to meet the requirements of the «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001.

At the start, parents seemed to be on board, or at least oblivious to the slow increase in testing that would be required under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

In the early 2000s, educators were facing a deluge of data generated by tests required by the No Child Left Behind Act.

Since No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was enacted into federal law in 2002, states have been required to test students in grades 3 through 8 and again in high school to assess math and reading achievement.

Classroom Instruction — It's About the Journey, Not Racing to the Finish The No Child Left Behind Act and achievement tests that test the entire wide curriculum require teachers like Max Fischer to get control of the curriculum; to examine how best to create learning experiences that make important concepts memorable.

In the 2001 reauthorization of ESEA as the No Child Left Behind Act, states were required to test students in grades 3 — 8 and disaggregate results based on student characteristics to make achievement gaps visible.

To be sure, there is nothing in our current forms of direct evaluation that requires schools and teachers to abandon a broad, knowledge - laden curriculum to boost test scores; but it should be abundantly clear that if the field hasn't gotten this message nearly fifteen years after No Child Left Behind, it's not going to.

«As you may know the No Child Left Behind Act requires states to set standards in math and reading and to test students each year to determine whether schools are making adequate progress, and to intervene when they are not.

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) put schools under the microscope by requiring that they report, annually, the test - score performance of students in grades 3 through 8, and, again, for grade 10.

A key element of that agenda is to build on the No Child Left Behind Act with an added focus on high schools, including more required testing at...

They might have to treat fitness as seriously as the No Child Left Behind Act treats reading and math, requiring students to pass assessment tests and teachers to be «highly qualified.»

Because of this converging scientific consensus, the No Child Left Behind Act requires school districts to demonstrate that they are using reading programs that have been tested for their efficacy through scientific studies in order to qualify for federal reading funds.

The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) marked a new level of federal oversight by requiring states to set more rigorous student evaluation standards and, through testing, demonstrate «adequate yearly progress» in how those standards were met.

Today, a greater understanding of the pitfalls and possibilities of everyday race talk is more important than ever, as the landmark No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act requires that annual testing scores be broken down by race.

Throughout the country, and with the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, commonly known as the No Child Left Behind Act (which requires research - based assessment), student performance on these tests has become the basis for such critical decisions as student promotion from one grade to the next, and compensation for teachers and administrators.

Administer the assessment tests required by the No Child Left Behind Act in September and refer to them as «entrance exams.»

When Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, it rewrote much of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, increasing the amount of testing required and demanding that states hold schools accountable for results on those tests.

Aiming to spread its ideas as far and fast as possible, the education department eventually required all states seeking much - needed waivers from No Child Left Behind to adopt test - based evaluation systems.

Examples of such initiatives include the No Child Left Behind legislation in the United States, which required schools to demonstrate that they were making adequate yearly progress and provided escalating negative consequences for schools that were unable to do this; the creation and publication of league tables of «value - added» measures of school performance in England; proposals to introduce financial rewards for school improvement and performance pay tied to improved test results in Australia; and the encouragement of competition between schools under New Zealand's Tomorrow's Schools program.

Peiffer said multiple choice tests might best fulfill the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, which requires testing every year, individual scores, and fairly quick scoring of tests.

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 required schools to focus on struggling students and raise proficiency by focusing on test scores, which prompted many schools to separate out children who were behind so they could provide targeted instruBehind Act of 2001 required schools to focus on struggling students and raise proficiency by focusing on test scores, which prompted many schools to separate out children who were behind so they could provide targeted instrubehind so they could provide targeted instruction.

Former President George W. Bush, his brother, introduced similar measures as governor of Texas and, as president, embraced No Child Left Behind, the law that required states to develop tests to measure progress.

More than half of the Washoe County public schools had been labeled «in need of improvement» for failing to get enough students to proficiency on the state standardized tests required by the No Child Left Behind Law.

The new initiative, called «Excellent Educators for All,» aims to bring states into compliance with a teacher equity mandate in the No Child Left Behind Act, the George W. Bush - era law that requires states to reward and punish schools based on standardized test scores.

Common Core does not require states to test students, but the No Child Left Behind Act does.

No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the federal school - accountability law, is widely held to have accomplished one good thing: require states to publish test - score results in math and reading for each school in grades 3 through 8 and again in grade 10.

A study by the Center on Education Policy found that the time district schools spent on subjects besides math and reading declined considerably after Congress enacted the No Child Left Behind Act (NLCB), which mandated that states require district schools to administer the state standardized math and reading tests in grades three through eight and report the results.

The common core, adopted by 45 states, demands an astonishing increase in testing, far more than needed and far more than the already excessive amount required by No Child Left Behind.

As is well known, the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB) required states to test students annually in grades 3 - 8 (and once in high school), to report the share of students in each school performing at a proficient level in math and reading, and to intervene in schools not on track to achieve universal student proficiency by 2014.

Federal policy, beginning in 1994, pushed states to develop standards and tests in the first place, and No Child Left Behind, enacted in 2002, doubled down on these mandates, requiring states to disaggregate test results for numerous groups and sanction low - performing schools.

We chose the third visit because it provided the best lens through which to examine the effects of state standards emerging after the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, which required some of our states to change their standards and testing procedures.

How will students who enter high school several grade levels behind have the support to write at levels required to successfully pass an AP or IB test?

No Child Left Behind required schools to administer yearly state standardized tests.

For the past four years, the Center on Education Policy has annually collected results from all 50 states on tests required for accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act.

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His proposals are the clearest sign yet that Republicans have executed an about - face from the education policies of President George W. Bush, whose signature domestic initiative, the No Child Left Behind law of 2002, required uniform state testing and imposed penalties on schools that failed to progress.

Following the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, states paid millions of dollars annually to companies to develop and administer the standardized tests required under the law.

Like No Child Left Behind, ESSA requires states to test students every year, but provides a bit more flexibility for states to try out new kinds of tests or use a nationally recognized college entrance test at the high school level.