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The impact of attending a school with high - achieving peers: Evidence from the New York City exam schools.

This last finding is consistent with recent evidence showing no academic benefits of attending a Boston or New York City exam school for students who just met the admissions criteria (see «Exam Schools from the Inside,» features, Fall 2012).

Not exact matches

A record number of city high - school juniors took the SAT exam last year — with black and Hispanic kids posting the biggest percentage - point gains, according to the NYC Department of Education.

Charter school's students of the poorest neighborhood of New York City are doing excellent test scores in the state exams & the traditional public schools are falling miserably where those charter schools are co located.

A year ago, the de Blasio administration announced that the city will be pay the fees for high school juniors taking the SAT college entrance exam.

With more than two - thirds of Oneida City School District students refusing to take the Common Core aligned exams this year, the district has one of the highest student opt out rates in New York state.

Shortly after F.E.S. released its «forgotten fourth» report, StudentsFirstNY released its own study showing zero percent pass rates on math and English exams in 75 of the city's district schools, along with a call to de Blasio to «fix» the failing schools.

Students enrolled in public pre-kindergarten programs in New York City are more likely to take the city's exam for entry into gifted and talented programs, according to a new study by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human DevelopmCity are more likely to take the city's exam for entry into gifted and talented programs, according to a new study by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Developmcity's exam for entry into gifted and talented programs, according to a new study by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development.

Schools are using the exams to establish student growth for the purpose of state - mandated teacher evaluations, which are in their second year in most of the state and their first year in New York City.

Also at 11 a.m., charter school parents, organized by Families for Excellent Schools, will gather on the steps of City Hall and demand that de Blasio apologize for insulting charter school students» achievement on 2016 state exams, Manhattan.

Success Academy breeds success: Its inner - city students outperformed every other school district in the state in the 2017 exams.

At 32 city elementary and middle schools, the average English - math proficiency rate on state exams has not exceeded 10 percent of students...

The Coalition for Educational Justice and the UFT have been urging the city since the start of the school year to provide additional help for those students who scored below state standards on the most recent state exams in reading and math.

Tens of thousands of eighth - graders still face an uphill battle in high school despite the city's boast that more students passed the 2017 state Common Core exams.

Sen. George Latimer, a Westchester Democrat, told City & State he's not sure if he would pass a high - school level state exam based on the new, more difficult Common Core curriculum standards, and he bets not all of his colleagues would pass it, either.

You should know that the IDNYC Card is an official form of identification that can be used in City Agencies, the NYPD, for entry into public buildings like schools, to take the high school equivalency exam in New York City.

As we've noted before, that blames a race - neutral exam for the failure of the city's primary and middle schools — and would do far more damage to the top schools than it would help aspiring minority kids.

And it's too bad the beeps felt obliged to include in this report yet another call to scrap the entrance exam for the city's top public high schools.

I did Lauren's first gynecological exam and Pap smear when she was seventeen, and I can't help think about how she graduated in the top tenth percentile of her high school, earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and received a full scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, but ended up attending the local city college so she wouldn't leave her single mom alone.

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Steve Goffner, a high school math teacher in New York City, caught one student who had copied answers on his math Regents Exam from friends» text messages.

More than three years ago, schools in the small central Ohio city of Coshocton launched an experiment to pay elementary students for passing or scoring high on state exams.

Innovations students take state exams, just like students at Salt Lake City's four other district high schools.

LSE surveyed schools in four UK cities of Birmingham, London, Leicester and Manchester and found that student performance in high stakes exams significantly increased post mobile phone ban.

The research team used data from more than 1,300 8th graders attending 32 public schools in Boston, including traditional public schools, exam schools that admit only the city's most academically talented students, and oversubscribed charter schools.

The cram schools prepare children for the next school year and school entrance exams, giving them a leg up into gifted classes and, hopefully, into one of New York City's specialized public high schools.

The high - school options now available in the city are so limited that thousands of middle - class and working - class parents find themselves left out in the cold when their children fail to make the cutoff for the exam schools.

The Iowa City, Iowa - based publisher of the ACT — the college - entrance exam taken by high school students primarily in the Midwest and the South — will open 40 testing centers in the next few months and is on its way to having 250 operating by the end of next year, said Richard L. Ferguson, the president of ACT.

During Alonso's tenure, students in the Baltimore City Public Schools reached their highest outcomes in state exams, across all categories of students.

Critics point out that none of the few dozen Success Academy 8th graders who took the entrance exam over the past two years did well enough to get into one of the city's eight selective public high schools.

Using a sophisticated methodology to look for value - added effects (gauged by scores on state tests and SAT and AP exams) in six prominent «exam schools» in Boston and New York City, they didn't find much to applaud:

Broad Foundation Fellow Diane Robinson and three colleagues chose to visit Shanghai and Hong Kong on the heels of the cities» school systems» world - leading results on the most recent Programme for International Assessment (PISA) exam.

The schools, all but a few in New York City, had fought a high - profile battle backed by officials of the New York City district to avoid the English exam.

The release said Harlem Link «has consistently outperformed other schools throughout the city on state exams» since 2008.

• With few exceptions, students eligible for free and reduced - priced lunch and students of color in the cities were less likely than white students to enroll in high - scoring elementary and middle schools, take advanced math courses, and take a college entrance exam.

The «Mind the Gaps» study, by ACT, draws on the Iowa City, Iowa - based testmaker's earlier research showing that taking a strong core curriculum in high school and meeting benchmark scores in all four subjects of the ACT college - entrance exam enhance students» chances of enrolling in college, persisting...

Minority enrollment in the city's three exam schools and preparation programs is also declining, though this appears to be because of a legal mandate to drop affirmative action programs.

Results from 8th grade reading and writing exams in New York state have been delayed because of a scoring problem by the same testing company whose errors in 1999 mistakenly sent thousands of New York City students to summer school.

Yet the New York Post pointed out that seven of the chancellor's new supes had led schools that received poor ratings on the city's own school progress report cards or scored below city averages on state exams.

According to the organization, it consistently ranks among the city and state's highest performing public schools, with 97 percent of students meeting math standards and 88 percent meeting reading standards on last year's state exams.

The Syracuse City School District's Office of Health Services will not be administering any physical exams for students.

According to the New York State Education Department, more than 9 out of 10 black and Hispanic children in Buffalo's city schools can not pass the state Math or ELA exams.

The state sets academic standards, and the objectivity of an independent, statewide exam helps state, city, district, and school leaders know if students are progressing and on track.

As a side note, the Post reported this afternoon that of the 3,371 high school graduates from the City's 31 Renewal high schools, 242 earned diplomas through a new «appeals process [approved by the Board of Regents] that allows for lower scores on exams or other side - door routes... This led to a tripling of the number of students graduating using the appeals process in 2016 over 2015, city data show.&raCity's 31 Renewal high schools, 242 earned diplomas through a new «appeals process [approved by the Board of Regents] that allows for lower scores on exams or other side - door routes... This led to a tripling of the number of students graduating using the appeals process in 2016 over 2015, city data show.&racity data show.»

The city also benefited from Mr. Klein's role as a national symbol of school reform, Ms. Tisch said, with private donors giving millions of dollars to help create new projects and experiments, like teacher performance bonuses and cash rewards for students who did well on exams.

Overall, charter schools in the state (81 percent are in New York City) outperformed New York City public schools on the English Language Arts exam.

Bard High School did the second best in the city on the PARCC exams.

Figure 2: Percent of All New York City Teachers Who Failed the LAST Exam on First Taking by Poverty Quartile of School's Students, 2000 - 2005