Sentences with phrase «city students scoring»

In test results released Friday, 38 % of city students scored proficient in English - a jump of nearly eight percentage points from last year that put the city's scores on par with the state overall for the first time.

Streets will not necessarily be safer nor families wealthier if a subset of city students score a half of a standard deviation, for example, higher on a government - issued test (though that would be nice).

Not exact matches

My debts are so extensive as to defy specific acknowledgment, but the range is from my own instructors here, my family, my present colleagues, this university and its students to men in the biblical field in scores of cities in this country, this hemisphere, and around the world.

The Principal of Public School 244 in Queens, New York City, has revealed that his pupils now have longer attention spans, are getting better academic scores, and the number of overweight and obese students has dropped by two percent — all since the school went «Meat Free» back in January.

Between 2007 and 2009, Fryer distributed a total of $ 9.4 million in cash incentives to 27,000 students in Chicago, Dallas, and New York City, incentivizing book reading in Dallas, test scores in New York, and course grades in Chicago.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

Education policymakers — including big city mayors such as Chicago's Rahm Emanuel (D)-- see rating teachers by student test scores as reasonable and know voters and big foundations feel the same way.

Using longitudinally linked, student - level data collected from two urban school districts, New York City and Washington, DC, Mathematica estimated the impacts of five EL middle schools on students» reading and math test scores.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle article on SAT and AP test scores going up for New York City students, quoting BP Adams.

In math, the percentage of students in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased slightly over last year in most of the Big 5 City School Districts.

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.

Students in the Syracuse City School District have improved their scores since 2015, but they still are not to par with statewide scores.

Former NYU president John Sexton lashed out at the New York City public school system, asserting that the system's teachers have lower SAT scores than some of the students they teach.

Now, Klein is excited about the latest SAT scores for New York City students, despite the fact that, well, they didn't really rise.

He listed among his pet causes improving stubbornly poor test scores and college readiness among public school students, bolstering support for the NYPD, cutting business regulations and ameliorating the «national disgrace» of living conditions within the New York City Housing Authority.

«I guess Gov. Cuomo's obsession with Mayor de Blasio has blinded him to New York City records in job creation, student test scores and low crime,» Goldstein said.

«To deny New York City's 1.1 million students anything less than the full preservation of mayoral control is to subject them to the dysfunction and chaos of the old system, as well as risk an end to higher test scores and graduation rates.

At 11 a.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will host a press conference to discuss New York City students» state test scores, Tweed Courthouse, 52 Chambers St., Manhattan.

Students in third through eighth grades in the Syracuse City School District have improved their standardized test scores in both math and English, but the scores still lag behind statewide scores.

Syracuse city school students also score low on state tests.

The Green Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Brian Jones, a teacher and union member from New York City, strongly criticized the temporary moratorium until 2017 on including student performance on Common Core - aligned test scores in the state - mandated teacher evaluation system.

The Green Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Brian Jones, a teacher and union member from New York City, added strong criticism of the temporary moratorium on including student performance on Common Core - aligned test scores in the state - mandated teacher evaluation system until 2017.

The legislation would give the city the power to base teacher firings on factors other than seniority, including chronic absenteeism and poor student test scores.

The state was prepared to use part of its federal Race to the Top money to pay Wireless Generation to develop software to track student test scores, achievement and so on, creating a system similar to the Achievement Reporting and Innovation System, or ARIS, that it developed for the city schools.

Plattsburgh City School District Superintendent Jay LeBrun attributes the overall decrease to the link between student scores and teacher evaluations — a major sticking point last year as educators battled with the state Department of Education and the governor over reforms that would have wedded the two.

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.

Stricter achievement tests showed the city's black and Hispanic students scored lower than whites and Asians.

New test scores show that public charter schools are the best public schools in the city for high - need students, but Mayor de Blasio continues to drag his feet in giving...

Most important, the United Federation of Teachers still hasn't struck a deal with the city on how to use student test scores in these evaluations.

The scores of New York City students increased slightly in both math and English language arts on the latest state tests, released on Aug. 14, as students became more familiar with the Common Core Learning Standards and their teachers worked hard with what materials and training they eventually got.

He takes the case of AP Calculus results in Detroit and estimates that if the city were to restrict the course to students who score 66 or above on the PSAT Math test, then the resulting cost per passing score on the AP test would be $ 1,167.

On the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests, 46 percent of the city's students scored «below basic» in mathematics, and 38 percent were below that low threshold in reading (compared with 33 and 28 percent for the nation, respectively).

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

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.

The certification pathway that New York City teachers took to their classrooms seemed to have little relationship to how effective they were in raising students» scores, concludes a study that matched some 10,000 teachers with six years of test results.

While the evidence for the effectiveness of charter schools nationwide is mixed, research has found that the charter schools in these cities are on average more effective than district schools in raising student test scores.

When comparable samples and measuring sticks are used, the improvement in test scores for black students from attending a small class based on the Tennessee STAR experiment is about 50 percent larger than the gain from switching to a private school based on the voucher experiments in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio.

However, evidence presented in the report sheds doubt these large test score increases: according to an Education Writers Association study, when neighborhood schools were restored, the superintendent in Oklahoma City reduced the number of low - achievers taking the standardized tests by increasing the number of students retained (or «flunked») and implementing transition grades (in which students repeat all or part of the previous grade).

Since 2007, the proportion of D.C. students scoring proficient or above on the rigorous and independent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) more than doubled in fourth grade reading and more than tripled in fourth grade math, bringing Washington up to the middle of the pack of urban school districts at that grade level, while the city's black students largely closed gaps with African American students nationwide.

In New York City, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña recently implied that the city's charter schools remove low - performing students in order to increase their aggregate test scoCity, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña recently implied that the city's charter schools remove low - performing students in order to increase their aggregate test scocity's charter schools remove low - performing students in order to increase their aggregate test scores.

Nor can a teacher be asked to help supervise a lunchroom or study hall, help special - education students on and off the bus, help college applicants prepare their transcripts, score city - wide tests, or write truant slips.

The 309 schools included in the study differed from other city schools in the following ways: They had a higher proportion of English Language Learners (ELL), special education, minority students, and students eligible for the Title I free or reduced - price lunch program, as well as lower average math and reading scores.

Westinghouse Information Service, a scoring contractor based in Iowa City, Iowa, blamed «computer error» for mistakes in the scores of the Arizona students in grades 1 through 12 who took the California Achievement Test in April.

That city's merit - pay plan proposed in 2002 was overwhelmingly voted down by teachers (1892 to 73), even though it did not base bonuses on student test scores.

New research finds that students attending a district school in New York City within a half - mile radius of a charter school score better in math and reading and enjoy an increase in their likelihood of advancing to the next grade.

In a case the NY Times said would «propel New York City to the center of a national debate about how student test scores should be used to evaluate teachers,» a bunch of lawyers fought it out in a NYC courtroom yesterday.

Third, just the other day, a USA Today column called for shuttering a Kansas City charter school whose students recently won the National Society of Black Engineers Robotics Competition because its test scores are only average.

In The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (Brookings, 2002), we and our colleagues reported that attending a private school had no discernible impact, positive or negative, on the test scores of non-African-American students participating in school voucher programs in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Dayton, Ohio.

Likewise, the low scores of students in an inner - city Newark school will reflect the disadvantages of growing up poor.

At the 4th - grade level, D.C. students in math and reading gained 6 scale score points between 2007 and 2009, while the average gain in the other 10 cities for which comparable data are available was only 1 point and 2.2 points, respectively.