Sentences with phrase «recent test scores»

While Kentucky has not yet released its most recent test scores, more than half of the states across the country have done so.

Recent test scores show overall success by the charters, though with big variations among them.

Recent test scores show that Public School Choice is working.

The theory seems straightforward: determine how much a student learned in a given year by subtracting from his or her most recent test scores the results of the previous year's tests.

With the recent test score release, we now have data to begin evaluating the performance of voucher students.

Not exact matches

Perfect scores in recent tests as well as incredible performance make this is top pick for your business.

A recent religious test showed that agnostics and atheists scored much higher on knowledge of the Bible than Christians did and had more education on average.

The Swiss international has been forming an exciting partnership with Aaron Ramsey at the base of midfield in recent weeks, and opened the scoring in the weekend's 2 - 0 win over Man United, but is set for tests, but is believed likely to feature.

There were three main topics of discussion: Public education and the recent «test score debacle» (as my source put it), the «lack of diversity as it relates to the mayor's administration» and the FDNY, and MWBE contracts.

Belluck has used his own Twitter handle in recent days to dog the State Education Department over the results of third - through eighth - grade English and math test scores that showed charter school students performing slightly better than their public school counterparts.

New York is going back to the drawing board to rethink the way it evaluates school teachers and principals after controversy over the use of student test scores in job evaluations helped fuel a massive boycott of state exams in recent years.

But in recent weeks, Cuomo has indicated he will begin to emphasize a new direction in education after a legislative session that saw yet more changes to the state's teacher evaluation system that linked performance reviews to tenure as well as student test scores and in - classroom observation.

Unlike in the recent past, student test results will not be included in teacher evaluation scores.

The New York Daily News blog reports on StudentsFirstNY's recent poll that found that 80 % of NYC voters support a new teacher evaluation system based on both classroom observations and test scores.

If there is any genetic basis at all to racial IQ test - score differences, it is indeterminate and poorly quantified, with recent studies estimating IQ heritability to be anywhere from nearly zero to over 80 percent, and strongly countered by other studies showing that environment counts most.

One recent study (pdf) found that among a representative sample of U.S. science students, those who said their science teachers had them read textbooks more often had higher test scores.

A recent study for the company found that British workers» IQ test scores drop temporarily by an average of 10 points when juggling phones, e-mails, and other electronic messages — more of an IQ drop than occurs after smoking marijuana or losing a night's sleep.

What may have influenced the panel was the company's «Even the Score» campaign, since no new tests were performed since the most recent rejection in 2013.

Now I've been told that I have a slightly elevated cancer marker in a recent blood test (CA 15 - 3 with a score of 39.1 unit / mL H), and they want to do a bone scan and brain MRI just to be careful.

One recent study published in the Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine showed that participants who regularly took Ashwagandha scored better on three different tests, each measuring stress, anxiety, and overall wellbeing.

In fact, men who overshare selfies in social media score higher on tests for narcissism and psycopathy, to boot, per a recent study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.

After terrible test scores and some unsuccessful reshoots, Morgan Creek took control of the cut, leading Sheridan to go to the DGA to remove his name from the film (there were some suggestions at the time that the «Alan Smithee» credit could have been revived)-- it's the most high profile recent example of a filmmaker disowning his own film.

Forty - seven charter schools were operating in New York City in the 2005 — 06 school year, the most recent for which we have test - score results, and all but five are included in the analysis presented here.

Though a recent Friedman Foundation report showed that Florida has the most regulated of all the STC laws — including a standardized testing mandate, licensure requirements, and copious paperwork — the CER report gives it a near perfect Autonomy score, deducting only one point for «other provisions that encroach on autonomy.»

The pressure to use students» standardized - test scores has also contributed to a recent wave of anti-testing sentiment, including the «opt out» movement.

Recent studies by Harvard economist Raj Chetty and colleagues confirm that teachers who improve student test scores also improve their students» earnings as adults (see «Great Teaching,» research, Summer 2012).

There is precious little research demonstrating the value of school counselors on student achievement ~ with good reason it is difficult to demonstrate the impact of counselors on standardized test scores ~ which have come to define achievement in recent years.

But several recent studies have also shown that effects on adult outcomes may go undetected by test scores.

Consider, for example, the recent skepticism directed toward Tennessee's Project STAR study, a randomized field trial on class size that failed to collect baseline test - score data.

Also, there is a logic to using tests to devise a solution, because test scores do predict later - life outcomes such as college - going and earnings; and important recent evidence from Stanford researcher Raj Chetty and colleagues shows that having a «high value - added» teacher — one who improves student test scores — also positively predicts these outcomes.

The most recent decade has been one of «stalled progress» in narrowing the black - white test score gap (Neal 2005, Magnuson and Waldfogel, 2008).

On the most recent NAEP science test, 82 percent of 12th graders performed below the proficient level, and 47 percent scored below the basic level.

Test scores have largely stalled in recent years and gaps have widened slightly, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Two recent experimental evaluations of the Louisiana Scholarship Program found negative effects of the program on student test scores but one study was limited to just a single year of outcome data and the second one (which I am leading) has only analyzed two years of outcome data so far.

Recent government education policies seem to assume that academic achievement as measured by test scores is the primary objective of public education.

The recent House and Senate revisions of No Child Left Behind retained both annual testing and the requirement that scores be reported separately for various subgroups of students within each school, including English language learners.

Although the gap has closed in recent years, those receiving special accommodations still score, on average, about 60 points below the level reached by those tested under regular conditions.

Recent studies have found that students in schools with about 100 students per grade generally score higher on tests, pass more courses, and are more likely to stay in school, graduate, and go on to college.

Dismal test scores and recent research that warns against a single approach to instruction have spurred California education officials to revamp the state's pioneering techniques for teaching young children to read.

But can it possibly be true, as reported in his recent post, that the Regents and the New York State Department of Education went to court with the teachers union over whether test scores would count as 20 percent or 40 percent of a teacher's annual evaluation?

Results from a new report on test scores show the nation's students making modest gains in math and science in recent years, while failing to significantly increase their reading and writing performance.

HFA scores on standardized tests are as much as four times higher than those of other Detroit schools, and 86 percent of the most recent graduated students were accepted at four - year universities.

And, as if to rebut Ravitch directly, Kemple reported that «the improvement trend continues even taking into account New York state's recent recalibration of test scores.»

What might be more surprising is that the recent study I've been referencing that finds no connection between the criteria regulators use and future test score growth was co-authored by none other than Doug Harris.

Fortunately, we have a recent study that examined whether the criteria used by regulators in New Orleans are predictive of test score growth — even if we accept test gains as a reliable indicator of quality.

The darker bars track the returns to experience in terms of teachers» ability to improve test scores, based on a recent analysis of North Carolina secondary schools.

Yet, a recent study of the first two years of Louisiana's private school voucher program documented large negative impacts on test scores.

Recent assessments of school - based pre-K programs in Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia indicate that they substantially raise children's vocabulary, math, and reading comprehension test scores at the end of one year.

Moreover, despite the increase in graduation rates, national tests are showing that test scores have been flat in recent years.

As the arguments for and against the Arizona ballot question have unfurled in recent months, the California measure's effect on test scores has attracted widespread attention.