Sentences with phrase «ribbon schools scored»

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Schools that have experience filling out grant applications or other applications similar to those required for the Blue Ribbon award apparently know how to spin mediocre test scores so that they don't diminish a school's chances for an award.

After the release of the Brown Center's report in September 2000, Stephen O'Brien, the Blue Ribbon program's director, criticized both our reliance on academic achievement as the sole barometer of a good school and our reliance on absolute scores rather than gains in achievement from year to year.

In a study first reported in the Brookings Institution's Brown Center Report on American Education in September 2000, we compared the test scores of Blue Ribbon schools with those of an average school in several states.

The remaining schools, about 50 percent of Blue Ribbon winners, scored above average, but not extraordinarily so - above their state's mean, but well short of the 90th percentile.

A quarter of Blue Ribbon winners are high achieving, scoring among the top 10 percent of schools.

The Department of Education is making final plans to overhaul the popular Blue Ribbon Schools awards program, transforming it into an honor for schools that improve test scores, especially among minority stSchools awards program, transforming it into an honor for schools that improve test scores, especially among minority stschools that improve test scores, especially among minority students.

The percentage of Blue Ribbon Schools with lackluster academic records, based on state test scores from schools in seven states, fell from 24 percent during the 1999 award cycle to 9 percent in 2003, the study conSchools with lackluster academic records, based on state test scores from schools in seven states, fell from 24 percent during the 1999 award cycle to 9 percent in 2003, the study conschools in seven states, fell from 24 percent during the 1999 award cycle to 9 percent in 2003, the study concludes.

Rhee's D.C. «miracle» has also been clouded by suspicion: impossibly high wrong - to - right erasure rates indicate that several of Rhee's «blue ribbon» schools might have cheated their way to higher test scores.

National Blue Ribbon Schools have high scores on the state's College and Career - Ready Performance Index, which measures how well students do in the classroom.

Since beginning the change, student scores on Kentucky's standardized achievement test have risen from the 41st percentile to the 78th percentile, and the U.S. Department of Education has named T. C. Cherry a National Blue Ribbon School.

Moreover, the data included in its successful application for being named a Blue Ribbon School may provide the most important explanation of why KIPP posts such high scores.

The Gold Ribbon does not have those safeguards that the distinguished schools program had — instead, the schools are eligible based on only one qualifier — if all their grades beat the average score across the whole state.

While focusing on educating the entire student, the Archdiocese of Chicago also provides a list of its tangible achievements, including above average scores, high graduation rates, and the highest number of US Department of Education Blue Ribbon schools of any school district.