Sentences with phrase «state test results show»

schools whose state test results show that the percentage of students who approach, meet, or exceed state standards is less than or equal to 60 %)

Looking again in the «Fast Facts» section to the lower left, if the school's state test results show that the percentage of students who approach, meet, or exceed state standards is less than or equal to 60 %, that school qualifies as a school of academic need.

High school graduation rates, child poverty and juvenile arrests are among the areas where blacks struggle in Dane County, and state test results show Madison School District achievement gaps persist.

State test results show that A + schools score above average for their districts in reading and math.

California school districts got a dose of bad news last week when new state test results showed many students aren't meeting state standards in math and English.

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In Colorado and Washington, the first two states to legalize marijuana, drug testing has shown an increase in positive results for cannabis.

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.

The proposal would also require water systems to notify the state and property owners if test results show levels for contaminants above «notification levels» established by the health commissioner.

State and county test results show the northern end of the lake is clean enough for swimming.

After all, both played a part in the clean up, and both told Syracuse.com last fall they would swim in the lake, which state and county test results show is now clean enough for a beach.

However, the state's PFOA well test results show another troubling trend.

Less than two weeks ago, the people of Hoosick Falls started getting the results of state - sponsored blood tests — which show elevated levels of PFOA.

This summer, state education officials released statewide test results that showed a drop in the math and English scores for third through eighth graders as the new Common Core standards take hold.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday declined to back down from earlier remarks that charter school gains on state exams were partially a result of excessive test preparation, during an appearance on «The Brian Lehrer Show.»

The state should show residents the geographic distribution of test results, to target areas where exposures may be higher and so they can determine where their own results fit, said Richard Klapp, a professor of epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health.

Standardized test results for the last school year showed slight growth at the state and local levels in both English and math, and a slight narrowing of the gap between black and Hispanic public school students and their white peers.

Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed test results reported late last night by the Texas Department of State Health Services» public health laboratory showing that a healthcare worker at Texas Presbyterian Hospital is positive for Ebola.

Host Matt Lauer stated that the Today show would have Mr. Karason back on when the results from his blood silver level tests were available.

The results, which showed far lower rates of proficiency than the prior test, which was tied to the previous state standards, provoked an outcry from teachers and parents, who complained that schools and students had not been adequately prepared for it.

Rick Hess and Paul Peterson, for example, have compared state cut scores for proficiency on their state tests to results on the U.S. Department of Education's National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to show that the level of achievement required to be declared proficient in many states has been dropping over the last decade.

In looking over the numbers of students opting out of tests in different states, Bermudez finds support for poll results showing that most Americans don't support pulling children out of tests.

Texas education officials have announced a sweeping review of test security and a new monitoring plan for the state accountability system after a newspaper investigation alleged that assessment results for hundreds of schools throughout the state — including one celebrated elementary school in Houston — showed evidence of cheating and other irregularities.

Results of four experiments showed that women tended to perform as well as men on a math test when the test was administered by a woman with high competence in math, but they performed more poorly (and showed a lower state of self - esteem) when the test was administered by a man.

«Positive test results, on both state assessments and the NAEP, show that urban schools are making progress and improving reading and math scores.»

And positive test results, on both state assessments and the NAEP, show that urban schools are making progress and improving reading and math scores.

Last year, State Superintendent Dick Ross published a report on the testing load in the state's schools that showed strikingly similar results as the new Council for Great City Schools sState Superintendent Dick Ross published a report on the testing load in the state's schools that showed strikingly similar results as the new Council for Great City Schools sstate's schools that showed strikingly similar results as the new Council for Great City Schools study.

Second, when a state gives the same test year to year, those results can show growth or declines in achievement.

To combat the rise in student withdrawals Dr Rabinowitz said ACARA would emphasise the value of NAPLAN test results and why they're important, not just for the state and territories but for the schools and the students, and show how the information can be positively used.

Oregon is not alone: from California to Massachusetts to Alaska, results on the Smarter Balanced, PARCC, and other new state tests show significant numbers of schools struggling with the higher standards.

Mobilizing employers and business leaders to insist that states align high school standards, assessments and graduation requirements with the demands of postsecondary education and work and show graduates that achievement matters by using high school transcripts and exit test results in making hiring decisions.

In a 2015 Washington Post report, it was stated that for the second year in a row, the school's students showed positive testing results, with their third - graders showing a 95 % passing rate in math, even outperforming the 84 % passing rate of third - grader peers from the «largely wealthy, high - achieving Arlington school district».

Some states do not provide test results in a form that makes it easy for principals and teachers to do an item analysis showing where students did not perform well, and which curriculum standards are linked to those test items.

The results show that students in high - accountability states averaged significantly greater gains on the NAEP 8th - grade math test than students in states with little or no state measures to improve student performance.

Since NCLB, state test scores have typically increased, but NAEP results have failed to show similar increases.

As Republican lawmakers push for expansion of Milwaukee's 20 - year - old voucher program, state test results for the first time show voucher students performing «similar or worse» than other poor Milwaukee students.

The news comes in the wake of the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) recently released 2017 New York State assessment test results for grades 3 — 8, showing 42.5 % and 49.3 % of Archdiocese students meet or exceed 2017 proficiency standards for Math and ELA, respectively.

Slightly more than half the state's students can not read and write at their grade level, results from last year's testing shows, and 63 percent aren't meeting standards in math.

We are striving every day to close the achievement gap in our public schools and have shown strong results on state testing and other measures of success.

Preliminary results from three states administering Common Core - aligned tests, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, show better than expected outcomes in every grade in reading and all...

Each year, the teams pore over the results of the state test, which are broken down to show every teacher how his or her students performed on every skill and on every test item.

In the latest release of data, we have a sense of how much progress students show on state assessments from one year to the next (as it's been two years since the last time we had growth data, here's a quick reminder on how it is calculated: a student's performance on the test is compared to her «academic peers» — other students who had the same test score she had the previous year, resulting in the individual's student growth percentile.

Other districts with at least 1,000 students tested around the state are also showing strong results for kids: check out Durango (ELA 62), Summit (ELA 59, Math 58), Fort Morgan (ELA and Math 58), Roaring Fork (ELA 56, Math 58), and Delta (ELA 56).

However, if the NAEP results are accurate, it is not true that poor children are now at least getting the basics: the score increases on state (or local, as in Chicago) tests simply indicates that somewhat different particular things are taught, but overall NAEP results show there usually is no improvement in states which test the most and use tests for high - stakes decisions about students.

Along with the results of Hill's validity study, state education officials created this interactive map showing «how many students in each school district experienced computer interruptions during ISTEP testing in Spring 2013.»

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The latest results on the most important nationwide math test show that student achievement grew faster during the years before the Bush - era No Child Left Behind law, when states were dominant in education policy, than over the years since, when the federal law has become a powerful force in classrooms.

Loveless notes that states that made their tests tougher to pass did show improvement in NAEP scores, but that is likely the result of a phenomenon that does not depend on better standards.

That analysis, of the first year of the new state test results in 2015, showed that students at magnets outperformed students at independent charter schools, although the demographics of magnets and charters do not match up evenly, and some magnet schools are for highly gifted students.

The data, part of the benchmark test known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress, show that New York City fourth graders have made progress in closing the gap between their scores and the state and national results in reading, despite the higher percentages of poor and minority students in the city.

the person who led the research has stated that the results do not show a problem with standardized testing.